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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eccles" data-source="post: 3171985" data-attributes="member: 5675">The two missile-firing grimlocks’ bodies were searched by Flynne, after erecting a rope bridge which he dashed across. The lit pebble was tossed down the chasm, striking the floor some 45 feet below, amidst a group of 5 more bow-armed grimlocks. We moved back out of sight, then all leaned out to take a shot at them at the same time. When we moved to the edge, the grimlocks had disappeared.We didn’t know whether they had fled, or were using their rocky skin to blend into the rocks as we had seen Niccoli’s foe manage in the second room..oOo.We spent a little while wondering how to get down safely, before we came up with the idea of making a puppet with one of the fallen grimlocks. Ropes were tied to its arms and legs, and a cross-beam was created to lash these to. The puppet looked somehow unrealistic until Endo adjusted the positioning of some of the ropes, moving them to joints and redistributing the weight with disturbing knowledge.Ig delighted himself by making the grimlock dance as he lowered it down the wall. When it reached the bottom, Ig made it walk up and down in jerky movements, but no challenge or attack came from around the body. We hoisted it back up again.Endo then bent over the body curiously. He pulled at the limbs, checked its teeth, and then straightened.“You know,” he mentioned casually. “I could make it move more naturally. I could animate the body perfectly, so we don’t need to use these clumsy ropes.” Niccoli blanched. Flynne grinned. I was curious, whilst Igmut smiled on obliviously. The four of us (watched by Igmut) then repeated our frequent argument about the relative merits of undead-summoning. We eventually decided that it would be OK as long as Endo was true to his word and dismissed the zombie as soon as it caused us any problems. We agreed that Endo could cast his spell.Before he began, Endo started by casting the same suite of protective magics that we had seen Morgan cast many times in the past. The ghostly mist swirled around him, and was then breathed in, adding pallor to his cheeks and spirit to his eyes. Then the spectral cloaked figure rose around him, wrapping him in the safety of its cloak. Then he bent down next to the dead body of the grimlock. A small chip of obsidian was placed in its mouth, and the spell was cast.Nothing happened. Then the fingers of its left hand twitched, then curled. When the fist unballed, the flesh was sloughed off the bones. A tremor shook the entire corpse, as though it was trying to fight off the magic. However, as it shook, flesh rotted or fell from the bones, falling in a putrescent mess to the floor around the body. Endo’s robes were spattered with rapidly-decaying flesh, as the head and shoulders rose from the floor, a dim red glow in the eye-sockets. Finally, the skeletal fingers gripped the morningstar, as the undead creature rose amidst us.</blockquote>

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