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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 2825854" data-attributes="member: 9255">EBERRON: THE CREATION SCHEMA03/04/06SEGMENT 198“Negative Energy and Strange Undead”Even as the Evil Pebble Clone falls from Capio and Cedious’ attacks the original Pebbles moves to the next door down the hallway.  It is blue and requires a blue key.  “Hammer Time!” she yells in Dwarven and strikes the door to gain entrance.  A beam of dull black energy flows out of the door onto her hammer and flows down to envelop her.  Oops.She feels herself become weaker and clerical spells slip from her mind as the negative energy drains the very strength from her body.  She reels back stunned and weakened.  Bob and the Warforged Fighter arrive now and see her stumble back.  None saw her take the hit.  They move to her and check on her.  “Bad door.” She says weakly.Cedious and Cider both look at the door.  They see no traps from obviously there must be.  Being careful not to touch the door, Cedious slides the blue key into the slot and turns.  Nothing happens.  His next thought is did something inside strike her down?  He lets Cider peer in next.Looking in he sees scrap materials used to build anything metal.  He then hears a scrapping sound.  Cedious shines his light on the subject.  Towards the back of the room is a zombie.  It is attempting to build a golem made from scrap material.  In some ways it resembles a broken up warforged.  It ignores them completely as it continues to try to force pieces of metal into place.  Looking around further, they see more pieces of metal, wood and materials and …a dead body.   The body looks to have once been a worker here.  Unlike most of the bodies in the Mournlands, this one seems to be slowly decaying.  The eyes are sunken and discolored.Not trusting the room, Cider and Cedious ask/suggest Pebbles to destroy the possible golem.  It would not be good to enter the room and discover the golem before them is active.  First she destroys the zombie by calling on her powers over the undead.  Then Pebbles rushes into the room then suddenly stops.  “Com’on Pebbles- “Hammer Time” the damned thing.” Says Cedious.  Cider moves in, fearing the body is move than just that – a dead body.  Pebbles pushes him harshly away from the body.  Not one is ignore the possible dangers here; Bob the psionic Thri-kreen rushes in and is stopped by her also.  Cider develops a powerful headache as something tries to reach his mind.  More determined than ever, he tries to get by Pebbles.  She pushes him against the wall stopping him but allows Bob to slash his / its sword into the dead body.  He cleaves the body in two at the stomach.  Pebbles turns to stop him now.  Cider stabs at the undead doing a great deal of damage.  Pebbles turns back again unable to stop the two.  Bob, being a mantis creature, grabs the head and breaks it open.  In his insect mind he hears a scream of NO!  Looking at the brain, it is healthy and pink.   Somehow the brain of this worker has remained alive and functioning though the body was dead (not undead -but–dead).  He takes a bite out of it and Pebbles shakes her head and hammer Times the Golem.She stops and wonders how she reached the corner of the room with Cider and Bob next to her.  She figures the negative energy wash she received must have affected her memory also.The next two rooms has been searched and secured by Capio and Cedious while this was happening.  One room is a storage room with linens and blankets.  The other is a room is an armory for shields.  They find a shield with silver lining and another made of Byeshk.  Other shields they find to keep include a Lion’s Shield, a magic Buckler that bestows Melf’s acid Arrow 5/day and a simple +3 Large Steel Shield.They feel it is time to rest and regain spells and maybe recover from the energy drain effects Pebbles has received.  The just discovered linen room looks ideal for this.</blockquote>

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