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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 853835" data-attributes="member: 3854">The Fiendish Oerth Game Story - part 2cSimon appeared from around a tree near the river bank."We were beginning to wonder what happened," said Lorgard.The ranger motioned for the mage and fighter to follow him. "We may have found the necromancers," he explained. "There's a small group of people on the battlefield, and we think we saw them animate a couple of corpses.""Where's Salem," asked Cedrin."He went to talk to the group," answered Simon.Cedrin and Lorgard looked at each other as they followed the ranger along the riverside. Soon they reached the spot where Simon had left the halfling cleric. Simon picked up the discarded Veluna patch."Is that him by himself?" asked Lorgard, pointing to the sole, small figure standing on the field in the distance."That's where the group of necromancers was standing," said Simon. They hustled towards their comrade.Salem watched his companions approach. He was smiling when Simon asked, "So, what happened?""Six of them were zombies, and one was an orc necromancer," the little cleric explained. "The necromancer didn't even let me get close to them before he sent his zombies to kill me. I turned them way. Then the orc tried casting spells on me, but nothing happened. When I got close to him, he disappeared.""Disappeared?" repeated Lorgard."Where was he standing?" asked Simon."About ten or fifteen feet right there," Salem pointed.The ranger knelt down and examined the ground. He could tell the recent tracks from the battle field mess. "Did he have a staff?""Yes.""He walked off that way," said Simon."That's the direction I sent his zombies running. They eventually stopped, then turned towards the village, and walked off as a group," Salem added.Simon started following the tracks of the necromancer, noting the staff tracks beside the footprints. His companions followed behind him.Lorgard was thinking aloud, "Surely it is more than one necromancer making all the zombies we saw walking through the village last night.""Well," said Salem, "there was only one right here.""If I'm remembering my studies on necromancy properly," continued the dwarf wizard, "it takes a small onyx gem to cast the spell to animate corpses. So many zombies is very expensive."They reached the place where the orc necromancer had met up with his zombie guards. According to what Simon was reading of the tracks, they all walked away together towards the burned village. The group decided to continue their pursuit. The tracks went into the village, through the village, and out the other side along a dirt road. The group could see the fort on the hill about a mile away. Rayson had told them about it, and that it had fallen to the invading army. Simon lead the way down the road.To be continued . . .</blockquote>

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