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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM with a vengence" data-source="post: 153653" data-attributes="member: 1679">The tights are an in joke referring to the movie Men in Tights, it makes no sense.Now a question to my loyal reader, I have several pages of the story written up.  Should I post in little bits or everything at once.Anyway, onwards and forwards with the story!Day on the Living DeadFather Alhad licked his lips in a nervous gesture, “I don’t know if can trust you with this.”    “You can.”  Milo chimed up, “We’re as trustworthy as an ogre is strong.”    “As trustworthy as the sea is wide.”  Ladinya added.    “As trustworthy as the local temple of Pelor’s treasury is valuable.”  Kit said with a smile.    “We have ghouls in the graveyard.  I sent in a few of the town guard and a acolyte, and they disappeared.” Father Alhad warned.  “I just hope you’re holy enough to keep your souls intact.”The graveyard was 40' by 80' and surrounded by a 10-foot high spiked iron fence.  At the rear was a large marble mausoleum.  After a brief discussion, the party decided to send in Milo Bookbender.  With his already high sneaking abilities enhanced by the magic of cloaks and books of Elvenkind, he made it to the door of the mausoleum like a ghost.  He twisted the doorknob; it was locked, and signaled back to the party for the sorceress. Compared to Milo, she sounded like a pottery shop falling from the sky in the silence, but she still made it to the door without waking the undead.  She pointed at the door, and spoke a few words, freezing the lock with a ray of frost.  Milo took one of his axes, and hit the frozen lock.  Nothing.  He tried a few more times.  Nothing.  Seeing the party’s trouble, the Paladin attempted to creep up to the door and batter it down.  He sounded like the top of the church tower at noon.    Five ghouls streaked out of shallow graves like lightening, jumping and leaping over graves.  A pair few over the mausoleum, and bounded to a stop in front of the Paladin.“Wazzzzzzup!”  Milo screamed, his battle cry echoing off the graves, one axe already spinning towards of the ghouls.  It struck a ghoul in the back, but it shook the blow off.  The Ladinya, already had her Wand of Magic Missile up and waving, sending three bolts of energy at the Ghouls.  Jadael was swinging his long sword wildly, catching a ghoul across the leg.   The ghouls slashed at the Paladin, two claws hit, rendering the hero of light helpless.  With a shout, Zeebo was running across the graves, rapier held out like a spear.  He dove on a ghoul, stabbing it in the back.  The rogue, Kit followed his charge, and stabbed another ghoul with her rapier.  Nikki followed in with her mace, battering away at yet another ghoul.  Milo had three axes in the air faster than the eye could see, and two ghouls fell with the blows, while a third staggered back.  Ladinya hit and killed another ghoul with her magic missile.  Zeebo and Kit missed with their swords.  Nikki, remembering her training, dropped her mace and slipped her wand of cure serious wounds up, and touched the point against the ghoul.  A burst of positive energy bright enough to drown out the sun blasted for a moment, and the last ghoul was nowhere to be seen.  The party collected their weapons, waited for the rogue to pick the lock and Sir Jadael to regain movement, and then moved off into the crypt.The stepped down the stairway into the crypt, it was lined with six alcoves containing caskets with the remains of dead heroes of the town.  At the opposite end was an alter dedicated to Pelor, heavily desecrated.  Ladinya whispered a few word, and cast detect undead.  She spun in a stately circle, and said.  “Undead in the second coffin on the left, third on the right, and a large group behind us, under the staircase.The Paladin turned to look at the staircase they had walked down, and stated, “Undead behind the stairway, that’s not possible.”“I do not lie about such matters, there are undead behind the staircase.”  She stated softly.“Pah! I do not trust your arcane magic; true power comes from Lord Heironeous.  But enough, we must deal with the abominations we can reach.  I shall open a coffin, and Milo will kill the evil that lies within, then we will purify the remains with holy water.”And so they did, destroying the undead.  After a few moments of searching, they found a ladderway going down into the catacombs.  The party dropped through, weapons at ready.20 feet down they hit bottom, a small room with a single corridor leading off into a larger cavern with other corridors off to the sides.  They moved in, killing several more ghouls, and a ghast, but not taking any more hits.  Then, they entered into a dead end room.  Sir Jadael glared about the room “I sense a great evil here.”  As he spoke the last words, a dozen ghouls and a ghast with a gem for an eye burst from the soft earthen floor, surrounding the party, and blocking off the exit.The ghast hissed, “Adventures, you have sought to rid the world of evil.  Now you will become it!”  He threw something down to the floor, and disappeared in cloud of smoke.</blockquote>

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