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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DiFier" data-source="post: 899993" data-attributes="member: 2345">The small band of hunters and temple guards traveled along the road toward the village.  About four hours from the temple there was the first evidence of zombies.  In the road and scattered in the brush immediatlly nxt to the road was the remains of about 12 zombies.  They had been hacked to pieces.  They each made guesses as to what had destroyed them.  but the answers was not obvious.after another two hours they ran into five functioning zombies.  They were easily taken care of.  Four were dead before they got close.  The fith had been trampled my Arsindis' horse and cleaved in half by her sword.  The zombies all wore white porcelan masks  with awful faces, dour pouts or unnaturally happy grins.  It may have been an improvement over regular zombies but the masks were unsettling, especially the happy ones.  Kyodai said that the masks were part of the raising process and that only natural occuring zombies didn't have them. the term naturally occuring zombies bothered both Ciramar and Arsindis.  Kyodai must have seen it on their faces because he added "It is rare to get one around here.  We are far from the pit."  Arsindis and Ciramar exchanged glances, they were not sure that they felt any better.The zombies had been wearing rotting clothing one carried an unburning lantern another a farmer's pick.  They shambled along the road as if they were traveling to the temple.   The rest of the trip to Emei was uneventful.  Lithindhoran scouted along the trail from the sky.  They could see the village, and what appeared to be people moving in the streets.  The village sky line was dominated by a large fortified building along the river, at the center of town.   Lithindhoran had flown high above the village and then sketched a crude map.  She told them that the road went through a cemetary and that there were two guards crouched behind markers and one "guarding" the entrance to the cemetary.  Ciramar again cursed his neglecting the school of illusion as they decieded that they dirrect approach was as good an any other.  The cenetary had been decimated.  almost all the graves had been dug up many still containing the long burries skeletons of the villagers.  Some graves were totally empty.   As they approached the cemetary.  one of the hidden zombies gets up and runs toward the village as if he was scared or informing a supervisor of an attack.   It moved much faster than they expected and disapears into the village.After dealing with the 2 remaining guards they looked down the road and into the village.  The zombies seemed to be going about their buisness.  Zombies shambling along carrying packages and shopping at the market.  Zombies seeming to have conversations.  pulling carts.  coaxing undead animals along the road.  It was creepy.  an it was made worse when Kyodai said.  "I've never seen anything like this before"</blockquote>

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