The group approaches the barn, it's wooden door ominously creaking with the light spring breeze. The sweet sickening smell of decayed flesh fills the nostrils of the three as they enter the dimly lit building.
A gruesome picture appears before them - Adelaide, the pretty female Paladin lays prostrate on the floor, blood gushing from the places where large chunks of flesh have been clawed or bitten off. The wound on her neck seems fatal and her eyes stare at the ceiling, showing her final moment of terror, her arm - broken as if were a twig and her exquisite longsword discarded several feet from her body. Around her, a group of five lurching cadavres moan and stagger, while mindlessly continuing to wail against the already lifeless servant of Lathander. A sixth zombie corpse lies beheaded on the floor next to the double doors of the barn.
What is even more frightening, however, is the large dark shape of a strange creature, dwarfing the zombies around it. It appears as a brawny, muscular giant although it bears no resemblance to any actual kind of giant-kin. It's flesh is spotted with patches of brown rot and yellow pus, and it's eyes are milky white and completely crossed. It snarls at it's new found enemies and alerts the lesser undead around it.
[sblock=Map]
Key: Z circles = Zombies, X circle = decapitated zombie (dead), the 10 ft sqare is the unknown Undead monster, the blue square is Adelaide's corpse, the yellow circle in the back is a pile of hay, the grey boxes on the right are cabinets and the brown boxes on both sides are horse pens.[/sblock]
[sblock]Roll initative! The situation is such: the barn is forty feet wide by fifty feet deep. There are empty spaces for horses on both sides, and piles of hay in the back. There is an attic, accessible trough two ladders and hatches, one immediately to your left and the other one on the far end of the building.
Twenty feet from you there are five zombies around Adelaide's body, and behind them there is a Large sized Undead creature. Knowledge: Religion to identify it.[/sblock]
Also, note the map in my earlier post[/sblock]
