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Message: <blockquote data-quote="spyscribe" data-source="post: 1458829" data-attributes="member: 5808">Part the Thirty-Sixth:In which: Fajitas says, “Do you know how long I have been carrying around this card, waiting for you guys to get interested enough in Amelia to find this place?”Anvil finds himself standing in the center of the room, six zombies closing in around him.He is vaguely aware of the rest of the party leaping into action behind him.  The wet Thunk! of Thatch’s sword slicing into a shuffling animated corpse.  The squelch-suck of Essela’s right boot slamming into a rotten ribcage, sinking into the creature’s chest cavity and then being pulled back out.  The whoosh of two magic missiles whizzing by his head accompanied by Lira’s exclamation of “Oh, cool!”  (Note: Oh yes, be afeard of our newfound third-level might!)A few seconds later, Reyu finishes her own spell, and out of the corner of his eye, Anvil glimpses a four-foot long rat, which suddenly appears and begins gnawing on a zombie’s knee.Still, the zombies are all focused on Anvil.  They lurch forward, determined to rip him limb from limb.  Anvil stares them down, daring them to attack.The zombies reach forward, grasping…  and only manage to get their arms tangled up with each other.Anvil smirks.(DM quote: “Never have I seen so many fives on so many d20s.)As the battle continues to rage around him, Anvil takes out his holy symbol, and invokes the might of Kettenek.Seconds later, blinding rays of light burst from his outstretched silver holy symbol.  The zombies scream.Approximately twelve seconds later—as Thatch’s sword separates the last cowering zombie head from its trembling shoulders—it’s all over.Dennis surveys the scene.  “Well, I guess she didn’t go into the sewers to be alone.”  The party turns their attention to searching the room.  Lira locates three scrolls, although she is only able to recognize two of them by sight.  Finally she realizes what’s giving her trouble.  “They’re divine,” she explains.  “One undetectable alignment, this one’s death knell… I’m going to take a wild guess and say that the third one isn’t cure light wounds.”It’s Dennis who first notices something odd about a medallion worn by the zombie Anvil kicked when he entered the room.  The face shows an impressively rendered lion’s head, mane flaring in all directions.  However, when he turns it over to see if there’s a maker’s mark, he finds that the reverse side depicts a skull wreathed in flames.  Searches of the other zombies reveal that four wear similarly creepy-looking (although, Anvil confirms, not evil) items of jewelry.  As the rest of the group turns to wiping off acquired undead goo, Essela (despite being one of the most zombie-covered among them) goes stock still, starting at one of the re-dead corpses.“Do you see that?” she says, indicating a mostly-rotted livery worn by one of the bodies.  “Whoever this was, he used to be a member of House Morjene.”  Essela gets blank looks from the rest of the party until she clarifies, “Lady Morjene was Amelia’s first owner in Dar Aego.”</blockquote>

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