Act I: Inauspicious Start

Sadly, Kayleigh misses both of her attacks.

New round!

Fifth round of combat!

Initiative order:
21 Darren
20 Roland
16 Kuroi
15 Ujjaya
14 Weiryn
11 Zombies
6 (Initiative count at which the paralyzation durations will be lowered by 1)
3 Kayleigh

Combat map

Conditional modifiers:
Mounted Combat.
Mist is ever present in the streets and limits vision. Beyond 30 feet, creatures have concealment (20% miss chance).
Kayleigh is sickened (-2 attack rolls, damage rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks).
Paralization durations (Cannot move or act, STR and DEX of 0 and helpless, can take purely mental actions, square occupied by paralyzed creature counts as 2 squares of movement)
Kuroi & Nevermore 1 round each
Roland's mule 1 round
Weiryn's horse 5 rounds
Kayleigh's horse 3 rounds
Darren's horse 3 rounds
Ujjaya's horse 5 rounds

Darren is up!

Darren will spot no more trouble, but his keen eyes will catch the metallic gleam of something around the corpse's neck (the one in the middle of the street) as well as a piece of paper which seems to poke out of its front jacket pocket...

Roland is up!

Kuroi is still paralyzed, so Ujjaya is up next!

Ujjaya unleashes a volley of arrows at the zombie and his first arrow stirkes true, but the monstrosity refuses to go down. The second arrow misses its target, but the thrid arrow finally doe the unded in.

Victory!

Another 900 XP each!

With the last zombie dead, you are free to continu your journey deeper into the town, however, one of your companion, and many of your mounts are still paralyzed. Guess you have a bit of waiting to do, what do you guys do in the meantime?

Darren approaches the corpse, looking at the gleam which caught is eye. It is a silver pendant in the shape of a maple leaf, hung on a thin silver chain. He then grabs the letter from the pocket and reads it. The papers reveal the man's name to be Viktor Litmunova, a carpenter from Barovia... Perhaps this poor man has still living relatives who would wish to be informed of their loved one's passing...

After waiting close to a minute, everyone who was paralyze are eventually freed. Most mounts are combat trained and fine, but the mule probably required some effort to calm down and then convinced to keep going on. You are now ready to make your way deeper in the center of town when you suddenly hear a loud crash emanating from the for some distance in front of you (it is hard to approximate because of the constant moaning echoing through the town). Seems something is happening up ahead...

Straining your eyes as much as you can through the mist, you think you can perceive movement maybe 100 or so feet ahead, but it's hard to say. You can, however, definitely hear the screams of panicked villagers, the moans of the dead, as well as the sound of combat...