2.2 Chapter 2: Stag Lord

Initiating

The lummox of a bandit is lured into the tower. The heroes act as they see the dawn of realization hit the bandits face "It a trap!" he mutters to himself

Dalia mutters a quiet prayer and casts daze at the bandit

The big man violently jolts his head, revealing a facial expression that looks as if constipation and a severe ice cream headache had a bastard child.

I whip some needle darts at his stupid face (19 to hit) until blood comes out (14 damage). Then I growl at him in displeasure (Wilding word cantrip)

The big man becomes sickened by the maleficent majesty of nature force beyond his comprehending stumbles back the way he came. Drawing his greatclub he attempt to let loose a mighty battlecry, but fails an instead retches to alleviate his sickness. Again failing and making it worse.

Octavius moves out and hack the big man down while he is working through the mental funk of numerous spells. He slides off the walkway into the broken room below. The night is once again still.

Shall we have the zombies take care of this one as well or should he be OK below?

We should at least make an attempt to hide the body incase someone wanders by.

Dalia peeks down into the room below

The open aired 'room' below the north east tower is mess of masonry and wood, the remains of original fort before the slow collapse. The most prominent feature is the wooden stairs built to access the tower. Low value supplies contained in rough wooden boxes are stored under the stairs and in one corner where the old roof to remains as an overhang.

In the center lays the remains of a large fallen bandit. Filbert the small leshy, shrieks at the sight of the now corpse and runs past it in a wide berth. Soon the Leshy is telling an epic tales of how he walked around the yard unseen. "... an there is no one in the yard. The towers on other side have either bandits or shadow demons, I couldn't tell so I kept moving. Most of the bandits we in the big room in the center of the fort. Some sounded like they were ready to move!"

"Weren't we going to the tower? Your on watch tonight" Filbert says in a gruff little voice

Then in a whinny voice "Right after a win the next round! Celmet can wait, whats the worse that can happen? He gets too drunk and I roll him down the stairs?"

Also, glancing out to the hill. The zombie are milling about, but none approach the fort. They seem to be attracted to the fallen bandit and cluster behind some unseen barrier.

Yeah we should definitely hide the body. Even if it's dropping him down the hole.

Harrim and Valerie had abandoned guarding the entrance to the cellar when they heard the sounds falling bodies.

Looking up at the others pointing down at the fallen bandit Harrim and says "This one has meet his End as is the Fate of all" pausing to stroke his unkempt beard "Perhaps his End can be in the backroom and not the main throughfare?"

"Aye, a shame this ended in violence. But at least we can put him in a dignified position and reduce the ugliness of this place. Just a little " With that the two grab a leg and drag the lumox into the back.