Friends in the Fray
- Adventuring On
- 2020-07-06
- Commentary
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- Retelling
- Magma began to pour
And so we closed _that_ door
We went with door number three
To see what we could see
Hoj's plate mail echoed around
When he tried to make no sound
We took a long hallway north
And all of us soldiered forth
We found a wall that was askew
And Lyrad knew just what to do
And pressed her ear against the flaw
And found she heard a muffled squaw
We pushed against the crumbling wall
Hoping our combined strength would make it fall
Hoj slammed his weight against the bar
And the door went flying open far
Another door we came upon
And Hoj took that one on and won
We came across a zombie troop
And a few new people to join our group
We all rushed in to fight the horde
Before our new friends ended up gored
Selene, new friend, was first to go
And tried to fight the zombies with snow
The frosty attack was a success
Lyrad's attack was up next
She used her bow to score a hit
But despite the hit, the zombie didn't quit
Will rushed in with crossbow in hand
Hoping to help our merry band
Her aim was true as the bolt let fly
And hit that zombie straight in the eye
The zombie fell back dead once more
Its brains all splattered on the floor
Will cast the bow aside to swipe
With her claw for another strike
Her claws found zombie flesh right quick
And gave that zombie body some rips
Fenn stepped up and cast Tolled Dead?
And seemed to screw with the zombie's head
A zombie failed to strike at Will
But missed a terribly from lack of skill
Fenn took a hit from a zombie near
And got proper boxed about his ears
Vale rushed in with long bow drawn
And took a shot at the demon spawn
His arrow flew true and fast
And sunk itself in that zombie's ass
He shouted out to our new friends
"Don't worry, you won't meet your end
We're here to help so fight on strong
This battle will not last too long"
Juniper lashed out with her whip
And hit a zombie with the tip
It took a nick out of its hide
But otherwise it seemed just fine
But then the zombie lost its feet
And ended up flat on the street
Laid out like the cheapest suit
This zombie would be easy to shoot
Hoj swung his sword at a zombie foe
And much to that foul creature's woe
Off he cleaved the monster's arm
And his second attack, though, did no harm
Mugs came in to join the fight
And much to cat-friend Will's delight
Mugs' rapier found its mark
And sent the zombie back into the dark
It was time for Rys to show his skill
And rack up a glorious zombie kill
He cast a dagger fast and true
And the zombie's undead life was through
Selene was up to fight some more
And try to even up the score
Her bitey frost was cast about
But the zombie beast still held out
Lyrad strung her bow once more
Another hit she managed to score
The zombie continued to shuffle still
So up walked a cat by the name of Will
She snatched her bow up off the ground
And whipped the loaded thing around
The bolt struck the zombie in the chest
But stayed alive, despite her best
She cat-walked over to the wretch
And gave her claws a might stretch
And raked them over the zombie foe
But sadly the zombie would not go
Fenn gave the zombie a chilly touch
But used in melee it would not do much
The zombie lost some chunks of flesh
But it still wasn't dead yet
The zombie swung and missed his foe
It was time for Vale to go
He ran up to make the zombie leave
And rent him in twain with one swift cleave
The party once again carried the day
And effectively ended this mighty fray
We turned to meet our new friends
And saw odd clothing that might portend
They were involved in raising the dead
In order to do some work in their stead
Our party was unease with their line of work
And Hoj kinda acted like a jerk
We divided up the spoils of war
Some golds and coppers each of us stored
We spoke with our new friends a bit
And found they seemed pretty legit
We found a teleporting device
And though we thought leaving would be nice
But then our new friends started to speak
And soon our interest was piqued
We learned of a necromancer, Saladzar,
Who's name we truly found bizarre
Was on the loose and leaving a trail
And Selene and Fenn were on his tail
They wouldn't leave until he died
But everyone was feeling fried
So we all opted to take a long rest
Until everyone was feeling their best
The group healed up thanks to the song
That Rys drummed out all night long
He wailed upon those delightful skins
So everyone's healing could begin
The party eventually woke up
And Will took a crowbar and quickly struck
A door that had been closed all night
And Vale inspected with murky sight
Juniper barged up to the next door
And found that her strength was quick poor
But still the door swung open wide
And a hallway laid on the other side
Juniper was hit by barbs
But they didn't seem to do much harm
Vale checked for traps on the last door
While out the rest of our party stormed
After Juniper they went
And some more barbs their way were sent
Will wriggled on the floor a bit
And by _more_ barbs poor Mugs was hit
Once again they only scratched
But soon we thought to watch our backs
Hoj managed to avoid the trap
And not get hit by that barb crap
Vale found a dart trap at his door
And neutralized a trap once more
He explored a hallway that twisted and turned
But other than that, not much was learned
Lyrad and Vale opened doors as a pair
And found some more magma in there
The magma seemed to move very wrong
And the sense of magic was quite strong
Illusion magic was in effect
And the group began to suspect
That the magma floor wasn't real
Rys strolled on up without much zeal
His magic hand went out to explore
And fumbled around along the floor
And knocked the illusion around
And it went crashing to the ground
The magma quickly disappeared
Instead a deep pit did appear
Rys said "oops" and then was done
Back to Juniper's group's fun
In the hallway of traps they could be found
Where lots of switches were on the ground
Vale and the others rejoined the crew
As many hallways they all went through
It seemed the zombies had sprung the traps
And so our group quickly rapped
And our best guess, by quite far
Was it was the work of Saladbar
We ended up right back at the start
And without another thought
Juniper teleported us all
Into another dingy set of halls
Vale went to check around
For signs of zombies on the ground
Had they wandered in through here?
If so, Saladbar might be near!
The party searched around the rooms
And found fresh air blowing into the tomb
We some urns around as well
Among some most unsettling smells
Hoj opened up a nearby urn
To see what things he might learn
But found just ash and dust and smoke
And used his javelin to give it a poke
He found some coins and yelled "hot dog"
And emptied it out, making ashen fog
Fenn got upset at Hoj's haste
And thought the move was in bad taste
Fenn explained all about cremains
And everyone lost their brains
While rushing about tipping over urns
For which Vale was convinced their souls would burn
Vale threw open wide the doors
As more urns were cast onto the floors
We started to here some chanting sounds
It seemed bad magic was abound!
Juniper loaded up on rocks
Stuffing them into her socks
Mugs went to go and take a peak
We all hoped she was a good sneak
Mugs turned out to be very loud
But then she made us all feel proud
As Mugs shifted into a zombie form
And stumbled off through door
A coffin-filled hallway loomed ahead
Arcane language was being said
Mugs memorized a snippet of their words
And brought them back to our herd
Fenn, Juniper, and Hoj knew the sounds
Meant de-magicalization was abound
Someone was being stripped of power
And our groups' stomachs all turned sour
We decided that the way out was through
But weren't sure that was a good thing to do
Juniper told us she'd cast around fog
So we headed down the hallway in a jog
Into a spider, Juniper transformed
And into the next room she stormed
In there Saladbar wove spells
The likes of which probably came from hell
The group prepared to break into the room
To save the city from certain doom
We all hoped to sneak right in
Without making too much din