Session 148: The Battle for Orlane Has Begun

From Gnorcia's notes:

Feno began charging toward the bridge at the same time as some skeletons on the other side. Lhoss took off toward the east, attempting to find others to help us, or discover where the rest of the townsfolk are. Armatzi followed Feno, and Arnd also moved forward toward the bridge. Kyro slunk down to some trees on the east side of the path, near the river’s edge.

Seeing the others take their positions, and knowing I was the smallest and had fewer arms, I cast mirror image to make 5 of me, then moved to hide behind the trees on the west side of the path. As I reached the trees, Niki raised her hands to the sky and called down lightning, spotting and targeting the dastardly Naynor, who immediately fell dead. We all cheered his demise but this also seemed to enrage the necromancers.

On the battlefront, Feno was soon met by two skeletons at the bridge and managed to destroy them fairly quickly. Kyro shot a couple of magic arrows at one of the necromancers who was out for a walk too close to the river's edge (and whose name was apparently Sampo), taking him down. Arnd threw his hammer a couple of times across the river to the west side of the bridge and managed to hit another necromancer called Walterri (or Terri for short), taking him down as well.

Her lightning bolt spent, Niki began running toward the group at the bridge as I summoned a phantasmal force in the form of a vile displacer beast. I directed the beast to run down and leap across the river, attacking a black skeleton and damaging it. That skeleton and another black skeleton then attacked it and both released a horrible scream that terrified Arnd and Armatzi, who started to run in the opposite direction.

Unfazed by the screams, Kyro shot an arrow at another necromancer, Janne, and took him down as Feno moved across the bridge and smashed a zombie. My phantasmal force damaged the black skeleton some more, but was quickly overpowered by the combined force of three black skeletons, which destroyed the imaginary and vile-appearing but apparently somewhat-wimpy beast. Niki took aim and shot an arrow, hitting one of the skeletons in revenge for my faded phantasmal creature.

In the meantime, Lhoss had made her way down the path to the east and peeked into Vilma’s house, finding a mess but no Vilma. She then moved farther southeast and discovered a group of what appeared to be six knights with Dorian and Llywillan!

Allies had been found and back to the west we had done some damage to the necromancers' force, but the evil undead were advancing and we were weakened as Arnd and Armatzi were still running away in undead-induced terror.