Part I.ii. - Crimes Not Forgotten

[comicsans12pt]

"Stay here," Solaz says to Kendra.

Solaz draws her scimitar and moves out into the common area. When she sees the Professor, she draws in a sharp breath.

She hesitates just for a second but when she hears the crack of Chuoko's bone she raises her scimitar and strikes the Professor's old body.

[dice=20] [dice=4]-1[rand=364591864394947672778559338003639955271715077975370219680511026]

[Veritas]

Solaz slips towards the professor, her smaller legs taking her into position, but her scimitar swings through the air harmlessly, the lumbering beast twisting out of the way of the smaller, but very sharp, cutting edge.

23 - Chouko
17 - Fin
17 - Zombie Lorrimor
14 - Solaz
11 - Navene
10 - Calaera

Attachments:

[joviality]

A coldness overtakes Navene, turning her blood to ice. Petros was not only gone, but someone had been perverted enough to transform him into this creature. Not only disrespectful, but despicable. 

Little thought passes through her mind as she takes her next action. Her eyes widen and then focus on the creature ahead of her, and she whispers a prayer of judgment to Pharasma. I will not suffer this abomination to live.

She then charges forward, drawing her dagger as she moves. 

[dice=20] + 4 + 2 (charge) + 1 (judgment: justice) - 1 (power attack) + 2 (flanking)

[dice=4] + 5 + 2 (power attack)
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[Veritas]

Navene rushes in, yanking out her dagger as she goes, drawing it roughly along the gut of what was once Petros Lorrimor. The blade cuts heavily and entrails spill out, splattering onto the doorstep of where this abomination once called home. The zombie groans, barely noticing the deep cut.

23 - Chouko
17 - Fin
17 - Zombie Lorrimor
14 - Solaz
11 - Navene
10 - Calaera

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[Veritas]

Calaera makes a move at this point, stepping up beside Navene (a situation that one can expect is common), as she draws forth her sword. The blade sweeps up high, but moving at a slightly awkward angle, her toe catches the edge of the coatrack and she falls, sprawling on her face before the creature.

(the beauties of a natural 1.)

23 - Chouko
17 - Fin
17 - Zombie Lorrimor
14 - Solaz
11 - Navene
10 - Calaera

Attachments:

[`Nessa]

Chouko grits her teeth as pain shoots up and down her arm from the shoulder, but pushes the pain aside to deal with later. She focuses, instead, on the creature in front of her. She drops her staff, casting it to the side; it's too unwieldy to use with one hand, and instead strikes out at the creature's head with her good arm, then a powerful kick.

[dice=20]+1
[dice=6]+1

[dice=20]+1
[dice=6]+1[rand=134249938007141367279806604239223641943204623761849389771297118057]

[Veritas]

Twice Chouko punches; the first time she pushes her fist past the beast to its right, the second time she hits, but her fist bounces off the undead, somehow magically-enhanced to be tougher than the average human's. He makes a little groan, but continues to todder, unharmed.

(Chouko was flanking for +2, but her second hit did not break DR)

23 - Chouko
17 - Fin
17 - Zombie Lorrimor
14 - Solaz
11 - Navene
10 - Calaera

[logan]

Now that Kendra has moved to safety, Fin steps out to see the zombie still standing in the door way. He quickly draws his rapier and runs up to thrust the short blade in to the monstrosity that Lorrimor has become.

Squeezing between the others who are standing in front, Fin's arm and blade jab quickly.

[dice=20]

[dice=6][rand=550930263868303887352673718866385217822121682313923995802250431]

[Veritas]

Fin lunches forward, over the fallen Calaera and jabs with his rapier. He hits, but the faint puncture doesn't seem to affect at all the undead abomination.

The zombie's heavy, dead fists raise and fall down towards Navene. However, the creature's flailings are at best inexpert, and fail to connect as the devotee of Pharasma moves easily away from the swipe of fists.

23 - Chouko
17 - Fin
17 - Zombie Lorrimor
14 - Solaz
11 - Navene
10 - Calaera

[comicsans12pt]

Solaz moves around Fin and Calaera deftly raising her scimitar as she goes. She tries to take a slice off the invading zombie using her short center of gravity to try to knock it off balance at the same time.

Attack: [dice=20] -1

Damage: [dice=4][rand=3635766992157829661798669320815266301697497181191418106678432839]

[Veritas]

The scimitar skips off the side of the doorframe, and the remnants of the professor continues to move, unaffected by the recent attacks, which seem to have either missed or failed to damage him. The heavy zombie hands raise slowly back up.

23 - Chouko
17 - Fin
17 - Zombie Lorrimor
14 - Solaz
11 - Navene
10 - Calaera

OOC: You are flanking with Chouko.

[joviality]

Navene's face is unreadable; she seems wholly intent on one thing: reducing this unwholesome caricature of her friend to a corpse once more. 

Unrelenting in her attacks, she strikes out once more with her dagger at the abomination, slashing at it with the blade's edge.  

[dice=20] + 4 + 1 (judgment: justice) - 1 (power attack) + 2 (flanking)

[dice=4] + 5 + 2 (power attack)
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[Veritas]

This time Navene drags her dagger across the chest of the beast; the front is split, and the blade catches in the sternum, parting some of the bone with a sickening crack. The body drops, the unlife ripped from it by the blade jabbed into it, dragging over the chest, the mutilated corpse instantly collapsing. The strings have been cut.

The broken and predeceased body of Petros Lorrimor rests in his step, entrails spilling onto his own front door. It is still.

[joviality]

Navene's posture shifts; the coldness in her vanishes. A flood of sensory input washes over her and the dagger unintentionally falls from her hands. This was the first time she had actually encountered an undead creature in person... The priests had warned her about them, and she knew much - far too much - about them in theory. Her instincts and training had taken over when there was a threat, but now that the body lay motionless on the floor at her feet all she wanted to do was weep. She'd thought it would be different, her first experience with the undead. It should have been righteous, an uncomplicated deed. Yet this... she only felt a profound sadness from this. 

She found herself humming a Pharasmin funeral hymn after realizing she'd been lost in thought for a few seconds. Solaz's influence, no doubt. Stopping mid-note, Navene looks around at the others standing over the body, realizing that action needs to be taken. 

"Quickly Chouko, the door! She says in a loud whisper. "We mustn't let these suspicious townsfolk see what's happened for fear that they will blame the professor. Did anyone see you out there?"

[comicsans12pt]

Solaz steps over to Navene and prestidigitates. Any trace of blood or other that had gotten on her, Solaz cleaned off. The poor girl looked like she was going to melt down for just a sec. Best to get the stuff off her so she can at least deal with it as separate from herself.

Solaz walks to a front window and looks out to see if anyone is looking at the house. She sees Chuoko make sure the door is closed and then turns to help get this desecrated body out of the house.

Perception: [dice=20] +10[rand=0709396079593145905604877106625305654789879018897657635871100636742]