............and the chase is on!!!!!!!!!!!

[Dome]

Listening to the message from the feline Falbera wonders if the others have fallen into a trap, or if by falling she herself is being led into one. Realizing that neither case matters if the others are in trouble she begins to slowly and carefully pick her way through the forest along the path she watched the others take.

[Renekin Skywalker]

Derik shrugs. "I would rather your brotherhood's word. But yours will do. And I will not take one. I have no interest in something I would have carry around and never use."

Seeing Falberra arrive he says. "Now, can we move to the next stage of our little adventure?"

[bladerider]

Eric looks at Kurf and smiles, “His real name is Kanzianjebra. Apparently Courtney decided to call him Jeb. He doesn’t like the name but he really can’t catch her, you see he’s a-“ and is cut short buy Falbrea now joining the group followed a moment later by a feline type humanoid that anybody with the lore skill recognizes him as a Danzi. Dressed in green and brown clothes with a cloak and two swords strapped to his back, He immediately walks up to where Eric, Jansis and Derik are, followed by Storm and anybody else that wants to come up. He has a very concerned look on his face. “They are almost here.” He says, and then looks at the group. “You were followed as soon as you left Grent. They are-“And he is cut off when you hear crashing on the opposite side of the clearing. There you see two Trolls making a path, followed by 6 Ogers, 12 Orcs and 12 Goblins. You then see a man come out behind one of the Trolls; you all recognize him as the servant that gave you all the bags of gold as payment. He’s dressed in black robes, with various magical artifacts on him and human/humanoid skulls dangling from his belt, he is also carrying a staff with a green crystal on top which is glowing. “Well Jansis Fireblade, I see the fodder we sent is smarter than the Countess thought. We figured they would have fought you to the death first before they figured out they were actually our pawns….pity, I was so hoping I would have been able to raise them to help kill you, but no matter you will all die eventually today. Did you tell them about the Eye?” He says then looks at all of you, “I will give you one chance to change your minds and help me kill these three Knights before they get away again.” He raises his hand and waves a finger to something behind him to come forward. You see emerging from the forest about 50 human/humanoids, some of them limping, some of them stumbling as they walk.

Shayla (and anybody else with psychic or magical abilities) immediately sense extreme evil from that area. You realize in horror they are actually zombies!! All of them are in mismatched armor, or none at all, flesh falling off of them, all of them have weapons and they are moving forward to stand behind the monster horde.

Eric steps forward taking out his Axe, “And you think it’s going to be that easy to kill us, Zanthura? How many times have you tried?” He says with a laugh. Zanthura just smiles, “Ah, Helm Dragonblade….or is that what you’re going by this time? You seem to change your name every time you come back to Palladium. No matter. They cannot help you this time. They are being…..occupied as we speak.” He says with an evil looking grin. “It looks like you are on your own this time.” He then looks at the rest of the group. “So what’s it to be?” You hear Jansis under his breath. They will kill you once we are dead. You already know too much.” He says gripping his staff tighter.

[Renekin Skywalker]

While the others banter, Derik wastes little time, quietly drawing a flaming arrow. It made not point to talk right away, since it drew attention to yourself. He listened of course. Clearly, this Zanthura fellow has violated the good spirit of the contract.

Quietly, he turns towards the evil denizens. He wondered if the dragon references were really real or just made up. Time would tell. And he waits to see what will happen next, hoping the ground is dry.

[bladerider]

(OCC: Did you fire the arrow?)

[Renekin Skywalker]

(OOC: Nope, they were bantering, so I figured I'ld go for the silent kind of drama...)

[bladerider]

(OCC: Ah, ok I figured that but wanted to make sure. I'll wait till some more post to see what they are going to do before I post what happens next.)

[bladerider]

(OCC: Was it something I said?) lol

[kurff]

Kurff stepped back and placed his hand on the Rapier's hilt under the cloak, moving beside Eric. whom he saw as a sort of kindred spirit and Courtney seemed to like him. That was good enough for kurff. The young rogue trusted the pixies intuition thus far and Eric, the elf and this 'Jeb' fellow seemed more reliable.

"She likes and trusts you...I'll give you a chance.." and stood near by him smiling at Courtney. Eric and the knights at least weren't a bunch necromancers...they just sounded evil.

[Dome]

Having just reached the others, Falbera had little time to appraise the situation before the Necromancer and his army arrived. Realizing that they were seriously out numbered she thought, 'Who would think my first adventure would be my last.'

She reaches into her cloak with both hands and grips the hilts on two of her throwing axes. She waits to see who makes the first move.

[Renekin Skywalker]

Derik continues to wait while the others get ready.

[bladerider]

(OCC: I thought more would post but I guess not, we'll just keep going.)

Storm pulls his shield back and pulls out both of his Katana's "alright let's do this." He says, Eric looks over at him and laughs, "Well Met!! But I prefer a Battle Axe if I'm gonna battle smelly trolls." He says as he puts his sword away and pulls out his Axe from his back.

The Elf brings his staff up and plants it in the ground as you see Goblins bring out their bows and knock an arrow. "You all might want to get closer to me." The elf says as you hear "RELEASE" as you see about 50 arrows in the sky coming towards you and harmlessly bounce off a magic shield as the goblins spend all their arrows trying to hit someone. The elf smiles "Now it is time for battle." He says

The Trolls start forward with the Ogers and the Elf pulls out the staff and steps forward towards the trolls and lifts his staff up and speaks something under his breath bringing it down on it's head hitting the ground. The ground shakes and you can see the ground itself split open all the way to the trolls the orcs knocking them down to the ground. (OCC: Everyone must make a balance check to keep from falling over).

The surprise is now yours, what do you do??

(OCC: Those of you that decided not to get closer to the Elf needs to roll for dodge or get his by arrows.)

[kurff]

Kurff went close to elf . Not being the strongest he called Meka close looking in fascination at the elf's labors.

"Now that was impressive" he grins drawing steel and cross bow he took aim at a target that looked important...

Per: 14
Init: 16
strike (crossbow): 15 (1d6=5)
strike (crossbow): 13 (1d6=4)

[Renekin Skywalker]

Perception: 11
Init: 11+1=12
Sense of balance: Rolled 48%, skill 48%, just barely passed

As the earth beneath him shakes, Derik lets loose his fire arrow into the midst of the Zombies (strike: 10+8=18, damage 22 SDC to whatever it hits, and starts a fire.) hoping to keep them dead.

[Dome]

Falbera creeps closer to the elf before he launches his staff defense. As the ground shakes she does her best to remain standing. She then pulls out the two axes that she had been holding on too and lets them fly one at the head of one of the ogres and the other at the chest of the Wizard(or whatever he is)

Once she release the two axes she then pulls her battle axe and setting her feet she prepares to hold her ground, with the others.

(maintain Balance = d20 = 19, d100 =31(wasnt sure what to roll)
Axe Ogre = Nat 20+2=22,
Axe mage = 17 +2 = 19)