....continued from my previous post.
We travel another couple hundred feet down the tunnel, until we see the rungs of a ladder leading upward dozens of feet to some large manhole cover. Ok. So we decide to climb up, and see what seems to be a crowd of people up above. They don't respond to the opening of the manhole cover. So we get up there, and discover that these are
countless zombies aimlessly wandering around. They ignore us. :idunno:
Inside this enormous chamber is a dome with a large door. We get this bright idea that we should open it. Kratos (imurrx) tries to open it without setting off the trap that we
know will inevitably be there. Suddenly....
Bzzzzzzzzt! AoooogaHH! :eek:
Oh, shit. It went off. There's an alarm. :jaw-dropping:
That gets the zombies riled up. I
leap back towards the hole in the floor, but am intercepted by the undead! My kitty familiars and I tried to use our
Tumble skill to avoid any
Attacks of Opportunity during our mad rush back to the hole. The kitties make it. I don't.
I forget what happened to the other guys. It took me a little while, but I soon made it down below after getting slapped around a little bit. What eventually happened is we all made it back down there, and then Reven would poke his head back up, and flash-fry the zombies with his breath weapon, and then duck down below again. The zombies would mindlessly lunge towards the hole in the floor where we were, and then stupidly fall through to their doom.
Eventually, it became a little game. We'd see how many we could lure into the vertical tunnel, and try to pick off as many as we could. At some point, the zombies were bunching up and getting stuck in the hole so that they couldn't fall, so Reven would blast 'em again with his breath weapon.
I remember the brain-numbing alarm eventually stopped, and so the zombies gradually lost interest in us. Of course, we're dummies, and went up there again.
Kratos went up there, and attempted to disable the trap on the door. He wasn't having much luck, as the alarm went off
again. He did, however, have tons of luck when kicking ass and taking names. I don't know how many zombies he throttled, but it was a lot. Eventually, the undead were slowly wearing him down, so Hrothgar (my guy) and "the Battle Cats" (Chubbs, Felix, and meadows) leapt into battle to aid him. I have to say that I was experiencing a serious "whiff factor" this session. Being multi-classed in this way really weakens my melee combat ability, especially since I've devoted so many feats towards strengthening my familiars. I was missing like crazy, and felt like a blind man tryin' to catch flies with chopsticks. It was so not cool.
While this was happening, Reven (Mutt) would breathe fire on the periphery of the battle, torching this mob of undead, to keep them from overwhelming us. Finally, we decided that we'd had enough, and fought our way back into the hole in the floor, though not without getting partially mangled. The kitties were unscathed.
Blimpy was at the bottom of the shaft, torching the quivering bodies of the undead. We went down below to regroup, and collect our senses. We decide we want to rest, but tonight Blumpy's player is...um...kinda crabby. :rolleyes: He wanted us to rest, but that was impossible, because we now spy six humanoid beings, approaching us from where we entered this festering hellhole of a tunnel. Uh-oh. They're
ghasts. We're overwhelmed by a hideous stench, and the battle is joined!
It takes a while, but we finally overpower these creatures. The situation is dire. It would be extremely difficult to return whence we came, and the chamber above is a deathtrap. Even Kratos could never fight them all. I conclude that if we can't fight them, then we'll sneak past them. We formulate a plan for entering the dome. It begins with me casting
Hide From Undead. We then make our way up this vertical tunnel, and into the chamber above. Ok. So we're there. The zombies are aimlessly wandering about, so Reven and Kratos try to work the door. But, guess what? The alarm goes off. Again.
"Bzzzzt! Aaoooooggaaaaahh!"
The zombies get stimulated, but they're completely unable to sense us, so they don't really do anything. On a good note, however, we finally get that damn door open. We get that door open, and we see.....
....something I'll tell you about later after I get some more rest. To be continued....