A Large gate has finally come into view, it's a black wrought iron fence the bars sharp and barbed, barely far enough apart to fit someone's arm through. Only this gate and a large open courtyard stand between you and the tower.

The ground in front of you is covered in tiny bloody footprints, the fifteen to twenty young children who walked all this way in their zombified state, clearly did not put on any shoes. And obviously they didn't stop once the rough road tore at their feet.

Your heart jumps as you see shapes moving in the courtyard and you stop pulling the cart. Armored forms are moving in the a tight formation that makes them look like a patrol of guards.

look for a place to stash the cart and study the guard patrol further

CHALLENGE THE GATE

Get our cart off the road into the tree line!

>>6247581
>>6247588
>>6247583
You think about just kicking the gate down. That looks pretty unlikely.

You drag the cart off the road into the tree line and hide there watching the patrol moving. They are walking just like the kids from the town, but they do not look healthy in the least. You'd guess they are malnourished or walking dead, their armor and clothing is in a sad, muddy state.

They seem to be shambling around the courtyard in a mob about ten strong, and soon they walk out of sight around the tower.

Next move?

>>6247625
load up backpack with potions and weapons and
books.
make a Molotov or two and light up the gate
have another molotov for the patrol

>>6247699
No, because the cart o' booze is one big molotov for getting into the tower. What's going on with the gate, that we can see?

>>6247699
You quietly watch for the patrol as you stuff a few bits of rag into some of the bottles making a few "cocktails".They show back up and walk back around to the back, looks like they are just moving in circles around the courtyard.

You look at the gate however and think for a moment, setting this iron outer gate on fire does not seem like it would do much good except make there be a flaming metal fence in your way. It's not so high that you couldn't climb it, but it's covered in sharp barbs with large spear like decorations on the top.

>>6247763
The entrance through the gate is not far off. It's locked via a heavy looking black chain and a pad lock.

>>6247765
i just wanted to make it a distraction by setting it on fire.
fuck i don know could i climb the gate to get on the wall?

If we get rid or distract the guards, we could climb the fence and hammer away the obstacles on the top, allowing us to climb over.

>>6247841
i like this. lets set the patrol on fire. and then climb over and use the shit slammer to get by

Check walls. How high? Are there spikes? Rope would be able to get you up over there.
Any guards on walls?

Incidentally, primary plan (get kids out) is probably off the table. Secondary plan (kill master fellow) is our suicidal goal.

>>6247868
Of course we have to kill the guy.

We're Charles fucking Bronson, and we've got a deathwish!

>>6247841
>>6247830
You look up at the large metal spikes at the top of the fence, you could indeed hammer them so that they are bent and you could climb over.

From the way the were-wolf girl spoke, there are many more guards then the ten walking around outside. And you'd have to find a way across the courtyard to the actual tower.

You might be able to break the chain or the padlock on the gate with your hammer as well, but it would take a few minutes.

Or

We could distract the guards by setting fire to the stuff in the trees.

Climb the gate, using our LEATHER APRON draped over the spikes to climb over it, taking our apron with us afterwards.

We just climbed the gate without damaging it, and the only sign something is amiss is that there is some burning shit in the woods.

Are there any trees close to the wall, that we could climb up and look over it?

>>6247904
so we time the guards rotation and beat the hell out of the lock between rotations with our shit kicker

or we could dot he sneaky apron thing

>>6247868
>>6247877
>>6247841
You pull out a flint and tinder and light the oil lamp. You have a few minutes before the guards return.
After you stick a few of the bottles into your back pack and then take off your smithing apron. You toss the rope up onto the fence so you don't have to touch the barbs and it latches onto one of the spears on the top.

You climb carefully, and then drop your apron over the top, and slide over it, wincing as you feel something snag, but you are not cut. You move over it and pull your apron down.

You drop the few feet to the ground and knock the wind out of yourself on the other side. You reach through the fence and grab the lit lantern. The guards will be moving around soon. Your wagon is on the other side of the fence.

>>6247941
We might even be able to do it without setting the fire. Depending on how long the rotation of the guards is.

>>6247997
time to get moving lets see whats further on. find a place to duck in and put the apron back on. some protection is better than none.

I really wish we had a machine gun.

>>6248059
You get up slowly holding your sides, and pull the rope down quick as you can, limping slightly you see a nearby statue with some shrubbery around it. The patrol is about to emerge around the side, as you can see their shadows cast around the corner of the tower.

Time to try to get out of sight, or get ready to confront the patrol.

>>6248076
i would go for a suppressed one

Ok. So, let's take a look around and see what we can see quickly.

>>6248103
duck out of sight

pic related

>>6248115
>>6248117
Quickly you hide behind the statue, and turn back off your lantern. You slide your leather apron back on, for all the good it will do you. You look around the corner of the statue's base and see the patrol shambling into sight.

You actually remember a couple of them after seeing them closer up none of their armor matches, and it's very clear they are dead. These were all treasure hunters who's last stop was your village though out the years.

You always expected the wanna be heroes who came here died, but you never thought you'd have to see the outcome of it. And never expected to see them shambling around as undead.

They don't seem to be sentient, as it seems hard for them to even walk correctly, but they still carry their armor and weapons they held in life, so looks could be deceiving.

now that the patrol has gone by lets see where we need to venture.

>>6248214
There is a huge decorative black door leading into the tower. It's got horrible things carved into it, and just looking at it makes the rune on your arm burn so bad you have to cover your own mouth to keep from crying out in pain.

There is a balcony that you might be able to reach with your rope just barely, but climbing it between the guards patrolling would be very rough in your tired state, and you're no acrobat.

Yep, looks like a lich. Or at least some kind of necromancer.

But with the time the tower's been there, it's probably a lich.

>>6248291
Let's climb.

And if it looks like the guards are catching on, we'll pretend we're a bird. Making bird noises.

They're stupid zombies. It should fool them.

IN FACT, READ UP ON THEM IN THE BOOKS WE'VE GOT.

go for it. if paranoid people don't look up then neither do zombies.

>>6248306
>>6248337
>>6248342
When the patrol is out of sight you run as fast as your tired body will let you and then toss the rope up onto the balcony, it catches on the iron railing that matches the fence you just went over, but lacks its defenses.

You start to scale as fast as you can, and are working up more then just a sweat, your chest is on fire and you can hear your heart pounding in your chest. You're near the top when you hear the patrol's footsteps rounding the corner.

>>6248406
Pull the rope up with us, and try to keep quiet.

If they suspect something's up, tweet like a bird or hoot like an owl or something.

>>6248406
Obfuscate self with apron

ill concede to the pull up rope till they get past

>>6248421
>>6248433
You strain to pull the rope below you up with your legs as you hang there and just barely manage to get it about head level as you hang there by your arms that feel like they could fall off.

They slowly approach, but it does not seem like that see you. Then to your dismay they suddenly stop right beneath you. The smell of rot fills your nose and you gag silently. You reach down with your mouth and take part of your shirt and apron between your teeth and bite down to keep from making any noises of disgust or strain.

It's like they are listening to a voice you cannot hear. They turn to face the door and stare at it. You remember the Were wolf mentioning the door and how it spoke to her. They don't seem to be stopping because they noticed you, but because they are getting orders.

All ten of them turn and start to walk for the outer gate as if they are leaving the courtyard, you pull yourself up and let out a sigh of relief.

fuck yeah. whats on the balcony and further on

>>6248531
You look around as you sit on the balcony and then suddenly you freeze.

Sitting not five feet away is a corpse in a chair. A crossbow sits in its lap. The empty eye sockets stare straight ahead and it is not moving. It's mostly skeletal and does not appear to have moved in quite some time. It is covered in cobwebs, but staring at it is unsettling. Its rotted face pulls the skin around its teeth back baring them in some sort of wicked smile.

>>6248531
To the left is a wooden door leading inside, it is all ready half open. The air blowing out of it smells stale, dirty, and decayed. It's pitch black beyond.

>>6248586
smash the corpses head in with the shit basher

>>6248635
That could alert our presence here. Doubtful, but it could.

>>6248672
im just worried its going to shoot me/us in the ass when we start to move on. i would toss the thing over the balcony personally.

>>6248635
>>6248672
>>6248700
You think long and hard if you should toss the corpse over the railing, or smash him with the hammer. Wondering if disturbing it at all might alert whoever its master is.

You pull out the "Shit messer-uper" and stand there debating your options.

Wait, if they open the gate then you can get the cart in and blow the fuck outa the tower.....

>>6248730
Smash its head in. And the arms and legs. If we manage to do shit and have to escape, it's worth it to destroy all the seemingly inactive skeletons before they get activated.

And if it wakes up, well, we were bound to have to fight eventually.

Don't throw it over the edge. Because, you know, the patrol that goes around down there.

>>6248700
There's a logical solution to this predicament without either alerting anybody or risking getting shot in the ass.

Take the damn crossbow.

>>6248756
The gate does look nice and open at this point, and the guards who annoyed your approach are marching in the direction of the town down the road.

Climb down, push cart to wall, light, run, go back to town?

I assume they're probably going to look for the werewolves that never came back.

If they find the girl, that means they find the note.

Unless there are already guards there by now.

It could mean anything. But whatever it means, there's nothing we can do about it now.

Let's take the crossbow first, then smash the inactive skeleton, and proceed inside.

>>6248804
brilliant

Ok, either we enter a tower filled with all sorts of nasty undead warriors, and a LICH KING, or we try to blow up tower and see what happens first.

Realize that you are not man, but bear. And go back to Canada.

>>6248830
Fuck you there are barely legal women in there to grope!

Wait, I forgot about the barely legal women...... tough choice. We're a blacksmith, not a rogue.... but I'd still try to sneak it. Go in, use the boom boom cart as a last resort. (plan B)

>>6248830
>>6248842
Hey

HEY!

WE ARE CHARLES FUCKING BRONSON, AND WE'VE GOT PUNKS TO DEAL WITH!

Not to mention our Death Wish.

>>6248804
>>6248767
You toss the crossbow onto the floor, and as raise your hammer at the same time.

As soon as the bow clatters to the floor the corpse sits up straight and a strange green glow fills its eye sockets, but as soon as it stirs its skeletal head is turned to powder by your hammer. Bits smash all around after a satisfying crunch breaks the quiet of the twisted tower.

The body thuds out of it's chair onto the floor, and you look up. You can see the undead adventurers turning and shambling as fast as they can back toward the tower.

The decorated door to the tower seems to hum, and the noise makes you want to fall to your knees. Your arm feels like it wants to tear from your body and the rune upon it actually bubbles with heat as if a brand is being pushed against your skin.

>>6248867
We never said anything about DROPPING the crossbow, just taking it.

But fuck it, it's on now!

LIGHT UP SO WE CAN SEE AND ENTER INSIDE!

>>6248863
so for fucking barely legal women and for our death wish...WE SNEAK ONWARD

>>6248883
( Sorry, you have a crossbow all ready, and are kind of covered in -stuff- so I didn't think you'd want ANOTHER crossbow, so he just moved it away from him, either way disturbing the corpse comes to the same outcome.)

>>6248910
Whatevah.

ONWARDS

>>6248928
FOR ALLAH!!!...kazam.. whats in the next room?

>>6248910
dual wieldan crossbows brah.

Fund it

>>6248883
>>6248908
>>6248928
You curse your luck as you hear the door below begin to creak and clank open, you light your lantern as you walk inside. It's a dank room that smells more then awful. Breathing actually hurts in here.

Bottles line the walls, alchemy test tubes and equipment cover the three tables in the middle of the room. The bottles are filled with animal parts, human parts, and various colors. None of the liquids in this room look like they would be good for your health at all. Your eyes burn.

You can hear feet shuffling in the distance through the door at the far end of the room. It's unlocked but closed. Outside you can hear the patrol moving inside through the large metal doors.

>>6249015
Pick up some bottles and get ready to throw them at the enemies.

>>6249015
take a good look aroud. get a molotov ready and see whats in the next room. if litch burn it

Hmmm, I say get some vials ready to through. hey maybe they are flammable too, get a match ready lol. either we'll end up looking hella badass or hella stupid!

>>6249114
I was thinking they'd be corrosive as fuck. Acidic and shit.

If it burns our eyes just being in this room, then the liquid has got to be hardcore as fuck

>>6249114

IIRC most fluids used for preserving things back in the day were pretty flammable.

Well either way it will fuck some shit up, maybe we should just knock over a rack of the stuff when they come in. If they don't start melting light a match. Agreed?

>>6249127


Ever have to go into a fuel tank with a respirator after it was drained? If you've got sensitive eyes like me, you won't be able to go in there for much longer than a couple minutes before you want to rip your eyes out.

>>6249093
>>6249045
You grab a couple of bottles that look like they are filled with something nasty, and sit them in front of you as you take a knee and pull out a couple of the ol Cocktails.

Working as fast as you can you take the glass off your lantern and you light the rag sticking out of the end of the bottle of liquid. The door to the room flys open and pressing against each other in a mob, undead begin to file into the room.

Most of them look braindead, and their mouths hang agape, their eye sockets hollow and empty. But a heavily armored Zombie with a sword rushing at you looking much more skilled then the others has glowing green eyes and moves almost like a living person.

>>6249142
I'd go for tossing them first. It's more directed towards them. Knocking over a shelf would get it everywhere, and if it's effective, waste a lot that we could take with us further into the tower.

But yeah, throw bottles at them. If it isn't immediately effective, light them ablaze. HOPEFULLY.

Wait, if the vials are holding bits of people then it's not acidic. Definitely flammable then, we have real firebombs now, and we can drink the booze!

we dont need to fight in this room. this is the escape room where we zip line out if the shit hits the fan.

Wouldn't throwing a firebomb at a zombie just turn it into a burning zombie that would just keep going at us and now be even more dangerous that its COMING STRAIGHT FOR US?

if they are old zombies they will burn really fast especially if they are filled with preservatives

>>6249174

Nuke Cthulhu.
[adviceshoggoth.pg]
Cthulhu is now radioactive.

Hmmm, good points. Well knock over a rack, to block their way. then run. I emphasize the point that we can't fight these people. And the only way we are going to win this is be genius strategy and dumb luck. So I say run, but it'll be a bitch getting down.

So, we climbed up with a rope and grappling hook right? What if we tossed the hook up a level if there are any windows?

>>6249196
>>6249174
>>6249173
>>6249166
>>6249163
You stand up with the flaming bottle in one hand, and one of the vials you pulled off the shelf in the other. They will be upon you in but a moment.

You throw the large vial at the first zombie with the green eyes and it smashes into his face. It however does not break, the zombie falls back wards after a comical BINK of glass against a skull.

The zombie is still moving and starting to get up, but its eyes stop glowing green. Instead an undead behind it wielding a crossbow's eyes light up and suddenly it is moving skillfully. It's Skeletal hands pull the trigger on the cross bolt and send a bolt into your leg just above the knee cap. It hurts like a mother, it starts to reload and its eye color fades returning to the one with the sword who is finished standing.

You curse as blood pours around the bolt in your leg and you throw the flaming bottle. It shatters at the crowd's feet and they light up like tender. They let out an unearthly noise as they begin to burn still staggering in your direction, but not making it far as they begin to fall over in flames.

>>6249258
Let them burn. Hurry and grab as many of these bottles as we can take.

Remove the bolt. Pour some of the liquid on the wound. It should help in sealing it, and if not . . .

Light the liquid on the wound to cauterize it.

so set up a one story climb and set the next next room on fire if its got bad guys but there is something moving in the next room and we dont know what it is.

Ok, now that that worked out. Take ol ShitMauler and say some bad ass line to the zombie with glowing eyes if there is one, then smash it's skull in, along with the others. When the fire clears of course.

The zombies don't seem to be very skilled. Its hammer time.

>>6249277
seconded.

>>6249278
ignore this sorry

>>6249277

Bill, let me just say this. WE definitely do not want to light ourselves on fire, for any reason.

>>6249298
agreed. and we do have health potions if the leg is now gimp

pull the bolt out and use 2 potions from your smithy

then hammer in hand bulldoze through the flaming dead

>>6249323
It's not our entire self on fire.

If the liquid itself doesn't do anything to the wound, then lighting the SMALL AMOUNT THAT IS ONLY ON THE WOUND, will burn enough to cauterize the wound and stop the bleeding.

>>6249352
Let's try other routes before using 2/3 of our potions.

>>6249357
But that shit is really flammable. We should at least first see how long it burns before doing that.

>>6249374
Yeah

>>6249277
>>6249278
>>6249288
>>6249293

You reach down to pull out the bolt and then hear the sound of cracking glass and look up.

The bottle that hadn't broken is sitting int he fire and is making a strange hissing noise now that it's getting heated. Suddenly the fire surges upwards and you are knocked on your ass. You can hear more zombies in the hallway beyond the fire.

The fire seems to double in size and is quickly nearing you, your lantern and the other firebottle you prepared. You inch backwards as you see the fire creeping over the shelves of random potions and preserved parts, the glass cracking on them as well as they head up.

A sudden thought fills your head an old nearly forgotten memory. You don't remember why he said it to you, but it is your father's voice in a drunken stupor hitting your shoulder a little too hard before saying

"Be careful what mistakes ya make in life boy. Sure ya kin learn from some o' dem. But some ya don't git ta learn from. Some just -kill- ya."

You have a very short amount of time before this room is a fireball.

>>6249374
Or you know, a better idea, hold a sword or piece of metal over some fire until it heats up, then just cauterize with that.

So, bad ass line, smash zombie skulls, pull out bolt, check to see if fire is still dangerous. If it is, no fire on leg, if it is out cauterize wound. Then we stalk up on firebombs and move on.

pour half a potion in the wound and that should do it. idk thats up to or GM. lets tust heal it and kick ass

>>6249385
Oh wow

. . . All I can think, is to keep the bottle we have, and grab as many as we can, and RUN AS FAST AS WE CAN BACK THE WAY WE CAME, AND DOWN THE ROPE, AND ACROSS THE COURT YARD

>>6249406

nevermind that.

>>6249385

I knew it was freaking dangerous. Ok, we run, use the apron and slid down the grapple line.

>>6249385
Run. Down the Rope, and back out the courtyard. Smash through the side door to escape if we have to, because I can't see us jumping the fence with our leg.

Also: We get EXP for beating the dungeon this way right?

Really though, take as many bottles and vials as we can, because seriously, firebombs will be useful as fuck.

time to go boys. down the rope.

Piss on the fire.

I would say not to go back into the courtyard, but given two choices, take the most favorable. The gimp leg may prevent our movement from going too quickly, and it may be that we have run our adrenaline to its last. A jump may disable us, but we're very tired and it will be difficult to climb down, let alone get there.
If we were anyone else, I'd say we were fucked. But y'know what? WE ARE A FUCKING BLACKSMITH. lets get this shit done- if we do, we can rest all we want. I'm for the Idea of climbing the fuck down that rope. now RUN, SMITH!

Guys, lets just hang off the window and wait for it to blow, and then go back in.

>>6249485

Its not like the explosion isn't going to be contained by the room and hit us if we're just hanging on the rope a little ways down from it.

>>6249485
seconded

>>6249485
>>6249500
>implying hanging onto a building that could possibly house a large explosion sounds like a good plan.

>>6249485
I'm not burning my hands! Slide down the rope, the castle is filled with baddies. We lucked out so lets just blow it up. We will give up on barely legal girls and go for the chained up one we have.

>>6249515

Assuming the building is made of rock, all you'd get is a large plume of flame flying down the hallway beyond the door and out the window.

>>6249524
ok lets just GO

>>6249524

Slide down the rope a little bit then.

>>6249416
>>6249437
>>6249464
You stand as much as your leg will let you, you manage to snag two more bottles on your way out, but you can't even tell what they are, in fact in all the mess you drop one and it shatters at your feet, obviously not made of the same glass as the one you first threw, it smells like death and racism.

You move out onto the balcony since you can't make it through the flame and zombies still trying to file in to the actual hallway. You can feel the heat behind you and hear breaking glass.

You hook your grapple back into the rail, and wrap your hands around your apron then grab the rope, before you can swing yourself over it however, an explosion decides to give you hand in launching you violently over the railing.

Your tirelessly work hardened hands manage to hold onto the rope, but your shoulders take the strain and feel like they might tear out of your sockets, but they don't. You look up and see nothing but flames. That was close.

>>6249533
Yeah, but if one little handheld vial filled a room that big with fire, imagine how big the fireball from all the other ones would be.

>>6249540

Tie a one handed bowline and hang there for a little bit to see if the flames die down enough for you to go back in.

(you're a fucking blacksmith, you should know how to tie some knots.)

>>6249540
>it smells like death and racism.

XD

>>6249551

Protip- Flames and heat go up. Which is why we would have gone down the rope a little and waited.

I don't seem able to post in this thread. I'm perplexed and testing this.

[And in case this actually gets through]
Just caught up. Good quest, so far!

>>6249533
There are obviously things in here besides just stone.

And the force of explosions should do a lot of damage.

>>6249570
And let's not forget smoke.

Maybe this will end up killing the kids before our enemy has a chance to use them.

>>6249583

I seriously doubt that they'd be able to generate enough pressure to make the place blow like that. Even if they did, you'd be just as fucked from all the big hunks of crap flying and smashing you while you try to run.

>>6249588

Then we get to the top only to find that the kids are in the basement. Or another castle.

Ok, well I say go back up. The path is now undoubtedly clear on hostiles.

>>6249601
Yeah, we at least need to check out the situation. It would save us a lot of time otherwise spent trying to find another way in.

>>6249559
>>6249570
>>6249537
You hang there for a moment, but the pain is terrible, and looking up you notice your rope is on fire. Muttering curse words you slide the rest of the way down and come to sit on the ground. You're exhausted, but laughing a little at the state of things. Your biggest worry only a day ago was how much money you could make with your shop and what girl you might want to start a family with.

Here you were setting fire to some god forsaken magic users evil tower. Sitting on your ass you pull your backpack into your lap and dig for your potions. You pull out the arrow and pour the potion on the wound. It heals up nicely, but you can still feel the pain from the wound.

Slowly you stand and put back on your pack. The fire didn't damage the structure, but shows no signs of going out quickly.

back up and then how bout a HEAL?

Let's try talking to that door.

Because again: Charles fucking Bronson. Death Wish.

>>6249676
hell yeah. HUUUUGGGGOOOOOOO STIGLETS!!!!!!!!!

Ok, that helps a lot of things. Since out main means of entering is on fire. I say blow the doors with the Boom Boom Cart. we can go in that way probably. Oh and can we smell the vile we saved? I'm hoping for strawberries and pineapple scented.

Run to the gate and smash the lock off and open it. Drag the cart to the tower and see if we can get it inside the tower.

sure. lets light the command door up

Ok then, BLOW THE DOORS!!!!!

Did Firstquest leave?

>>6249906
Zeon Quest got him.

SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!
SIEG ZEON!

>>6249937
>>6249906
( Nope sorry about that I'm back, and about to post, lost my net connection for a tiny bit.)

>>6249937
I DEMAND A LINK

>>6249676
>>6249697
Agreed. Door time.

>>6249969
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6203113/

>>6249986
I thought you meant a current session.

>>6249998
No, sorry to get your hopes up. SIEG ZEON!

>>6249699
>>6249707
>>6249742
>>6249825
You look at the large doors that are still humming that horrible noise. You're unsure if your cart can take down the door, but its worth a try.

You hustle with a limp out to the cart and then begin to pull it behind you as you head back inside. Halfway across the courtyard you see undead shambling out of from behind the tower, there must be another door or something behind the tower for them to exit from.

Some of them look singed and had survived the explosion, some look unscathed so they might not of been in that hallway at all, declaring that there must be a -lot- of undead here. None of them have green eyes however.

You hear a woosh and look up, an arrow just breezed by your head and sank into the wood of the cart. leaning out of a much higher then the balcony window is another green eyes undead working a long bow, and is currently getting another arrow ready.

>>6250046
Well, clearly the ones with green eyes are controlled directly by the lich or whatever.

GET LOW AND PUSH THAT CART ALL THE WAY TO THE DOOR AND LIGHT IT UP.

Splash booze all over the door, too.

ill say it again. HHHHHHHUUUUUGGGGGGOOOO.... STIGLITS!!!!!!

>>6250064
And take a swig, don't forget that. Then book it!

>>6250064
No time for splashing booze! Just run it close and light that sucker!... could we hide under the wagon and not get hit by the flames? Or would it burn and collapse on top of us?

>>6250114
We take a drink from a bottle, and throw it against the door, smashing and splashing in the process.

Return fire with your crossbow from the cover of the cart. Can't afford to be pinned down.

>>6250064
>>6250110
>>6250114
>>6250128
>>6250129
You get closer to the cart as another arrow sinks this time into the mud near your feet, you continue to push it while using it as cover, you load a bolt into the cross bow and peek your head up to shoot at the zombie. It hits him in the arm, but does little to slow him.

You finally feel the cart bump into the door, and you stand, loading another bolt into your bow, you hear another arrow hit the cart bursting one of the many bottles of booze inside.

The crowd is finally getting close to you as well, one set of eyes turn green and it raises a mace above its head ready to strike you, and you fire your loaded bolt into its head from close range watching it topple to the floor.

A moment later an arrow slams into your shoulder and you curse loudly. You scoop up a bottle of booze in each hand letting your crossbow hang around your shoulder and throw one bottle against the wall as you drink from the other ( continued in another inc post ASAP.)

CHARLES FUCKING BRONSON

>>6250199
The drink is long and fills you with liquid bravery you turn and smash the bottle into the head of an oncoming undead as another arrow grazes your neck, but not too bad you really got lucky there.

Finally you fumble for your flint and tinder and find it, striking it to light the cart on fire, it and the door burst into flames violently. And will no doubt -really- erupt in a few moments.

Book it!

Take control of the zombies by doing the thriller

>>6250228
RUN RUN RUN! DIVE OUTSIDE. DRAW THE SILVER SWORD IT PROBABLY HAS ANTI UNDEAD ENHANCEMENTS!

>>6250242
I second this.

Get far enough away, and then use our awesome dance skills to mesmerize the zombies and put them under our control.

CHARLES FUCKING JACKSON!

>>6250242


DOO EEEETTT

whoever is controlling the zombies is probably fucking Michael Jackson, so you'll have to beat him in an epic dance off.

>>6250288

...this seems plausible, what with the children abducting and all...

DON'T DANCE. EXPLODING. RUN.

>>6250306


Dance away from the explosion.

>>6250243
>>6250263
You don't think dancing will make them listen to you, and you were always a bad dancer anyway. Must be the blood loss and drink that make you think these things as you draw your sword and for good measure your axe.

You run as fast as you can, but the undead only let you get a few feet before they close in all around you in a circle. Hands grabbing at you holding you in place, you struggle, but can't seem to break their grip by sheer numbers. Ones eyes light up and it lets out a menacing insane dry throat laugh. Once more an explosion decides to help you out sending both you and the crowd sprawling to the ground in the courtyard.

>>6250310
I'm okay with this.

OMG, we solved it. The Lich is a dead Michael Jackson. No wonder he looked so fucking creepy, it's all making sense now. Quickly!!!! How do you defeat MJ???

>>6250324
We need more info than that.

>>6250326

We need to get some painkillers ASAP.

>>6250324
By axe I clearly mean your hammer.

Ok, so, get up and book it into the tower. Obviously the only choice.

>>6250324
Get UP. Flail the sword. Alternatively if you expect more fire stay down in the mud.

Declare HAMMERTIME and begin murderizing zombies with the power of hammerdance, known only to blacksmiths and some carpenters.

>>6250341
and by hammer you clearly mean our heat hawk

SIEG ZEON

>>6250332
You're in the middle of a pile of undead who are all undamaged and starting to get up, but for the moment they no longer have their grip on you. Behind you the door is burning and the humming is growing louder, and you have to seriously focus on your pain not to let the noise drive you mad.

You turn around and see the door is slowly clanking open, the decorations and work on the door is melting. Now that the door is on fire the scenes and art carved into the door literally look like a picture of hell brought to life.

>>6250373
Let's run through that fucking door

>>6250353

Is M.C. Hammer the patron saint of blacksmiths?

Since leaving now would be boring. INTO THE TOWER!!!!!

SANDRAKOR!!!!!!!! battle your way up the tower and slay that bitch litch. hopefully its not a hot sorceress

>>6250348
>>6250353
>>6250347
You brain a couple of the zombies close to you and see stab another in some random place as you struggle to stand through the pain, the wounds and exhaustion.

You really don't feel well. In fact you're fighting letting your body give out all together. It takes every bit of effort to start moving to that door. You can see zombies filing out, but these are dressed in female clothing, and they are carrying buckets of water, its amazing how fast they got there, perhaps they were already on the upper floor putting out the flames there.

As you run in you are ready to fight them, but they pay you no mind at all as they try to put out the flames on the quickly ruining door. The dozen plus undead behind you are up and moving with your death on their minds however.

Its a long straight hallway ending in darkness once the light from the fire goes out. The walls are lined in horrific art, and the floor holds the footprints in blood left by the children of your town.

>>6250419
Pick up some burning wood to use as a torch and MOVE ONWARDS!

NOTHING WILL STOP US

WE HAVE A DEATH WISH, AND I WILL SAY SO EVERY POST

Follow the footprints!!!! Oh and get ready the vial. I have a feeling we might have to burn the children to stop the spell.

lets pop another potion. and then get this fool

>>6250473
If anything, just half a potion. We want to make this stuff last.

>>6250473
>>6250489
I say a full potion. We REALLY need it.

Take a full one

>>6250516
>>6250495
Let's take half and see how we feel.

>>6250434
>>6250446
Your thoughts are jumbled and angry. You even think of burning the children for whatever reason. Your head is a swirling mess, and the humming from the doors only seems louder in this hallway.

You scoop up a burning bit of the cart with one hand, your sword in the other. You stumble and limp down the hallway following the footprints until you reach a large circular room.

You can hear the undead following behind you now as you step into the room, your torch blows out for no apparent reason. You can't see a damned thing, and suddenly making your eyes burn a green flame erupts in the middle of the room sitting atop a pedestal.

You look around the room, turning around once as you take it all in, falling onto your knees. All the town's children along with several faces of young treasure hunter's and nobleman's children who have gone missing lately... they lay on stone slabs all around the room in a giant circle, they appear to be asleep with bandages over their eyes and latches keeping them pinned to the tables.

The humming gets louder and you cannot stop yourself from looking right at the flame in the middle of the room and then up above it. There is no roof, and as if it were a long tube, you can see the night sky high above, the full moon almost filling the center.

>>6250535
PISS THAT FLAME OUT!

NIGGER WANTS TO BLOW UP THE MOON!!!!!!!!!!! Either we throw special sword into fire to counteract evil magic, or we start lopping off kids heads. Either way, Molotov at the entrance to deal with zombies.

>>6250555
>>6250568
You turn And pull out one of the bottles, smashing it on the ground, then you pull out your flint and tinder, striking it to create more fire in the only entrance to the room. You turn and pull out your silver sword and get as far as thinking about tossing it into the flame, when you hear a loud thud and then a clicking noise.

Behind the green flame on the wall in a space between two slabs with children atop them the wall is opening up. Out slides a massive chair with a twisted corpse upon it dressed in fine robes. It stands and points at you, and the green flame goes out, instead appearing in its own eye sockets.

You freeze in place dumbfounded as the humming becomes cries of pain and torture, their voices rising into a twisted song that your mind cannot deny. Not even holding the sword helps. When the voices finally gather together in a rising cry they suddenly stop and everything goes black.

( Gonna call it quits for tonight. Tomorrow night at the same bat place, same bat time.)

>>6250648


Its MJ. Gotta be.

I gotta admit after catching up on the last two, and this one. I'm going to try to be around for the next one. pretty gewd stuff