Game Log 2020-07-21

The Tribe awoke in the Anakatholi camp, and went down for breakfast and a quick planning session over the upcoming action at the cemetery barrows. The Tribe met with Keothe, Hadriel’s new assistant, who verified that Vimak was one of a kind, and he was the only one who could help in the current barrow issue.

In fact, Keothe told us that Vimak created the ritual that released the souls at the barrows, including Rondi, the Elf who had done the Trials of the Bonoliath in EnThanUs. Hadriel, resting on his bed, passed on a carved coyote, with a yellow gem eye, which he stated was the focus he used to help power the shield. Vimak reverently took the totem and the Tribe discussed what to do.

Quickly they came to the agreement that there was little value in waiting and that they should rush off to the barrows as quickly as they could to try to address this threat. As this was discussed, Edhror rushed in, reporting that the bulk of the Orc force was making its way to the Anakatholi camp, and they couldn’t stand this onslaught without their shield back up and running. Grog assured us, and the Anakatholi that he would stand against the puny orcs, and Nala and Edhror rushed off to see about bringing the Anakatholi forward to defend the camp while we worked to bring the shield back up.

The Tribe loaded Vaulk’s corpse into a cart and began trudging off towards the Barrows. Me and Evresh had a touching quiet talk along the way about Vaulk and life and what he would want, and then all of a sudden they arrived!

Three burial mounds rose in front of the Tribe with a low murmuring from a few creatures being heard. As the Tribe drew closer some zombie like goliaths in various stages of decomposition began to lumber forward ready to attack. Ash heroically jumped into the air, shield at the ready as the first thrown spear missed wide, and battle began. A few oddities were noted at the start of this battle, with some of the undead turning to look at Vimak before a glint of recognition in their eyes and them turning away to attack someone else.

Ash and Allyria heroically took the front of the battle blocking a hoard of 3 or 4 zombies from the group, when a tremor was felt across the graveyard, and another massive larger goliath joined the fight. He ran over to engage with Ash and Allyria. Ash seeing his time to shine, screamed at the much MUCH larger undead creature, who casually turned away from Ash and buried his rotted axe into Wolfs side.

Me seeing this, rushed into the fray in her huge polar bear form, throwing the zombies back like a bowling ball to pins. Her victory was short lived however as four of the zombies stood up and carved away at her Polar Bear form, nearly ending the beast shape. While this occurred Arkenite stood back heroically dropping volley after volley of arrows into the undead, while Evresh played some heroic music to inspire the entire group on their attacks, Vimak was smashing undead faces in, and Entropy was retreating from a fight.

As suddenly as the fight began, the curtain was drawn and the session ended, to be continued...