New adventure

We should probably make our way to where i heard the chanting..checking out all the buildings along the way of course

The road towards the sounds from the night before passes the house with the spiders and then forks to the north and south.  Arafiel would say that the sounds were more to the south than the north.  From the vantage point of the the fork in the road you can see two structures.

Ian draws a Morningstar and shield to investigate the first building.

investigate 20

This ruined shop is cluttered with sagging storage shelves and broken furniture. Shards of glass and pieces of pottery glint in the weeds and rubble next to rotted books and casks.

All the reagents and concoctions here have long since been ruined, and the books are unreadable masses of rot. However, a small wooden case is hidden in a compartment beneath the storage shelves. The case is worthless but contains a gold necklace with a fine emerald pendant.

if party is willing to wait 10 min

i will cast detect magic as a ritual spell

While they wait an old smithy sits across the road.  A wide chimney and rotted piles of firewood jumbled outside the walls of this sagging building.

Boghadair keeps an eye out for trouble while we are waiting on the detect magic spell. 

Perception:  17

Please roll for the spell.... 10 minutes has passed.

Thagakh checks if there are doors at the nearby smithy and if it is locked or trapped.

Perception 21

There are no doors on this structure.  If you enter the structure let me know who and how you enter.

Akaas follows Thaggy whichever way he goes.

"If there are no doors, Thagakh will make a himself a path!"

He transforms into a wereboar and pulls a sledge hammer at his backpack.

The half-orc stretches his arms covered in fur holding the hammer outwards. He tenses his muscles and begins to furiously pound the sledge hammer against the wall.

Strength Check: 14

Bursting through the wall, Thagakh finds two ash zombies.  They use there action to climb from prone to their feet and approach the Half-orc turned wereboar.

order of attack: Akaas, Arafiel, Boghadair, Thagakh, Ian, Droop, Zombies.

Akaas slides around the Wereboar, spinning his staff. He swings upward, aiming for the first zombie's ribs, spins around to plant an elbow in the same spot, and then spins the other direction to ram an open palm into its ashy chest.

Two-Hand "Quarterstaff" Attack: 16; Damage: 5 bludgeoning damage

"Unarmed Strike" Attack: 23; Damage: 6 bludgeoning damage

Flurry of Blows "Unarmed Strike" Attack: 19; Damage: 5 bludgeoning damage

OOC: It must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw of 12 or be knocked prone.

Zombie Dex check 11

 The amazing display of athleticism knocks the zombie prone and delivers massive damage.  However, the zombie is still active.  Both Thagakh and Akaas must make a constitution saving throw as ash floats all over them from the attack.  If less than 10 Constitution check they are at disadvantage for next minute (can make saving throw after each round.)

Con save: 11

Akaas shakes off the effects of the ash.

next up .... Arafiel, Boghadair, Thagakh, Ian, Droop, Zombies

ooc  for the detect magic there was no role required   it just happens after casting time

as far as the zombies

ray of frost at undamaged one   Attack: 6 Damage: 2

Constitution saving throw: 4

Tyrus leans back and contemplates, enjoying the brief moment of respite.

Have I really come this far? Friends, rescue missions, wereboars, dragons...that old life seems so distant now.