Lost Mines of Phandelver 2014 rules

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. Remembering Mirna (the woodcutter's wife) sent the party to find her heirloom, they find a small wooden case hidden in a compartment beneath the storage shelves. 

Ol examines the box

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and opens it

The case is worthless but contains a gold necklace with a fine emerald pendant (200 gp).

Brand chucks the necklace in the for sale section of his backpack. "No axe yet sadly. Shall we go greet the hooded people?"

Brand leave heading in that direction

The path beyond the ruined herbalist shop splits in two

Right- A wide chimney and rotted piles of firewood jumbled outside the walls of this sagging building suggest that it was a smithy in its day.

Left- An empty shell of a building, with vision through to the other side. Beyond it, a small farmhouse which appears to be just another empty home at first glance. However, all the doors are shut and windows shuttered.

“Brand let’s explore the old smithy before that address. At least we have a better view of any threats here”

Ol walks over the smithy and explores the building.

Perception

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”also” he shouts to Brand “don’t be so quick to move that green pendant on. It clearly meant something else it wouldn’t have been kept safe”

Brand slumps his shoulders and grumbles about not being able to sell the pendant for more tithes. Like a whiny child he says "Okay...."

Brand follows Ol.

Perception check 17

Brand catches sight of two ash zombies slumped on the floor inside the building. 

Brand grabs Ol and puts his finger to his mouth to to hush him. He then points at the Zombies. 

Brand then tries to sneak over to get a hit off before the zombies realise they are there.

Stealth check 14

Ol responds and follows suit to attack the second Zombie

12

(stealth)

16 

Somehow, the zombies clock on to Ol and Brand. They slowly rise where they are

Initiative

16 

initiative

9

Reidoth shouts across to Brand

"Finish them with radiant power where you can, the enchantment on them does not let them cling to life in the face of radiant energy"

Lucius

8 

Reidoth 

1 

Initiative

7

Having used half their movement to rise from the floor, the zombies close down Ol and Brand as much as they can but don't reach them just yet.