Yue seems increasingly bothered and flustered by the zombies, and so just falls back on her familiar pattern of bite-and-go on Z2, hopefully downing it in time for Fallan to get through.

Bell also seems agitated, but sticks the same tactics; as long as the stairway keeps them funneled, she thinks they can hold them, though she does ask to switch with Rose.  “I’ll take the front!” She calls to the halfling after stabbing Z2 or Z1.

Rose grunts as she is hit but remains steadfast though her ire at the undead doesn't subside. Rose hears Belle call for a swap of position and though she preferred to be up front, given her condition Rose nods in agreement. Before moving however Rose focuses her rage into her holy symbol before shouting Back Off!. As she shouts a flash of light bursts from her body, hopefully burning the unholy life from the undead in front of her. After casting the spell Rose swapped with Belle and refocuses her energy to the sanctuary, granting a new 8 temp hp to herself and anyone who was hurt. (Temp hp is replaced not stacked so don't take the new roll of you haven't been injured since last round.)

Once out of direct harms way Rose mumbled a word of healing hoping it might fix her broken arm 4

Root will continue throwing darts until he can move in, throwing them at the next creature down the stairs.

 Fallan, in her panicked state somehow finds the strength of a dwarfed-ogre, as she shoves the only zombie against the wall, hard, everyone watching quite literally seeing it crash against the wall with strength the halfling should not be able to possess before the creature falls prone to the floor, and is used as a rug, while the halfling pushes past  her allies during their positional swap, and fallen senses accepting-disappointment from within their own mind, though its not her own thought. Regardless, she makes it past without even the risk of being struct, and into 'relative' safety. However she hears no response to her own reply.

As Yue watches with amazement, she also has her hunting animal instincts, and unlike everyone else, seems less shocked by the feat, instead taking advantage of the opening the 'packmate' made, as her jaws close around the creatures neck, severing it from the body. After this, Bell is fairly confident the thign won't be rising again, and even if it did, it would just be a severed head and or a blind body. So instead she goes after the seemingly immortal zombie, her blade going straight through its eye socket, before sliding out with another sick schlip. The creature falls once more to the ground. For a moment, Rose considered charging forward as the two near them had fallen, but the sudden pulsing pain of a socket-break reminds her that that wouldn't be the best idea. So instead, she flashes her holy power near the one that had just been slain by Bell, and as the energy washes over the creature it ceases to stir in the slightest.

Rose heals herself, and feels some strength return, unfortunately, a more powerful spell is required for in the moment, or she would have to wait until her elbow could be reset, which would be painful. Root grabs another projectile to throw, but it seems in his haste he forgot to grip it properly, and the dart goes flying out of his fingers, dropping into the water behind him, and sinking.

While spell energy was short, Fallan had been in the middle of that small horde, and seemed banged up. While Roses sanctuary offered aid, id did not actually heal... so Gwen put her hand towards Fallans direction, healing energy flooded into her, as much as Gwen wanted to heal and help Rose, she felt Fallan was worse off, whispering a small word under her breath to do so.

As things continued, it seemed like Z1 / Z2 were no longer going to move, Unfortunately this also meant that the other corpses could flood in to fill the space, and just as the corpses fell, the ghouls rushed in pushing past their 'lesser' brethren, not that the lesser zombies understood. And it seemed there was one more ghoul that hadn't been seen before as they filed in. If they were perhaps a more intelligent variety of undead they would have swarmed around the area already by taking an alternate path. 

As all the positional swapping takes place on both sides, the ghoul looks at Bell with a slight intelligence, and a wicked smile and a sense of eternal hunger. Unlike the zombies, the ghoul thrusts out with its hand like a spear, aiming for any opening in Bells armor. It then ducked momentarily to allow its fellow ghoul behind it to do similarly, it seemed the creature still retained some sense of strategy from its former life...

The other ghouls, unable to attack the axe, continue with their distant assault, tossing small objects into the fighting area though not really aiming. The other undead continue pushing against each other fruitlessly, trying to get at the fresh meat.

 Z1/2 are dead .. permanently. Rose's arm is still broken, Ghouls have rushed in. party is up

Happy that some of the corpses have stopped moving, Yue howls triumphantly, and then charges in to attack G1, stepping in and out of Bell's space (pack tactics).

After the wolf's strike, Bell follows up with one of her own, Rapier flicking towards the same Ghoul.  Bell then strikes her shield with the pommel of her Rapier.  "Yeah!  C'mon!"

(It doesn't seem Fallen has been hit since last refresh so she should have an extra 8hp just fyi)

 Rose unable to do much from her current position mentally commands Selûnes axe to strike at G4, after which she quickly moves under Belle to strike at the ghoul on the stairs and then moves back to her last position. Gwen maintains her position sends another sliver of pshycic energy into the mind of the closest Ghoul.

Feeling much better after Gwen''s touch, and enervated by the energy flow emanating from Rose, Fallan still takes a moment to catch her breath and re-assess her role in this battle. Finding that her adrenalin-fueled bulldozing of the last zombie in her way ended with her no longer in clear line of sight of an enemy, she looks for other ways to be of use to her fighting friends. Sheathing her shortsword, she decides to enter the pool to retrieve the dart Root dropped. Finding the depth being a bit more than a halfling can wade through, she dives down to the bottom to find the missile. Once below the surface, she also gets an idea... still confused and concerned about the floating/glowing eyes remaining from the skull she had smashed, she takes the opportunity to "investigate" the submerged skeleton as well. Not wanting to stay underwater for long, she decides to grab the skull of the skeleton and see if she can take it (or the whole skeleton if it is firmly attached) back to the surface as well.

 Yue, seemingly on a spree, snaps at the ghoul who had attacked Bell moments before, and tore out its throat, putting more necrotic flesh in her jaws, as the ghoul falls to the ground. Seeing it fall, Bell instead waits for G2's inevitable push forward. Yue, feeling exultant, howls, and the howl echoes through the tunnels like it would through the night sky, only amplified by echoing off the tunnel walls as it courses through the entire complex like a siren. All the while, Rose's aura pulses, and emboldens anyone who had suffered damage recently. However as that howl echoes through the cavern, Rose likely feels a deadly sense of Deja Vu coursing through her, and like bell, she waits for the next ghoul to make its move. Gwen feeling much the same as Rose did in that moment.... and seeing everyone ganging up on G2, joins in, as she looks to Rose for 'what do we do?!'

Muffled, Fallan can hear the wolfs how echoing through the caves as they reach the skeletons body. 

Though she doesn't find Roots dart, she does notice as she gets right next to the skeletons body, that just barely visible under a layer of sediment, seems to be a wand of some sort, clutched in the skeletons grip. Fallan decides whether to continue attempting to remove the skull or take another course of action before returning to the surface with one or the other, but not both, as swimming would become near impossible otherwise

Ghoul2 rushes forward the moment G1 falls, and seemingly intentionally impales itself on Bells rapier. Though it seems it hadn't expected to be hit in the leg by Rose's hammer, only to them be hit with a mental assault. That chain of damage seems to have weakened it severely, but still not quite enough to kill it. And, as it still lived as much as a corpse could... it lashed out at Bell, or atleast it was about to, when one of roots fists lands hard.... against the back of Bells head, knocking her forward a few inches, but realizing his mistake, and attempting to make up for it, his other fist flies out and bell could swear she felt a wake of raw force echo out from the punch, as it neatly severs the ghouls head clean off, sending it flying into the zombie behind it. Ghoul 2 falling to the floor on top of its former ally, and making that spot become difficult terrain.

The others rush forward as well, with Z3 rushing to get in front of the others, as the others fall in like a line on black-friday. Z3 stumbles a bit, catching sight of Rose and his decaying hand shoots for her face. (remember you have -2 AC). The other corpses now stymied as they have no way to reach  anyone else before being pushed back by whoever was in front.

The ghouls in the room, becoming frustrated with the floating weapon, begin to move oddly, as all the ghouls in the room with the axe begin to Dodge.

Party is up. Rose still has 2 off of her max AC. ghoul1/2 are dead. Yue's howl has echoed through the complex, and though not nearly as much as the last time, the soudns of movement can be heard from various places within the cavern.

While Fallan still harbors a "hunch" that there must be a connection between "the glowing eyes that will not die" and other skulls in the vicinity; she is also easily swayed by the possibility of "easy pickings". Knowing that wands tend to bring good cash when fenced, she opts to come back to the surface with something useful. If it couldn't be Root's dart, this wand might be of value. "Besides," she thinks to herself, "it isn't like the skull is going anywhere. I can always come back down again for that!"

Roots blood boils as he reels back his fist from the ghouls headless body. His instincts to destroy begins to rise, His Draconic heritage begins to fester as Root grows claws! Like the ghouls Root shapes his hands into a spear form attacking twice withe his claws Root aims for the new body in front of him!

 Starting to get into a rhythm, Bell sidesteps to give Yue a clear shot for her hit-and-run.

Stepping back into position, Bell lowers her stance and strikes forward, aiming to pierce Z3 through the abdomen.

(I just removed my shield from being equipped so The AC on my sheet is accurate. Zombie boi misses)

Rose too has gotten into he rhythm of things and, despite the pain in her arm, she feels confident that they can keep widdling away at the undead bastards. Yues howl didn't even really bother her all that much as, so long as they could continue to funnel the creature's, they could take them one at a time. With that Rose snuck under Belle again and let off another burst of holy light, hoping to burn away the undead in front of her. Meamwhile her axe continued to target the same ghoul as before. Once back in her position Rose gave Gwen a confident smile to reassure her that all was well.

See this Gwen gave a smile and a nod of her own in return before focusing her attention back on the closest undead, sending more psychic attacks their way.

 Fallan re-emerges from the murky depths, armed with a wand, though she doesn't know what the want may or may not have inside of it. Root, following up and becoming enraged to an extent, punches at the zombies face, trying then to follow up with another spear-like punch, however, this time his hand gets stuck inside the armor and seems to be unable to be removed. As Root attempts to remove his hand, he's instead pulled forward, shunting Bell out of her own space as he's tugged down almost to his knees, Yue getting pushed to the edge of the water as bell slips that direction. Root now finds himself face to face with the zombie who is now very aware of his existence. 

Yue just barely able to push past both allies and still snap at the creature, though the movement is tight, and the body falls to the floor, however, Bell knows better than to push forward, and waits for the likely rise of the corpse once more. As the corpse goes down, So does Root, bringing him to a prone position with his stuck hand, on his hands and knees. Rose however, takes a more pro-active approach, and once more shines radiance from Roots back, before hopping back off, and the radiance burns into the corpse that lay on the ground. 

Seeing the corpse likely falling for good, Gwen looks up at the next creature in the grinder, and she once more finds her mark, seemingly on a roll as the zombie flails for a moment, clawing at its own head. The ghouls, that have begun dodging have begun to avoid the axe much more effectively, shifting out of the way before it hits. Another pulse of energy flows out from rose emboldening her allies resolve.

The corpse doesn't rise, and Root is stuck to the floor when the bodies flood forward once more.

Zombie4 pushes forward as its ally falls, and seeing Root on the ground, bringing its bony hands into the air, before bringing it down on the prone dragonborn. Z5 pushes just behind, clearly trying to join its ally in gaining fresh meat. The ghouls remaining behind full cover from all but the axe itself, and they continue to flail and move oddly trying to not get hit by it.

Root is prone, and his hand is stuck in the  armor of the fallen body, and it requires a DC 14 STR/DEX saving throw to remove the hand from the body. You all sense something foreboding coming in from the south. Bell was shunted 1 space up, as well as Yue as I could  see no other way to resolve the nat 1 based on what happened.

Party is up.

Seeing that the hallway is become a little claustrophobic, Bell, moves towards the south.  "I'll guard our backs, see if I can hold back whatever's coming," she says, loudly but not too loudly, about the noise level of someone causally closing a door- loud enough for her allies to hear but not so loud it would shatter all the windows in neverwinter.  The Satyr weaves her way through her allies, planting herself at the rear of the group and taking a defensive stance.

With Bell's space vacated, Yue returns to her trusty hit and run tactic, straddling Root for a moment to take a snap at the next zombie before retreating.

 Root will try to rip his Hand free from the corpse. Unable to get the right leverage. He fails to get his hand out instead he pull the body over as a zombie meat shield as the undead come to at come in to attack him!

Dripping wet, but still uncertain how much she could assist in the "doorway defense", Fallan watches Bell move to protect the southern entrance to the room they are all now in. Nodding her head in agreement with the idea, she hurries over to Bell and reaches out to put the newfound wand into one of Bell's open hands. "Here, thanks for the healing. I don't know what this does, or how it does it, but we should be even now."  With that, she hurries back to the pool and makes a far more graceful dive into the liquid than even she would have thought herself capable of. Bound and determined not to let any unknown skulls potentially support the "floating glowing eyes", she takes a few strokes to reach the bottom and then wraps an arm around what would have been the neck of the waterlogged dead one. Pushing off from the bottom for all she is worth, she attempts to get either the whole skeleton, or at least the skull, should it break off, up where it could be better observed, and likely pulverized, the same way she had the earlier mocking skull.

Seeing Root stuck Rose quickly moves to put herself between the undead and him as best she can, light off another flash of holy energy at the undead and directing her Axe to assault the nearest ghoul again. Meanwhile Rose gestures for Gwen to help move the dragonborn back 5ft and help him out of his predicament. (Root should get a reroll of his check with gwens help)

Bells allies shift enough to allow her passage to where she wants to be, and as she firmly plants her feet, ready to intercept whatever may be coming from the south, she notices that the closer she gets to the entrance... the more sulfur she can smell. The smell of Fire and Brimstone permeates the area, and two glowing eyes can be seen in the darkness, staring at Bell from a distance. Bell gets the distinct feeling that whatever this thing is - is a fiendish predator. And the sound of dull clanking can be heard, as if the creature was banging together two metallic items. The others in the party can hear this as well.

Yue takes another bite out of the undead, and its a solid blow - though not enough to kill the thing. Gwen see's that Root is having trouble, and tries to kick the thing off as he pulls out, and its just enough to knock his hand loose, and free him, standing now though, Root prepares to avoid incoming damage. Fallan just making it to the edge of the shore and handing Bell the wand, if she took it. Before diving once more into the water, the skull easily detaching from the rest of its body as Fallan prepares to take it topside.

Rose attempts another radiant blast, but it seems Selune's power is atleast temporarily exhausted as it barely manages to singe the creature. Root feels the barest of healing(?) fro m either a healing spell or a refresher of her aura. Her axe however, finds its mark, just barely hitting yet still managing to carve into the ghouls body. 

Z4 lashes out at Root, recently free'd form being trapped, and thanks to root's deft footwork, the creature is easily parried away. The other zombie flails uselessly, while the ghouls continue to dance with the axe. Smart enough to try to avoid it yet not quite smart enough to give up on the hunt.

As Bell decides whether or not to take the wand, in which case if she doesn't, it will remain on Fallans person, the moment her eye-contact leaves the creature down the hall, Bell hears Freshh...... like a growled whisper in gutteral tones. The creature sprang into life, charging forward like a mad beast. And as it came closer, even though Bell had the blessing, its features only became truly clear as it approached.

The creature was much larger than it had appeared, just barely small enough to fit through the tunnel it was now running through. It had two large rams-horns, that stayed mostly straight behind it. Two orc-like under-tusks that protruded from its lower jaw. Its eyes glowed with demonic hatred. A fiery glow seemed to emanate from it now, bathing its body in the colors of a hateful sunset as it ran on legs that seemed too small to support its otherwise massive body. It wore an apron that seemed to be sewn out of the flesh of other creatures. Its body was pockmarked with scars and wounds, and its flesh, when the pulsing glowing emanation faded momentarily, was blood-red, with a softer cream around its torso. All of its scars seemed to be 'mended' by large, matallic rings. In its right hand was a massive blade in the shape of a cleaver, while the other held a bloody meathook.

The creature ran straight for Bell, seeming as though it was trying to topple her over. As the ten foot tall fiend impacted bell with its shoulder, she tries to resist it, and fails. Bell is sent flying what would have been 10 feet back, but instead she impacts with the wall at O6, landing prone on the ground. And unless she had a trick up her sleeve, she would feel the bite of the cleaver drawing across her leg, and the soft sensation of some sort of brand on her leg. A moment later, a silent eruption of flame surrounds the fiend 5 feet around itself as the hellish fire erupts from its body, had been been knocked the full distance it would have missed, however, the crimson flames catch her, and her alone.

Even with her additional strength against magical effects, the flames still hit her full force. The fiend stares down at her with a hate-filled visage. As if she is nothing more than one more Lamb to the Slaughter.

A fiend has attacked Bell, Fallan's in the water once more. Bell can choose whether or not she took the wand and that event takes place before the fiend has moved, before Fallan enters the water again. Whoever has the wand may  make a FREE DC 15 Arcana check (no action required) to determine the wands nature.

Bell takes the wand from Fallan, and peers at it, but doesn't get a real chance to look before her attention is drawn by the fiend.  A slight tug of 'fear of the unkown' pulls at her gut, but the sensation is quickly turned into excitement at the prospect of a new foe.  The Satyr braces herself for the charge to no avail, but manages to torque her body mid-air to avoid the cleaver as it arcs towards her.  A gasp of the wind getting knocked out of her leaves her lips as she strikes the wall and falls to her hands and knees only to be roasted by the demonic flames.

The orange light of the creature's fiery wreath glints off of Bells eyes as she looks up at the creature, a grin on her face.  "Now this is more like it... let's dance Ugly!"  Bell springs to her feet, letting the wand rest on the ground, and she spears forwards with her Rapier.

Rose turns when she hears the uneasy noise and her eyes go wide at the sight of the fiend. To Gwen and Root she says You both hurry up and finish these ones, I'm going to back up Belle! Rose turns to charge the fiend, calling out a word of healing Belles way as well as sending a pulse of Selûnes protection her way. Once in range Rose calls out Come on big guy pick on someone your own size! Roses hammer, swung in a low arch, aims for the fiends knees 

Gwen too turned to see the fiend and hear heart started to race at the sight. Despite Rose's request Gwen turned to focus a more powerful spell at the thing, speaking words in mumbled elvish laced with magic before turning to face the Zombies once more.