Session 5: The Square Report

General Summary

As the citizen of Wolfsfelden began to scatter in panic, howls of Strigoi echoed across the near by rooftops. Pushing thru the masses the party would see the lady Visaela making her down from the gallows and with her personal guard back towards the palace. The man besides her, a pale gentleman with a nobles baring would begin to chant, a ball of fire flying from his finger tips and exploding around them incinerating many of the fleeing citizens. The Strigoi would leap down into the masses tearing flesh and rending bodies of panicked people. A blue glow would erupt from the fountain at the square, the burnt and shattered bodies of the fleeing citizens would begin to rise. Ulric would walk into the fountain, taking the gem found there and would smash it repeatedly on the stone street till it shattered. Katarina would rush forward engaging with a Strigoin her rapier darting in and out. Pozake would lead the rag tag band of hunters and clergy to battle the rising hoards of zombies. Adelaides bombs would exploding, burning already burnt corpses while Drogomir would push the left flank his hammer smashing into the Strigoi there. Darius would summon his healing magics to aide those injured and purge the dead that were rising.  

The nobleman at the gallows would next cast a wall of fire, splitting the party and forcing them to move around to reach him. Katarina would run up the back of Ulric and leap over the flames in a graceful flip, landing with ease, her rapier drawing a strigoi into her dance. Moving the monster into the flames as the human guards watched in awe. Ulric next would leap thru the flames, soaking from the fountain he would drive a Strigoi to the cobble stones. Pozake and Drogomir would slay the remaining zombies and begin to flank around the wall of flame followed by Adelaide. The noble seeming annoyed with two of the dangling priests, he would send a searing green energy into one and begin to make his way down from the gallows and away. Katarina would rush to the platforms to try and save the clergy to find many had already turned, the undead and still hanging priest would try to lash out and grab her. Moving further up she would find one of the priest still breathing, but barely as he dangled from the neck in a noose. Cutting him free, Drogomir would close the distance with the nobleman seeing him for what he was, a vampire. A bolt of lightning would snap from the vampires fingers dropping Drogomir and scattering the remaining force of the assembled hunters. Darius would send a blast of searing light at the vampire, burning his flesh, but with one last cast of a spell the Vampire would make a hasty retreat into the city covered by his guards.  

The executed clergy would quickly tear themselves free of the gallows and pounce upon the party. Getting Drogomir to his feet, Darius would move up to the gallows to help Pozake, Katarina, and Ulric who were battling to protect the still coughing cleric. In a desperate and croaked prayer the cleric would show he was in fact a champion as he summoned divine power to lay on hands upon Katarina, as the zombies blows were mounting. Though the vampire would escape, the newly arisen undead would be vanquished and what would turn out to be an Imperial Legate had been saved.