Straight Outta Deepwheat #3

StraightOuttaDeepwheat3

“Alright lads, team, people” said Silvery Cedric, the Deepwheat Village Priest

“Some of you chaps have been there before, to the The Monastery in the Marsh, St A'Silvidh. But for the rest of you: Enter each room, set alight some incense and say a little prayer. Fumigate the place, re-consecrate it, cast out evil spirits.

And, er,,,,. Come back alive, for goodness sake.”

“I know the afterlife is golden and all that, but there a lifetime of piety and saving sinners for you lot first, before you even think about climbing that staircase to salvation. Screw the nut. Back off from the bad guys.”

Cedric bade them farewell

“Off you go, then, best of luck.” he said and started off back towards Deepwheat village church.

“And be bloody careful” he hollarred out back over his shoulder at them.

Deepwheat3 Fumigate the Monastery of Saint A'Silvdh

Player	Class	Race	Name
Susan	Cleric	Human	OnMeKnees
Susan	Fighter	Elf	PointyEars
John	Cleric	Human	RosoferMonkBothron
John	Fighter	Hobbit	PeregrinPerim
Marc	Cleric	Human	FriarSegal
Marc	Fighter	Human	SirCasper
Sudney	MU	Human	IvorSurv
Sudney	Fighter	Human	Brutus
Sid	MU	Human	Windy
Sid	Pony	Pony	Donkey

The squad had a super plan this time: de-bone the skeletons, in the alcove room.

They'd worked it out on the way.

They pegged out Donkey the pony at his usual spot and he set about finishing the grazing he'd left over from last time.

“Ok, here it is, one more time” said IvorSurv.

“We creep in the doorway, until we trigger the skeletons.

“Then, when they rush at us, the clerics all Turn them with their Holy Symbols.

“Fighters run a screen and cover patterns.

“After we've biffed them, we pour this Holy Water in the alcoves, take the bones outside and burn, burn, burn, burn them to microscopic ash.

“Total. Wholesale. Systematic. De-bleedin-struction”

“Got it” they all echoed.

So, in they went down the stairs, turn south and sneaked up to the start of the Alcove Room, the one with the skeletons. Doddle.

“Everybody ready.....let's go”

And in.

Except when the skeletons started moving, the plan went out the window.

SirCasper provided the screen, but OnMeKnees faced the onrushing boney terror by trusting to cold steel rather than the hunk of wood round her next, even it was infused with religious power.

“You're supposed to use the symbol Turn it, Turn it.”

“Yeah, yeah” said OnMeKnees “in a minute” and she lashed out with her sword.

RosoferMonkBothron and FriarSegal had a bit more faith. They boldly thrust their Holy Symbols out at their undead enemies.

“Begone, scum of evilspawn” called out FriarSegal. And sure enough, the skeleton crumbled neatly to a pile of bleached bones on the ground.

“Yo, Lord” he said to himself, “nice one”

The rest of the team had fanned out to a cover screen for the clerics and they were buying the Friar some valuable time. One of the skeletons fell under the sword. That helped.

He turned to the next one, feeling his religious power surge through his arms and out through his cross: “Away from here, off this world”. Pop. This skeleton too crumbled neatly to a pile of bones on the ground.

And once more, bit trickier this time to get a clear look at it, but the power was with him, infusing through his veins “Lay down, restless one. Your pain is over”

Again, this skeleton crumbled to a pile of bones on the ground.

“Doddle” thought FriarSegal. “Bring on The Vampires”

But his joy was shortlived.

Nobody quite knows what happened to RosoferMonkBothron. But when the dust settled, it didn't look good. He lay in a heap in the melee arena that was the Alcoved Room.

IvorSurv, inspired by the religiosity of the occasion tried pouring Holy Water on RosoferMonkBothron's body and a spark of light seemed to course over him, but no...he was too far gone.

They didn't have any more Holy Water for the consecration of the alcoves. So, they gently and reverently picked RosoferMonkBothron's body up, gathered up the bones of the skeletons and headed out.

They piled up and burned the bones of the skeletons. Someone said a prayer. Then they gathered up the ashes and burned them all again, with a bit of oil. Someone else said a prayer.

And that was it.

With RosoferMonkBothron strapped onto Donkey, they headed back to Deepwheat.