Bugs! Date (1/9/14)

Bugs! Bugs were everywhere! Crawling on the walls. Squirming along the ceiling. Scuttling across the floor. All fixated on the party! With bulging eyes and clicking mandibles, they came from every direction. Placing their backs together, the party fought to hold the space, barring and barricading doors and windows as they claimed the guild hall using swords and spells. Marty was able to heal the cuts and burns received from the battle, while the swarm crawled all over the exterior of the building emitting a constant, mind-numbing drone.

Ilyana spoke of a bizarre occurrence. During the battle she witnessed several fire beetles heading for a back room. When she maneuvered to look, she saw the bugs battling a zombie. She didn’t think much of it in the heat of battle and, in the relative calm of the aftermath, an investigation indicated they had destroyed one another.

With nothing else to do the party spent the day, much as they had the night months ago, huddled in the guild hall surrounded by a horde of enemies. As the sun went down, the bugs retreated back into the city. Then at sunset, the bell appeared as it had before, but this time as it tolled, Euwyn was there to seize it. The few zombies which had formed quickly dissipated. Hedge was dispatched to see if the streets were clear, but as soon as his feet hit the first floor, the ground erupted with new undead horrors. These looked like animate piles of grave dirt and where they touched the ground erupted seeking to bury Hedge alive! The team defeated these with the help of their new cave druid and beat a hasty retreat back to Malwan.