Travis McElroy

There is a loud crashing noise and you hear a as one of the corpse mounds gets to the door before Pranklin does.

All right, how many spell slots?

Let me look at your character sheet.

I wanna make sure we're doing this sort of honest, because if you don't have enough, you're gonna have to do it the nasty way again.

I don't even know, that was a panic maneuver.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

Yeah, I mean, if you wanna do this, you're gonna have to do it the bad way.

Um.

Okay.

Oh, I see, you've reached the bargaining phase.

Yeah.

Um, okay.

As you drop Hippocrates, Scorpo, first of all, goes, ah, fuck, what, why?

as he sort of now has to carry all of the weight of this large birdman wizard up the stairs by himself.

You leap down, you see this mound of corpses begin to grapple Pranklin with its first attack.

You reach outward and project another bubble outward from yourself, another bubble of opaque white light that spreads slowly away from you, but again,

You are unable to control this spell as you are surrounded and

Through the bubble, you see this corpse mound begin to pull Franklin inwards.

You are frozen in time, unable to help, unable to do anything.

You see one of the larger zombies in the corpse mound sink its teeth into one of Franklin's legs that it is pulling back inward, and he howls a terrible howl.