>>6002390“We’ll stay on the outskirts of the town for now and let them come to us. It’ll lead them away from where they herded the people and allow us to thin their numbers.” You declare to the complete and utter acceptance of your group. You take a couple of deep breaths and find yourself ready to fight for your life again just in time as the first few skeletons finish their sprint to the back of the house you’re at.
A swing of your sword and a surge of electricity greet them as their end is met with an explosion. An explosion catches the thatch roof of the house and feeds a new fire. You don’t know if all this fire will be more of a hindrance to you or the skeletons, it’s mostly concentrated near the center of the settlement but still spreading to the outskirts. As you contemplate an oval-like device is thrown over the ceiling and near your group, you barely have a charge to dodge as it explodes into a ball of flame, the fire forcing your group deeper into the settlement. And it’s totally unfair that the skeletons simply walk through all the flames and continue their assault. Completely unaffected.
“Start moving!” You yell as you take off in the opposite direction of the loch, away from the skeletons. Two more try to ambush you from the other end of the house but Marie leaps forward and with two consecutive swipes slashes through the torso of one and decapitates the other. A radiant glow cauterized the “wounds” of the skeletons all before they could bring up weapons. Inquisitor Abram has to pull her along before the explosions get her. Was she trying to pose?
For the next couple of minutes, the same scenario repeats, the skeletons try and fail to ambush you while one of the members of your party occasionally deals with the ones trying to chase you. It almost feels like the skeletons are trying to herd your group instead of the other way around but that must be impossible, right? You haven’t heard them say a word to each other and only a jumbled garble comes out of them as they’re killed.
As you go further and further into the village the fires get more intense, to the point the smoke makes it hard to breathe and the rubble hard to walk. You can’t see how things are going at the shore due to the inferno but you hear gunshots that aren’t fired in your direction. As you fire Cinder into the head of a far-off skeleton you can’t help but wonder what’s the point of this all? This village is tiny with a population that can’t be more than a couple hundred, for what purpose does it need to be destroyed? You’ve seen corpses before, even made people into them. But the charred remains that little the village doesn’t make for a pretty pleasant site. The only silver lining is that there are more destroyed skeletons littering the ground than there are people.
