Dramatis personae
Angelista, undead-slayer
Felcanis, elven cleric
Quid occurrit
The gang goes back to its old camp. After two hours, Šanzbašar wakes up, still bound blindfolded and gagged. He struggles a bit and calls out, albeit gagged. However, he gives up after a few minutes.
That night, Angelista is on watch when she sees a big figure flying from the northwest. She awakes the others, and it swoops towards the camp. There, they see it is a winged horse with the head and claws of an eagle: a hippogriff. Angelista hurls a javelin into its belly as it comes down, seeing the plump, tasty shape of Bill the mule.
Angelista grabs another javelin, while Poklov shoots his crossbow, but misses. Bill moves away, while Felcanis holds her ground. Šanzbašar lets out a muffled cry from inside the tent. Angelista hisses at him, "If you value your life, shut up and sit still!" The hippogriff, with bad intent, claws the side of the tent.
Angelista steps and lets her javelin loose from behind the hippogriff, but it stays up. Poklov drops his crossbow and pulls out an axe, which he smashes into the hippogriff. The hippogriff passes out from the shock.
Angelista pulls out a khopesh to help Poklov chop up the hippogriff into hippogriff steaks, but no sooner does she do so than she hears another muffled cry from inside the tent, like Charlie Brown's teacher gone berserk. She turns, and Šanzbašar, now standing and out of his rope bindings, rushes towards her. His slam doesn't jar her as he is still in shackles, and Poklov puts his boot in Šanzbašar's face, again knocking him out. Poklov then hog ties him.
Now with Šanzbašar once again out, the gang again starts chopping up the hippogriff, taking its pelt, feathers, and meat. Poklov gets the skull pelt to put atop his helmet once preserved.
The next day, they wake up, and have a breakfast of hippogriff. They set forth to get out of the swamp, and about midday, they see someone coming towards them from the northwest. As he comes nearer, they see he looks just like Šanzbašar, who is still knocked out and burdening Bill.
The heroes grab their weapons. Angelista hurls a javelin, but misses. Poklov gets off a shot with his crossbow, hitting the other Šanzbašar, but this doesn't stop him from coming nearer. He tries to bash Angelista with his shield, but she sees him shamble oddly and steps out of the way. She realizes that this Šanzbašar isn't alive.
Angelista draws the sword she got from the living Šanzbašar, and swings at the dead one's arm. However, he parries. Poklov likewise draws an axe, and likewise cannot land a blow. Dead Šanzbašar swings his sword at Angelista, and gives her a nasty gash on her chest, though she stays up.
Through her pain, Angelista strikes back, but again, dead Šanzbašar parries her blow. Poklov steps behind dead Šanzbašar and puts his axe into his skull, which cleaves it open. Felcanis, glad to not have been in combat, heals Angelista.
Res aliae
4 CP. Base of 1, disads played so 1, plus 2 for all the value of the parts of the hippogriff. No real exploration
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