Failure in Kheeldriver
Firstly, I will have to apologize for the low quality of this report. During this action, there were so many things to remember, that I find myself having difficulty organizing it all.
We started out by teleporting in from the Boarsky bridge to the village of Kheeldriver. The Captain of the Town guard was no where to be found. We moved down to the lower gate, and setup our defense there, along the narrow road that approach it. Kory basically organized all this and set it up.
Just inside the lower gate there was an excavation underneath the town, which a few of us investigated, but as a whole we did not really paid much attention to.
The undead come over the fields in a flood. Some of the farmers, villagers who had not evacuated, died in a futile manner against the undead mass. It eventually formed up and streamed toward our defense line on the narrow approach road.
We had set a line of mighty warriors supported by archers and crossbow men along the walls. Most of the mages formed up behind the defensive line.
The battle started, and at first we held back the horde. However, more and more golems charged our line, and they broke us more then anything. Magics burnt the air and smashed our ears as the mages panicked as the line broke and threw everything they had into the battle. It was not enough, and the valiant defense line fell apart, no long able to support each other.
We retreated in disarray, some of us falling, some of us pulling back. Those of us who made it ended up reforming at the upper gate. However, it is unlikely we could have pushed back anything of relevance that came our way.
However, the undead hoard seem to stop as soon as they secured the entrance to the excavation under the town. Part of our party approached the ... I guess whatever was controlling the undead hoard. I lack a good description of it. My vision is not the greatest. Another part of our party started building a catapult, looting the town for materials.
This leader of the undead hoard dispatched something like a death knight into the excavation under the town. Edward tried to get us to stop this creature, using plain and clear language, but we were to slow to react to this. It had raised an arcane barrier to prevent them from following it under the town, and we reacted poorly to Edwards desperate warnings to stop it when it made its exit.
The creature escaped with whatever it found, and the undead hoard has begin to move away from us. The catapult construction looks a bit of a mistake in retrospect.
I intend to dispatch scouts to follow the undead hoard.
*signed*
Sani
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