John rallied up the party from the Inn, and together they organised who they could from the town - gathering up a caravan, supplies, some of the local militia and civilians along with some horses and attempted an escape from the town.
He know far too well what was approaching from the mountains - the Necromancer.
As they began to ride out, the drums began again - louder this time.
Beyond the ridges of the mountain the silhouettes of an undead army, dark men, the necromancer - and the thought dead, goblin Gumbo began to creep towards the town.
The heroes told John to escape with the townspeople as they held what they could of the town.
The Necromancer smote Bard'mn's Inn with a bolt of Necrotic energy, the barrels of alcohol exploded and the whole building went aflame.
Gumbo let out a roar of contempt for the party and the Necromancer commanded the army forward.
Danetrix prayed to Pelor for protection and guidance, and a divine ray of light shone between the heroes and the army of the Necromancer - a small tree grey from the ray of light bearing crystalline fruit.
Heidar aided by creating false walls of light next to the tree blocking the armies path with Prestidigitation.
The Necromancer blew another bolt towards the tree, it dissipated with intense force on the tree, so Danetrix ran over to gather the crystalline fruit as quickly as he could.
The undead Orc lieutenant trod down from the army and up to the wall, placing his hand against the shimmering light, he walked straight through it with a roar - with that the Necromancer called down a rain of necrotic bolts near the party, throwing them to the ground unconcious.
Zulir gathered some horses form the farm - flinging the party over their backs and rode off into the wilds with haste.
In the clearing, the druid Rev appeared to guide Zulir into the wilds, helping him fel trees along the way to make sure that the army did not follow.
The party awoke in a small makeshift camp in the wilds, the caravan erected.
A large campfire burned in the middle of the flat land, and John, Zulir and the druid Rev stood conversing while the townspeople frantically paced and settled the animals.
The party joined them at the fire, and John, Zulir and Rev explained what had happened over the course of the day they had been unconcious.
Baz decided to scale one of the trees to survey the land - sighting a statue with glowing light, some large trees, a world tree bough and a tropical rain forest in the distance.
Rev revealed that there was a large elven city far to the North-East who had helped him and his people in times past. The party requested he send an animal messenger to ask for safe passage for the party. Rev then set off into the woods to commune with animals who he knew so that he could get them to help guard the townspeoples camp.
The party organised the militia into patrols and set off towards the statue to divine anything they could about their new surroundings.
The party found the statue of a Dryad lord who had built a Herding Stone. Upon inspecting the Herding stone and activating it's runes - the party were granted a map which led to a temple the Herding Stone identified as an area that the Necromancer may be interested in, as it houses an artifact that can be used to travel through Planes. This was particularly interesting as Rev had explained that what he knew of the Necromancers folklore was that he sought such an item.
Returning to the camp, the party suggested that the townspeople fetch water from a nearby river to bolster their supplies, and told them they were going to investigate the temple.
Rev returned with two wolfkin beasts from the forest and offered their assistance in defending the people.
Rev also offered to lead the party to the temple, as he had been there before. He exclaimed that he had seen hooded people dragging animals and elves into the temple - he had tried to get beyond it's gates but never succeeded.
With that they set out into the rainforest, over a large bridge so high that they couldn't properly make out the canopies of the trees below.
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