S - Session 005

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As the Globe of Invulnerability dropped, Kokabiel & Maleilei had to contend with the zombies that were striving to attack. They first broke out and started to run, using the attacking statues to their best benefit. But, once they were both off the Temple Grounds, they noticed the Dread Warrior commanding the zombies stopped focusing on them, and began focusing on destroying the statues. As the Zombies went to work destroying the statues, the Dread Warrior took the body of a dead axbeak and drug a blood line along the pentacle, with the intent of corrupting the magic. They tried to stop him with ranged attacks, but could not, and he completed the pentacle. Necrotic energy started to corrupt the magical blue energy beam connecting the statues. When his zombies finally destroyed one, the magic turned and started healing the Undead. Ko & Mal changed their their tactics and decided they had to defeat these enemies no matter what... because while they didn’t know what was going on, they were pretty sure it shouldn’t be allowed to complete. 
They were able to work together to slay the Dread Warrior, then as the zombies reverted to an uncontrolled state, Maleilei took a firing position while Kokabiel went running back-and-forth at high speed using Sanctuary to get the zombies to chase him, allowing the statues to fight back against them. Maleilei determined the pools by the old temple were still consecrated holy water and was able to use that to great effect by dipping her arrows in the holy water and helping to destroy the zombies. Once all of the zombies were destroyed, they noticed that the magic was still having a difficult time repairing itself in the circle. They went and got a shield full of holy water and dumped it onto the space where the one statue had been destroyed, and saw humanoid remains mixed amongst the tearracotta of the statue. This repaired spell, shocking the magic back to blue, but with one missing, the energy was too great and the four remaining statues exploded into terra-cotta chips... and Standing there were four members of the Laughing Comrades of the Unfortunate Cup. They are powerful. Ko-Nan (no relation) stated that they had been there so long that they were from a previous "edition"... whatever that means... and they seemed to know a great deal about the ancient World and what’s going on. Their Witch Hexagonna was able to reprogram the Quadratic Key so the Ko could communicate with it better. When they learned their ancient enemy Abbadon already ruled on this world, they became visibly disturbed and felt urgently called to go do their own thing. They explained quite a bit about Zopheros and The Returned, and fixing the Quadratic key put Ko back in communication with the Preservers so they may be able to move on. The Laughing Comrades went to find Freddy and Haley at the Most Icy in Meridian City, as apparently Freddy keeps a Planar Gate in the back room.
Ko & Mal collected their loot, and as much valuable Holy Water as they could carry, and set off, on foot, without a guide, toward the Ork Vales... not knowing how the passing of the Maelstrom of Abbadon had corrupted the very land.