Graveyard Clash II

Continued from Graveyard Clash I

### Day Twenty - Autumn Year 720 - Southern Lands

Valrith felt the ground heave and buckle beneath her, she managed to jump out of the way as a pitch black obelisk emerged from the ground. Many more arose throughout the graveyard, they had inscriptions that glow. The Automata left it's pedestal.

> *“I recognise you, it is time things were put right.”*
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Valrith shot arrows at the obelisk then moved away, they bounced off with no effect. Erevan summoned Faerie Fire using his Drow abilities to highlight the Automata in blue light. The large being clenched its hands into a fist. Then turned into four copies.

> *“Are you here to join the rest in the ground?”*
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Nephrus didn’t know much about the obelisk so he launched a fireball at the automatons, one dodged and another disappeared, leaving three stadning. Kargrimm did not think that these black stones had been there as long as the other stones found in this area. He charged the nearest large enemy, swung his Dwarven axe, the attack passed through air and the being disappeared.

The thralls around the party screeched as they began approaching. The obelisk built static then discharged power outwards, Nephrus avoided it. The lightning then caused skeletons to rise from their graves.

As Kargrimm approached, he felt the life draining from him, however his magical breastplate helped to resist the full effects. He continued his charge, two excellently placed and executed swings passed through the being as it also disappeared. The others were dealing with the rising skeletons behind the forward positioned Dwarf.

The Automata launched a fireball at Erevan, shattering the mausoleums around him and causing the Drow to take flaming damage. Erevan then advanced to aid Kargrimm in the centre, the Dwarf was in a melee with these undead beings as the Automata, unharmed, mocked him.

Valrith and Nephrus, became surrounded by lightning they tried to follow Kargrimm and Erevan into the middle to battle.

Three magic missiles struck Kargrimm's chest, as Nephrus blasted the thralls away with eldritch energy. Kargrimm was involved in a chaotic melee in the centre of the graveyard sowing mighty blows into the Thralls as they scratched away at his flesh.

The magic of Silvanis protected Valrith from the worst of the attacks, the God of wild nature however did not protect Nephrus. Vicious Rebuttal. He killed his attacker with his Teifling ability.

Kargrimm could hear the song of the dead from below him. An orb of pure darkness formed beside the Dwarf, a rush of negative pressure and wind began blowing towards the orb. Erevan quickly grabbed Kargrimm's arm, and dimension doored the pair away from the centre dias. Nephrus cursed them in ancient languages. The automata found this curious, then teleported itself in front of Kargrimm, who smiled angrily and began wail on it with three greataxe attacks.

Nephrus formed a protective bubble around himself that did not allow the thralls to enter. Many thralls surrounded him and Valrith.

The Automata expelled a magic force that knocked Erevan through the stone doors of the mausoleum, he found himself surrounded by previously trapped yet living Elves. Kargrimm managed to hold his footing and grinned menacingly at his foe. He attacked again. Erevan did not gain any useful information from the prisoners so he returned to fight beside Kargrimm. He damaged the being greatly, in response a foul magic was cast on the Drow who dodged most of the damage.

Nephrus launched a fireball at Valrith, they were both resistant to fire damage so only the vampire thralls took the majority of the magic fire damage. Valrith became surrounded by the walking undead who stood on the fallen bodies of their comrades, they couldnot harm her through her plate armour.

Kargrimm had annoyed this creature so much that he was attacked by a powerful frost spell, the Dwarf frozen, he couldnot follow as the Automata walked away from him. Erevan perseud, as Valrith continued to kill skeletons and climb the rising mound of their corpses, Nephrus blasted at the undead also. The black orb grew, now sucking in the undead beings.

The Automata began to leave, Erevan tried to attack as it did but the creature magically shielded itself.

The sphere of pitch blackness grew and absorbed.

Valrith misty stepped behind the Automata and stabbed it in the back of the knee, it crumbled to the ground covered in webs from Nephrus' wand. The Dragonborn stood over the carcass of the being who’s soul they had sought.

Erevan was greatly wounded.

Nephrus remained in his protective shield but nearest the orb of suction.

Kargrimm remained paralyzed on the floor.