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**Wun's performance fails to impress, and Umar gets stage fright.**

[I don't normally record the details of fight sessions, but I can recap on the main points of the combat. Please allow for some poetic licence, along with a bad memory.]

* Wun fails to turn any zombies.
* Francis and Umar deal manfully (or giantfully) with the standing zombies, while other party members decapitate the fallen ones.
* On the rooftops, Joshua and Twoo deal with the assailants up there, while Caradoc and Hamish lob Molotov cocktails into the upper windows of the doss house.
* Wun fails to turn any zombies.
* Francis continues to despatch zombies with abandon, while other party members carry on their zombie decapitation exercises
* Caradoc exchanges an oil flask for a pair of magic missiles with a mage through the 3rd window of the doss house - the mage comes off worse.
* Quercuis is left to 'guard' the stairway in the doss house.
* Dougal binds the wounds of the thief who slept off the roof - to stop him from zombifying, and for questioning later.
* More areas of unnatural darkness appear.
* Characters with infravision spot two heat sources on the rooftops about 30 feet behind us - each heat source is humanoid sized with a small 'firefly-like' source bobbing around near them. They are standing very still- as if in deep concentration.
* Wun fails to turn any zombies
* Francis continues showing his metal, Brokev has a stab or two and others dig in appropriately.
* Cont light rocks are thrown (or carried by Unseen Servant) to dispel the darkness.
* The upper floors of the doss house are well alight.
* Quercuis is confronted by a zombie and a human coming down the stairs, which Quercuis barricades with a table. The human casts a Silence spell on Quercuis.
* Wun was not trained as a mime artist. He can't turn undead in silence, so he gets out his mace.
* Wun fails to hit a zombie with his mace.
* You can guess was Francis was doing.
* In the doss house stairwell, the human (who cast the silence spell) and who was not in the best of health anyway, gets decidedly worse - he slits his own throat. A shadow-like being emerges from his body.
* Joshua and Twoo get off the burning roof, while Caradoc and Hamish go to investigate the heat-source.  Bazin uses a 'command' spell against one of them, but to no effect.
* The cont light rocks break the darknesses, revealing one weedy human beyond Brokev, and two weedy humans beyond Francis.
* Quercuis bolts from the doss-house, pursued by the Shadow - which Umar engages.
* Unfortunately, Umar's axe passes straight through the Shadow.
* Beyond Brokev, the revealed human also cuts his own throat, and another Shadow emerges.
* Bazin manages to turn the Shadow - well, it isn't actually turned, just held in place.
* Wun fails to hit a zombie. (To be fair, he did get one hit in for a couple of points of damage at some point. But even Quercuis dealt more damage than he did!)
* Umar gets hit by a Shadow twice. As Umar doesn't know what Fear is, he must have suddenly remembered that he had left the gas on at home, as he immediately forgot about hitting things and decided instead to run away from the combat as fast as possible.
* Francis launches himself at the 'revealed' humans in front of him, and downs one immediately.
* Caradoc and Hamish are able to determine that the heat sources on the roof are Elves in camouflage cloaks (like the Pathfinders' ones - but Elven!) and armed with bows. The small bobbing heat-sources are the heads of their arrows.
* Bazin manages to keep the Shadow held in place for a second time.
* Twoo fires a silver arrow at a Shadow - it passes straight through with no effect. However, the Shadow is affected by a Faerie Fire cast by Joshua.
* Riff Raff casts a 'Remove Fear' on Umar as he dashes past. Unfortunately, given that Umar couldn't possibly be affected by Fear, and this is not a 'turn off the gas remotely' spell, it doesn't have any effect.
* Francis manages to incapacitate the second human before it can do anything awkward like slitting it's own throat.
* Wun fails to hit a zombie.