has flint, tinder, alas no torch.

Since we would have scouted the area before taking our assigned posts, is there anything available that Rat can apply his fire starter tools to for starting a fire?

One of the buildings?

A Shed or broken wagon or any hay or straw for the horses?

Anything that can cast some light with a proper fire?

Anvil has torches and I doubt it would take Rat more than a second to fetch them and get one or two lit.

says let's do it!
He is presuming that will be in the action write up.

2nd thought, I shall just add it now.

Looks good Rat.

Ok guys, we have two torches lit - how do you want to handle this?

Assuming zombies I think we want Anvil and Trillian to have hands free to fire arrows. At least at first. Hignatuli needs to be free to cast his spell and then turn undead. He also is probably one of our best at combat - ranged or close. That leaves T'Sal as an obvious choice for torch holding. Perhaps Rat also so we have enough light? We lose his sling that way, but do we have any other choice?

Any quick thoughts on how to get light further out in front of us? SD hasn't responded to the idea of lighting something on fire.

I really look forward to the time when we can just have 100 small objects with continual light cast on them ready to toss around whenever light is needed. But for now, no such luck.

there is some firewood in the bunkhouse. it's cut small for the stove. If i was y'all i'd build a few small fires out of that say at 25' and maybe 2 at 50'? these are small say 10" split pieces of wood that are dry and should light quickly. anyone have greek fire? or maybe light them in a semi-circle around you?

I've been very busy lately and I will be going out of town next Tuesday so I will be staying busy for the next week or so.

I will let you all control T'Sal untill I have a bit more free time.

She still has Magic Missile ready to go.

If we get to control T'Sal - she can charge the zombies and kill them all while the rest of us stay out of the way!

Ok, maybe not . . .

Thanks for the heads up.

Well if we have the wood, I like the idea of fires. We can probably sort of channel the zombies that way so that they don't come at us from all sides. Zombies don't have missile weapons. Do they?

Anvil has no greek fire - or even regular oil. He does, however, have the torches which could be dropped on a larger pile of wood. He also has some wine - it is alcohol - does wine burn?

I'd love to post something soon, but right now all I know is that Anvil has torches and both he and Rat have tinder boxes. More info on what people have is probably needed before a group post can be done.

The presumed zombies are still a ways away so we should have time to get some things going. Torches are already lit based on Rats post.

The only one who probably can't participate in fire starting is Hingatuli, who I assume is busy casting his magic stones spell. Still, that doesn't mean the rest of us couldn't use his gear if appropriate. Assuming Hammer is ok with that.

I'll try to get something up later today based on whatever info I have unless new ideas or protests emerge.

I had an idea for flaming arrows if someone has oil.

Build a barrier in front of us (by build I mean throw wood in a line before us) 1/2 oil it and light it. Then those of us firing missiles could dip the tips of our arrows in oil and fire through the flames at the on-coming undead.

That could work - does anyone else have oil? Anvil has two flasks or whatever it comes in full of it. Anyone else?

With zombies having no ranged weapons they either have to come through the fire and get hurt to attack or we sit back and pick them off. Of course - there is the back door issue. Anyone checked yet if we have one of those. I think SD posted a description of the place.

SD - would flaming arrows like that help?

fire is an excellent weapon against most undead, most anything really. remember Braveheart? having the arrow on fire would probably inflict 1 to 2 additional points of damage and may cause a creature to become engulfed in flame.

Well, it sounds like a ring of fire might be the best choice. With fire arrows at the ready. But I did go back and read the bunkhouse description - there is no backdoor. We will be trapped in the shed.

If the fire needs to be put out, there are two barrels for rainwater - one on each end of the porch. With the recent rain I would assume they are full.

I will probably post fairly soon based on the guess that we want to be trapped in a shed with a fire out front and zombies beating down the walls. Sounds like fun!

Heck, there has to be a song our little Rat can whistle that would fit. Zombie Stomp anyone?

He is pretty quick about scampering around to light a circle of fire while humming "Burning Ring Of Fire".

With dueling melodies of Johnny Cash's "Burning Ring of Fire" and Ozzy's "Zombie Stomp" - the group sets out building their fiery fortress.

I think most of the actions are pretty obvious. The one change I made was having Hammer only turn undead if we seemed to be in danger. Turning just makes them run away for awhile - they would still be out there. So if we can kill them off with some sort of shooting gallery, that seemed to be the better choice. As always, speak up for changes.

and a fine-looking post it was. (All the while whispering to T'Sal - "Come On, Baby, Light My Fire.")