Evil!Party: Ye Battle Continueth

 Durest, Jenny, and the undead are facing off against barbarians. Durest heals Jenny and takes out a sorcerer. Tiny Steve strides forward and maims a couple of barbarians. The barbarians rush in and attempt to swarm Jenny, pausing just outside of her reach. Durest takes a bit of damage as well. Jenny begins taking apart barbarians. Durest restore Jenny’s protection from fire, and destroys another sorcerer. The Barbarians start charging Jenny, and dying, but enough of them survive to surround her. 

Durest has used his staff to be incorporeal, sparing him a bit of damage from the barbarians around him. One of them attacks Bob; Bob tears into the barbarian who has just attacked him. Jenny tears into the barbarians around her, and they… are really not up to this job. More of them die. 

Durest uses his staff to summon a half-dozen shadows, draining the strength of the barbarians around him and three of the ones around Jenny – plus, they’re flanked now. One of the sorcerers casts Mirror Image; the other two run away and try to Searing Ray Jenny, taking out the last of her fire protection. 

At which point Chuck shows up beside Durest: “Durest! We killed so many people! Also, help!”

A Barbarian attacks Bob and takes him down. He’ll be back in a round. “All right, guys! I got the Frost Giant skeleton. 

Durest chuckles ominously. 

Bob is already restored.. 

The barbarians around Jenny attack her again, doing some respectable amount of damage. Jenny’s not looking for good. The barbarians attack Durest, scratching him lightly. Durest’s shadows attack the barbarians again, further draining their strength; he uses some Inflict spells to restore Chuck to unlife. Chuck uses Finger of Death on one of the sorcerers, while Tiny Steve wipes out a couple of more mirror images. Chuck also steps away from Durest. 

The barbarians attack Jenny – well, what’s left of them. The one who was fighting Bob fires a couple of arrows at Jenny, but miss. The ones attacking Durest do a tiny little amount of damage. 

Bob stands back up, scaring the hell out of the barbarian next to him. 

Jenny wipes out the last of the barbarians. Durest heals her, then drops Silence on one of the two sorcerers. Unable to cast anything useful, that guy runs. Tiny Steve takes out another mirror image and then smacks the remaining sorcerer. Chuck uses Finger of Death on the fleeing sorcerer, taking him down; he then drops a quickened Protection from Fire on Jenny. 

Jenny moves into range, and wipes out one barbarian and injures another. Durest bops the injured one with his mace; the remaining sorcerer fires another firebolt at Jenny, and Tiny Steve finishes him. Chuck dominates one of the remaining two barbarians, and has him attack his buddy. Jenny promptly murders them. 

Meanwhile, in the larger battle, Durest’s undead are moving forward. The mummies run into some foot soldiers, and damage them; the wraiths tear into more foot soldiers and kill three squads of them. Sorcerers, meanwhile, are taking out our bugbears. Goldilocks is moving in on the elite archers, who are just sleeting waves of arrows at him; he goes down. Maodeus goes after the high-level sorcerer on the ridge. He finds a bunch of archers up there, along with a high-level priest, a high-level wizard, and (eventually but not yet) Cardinal Lovis. Maodeus puts two companies of archers to sleep with his breath weapon. A troop of clerics casts Destruction on him, doing some damage but not destroying him. The remaining three groups of archers shoot at him, and a few even get through. The sorcerer attempts to disintegrate Maodeus, and does a bit of damage. Maodeus disintegrates him in return, and the sorcerer dissolves into dust. Maodeus adds a quickened Mirror Image. 

The archers promptly dispose of the mirror images, and the clerics try Destruction again. Maodeus is starting to feel it, but he uses his sleep breath again and takes out two more companies of archers plus the clerics. Maodeus begins using Crush attacks to coup-de-gras the sleeping units. He’s finished off the clerics and one troop of archers at this point in the battle. 

The Elite Kings’ Guard has been moving up on us, along with the elite archers and the archmage. 

Our army moves up quickly to clash with their foot soldiers. Casualties are quite serious on both sides. The druids at the back summon great storms, including a Storm of Vengeance over our troops… which is bad. About half our troops go down under this assault. The other druids summon treants and rhinoceri. 

The King’s Elite move in to engage us. They look skilled and very well-equipped. And then, of course, there’s the arch-mage Arexis. 

Chuck hits her with Finger of Death and she dies. He follows up with a quickened Fireball on a group of archers and barbarians. Bob and Tiny Steve move up; then Jenny moves up and nails one of the barbarians, but doesn’t take him down. The others move in, taking damage from her as they come, and then swarm her and take her down. 

A great cry of joy sweeps across the battlefield as Jenny hits the ground. 

Durest yanks out a scroll of True Resurrection and brings her back at full strength. Then he sics his shadows on the archers, hoping to make them too weak to pull their bows. Balaam and Ferrous appear as well. Balaam immediately drops a Mass Hold Monster on the barbarians, paralyzing about half of them. Balaam then drops a quickened fireball on the other group of archers. Tiny Steve moves up and flattens one of the archers. Chuck uses a scroll to cast Horrid Wilting on a bunch of archers, then throws a fireball at the other group of archers. 

Bob moves to flank a barbarian, and smacks him. 

Jenny comes back to her feet. 

Barbarian: “Holy SHIT!”

Jenny lashes out with her chain and maims a damaged barbarian; she follows up and kills him. She moves on to the next one, adding substantially to his damage and then killing him with her next attack. She follows through to the guy next to him, injuring him. Then she attacks again, killing him. The barbarians who are still on their feet are falling quickly. 

The archers immediately attack Jenny; these are more skilled than the last batch, and do some damage. Ferrous the iron golem moves in and smacks one of the paralyzed barbarians. Three of them manage to shake off their paralysis, and the one that was still active makes an attack, hitting three times. The shadows attack the archers, but ALL miss. Durest heals himself, Jenny, and Balaam. “You’re welcome, Demon Lord.”