"They where the masks of dead creatures and seem to ooze a dark sludge from the very pours of their flesh. Their speak is gargled, but barely understandable. They are abominations to nature, ordered to capture us and bring us to them. Especially the druid for his connection to the land. We don't know exactly why they attack us, but their nature is not good or healthy for any. And this happens as we pass travel from a dying forest who's trees have been cut by men too many times that the soil can simply no longer birth healthy new life."<br/><br/>Three wandering adventurers make their way through a dying forest, the soil no longer able to birth new life, so many trees have been planted to be cut down. The trio are two of the dimunitive halflings, a Druid known as Thumper and a Thief known as Dodger. They are accompanied by an Elven ranger called Celion. Silence and an aura of death spills across this land and perhaps it is due to the closeness of the borders of the Dead Lands, a place where magic once ruled before what rose did fall... Strange magicks fill those lands and rumours dwell of it spreading further. As the trio cross a clump of blackened dead trees they notice all too late that they are surrounded!<br/><br/>Creatures in the garb of long-dead wizards from the lost civilisation of old bare upon the trio, zombies! "The Druid... Holds a connection to the land..." they groan, seemingly each word murmered by one in turn until the sentence is complete, before they rush to attack! Lucky they will take a short spell to reach the three, giving them time to perhaps attack before feeling their brunt...<br/><br/>But what will Thumper, the Druid, do?<br/><br/><em>ooc: This is the IC intro for Rish, as he's the one player ready to go. I'll let everyone else know when they're ready to post by having their own ambushes laid out here with a message letting you know it's okay to post.<br/><br/>Rish, take it away!</em>