"Alright," Grogza conceded, willing to accept the decision of the two against the one.<br/><br/>Lizzy moved under her own power now and gradually picked up her pace, despite the soreness she must have been feeling between her legs. While Rayne kept a glowing arrow at close at hand, Lizzy summoned her<em>dancing lights</em>and sent them to illuminate the way ahead. They left previously explored territory and ventured into dark and unlit streets. As usual Grogza relit the torch sconces along the way to mark the route they had come. Rayne recognized the route they were taking as heading towards the stores in the covered bazaar that specialized in dealing with exotic materials. Some of them had forges for the player's convenience, to start forging right away after purchasing raw materials.<br/><br/>The eerie groans of the walking dead picked up in volume again: attracted to the dancing lights like moths to a flame, they converged towards it, the light reflecting off their eyeballs like white bloodless pinpricks in the darkness. Then they caught sight of the three girls and their delicious living flesh, and as one mind the horde - at least a dozen zombies, if not more, though from what Rayne could see these were the more standard necromantic zombies instead of semen ghouls or ghasts - turned towards them and started shuffling in their direction.<br/><br/>The barbarian immediately had her axe out, ready to cleave into the horde once they came within reach, but it turned out to be ultimately unnecessary. "Fireball," the wizard uttered without breaking stride, unleashing a small fiery orb from her fingertip. It flew past the nearest zombie and impacted against the second, immediately exploding into a great ball of flame that engulfed all the others. The magical flames receded as quickly as they had materialized, leaving behind only charred corpses in their wake. While Lizzy stepped through and past the scene of destruction without even bothering to look down at the devastation she had wrought, Rayne saw that no player names popped up above any of the bodies.<br/><br/>"We're almost-" Lizzy stopped abruptly. Her dancing lights had just illuminated the next store, with a sign that read<em>Max's Hard Wood Store</em>. Displayed in the windows were samples of exotic woods which could be used to create items and equipment, including darkwood, greenwood, whipwood, and several others that Rayne couldn't identify offhand. The reason for Lizzy stopping was standing in the doorway of the store - a human-sized puppet made of various pieces of woods of different types carved and fitted together, the differing colors and textures giving it a patchwork appearance, just standing there, unmoving, but with its featureless face turned in the girls' direction looking down the street.<br/><br/>The sight of the golem made Lizzy and Grogza understandably wary. "Wood golem," the wizard hissed as she identified the construct. "It's immune to all spells except fire magic." To move down further down the street, they were have to pass by right in front of the store and the golem, the latter of which was just standing here inactive at the moment - but would it continue to do so if they came any closer?