Scattering to try and avoid the spider swarm the best they can, the girls started to turn the tide of battle. Hunter's flashing blade made quick work out of a nearby zombie, and the combined efforts of Bree's ray of fire and Finna's steal dispatched another of the beasts. Lumps of sliced and scorched flesh fell dead onto the stone floor, with no death cry or indication of pain: these monstrosities had no feelings, they were mere dead bodies carrying out instructions magically fed to them.<br/>As both the wizard and sorceress tried to break up the spider swarm with elemental magic, they soon found their efforts wasted, their magics having little effect striking a single point at the end of the beam and impact, what's more their aim didn't even pose a threat to the quickly scattering black cloud on the ground. The spiders would pat and the projectiles would strike only stone through the holes that formed in the swarm, then enclosed again faster then they could keep up with their narrow, focused targeting spells.<br/>The remaining four zombies leapt to the closest targets each, the armed girls in the front ranks. The Lady Paladin sidestepped the incoming charge and with a graceful and fluid motion cut down the walking corpse as she did. Finna and Hunter were less fortunate however, and while the shieldmaiden easily blocked the charge of one beast, the other managed to drive a powerful blow past her shield, its fist hitting her in the stomach with enough force to drive the air from her lungs and cause the edge of her vision to darken. The swashbuckling rogue recieved a similar treatment, the timing of her dodge being just slightly off due to the unexpected charge attack.<br/>As for the spiders, they scuttle towards the largest concentration of bodies, enveloping the weathered fighter and the two zombies, causing all of them to fall to the ground as hundreds of tiny teeth sank into flesh both living and dead.<br/>Yustissa cries out the shieldmaiden's name as she turns just in time to see the blonde collapse, and starts moving to her aid, stopping only short of the spiders, not having enough time to pull the fighter out before she herself gets swarmed.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Round 3 mechanics</div><div class="spoiler_body">The touch spells not only couldn't damage the spider swarm, but also miss their touch AC or so the two spellslingers learn.<br/>Hunter kills a zombie and the Bree and Finna's damage combines takes out another. The four remaining charge each, one at Yustissa missing by a mile, one at Hunter hitting an AC of 21 and dealing 8 points of damage to her, and the last two against Finna. One rolls pathetically, the other gets a nat 20 but fails to confirm, still doing 7 damage to the busty blonde. <br/>The spider swarm does 5 damage to Finna and both zombies, knocking her unconscious and ironically destroying both zombies as well.<br/>Yustissa attacks and reduces the zombie in front of her to 0, destroying it. Finna is on -3 hp and unless healed before her turn must make a stabilization roll. She also has to save again vs the spider venom, but this time the dose is doubled so the fort DC is 13. <br/>There is one more zombie in melee with Hunter and the swarm of spiders munching on Finna and two former monks.<br/><br/>Ashara needs to make a 2nd save against the poison, then it's gone. The others are cured either by saving against it last turn or lasting through the 2 turns.<br/></div></div><br/>