Fall Festival is in full swing! The events are many and varied, as ever. Fun for all - well, maybe not so much for the banditos who are chased all over the lands. I've not yet found one who will face me and fight.
The guild took over the Building of Glass a couple of turns ago. The Twilight Serenity Fall Feast was planned to be several marcs of fun and celebration of the season. But it didn't quite turn out that way.
Perhaps guild parties have becomed famed in unknown quarters - whatever the cause, we were literally swarmed under by a horde of the uninvited undead. I've never seen so many zombies in one place, and all fighting their way into the venue. They smashed in the glass of walls and windows. We smashed the furniture and raided the stationery supplies for anything useful, using what we found or broke in attempts to strengthen the glass or barricade doors. All to no avail. Poor Jaymes' tavern was a wreck, smashed glass everywhere in the building, and all attending the event were slaughtered.
By the grace of the gods most were able to return. And by the grace of the gods we were saved. Ridder Zeric noticed a door open that should not have been, and realised the creatures had got loose from their pen. He followed the trail of carnage that marked their path, and chastised the zombies most severely.
He had been very impressed by Valya's actions in the defence, and awarded her a commemorative pin. Unfortunately all the party supplies and decorations had been destroyed so after a time to catch breath and heal wounds, everyone dispersed. Still, there may be an opportunity to hold the event at a later time if it will fit in among those others already planned.
There's more fun to come, more enjoymeny to share with comrade and kin, with lover and friend new or old. The season will be a welcome relief, a chance to lighten the mood I've noticed recently lying across the lands.