The walk into town was relatively uneventful, though Sirgala still kept her mace at the ready – caution was always merited. [i]this Halfling seems decent enough… what was his name again? Adin… Ardin…Andin!... fail to see how useful he’ll be in combat though…completely unarmed…still…surgeons are nice --[/i]

"You're both late, Mulad is in the ruined Tavern,"

is spat at her by a pasing Purifier [i]petulant child…with that tone you’d think [b]I[/b] was the one who caused this town to be burned to the ground,[/i] but she refrains from scowling. His kinder remarks heard in the distance cause her to turn her head – [i]ah, the pretty girl gets the gentle words…200 years and young men are still lead by their second head, I see.[/i] Still, she keeps moving on to the tavern, re-hooking her mace to her belt but leaving the gauntlet on – not like that hand had much use anyway; better to give a first impression without appearing as a crippled old hag. 

The mage blowbags about the staff for a while, then goes for the flattery approach to each of the adventurers. Sirgala begins to understand why he didn’t think about the consequences of their meetingplace. The other travelers were a much more interesting lot than he was – It really was a fucking Gnoll, of all things. She’d need to chat with him later; his worldview had to be interesting.  

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But that will indeed have to wait for later, as the bodies begin to rise. The mage shows that what he lacks for in wisdom he makes up for in impressive magic tricks. Sirgala doesn’t entirely believe that the rising zombies aren’t his doing, based on the necromancy she saw him doing earlier, but the bodies were the first issue to deal with – him later if needed. [i]Glad I didn’t take my shield off[/i] she thinks as she deftly unhooks her mace and smacks an approaching zombie, bashing its head against the wall a few more times for good measure. Having earlier noticed Mardion’s gear being mostly for ranged combat, she points at him. “you. Also a few others. It’s highly likely the cultists are outside, and there’s a fuckton of corpses. Minimize the damage they will do by removing them early.”