@Pyromaniacwolf@Overlord Thraka"We should begin quickly" Vaulthuz said, Mortan couldn't agree more. he pondered the attack briefly but seriously. They had the town out classed, probably the fort too. The peasants would fall to them like wheat to the scythe. He could have taken the town alone, perhaps the fort too but allies would make it easier. He looked to The group of Vampires first,
"Go, eat your fill. Oh and fetch me the largest men you find. We will need a siege engine for the fort..." he started
"Knights, circle around and kill anyone trying to make a break for the fort. hopefully we can attack both by surprise." Finally he glanced around his Ghouls and waved his hand dismissively at the town
"kill them all." He walked with the small horde of Ghouls but didn't engage in combat for the first encounter, such things where below him. however several burly men with logging axes came out to meet the marching Ghouls.
They fought valiantly. Trying to save their homes from the rampaging dead, but their efforts where meaningless. Between the three of them they managed to mangle one of the Ghouls to uselessness, but where each dragged down in turn and killed, Mortan called them off before the Ghouls tried to eat the valuable materials. Mortan was distracted once the battle ensued in earnest, he crouched over one of the burly men with his tools, cutting him apart with practiced speed and laying slabs of muscle and sinew on the dirt of the plowed field.
"apprentices, to me!" Mortan called, still preparing to make an abomination. He ignored the battle entirely, trusting that between the Ghouls, Vamps, Knights, and others that they could take a village. He was making hasty and sloppy work and it disgusted him. The stitching was crude, the creature was lopsided and grotesque. It reminded him of his first attempts at reanimating a flesh golem. He continued regardless, This little necromantic cult needed a siege engine to smash down the gate at the fort, this creature and a reasonable tree would have to do. Before he was done butchering the second man the Vampires dragged several more exsanguinated bodies to him as building material.
