Improv: ECL 2, Zhangri'if Duskwood, Lesser Aasimar, Cleric 2: Entry 2

Things have gone from bad to worse.

I was surprised and a bit confused when the prison guard simply released us and left in the middle of the night.  It didn’t take long to find out why - zombies.  Filthy, rotting, vile abominations shambling unabated through the streets.  More than I’ve ever seen or even heard about in one place.  The city is overrun with them.  My former cellmates and I have banded together for survival.

We were immediately set upon by one of the foul creatures only a short distance from the jail.  After dispatching the first zombie and it’s infected prey, I healed one of my felled companions and then turned my attention to a burning house with screaming residents trapped inside.  We managed to get into the house and I located a human woman and her children hiding in a closet on the upper level.  Despite being burned badly by my armor that was superheated by the blaze, I managed to drag them to safety where one of my companions helped remove them from the house.  The last thing I remember was clawing and dragging my body out of the second story window to the rope that had been secured there.  I didn’t quite make it down the rope before being mercifully doused by a bucket of water from Solonor knows where and immediately losing consciousness...at least I didn’t crush one of those poor children when I fell the rest of the way to the ground outside.

Something has clearly gone horribly wrong.  The city guard seems to have set up some kind of purging process by which they are capturing, quarantining and/or executing the city’s residents – whether it’s an evil plot in furtherance of this zombie infestation or perhaps some misguided plan in response to it, I cannot be sure.  After regaining consciousness and healing myself and one of my companions I was able to destroy or turn more than two dozen of the damned creatures and they just kept coming…hundreds of the foul creatures clogging the streets…and hundreds more elsewhere in the city from what we can tell.  We eventually had to barricade ourselves in a deserted store along with a few of the townspeople.  They are suspicious of us…and I can’t blame them.