Episode 77: Zombie Dawn
So everyone goes out in the street and there are zombies attacking the living. Everyone who dies in Arkham becomes a zombie and attacks the living -- this rapidly gets out of hand, and hundreds of zombies are beseiging a dwindling number of humans in isolated homes.
Meeting in Juliet's apartment, our heroes hear zombies breaking in next door to kill Carl, the shy grad student. Zombies can be killed by decapitation or brain destruction, as Melanie proves by shoving an umbrella clean through one zombie's skull. In a Wes Craven film, she would then open the umbrella, but fortunately we're not that depraved here in Darkwood. Juliet sticks to beheading, at which she's already expert.
Walker tries to contact the spirit realm and vanishes. Poof! Alexandra tries to see into the spirit realm and vanishes, poof. Diligence uses an astral grenade to send the zombies into the spirit realm, but it doesn't work. When he examines its innards, poof! He's gone too.
The streets are just jam-packed with zombies, but Billy manages to run to the chess club van and get it started before they get him. He drives to the hospital and sees a huge silver spider unfolding its legs from the roof. It's Lolth, the Demon SpiderQueen whom Excellence invoked to become Queen of Arkham in episode 6. Excellence thinks the Spider Queen can save us from the zombies, and she's right, although the cure may eventually prove worse than the disease.
Billy manages to wake up -- the whole zombie thing was a dream! He wakes the others and hurries to wake up Excellence. She's summoned the Spider Queen in her dreams, but unfortunately that works in the real world, too. Eventually the Spider Queen is banished by the power of the Runestaff.
Our heroes hurry to the Hellmouth to see if anything more is coming out of it. Alexandra sees wisps of evil energy curling off cracking brass bands -- the very same energy she used some weeks ago to power a desperate spell! Apparently she's tapped the Hellmouth and weakened its defenses, allowing all manner of evil to ooze up into the light. Hm.
While they're here, Diligence suggests they go over to the Asylum and kick Bonaparte's butt.
Meeting in Juliet's apartment, our heroes hear zombies breaking in next door to kill Carl, the shy grad student. Zombies can be killed by decapitation or brain destruction, as Melanie proves by shoving an umbrella clean through one zombie's skull. In a Wes Craven film, she would then open the umbrella, but fortunately we're not that depraved here in Darkwood. Juliet sticks to beheading, at which she's already expert.
Walker tries to contact the spirit realm and vanishes. Poof! Alexandra tries to see into the spirit realm and vanishes, poof. Diligence uses an astral grenade to send the zombies into the spirit realm, but it doesn't work. When he examines its innards, poof! He's gone too.
The streets are just jam-packed with zombies, but Billy manages to run to the chess club van and get it started before they get him. He drives to the hospital and sees a huge silver spider unfolding its legs from the roof. It's Lolth, the Demon SpiderQueen whom Excellence invoked to become Queen of Arkham in episode 6. Excellence thinks the Spider Queen can save us from the zombies, and she's right, although the cure may eventually prove worse than the disease.
Billy manages to wake up -- the whole zombie thing was a dream! He wakes the others and hurries to wake up Excellence. She's summoned the Spider Queen in her dreams, but unfortunately that works in the real world, too. Eventually the Spider Queen is banished by the power of the Runestaff.
Our heroes hurry to the Hellmouth to see if anything more is coming out of it. Alexandra sees wisps of evil energy curling off cracking brass bands -- the very same energy she used some weeks ago to power a desperate spell! Apparently she's tapped the Hellmouth and weakened its defenses, allowing all manner of evil to ooze up into the light. Hm.
While they're here, Diligence suggests they go over to the Asylum and kick Bonaparte's butt.
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