Chapter 1.61

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Released on: March 4, 2017, 8:44 p.m.

Last edited: March 16, 2023, 6:53 p.m.

Book: The Wandering Inn (1)

Most mentioned character

78 mentions

Some honourable mentions

Name	Count
Zevara Sunderscale	18
Pisces Jealnet	16
Relc Grasstongue	16

Most mentioned class

4 mentions

[Necromancer]

Some honourable mentions

Name	Count
[Tactician]	2

Most mentioned skill

1 mentions

[Attack Formation]

Some honourable mentions

Name	Count
[Defense Formation]	1
[Lesser Strength]	1
[Loud Voice]	1

Most mentioned spell

1 mentions

[Invisibility]

Most mentioned location

5 mentions

Liscor

Some honourable mentions

Name	Count
Esthelm	1

Mentions

Name	Text
Erin Solstice	Erin screamed as an almost completely decomposed Gnoll came close. He had no face. Nothing that she would use that word for. Just—rot. Horrible, black innards that still twitched and slapped together wetly as he lurched at her.
Erin Solstice	A hand seized the zombie around the remains of his ruined head. Ignoring the flesh and other things that squelched around his fist completely, Knight tightened his grip until something crunched and the zombie jerked and fell still. The Worker dropped the corpse to the ground and kicked the body away. He stood, protectively shielding Erin at the entrance of the inn.
Erin Solstice	Around the hill, the dead were struggling with the living. But there were no screams. At least, the Antinium did not scream. The dead did. They howled or made ghastly sucking sounds or sometimes groaned, but the screaming was what terrified Erin. She felt they shouldn’t be able to. The dead should be silent.
Erin Solstice	Erin watched the Worker begin to dismantle the skeleton and stared at her hand. She hadn’t even realized she’d thrown the frying pan. But more undead were charging up the hill towards the inn.
Erin Solstice	Knight pushed Erin back as more undead crashed into the line of Antinium, this time from the back. The Antinium wavered as they struggled to hold the dead back. Erin saw one of the Workers slip and fall as a Ghoul tackled him. The undead began tearing at him.
Erin Solstice	Knight pushed Erin back as more undead crashed into the line of Antinium, this time from the back. The Antinium wavered as they struggled to hold the dead back. Erin saw one of the Workers slip and fall as a Ghoul tackled him. The undead began tearing at him.
Erin Solstice	He had a name. He’d told it to Erin. Magnus. Magnus as in Magnus Carlsen, a name taken from Earth’s chess champion. He fell down, and Erin saw his blood. It was green.
Erin Solstice	He had a name. He’d told it to Erin. Magnus. Magnus as in Magnus Carlsen, a name taken from Earth’s chess champion. He fell down, and Erin saw his blood. It was green.
Erin Solstice	She tried to run forwards, but Knight seized Erin by the waist and lifted her up.
Erin Solstice	Magnus fell, shielding his face. Erin pulled harder, but Knight refused to let go.
Erin Solstice	Knight pulled Erin back and raised his hand. He spoke calmly.
[Defense Formation]	“[Defense Formation].”
[Attack Formation]	“[Attack Formation].”
Erin Solstice	Erin felt the effects of the two Skills hit her as she raised another jar of acid and threw it. She felt lighter—so much lighter! And it seemed as though she had suddenly grown a pair of eyes on the back of her head. She was aware of the undead around her, just as she was aware of how the other Antinium were moving.
Toren	A Ghoul rushed past two Antinium and ran towards Knight. The Antinium raised his sword, but a skeleton leapt past him and knifed the Ghoul in the chest. Toren and the Ghoul fell, stabbing and biting at each other.
Erin Solstice	Erin spun. She lifted a pot and hurled it. A zombie staggered backwards. She had—she had had quite a few pots and pans she’d seized from her kitchen, but she was running out. She’d hurled them into the crowd, trusting to her [Unerring Throw] skill.
[Unerring Throw]	Erin spun. She lifted a pot and hurled it. A zombie staggered backwards. She had—she had had quite a few pots and pans she’d seized from her kitchen, but she was running out. She’d hurled them into the crowd, trusting to her [Unerring Throw] skill.
Erin Solstice	Now the undead were falling, retreating. Erin stared as zombies began turning, running backwards. Was it a feint? Were more undead coming? She looked around wildly, searching for movement in the darkness.
Toren	No. No more undead were coming for the moment—they were all dead. Toren pulled himself away from the Ghoul, reclaiming an arm as the Ghoul jerked once and then lay still.
Erin Solstice	Knight said it calmly as a skeleton fell down, skull cracked open from one of Erin’s frying pans. She stared at the Worker as silence fell and the last corpse stopped twitching.