[[A short journey and eight zombies later...]
/ Steele: Okay, you dispatched the enemies easily, clearing the first antechamber of the crypt. Now that you have a chance to look more carefully, you notice a strange symbol carved into each zombie's chest.
/ Joe: I flash my Gem of Magic Detection.
/ Steele: It glows very faintly, more of a residual than an active aura. Make a Knowledge [Religion] check.
/ Dang: I succeed.
/ Jill: I crush it. Beat it by 15...no, 17.
Steele: Sylvani notes that this rune was probably used as part of the reanimation process. That's not normal, by the way. Mercutio, however, with his seemingly endless lore, also recalls that this alternate zombie creation ritual is used by a rare mummy-worshipping sect of necromancers.
/ Joe: D'OH!
/ Dan: Ha! Mummies HATE fire!
/ Dang (thinking): Dan's player knowledge still works as long as it's flame or fire related.
Joe: Yes, mummies hate fire. But...
/ Jill: But they are STUPIDLY resistant to everything else. And yes, I made my Monster Lore check.
/ Dan: But they are weak against fire, right?
/ Joe: Yes...
/ Dan: Then WHO CARES what else they do!
/ Joe: I'll acknowledge that we are well equipped to handle a mummy now, but it would have been dubious before Dang brought in a full-fledged cleric.
Jill: A hit from a mummy gives you a lethal wasting disease that takes about seven spells to get rid of, and these aren't the kind of spells anyone keeps memorized. The curse itself will kill you in two-to-three days, and within a week your dessicated body will have turned to dust. Fortunately, Sylvani can just rest up and prepare the needed spells for the next day.
/ Dan: Bah.
/ Steele: As you guys huddle around, investigating the bodies, a figure starts casting from a hidden alcove one floor up, and a corpse explodes for 28 damage.
/ Dan: Fire damage?
/ Steele: Half fire, half concussion.
/ Dan: D'OH!
/ Jill: My god, it's a Diablo 2 Necromancer!
Narrator: Special Limited Edition Strip - "Zar is behind in comics so have an unexplained JTHM in-fandom joketype thing." Zombie Vargas: No, I won't let you go out! I refuse!
/ Johnny C.: Youre a zombie, not my mom. Zombie Vargas: Either way, you can't kill me, so you can't get past me.
[[Johnny C. cuts off Zombie Vargas's arms with a pair of scissors.]]
/ <<snip>> Zombie Vargas: That is so not fair.
/ Johnny C.: Don't wait up.
[[Wythllew leads an army of spellbound people back to her tree. The zombie-like army includes Tamlin, Jodoque, Ragnarok and Jake.]]
[[Scarabus brings up the rear. Among the army, Knut and Baughb the Elf can be seen.]]
[[Scarabus hears Kel moaning from off-panel.]]
/ Kel: Moannnnn...
/ <<RUSTLE>>
/ Scarabus: ?
[[Kel pants and twitches from behind a bush.]]
/ Kel: Pant pant pant pant
/ <<Twitch>>
{{Title: Halloween Night, Part Three}}
[[The moon and some clouds at night]]
/ Punk kid: The coast is clear. Let's roll.
[[Three punk kids with toilet paper and a sheet ghost.]]
/ Ghost: Goo baaack! leeaave this plaace! WOooOOOOoo!
/ Tall punk kid: Ha! Nice try.
[[A zombie hand pops up out of the ground.]]
[[The zombie hand grabs the tall punk kid's leg.]]
/ Tall punk kid: EEEEEEK!
/ Zombie: <<BRAINS>>
ARTHUR: So you're saying that, in order to save my brain, you have to ERASE 75% of it?? / SHELDON: Unfortunately.
ARTHUR: But that's horrible! I'll become an empty shell! A vacuous zombie, walking around like.... Like...
SHELDON: Steven Seagal?
ARTHUR: HA HA HA HA / SHELDON: ....Just wanted to lighten the mood.
The alien brain squids came from another dimension.
/ It was cold there, and they demanded tiny sweaters as tribute.
/ The first people who came across them quickly became mindless zombie slaves.
/ These poor souls were controlled by sucking directly on their brains.
/ They controlled the rest of us with their awesome hardcore rock music!
/ Finally, humanity was united.
Hi
/ Oh.. Hi! Back so soon?
Yeah I actually forgo-
/ (zombie nation ringtone)
/ Zombie Nation? Nice taste in music
/ Yeah my dad is a huge fan
Wow your dad is into that?
/ Yeah he used to DJ a little back in his college days. His called himself DJ Spinning Cat
/ Did he ever record anything?
/ He got as far as trying to get a picture for the mixtape cover. Ive only heard parts of the story – but apparently it involved a convertible, a freeway, and an angry cat.
/ Ouch
/ Yeah it was all a waste too. He couldn’t take the picture fast enough
Two media crows observing O'Llama shambling around like a zombie.
O'Llama: Change...change...change...
/ Media Crow 1: Ya know, sometimes President O'Llama is like a zombie but with a different one word vocabulary.
/ Media Crow: Are you sure he isn't just a beggar?
...except I can't stop thinking about how like, this is the first day of the rest of my life, you know?
Am I really going to be coming here basically everyday for the next forty years? And then I guess I just die?
So then I think that there's gotta be a better way, right? Like I _probably_ could win the lottery if I really tried to.
Or like, does crime really not pay, or is that just something they tell kids, like don't get in the swimming pool right after eating?
Oh man, earlier today I heard someone actually say "workin' hard or hardly workin'."
/ _And then everyone laughed!_
Holy shit!
This a good job though, lots of dudes have it way worse... I mean, what is wrong with me?
Plus, everyone else around here seems pretty happy.
(pause)
Basically it's like being in a zombie movie except everyone else is normal and I'm the zombie.
(pause)
Dang they weren't kidding when they said that you're kind of a whiner, huh?
