Is That a Zombie or Are You Just Happy to See Me? A.K.A. All My Friends Are Dead (And That's How I Like It

PT 1

The party heads to The Granite Hills and investigates the domain of the Necromancer. Following up on the rumors of an escaped necromancer criminal, a party of four clerics and one rogue ventured into unexplored territory. Along the way they met Fuzzlebump, a young gnome with four undead animal friends. Fuzzlebump conveyed to them that he was not behind the sudden undead infestation and that Aemma (the necromancer in question), resided further northwest. (1/?)

After several more days of travel the party were beset by a stampede of undead Gorillions. All but one of them fled, however, when the clerics of the party unleashed their channel divinity. Nevertheless exhausted the party trekked north to take shelter and regain their strength. Two members met an elven ranger and conversed with them about the necromancer and the threats to come. (2/?)

The following dawn, the party set out once more towards the Granite Hills, where the necromancer claimed dominion. Encountering the boneyard, the rogue disturbed a Death Tyrant

Hiding in the bones. It ended up disintegrating him, and then killing another one of the clerics with its death ray, leaving the remaining three clerics to devise a rescue and resurrect mission. Armed with knowledge of the monster and discarding their heavy armor for the moment, the party successfully managed to sneak in and retrieve the fallen cleric's body, but alerted it with Two failed stealth checks. Luckily, one had readied the Banishment spell, and temporarily subdued it as they escaped and resurrected their friend. Overall, the mission to apprehend the necromancer was a failure, but armed with more knowledge, cleric Bianca is determined to continue pursuit of this arcane menace.

Pt 2

They decide to pick up where they left off and did some reconnaissance. They found a huge wall of bone 15 feet tall and 2 feet wide with a 30 foot pile of bone in the middle. After watching the zombie T-Rex guards, they climbed the fence not realizing they were heading into a desecrated area. They killed the guards and decided to long rest in the boneyard in a leomond's tiny hut. The Necromancer let them get almost a full long rest and attacked. They were losing the battle until they decided to talk it out and found out that the city was the aggressor in the past and the necromancer was "doing nothing wrong". So she tells them of a place to get magical stones and in return she will give them magic items.

The Necromancer works for an Lt. of the BBEG. She the magic stones help with her necromancy. She is going to funnel the stones to the BBEG to help with the ritual. She receives supplies and items for her support in helping the ritual.