With the rest of the group gone, Tentovie looks around to take inventory. The Kerejian League courtesans continue their gyrations, playing, and dancing while the patrons hoot along. He notices that the two women who entered the inn with the party are now seated in the balcony above. The Khuzdul woman has a lush red beard and seems to be wearing chain mail. He can see the Sindarin woman clearly - she is stunningly attractive and wearing leather armor that is embossed with leaves, branches, and flowers, some of which is died in browns, greens, and yellows. She wears a holy symbol of the Church of Halea, and has a Courtesans’ Guild badge pinned to her blouse. Both women see him and leave their seats.
Less than a minute later the two women enter the bar and join Tenktovie at the table. The Khuzan warrior woman introduces herself as Rhyna of Clan Zurinda and reaches out to shake his hand. He learns that she is tremendously strong. He notices that she has a finely crafted warhammer-pike. He has heard of tools like this, excellent for mining, but this one is way too fancy to use on rocks. The Sindarin woman reaches demurely, offering her hand palm down in a more courtly manner, and introduces herself as Weyliri Isiloth. Tentovie tells them his name, and they settle in for some conversation. They hear eight bells ring from the keep tower.
Sometime later, everyone in the inn saw the blinding flash that momentarily lit up everything in the inn. Patrons ran to look out the windows. They yelled "Somethings going on! There's screaming outside!" The party immediately ran out the door and around the corner. As they rounded the turn in the fence they could see skeletons, zombies, specters, and a horrific wraith in the form of old Crone Jofford floating in the air and wailing. "Christiiiiiiiinaaaaa, Mother's coming! Christiiiiinaaaaa, come to Mommy Dearest!" They can also see that about a dozen militia have arrived from the keep and are engaging the undead.
The party engages in the battle.
As the Skeletons and Zombies advance on the houses south of Jofford's Rest, the militia and Skeletons exchange arrow fire with very few hits. Rook prepares Naveh's Favor while Hjalgrimm brings up a Shield of Faith and Askelon casts Mage Armor. Askelon and Hjalgrimm are running to join the fray from the east, but the undead mob are moving away from them almost as fast. Hjalgrimm yells to get their attention, "Come back here and fight me!" Alarmingly, all of the Zombies turn around and lumber toward the Dwarf and Elf. Meanwhile, things are looking scary for the rest of the party as the Wraith and one of the Specters turns their attention to them. Rook slashes the Wraith but it does not seem very hurt. The old Crone Jofford slashes at Rook and wounds him badly enough that he loses concentration on his Favor spell. Faelon misses the Wraith with Dragon but connects with Phoenix. Tenktovie starts to cast Toll the Dead, but realizes that the Wraith is immune to necrotic attacks. He switches to Command, but the Wraith seems to ignore him. Askelon fires a lightning Chromatic Orb into one of the approaching Zombies. A Specter moves up where the Wraith had left, and Rook and Faelon trade blows with the Specter, which wounds the rogue badly. As Rook backs away from the danger, Weyliri offers Rook some healing. Rook hurls a blade into the Specter, and Faelon connects with his daisho twice. Hjalgrimm slashes into one of the Zombies and one of them punched him really hard.
By this point, one of the skeletons is destroyed and a militia scout lays dead. Tenktovie casts a Suggestion at Crone Jofford and the Wraith turns toward the Inn. After a dozen meters, it laughs maniacally, turns back toward the priest, and starts moving toward him, claws outstretched. Rhyna steps up to take Rook's place and slams the Specter. The other Specter is surrounded by a group of militia with spears.