zombie ravens certainly aren't the WORST type of undead you can encounter, nonetheless my companions got their spines pecked apart (or something) and died as i fled. It turns out I had accidentally wandered into the Terror Forest of bitternes.
Fortunately there was a fortress right in the middle of it, so i got some new companions, stayed there for the night and waltzed out of the terror-forest with nary a zombie hummingbird to be seen.
then i got between some wierd buzzard/vulture confrontation, while my companions were off chasing whatever wild animals they could see and I couldn't
not wishing to meddle in their affairs, I swiftly moved on to the town of temperedbuttered, where I encountered a MOST interesting individual. A goblin, with a HELMET!
dwarf/goblin size armor is very difficult to find, so one thing led to another...
unfortunately my two human buddies were also drowned in the process.. but that's ok because i had to swim across a whole map tile of ocean anyway.. on the way to the ocean I saw a giant snail, I thought, hey good hammer practice, and a good meal!
certainly one, sadly not the other. I had to leave the snail alive because I was worried about sunset (thats how long I was trying to whack him to death..)
so I promptly swam across the narrow channel, and visited a nearby fortress (you guessed it, for more human
meatshields buddies!)
while I was there I asked the local lady for a quest, she also told me to kill a vampire, but a significantly more dangerous one!
she also expressed her disapproval of my hero-bachelor lifestyle
I decided to continue on and kill the original (only!) two thousand kill vampire.
soon I reached the town of mouthstroke..
this is the place....