Daniel you don't see any new threats in the room. Gerard you notice that the north is locked and that it looks similar to the one that was trapped. There is gap between the stone floor and the door bottom.
Round 2 (when it happens)
Maybe divine power would destroy them...
I would gladly, but I cannot fight smoke...
Andrea searches her mind to see if divine energy will slay vampires in mist form.
Euphemia, meanwhile, just glares and mutters something about trapping them in bottles.
I hate to suggest this but maybe we should close the door between us and Daniel/Gerard in case there is another trap.
Andrea does mostly close the door but puts a piece of wood or debris in between the door and the frame so it would shield them from anything like an explosion but not lock them out.
Andrea - As far as divine energy you know direct sunlight would destroy a vampire.
Gerard - The door doesn't look trapped and you do manage to work the lock without incident.
Direct sunlight will destroy a vampire, the Morrowfall can do this but we must decide if we must use it right now.
Gerard passes through the door... taking a potion.
Andrea follows behind Gerard and Daniel. We should find their coffins and stake them.
You've faced VS previously in the pathfinder guildhouse and you did do some research on vampires. You know the following:
Weaknesses
Vampire spawns cannot tolerate the strong odor of garlic and will not enter an area laced with it. Similarly, they recoil from mirrors or strongly presented holy symbols. These things don't harm the vampire spawn—they merely keep it at bay. A recoiling vampire spawn must stay at least 5 feet away from the mirror or holy symbol and cannot touch or make melee attacks against that creature. Holding a vampire spawn at bay takes a standard action. After 1 round, a vampire spawn can overcome its revulsion of the object and function normally each round it makes a DC 25 Will save.
Vampire spawns cannot enter a private home or dwelling unless invited in by someone with the authority to do so.
Reducing a vampire spawn's hit points to 0 or lower incapacitates it but doesn't always destroy it (see fast healing). However, certain attacks can slay vampire spawns. Exposing any vampire spawn to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape. Each round of immersion in running water inflicts damage on a vampire spawn equal to one-third of its maximum hit points—a vampire spawn reduced to 0 hit points in this manner is destroyed. Driving a wooden stake through a helpless vampire spawn's heart instantly slays it (this is a full-round action). However, it returns to life if the stake is removed, unless the head is also severed and anointed with holy water.
You also know there are some methods, primarily spells such as Protective Penumbra, which can protect those with vulnerability to sunlight.
Andrea relates the information under the spoilers to the others. So daylight, running water and staking and blessing of the severed head can destroy them forever. There is also magic they can use to help protect them from sunlight. If one lacks divine abilities, strongly present a mirror or holy symbol. Until they can force themselves to resist, they are held at bay.
Gerard opens the door, quaffing a healing potion, and steps through into a short hallway. There are two VS in the hallway, eagerly awaiting their next victim.
The first one attacks:
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Plus energy drain 1 level, DC 14 fort
The second one attacks:
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Plus energy drain 1 level, DC 14 fort
Initiative Order:
Andrea
Gerard
VS
Daniel
Orsin
Phem
HP 81/81
Current Saves: F12R5W115
AC: 24/T12/FF24
In hands: Wooden shield+2,Long sword +2
Current BaB: +9/+4
Spells in Effect:Resist Fire-Communal(Everyone, 30 points 22 minutes)
Channels 5/6
Bit of Luck 7/8
Andrea moves to D-10 and Channels to cause damage
Both VS crash to the ground, they will begin to turn gaseous on their turn.
Andrea kisses her holy symbol. Follow the mist!
Of course. Daniel advances, allowing the rogue to lead if he wishes but wants to be ready for a REAL vampire. ..
Gerard moves west.
Gerard's does his best to control his heart rate as he disables the door lock.
Andrea continues to provide protection for the group.
Euphemia creeps forward in order to impart some Guidance on her man, but she seems just as nervous as anyone else, barring the paladin.
Gerard opens the door that he has unlocked. There foul stagnant air pressing on the rogue's face. He opens the door wider to reveal...
A chamber that is a low, natural cavern with a wide hole breaching the center of its ceiling. There is filtered dim lighting within the cavern coming form the hole. Periodic hints of fresh air wafting down from this opening are all that relieves the sewer stench rising from the fetid muck that covers the floor of this chamber. A cavern opening at the west end of the chamber has a portcullis that can be lowered to block it. At the east end is a stone landing which supports a heavy wooden block and-tackle system and a wooden door banded with iron. Foul effluvia trickles onto the floor of this chamber through small pipes that penetrate its walls.
Cavern Map
*Map of what is visible from your POV.
Remember Daniel and Euphemia looked into a hole behind Walcourt and said it stunk like a sewer? This might be the place it lead to. *Phew* If so, this can't be the way we need to go.
Merely a true cesspit it seems. We should find another way
The east door then.
Thought it might tie back to the chuul.. Gerard draws his Daylight blade to help the others see.
"This is true, but Frank seems to be on about the east door... At least, that's what I get from his current need to play charades."
A lair for the Chuul? Maybe, considering how cramped the water was out there. We might be able to fly through the hole as an exit if need be.
Those close to the west door and the landing do see a ripple then hear a gurgle sound emerging from the cesspool, like escaping gas in a thick liquid.
Something in the cesspool? Perhaps a sewer dweller like the Outcast King from the Knot. We have no idea how deep the muck is and might be fighting in deep sewage if there is something in there. I say we don't spring the trap.
Come. There should be another way.
From your training you instantly recognize the carrion scent seeping under the east door.
*Sniff,Sniff* I smell the scent of carrion coming from the east door. Be prepared for undead.
The prepare yourselves
The paladin casts divine favor
The rogue sees another reinforced door. This one has a keyhole for a skeleton type key.
Yes, it is locked but it's not trapped.
The rogue hears the tumbler click...