Mavor nods at Baer and grins.
"Fun... yeah.. I'll bet I'll have to chop someone's head off any moment now."
"I said I would chop someone's head off and yes... I am right."
Denario doesn't yet know what's going on and moves near the hole, waiting for Baer to relay what she sees.
The standing vampire gives one of his sleeping mates a shove, waking him up. Meanwhile, he keeps his eyes on Baer.
Round 1:
Denario
Blue
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green
Tural
Red (Asleep)
Allyph
Majenko
Round 1, Init 16
Baer's staff glows blue with magic energy and she moves up to clobber the 'man', wielding her staff in two hands and viciously clubbing down.
to hit; (magic,PA)
damage. (magic,PA)
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+7[/dice] damage.
or
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+5[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
Quorthos casts shield and moves into the room, drawing both his dagger and his wand from his spring-loaded wrist sheaths.
"Well, what have we here? Are you three just here for the buffet, or is there something else going on?" Quorthos retorts, trying to hide his fear. He knows nothing of vampires beyond what the tales say, but he's pretty sure they're pretty darn scary.
Mavor draws his greataxe as he too moves into the room and is a little bit surprised by the 'men' with large canines.
He raises an eyebrow questionably as he looks at them.
"Now what are you supposed to be now? Ah you'll be dead just the same. Come here!"
Quorthos reacts to Baer's attack with a verbal warning: "We need one of them alive... that will be cheaper than interrogating the corpses."
I thought we needed information here...?
Baer clobbers the nearest vampire with her staff, striking him against his head.
Quorthos casts shield on himself and retrieves his dagger and wand from their wrist sheaths.
Mavor moves in and cleaves through the other vampire's belly, into the already clobbered vampire's chest. The latter drops, while the vampire with the open belly stumbles back.
With all the sudden noise the eyes of the third vampire open.
The heavily wounded vampire tries to hit Mavor with his fist, but hits Mavor's armor. He places a hand on his belly, and if you'd opt to look down you'd notice the wound Mavor inflicted is slowly healing.
Round 1:
Blue -31HP (Down)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -19HP
Tural
Red (Prone)
Allyph
Majenko
Tural, still at the entrance, casts hold person on the red vampire.
"I'll try and disable that one, if he stops moving tie him up so we can get him to talk."
Tural casts hold person on the vampire that woke last, but the spell does absolutely nothing.
The prone vampire gets up, steps up to Baer, and nearly loses his balance when he tries to attack Baer.
Round 1:
Blue -31HP (Down)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -19HP
Tural
Red
Allyph
Majenko
Allyph double moves into the workshop while drawing her rapier.
Majenko flies inside and lands on Quorthos's shoulder.
"I'll help you this time!"
He readies to aid Quorthos on the latter's next attack, but fails to do so when the time comes.
Allyph moves inside the workshop while drawing her rapier.
Majenko lands on Quorthos's shoulder, but his attempt to aid Quorthos won't do much good when the time comes.
Those who pay attention may notice the wounds of the downed vampire are healing.
Round 2:
Blue -29HP (Down)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -19HP
Tural
Red
Allyph
Majenko
Quorthos steps in and drives his dagger into the blue vampire's heart.
"Don't let them get back up!" he shouts.
Mavor sees the wounds close on both the one with the open belly and the one on the ground.
"Understood Quorthos. Get them down, then chop their heads off. Works on nearly anything."
Mavor continues his onslaught against the green vampire.
Denario moves into the room, now very aware from the comment and noise.
Ending right of Alyph, he tosses a card at red.
Round 2, Init 16
"I'll try and disable that one, if he stops moving tie him up so we can get him to talk."
Baer looks at Tural.
"Don't let them get back up!" he shouts.
Baer spins to look at Quorthos.
"Which one do you want? Keep them alive or don't let them up! You're confusing me."
Baer shrugs and tries to pound Red, after stepping 5'.
to hit; (magic,PA)
damage. (magic,PA)
to hit; (magic,PA)
damage. (magic,PA)
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+7[/dice] damage.
or
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+5[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
"We only need one alive," Quorthos replies. "That one," he says, pointing at the red one. "Unless this one wants to surrender right now?" he asks, staring at the green one, as he pulls his dagger out of the blue one's heart.
Quorthos drives his dagger into the downed vampire's heart. The vampire suddenly changes into a insubstantial, misty version of itself.
Mavor continues to attack the vampire he's already wounded, but the undead dodges the attack.
Denario moves near Allyph and throws a card at the vampire that woke last, but it ducks and the card passes overhead.
Baer steps up to the same vampire Denario targeted and knocks it out. The vampire immediately changes into a translucent version of itself, like the other vampire did.
The last standing vampire looks at Quorthos, who speaks of surrender. "No! I won't!"
As some of the wounds on the vampire close, it grins widely. "You won't be able to catch us, mortals!"
The vampire then also changes into a misty version of itself. It turns around and reaches for the door north of you, after which its gas-like body becomes fluid and moves through the keyhole.
Round 2:
Blue -41HP (Gas-like)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -17HP (Gas-like & elsewhere)
Tural
Red -28HP (Gas-like)
Allyph
Majenko
Majenko's tail whips out at the retreating vampire in its gas-like state, but nothing happens.
"I either did not hit it, or normal attacks don't do a thing..."
"After him! He can't go very far in that form!"
He starts running around the building, trying to get to the front in time to stop the vampire.
"I'll go around the building!"
Quorthos stabs at the fleeing (green) vampire.
On his turn, runs after the fleeing one and zaps the nearest vampire/cloud with disrupt undead.
Majenko's tail whips out at the retreating vampire, but passes through its gas-like form without anything happening.
Quorthos stabs at the fleeing vampire and feels his magic dagger connect and hurt it.
Mavor swings his magic greataxe at the fleeing vampire and also connects to it, hurting it badly.
When the fleeing vampire passes through the keyhole, Tural decides to chase after it by going around the building.
One of the gaseous vampires moves past Baer and Allyph, toward the rickety trap door against the east wall. Its movement provokes attacks from both Baer and Allyph.
Baer and Allyph both attack the vampire as it passes them and both connect with its incorporeal body, but only Baer manages to actually hurt it.
Despite the attacks the vampire continues toward the trap door, where its gaseous body becomes fluid and moves through a crack in the trap door's wood.
Round 2:
Blue -41HP (Gas-like)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -36HP (Gas-like & went to the room up north)
Tural
Red -38HP (Gas-like & went through the trap door)
Allyph
Majenko
Majenko doesn't know how to aid in the current situation. He figures he'll go total defense for now, and will continue to do so until he's able to figure out a better way to help the party.
Allyph 5-foot steps to the east wall and opens the trap door with her free hand.
"It's pitch black down there..."
With a few gestures Allyph casts dancing lights and creates four lilac orbs of light, which she sends down.
Majenko goes into total defense till he's able to come up with a better plan.
Allyph opens the trap door and sends her dancing light down, revealing a small room. Amid numerous blocks of various types of mundane wood lie four simple but solid coffins.
The last vampire in the room also moves toward the trap door, provoking attacks from Quorthos, Baer and Allyph.
Only Allyph feels a connection to the vampire's gaseous body, but she doesn't manage to harm it.
You see the vampire descend into the newly revealed room and move up to the coffin north of the ladder. Its gaseous shape flows through a small opening below the coffin's lid, entering it.
Round 3:
Blue -39HP (Gas-like & inside easternmost coffin)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -36HP (Gas-like & went to the room up north)
Tural
Red -38HP (Gas-like & went through the trap door)
Allyph
Majenko (Total defense, till something better to do comes in mind)
Denario tries to force the northern door.
Round 3, Init 16
Baer takes the AoO.
Baer double moves down the trapdoor that Allyph opened.
Having little experience with vampires, Baer stands confused over what to do. "Wut not? Smashy the coffins?"
[ dice]1d20+7[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+7[/dice] damage.
or
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+5[/dice] damage.
[ dice]1d20+5[/dice] to hit;
[ dice]1d6+3[/dice] damage.
"Trashing their coffins or burning them down with them in it seems like a good idea Baer!" Mavor shouts from upstairs.
Mavor calls out to Denario. "Move aside, let me show you how it's done."
Mavor charges at the door with full force, shoulder bumping to wood in an effort to break it down completely off its hinges.
"Heh...showoff."
"Nice hit though."
Denario throws himself against the northern door and hurts his shoulder. While Baer moves downstairs and has no clue what to do, Mavor shows Denario the proper way to force a door open by charging into it and breaking all its hinges.
Unbalanced stuffed animals, poorly equipped toy soldiers, and dolls exhibiting myriad accidental deformities stare blankly out of the filth-smeared front window of this toy store showroom. Several heavy-looking kites dangle purple and crimson tails from the ceiling above, and a dollhouse recreating Castle Korvosa's intimidating towers dominates a table in the room's center. Festooned with tiny bells, the shop's entrance stands to the north, across from a counter cluttered with dusty candies and a doorway marked "Private."
Directly on the other side of the now open door is the vampire that fled through the keyhole, still in its gaseous form. It looks like it's about to re-enter the room most of you are in, which may have to do with the unexpected hits it took while it tried to flee.
Round 3:
Blue -39HP (Gas-like & inside easternmost coffin)
Denario
Baer
Quorthos
Mavor
Green -36HP (Gas-like & went to the room up north)
Tural
Red -38HP (Gas-like & went through the trap door)
Allyph
Majenko (Total defense, till something better to do comes in mind)
Quorthos, with Majenko on his shoulder, moves past Denario and through the vampire's gaseous form.
He stabs the vampire with his magic dagger, but doesn't do a lot of damage.
The vampire Quorthos just stabs starts to move back into the room in just escaped, provoking attacks from several party members.
Mavor hurts the vampire some more, after which the vampire goes through the open trap door and flows into the coffin north of Baer.
Mavor moves towards the ladder at the trap door and calls down to Baer.
"We've got the last one trying to escape. He fled down here too. Can you see them?"
When Baer confirms this, Mavor climbs down himself as well to inspect and support Baer in the enclosed confines.
"I imagine they won't like fire eating at their coffins.
Does any of you have a tinderbox on you?"
"Using torches on them would do just fine I think. We'll just smoke em out if they want to hide in their coffins."
Tural walks back as he notices nothing on the front of the building. He joins the others in the back room.
"They still alive? "
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Baer grunts at the conflicting orders coming down from on high, but the main point is clear: destroy the coffins. Baer can do that.
Firstly, Baer casts Detect Magic and scans the coffins for anything of value. Then she leans her staff against the wall and draws her crowbar and an alchemist fire.
With rage and anger borne within her orcish fury, Baer begins to rend and tear, bash and beat, and pretty much pry apart every coffin into basewood. That stack of base wood will earn her alchemist's fire.
Baer grunts, sweaty from her efforts.
Quorthos pulls out a flask of alchemist's fire. "This will start the fire, I think... " If there are no objections, he breaks the flask on the coffin with the green vampire in it.
"Force another one open and we can keep going while we wait for the fire to take hold of that one," Quorthos suggests, readying his disrupt undead spell.
Baer demolished the coffins, finding three unconscious vampires within three of them. The coffin against the back wall was empty. Once she's made a stack of all the basewood, Baer sets it on fire with her Alchemist's Fire. While the wood burns, the three unconscious vampires lie on the stone floor.
While breaking the coffins apart Baer finds three leather pouches that hold a combined 450 gp, all of Ustalavic minting, a Ring of Jumping sculpted to look like intertwined brass spider legs, and a set of bone Pipes of Haunting .
Tural heads down with the others and finds Baer destroying the coffins.
"What'd you find in there?"
He takes a good look at the items to try and identify them.
"Those are pretty nice. Especially the pipes. The ring is a ring of jumping, I don't see what that would be useful for but still. The pipes on the other hand are pipes of haunting. Does any of you play wind instruments?"
Whilst identifying the items he also tries to keep an eye on the vampires next to him.
While looking at the vampires Tural notices their wounds are still healing.
Allyph's confident in her allies' skills and lets them deal with the vampires while she walks into the room north of the workshop, where the shop's located.
She takes a quick look around, but finds nothing of interest.
"Guess the owner took all his valuables with him before he moved out... Makes sense."
Denario looks at the vampires too, since bad guys tend to not be quite dead at 1st sight, hopefully noticing what Tural sees.
If he does indeed, he grabbs his hand axe and decapitates the vampires and suggests staking them.
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"Hmm hmm, dumm hmm..."
Hello, what have we here?"
Denario scans the lockbox with detect magic.
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If and when someone points out the bodies are regenerating, Baer will come over and club them down to triple negitives. If they still regenerate, she will drag them onto the fire for good measure. If they regenerate after burning, Baer will bottle the ashes. If they regenerate from bottled ashes, Baer will feed the ashes to Mavor.
When the bodies are disposed and the coffins broken and burnt, and the loots are collected, Baer will climb out and explore the shop.
"What have you found, Allyph? Any more coffins?"