Grergof kills one of the coffins with two mighty blows. Teh splatter from the second hit decorates the whole room and everyone around.
Stam falls into concentration, drawing a ring of power just in front of him and starts to summon.
AC 17/12/15 (21/14/17 with mutagen)
Saves F11/R11/W7 9 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:Mace+1
Special effects: Mutagen ,Heroism (+2 attack,saves,skills),CMW potion in sipping jacket
Bombs:1/18
Spugnoir throws a fire bomb at the heavily damaged mimic. Only one bomb left after this.
Another coffin is disintegrated, this time by the quick expansion of an exothermic alchemical reaction. But tasty meat in sight seems to overwrite all self preservation instincts and the remaining mimic keeps attacking.
As it is no mindless creature Stam is the one who gets hit by a fake coffin lid.
Stam is able to Maintain the spell, in the circle appears a small fire elemental. Stam points at the Coffin. "BURN IT!" Stam shouts.
Stam disengages from the coffin.
The fire elemental misses the coffin. One wonders why. Maybe it doesn't want to touch the sticky coffin? Stam is pulled back, held by the lid glued to him.
"Gah! Stupid coffin." Stam shouts
Grergof steps up and opens up with his silver flail on the last mimic.
After the second hit, he grunts in dissatisfaction as he can't pull back for another swing.
Ugg, another weapon stuck to these coffins!
Grergof deals the mimic some deep wounds, but like the other two, it can take more.
Spugnoir feeds Darius a CMW potion
Darius caughs up some blood as he becomes conscious again. "Thanks pal." He coughs some more.
"That's the second time in short succession. There are even coffins coming after me. You think that's Pharasma's way to tell me it's time to go?" he jokes, but the laughter changes over in coughing again.
The coffin is no fan of prepared food starting to walk away again. Pulling Stam along the mimmic moves over to send Darius back into the land of dreams.
"Stay away from him." Stam shouts as he pumps the last of his magical Darts into this stupid biting coffin.
Grergof lets go of his flail as the coffin moves away from him and growls in frustration.
You can not have him!
He pulls out his scimitar and steps up to the thing attacking with both hands at the sticky thing.
ARRG, this this is running me out of weapons!
Grergof again adds an ugly wound to the mimic, but loses another weapon. Together with the sure shot fromn Stam's magic missiles, the mimics' life hangs on a thread.
SPugnoir tosses his last fire bomb
The last mimic goes down in flames.
Darius drools on the floor. He is out cold and doesn't look well.
Spugnoir baps him 5 times with a clw wand
Darius opens his eyes. "I love you Spugs."
"Everytime I see your face that way, I know it's not time to leave this world yet."
"Have you taken care of all the coffins first this time?"
"Is it dead? Why am I still stuck here?" Stam tries to look behind him but is to stuck
All bad coffins are dead. We'll have to make an anti-furtiture spell to make sure nothing can hide
"Good then we can burn them all and move on." Stam say pulling goo off his robes once he can get up.
Grergof tries to pry his weapons away from the coffins.
He looks over at Darius as he does this.
You don't look so good, do you still need healing? Actually do any of you need healing?
"I not only need healing, I need a week or two in a convalescent home. Can we rat out that traitor to the vampire chief and then get out of this stinking hole? I need a healthy meal, a night of sleep and an undisturbed prayer time, to be able to cure me and Spugs from the bad touch of the vampires." Darisu replies.
Grergof rips off the two flails, but is too careful with the scimitar out of fear to bend it. But after half a minute the glue becomes liquid and the scimitar falls off the corpse.
I am out of bombs but still have some extracts and need time to rest and make restorative extracts.
OK let's at least see if the Vampire returned to the coffins we found downstairs. I would prefer not to fight him again.
Grergof, after getting his weapons back, does a brief search of the room, and then leads the group down to the coffins/sarcoffigus they found downstairs to see if the nasty chain wielding vampire is recovering in one of them.
"I am running low on spells as well, lets report to the Vampire Duke? Count? King? The head of the Vampires and rat out his traitor." Stam says
The room doesn't contain any more things of interest. And also the coffins in the neighboring rooms are still empty. Looks like the vampire wants to make sure not to face you in this state. And according to the knowledge you have he might have over an hour to return to whatever coffin is the right one. If it is even in this building.
There is some half-digested garbage, a few gold coins, that resist the stomach acid and a strange object with to pipes mounted to a darkwood handle and some complex mechanics to it. Astoundingly this item hasn't taken any damage. And you're sure this was rather inconvenient for the mimic, to have that in its belly and not getting it out.
This is a very odd device! Hmm..Perhaps Stan and I can examine it when we are in a safer location.
"Yes it is interesting indeed." Stam says giving it a quick look over.
You all can leave if you want. I'm staying to watch for the vampire as it most likely lairs in one of these coffins or the sarcophagus downstairs. We fought it once, and it almost Killed Father Redgrave. I am not going through that again and we will be in a better state if we bring in the traitor as well as evidence. It is worth spending an couple hours wait for that.
After checking the coffins and Sarcophagus again he sits where he can watch them all to to ensure he is there to stake the criminal if it returns to any of the coffins or especially the hidden stone sarcophagus.
Grergof walks on patrol for more than an hour, but finally the gaseous form appears and slides into one of the wooden coffins.
Spugnoir stays and fiddles with the new toy he found.
"Well there he is, now we smash him to pieces in the coffin? We cannot take him into custody as he will just turn to mist." Stam says standing up from the ground
Stake him and take him to the Prince?
Grergof Stakes the vampire.
We can take the whole coffin if we need to. Mr. Stam, you don't happen to know a spell that makes a floating disk to carry things do you? I know I have seen some mages use that.
That might be helpful to move this coffin back to the Vampire Prince.
Spugnoir puts his humpback into it and helps with moving the vampire
You shoulder the coffin and go on your way back to the throne room of the vampire elder Luvick Siervage. After explaining, that you have the culprit of the vampire murders, you get an audience.
"What do you bring me?" Luvick asks as you appear before him with the coffin.
"We have your Traitor staked in this coffin. he lead us on a wild chase, but in the end we did apprehend him for you." Stam says with a slight bow.
"And you ascertained that with what evidence?" Luvick inquires.
Spugnoir produces the journals! With a special TL;DR version that covers the important bits.
After all the evidence has been laid out Grergof asks:
So, clearly you can see the Whispering Way is behind much of the troubles you have. So you can see it is in your best interest to give us the help you can to stop them, as they are actively working against you.
You can also see that <Insert prisoners's name here> had nothing to do with this, and you shouldn't be keeping him prisoner, not for this.
As an aside: What is this bloodbrew elixir? It seems like this is one of the things that the vampires were being used for.
"We did yes as my companions say you need to help us as we just helped you." Stam says
There is a blur and a blink of the eye later Luvick stands next to the coffin. He rips off the lid. He raises a brow as he sees the vampire inside. Another short blur later the vampire is reduced to mist and the coffin shattered into pieces at the wall of the room. As you recover from the shock, Luvick is nowhere to be seen.
"Radvir fooled you! And now he's gone!" Luvick shouts angrily from his throne. Where he obviously reappeared somehow.
I think it is best we leave. Spugnoir whispers ot the others.
"I agree, this Vampire whoever he is has our number. We are going to have to come up with a way of containing him once he has turned to mist so we don't lose him again." Stam says backing away form the very upset Vampire Lord
Interesting. A most cunning foe, it will make it more glorious when we catch him.
As they are leaving Grergof looks up at the vampire king.
But you know who the criminal is and can watch out for him. That makes you and yours better able to defend yourselves.
We will continue our hunt.
"You have solved the crime, and brought proof. That's good enough for me. If he ever shows his face again in Caliphas it will be his last time."
He pauses and looks at the heroes in front of him. "If you haven't guessed already from the evidence in the journal, I can tell you that the Whispering Way moved on to the Abbey of Sante-Lymirin."
"And now it all makes sense. Radvir, the Whispering Way and the witches at the Abbey are in cahoots. When you meet the witches there, give them my regards, with the edge of your sword. Or whatever weapon you prefer."
"And don't be surprised if you find Radvir there. Those might be his only 'friends' left."