Spugnoir examines the door to the left
Grergof watches over Spugnoir with his flail at the ready.
At closer examination the common sturdy door opens slightly with a creak. A number of long, coffinlike crates lie stacked in this room. Several of the boxes lie open, their lids scattered across the floor amid loose straw and swaths of crumpled, bloody cloth.
Vampire coffins? Time to sprinkle some holy water Spugnoir will do so.
The coffins get moistured in places, but no sizzling, or other effect follows.
We better get ready for major nastiness here. Spugnoir drinks his extract of Shield (+4 AC) and the extract of Heightened Awareness(+2 Perception/Know skills)
The group moves to the right then where the corridor opens into a large room. Four bronze braziers light each corner of this chamber. To the west, a small circle of candles illuminates a pathway through a wide arch that leads deeper into this long hall. A massive statue depicting a winged woman with an eagle’s head and holding aloft a longsword stands between two alcoves against the eastern wall. Before the statue stands an undead atrocity in direct defiance of the goddess of honor and valor. The undead knight stands in full plate and wields two large swords. He turns immediately on the intruders. As the undead approaches, you notice the trail of blood he leaves everywhere he goes.
Darius casts Blessing of Fervor on the party.
The knight charges at the intruders with his blade raised, but stumbles and almost falls on his way.
To the West you see another large room, past the archway. Two large braziers sit to either side of the archway leading into this domed chamber, casting a disturbing green glow and flickering shadows across the walls and ceiling. Walkways lined with candles lead to a pentagram inscribed in blood in the center of the floor. Against the western wall, a throne sits atop a raised dais. Someone is in the middle of the room where the pentagram is.
AC 17/12/15 (21/14/17 with mutagen) (+25/18/21 with mutagen and shield spell)
Saves F11/R11/W7 9 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:Mace+1
Special effects: Mutagen ,Heroism(+2 saves,attack,skills),CMW potion in sipping jacket,Shield spell(+4 AC) Heightened Awareness +2 Perception/Know skills)
Bombs:12/18
Spugnoir attempts to BLAM the nasty with his new gun
Seeing the knight stumble, Grergof takes advantage.
A True Challenge! Undead knight, In the Name of Sarenrae you shall be given your true rest.
Then he opens up with his flail:
Spugnoir flinches as he gets undead all over him.
Spugnoir shoots the knight with his new plaything. It makes a big BOOM, just like his bombs do. But the effect is seriously lacking. With no experience so far it's not clear, if it's the musket, or the knight that don't work as supposed here.
But Grergof doesn't seem to have the issues with the knight that Spugnoir has. From the fountains of blood that splatter all over the place one would think, that the inside of the armor is completely liquid. But it's a short interlude. The knight falls over, the full plate thoroughly dented and the insides smashed.
From the west the creature in the crossing of the candle lit paths shrieks as the knight falls. And the next moment you stand in a thick green fog that makes you feel drained of your life force. And leaves you with sight no further than your outstretched hand.
Grergof staggers a little as he breaths in the toxic cloud, but does not let this stop him as he moves carefully in the direction of where he sees the creature crossing the area.
Grergof makes it out of the cloud and faces a beautiful vampire woman. Sadly only from the outside. In her eyes the ugliness of her character shows.
Spugnoir coughs and rushes out of the cloud
Darius follows Grergof and as he sees the vampire lady he casts a spell.
The spell has no effect on the vampire.
The vampire lady flies to the ceiling out of range of melee weapons.
Softly Grergof says:
Can Anyone get her down here?
Then Grergof calmly drops his fail and yells:
You! For the attack, immediately surrender or you will be released from the curse of undeath by my hand!
Then he draws an arrow but does not fire.
Ready Action
"This would have been so nice if it worked. But nooooo, they always want it the hard way." Darius complains.
He says another prayer and a ray of searing light shoots out of his hand, making the vampire smoke.
"That is a cloud Kill spell, get out of it quickly!" Stam shouts moving out
Stam seeing this undead? woman come out and Fly high shoots magic force at her. "Come down here and lets test your magical Metal against mine. Can either you two holy men tell if she is undead?"
The group is sending mixed signals to the vampire lady. Of course she is not stopping her actions and does not surrender. Instead she casts another spell. Grergof tries to prevent that, but the arrow is deflected by her magical armor.
The magic missiles hit though.
Out of the floor grow black rubbery tentacles that grab at them.
I really need that Ring! And maybe something that can make me fly.
Grergof escapes the tentacles and moves farther away so that he is outside the range of both the Tentacles and the Cloudkill spell.
Stam reaches out his arms to touch his companions. "Hold on this is toing to feel weird." Stam says concentration on a spell to get them out of this trouble.
Nothing happens
FOCUSS! Focus on the sixth angle of Rubarb's Fifth arcane diagram!
Darius holds up his free hand with the holy symbol on his palm and casts spiritual weapon.
The ray Darius shoots burns the vamipre properly.
Grergof escapes the rubber tentacles, but the others are stuck for now. Even though Darius manages to successfully cast a spell, the spiritual longsword fails to penetrate the defenses of the vampire. Stam and his casting are stuck.
The vampire is all in all unimpressed. But she is angered at that priest that burned her with holy fire. She casts suffocate at him.
The tentacles keep grappling
Darius grasps his throat, as he suddenly can't breathe any more.
But his weapon keeps attacking.
Spugnoir does nothing I guess
Stam tries again.
Able to get his spell off this time Stam pulls Darius out of the black Tentacles. "Sorry Spugs I will help in a minute." Stam calls
Grergof reaches down to pull out his arrow and his fingers find the undead bane arrows from the Cache in the graveyard, so long ago now.
With great faith, Grergof knocks the arrow.
Grergof moves so that the witch is within his aura of life and starts chanting.
Grergof moves farther away praying softly to himself.
Then he draws back his bow and waits for her to start casting again.
Stam still struggles in vain against the tentacles.
Grergof moves closer to the vampire lady.
She moves away from him to get out of this unhealthy aura and starts casting, as Grergof shoots her with everything he has. Thus creating an expression on the vampires face that is one of pure shock and disbelief. Next thing you know, she turns into a misty cloud and floats away.
Darius, still holding his throat, falls down.
The tentacles keep their rubbery grip on most of the group.
AC 17/12/15 (21/14/17 with mutagen) (+25/18/21 with mutagen and shield spell)
Saves F11/R11/W7 9 Fear Poison Immune
Weapon in hand:Mace+1
Special effects: Mutagen ,Heroism(+2 saves,attack,skills),CMW potion in sipping jacket,Shield spell(+4 AC) Heightened Awareness +2 Perception/Know skills)
Bombs:11/18
Spugnoir squeezes grease all over Stam.
Stam tries to wriggle Free in vain.
Knowing that the vampire can turn to mist and heal, and Hopping beyond hope that damaging her more will force the spells to end, Grergof keeps firing at the cloud.
I've got her on the run, Can one of you dispell the magic and get free?
Nope.
The first arrow rips away from the cloud, but the mist wafts further away.
Darius lies motionless between the tentacles, that engulf him.
Stam continues to struggle hoping to get free
Light take it, it's getting away!.
He turns to his companions. Those tentacles hurt, let me see if I can cancel some of that out so you can get out faster.
He does a channel Heal trying to get you all including Darius
There is that any better? Father Redgrave can you do more?
Stam still cannot get a spell off while entangled.
Heavy breathing like a walrus moving uphill on dry land is heard from within the tentacles. "They got me! This is humilating! No respect for the elderly."
A hand raises shortly out of the writhering mass, and a golden-white light washes over everything.