Stam manages to finally get a spell of as the Force Darts slam into the cloud
The vampire mist moves through the cracks of one of the doors and disappears from the room.
"Gah again, next time I will be more ready you ugly witch!" Stam shouts after the mist
The tentacles keep grappling.
Darius keeps healing all, until the tentacles lose the grip on him and he can move out.
Once out he casts a heal spell on himself.
As soon as the spells end Grergof motions.
Come, we need to find her coffin, as I don’t want to face that again.
Then he heads for the door she want through, expecting the others to follow.
Wooden wine racks covered in dust and spiderwebs fill this room. Numerous bottles sit on the racks, surprisingly new and recently stocked, but empty. NO sign on the mist is seen.
Arrggh.. This has taken a lot out of us. If we manage to stake her, we should retreat after so we can regroup.
Door over there.
"Go get them!" you hear a familiar voice order. Shortly after that a knight in shiny armor appears in the room.
From the look of it, you'd say it's a follower of Iomedae. Full plate with all the insignia of the Lady od Valor. From the pale face that you have seen quite often now, you comclude that he is another undead.
Grergof steps forward and raises his fail but does not attack:
Out of respect for you religion, I ask you to stand aside sir. I warn you that if you attack me or my companions, I will be forced to put you down.
Grergof readies an attack in case the knight tries to attack him or any of his companions behind him.
"How are you holding up?" Darius asks Spugnoir as the new threat shows up.
The knight comes charging with his sword high over his head and brings it down on Grergof, despite taking a blow before doing so.
Haven you fallen so far from your faith that you attack others on the word of a corrupt witch, or did you just find that armor child!
As he is talking Grergof continues to work his Flail:
Grergof flails down on the knight in front of him, hitting two out of three. But to his surprise, the knight still stands bravely before him.
Maybe he has been enchanted by the witch? Can we free his mind?
"I guess his mind will be free once Grergof has treated his skull properly with the flail. Besides that, at least I'm not prepared for such a thing. And as he got fangs, there would be more to break than a witch's charms."
Stam moves slightly North west and points his finger at the Undead knight.
"You really should have just stayed dead, you are a perversion to your Goddess and shame the Armor and Symbol you wear." Stam scolds him.
Stam hits the vampire with a magic trick. The knight doesn't look very happy, but ignores all the talking and keeps swinging his sword.
"You wills top this nonsense at once, we are not your enemies at all." Stam calls out as magic flows out of his voice to halt the Undead Knight.
HP 89/89
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:10/18[/spoiler]
Spugnoir BLAMS his second shot at the nasty
The knight stops mid move, which makes it easy for Spugnoir to shoot him.
With the knight's move stopped, Darius grabs one of the stakes, Grergof prepared and drives it into the knight's back. It's nowhere told, that the heart has to be staked through the chest, and that breastplate is a serious hindrance for that.
The knight screams as the stake goes in, but by that time it is too late. He drops to the ground.
"What now? Into the sun with him?" Darius suggests. "I'm all for redemption, but this guy would still be dead, even if redeemed."
"Or do you want to store him for later?"
"Into the sun with him, I am done with staking them and then them coming back. Say a word over him and maybe he will be judged fairly." Stam says wiping blood from his mouth, "WE have to press on."
Leave him, we have a criminal to catch and a Vampire Witch running away. If we take them down for good, I agree that we retreat.
He hoists his flail and after looking back to make sure the others are ready, rushes through he door.
"There is no sun down here and I'd rather not have him on standby waiting for that tailor guy to unplug him." Darius objects.
"Stam, can you magic him out?"
"I can yes but it will burn spells that I don't want to burn right now." Stam says
"We can carry him up and out. But I fear we walk into other dangers then. And all other ways will just lead to him getting another vampire mist, we have to chase around."
Fine.
Grergof puts away his flail pulls out his scimitar and using two hands coupe de Graces the vampire to chop off his head.
After the head comes off he puts away his scimitar and dumps out a vile of holy water on the head:
There I believe that also kills a staked vampire
Then he draws out his flail and looks at the others and motions at the door.
We have a bag of holding to shove him into?
While Spugnoir looks for a matching sack to put the knight, Grergof handles the subject quickly and the remains of the vampire crumble to dust.
Behind the door, sarved stone columns resembling angels with outstretched
wings support the ceiling of this wide, long chamber. Decayed bones and half-rotten burial shrouds spill out of ten five-foot-wide alcoves in the chamber’s walls.
The vampire mist is nowhere seen.
Grergof starts looking for where the vampire could have gone or any coffins.
This ossuary housed the honored remains of the abbey’s monks and Iomedae’s faithful. The bones that were interred here, lie now strewn across the floor. Checking on the alcoves Grergof finds some secret passages. One leads to a well. And one to a larger network of tunnels. Also there is the double door to leave the area.
"We could just set fire to the whole place and watch it burn from the road side." Stam says as he searches. "Another underground area? I don't want to go down there now. Lets clear the abbey first and then retire."
On Stam's suggestion the group moves on through the doors. A single torch mounted in a sconce along the wall at the base of the stairs lights this long hallway. Two chambers lie open to the east and north.
This chamber lies empty and disused, covered in a fine layer of dust. A mural of a winged human woman with an eagle’s head
covers the east wall.
"Saint Lymirin? Being Cheliax we don't get taught much about the non Devils. My parents never cared to much for religion my Father being a Hell Knight and all." Stam says
"Well, makes sense to have pictures of Saint Lymirin in the Abbey of Saint Lymirin."
"But it's funny your paraents didn't know. She is the patron saint of first blood. And she appears either as a Chelaxian Woman with white feathery wings, or like shown here with an eagles head. But she is probably too good for normal Chelaxian folks to be interested in her."
"I am not the first born, I have an Older sister who became a Hell Knight as well, of the Torrent though since she like to find things." Stam says "That image does sound familiar but I never cared much for chruchy teachings." a quick smile comes to Stam's face.
"Well, as a cleric to Iomedae, I have to know the important guys and gals in the hirarchy of our Lady of Valor. And that one is a pretty important one. It would be a real blessing, if she showed up, to clean out the gunk that collected in the dark corners of her Abbey."
"She is the kill now, ask questions later kind of saint, when it comes to such evil scum."
SPugnoir uses the potion in his Sipping Jacket to heal
"But all that chat about saints doesn't get us a vampire. Where to?" Darius asks.
Assuming the door on the map is not hidden.
door!
Grergof says simply before he throws it open.
A large stone sarcophagus lies in the center of this chamber, surrounded by lit candles in iron candelabras.
Forgive me if this is a saint.. Grergof says as he steps up to the sarcophagus.
He looks back and says: Cover me.
When the others are ready he tries to lift up the cover on the sarcophagus.
Spugnoir has his reloaded gun ready.
A vampire mist comes out of the stone coffin, as Grergof seeks a hold at the lid. It moves to the end of the room and manifests as Radvir Giovanni. "You again! Give up already, you can't win."
Evil only wins when the Good do nothing.. Grergof says simply as he drops the lid.
Then he turns and draws his flail.
Where do the other vampires rest?. He demands.
"I'll never tell you!" Radovir tells, opens a secret door and flees into the tunnel that opens.
"I Grow tired of you and your ways!" Stam says as a blinding light of pure power stries the Vampire in the chest.