Cricket opens the door and gets a faceful of shadow and brimstone and malevolence, roughly in the shape of a savage hound or hyena! While struggling to keep the thing off of him, he notices that the barn itself is packed with rotting, diseased-looking corpses -- probably sixteen or so -- which immediately begin shambling towards the open door.
Initiative:
Attacks:
Sneak Attack (if acts first):
Jaegr moves quickly to Cricket's Aid, attacking the shadowy hyena.
Unlike the main house, the barn is set back from the road, so the distance from the front door to the barn door is close to 50 ft. (greater than 20 ft. move, or even a 40-ft. charge). Jaegr can jog there on his initiative count (before Cricket gets jumped).
Miralda Initiative:
Spellcraft:
Miralda shrieks as the barn door opens. "Kelgan! Close the door! I can put a spell on it to keep the zombies in!"
Wyvurn's loping gait will get him there on a charge. He lowers his shoulder at the last second and dive's at the things legs to prevent it from mauling Cricket.
Eeek!
Initiative:
Sic 'em, Wolvie!
Hopefully, Wolvie obeys.
Cricket ignores the hellbeast, and slams the door shut. If he hasn't yet been attacked, he takes a five foot step away from the hellbeast.
"I'll keep you safe, Miralda, but those walking corpses need to be destroyed.
Wolvie bites the hyena-dog-thing, causing it to yelp in annoyance; as a side-effect, the thing is tripped to the floor.
Meanswhile, Cricket tries to shove the door closed against the prone body:
CMB
Success! The hyena-wolf-thing and zombies are now shut into the barn again.
Victor Initiative:
Victor waits until Jaegr and Wyvurn move to the barn door, then walks about halfway to the barn behind them. Lifting a sickle he pulls from his coat, he channels a dark burst of negative energy:
(DC 15 Will for half).
"Egads!"
"It's a barn not a necromancers lab!"
Initiative
Caspian is so fast that he sees what's coming and can act before Victor does!
Initiative Order:
1. Caspian (can pre-emptively act)
2. Jaegr (moved to barn)
3. Victor (waited until count 6.5, then walked & channeled)
4. Cricket & Wolvie (bit monster, closed door)
5. Miralda (shrieked)
6. Wyvurn (moved and attempted maneuver; assumed to assist in door slamming)
7. Monsters (locked in barn)
8. Kelgan (hustling to catch up)
When the barn door gets closed and Victor channels negative energy, Jaegr turns back and runs towards Victor swinging, "Ah Victor, you should have chosen to drink instead today."
Jaegr envisions exactly what he's going to do to Victor next round. Meanwhile, Caspian takes his 1st round action, Kelgan catches up with the others, and then Caspian starts off the next round.
Yup. Sorry, boyz.
In fact, he's standing on a flat rock that now looks suspiciously like it was maybe placed there to mark the spot.
Guh!
C:
W:
Guh!
Woo woo woo!
Caspian does the only sensible thing he slings an alchemists fire into the barn....
Alchemists fire
Ranged touch attack On a hit deals
a miss deals 1 of splash damage
Caspian launches his flask as the door opens, as soon as he catches sight of the zombies.
Barn Door AC: 10 -1 (size) -5 (Dex) = 4
-4 to attack due to soft cover* = 2
In trying to make sure he avoids setting Cricket or Wolvie on fire, Caspian fails to lob the flask through the doorway. It strikes the side of the barn, deals 1 point of fire damage, and goes out in the dirt.
Jaegr's sudden charge catches Victor off-guard; one moment, the skinny guy is raising his sickle again and starting to chant some kind of spell; the next he's a crumpled remnant on the ground, with some bits of bone where his head used to be.
Wiping off his pick in the grass, Jaegr feels satisfaction for a job well done, but kind of wishes he could have saved that blow for a more deserving opponent.
"Now that he is taken care, lets clean up what is in the barn"
Miralda doodles some symbols on the barn door and says, "This might not work, because a door is not technically a person, but hopefully it will keep the zombies and hyena-thing from battering the door open for the next couple of minutes, while we decide what to do with them."
Wyvurn picks himself up after his dive in the dirt.
"Burn it down"
It's the only way to make sure.
Cricket dutifully sets about setting the barn on fire.
The barn, being made of wood, kindles nicely. It's even better when the straw inside finally catches fire when Caspian slings a flask through the loft window. Soon the blaze forces you to move back. You try to ignore the wailings of some of the zombies and the shrieks of the hyena-dog-thing.
The only surprise comes when a more agile-looking bipedal shape emerges onto the roof and leaps down:
Acrobatics:
Attack roll to land on someone:
Target (alphabetical):
Caspian very nearly gets pounced on, but his small size and quick reflexes keep him from harm.
This surviving monster looks suspiciously like someone took a sewer worker, dressed him in rags, bleached all the color out of his skin, and gave him red eyes and fangs.
Caspian evades the creature noting mentally the jagers blows are quickee and also that a gliding creature might be able to adjust.....
"Somebody kill it!"
I'll assume it's still acting on initiative count 7 (monsters), so it's Kelgan's turn next, then Caspian can react.
Kelgan will continue to shield the elf and will strike if the creature approaches.
Caspian, then Jaegr. I assume it will be destroyed before Cricket is up again.
Ranged
Net masterwork
Ranged touch attack, entangled condition
Success! The red-eyed bloodsucker attempts to struggle free (if his turn ever comes up again).
Jaegr?
Jaegr assumes the fighting stance "Form of the Mountain" and brings his weapon down upon the agile leaping creature.
For a moment, it seems like the creature is going to shrug off the wound, like needing a silver bullet to kill a werewolf, but Jaegr's deep connection with his ancestral pick renders the weapon more than merely forged steel. The creature howls as the blow strikes, and glares at Jaegr balefully.
Cricket and Wolvie are up
Miralda on deck
Wyvurn in the hole
[Woops. I composed a post back on Friday, I swear! I wonder why I didn't send it...]
Cricket swings his staff in a variety of amazing displays of virtuosic staff-wielding technique!
Meanwhile, he yells out Sic 'em, Wolvie!
Hopefully, Wolvie obeys.
+ trip
Sense Motive:
The red-eyed creature stares in slack-jawed amazement at Cricket's display, losing his Dex modifier to AC and giving Wolvie a +2 circumstance bonus to attack. Wolvie's bite deals only a small amount of damage, however, insofar as it isn't silver. It does succeed in dragging the monster to the ground.
Miralda uses her wand, point-blank:
Wyvurn, kill it!
It does succeed in dragging the monster to the ground.
Huzzah!
Cricket high fives Wolvie.
Caspian wonders how long he could actually tether the creature if it were to realize the end of the net were in the hands of an 80 pound weakling......
"Later on someone remind me I wanted to get a spirit catching net."
Wyvurn will step up to the creature (flanking with Jaegr or Cricket) and give two quick overhand chops with his sword, channeling his ki into the blows.
Beneath the power of Wyvurn's ki, the monster cannot hold its physical form together; it collapses into a cloud of mist, which seeps back to the barn as if pulled by a vacuum. Unfortunatly, the coffin it's headed towards -- clearly visible among the wreckage -- is on fire and is soon consumed, leaving the mist nowehere to go. With a wail that's more psychic than audible, it disperses into the wind in all directions and is gone.
"I am hoping what we just witnessed was what passes for complete destruction for a vampire. Somehow, I don't think we took care of the problem completely, though. I seem to recall this curse mentioning vampireS not vampiRE."
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Cricket shadow boxes with his spinning staff.
Wap! Pow! How ya like that? Yeah, that's what I thought, pow! pow! pow!
Wolvie whines excitedly and beats his tail against the ground.