Vincent and Howard notice Door 5 is now half-open as if something had gone through it.
Oh no we need to help Leonard' Continuing his song, Seamus draws and fires two more arrows.
Seamus's arrows fly to the left, and right of her consecutively.
Some of the creatures wounds heal. . The creature floats over to Vincent and tries to bite him, then slam him with its viscera.
The bite does not penetrate his toughened skin and the viscera slam hit the wall instead.
Leonard continues to bleed out, blood slowly seeping through his shirt.
Vincent grunts and steps back once again.
The thing attempts to sneak out of Vincent's coat and behind the creature.
The thing tries to use the wand on Leonard if it makes it.
Vincent does land a good stab, breaking some viscera. It looks injured now.
The creature does not see the tentacled thing sneaking around and it gets to Leonard safely!
'Blast, we need to kill this thing!' Looking very concerned for his associate, Seamus continues his song and fires two more arrows at the floating head.
Seamus sends two arrows into the creature, wounding it badly, even if his arrows don't seem fully effective. The arrow head begins to slowly push out.
It really doesnt like being the target of arrows. It floats towards Seamus then bites and tries to grab him with its viscera. Seamus ducks the bite but the coils of viscera grab him and begin to squeeze.
Seamus tries to fight off her attempts to drain his life force, but finds himself growing more lethargic, as ugly black veins begin to form on his face.
somehow, Maintaining his song, Seamus draws his shortsword and stabs at the thing.
Vincent grabs his rapier, charges it, and stabs after moving to flank.
The thing tries to slap Leonard with the wand again.
Seamus does not manage to stab through anything but Vincent on the other hand manages to pierce her cheek, injuring her badly. The weapon does not seem to be fully effective though.
Leonard rises silently, grasping his sword once again. It bursts into flames the moment he touches it, causing long shadows to writhe in every direction. Should've made sure I was dead.
Leonard's blade cuts into the creature but surprisingly it is not harmed by the flames.
"Yes, I supposed I should have finished the job.Time to correct that now." The cut inflicted by Leonard heals completely.
It then lets go of Seamus shifting towards Leonard and snaps at Leonard, and tries to grab him with its viscera again.
Leonard tries to parry the attempt to grab him with its viscera, but the blood loss makes him too slow, as he is grabbed once more. He feels the world go red, then black, as he collapses in the coil of her viscera.
The party hears something distinctively audible crack, as blood dribbles out of his mouth, as black veins begin to creep up his face.
Vincent stabs again, while the thing slithers over and tries to slap Leonard with the wand.
"Shoot her!"
Vincent, his mind bent on vengeance, runs the creature through the back. "Noooooo!" It gives a horrifying screech as Vincent stabs it in its heart and it disintegrates into dust.
With that screech, the party feels a cold wind smelling of decay blow from behind them, as if something was making its way up the stairs.
Vincent drags Leonard into the room Howard mutilated bodies in and tells the others to close the door while he sets to healing Leonard again as the thing hands him the wand and slithers back into his coat.
Entering the room the party sees that the decapitated corpse is now a fine pile of dust. The mnemonic vestment and chain shirt the body was wearing now lies on the bed.
Ending his song, Seamus stands dumbfounded for a second, watching Vincent's actions. "Retreating back in the room and locking the door? I like it. Maybe whatever is coming will just go past."
"I hate doing this, but he wont be happy if we leave it here." Seamus runs forward and picks up Leonard's sword, holding it by the pommel, he drags it into the room.
Vincent tosses Seamus the wand to work on Leonard while he braces the door. He also borrows Leonard's wand and casts shield on himself.
The door bursts into splinters, as if sundered by a heavy blow.
A disembodied female torso flaps through the air on batlike wings, her fanged face a hateful mask can be seen through the door.
Vincent recognizes her as a Manannagal. They have 10 DR good/silver. And can grab with their claws and drain blood.
Most importantly:
Separate (Su) During the day, a manananggal looks like a living human woman. She does not detect as undead during the day, but is still an undead creature. At night, her upper torso rips away (this is a full round action that occurs at sunset), leaving her lower torso behind. Her lower torso is helpless, but her upper torso gains its fly speed and natural attacks at this time. The upper and lower portions share the same pool of hit points (despite any intervening distance), and if the helpless lower portion is damaged, the manananggal is immediately aware of the attack. Since manananggals can be destroyed by damage to their lower bodies, they prefer to hide their lower torsos when separated. A manananggal must return to its lower torso and reattach to it (a full-round action) within the hour before sunrise—each round a manananggal remains separated after sunrise, it takes 1d6 points of damage until it rejoins its lower torso or it crumbles into dust.
Vincent recognizes the lower torso as the sawn off torso on the bed.
Vincent shouts at them to hack the lower body to bits while he tries to keep it from entering, hoping that Leonard can help with that also now that he is conscious. He studies the upper torso and strikes.
"Silver or good weapons!" he reminds them.
Vincent manages to inflict a vicious cut with his dagger which seems surprisingly effective on the Manannagal, who looks surprised.
Leonard is barely alive, it's amazing that he's somehow conscious. He raises his sword with some effort, concentrating intently on it. With a gasp, he brings it down on the severed lower torso.
As Leonard brings down his blade, he hears the creature in the doorway give an unholy screech of pain as it looks seriously weakened.
Ok, use the wand on Leonard, I can do that. using the wand once, he hears the door boom of his hinges, Dropping the wand he screams like a little girl again.
’Silver or good?’ shrugging his shoulders, Seamus draws an alchemical-silver blunt arrow and steps closer to the torso and fires it at point blank range.
Howard manages to nick the lower torso a bit.
Seamus strikes the arrow straight into her lower torso,"Arrrrrgghhh!" it screams one last time and there is a flash of bright light, then both the creature and the torso crumble into dust.
The room goes still, except for Leonard's laboured breathing.
Searching the room, the party finds in the drawers two scrolls of sepia snake sigil, a scroll of see invisibility, a composite shortbow (+3 strength rating), 20 arrows and 329 gp.
One of the bedside tables holds five empty glass phials and a notebook penned by Lowls. Vincent identifies the empty glass phials once contained a sleeping drug.
In the notebook penned by Lowls with a lengthy series of notes about his suspicion that Ulver Zandalus was the key to discovering Neruzavin, the lost city in Casamaron that holds three Star Stelae similar to those on Thrushmoor on the hill.
There is an earlier entry identifying Leonard by his name, race, gender, height and weight which was referred to when administering the exact dose of a special sleeping drug provided by a person called Miacknian Mun.
The latest entries identify Seamus, Howard, Dakash and Vincent by their names, race, gender, height and weight which was referred to when administering the exact dose of a special sleeping drug provided by a person called Miacknian Mun.
Seamus watches as the wands are wielded, he lifts his bow shifting it a round. "I don't feel quite right, can either of the wands fix that?"
As they leave the room Seamus follows Vincent out.
Vincent grunts at the speed with which it was dispatched, stepping through the broken door and listening for anyone responding to the noise. If not he leads the party on.
Vincent still hears voices on the next door, ”What’s taking whatever’s out there so long?”
”Did you hear those screeches, it nearly burst my eardrums!” He kicks open the door anyway.
Leonard pops his wand of shield, muttering, ”Tegere” weakly, as a blood red shield surrounds him, a contrast in his pale complexion.
"Hey you lower ranked idiots aren't allowed on this level! Now get out before we do worse to you!" One of them yells on seeing Vincent.
One of them throws his dagger at Vincent, while the other steps up to shank Vincent with his rapier.
Both of them do not penetrate Vincent's toughened skin.
'Here we go again.' Seeing the two new threats, Seamus begins to sing, hoping to inspire his friends. "Well I stumbled and I am all drunk and full of smoke..."
Vincent looks the cultist over before stabbing him with his own rapier.
Vincent manages to stab the white cultist in the chest, wounding him gravely.
Leonard sits down on the bed after Seamus finishes off the monster, lying down right next the now bloodied corpse. Oh dear, I am very tired now. He closes his eyes and inhales deeply, laboured breath sounding raspy and painful.
Back home, a red fire burns,
and tea whistles softly in another room.
But for blood we must yearn,
for we shall bring their doom.
Get up, no time for sleep,
not until you've buried them deep.
Leonard sits up, putting on a brave face, albeit one with ugly black veins popping out of it. Well now, not about to let a little blood loss put me down, am I? No, that would be too easy. Angiliath flashes out of its scabbard, although a bit more sluggishly than usual. Wands are used, and the room is searched. The wand that can fix us is empty now, a mere stick, but don't worry. We'll manage.
Leonard keeps one hand on the wall at first, but after a moment he removes it, trusting his feet to keep his balance. You're outnumbered, and probably outclassed. If you don't drop your weapons right now I'll kill your whole family. Leonard's left hand turns an ugly red, a color far more pronounced than usual because of his pallor. His sword doesn't burst into flames, but it does dart forward, still quite fast, still quite deadly.
Leonard stabs the cultist in his stomach, but his second strike bounces off the wall. Barely standing, he gasps out, "Risi! We've got company!"
He does not get branded. He then steps back into the room and casts a spell.
Howard and Vincent recognize the spell as cure light wounds.
The remaining cultist steps up and stabs Vincent, but Vincent sidesteps.
Vincent hears the sound of a door opening very softly south, but sees no one. He notices door 3 is now partially open.
Vincent growls, "We got company too! Probably invisible like the last one!" he points towards the door as he flicks the rapier at the new opponent (study)
Vincent manages to stab the cultist in the shoulder and he gives a grunt of pain.
'someone past Vincent?' Continuing his song and unable to shoot anyone in the room or see anyone in the hallway, Seamus casts sound burst ten foot past Vincent.
The party hears a hiss of pain and sees a rapier and a wand drop on the ground. They still don't see anyone, though.
"Still got that glitter spell, Harold?"
Leonard's left hand begins to crackle blue, and he steps into the space vacated by Vincent. Watch out, he says, attacking the cultist in the doorway.