There is magic in the air (transmutation and conjuration) Cynthia figure the mist is magical in nature and summoned. She is unsure what kind of transmutation magic might be at play however.
Thalion peers into the basement. Bothered by the dimness and the mist, he pulls out a sling bullet and lights it up before tossing it below. "Coffins and toy shops just don't belong together." He squints for a penetrating glance into the lower room before looking back to the more knowledgeable peers. "Anything we should worry about before walking into overwhelming odds and emerging the victor? I mean, that's how all stories go, right?"
Hopefully. Despite his attempt to make light of the situation, the cleric shivers at the unnaturalness of the situation at hand.
Magic glinted on the ends of Cynthia's fingers - or rather, anti-magic did. She didn't know what it was, but there was no real need to find out. Better to be rid of it, rather than jumping down and trying to figure out the answer the hard way.
"Good thinking, Cynthia", Janus approves of her action, and waits to see if it's successful, drinking his extract of heightened awareness:"Either way, that looks like trouble. Any toy stakes up here, Thalion?", he jests as he gauges if any of the wooden barricade parts would serve as make-shift stakes.
The mist evaporates and only two humanoid figures made of smoke remain. They reform turning into two undead creature snarling at you, their trap foiled they instead intent to attack head on.
They are vampire spawns, the minor pawns of a vampire but still dangerous.
Vampire spawns cannot tolerate the strong odor of garlic and will not enter an area laced with it. Similarly, they recoil from mirrors or strongly presented holy symbols. These things don't harm the vampire spawn—they merely keep it at bay. A recoiling vampire spawn must stay at least 5 feet away from the mirror or holy symbol and cannot touch or make melee attacks against that creature. Holding a vampire spawn at bay takes a standard action. After 1 round, a vampire spawn can overcome its revulsion of the object and function normally each round it makes a DC 25 Will save.
Reducing a vampire spawn's hit points to 0 or lower incapacitates it but doesn't destroy it. However, certain attacks can slay vampire spawns. Exposing any vampire spawn to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape. Each round of immersion in running water inflicts damage on a vampire spawn equal to one-third of its maximum hit points—a vampire spawn reduced to 0 hit points in this manner is destroyed. Driving a wooden stake through a helpless vampire spawn's heart instantly slays it (this is a full-round action). However, it returns to life if the stake is removed, unless the head is also severed and anointed with holy water.
"Aha! Nice Cynthia. They are...they are...what are they?" Thalion reaches for his well worn morningstar as he eyes the figures suspiciously.
Victor quickly blasts a Scorching Ray in the general direction of the nearest enemy.
Victor blasts one of the vampires with a scorching ray.
The two spawns rush forward one going for Flare and the other (the one who got burned) goes for Victor.
it tries to grapple Victor going for a bite but fails horribly.
Flares lands a glancing blow on it but lacking silver her weapon doesn't hurt the beast.
The vampire spawn slams into Flare weakening her with negative energy.
Everyone else can go.
Shrugging slightly, Cynthia reached into her bag, then pulled out a wand. This... seemed like as good a time as any to use it, and she pointed it at the Vampire attacking Flare. Three bolts of energy shot out of the end of the wand, arcing towards the undead menace.
Riven summons the same fire she used on the pirates to fight the undead.
Moving into a flank, Janus stabs with his Rapier, testing to see if it seems to do anything to his enemies.
Thalion draws on the spiritual energy offered by his patron Erastil, and a weapon of energy something else?[/ooc] appears and strikes at the menace furthest away. "Be gone! Foul creatures!
ATK +6 (+3 BAB, +3 WIS)
DMG 1d8+1 (strikes as spell, threatens, does not flank or grant flank)
The magical bolts from cynthia slams into a vampire dealing a good amount of damage to the vampire attacking Flare.
Janus stabs the vampire attacking him to no effect.
Riven can only line up the vampire attack Janus and burns it catching it off guard.
Thalion summons a magical bow of force that shoots a magical bolt into the vampire attacking Flare.
Flare takes a steps back and swings hitting hard enough to deal 6 damage to the vamp attacking her (including dr)
The vampire attacking flare steps up slamming into her once more pressing it's attack.
The vampire going after Janus sidesteps and moves to Riven instead trying to grab her.
If she is grappled he slams her into the wall.
(because this is a natural attack I believe energy drain would apply giving her a temporary negative level)
Your go again. (assume you can flank them)
Cynthia flicked the wand again, but rather than sending out another burst of magical energy, it fizzled a bit and only managed to ripple the air. Well, drat - such devices weren't always reliable, but it was the best she had at the moment, and all she could do was keep trying.
"Don't you dare ignore me! Leave the girl alone!", Janus states as he follows the Vampire attacking Riven, stabbing it again, his mind frantically searching for other options, but failing to come up with anything better in the hurry.
Janus hits but only a minor injury (3 damage)
waiting for cinthia and Thalion
Still waiting for Riven Victor and Thalion
After the first attack Riven decides to save her magic for now and fall back to her spear with a simple attack.
The divine bow continues its barrage on the targeted creature. Encouraged by its success, Thalion pulls out his own bow and fires a shot into the fray.
Victor quietly nukes the closest vampire with more of his fire spells.
If I don't get it, then I don't get it. In the future though, I should be able to SA from range without any problems
Victor destroys the vampire attacking Riven turning it into a cloud of gas.
Flare attacks and strike a vampire dealing 2 damage.
The remaining vampire slams into flare again
Your go again.
Cynthia's wand just fizzled as she shook it again, trying to get it to work. It was being... rather less than cooperative at the moment, and a few signs of frustration were definitely visible on her face. It was all she could do, though... so there was nothing else to do but keep trying.
Riven strikes the vampire throwing itself at Flare.
Janus attempts to stab the Vampire from behind, flanking with Flare, but the timing of his thrust is ill-fated(just when the creature lunges forward to slam into Flare again), making his attack miss.
With the other vile creatures downed, Thalion focuses himself and rains arrows upon the remaining vampire with his twin bows. "Begone, and leave us in peace!"
Alas, in his haste, the errant arrows go every which way but true, eliciting a curse under the frustrated cleric's breath.
will assume victor has another scorching ray
The other vampire is destroyed as well.
Both vampires turns into smoke and reform into physical form inside their coffins were they will wake up again after they rest for 1 hour unless someone stakes or decapitates them. Even then they aren't permanently destroyed unless you also soak them in holy water or bring them out in the sun or trow the remains in a river.
Not too difficult in your situation as it is daytime you need only bring the bodies outside.
Flare however is looking very weakened by the ordeal having taking multiple hits from the life draining tackles of the vampire.
"You need rest." Cynthia told Flare, glancing down at her wand for a moment... she was a bit frustrated with how hard it had been to use. She definitely needed to find a way to fix that, but for now, she sighed and stowed it away.
Riven would move to aid Flare, leaving the others to deal with the body of the vampires.
She first checks for magic that could be effecting her before looking at the more physical effects.
Janus rushes over to Flare to help her out, but Riven already supports her friend. Not feeling like arguing with the Arcanist in this situation, he instead grabs one of the Vampires and begins to head upstairs, opting to give the undead creature a fatal tan.
Only afterwards does he take a moment to take a closer look at the area downstairs, looking for anything of interest.
"They did mention having problems with Vampires, but I imagine they could have dealt with a known lair on their own. They even let them board it up from the inside and have not worried about it...I wonder what's behind this...why here?"
Following closely behind Janus, and moves by Riven to look over Flare as Janus turns away to deal with the vampires. "What do you think is wrong with Flare?"
Lesser restore wont help with this.
"I'm fine just tired. The creature drained my energy I will get better after I have some rest" says Flare.
You search the place and find a few items of interest.
(I'm assuming you can identify them)
-Potion of Magic Fang
-Potion of Magic Fang
-Scroll of Burning Hands
-Scroll of Disguise Self
-Scroll of Disguise Self
347 cp
18 sp
133 gp
Finding nothing else of use you leave.
The villager who led you here meets you outside.
"You slew the monsters killing folks?"
You confirm and he visits the town shop to confirm.
"Alright I think I can trust you. Follow me I will take you to the priest" he says
"By the grace of the gods, we took care of the infestation in this place, yes", Janus acknowledges the commoners assumption, falling back into his role, then following him once he is done taking a look around.
Riven helps support Flare as they follow the man. "Can your priest help with magical injuries, she was hurt during the fight."
Cynthia moved along with the others, not adding her voice to the conversation - enough people were talking as it was. She was a little more focused on the scrolls they'd got, and had spent the way back checking over them. Unfortunately, none of them looked immediately helpful, but they might be able to trade them for restorative services...
Thalion waits a moment to see if anyone else grabs any of the items, before gathering what remains and finding places in his backpack and various pouches for the found goods and coins. Once the guide confirms it all, the cleric of Erastil smiles broadly at the villager, "Glad you found it fit to trust us. Perhaps when this is all over, we can enjoy a bit of food and drink together and give you more reason to extend that trust."
With an easy pace matching that of the guide, Thalion takes the time to chat with the villager while taking in the surroundings.
The man brings you to a hut in shambles that seems long abandoned and from the looks of it was badly damaged by fire.
Inside you find the missing cleric. Unconscious and wounded. His wounds have been bandaged but by someone with little experience in doing so.
"I did what I could for him but I couldn't move him and before he went to sleep he told not to trust nobody unless they proved they were good folks. Wasn't sure what he meant by that but slaying monsters for no pay is good enough for me."
Heal check and knowledge nature applies here.
"Thank you for all you did, I'll take a look at his wounds right now.", Janus tells the man, then heads to the unconscious cleric and starts checking his injury's.