Vasily will cast Mage Armor, Stoneskin, Resist Energy (Fire), Shield, Form of the Dragon I, Enlarge Person, Mirror Image on himself, holding off on Haste for the moment.
"I will enhance Jethro's eyesight and mine to take better advantage of the range of our bows. I have prepared three dimensional hops for tonight. The first to a tower - under you say? which one? And the second to our ultimate goal, which is what, the vampires? And a third to escape. When we arrive, I can tell you I will be unable to do anything right away due to the stress of the transition. My plan is to arrive, recover, and leave, so if you intend to stay longer, I need to know."
EDIT:
Course we don't know where the vampires are.
I will cast Hunter's blessing undead and humanoid with urban or underground (which ever covers the base) and cold.
Which of the 4 corner towers are you going to?
With spells cast and prayers said the party gathers around Duardlara. Speaking arcane words she casts her spel as the group fades from the Hut and arrives at the Russian camp in the dark of night. Looking around you see that you have arrived below the southwest tower. From the sounds above you you can hear the sounds of 3-4 soldiers walking around the tower. From the tower a searchlight scans the area for encroaching foes.
To the east you see 3 more sets of towers with the same searchlights posted along the front of the enclosure.
To the north you see another building with lights posted outside the doors. From your previous scouting escapades you know that this is the barracks where additional troops gather.
Further north you hear the wounds of machinery running coming from behind the barracks.
Outside the encampment you see multiple troops in trenches staring out into the cold frozen night. Without a light source giving away your position, you are unseen...for now.
So we can hit this tower and take them out.
Duardlara, briefly invisible, says "Yes, do what you will. I will create an exit shortly."
Who wants to go through the door first?
"Going up?" Vasily, in his silver dragon form asks, looking around.
"I will let us all walk on air."
Airwalk communal for anyone who can't fly.
Always wanted to ride a dragon. Take me up.
”Very well. I have flight, I will go up and check the door. If it’s unlocked, I will open it when you are ready to enter. If it’s locked, I’ll try to unlock it for you.”
She will fly to the entry to the tower, inspect it first for a trap, test to see if it is locked, unlock it if necessary, and open it when the others are ready to charge in.
Vasily locks his clawed limbs around Jetro's waist and chest, and follows Duardlara up, dropping the human on the catwalk near the door. He positions himself just beside the door, ready to blast his breath weapon in at a moment's notice.
The entrance to the tower is a trapdoor at the top of a metal ladder. Duardlara easily is able to fly up and does not detect any lock or trap upon the door. She is ready to open it and have the party move in quickly when all are ready. Those that aren’t able to fly can be positioned on the ladder for quicker entrance.
Duardlara
Jetro
Vastly
Sigurd
Titian
Soldiers
After dropping Jetro, Vasily flies across the tower and unleashes his breath weapon on the three soldiers who are conveniently lined up.
Pulling free his twin blades as he enters the tower, Sigurd does not wait for the expression of surprise to vanish from his marks.
Calling upon a Blessing of Strength from his god, he turns into a veritable whirlwind of blades, each cut biting deeper into flesh and bone then the small size of the weapons would suggest, picking new marks as his targets fall.
Reflex save +6 each
1 of the guards takes a full blast of the breath attack from Vasily while the other 2 seem to be able to react quick enough by diving out of the way.
The breath attack is closely followed by a swirling dervish of dancing blades. The first strike downs the unlucky guard who failed his saving throw. The second guard up seems to be just a fair bit luckier as he survived the first stroke to him. However the second strike on him puts him down. The third fellow in line sees the carnage and tries to avoid the fate of his brethren but falls in 2 blows as well. With only 1 strike remaining and one guard left Sigurd steps to the south and lands his last blow on the last guard. He still stands…for now til the rest of the party acts.
Jetro shoots the guard
Duardlara watches the adjacent tower, considering a splashy farewell or a quiet departure. "Do we leave the next guards something to remember us by? Or a mystery of what happened to these four?"
"Something to remember us by. We wanted to raise a ruckus to draw attention here while we hit a different target. So far, we have not accomplished that-"
Titian will rage and attack anyone who is left.
Jetro and Titian easily finish off the last of the guards in the watchtower. Now that you are here you can see that there is a complex metal contraption sitting in the southwest corner off the watchtower. It has metal filaments that run up the side of the tower to the roof.
As it was only a single round of combat and all the guards were killed before the alarm was sounding the entire camp does not know what was going on. The troops below you to the south and west glanced up and may be curious but none of them have moved to investigate any of the sounds. Their life for not following orders currently outweighs their curiousity.
So we leaving now? What is that weird thing?
Sigurd uses his limited technical understanding to check out the complex metal contraption, assuming it to be some sort of control panel.
"We leave shortly, but with a bang, or our objective here will not have been met. We wanted a diversion, so whatever reinforcements they mobilize will have to decide where to head, hopefully delaying them a while..."
Choosing one of the controls to try, he asks: "What effect did these towers have again? Merely illuminate the area?"
Sigurd the metal contraption is beyond your complete comprehension of how it works. However you do piece together that it controls something on the roof and is conducting a large amount of electricity.
Vasily glances at the device, but merely shrugs. His understanding of modern technology is limited, at best. He moves to stay close to Duardlara, ready for the next teleport.
"I can summon some aether elementals again they are invisible and can easily throw things hundreds of feet. Oh, and they are invisible. It will get some attention. But a big explosion first would still help."
Sigurd attempts to cause the contraption to do something. Anything out of the ordinary would cause people to waste more time on investigating and fixing things.
"By all means, do. An Explosion elsewhere with the bead originating from this tower and a set of invisible allies that will throw people off the ladder as they attempt to get up here sounds like a very decent diversion."
”I think this was a success, if quieter than expected. Let us move before we are discovered.” She begins to cast her spell to transport the strike team to where they suspect the vampires will be found.
As Sigurd works on the contraption, he is able to find a metal panel that he removes to reveal some of the inner workings of the machine. On the inside of the metal panel that was removed is the inscription in Russian: Viktor Miloslav, Akuvskaya Monastery 1917. Reaching forward to manipulate the device he touches something that releases an arc of electricity that flashes across the entire guard tower.
reflex dc 19 for half electricity damage
Vasily watches Sigurd work nervously, but still isn't able to dodge the blast entirely. Should've cast Resist Electricity, blast it.
"When the electricity shot across, I see the central monastery was bathed in purple light, appearing as a fully-restored and onion-domed monastery."
Jetro explodes
When the machine starts to arc lightning, Sigurd quickly withdraws from it, sidestepping the largest blast, and seeing the secondary, smaller ones harmlessly dissipate from the wards he formed earlier. "I saw that as well, Duardlara. It's possibly how we can use the towers to get to Rasputin...but all in due time."
Just before they go, Vasily launches a fireball at the next tower over.