Curse of the Crimson Throne - Foxy Quickpaw

Game Master Foxy Quickpaw

Bloody dolls. He heads over to the trapdoor.

Tisha hides behind the open doorframe watching as Briggi moves near the trapdoor.
Stealth: 1d20 + 12 ⇒ (6) + 12 = 18

Ernhild retrieves the keys, and hands them to Tisha. "Keep them. Must have been the owner of the shop."

"I believe he was killed by some kind of undead. The same that hunted on the corpses we found outside."

Briggi finds out that the trap door leads into a dirt-floored crawl space 3-1/2 feet tall with the same dimensions as the room above. Amid numerous blocks of various types of mundane wood lie four simple but solid coffins. The coffins are open, the bottom filled with dry, gray soil and a pale 'dead' person in the coffin.

Ernhild follows Briggi, and peeks into the room. "There might be our undead, I believe."

Heal: 1d20 + 10 ⇒ (19) + 10 = 29

Knowledge (religion): 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (5) + 6 = 11

Well let's drag them out and pour the holy water.

Briggi starts pulling a coffin towards the others

That crawlspace is under the floor. You'd have to lift the coffins out of there through the hatch to get it towards the others. And they are really heavy with the 'corpse' and the dirt in them. So at least a STR check.

Naricos whispers "Stop! to Briggi as he assess the situation.

K Religion: 1d20 + 5 + 3 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 5 + 3 + 4 = 19
5 ranks +3 trained +4 int
Do I recognize the corpses as undead? What do I know about this kind of undead? In particular, will they wake up if Briggi starts moving coffins?

In a much more mundane question, are there any exits from the crawlspace other than the trapdoor? Is the hole to the alley outside visible, and is it blocked enough to prevent passage?

Briggi stops.

"The corpses are vampire spawn - deadly dangerous. Silver weapons are much better against them. They can suck the life from you, and bend minds to their will. To kill them permanently, you need either sunlight, drowning them in running water, or driving a wooden stake through their heart, decapitating them, and sprinkling the head with holy water... I can't tell you if the individual spawn will wake if they are disturbed, or all four will wake at once... Do we have any wooden stakes?"

We have lots od wood in the shop we can use.

"There's four of us. That means four stakes. We could kill them all at once if we manage to plan this right." Ernhild sets off to find pieces of wood or chair legs that can be crudely fadhioned into makeshift stakes.

Riots, a plague - and now this.

Vampire spawns? In her own city? Really?

Not if she could help it.

Briggi rattling on the coffin and talking without care wakes the one spawn.

"Gaaah! You will pay for that!"

Narciso <--

The rectangle to the right is the crawlspace. For medium creatures this counts as difficult terrain. The connection between the store and that is a short steep stair leading south at the blue square in the middle which is the trapdoor.

Whoopsiedoodle.

@foxy, which Vamp is awake - red, blue, light blue or green?

@Briggi, your the one in the middle of the mess - do you want precision shot at the awake one, or the area affect that will include you, but will hit all of them?

"Get out of the crawlspace Briggi, NOW!

Briggi will oblige

Precise sounds ok

While still hiding, Tisha draws her mithral rapier and readies to charge and attack as soon as she sees something besides her companions pop out of the trap door.

Ready Charge and attack from hidden with her Mithral (so silver and magic) Rapier
Mithral Rapier + charge vs FF: 1d20 + 8 + 2 ⇒ (6) + 8 + 2 = 16
Damage + SA: 1d6 + 1 + 3d6 ⇒ (6) + 1 + (6, 1, 5) = 19

AC 17 for this round because of charge

Narciso steps forward to where he can see the active vampire spawn, and then mutters an arcane phrase, trying to stick the vampire in place...

move - ??? feet, don't know which vamp is active (I am assuming that it is green for the purposes to placing myself on the map).
standard - cast Glue Seal, targeting the active vamp.
Reflex DC 15

Ref DC15: 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23

The vampire is out of the coffin faster than Narciso's spell can take effect. Now Briggi finds himself facing an angered undead.

@Briggi
Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (7) + 4 = 111d4 + 1 ⇒ (2) + 1 = 3
Plus 1 level energy drain on a hit.

Narciso
Vampire Spawn
Briggi, Tisha, Ernhild <--

Briggi tries getting out of the crawlspace before he is swarmed

Climb: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (8) + 5 = 13

The vampire doesn't want to let Briggi go.

@Briggi
AoO Slam: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (18) + 4 = 221d4 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

Thank goodness for upgraded armor