"Don't have time to explain. Vargouille. Don't let it bite you."
Juriya, with the pre-loaded croosbow, fires at the creature, scared for her frail life... as usual, it misses.
"s%!% s~*@ s#*& s*#~"
Donimah stiffens at Juriya's warning, and her mind races as she loads her crossbow, thinking on what she might have read about vargouilles.
"More importantly, don't let it kiss you," Donimah says to the others.
Donimah remembers that these creatures are fairly easy to hit with no special resistances. It is not particularly good in resisting attacks on its mind . Upon kissing a helpless target, a 1-time Fort save prevents a slow death and transformation of the victim into another Vargouille. This usually takes up to a day. It can be delayed with sunlight and it can be stopped with powerful (for you at least) magic.
It also administers poison on its bite attack which makes it harder to heal damage from its bite.
It can also shriek which can make all around it to become paralyzed and thus, susceptible to its kiss.
"They try to paralyze you with their shriek, and then kiss you," she explains. "If you don't resist the curse that inflicts, you die as your head detaches and becomes another vargouille! Sunlight can keep the curse from advancing, but ultimately it's fatal unless you have access to powerful magic...the kind we likely couldn't find in Sandpoint. Fortunately, their wills aren't strong and they don't have any immunities or protections that would render our weapons inefficient. We just have to take it down before it can shriek at us, and keep it away from our damn mouths. And like Juriya said, don't let it bite you either, it's got venom that makes wounds harder to heal."
Arrian moves in to strike at the monster:
But misses by a mile.
Ano makes a flying leap to skewer the vargouille.