Good!Party: Vacating the Vampire Villa

We continue our venture to the bottom of the house that the vampires built. We’ve cleared out the top two floors, including the vampire who’d been using Magic Jar to annoy us.

Tavros leads the way down the stairs, and we’re off and running again.

He descends into some sort of training area/barracks. On the far and of the room are four vampires standing by a door. The sorcerers immediately shoot Tavros, then retreat through the door. The fighters follow, and then close the door. Tavros takes strength damage.

He crosses the room and opens the door, leaving the handle in the hands of the two vampire fighters. He sets the door aside. Leira uses Sunburst on the room beyond, killing four out of six vampires and six thralls (Leira knows nothing about this, though). Geddy moves up to where he can see into the next room. He thinks Leira got all the vampires, so he drops a mass cure light wounds and burns the two vampires.

Eva moves behind Uncle Geddy, looking into the… seneschal’s office, maybe? There’s a door to another room beyond. She tosses a fireball into the office, and then moves to cover the stairs. The fighter in front of Tavros attacks him, but misses. The sorceress fires a lightning bolt, damaging us a bit.

The door to the lord’s study opens, and three more vampires move into the room. An archer fires at Tavros, and misses; the other one fires a multishot at Leira. Leira goes down again. A second sorcerer steps into the room and cast ennervation at Tavros, draining him. He follows it up witch scorching ray. Tavros cuts down the fighter next to him, then steps towards the vampires.

Geddy cast Cure Moderate Wounds on the entire crowd, healing us and damaging the vampires. Eva moves in front of Geddy and casts Glitterdust. The archers are blinded. The remaining sorcerer gives up on trying to disable Tavros, and instead tries to fry him with Rays of Enfeeblement, but misses.

The two archers turn into mist and retreat through the doorway… The big fighter who was holding the door moves in, flanks Tavros, and takes a shot at him. He connects once, but misses with the next two. The newer sorcerer fires off Chain Lightning, zapping Tavros and then chaining out to everybody else. Leira goes back down. The sorcerer tries a scorching ray at Tavros, but misses; the lesser sorcerer tries a Ray of exhaustion on Tavros but fails.

Tavros hits the greater sorcerer but causes a batch of Mirror Images to spring into being; he then turns to the lesser sorcerer and reduces him to mist; he turns again and tags the fighter, who definitely feels it.

Geddy heals Leira and gets her back to consciousness. Eva adds more healing for Leira. The vampires in mist form are heading towards the stairs. The fighter shifts so that he’s flanking with the big sorcerer, and hits Tavros for a bit of damage. The sorcerer adds Chain Lightning to the mix. Tavros is staggered, but he turns on the fighter and hits him again, then gets his sword wedged firmly in the ceiling. Leira drops Sunburst again, and annihilates everyone on this floor.

Eva casts Greater Invisibility on herself and then takes a peek downstairs. There appear to be two fighters and two sorcerers readying actions on the floor, just like they did before. In the dining room beyond she sees two more fighters and two more sorcerers waiting, along with a couple of swarms of vampire spawn. There’s also one more door off the stair area; it’s closed.

Eva comes up and tells us what she saw. We decide to go with Greater Invisibility, and try to sneak down… they hear us coming and throw a couple of fireballs at our end of the room, then duck back out through the door.

We’re immune to Fireballs, so Leira teleports herself and Eva into the next room and lays down another Subursts, taking out two fighters and three of the four sorcerers. Geddy uses a power chord on the electric lute to smash through the door. He moves to position himself. Eva casts Fireball, damaging the vampires a bit but failing to get through spell resistance for the swarms. The fighters move over and try to attack the source of the Sunburst; the first one misses,and gets his sword stuck in the ceiling; the second one manages to connect with Leira. The sorcerer tries Scorching Ray at Leira, hitting her once.

Leira drops another Sunburst. The fighter with his sword stuck in the ceiling dies, the second fighter take damage, and the sorcerer dies; the swarms take damage. Leira adds a couple of quickened Scorching Rays, and the fighter goes down. Leira walks out the door.

The swarms turn, making ready to swarm the area where Leira was. Eva is the only one still there. Geddy fires off another blast of music, and shatters the swarms.

Tavros goes down two floors, leading the way to the first floor. He opens a door and finds a kitchen; there’s a door for probably a larder, and a door that looks like it goes outside. Eva comes down the stairs and opens the other door, revealing an entry hall. Some mist comes out of the crates in the kitchen and form into four vampires in front of Tavros.

Leira moves downstairs, and drops a Sunburst on Tavros. Two fighters die, and one mage; only a single mage remains. Tavros smiles, showing a dragon’s mouth full of teeth.

Geddy fires off a power chord, tagging the vampire sorcerer. Tavros finishes him and moves to the back door. Eva moves into the kitchen and tries the door to the larder; Leira walks out the back door to go lay down in the sunlight. Getty shatters the larder door; this sets off a Power Word Stun trap, which fails to get past Eva’s spell resistance.

Leira opens the back door and sets off a symbol of pain, which affects her but not Tavros. Eva goes to open the front door, blithely ignoring the symbol of pain that she triggers. There’s one more room off the entryway, and she can hear sucking sounds from in there.

We gather around, and Eva opens the door. The sorcerers try Ray of Enfeeblement, which doesn’t work; the fighters move over to swing at the area just outside the door. They miss.

Leira stirs from her place on the grass and walks across the tower to use her last Sunburst on the room. Three of the four fighters die immediately; ditto sorcerers. Geddy steps into the doorway with Eva, and hits them with a power chord. Eva finishes the fighter with a Magic Missile. The sorcerer tries Fireballing the entryway, to no effect whatsoever. Leira finishes him with Scorching Ray, and goes outside to pout while we search the place.

We toss the coffins out and set them on fire.

We find a case of Cure Moderate Wounds potions (24 of them). In the kitchen larder there’s a secret passageway out to the barn in the courtyard. 500 pp, too. On level 2 the dining room has no magic, but there’s money and gems all over the floor; we take the time to collect it. Geddy checks the last remaining door, and finds a magical trap; he fails to dispel it, sets it off, and dies.

Inside there is a small chest with 2,000 PP and gems worth another 50,000 GP, plus another 30,000 in miscellaneous coins on the floor. There’s a manikin on the side has a +5 vest of saves and +6 cloak of charisma. Lastly, there’s a small box that holds two +5 rings of protection that can be used to shield other and get basic information about each other. Upstairs in the training areas, we find about 20,000 GP worth of magic weapons.

In the lord’s study, there’s a table with a pair of twins holding each other in fear and dismay. Tavros announces their freedom, puts them in some clothing, and turns them loose. We pick up more treasure here, about another $70,000 GP worth. Finally, an ornate box holds a ring of telekinesis.