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Message: <blockquote data-quote="firehorse" data-source="post: 3009859" data-attributes="member: 10399">As night fell Valdir, dressed as Havoc, lured Tatiana and her brood into the party's trap.  As the fog started to set in, Savengriff cast a Magic Jar spell and Valdir launched a blunted dagger at him (purposefully aiming at his cloak barely an inch from his body) to cover the fact that his body collapsed into a coma.A swarm of bats appeared the next round as Tatiana's brood and familiar (enchanted with touch spells) went into action.  Savengriff's spell came in handy as one after another he took control of the vampire spawn and made them stand still for the staking they deserved.  Zerash, although assaulted by 4 at once, escaped all harm no matter what the tactic or spell thrown at him.  Naeron was smiling on his cleric this battle.  Using his holy symbol he had two of them cowering in fear within a short time, easily staked by the others.Meanwhile, Valdir used the advantage of the ruse he was pulling on Tatiana to sneak closer until he was close enough to plant 4 holy water filled arrows into her chest.  Unfortunately, Tatiana was not killed in this assault and she immediately froze Valdir in his tracks with a Hold Person spell.  She was just moving to exact her revenge on him when Zerash burst from the fog and made her reconsider the situation.  Moving the bat swarm and turning into a bat herself, she escaped into the fog to try and assualt the party from there.  Unfortunately for her, Savengriff gained control of her body and she was then quickly turned to mist by a well timed spell by Zerash.  Her misty body then fled back to her coffin.  Drack, on the other hand, did not fare so well.  Twice his mind was dominated by vampire spawn and he was stripped nearly naked and his blood drained twice before Zerash appeared to help fend them off.  This proved difficult when Drack, not in control of his own body, first tried to pick up his sword and swing it at Zerash.  Zerash batted the sword away with his spear before it could be brought to bear, so Drack, undetered, grappled with and nearly pinned Zerash.  Zerash was bitten and had his blood drained once before Savengriff just happened to possess the body of the offending spawn, breaking the control it had on Drack.  The spawn were soon thereafter dispatched.Valdir, right after Tatiana's misty remains fled, started tracking them back to where their wagons and coffins were sitting.  Tatiana and one spawn were reconstituting their bodies when Valdir arrived.  Gleefully forming a plan in his mind he tightly bound both coffins and smashed the empty ones.  With the help of the party, he brought the wagons and coffins back to camp to await the coming daylight.  After many hours of happily taunting the vampires, Valdir flung open the coffin lids in the morning light and they were, after bursting into flames, no more...</blockquote>

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