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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rhenny" data-source="post: 7318842" data-attributes="member: 18333">Session 34 – Doru (another short session)Brigby was able to convince Donovitch that we needed to release Doru from his torment as a vampire, but Donovitch could not watch.  He went off into the other room as we waited by the door that led down into the basement.I sang my bladesong and pulled the door up, expecting the fiend to burst from the basement.  There was no such attack, but we could hear some faint whimpering somewhere in the basement.  Fid took the lead and climbed down the stone stairway into darkness, a profound darkness.  Brigby lit a torch and followed.  I, in turn, followed Brigby and Syvrina and Bynn followed close behind.  At the bottom of the stairs we moved cautiously toward the center of the cellar.  There were no windows, and support columns every 10’ or so made it difficult to see.  As we scanned the room, Doru lunged toward Fid from the northwest corner of the room.  As soon as the fight began, we shouted up to Donovitch, “shut us down here!  Close the door!”  Bynn heard the door close and we shifted our weapons to take on this tormented undead creature.Doru was able to connect with Fid, with one of his claws, but he could not wound the fighter when he tried to bite.  Fid pulled out his cursed blade and swung at Doru with four vicious attacks (action surge) scoring a number of deep wounds.  Then Syvrina slashed at the vampire and cut it, but not as badly as she would have liked.  Doru seemed to heal from the wounds he received and then he lunged at Fid again.  This time, he bit the Dwarf and grappled him.  Fid could feel his life essence drain away as the vampire feasted on his blood.  Brigby bashed Doru with his torch, but that caused the torch to go out so we were cast into pure blackness.  Lucky for us, Bynn evoked a moonbeam that shined down upon the vampire searing it with radiant light.  That gave me a chance to position myself behind the vampire where I harried and distracted him so that Syvrina could gain advantage.  She stabled the creature, but it was still fastened on to Fid.  Brigby tried to smash the vampire with his Morningstar, but didn’t connect, but Bynn maintained the moonbeam.  Fid, unable to break free, was drained of more life.  Then, I ignited my Greenflame blade and stabbed Doru a few times over the next few moments.  Fid broke free from the vampire’s clutches to deliver a few more devastating blows with his glowing, cursed blade.  With the moonbeam still searing the wailing Doru, Syvrina scored a few more hits and one last angry huff took Doru down.Not sure how to kill a vampire, Bynn kept his moonbeam on the body for the duration of his spell as Fid chopped off its head.  The body of the vampire withered under the radiant light and eventually turned to ash.  All was quiet.We killed our first vampire, and we were lucky that Fid’s sword didn’t possess him and cause him to lash out at one of us like he did when we fought the hags.</blockquote>

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