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Message: <blockquote data-quote="happyhermit" data-source="post: 6985015" data-attributes="member: 6834463">That's a good hook. If you want you can seed a few rumours or bits of info around town as well about mysterious figures in the night, crawling up buildings or some such. Depending on how close you are sticking to the lore, you might want to address the whole "can only enter a home when invited" thing, but that could also potentially be another aspect of the mystery ie; someone who has permission to enter the house is a vampire at this point or you can simply not follow that lore in your world. Vampire spawn are nasty but someone in the party or town might know of some of the vampire (spawn)'s weaknesses, which could make strategic combat a reasonable proposition. At the very least when confronted with the child's injuries you probably want let the players know (through a party member's knowledge or an NPC) that the wound is likely from X creature, and that X creature is likely to do Y (Y being what you think is likely ie; coming back at night). You also probably want to give the PCs an idea of just how powerful creature X is, particularly with a "out of their league" threat, so they know they will need to be particularly strategic to overcome them.This is assuming I have grasped the intent of the encounter, that Vampires are not an unheard of thing in the world, and that "knowledge" of them exists at least in myths and stories.</blockquote>