OOC: House Millithor in COSQ part 4

[Endur]

Vampires Are Us:

Day 3: Torellan converts 2 volunteers (if they are both high enough level to become vampires) and 2 "volunteers" (Dominated Thugs). Conversions occur without incident.

Day 4: Warrior Volunteer and two Thugs rise from the grave. Torellan orders the warrior volunteer and the two thugs to drink the blood of the other thug and five more warriors. The six are conscripted without incident.

Day 5: Two Warriors rise from the grave. Suspicians over the missing patrol are running rampant in the garrison. Torellan and his five risen minions successfully dominate the remainder of the garrison. One of the thugs is forced into gaseous form when somebody in the Commoner level dumps a pot of green slime over his body. General Revolt in the Commoner level. Two Vampiric Warriors destroyed.

Day 7: Commoner Volunteer, Third Thug, 3 Warriors rise from the grave. Drain the blood of ten more warriors. Edwin arrives, followed closely by a gargoyle and a pack of heroes.

Current Status of the Garrison
Three Thug Vampires
Commoner Vampire Spawn
Four Warrior Vampires

Ten Warriors transforming into undead (d4 days)

Two warriors slain; eleven other garrison members are dominated

 

[Serpenteye]

FYI: You are certain that Edwin's tattoo initiated the transfer. The way the spell works, is that Edwin can trade places with any arcane caster willing to travel here. It just so happens that there is an arcane gargoyle-type creature willing to visit the drow and sell them information.

With regards to waiting around, I'm not assuming that the Matron waited very long. Its just that the party of drow only had a few minutes lead on the hasted heroes. While Edwin was talking to you, the heroes were already setting the web on fire. You thought you had time; perfectly normal assumption, just based on facts that weren't true.

With regards to the armed forces in the axe-bane time frame, you have the full garrison I mentioned previously. Minus the two vampires that were destroyed by the black pudding and never recovered.

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Are the forces in the Noble Level, or are they all asleep in their beds in the garrison? I sounded a general alert, but maybe the message never reached them. Who knows what kind of supernatural horror could have eaten all my messengers?

 

[Serpenteye]

Vampires Are Us:

Current Status of the Garrison
Three Thug Vampires
Commoner Vampire Spawn
Four Warrior Vampires

Ten Warriors transforming into undead (d4 days)

Two warriors slain; eleven other garrison members are dominated

The conversions of the garrison would have continued under day 5, 6 and 7. (As would the conversion of any Cult-leaders we managed to apprehend) We had 45 members of the garrison before the conversions, those who are not vampires or undergoing conversion are dominated.

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On the topic of vampires, I was surprised that the Black Pudding could permanently kill the two vampires and successfully digest their gaseous forms. What kind of attacks can affect a vampire in gaseous form?

 

[Endur]

All the current members of the garrison (and vampires) are on the noble level.

 

[Endur]

I was presuming 1 vampire does two conversions, except for Torellan who did 4. If you wish to change the ratio, please feel free.

 

[Serpenteye]

I was presuming 1 vampire does two conversions, except for Torellan who did 4. If you wish to change the ratio, please feel free.

No, no. The ratio is perfectly fine.

 

[Endur]

EVIL NPCs

A couple quick comments on evil NPCs.

Most of them are incredibly arrogant and tend to offend people, and are rude and greedy and suffer many other bad habits. errr, they are EVIL.

Lying, treacherous scum that hate you. You get the picture.

However, just because they are evil, does not mean they are not on your side.

HARRY POTTER MOVIE SPOILERS UP AHEAD

Spoiler

Imagine Professor Snape from the Harry Potter movies. Harry hates Professor Snape (and vice versa). But, Professor Snape is actually on Harry's side. Just so, these lying traitorous scum may actually be telling you the truth because you are on their side.

 

[Endur]

FYI: The Matron shocked me when she let my gargoyle live.

I was certain my gargoyle was dead. Even my gargoyle thought he was going to die.

 

[Serpenteye]

FYI: The Matron shocked me when she let my gargoyle live.

I was certain my gargoyle was dead. Even my gargoyle thought he was going to die.

I was pretty sure that wasting another second in the throne room would have been fatal to us. Killing the gargoyle was a luxury we could not afford, and we had nothing to gain by doing so.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

err, umm... sorry I've gone the last few days... see, I tend to check this thread at work, and last time I checked it was shortly after Endur had posted the new threads. Well, I thought I had taken the time to subscribe to them, thus I would get an email when something happens. Well, I wasn't subscribed. *sheepish grin*

Fortunately, Endur (and the rest of you, I imagine) can pretty much guess what Zieggrek does. Just point me in the nearest direction of something to kill and I'm happy.