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Message: <blockquote data-quote="der_kluge" data-source="post: 1379704" data-attributes="member: 945">All right, I've figured it out.The party is currently at this dwarven stronghold.  Back at the Nymph's grove, the avatar communes, and the nymph and the rogue just kind of hang out.Valgo, the former party leader who got separated from the party is currently a vampire.  The avatar is in a hallow'd space that he augmented (through godly magic) with a nondetection.  So, he is unlocatable.  However, Valgo, through magic *would* be able to find his old companions, even though he would have believed them for dead a long time ago.  So, he scries and figures out that the party is in this cave, but the rogue is in the middle of the forest somewhere - curious.So, he and other vampires sneak into the forest area and find the avatar.   They ambush the place, kill the rogue and the nymph and kidnap the avatar.  These vampires are all high-level wizards to boot.  To cover their trail, they find some dead slaad (not hard to do since they're crawling all over the continent) and leave them here as a decoy.PCs come back to the grove after a good bout of dungeon-delving, only to find:A pile of smouldering slaad bodies, and no avatar, and no nymph, and no rogue.While looking over the area, the rogue (now a vampire) comes out and says, "I'm so glad you guys came back!  It was horrible - slaad came from out of nowhere, and there was a huge battle.  They kidnapped the nymph and the avatar.  I stayed hidden (she is a rogue after all) and they didn't find me, thank god.  I overheard them say that they were going to sacrifice the avatar for some ritual!"So, cleric communes the location of the avatar or of the nymph, and the party goes - straight into a trap.  Even better, the rogue tells them that she's coming with them, because she no longer feels safe in the woods all alone any more.  So, not only will they be headed into a trap, I have a rogue vampire in the party with them that will double-cross them at just the right opportunity.  I also have a vampire nymph which I can use as bait at some point as well.MUAHAHAHAH!Now the question - what kind of trap should I use?</blockquote>

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