"Yeah, it's safe, all the vampires are dead.  Except me." a voice at the bottom of the stairs says.

"And me.  Not so safe after all huh?"said another voice from the same vicinity.

Annabelle, Merry, and Graham look to see two vampires at the bottom of the stairway. Not Turok-Hans, regular vampires, if there is such a thing.

And they are both coming closer.

OCC: Two vampires about to head up the stairway.  Graham is closest to them, followed  by Annabelle, then Merry.  To the combat thread for your three. Graham has initiative (pardon the pun) and gets to attack first. Mike and Daniel can't join the fight yet because they are outside and unaware of the vampires.
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Without blinking, Graham puts himself between the hostiles and the civilians. His right hand drops down toward a pocket on his thigh, palming the combat knife in there.  "How did you get in here?" he asks. "None of us invited you in."

Situating himself at the top of the stairs, he hopes to contain the vamps to a one person kill zone that should give the ladies behind him a chance to run.  Figuring he shouldn't count on Annabelle for help (Merry and her sword were still unknown quantities) he slashed at the first vampire and missed.  "We thought we needed an invite to come in too, guess whoever owns this house is dead huh?" the first vamp then said. Graham also tries parry attacks from both of the vamps and fails as the first vampire nails him with a punch to the jaw. The second one is blocked by his pal at the moment and a couple of stair steps behind.

"Honestly...they're just soul-less undead monsters; I've had lawyers who were far less reasonable.  But no one ever tries diplomacy, do they..."  Rolling her eyes, Merry followed behind Graham, and used him as a human shield before stepping out and underneath him in a slashing lunge towards the first vampire up the stairs' gut, slashing it open.  The creature howls in pain.  "Aaarrrggghhhhh!!!!  I'll kill you for that b****!!!!!!" he screams at Merry.

Annabelle springs into action at the sight of the vampires.  Literally springs, as she steps up over Graham's shoulder from her higher postion on the stairway.
"Have at this you soulless undead monsters..........wait a bloody minute, Merry how do know so much about vampires?!"  Annabelle shouts in mid leap.
as she clears Graham and mounts a flying tackle on the second vampire. The monster barely dodged out of the way as Annabelle sailed past him.  Deciding to go after the easy blood, he waits to see where Annbelle will land and leaves the other two to his partner.

Meanwhile outside, Daniel and Mike both hear the noise of a fight going on inside.

OCC: 9 point of damage to Graham (I added +2 for the multi attacker bonus, but still not enough).  He and Merry have vamp #1 coming at them, and he's focused on Merry. Annabelle won't be any help, she's too busy tumbling down the stairs and needs to roll to land just right. Second vamp slowly coming down the stairs, waiting for her to land and not coming at you two. Mike and Daniel can rush in and will be close enough to gang up on vamp #2 if they want.

Reeling more from the news that the Vamps had entered because the owner, Buffy, was dead rather than from the vamps blow, Graham rocked back for a second. Shaking himself, he tried to focus on the fight, lashing out at the vamp hoping to connect and just missing this time as the vampire barely manages to evade them.

"The same way I know about Warlocks, Demons, Slayers and the proper dress for a debutante ball my dear; experience!"  The look on Merry's face was a distinct 'how could you even ask such an obvious question?' expression.  She momentarily diverted her attention back to the vampire she was double-teaming with Graham and whipped her saber through a short, brutal arc, that widened the cut she'd already made in the vamp. The undead screamed in pain again and launched a kick a Merry that missed by a mile.  "I don't suppose you'd mind staking the bloody miscreant, would you?  I'm not nicking my sword on those cheap designer imposter clothes of his..." At this point the vampire began to back away in fear of Merry who was the must dangerous enemey he'd ever faced.


"Oh crumbs, this is going to hurt."Annabelle said, trying to perform like her watcher taught her when you take a fall, but already guessing she was unlikely to nail it just right.  She caught what Merry said on the way down.  Well, at least I won't have to spend twenty minutes explaining to her what a Slayer is"she thought as she tumbled not very gracefully down half a flight of stairs, finally landing at the bottom.

The second vampire slowly descended the stairs, looking at Annabelle lying helpless on the floor. He never makes it to her, because just then.......

Mike, on the other hand, sped through the door, and up behind vamp #2.
He launched two quick punches that both slammed into the creature with bonecrushing force, followed by an attempted stake through the heart. His reckless attack left him open...if his opponent can survive his ruthless triple assault.

Something smelled funny and not in just the metaphorical sense.  Rushing inside stake still drawn he'd happen upon the sight of vampire.  One who looked far less cavemanish than the last few they'd gone through.  Using Michael's flurry as an area of opportunity the young man would help out in the assault by crouching down and nailing a kick to sweep the vampire off his feet after Mike's first two punches landed.  Using the situation to follow up and try and stake him.  That was of course if Michael's stake didn't dust him first, which it then did just after Daniel's kick left the vampire on his back. Michael's stake impacted with a crunching as the creature exploded to dust.

Upstairs, the first vampire decided discrestion was the better part of valor and started heading down the stairs in a retreat.  And was just in time to see two bad ass looking guys dust his partner.  Vamp 1 stopped halfway down the stairs and held up his hands in surrender.  "Hold on now!  We can talk about this!!  Don't let the stake finger get itchy!!"

OCC: 6 points of damage to Annabelle for her less than graceful stair descent.  One wounded vampire left halfway down the stairs and surrounded by two of you on each side.