Polkitain winced in pain at the howling and screaming. His little rat ears flattening back. He blinked at the bright flare letting his eyes adjust.

Poking his head out through the hole he gnawed he looks to Lucas, "Stake please."
He looks to Lucas belt since Lucas seems busy.

Na-Wa rushed to one of the opening coffins. As soon as it opens up Na-Wa uses one hand to grasp the neck of the bloodsucker with and with the other stabs the blodd sucker in the chest with one of his wooden knifes.

OOC: i believe there should be some stakes i just made on top of the nearest coffin lid. if that lid is opening, then they are likely falling to the ground, perhaps between the coffins?

Polkitain feels a stake bounce off his head and a few others rolling down.

He grabs one in his paws and slips back in the coffin.

"Be back."

Polk turns into a child in order to best use the stake and try to stake the vampire in the coffin.



06:35, Today: Polkitain rolled 9 using 1d20+3.  Staking attempt.
06:36, Today: Polkitain rolled 8 using 1d6+6.  Stake damage.

Initiatives
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Polkatain 20
Nyx 17
Na-Wa 15
thing in the coffin 13
Lucas 9

Polkatain procures a wooden stake. He drags it into the coffin and transforms. He finds the roomy coffin to in practice be very cramped with a wildly trashing adult vampire already inside.


Willing a wooden stake into his hand, Nyx pounces on another vampire. Half-asleep red eyes blink up at the Psi-Slinger. Nyx stabs the monster under its ribs and directly in its pump. The vampire's head thuds back into a prone position. It didn't even get a chance to scream.

Na-Wa catches a surprised vampire by its throat. The female stares up at him with glowing wide eyes. The Psi-Stalker makes a quick downward stab at the monster. His stake deflects off her breast bone and punctures a lung instead of a heart. Does Na-Wa have any damage bonuses from strength or assassin training or anything like that? If not, then she's only taking 3 points of damage.

The vampire in the coffin with Polkatain trashes wildly. He doesn't injure the dragon nor free himself from Lucas' trap, but he does kick out the side of the coffin nearest his feet. The coffin is disintegrating underneath Lucas.

A fourth vampire peeks its head out from its coffin. The last vampire is bald and seemingly male. It's a little shorter than the others but the way that its eyes glow red in the dark give it away.

Polk seeing the coffins had no bottoms smiled and his eyes sparkled.

Polk was right ! "It is like shell game ! With vampires hiding under coffins."

Polk kept trying to stake the vampire knowing Lucas was counting on him.


07:13, Today: Polkitain rolled 15 using 1d20+3.  Staking attempt.
I guess this would be a called shot to heart.
07:14, Today: Polkitain rolled 10 using 1d6+6.  Stake damage.

"Sneaky leeches", cursed the elf even as he tried to contain the next vampire with his disembodied hand

20:48, Today: Nyx rolled 17 using 1d20+4.  Strike to Pin/Entangle?

Na-Wa pulls the wood knife out f the female bloodsucker and tries to stab it in the heart.

Initiatives
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Polkatain 20
Nyx 17
Na-Wa 15
thing in the coffin 13
Lucas 9

As the battle heats up, actual smoke pours out of the disentigrating coffin. Smoke fills the nostrils of Lucas as he efforts to contain the fiend turn more into an attempt to hang on than controlling anything.

Polkatain sees an opening when the vampire twists away. In the form of a child, Polkatain stabs the monster in its back. The wooden stake pierces the target's heart. The vampire turns to dust and bones before the dragon's eyes. The bucking of the coffin underneath Lucas suddenly stops.

Nyx, still stradling the body of one vampire, sends an ectoplasmic hand towards the only vampire not currently wrestling anyone. Although the fiend looks half-asleep, it still brushes off the disembodied hand as if it were nothing. The unnatural strength of the vampire is just in an entirely different scale than the strength of the ectoplasmic limb.

Na-Wa sees the vampiress reach up to grab his forearm. She could easily toss him off, but the Psi-Stalker is a little bit quicker and a lot bit luckier. His second stab finds it mark and pierces her heart with the wooden stake.

The fourth and final vampire is the only one remaining unstaked now. The creature sits fully up in his coffin and yawns loudly. The hairless creature is tall a lean and wearing a set of silk pajamas with black dirt falling off of them. This vampire must have been a Psi-Stalker itself before it was transformed.

"Yes, go back to sleep. Things are ok Lucas."

Polk tries to crawl out through the hole kicked out by the vampire.
His thoughts then again reached out he needed to find the other dragon.

“Just die already, leech”, cursed Nyx as he summoned his revolvers to his hands and fired with them both, overloud in the cellar

16:34, Today: Nyx rolled 9 using 1d20+4.  Attack with Pistol.
16:34, Today: Nyx rolled 21 using 1d20+4.  Attack with Pistol.

16:35, Today: Nyx rolled 22 using 5d6+6.  Damage. => Doubled to 44

Seeing the vampire's leg turn to ash and the lid stop bucking under him, Lucas relaxed his grip and stepped away. He quickly grabbed one of the stakes from the ground before slowly approaching the last coffin. Wary of the awakened monster before them, he let Nyx fire from a distance rather than get in the way by rushing in. Instead, he prepared to defend himself or those near him should the vampire attack.

Hearing Whon-Ecke's warning Na-Wa repeats it to his new friends. "Whon-Ecke says bald bloodsucker is the Master!!!!" Ignoring the bald blood sucker Na-Wa draws his CP-30 pulse pistol and fires at the closed door.

19:33, Today: Na-Wa rolled 20 using 1d20.  Shoot door +3.
Nat 20 (20 MDC)

OOC: Sorry guys if I knew I was gonna get a Nat 20 I'd have thrown a stake at the Vamp's heart......

Initiatives
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Polkatain 20
Nyx 17
Na-Wa 15
thing in the coffin 13
Lucas 9

The basement erupts with the sounds of gunfire from multiple sources painfully echoing off the walls. The little boy ears of Polkatain handle the noise slightly better than his other forms, but it still hurts.

Nyx lights up the dimness with muscle flash from his pistols. Both bullets tear into the remaining vampire. 44 points of damage

Na-Wa pulls out his own pistol and aims it for the door behind the vampire.

The vampire opens his fang-filled mouth to being monologuing. Before he forms his first word, the door behind him explodes from Na-Wa's assault. Wooden splinters spray everyone.

In the aftermath of the havoc, Lucas takes a step back and holds his cudgel in front of him in a defensive stance.

The fiend glares more angrily at the chaulkers this time. Large red stains are forming in parts of his pajamas from his wounds. A burst of flame appears out of the vampire's face and expands as it flies across the room towards the Psi-Slinger. Nyx, you are being targetted. Dodge or getting hit by a fireball.

Thus ends this melee round. Everybody gets to fight again in the next post.

18:45, Today: Nyx rolled 12 using 1do20+2. Dodge.

If the second shot hits as well, here’s the damage. Again doubled to 28
18:44, Today: Nyx rolled 14 using 5d6.  Damage.

Polk winces a bit and gathers another of the stakes from the ground.
He stays behind the coffin muttering in dragonese and slowly fading from view.



Casting simple invisibility and trying to moved around behind the bald vampire.

Na-Wa runs past the door he just blew away, looking for Whon-Ecke in the room beyond.

12:20, Today: Na-Wa rolled 14 using 1d20.  Dodge +4.
Unat 18 (jsut in case I am attacked)

Throwing out a curse at all spellcasting monsters, Lucas rushed forward. He raised his club and stake, and tried to keep the vampire as occupied as possible to keep it from casting anything too dangerous. Given the circumstances, his experience told him a quick kill was definitely the best approach with such a foe.

With both pistols still in his hands, Nyx shrugged off whatever flash damage the fireball may have caused and followed Lucas to close the range with the malevolent fiend!

Polkatain vanishes from the sight of his teammates.

Haivng himbly avoided the fireball, Nyx steps forward into even closer range. He fires off two more shots at the same time. One shot definitely hits as the monster flinches from the impact, but Nyx things that the other bullet went into the wall behind him.

Lucas feels a plink. The stray bullet bounced off the wall and then clipped him. It's energy mostly spent, the projectile harmlessly plinks against the shoulder of his armor.

Na-Wa bursts into the next room. His perceptive nose is assaulted with grim horror even before his eyes. He's standing in some sort of workshop or dungeon. A frail figure, an older man, is chained to a wall in here, his body covered with wounds. Magic leaks from these wounds like oozing blood. The familiar shape of Won-Ecke glints to Na-Wa in the flashing light of the firefight. The sword is buried blade-first into the stomach of the captive, pinning him to the wall.

With a flick of his wrist, the vampire sends out another gout flash burst of fire, this one in the direction of Lucas. The ranger is able to twist out of the way of the fireball. The fireball instead hits the staircase, reducing a large portion of it to cinders and ash.

Now that Nyx sees the fireball more clearly, he recognizes that this is definitely an application of pyrokinesis. It's expensive, but the Psi-Slinger has seen other psychics do this before.

Lucas follows this attack with an attack of his own. He swings his cudgel in a downward arc, targeting the bald head of the vampire. The vampire blocks the blow with his forearm. hears an oily voice inside of his head. It says to him, secret line.

Na-Wa moves over to the magic man pinned to the wall by Whon-Ecke. As he get ready to pull Whon-Ecke from the man and wall. "Sorry Old Magic Man, but Na-Wa needs Whon-ecke to kill the Bald Bloodsucker."

20:08, Today: Na-Wa rolled 10 using 1d20.  init +2.
Unat 12

20:09, Today: Na-Wa rolled 5 using 1d20.  Dodge +4.
unat 9 (this is in case Na-Wa has to evade anything)

Polk lines up the stake with where the vsmpires heart should be from behind focusing on the strike he puts his draconic strength behind it to drive it into the vampire.

02:14, Today: Polkitain rolled 6 using 1d20+3.  Stake. attempt.02:18, Today: Polkitain rolled 19 using 2d6+2d6+2.  Stake damage.
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Lucas continued his assault, now a little worried at the strength of the monster before them.

With the others closing on the vampire, Nyx reached out with a mental 'hand' and stole of the stakes to thrust into the beast

10:44, Today: Nyx rolled 18 using 1d20+4.  Telekinetic Attack.