Sangora smirks at the half-orc's attempt to barter. "Oh, I'll take half in gold, and half in blood. Warm orcish blood has quite a kick that a few of my customers find quite invigorating! But your fairy friend has paid my price."

The vampire smiles at Zyllynne as she hands over the gold. "So, your best way to escape the Shadowfell is to find and go through a Crevice of Dusk. It sounds like you were pulled here by an unstable, or temporary, Crevice. What you need is to find a stable one. But residents of both Evernight and Neverwinter dislike these portals being used indiscriminately. Those who know the location of stable Crevices of Dusk either guard or hide them."

Vesta wrinkles her nose at the name of their escape opportunity. "Crevice of Dust? That sounds...pleasant," she says. "Let me guess. You know the location of one of these Crevices but it will cost us, right?" 

The sorceress glances around the shop, horrified and yet curious despite herself at the many ghoulish items on display. She didn't even want to imagine what sort of alchemy might require preserved organs or jars of blood. It would definitely be some sort of necromancy, and she wanted nothing to do with such dark types of magic. 

Sangora tilts her head with a thoughtful look before nodding. "Why yes, I do know the location of a stable Crevice. And yes, that would be another answer that you'll need to buy. What about you, dear? Perhaps you'll trade one of those beautiful fingers for the location?" The vampire licks her lips as she looks longingly at Vesta's lovely appendages.

"I'd prefer to keep all my fingers, thank you," says Vesta. "How much would you take in gold?"

"Oh, another 20 coins would do nicely." When Vesta hands them over, Sangora tells of a stable Crevice of Dusk in a tomb of one of Evernight’s former living families, the Dolindars. She explains that the Dolindar family was exiled to the Shadowfell for reasons they never shared. The family studied wizardry and knew much about planar gates despite being unable to use them - some say because of a family curse. The Dolindar tomb is in a part of Evernight’s graveyard that you haven’t yet seen. Sangora provides true directions to it.

"If you ever find yourself back in the Shadowfell, do stop by for a bite...I mean, a bit! Well, good fortune to you!"

With Sangora's directions, you easily locate the Dolinder tomb. A roof supported by stone pillars extends from the tomb into the weedy yard of uneven earth. The stone door to the tomb is engraved with the word “DOLINDAR” above it. The ground in the portico is swept and free of weeds. As you approach the boundary chains set around the portico, four vampire spawn emerge from the crypt and attack you! (Map!)

Roll initiative =)
Eldon: 20
Spawn: 4

Initiative - 7

Initiative 20 (+2 mod)

Davis Initiative: 12

Vanizi had rolled her eyes a bit as her attempt to settle on a lower price with Sangora had already been undercut.  "I'd have thought my blood would be worth more than that. But I'm keeping it," she had told the vampire. 

(Vanizi Initiative: 13)

Init order:
Zyllynne (20)
Eldon (20)
Vanizi (13)
Davis (12)
Vesta (7)
Vampire spawn (4)

Please post your actions. Need Init from Katarina and Celeste if y'all are still with us =)
Map

Zyl groans with a pout and flutters up 15 feet in the air and takes the dodge action, ready to drop in on the spawn soon if they come for the group. (Since they're clumped up she's staying out of the way in case someone wants to do an AOE effect first!)

Vesta will take advantage of the enemies being clumped up together. She will move toward the front and use her Staff of Power to cast Cone of Cold at the thralls!

33 cold damage

Init order:
Zyllynne flutters up 15 feet in the air and takes the dodge action, ready to drop in on the spawn if they come for the group. 
Eldon again prepares to cure the wounds of any party member who might get injured... 
Vanizi 
Davis 
Vesta takes advantage of the enemies being clumped up together and uses her Staff of Power to cast Cone of Cold at the thralls!
 - DC19 Con Saves: Red (11) : Green (17) : Blue (7) : Yellow (14)
Vampire spawn 

Katarina initiative: 17

(Sorry, I've been sick all week and trying to keep up with the two game I'm DMing)

Vanizi takes a few steps back (10') then moves her Hex to one of the front vampire spawn (yellow).  She then launches two beans of Eldritch Blast at it. 
(Spell Attack: 16; Damage: 6 force) 
(Spell Attack: 20; Damage: 10 force) 
(Hex Damage if one of the above hits: 1 necrotic) 

Davis moves into the room after the deathly cold air goes rushing by, he will move to the north of the blue one, then move onto the red one if blue drops.

13 (nat 1) dmg 24

29 dmg 20 

Round 1:
Zyllynne flutters up 15 feet in the air and takes the dodge action, ready to drop in on the spawn if they come for the group. 
Eldon again prepares to cure the wounds of any party member who might get injured... 
Katarina
Vanizi hexes the yellow spawn and hits it with twin blasts of eldritch energy, although the hex doesn't feel like it takes hold like normal (they are resistant to necrotic damage.)
Davis steps into the chained-off area (it's a patio in front of the above-ground crypt that is swept clean and has a chain running around it) and attacks the blue vampire. 
Vesta takes advantage of the enemies being clumped up together and uses her Staff of Power to cast Cone of Cold at the thralls!
 - DC19 Con Saves: Red (11) : Green (17) : Blue (7) : Yellow (14)
Vampire spawn - All but the blue one that Davis hit with his holy sword seem to regenerate from their wounds! They swarm out of the crypt and attack with claws and fangs.

• Blue tries to grapple the halfling paladin (Grapple attack 1: 16 <> Claw attack if grapple failed: 7 Slashing damage: 17) or Bite if grapple succeeds: 15 Piercing damage: 5 + 6 Necrotic)
• Yellow moves to Vesta and tries to grab her. (Grapple attack 1: 9 <> Claw attack if grapple failed: 18 Slashing damage: 16) or Bite if grapple succeeds: 9 Piercing damage: 6 + 7 Necrotic)
• Green runs out and grabs and Vanizi. (Grapple attack 1: 12 <> Claw attack if grapple failed: 11 Slashing damage: 10) or Bite if grapple succeeds: 17 Piercing damage: 4 + 10 Necrotic)
• Red emerges and double-teams Davis. (Grapple attack 1: 8 <> Claw attack if grapple failed: 10 Slashing damage: 15) or Bite if grapple succeeds: 12 Piercing damage: 7 + 5 Necrotic)
• If the first attack hits, the second attack will be a bite. The necrotic damage from any bite reduces your permanent HP total until you finish a long rest 8-O 

(Please continue to remind me of the different types of damage to make sure I account for resistances, weaknesses, etc. Davis' sword does radiant damage to undead, and for these vampire spawn that's a key thing for me to note!! =)

Round 2!

[Davis is double grappled, but both bites miss!]

Zyl grunts angrily and finally swoops down the flank the blue spawn by Davis and starts swinging with mad fairy noises.

Action: Attack

Attack 1: 20 to hit, 16 magical slashing damage

Attack 2: 16 to hit, 15 magical slashing damage

Vanizi tries to fight back against the vampire spawn trying to grapple her. (Athletics Check: 8) However, she is not successful.  The bite misses.

On her turn, Vanizi uses her Trickster's Escape invocation and escapes the grapple (using 5 ft movement). She then moves another 25 feet back from the creature. 

(OOC - I have also neglected the presence of her familiar from Pact of the Chain.  It could attack by using Vanizi's Bonus Action, but we've not really tracked where it is at. So maybe makes more sense to wait to establish that it is here after the combat. But would use it if allowed.)