Pizazz's Ravenloft and Beyond

As soon as Mordekai takes the first damage, he'll use his Misty Escape to teleport to the other side of the room, where he remains invisible until his turn. (Mordekai smugly thinks to himself that it's not just Strahd who can pull tricky disappearing acts)

He'll fire off two Eldritch Blasts at the one he transferred Hex onto (unless Rahadin is still alive and he can't?)

Attack: 23 Damage: 15

Attack: 13 Damage: 13

(Question: Mordekai still had 6 temp hp, which are lost first. His max hp was then reduced by 18, so he technically has 40/34hp but none are temp hp. So does that actually reduce him to 34/34?)

(Re: Hex, you can't seem to transfer it.  Rahadin must still be alive.  Re temp hp's.  um.... I think you are correct...which is harsh, but....you're invisible and hiding now, you'll be FINE....oh wait, you promptly become visible as you fire your eldritch blasts......but...your friends are here, you'll still be FINE...) :) 

(Oh, never mind, max hp reduced just by the necrotic damage. So I'm actually at 40/41hp, not 40/34.)

"Let's lighten that party up." Lionel steps forward, so that now the ladies could bath in the sunlight (can he be in 15ft from them?) and tries again:

Hold Vampires. As an action, you can expend 1 charge and present the holy symbol to make it flare with holy power. Vampires and vampire spawn within 30 feet of the holy symbol when it flares must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a target is paralyzed for 1 minute. It can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns to end the effect on itself.

     Appearing in the room, ketch is momentarily discombobulated but shakes it off quickly upon seeing the lady vampires.  Vlampires?  Ketch reaches for his holy symbol to try to turn these evil ladies of the night, but switches tactics upon seeing Lionel already attempting a similar tactic.

     Growling, ketch instead grabs the Thighbone of Theology (as he thinks of it, anyway) and swings at the first he reaches.

Attack: 18 Damage: 6

     As a bonus action, Ketch swing again by tapping into his dedication as a War Priest...
Attack: 26 Damage: 12

     Each hit gives an extra radiant damage upon the undead (or fiends): [toll]2d6[/roll] and 8

((If the target has 25 hit points or fewer after taking this damage, it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be destroyed. On a successful save, the creature becomes frightened of you until the end of your next turn.))

2  since I typoed above

((Not similar - Lionel can not turn vampires, only stun if he gets lucky))

     ((It appears similar enough for Ketch to assume it’s the same...  besides, if they’re held they cannot turn and flee anyway. ))

The group lays into the women who....aside from their garrish rotting filth covered dresses....and pale, undead flesh...and their now blood smeared mouths filled with fangs....oh...and the razor sharp claws at the end of their hands....aside from ALL THAT seem like perfectly nice ladies whom you should have a conversation with.  Instead, the group tries to murder the poor things.

As the light from Lionel's blade fills the space, their flesh immediately begins to sizzle and char and they all scream in pain.  Then Lionel steps forward with the holy symbol of Ravenkind.  A pulse of energy ripples out like a hazy wave from the symbol, crashing against the three women.  14  7   7 

Then Ketch leaps at the nearest one, the thighbone coming smashing down on the head of one of them. 

Mordekai's blasts flying past them all and slamming into one of them.  Ulthan seems slow to join the battle and is no where to be seen yet.

One of the women is thoroughly stunned, another battered by Ketch's thighbone.... another blasted by Mordekai, but the two that aren't stunned advance, leaping at Ketch and Lionel. 

Ketch : Attack: 10 Damage: 9.  Attack: 9 Damage: 11

Lionel : Attack: 11 Damage: 9.  Attack: 15 Damage: 8

Meepo, last round of your bubble (unless you choose to drop it). 

Everyone take your actions.  

Mordekai backs away to increase the distance between himself and the women, and fires two more Blasts at the one he just hit. 

Attack: 10 Damage: 9

Attack: 24 Damage: 11

Meepo drops his bubble and sends a ray of frost at one of the unfrozen bampires...

Attack: 17 Damage: 8 Then his three skeletons send arrows at the two unfrozen vampires, targetting the one Meepo shot first, then moving to the other if that one goes down...
Attack: 21 Damage: 6
Attack: 16 Damage: 9
Attack: 9 Damage: 9

     Ketch takes a jump to the left. Then a step to the right.  With his hands on his hips, Ketch dances around the attacks of the vile vampires and her back up vamps.

     "You ain't no pale elf..." Ketch snarled in amusement, bringing the thighbone to bear upon the nearest Strahd-ette.  Then again, tapping into his reserves and War Priest tactics...

First Thighbone Attack: 23 Damage: 4

Second Thighbone Attack: 22 Damage: 4

(I assume the advantage was just the one turn...)

     ((Forgot the radiant damage again...))

First Attack Radiant Damage: 5

Second Attack Radiant Damage: 7

Ulthan activated the mantle last turn so there was little more he could do. But now, he charges forth looking forward to do some stabbery on the closest vampirella. 
Stabbery1: 12 Damage: 4 radiant if it hits 3
Stabbery2: 11 Damage: 4 radiant if it hits 2
He keeps his bow in his other hand while furiously trying to not die... again.... and again....

Lionel was absolutely done talking with anything anymore - so far everything here (even Strahd now) assumed tactic "shoot first - talk later", and he finally adapted.

He simply attacked the vampire that was trying to kill him at that moment:

Attack: 29 Damage: 18 + 19 (for undead)

Attack: 10 Damage: 11 + 19

(Terribly sorry - it was meant to be 1d8. Not that it matter with nat1 for attack, of course)

9

One blast from Mordekai strikes at one of the women, while Ulthan suddenly appears in the alcove, and steps up, jabbing her once with his sword. Meepo's shield vanishes and a ray of ice slams into the other. Ketch steps up and swings the thighbone at her head.  The bone slams into her skull...and the blow seems to reverberate through the creature who screams....and then explodes, her dress shredding and the disintegrated powder of her body coating everything, including faces and clothes as it sweeps across the room like a wave. 

Ketch blinks vampire dust out of his eyes. 

The other vampire woman, assaulted by the party, her flesh still blackening crackling shrieks as she suddenly bursts into flames. She falls to her knees, her body turning to ash as she collapses to the ground, a black smear.  Only one is left. 

20

Her flesh burning, she manages to break free from her stunned state.  She glances around and decides to leap on [Lionel, Ulthan, Ketch, Meepo] 3  Ketch who obvious deserves her ire, having just exploded her friend.  

Attack: 13 Damage: 10.   Attack: 10 Damage: 9.

 Everyone focus' their attacks on her and....bathed in sunlight as she is.....her flesh seems to begin to bubble and melt, and like a disgusting wax candle, she melts down into a large puddle of goo covered bones on the floor. 

The three vampires are dead.  The thighbone in Ketch's hand crumbles away to nothing in his grip. 

Mordekai stares as the thighbone disintegrates. Then he goes back to where he teleported in, and looks to see if there a "return journey".

"Stands to reason that if there's a teleport in, there's a teleport out. Then again, it also stands to reason that Strahd might let you in but not out. Someone help me look. We need to get our of here. Meaning this whole castle."

If needed, Mordekai will preferably give assistance to someone else who has a better Investigation ability. 

After a moment he'll curse to himself, "Damn, I was sure I'd killed Rahadin!"

"You - and the rest of us. I am beginning to question who is the Master here - Rahadin arranges genocide, safely visits the Temple, fights as if nothing can affect him and never dies. I wish that castly was made of wood and we could burn it to the ground."

The dwarf sighed and join the investigation, though there was not much he could do besides simply walking into each potentially teleporting spot. "So, we came from here, right?" He walked back into the alcove they emerged from.

Mordekai lowers his voice, not really believing that it'll make a difference in the event someone's listening in to their conversation, but it makes him feel a little better.  His words do come out as a really creepy whisper though.  "What's the quickest way out of here? I assume we don't want to go back up the stairs and brazenly out of the front door?  Would the brazier teleporting us to the now-burned-down coffin maker's shop be better?  Even if we have to presumably take a hit from a fall?"

     Ketch looks at his now empty hand and grunts.  "Easy come easy go, as Gruumsh always says," the Half Orc opines and then watches the others searching for a way out. If one is discovered he of course follows.  

     "We should exit this castle with haste.  I'm not sure why they are toying with us but I've no doubt they could have won the day if Strahd actively participated fully.  Best we vacate before he decides to do so...: 

     Before leaving the crypts, Ketch double checks that he still has the two answering skulls.  He presumes they will lose whatever enchantment they have when they leave but there is no reason not to test that out... Worst case, Strahd loses a talking skull or two.

"The skull", Lionel also thought about undead now and pointed it out before stepping into alcove. "We still did not found the dragon skull. Not that I know what to do with it or if we even can get it out - should be massive, after all, but it is here, very close and one of the chatty skull advised us to find it too."

"If we do not care, though, I am too for the teleporting room - assuming we can return in there. They might not be so happy to see us again in Vallaki, but we need some rest and the direction to Krezk."

As the others investigate a way out, Meepo moves around collecting the items from aorund the crypt and making sure his new disk is still active. he summons Rat back and sends Rat back through the portal trap, to where the other disk had vanished to before.

Meepo need get lost things..." Meepo tells the others as he trundles towards the teleport trap that Rat just went through.

Then, unless someone stops him, Meepo takes his new disk and follows Rat.