Tombs of Scoria: Episode 13

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==Synopsis==
The McGary brothers are still in the Halfling Riverlands hunting vampires. They find a maid in the local tavern is leaving messages for the vampire Lady Ullworth. The brothers rest for the night in a barn and get ambushed by Lady Ullworth. Their holy candles drive her away. The brothers return to Lady Ullworth's estate. Inside they find prisoners and a charmed Knight, Kel Mary Golden. The brothers dispel the charm on Kel Mary. The brothers search the estate and find no sign of any more vampires. That night the party are attacked again by Lady Ullworth, and again the brothers drive off the vampire, not sure exactly where her coffin is where she recovers her form.
==Recap==
===5th November 1511===
As the mist of the vampire bubbles and boils, and then dissipates, Imrik pulls the lid of the coffin which the vampire was going for. Seeing nothing inside, they sprint out into the courtyard. As they scale the wall, Anton spots, underneath the awning, a woman stands. Anton can't quite make out the details of her face, as the wind and rain wrap around her, masking her. Taking the rope over the wall, they make it to a town along the road to Gilroy, in Riverlands.
The brothers discuss and decide it would be wise to figure out if the halflings have allegiance to the vampire. 
Imrik knocks on the door to a halfling tavern, goes inside, and orders a drink. While inside, he scans the minds of people, everyone is just in shock and awe, curious about this tall person, besides the maid, having a thought in her mind that she is supposed to report weird people to someone, though this someone is unknown. He asks if there is a barn he could sleep in, a couple of hands raise as he pays a halfling called Ham a couple of silver, for the opportunity to sleep in the barn. Imrik goes and heads back to the meet with Anton and Tyrael and informs them the maid might be working for Cassandra.
Brothers light the Phantasmal candle for protection, but it spooks the ponies, so they extinguish it. Meanwhile, Imrik spies on the maid and follows her as she leaves the tavern, sees her putting up a note on a tree in the north side of town. Imrik inspects the note, it's in halfling, Imrik takes it back to the barn knowing Anton can read halfling.
Anton translates, it's a note saying weird people are staying at Ham's barn. Imrik suggests they manipulate the note to draw the vampire into a trap, but the brothers are unsure whether they can fight another vampire. Imrik, still invisible puts the note back and watches it. Meanwhile, Tyrael and Anton set up holy candles, ready for a presumed vampire. 
During the night, Imrik watches as a woman approaches the tree. She's dressed in a clean white gown, with pale skin, her dark hair tied loosely, makes no sound as she walks. Imrik tries to probe her mind, finds it is completely blank, clearly indicating a vampire. She takes the note and heads towards the barn, Imrik following her. Imrik runs and warns the brothers, but as soon as he does, she is nowhere to be seen, but a farmhouse nearby has lights on. Imrik assumes this is the vampire asking for permission to enter the barn. Anton casts and quickly prepares for this. Imrik waits outside, hiding, so the rain doesn't show his silhouette. He sees Ham and his wife steps out, talking to the woman, in halfling. They are carrying a bundle of blankets between then, and the women in white carries a parcel to keep the rain off. As a group, they all come to the barn.
The wife knocks on the barn, calling for John (Imrik), she opens the door and gets confused, finding two men which do not fit the description, as the lit holy candles strike the vampire. Imrik charges her knocking her over, but fails himself, Anton and Tyrael quickly dogpile on her. Imrik pulls out a vial of holy water and spills it all over the vampire. Heavily wounded, she turns into a gaseous form. Tyrael, as an apex legend, slides in, grabs a candle, sheathes his sword, and runs after the mist which is keenly available to his eye. The brothers follow his quick orders and grab the candles. Mist boils and dissipates.
Anton menacingly interrogates the halfling, shoving Ham into the mud after Ham attempting a kick at his balls. Halfling tells them that the woman was Lady Ullworth. Tyrael, somewhat diplomatically, tells them they slew a vampire and will be back at dawn.
They ascend the mountainside, make it to the wall of Lady Ullworth's estate. Tyrael opens the gate, they enter inside. Under the awning, Tyrael listens very carefully, they hear the disembodies voices of the dead, the house is not empty. They hear something ghostly and echoing, two masculine wails and shrieks. Holding the candles, they head into the basement of the shed, see a new lid marked with crimson fluid. Tyrael readies the candles, Imrik holds a hammer and a stake, Anton opens the coffin. They see the semi-ethereal cleric healing, the vampire who level drained Anton. They put holy wafers in the coffin. Anton smashes the coffin with his holy Martha's mace. Anton says this is vengeance for his level drain.
Under the awning, Tyrael again hears the same pair of voices wailing. Tyrael kicks the door in. They head in, holy candles at the ready, Anton's Velthara symbol out, he quickly passes out holy water. They see it's a three-story building, two floors above them. Tyrael burns an inch of the candle just to check if it would work inside.
As they pass through the mansion. Anton hands Tyrael a Ring of Protection. They all try to move silently with Tyrael in the front, scouting. Going upstairs into a presumed kitchen, they see four halflings, chained. They burn an inch of the Candle to check if any of the halflings have turned. Seeing halflings are safe, they feed the halflings, despite Imrik's demands to put them out of their misery. While they are feeding the halflings, they hear heavy footsteps. They call out, and a woman in chainmail steps in and draws her sword, angered by the fact that they slew Lady Ullworth. She swings her sword at Imrik, as a goes of, dispelling the cast on her. They sheathe their weapons. 
The knight is, clearly, in shock and confusion. They explain to her what's going on and make her lead them towards lady's chambers. A red mist passes by. They light their candles and instantly vaporise the mist. Lead to chambers, Imrik draws his wand of . When they get to the chamber the shrieks were coming from, they put down and lighting the candles. They open and inside they see nobody, but as Tyrael steps in, they hear shrieks from above and slightly behind as two vampires get the drop on him, both of them evaporate. They search for coffins, however, there are none. They leave quickly, heading towards the vampire's bedroom, a larger room with a single bed, no windows, the entire room looks charred. 
=== 6th November 1511 ===
Finding no coffins, Tyrael asks where the lady starts and ends her days. The human women in chain mail, a guard that used to be under the charms, take them to the gardens, they see three very disturbed spots on the ground. They dig up a nice coffin, however, nothing's inside, Anton smashes the coffin with a hammer. Inside another coffin, Anton sees an ethereal woman, then smashes it with a hammer. In the lid, they find behind the patting her magical items, however not all of them. They dig up the last coffin and smash it as well.
Tyrael and Imrik talk with the knight, Mary Golden, discussing where she lived how she got there again explaining the situation to her, talking with her to eventually they get lead to the library. The library consists of two parts, one is filled with damaged books, the other is locked. Tyrael smashes down the locked door. They are greeted with a gruesome sight of a fountain of a staked woman. Beside the fountain, on the nicely dressed mannequins, they find Boots of Striding and Springing and Gloves of War, 2 magic short swords, and 6 'healing' potions, but they don't find Bracers of Shocking Grasps or Magic Sword Belt. Imrik casts but finds nothing, the potions don't emanate magic. Mary tells them Lady Ullworth always wore the bracers, and about 2–3 weeks ago, a man, Rupert, left with what she thinks was the sword belt, heading to Rwalwikk.
They tend to the halflings, Anton gives Splinter his necklace. They find a room and rest. When they awake in the afternoon, they chat with Splinter. Splinter has no knowledge of items. He tells them that The Family asked him to plant an object on the Sheriff of Gilroy. 
They spend the night in the keep. In the middle of the night, Tyrael and Anton hear the door open, they both stand up and reach for the candles. As Tyrael stand up, he sees Lady Ullworth standing next to him, moving quickly, reaching for him, clawing out at him. Anton quickly lights four candles. Her body withers in the holy light. Imrik blasts her with the wand, she turns into mist and heads out the window, into the back garden, Anton blows out the candles, as they hurry out into the back garden. Tyrael drinks a potion of healing. Imrik sees the mist and it again, it disappears. In the back garden, Imrik casts and finds nothing. 
==Experience==
No experience given this week.
Recap done by Odysseus
Category:Tombs of Scoria Episodes