The Fifteenth Session: Part 1

After defeating Jacquerie and one of the guards, the group realized the other vampires were out and would likely come to find them at the inn. Getting back to Lorelei's Veil, they gathered everyone and left, returning to the Cemetery District. They went back to the Thieves' Guild hideout and spent the night in hiding. Aoth and Shag were the first to wake up, and they failed to wake Yief and Halrek. Deciding that a daytime ambush would probably work in their favor, they decided to go back to the guard tower alone. On their way out, Vissella saw them and decided to accompany them, as only two of them would likely have trouble with that many vampires.

Upon return to the tower, they tried to sneak in but Aoth and Shag both failed, having a conversation about sneaking while going up the stairs, prompting a serious eye roll from Vissella, who was the only one being quiet. Aoth was the first to reach the top floor, where the vampires were waiting for them after hearing the noise and finding the two ash piles of their fellow undead. While Aoth got their attention, Shag moved quickly to cast Thunderwave and knock everyone back, partially damaging the window. While he began to evade the attacks of retaliation, Vissella ran in and shot a decisive blow at the window, shattering the weakened planks covering it and letting in the sunlight. Shag kept dancing around on the table to avoid the attacks of the vampires who surrounded him, while one vampire charged at Vissella, successfully overpowering and biting her. However, she quickly hit back, knocking him off of her and then stabbing him through the heart, killing him. Aoth channeled his divinity to turn three of the guards from him, forcing them to retreat to the far side of the room, before casting daylight in the stairwell, blocking the exit and trapping the vampires in a sunlight filled cage. He cast his holy weapon and summoned a glaive, using it to attack a guard that resisted his turning.

They continued to work together to take out the remaining four guards who resisted the turn, before Aoth began to interrogate the three trapped on the other side of the room. After intimidating them into telling the truth, they confirmed that these three were the last of the vampires in Akanax, and that Jacquerie was the only one who had fed enough to turn anyone, and had turned all of them. Despite begging for their lives, they admitted they would likely start culling somewhere else were they to be let go. Aoth and Vissella began to walk out as the vampires perished in the sun, while Shag attempted to Eldritch Blast them, but failed both his attempts as the light fizzled out from his hands. Once they were all piles of ash, they looted the bodies and the tower.

On the way back to the Cemetery District, they encountered Derrack, who let them know that their alerting him to the fact that someone was looking for him caused him to stay at a neighbor's house the previous night, and he saw two guardsmen break into his house, and thanked them for helping him avoid a grisly fate. He also informed them that the royal council heard and agreed with his notions to take in more refugees and begin sending aid to the northern Midfall cities and the Free Lands where more refugees would be taken in.

Arriving back at the Thieves' Guild hideout, Yief was quite mad that they left him behind, despite the fact that he refused to wake up with them. Spitefully, he told them that he and Halrek would have their own "buddy day" in response, since they hogged all the action.

Aoth and Shag decided to visit The Arcane Coalition to enchant their weapons, and Aoth began to train in Ritual Casting. Shag then went to the Getgood Bard's College, and began training under grandmaster Tosin to learn 8 finger tapping as a means of transferring his magical energy to mana.

While they spent the day training at the guilds, Yief and Halrek's adventure will unfold in part 2...