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Sun 1st Nov 2020 10:49

Purging a Vampire

by GPK-612

I woke in the middle of the night to Macro throwing a book at the wall, he said it flew off the shelf itself. This turned out to be true, some ghosts threw the book at him and then tried to drag him into the wall. We called to Zee, and she of course came down unarmed...
 
The door kept slamming shut in her face when she tried to head back up to grab her weapons, I had to rip it off its hinges so that she could do it. Once she was back we all just stared at the door-like shape on the wall made of flesh with arms sticking out. Lord knows why, but Macro decided to step into it so Arc and I followed. We came out of Graves on the other side, as in out of the ground despite us walking through a door. Each grave had our names engraved on the tombstones. Zee's grave was still filled in and I assumed she had stayed on the other side like I told her to until we heard a knocking, the grave then dug itself up and we pulled her out of the coffin. Thus began our weird walk to the North where Macro had seen a mansion using W.A.T.C.H. One of the ghosts was following us the whole way, and when we questioned him as to why we were here he evaded our questions so we continued to the mansion.
 
Within the mansion were rooms with ghost children and one old woman. The children wanted us to kill their father, and the old woman really didn't seem to care about anything but said her husband had done nothing wrong. Arc and I kept watch in Sentry mode while the other two slept until the children's father, Vlad, appeared.
 
We talked to him, considering the fact that the children didn't give us a good reason to kill him talking seemed like a good idea at the time. Alas the details weren't adding up, and the children seemed deathly afraid of him so I barraged him with Scorching Ray spells. I then dispelled the protection on his sanctuary in the cellar and destroyed that with a fireball as well. Overall it was anti-climactic and I wasn't sure why we were called here, until the children called us up to talk to their mother that is. The children's mother revealed herself to be the Raven Queen, who offered to form a contract with one of us much like the contract I have with Myrkul. Arc accepted it as Macro has had enough of supernatural deities and Zee just doesn't seem to care.
 
The Raven Queen returned us home, where we appear to have stood in the same spot for numerous hours; and act I am not unfamiliar with. What an odd fever dream-esque experience.