Death of a vampire

I worry for Obegard, but having seen his lust for knowledge and power I guess he’s just made himself some sort of lodestone for the bizarre.

He has these weird communication rituals with his Spire, and with Cassandra. Something—I think it’s the stone he uses to communicate with Cassandra—gives him weird dreams.

Then he’s the one that gets the magic messages from Rime, and then no sooner do we get back to Dragon Keep then he starts getting nightmares so disturbing he can’t memorise any of his spells.

We go trekking off into the wilderness in pursuit of the village his dream shows him being razed, and by the time we get there the damage is done. Man, that’s some sicko ability—if you’re going to see something bad happening, you should at least give yourself time to do something about it!

We follow the trail of the undead army (yeah, sounds like a great idea, doesn’t it???) and find an awesome mansion. You know, for an Upworlder building.

Just inside we come across a stunning Elven woman who asks if we have an appointment with her lord, and before I can say anything the others are telling her we don’t so instead we finish up in a fight and she is good.

As we dust her she turns to smoke and drifts away, and the others tell me we have to follow her to her vampire coffin and destroy it.

And on the way we meet an old friend, the crazy dude from Ghostwood that knocked half the party out with little more effort than brushing dandruff off his shoulder. He mutters some warning about interfering with “their” plans, which I think we’re agreed means the Medusan Lords, kills Obegard and then vanishes.

So here’s where it gets really whacky. Obegard gets up again. We confirmed he was dead and then all of a sudden he’s... “not” and the wound on his back is closing up as we look at it. The others seem to think this is perfectly okay. Even Ili, who I would have thought would have been calling for an exorcism whether he detected evil or not.

If it’s not evil it’s at least “extremely disturbing” and I’ll be keeping an eye on Obegard until I hear a satisfactory explanation for what happened.

Oh, yeah, assassin-guy left a bloody dagger at our feet, and in the next room we found the guy we were looking for with blood all over the place. At least he has the manners to stay dead. So maybe if we’d said we were invited then vampire-elf girl would have put some hurting on assassin-guy.

As it is we were still somewhat rattled and continued on our quest for her coffin and destroyed it. In hindsight I’m wondering if that was the best move—I figure she would have wanted revenge and we could use the help.