massachusetts ♔ a little partial for beautiful girls | even if their blood runs blue

[moonheart]

♬ She Just Killing Me - ZZ Top

WHO || Solace, Thoster, Faith, Phineas, Sydney, Lissa
WHAT || The Knights act as bodyguards for a celebrity with a very unusual stalker...
WHERE || Massachusetts, USA
WHEN || August 16th, evening [backdated]
HOW || Actionspam

[ the pendergast manor is a sprawling sight, impressive even to those who live in the world's most ridiculously sized castle. the whole place has a sort of country club air, and white gloved butlers escort the little troupe of knights through the halls, past expensive paintings and all the other old money trappings. ]

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[moonheart]

[ solace and sydney make it to faith and the body and she launches into an explanation: ] Thoster went to go try to find the thing on his own. I have no idea if Phineas and Sydney are out there with it.

[ solace leans down to examine it, frowning.

MEANWHILE phineas' blow strikes... air, and the vampire slams him from behind, manifesting to loom over him (atk 27, dmg 9).

"Where is she?" he demands. ]

[celerystick]

[Meanwhile, Sydney follows Solace to the others, drawing her gun and holding it at her side in case the enemy appears, looking over her shoulder over and over as if it's going to appear behind her at any moment.]

Which way?

[Maybe she should...go after him.]

[bluffcheck]

[Thoster still has no freaking clue what that bird was trying to tell him so he will just.... head down a random hall and hope he finds them??? (adding in search 21)]

Lissa! [He may also be shouting. He's not the sneaky sort of bard okay. He's loud and dramatic and fucking protective.]

[lastdragomir]

[ oh hay, with her listen 17, that might be enough to wake her unconscious butt up. ]

[thesleeper]

[Phineas stumbles back a bit, looking over his shoulder... If he were smarter, he might try to escape - but not with a damsel in distress.]

[He tries to think quickly... Knowledge Religion of 19] Smile, bastard! [Computer Use Nat 20 to pull his phone out, and spam photos, hoping the camera flash buys them some more time, and calls out;]

Guys, over here!

[moonheart]

[ solace seems torn for a moment as he hovers over the body, but he hears phineas yelling and rises to his feet, rushing that way, faith at his heels, yanking the holy symbol off his neck. they arrive at the end of the corridor by the end of their turn, just as callista wanders out at the other end. a look of disgust crosses her face when she sees the monster.

"Ugh, it's you. How many ways can I say it's over, Shaun?"

the vampire (shaun) turns to her, eyes flashing red, and she gasps as she notices his fangs, and finally sees what's going on out here. "I told you," he says, turning away from phineas' ridiculous attempts to stalk towards her, "We'll always be together. You'll see." his eyes flash as he stares her down, and she seems unable to look away from him suddenly, the sullen teenage scowl leaving her face as she looks at him in abrupt wonder. he lifts one hand to her face gently, and she smiles. ]

[celerystick]

[She barely hear's Phineas' call (listen 10) but manages to at least get on the right track to possibly finding him (navigate 13). Chances are if she gets lost, she can just follow Solace and Faith the rest of the way, who she can hear behind her.]

[bluffcheck]

[Thanks to his amazing searching skills, Thoster manages to find the group of them. He glances from the vampire to Lissa on the ground and back again. He's distracted with the other girl, Calista, and he should probably focus on saving her since she's the mission, huh?

A song jumps to his lips as he tries to fascinate the vampire with a haunting sort of melody (will save to beat his perform check 22). Hopefully he can draw his attention long enough to get the girl away??]

[lastdragomir]

[ lissa struggles to stand (str 15) but her head is swimming and full of fuzziness, so she only manages to move forward. you know, helplessly into the fray.

the dragomir princess, everybody. not the sharpest tool in the shed. ]

[thesleeper]

[Shit. Desperate measures time? Phineas charges and attempts to grapple the Vampire. Maybe if he can keep him away from her just a bit longer, someone who can make a real difference will get there...]

Leave her alone!

[Have to look up non-Pathfinder grapple rules again... it's been so long... Shaun gets an Attack of Opportunity vs Phineas, because he doesn't have the grapple feat. (Unless he's distracted enough by Thoster's song to not notice?) And - If he doesn't get hit - I got a Nat 20 on the 'Grab' melee touch roll to begin the grapple... and a 15 on the actual grapple roll itself. But, if he does get hit, then the grapple just fails automatically.]

1/2

[moonheart]

[ thoster's song does, indeed, seem to put the vampire in a strange sort of trance as he stares at callista, lost in the melody. however, that doesn't last very long, because phineas slams into him from behind, taking him by surprise so he doesn't get a chance to make an attack of opportunity. phineas manages to grip the vamp, but he whirls around, breaking out of his grasp easily (grapple check 22) and glaring angrily down at the binder, a murderous look in his eyes at being interrupted.

"Why you--"

faith lashes out a hand, two fingers moving to her forehead as she unleashes a a crushing psionic attack, that reverberates the air around his head and he lets out a horrible cry of debilitating pain, his eyes rolling back in his head. the vampire slumps suddenly to the ground, blood leaking out of its ears. ]

[sirsolace]

[ solace wastes no time, closing his eyes as he mumbles a few words over his holy symbol. a white pure light explodes from the center of the vampire's body... and with that, he crumbles into dust.

/init ]

[lastdragomir]

[ oh yeah, he's dead, that means lissa can just sit down on the floor again, looking at solace in horrified fascination. because he just turned a vampire to dust with a few words. lissa is a vampire. appropriately horrified. ]

Oh.

[celerystick]

[Sydney just watches with fascination that manages to finally be more consuming that the horror of magic.

Because Solace just disintegrated that vampires.]

Well, that would have been a lot more convenient back home.

[...Her wisdom check of 12 didn't exactly help her navigate that faux pas. Sorry Lissa.]

[bluffcheck]

[Thoster glances back at Faith, then over to Solace and just... Well, he's impressed and relieved all at once.]

Good show- both of you. [But that's all he's got before he rushes over to Lissa, kneeling on the floor beside her where she sits.] How're you feeling, lass? Are you hurt?

[thesleeper]

[Relieved, Phineas is just going to have a nice lean against this wall... and slump to the floor. He's never really been in an actual fight before, so once the adrenaline is out of his system he's going to be hurting from that vampire's slam... But he'll try to act tough with a Bluff of 27 to just look tired / plane-sick.]

[lastdragomir]

[ lissa pales a little at sydney's comment but she doesn't take it personally and she shakes her head at thoster's question, dismissing it with no thought to her own pain. ] I'm fine. Are you...? Phineas?

[ she believes his bluff with her sense motive of 12, but she worries anyway, jade eyes lighting on all members of their party, lingering on faith as her hand reaches out to pat thoster's arm reassuringly, putting a little pressure on it in a silent plea for him to help her up. ]

[thesleeper]

No worries... [Phineas lies, and offers up a reassuring wave.] How is our charge? [He glances in Callista's direction.]

[moonheart]

[ callista shakes her head slowly, staring at the pile of dust on the floor with a disgusted expression.

"I thought you guys were supposed to keep that freak away from me."

faith looks up at her, gesturing towards where the vampire had been. ] Did you miss the part where we totally kicked his butt? Cuz, uh, it was pretty awesome.

[bluffcheck]

[Thoster gladly helps Lissa up to her feet, remaining close in case she's still a little dizzy. He casts a look to Phineas but the man's looked a bit odd since they left London, so maybe he's alright? Calista's tone draws his attention.]

Would have been worse had we not been here. There's no denying that. But it seems that he won't be bothering you anymore.

[lastdragomir]

Are you okay? [ she tacks that on to the rest of the comments to callista even though she's sure that by her tone the woman is fine. ]

[moonheart]

[ "You mean besides the assload of psychological trauma I probably got out of all this?! You're lucky if my daddy doesn't sue." ]

[celerystick]

[And then...Sydney gets pissed.]

We just saved your life. Be a little grateful. You put yourself in danger by getting involved with that crazy person in the first place.

[lastdragomir]

You further put yourself, and us, in danger when you claimed to have no idea who was stalking you. [ she glances down at the dust briefly before arching one eyebrow at the socialite. bitch, we have clearly established that you so did. ]

Your father will not be suing. [ lissa manages to put some serious force behind her words (diplomacy nat 20, 33 total and intimidate 23....? idk she's not trying to be intimidating but she's not going to let callista walk all over them.) ] We neutralized the threat to your safety, you would do well not to invite more, lest we need to return and go through this all again.

[bluffcheck]

[Thoster has no idea what suing is! But he's none too pleased with the girl's display of ungratefulness.]

Wouldn't mind speaking with your father myself, actually. Is he about?

[He's an older brother. He will just go above you when you are being a brat.]