Session VII : Taken by Smoke and Mirrors Report

General Summary

The party split up in town, each to try and take care of a few items.  Celdric with the Merchant guild, Eryst following up on some questioning abut the missing party members and Jinfei at The Pen is Mightier Then the Sword; strange things began to occur...   While returning Jinfei saw a familiar face, her close friend who had been missing since she was imprisoned Lotus, moving through the streets of Gill Galli.  Not wanting to miss an opportunity she darted after the girl down an ally.  Seeing her stop she questioned how and why she was in the city just as she felt a pinch on her back.  Looking it was a large dart that was just finishing delivering some kind of liquid to her; knocking her unconscious.   Eryst who was following a mental trail toward Diogo and Patrin, found herself trapped within a realm where everyone seemed on repeat.  The same people walking past in the same patters, over and over again.  One of which was her brother who she tried to talk to, he ignored her, to which she yelled at him and pushed him.  His form shattering away, as well as anyone else she touched, into the aether.  Watching from afar, Shade stared, making eye contact with Eryst who charged him only to 'trip' at the last second and fall unconscious.   Jinfei awoke to the rattle of chains, she had been caged and put in a holding cell.  Next to her Eryst had been locked up and hung on the wall, unconscious, looking to the cell next to them she saw both Patrin and Diogo, lieing on cots and were connected to a small device.  Tubes and pumps pulled out of them their blood and deposited it into buckets, both of which were sitting infront of a young woman.  She wore a black dress with red highlights, her skin was pale white and her eyes glowed red as she stared back at the pseudodragon.  In her hand she held a glass, which from the look of it was filled with blood, and she drank;  Her name Sikvadil, the Elven Vampire Lord.   Jug, having lost Jinfei, was left alone in the crowded streets of Gill Galli.  With little fight and a dart to his being, he fell unconscious and was dragged back to the holding cell with the other.  With this Eryst awoke, she too seeing the Vampire as well as Shade.  Taking this opportunity, she lit them on fire with a minor spell(spark), and attempted an escape.  To maintaine control over the pair, Sikvardil tried and fail to dominate them.  Failing to break free Eryst and Jinfei overheard the pair talking about getting the rest and ready to transport.  Eryst asked why Shade was doing this, his response was this was nothing more than a job.   Tending to the ship and his animal companion Mo was captured via a teleport, sent straight into a room with an antimagic field permanently cast on it, put in a cell right next to Jug, Eryst and Jinfei.  Trying to use magic to break free, he failed to overcome and was trying to get answers out of the Vampire.  Jug awoke from the noise and he too failed to break free of his bindings and was unaffected by the dominating presence of the Vampire.   Celdric was aboard Elder's End, Where a shipment they had scheduled to earn some extra coin arrived, unknowing that it was false.  Only thinking something about it as a second shipment arrived.  Investigating the first shipment Celdric found that the barrels were marked with an odd symbol.  Inside was explosive Jelly, thinking quickly Celdric put up a shield dome just as the jelly ignited and exploded.  Jugs family was caught in the explosion and in turn were turned into ghoulish zombies.  Shade appeared and came to an agreement with the Captain that Celdric would come with him and in return he would revert those from Jugs family affected by the bomb.  Leading Celdric thru the city, more explosions could be herd elsewhere in the city, to an almost rundown tavern called the Drop-dead Inn.   Now all together, the Vampire was ready to transport the party to her master, using magic they were put all to sleep.  When they awoke they were all in small, hard, confined spaces.  No light emitted from anywhere and their magic was stunted.  Feeling the area moving, they seemed to be being pulled by a beast of burden, some cart used for prisoner transport.  When it came to a stop the party could overhear the Vampire talking to a being with a low growl of a voice.  Unable to hear what was being said, they were pulled from the cart and tossed to the ground...a massive Dracolich before them.