The adventurers, along with Billy Butcher, pursued the dragon into the next room. There, they were greeted by whatever mobs fled along with the dragon, a vampire mistress and her bodyguard. Unwilling to join the vampires, the adventurers attacked, and on the vampire's prompting, Billy turned against them.
The shadow assassins, along with several vampire spawn lurking in the mists, fled to a Turn Undead, and the dragon died to concentrated assault. More spawn surfaced from the mists and the survivors of the entrance ambush rushed in a side door. Battle continued.
Billy laid into Szivem, labeled by the vampire as an abhorrent witch; right until she got fed up and flew away. Then, he turned on Ireth.
The vampires and the dragon were greatly held back by the Sunlight emanating from Brienne. The dragon did nothing and died to continuous fireballs. A happy coincidence that the fire also bothered the yeti. Brienne also resisted his frost charms.
In the meantime, Groin did life cleric things, and Ireth fired off moonbeams.
With the vampires closing in, Szivem let loose fireball after fireball. Brienne and Groin held their ground.
Brienne finally fell, and the yeti fell on her on purpose, dying in a moonbeam but finally covering the sunlight spell. With the boss lady escaping into the mists, the other vampires rushed in for a final assault.
In the end, the vampires got beaten back, and only a couple could flee. Billy got fireballed down. Groin healed up everybody, again.
And then, the adventurers ran, to avoid the first round of frightened undead coming back.
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The adventurers regrouped in a neighboring hall, then run-sneaked back out of the vampire den. They passed through the dark curtain, taking the damage, all the way back to the githyanki level, to take a short rest.
After healing up, they combed through the vampire level once more, finding some hidden items, including a sun blade. Well, this should be useful. Even in the severely strength-drained hands of Brienne.
As the party headed back into the den, Solid summoned a greater steed[1] and Brienne flew up to cut the silver threads in between the statues' hands. The curtain of darkness ceased to be.
Surrounded and followed by hordes of rats, the adventurers explored a few side chambers before blundering into the vampire nest once more. Nothing, but the mists. And a bit of movement in the mist. Tari and Brienne reacted to the ambush, but the adventurers were soon surrounded by undead once more.
Of course, this counts for nothing when you have turn undead at high DC.
The party decided to chase the vampire queen, who responded with Destructive Wave, and charming Solid into hitting his teammates.
Even with Solid bashing Brienne, and shadow assassins showing up from behind, the vampire was loosing the fight against all the radiant damage from the sun blade and moonbeam.
She tried running away, but Brienne hacked her down. All the vampire spawn died, the shadows dissipated and the cultist killed himself. The party helped themselves to some treasure, and Brienne got a minor reward for completing at least part of her divine quest.
For Solid and Ireth, the lack of divine punishment was its own reward.
[1] A pegasus called "Gasus"
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