Duty Session 138: Totally Typical Tomb

Landers don't leave bodies to bury, but graveyards are still created as a place for them to mourn the departed. For some reason these places are randomly becoming infested with undead. The Hunter's Guild has an open quest available for clearing these infestations.

Wisteria
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    Wisteria put out a party call, having protected a village from undead hordes she had a scout about and sure enough found an infested graveyard. The tall albino girl is hanging out in front of the graveyard gate, outside zombie and skelleton spawning range. The girl sits with one ofher katana's out (the one with the ominous aura this time) with a small smooth stone sliding in tiny circles along the blade edge. Looks like the Onna-bun-geisha is prepping her gear for the raid on this undead blight upon the land.
Katherine Tanzer
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    One of the people to answer the call is an imp with hooves for feet and glowing lavender eyes. Over her body is a cloak, acting a bit like a robe and in her hand, is a very interesting staff.

As she walks up to the graveyard a smile crosses her lips, "Yes. This will be perfect." It takes her a moment to realize she is /not/ alone and also remember that she answered a party summons to this very place.

The woman ahs, before giving a respectful bow, "Do forgive my rudeness. Lady Magus Katherine Tanzer of the Outcasts. 'Tis a pleasure." She then stands up fully. "I hope you all do not mind me coming along. I-- need a few supplies and perhaps some test subjects for... a /project/ I am working on." As she says 'project' her fingers tap up the rod, with her claws making a gentle clacking sound against the shaft.
Baroness Wake
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    The Baroness has been looking for another chance to get out and delve into a dungeon again. She just can't help it. With the progress on her search for the castle still going ahead, there may soon be fewer chances to get knee deep into things.
    When she emerges from the shadows near Wisteria, she calls out calmly, "Hello, Wisteria, Lady Tanzer." She slides into a curtsey and rises with a smile. "I look forward to another exciting challenge. How have you been? All is well as can be, I pray."
    She has come prepared for a dungeon run, but her weapons remain out of sight. Or perhaps she will just use her fists? The Right Clothes for the work today appear to be a form-fitting body suit of a dark blue. On her feet are a pair of sturdy shoes, softened to prevent making any unnecessary sound.
Vertina
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As per has become usual Vertina isn't far behind from Wisteria going on an adventure. "Been through one of these once before. There's actually more things than undead to be concerned with. Like traps and cursed treasures and such." Idly she tightens the straps on one of her arm guards. "But any time I can possibly punch some face and refine the design of these bracer weapons is a good time spent." That and she needs a break from the construction work.
Amalthea
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    It's not long before Amalthea arrives to join to gathering party for taking out another tomb. The old Paladin drums her fingers lazily on the hilt of one of the two swords at her hip as she slings her shield to her arm.
    "Wisteria, at it again, eh?" She muses. "Well, I might as well throw my lot in, these undead are a right menace."
Miyako
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    One of Miyako's foremost goals in playing ETO was always to see new sights. Dashing from one place to another to keep up with the peoples' calls for aid is as much a help to that cause as it is a hindrance. She gets to go to a lot of new places, but she doesn't get as much chance to enjoy the trip along the way. Still, she doesn't really mind. She's always liked helping people, and this is more of an opportunity to do so than she's had before.

    "Hey, Wisty," she calls as she joins the group. "Heading out to mess up some undead? Sounds like there might be something worthy of a song or two, at least." She grins and waves to the gathering group. "Good to see everyone again. I'm not sure I've met all of you properly? Miyako Blacklily. Wandering minstrel, smasher of bad guys, and all-around lunatic, or so my old gaming group used to call me."
Gwen
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The call has gone out for the tomb again, she's not sure about what's going to happen this time. She would look to the rest of theparty. "The undead are a problem and this place is still not entirely cleared out though there was one a dead hero who simply wanted to test us and let us pass afterwards."
Mizuki
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    Another infested graveyard. "Last time we ended up fighting a pirate ship in an underground cavern. I wonder if this is the same deal, or a subtly different quest? ...Or an unsubtly different quest?" Mizuki asks aloud. She nods to those she's seen before, which is everyone at this point.
Katherine Tanzer
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    Katherine was ready for this mission, at least till something caught her attention. It was hard to say what got the imp's eye but something caught it.

There was a low sneer from her lips, before she gives a soft, lukewarm smile. "Please do excuse me, while I /would/ be aiding, it seems something else requires my /direct/ attention and can not wait." She gives an apologetic bow.

She looks over to Wake, "M'lady Wake, I do hope our paths cross again soon." Before the imp goes to make her way off into the forest to do-- whatever it was that seems to be calling her away.

Alas! Another day!
Wisteria
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    Wisteria stands as people start to arrive "Well these graveyards are all over the place." she says "It's an on going problem... so it needs addressing." she says and with a slow twirl the blade rotates, rests against her oposite wrist, then she makes a quick complex gesture with her sword hand and with snick the blade is in its sheath.

    She looks to the grave yard, the dark looming in, the fog drifting close. The graveyard's presence is ominous and it looks like the party is showing up. "Mizukichi." the kitty gets a tight hug. "Hey Miyako, yah gotta check out everything weird or I might have my knight card taken away." she sticks her tongue out playfuly at Amalthea. She nods to the Baroness. "Well lets get started hmm?" she asks with a laugh heading to the gate.

    Zombies lurch out of the darkness. They seem to be from every player race from Gnomes snapping at knees to some very disturbing zombie-mimi Cait Sith. "Alright, lets do this hmm?" that seems to be slowly becoming Wisteria's battle cry... or perhaps it's just her version of 'hold my beer' given she doesn't drink.
Vertina
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"Looks like we've got a good monster mashing group here Wist." Vertina pats her friend on the shoulder and heads into the graveyard. It doesn't take long for it to come to zombies lumbering out to meet them. "I love when a quest gets right to the point." Her foot ignites in flames as she swings a kick at one of the Gnomes... and smashes the top off a tombstone as the zombie either ducks or stumbles and falls, it's hard to tell with zombies. Which leads to Vertina comically trying to stomp on it as it tries to scuttle away from her. "Come back here you little blighter!"
Baroness Wake
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    Wake watches Lady Tanzer leave with a disappionted sigh. Well, perhaps another time. She does love catching up in the middle of bashing undead skulls in! "Let's have some fun, girls! These undead aren't going to destroy themselves."
    And there's really not long to wait. Though the Baroness isn't pounding heads when she attacks the enemies here. She's throwing fire. Most likely she's spent too much time with Prophylaxis lately. It certainly gets the job done, with several zombies filling the cave with light as they go up like torches.
    "Phew, it's times like this when I wish I could turn the scent sensitivity down!" Wake calls out. Still, she's smiling and loving every second of the fight.
Amalthea
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    "Now now, I'm not going to take anyone's knight cards away." Amalthea says, flashing an amused smile. "I remember the pirate ship." She does muse. "Wonder what we'll find in this crypt eh?"
    Zombies, from the looks of things. Lots of zombies.
    "I suppose this is to be expected." The old paladin muses as the undead come out in droves. Her sword ignite's into flame as she activates and spams her taunts to pull as much attention onto herself as she can, dealing out the occasional flaming strike, but mostly letting the others deal with the sheer numbers while she holds the focus.
Miyako
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    "Well," Miyako muses as she draws her naginata from inventory, "It's better than tech support. And not only do the customers go away happy," she gives the weapon a twirl as shadows envelop the blade, "But we get to smash stuff in the process."

    With a grin, she steps forward into the mob of zombies, giving the blade another twirl and letting the shadow extend out from it to cut through a number of the creatures with each swing.

    "The pirate ship was pretty neat," she adds as she reaches a momentary clear spot in the mob. "I'd rather have had it than a few bags of gold."
Gwen
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Gwen says "We need to keep backing up the Nine Tails military against the undead hordes honestly." She's already got her sword and shield otu as she is expecting trouble She was ready fdo this time she'll start letting lose with the firespells, not showing any mercy and she fairs a lot better than she did hte last time she ran into this encounter!
Mizuki
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    'Girls?' Mizuki glances over the assembled group. Oh, huh, they DO have an all-girls adventuring party. At least on the outside.

    "Noone's going to take your knight card away. It's fine to take breaks now and then. But yes, since we're here..." She turns to follow Wis, who is immediately besieged by zombies!

    The fire catgirl ninja charges into the fray, slicing and dicing with her daggers and trying to use fire sparingly to thin the herd whenever it looks like there are too many. "It IS more fun than tech support, but people didn't die when we messed that up."

    "You'd rather have had the ship? How would we get it out of the cave?!"
Wisteria
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    "How did they get it IN the cave in the first place?" she asks and laughs. Her sword blade bursting into flames as it whips from the sheath. "From what the guild says these infestations are happening all the graveyards, not just here in ninetails and from what I've seen that's true. Any graveyard anywhere could pick up undead." Her flaming blade cleaves a zombie here, and beheads one there. She's probably quite lucky that the system just marks things in red and then they fall over. It makes it much more like sparring and keeps her from thinking about monster rights, or anything like respawn mechanics, or lack there of.

    Once the last of the zombies fall Wisteria flicks her katana and then goes through the elaborat resheathing process. "Whew...wish zombies weren't so smelly." she says and shakes her head abit "On to the central Mausoleum, seems like the infestations generally start there." she says as she heads towards it. An arrow thuds into the ground by her foot and she looks around "Okay, getting in is the important bit, but lets take care of this." she says as the skeletal archers start firing in earnest.
Miyako
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    "Ya know, nobody ever gave -me- a Knight card. Who gives 'em out? What's the Achievement quals?" Miyako grins as she continues cutting through zombies until they run out of the damned things.

    "You've obviously never worked the hospital helldesk, Mimi. ... okay, okay, neither have I. I almost did, though." She shrugs. "We'd have figured something out. Worst case we set up a teleport anchor once we get those working, and we've got a cool hidden clubhouse."

    And then she blinks as an arrow slams into the haft of her naginata, the head sinking deep into the wooden shaft. "Whoops, that's no good," she says as she starts twirling the blade again, swatting more arrows out of the air. "Bit busy for a second, hang on!" She grins and sprints forward towards the archers. "Chop Chop! You guys are long past time to die!"
Mizuki
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    "If any graveyard could pick up undead then why do they have graveyards?!" Mizuki exclaims.

    And then it starts hailing arrows. "Oh no. Not THESE guys again. I've HAD it with skeleton archers!" Mizuki's nimbly dodging this way and that -- this time, she ONLY has to dodge the arrows, without making her way through a front line of ghouls at the same time!

    As she runs towards the archers, she makes some ninja hand signs and giant icicles form over her head before flying towards the skeletons... after those hit she POUNCES and tries to pull the weakened skeletons apart with were fang strength!
Gwen
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Gwen says "Yesh they are we'll have to clean them out when we can." There is a Skeleton Archer in eveyrone or so they say. Thankfully Gwen has a response to this. She will start casting spells at them to waylay them. There is an upside to the Holy Knight's somewhat weakness in terms of being physical. They have a lot more magic than any physical class might have access too. She will put this to good use as she cast ZAP on several of the archers.

"BACK IN YOUR GRAVES!"
Baroness Wake
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    "You know, isn't it a bid odd to have graveyards when nobody leaves a body?" muses Wake as she pauses to stomp her heel on the twitching hand of a well-burnt zombie. "I mean, after all, with no dead, how does one make a zombie, anyway?" She'll have to find someone to investigate this mystery at some point. But for now, there are arrows to dodge.
    And the dodging is pretty smooth. From shadow to shadow, Wake fractically flows like ink as she slips out of the path of arrows at the very last moment. It's just a matter of closing the distance with the archers and then shattering their unnatural bodies into a pile of harmless dog treats with a few energetic strikes of her fists and feet.
Vertina
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Vertina is still trying to chase down that one zombie to stomp on it. Eventually she does manage to stop it's gooy head in. "Finally! Okay, what's ne--" She doesn't get to finish the remark, as she jerks to the side with split-second timing to grab an arrow that was aimed at her chest out of the air. "--How rude! Trying to interrupt me by killing me!" She snaps the arrow between her hands.

Then takes off at a sprint, hopping over grave markers and zig-zagging back and forth to avoid arrow after arrow after arrow.

And then one of the skelly archers crashes against the side of the building and crumples as Vertina ends her runabout ramming into it head first! Good thing she's got horns (and a hard head in general) to protect herself from high speed headbutting.
Amalthea
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    "Maybe it was built inside the cave." Amalthea ventures about the pirate ship. It's a logical thought as an arrow spangs off her armor.
    Then she sees the skeletal archers.
    ... Then she starts... Walking towards them.
    And she does not stop as she flips her sword in her hand so that she's gripping it by the blade as she...
    Trudges right through a hail of arrows plinking off her armor, COMPLETELY uncaring as she starts laying into skeletons with the butt of her sword.
Wisteria
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    Wisteria smiles at the girl squad dancing their way through the hail of arrows, and then there's Amalthea just walking along like it's a sprinkle instead. Once all of the skelletons are down and they've opened the mausolem she looks around. "They're memorials more than graves. Landers need somewhere to mourn the dead same as we do in Tokyo." she says "Zombies seem to spawn naturally... with like concentrations of dark magic I think... of course it could also be done to someone from what I've heard of the zombie army." she says and heads down the stairs inside. When they end on a platform she looks up and around the amphitheatre. She look sdown at the princess...er Wizzard... says so on his hat. "Looks like my kind of fight, curse on curse let's see who knows this stuff better, me or some empty headed wizard!"
Vertina
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"Should we be worried -this- mausoleum wasn't locked by some puzzle like the previous time?" Vertina asks of no one in particular as the group heads inside and down in the depths of the entombment.

Though it does get answered in a way when they come upon a cackling bonehead with magic of the Darkest variety. "Now THIS I came prepared for!" The Salamander pauses for a moment, the stillest she's been since the venture started, uttering some archaic spiritual phrase under her breath. Followed by a specific set of motions to draw on charka energies and swirl together a ball of light between her hands.

"Hey boney..." she snarks as she lobs the glowing orb in front of herself. "Catch!" She traces a foot back across the ground and then whips it up as she spins, slamming foot into the holy ball "DIVINE STRIKER!" and sending it hurtling towards the sorcerous skeleton.
Amalthea
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    "Huh. It's not locked." Amalthea muses after she finishes savaging some skeletons and makes her way into the mausoleum with the others.
    And then there's the skeletal princess wizzard, flooding the chamber with dark magic.
    The old paladin raises her bladed high, sword beginning to glow with a divine light...
    "I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Udun. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass!" She declares, fending off the dark magic for the others to get their attacks in.
Baroness Wake
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    "Huh. Now that's something you don't see every day." It's hard for Wake to not get into the whole fashion.. situation this skeleton presents. "You rock those sequins, Wizzy!" she calls out. Okay, she fails to avoid it entirely.
    Dark magic flying around is never a safe thing, and so she responds with light, blasting away at the enemy with some magic of her own. This reminds her of something from a previous dungeon run and it's causing her to giggle in a most unladylike fashion, even as she has to sidestep a blast of dark magic.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki nods at the explanation. She had already heard that graveyards are places of mourning for Landers.

    They explore the mausoleum, and encounter...

    Mizuki blinks. "Rincewind? Oh, poor man, Death finally caught up with you, huh?"

    She dodges around the tentacles, trying to get close. "Sorry, buddy, but we both know you were never much of a wizard. And we have a whole party full of people as mighty as Cohen to-- urgh!"

    A tendril of darkness grabs her leg and hangs her in the air as she struggles, hurling kunai at the skeleton. "Okay, I guess you finally learned some magic! Congratulations! Shame this is what it took..."
Gwen
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Gwen looks to Wisteria for a moment. "Much like sometimes Soldiers remains can't be recovered." She frowns at htis fdor a moment "Well given the undead I seen there are vampires I suspect sometimes Landers can be turned." She notes but then comes the wizard she looks at them for a moment frowns and will start chanting as she moves to unleush "HOLY LIGHT"

Not a full on holy but she slashes twice at the air and causes a two lines of holey energy to head to the skeletal wizard.
Miyako
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    "We probably should," Miyako says, agreeing with Vertina. "I see we have a Lizzard!" She chuckles softly as she pushes closer, intending to engage in melee like she did with the archers. She ducks around one spell-blast with a grin.

    "A fool there was and he made his prayer / To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair / We called her the woman who did not care / But the fool, he called her his lady fair..."

    The singer gets in close and swings for the home run! Alas, strike out! She misses a blast of shadows that the creature lets out just as she winds up and... zounds! Into the wall she flew, an adventurer learning her art anew!
Wisteria
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    Wisteria draws dark magics to herself "Alright we're going to see if.." and then she's yanked into the air by her ankle, a shadow tentacle throwing her across the large room. "Okay...shoulda used one of my big spells." she manages before slamming into a wall and sliding slowly down it. When all the holy warriors are done with the 'Wizzard' she gets to her feet brushing herself off. "Sorry guys... underestimated... shoulda realized he was a miniboss and used a bigger spell to over power his dark wave arts."

    Walks into the room and looks back when the doors slam and lock "Yah.. stupid celing voice..." she says and shakes her head "I ran into this one... we've gota break the door down somehow... you literally CAN'T take the stupid key." she says.
Vertina
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"Pfff. This is a dumb test with a Salamander in the group," Vertina scoffs as she walks over to the weird dark flame and goes to reach into it... But then of course Wisteria explains what it really is. "What? It's not real? Laaaaame."

Okay, so just grabbing the key out of the fire isn't going to do it. Not one to waste time with what doesn't obviously work Vertina trots over to the visible door, though she does look a little miffed at not being able to fancy fire trickery out. ".. If this is a trap, what idiot designed it? The hinges are on this side!" Something she only really knows from one of the construction workers remodeling her tavern yelling at her for trying to do just that, put hinges on the wrong side, in one of her attempts to help.

"What's the saying? OPEN SAYS-A-ME!" And she SLAMS one of her fist weapons into a hinge to break it apart.
Baroness Wake
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    "Well, they want to see us, obviously. Let's just be polite and.." Wake rushes forward, bring both fists forward to blast into the door, "KNOCK!!" She's not going to worry about finesse. And honestly, the thief in her is quite offended that there's no way to pick the lock. That's a professional insult. This door will pay.
    Regardless of what follows, Wake is able to slip swiftly back out of the inevitable dust that strike stirs up. She's not going to get herself /dirty/ for this!
Amalthea
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    With the great and powerful wizzard defeated, it's on to the next room and the puzzle presented here... Well that's something. The key can't be taken, so... Amalthea casually walks to the door and pulls out what looks like a lockpick kit.
    Whistling to herself, she starts using the torsion wrench as a screwdriver to... Unscrew the hinge that Vertina isn't working on while she hums an oddly familiar tune.
Miyako
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    "What if you knock the thing over?" Miyako asks, "Or is the key just a fake in the first place?"

    "Lame. Laaaaame." She sighs and walks over to the door, produces a crowbar from her inventory, and starts to work at levering one of the hinges out of the wall, just to be even more annoying to the stupid dungeon. "I say we wreck the place as completely as possible." Then Amalthea comes up with a 'screwdriver' and she shrugs, stepping back to let her work.

    "Heck with it, I'mma gonna try anyway." She puts one foot up to the side of the plinth and gives it a hearty shove.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki lands on her face after the skeleton is defeated. Very un-catlike! She stands up and dusts herself off, following into the next room... which seals. "There's no solution, really? Who DESIGNED this?" Wis has put the idea of breaking the door down into her head. She doesn't go STRAIGHT for that, though. She approaches the hinges and tries to see how they're put together, maybe unscrew something with a claw. It's not working. "Ugh, we need proper tools! Or maybe a hammer. Can we really die from lack of oxygen in here?"
Wisteria
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    Wisteria shifts into Bun form and joins Miyako in kicking the plinth over, where it shatters. "Well damn... last time that worked..." she sighs at the flaming key bounces across the floor still happily burning. "We used it as a battering ram..." she watches everyone else dismantling the doors and shrugs "I mean that works." she says as the other ladies take the doors off rather than smashing them down.

    When the team gets down into the crypt there is a vampire. "See it's like... I duno was he a lander, or did he spawn because of the graveyard infestation? Or is he the cause .. cause when we beat a boss it seems to clear out the infestation for a time at least." She offers, and then it's a rebounding vampire. She draws her sword. "I guess we should kill now, discuss mechanics later?" she says and joins in on the frantic movement, the caerbannog going into her own pinball routine.
Miyako
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Having satisfied herself with suitably wrecking the 'trap' room, Miyako walks on into the next with the rest of the party. And ... "I guess so. I mean, does it really matter when compared to he's /A Vampiric Pinball/?" she asks of no one in particular. "Welp." She sets her naginata, waits for exactly the right opportunity.

    "Flipper!" She swings... and sends the thing bouncing off a wall and back towards one of her colleagues. "Vert! Catch! You're up!"
Vertina
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The party walks into the main crypt of the tomb. "Someone certainly worked hard on getting the atmosphere just right to be creepy yet epic." She gives a coffin a nudge with her foot. "Feels authentic."

And then the vampire pops out of one of the other coffins. Vertina... actually cheers?! "Yes! Finally, the kind of undead you expect to have to beat into a pulp inside an ancient crypt!" Then it turns out to be a small, fast Gnome Vampire trying to go all Vega on them leaping on and off the walls with slashing strikes. Sparks fly a few times as Vertina blocks various claw swipes with her bracers. "Okay Nosferatiny, you asked for it..."

Vertina takes a step back, settling back into a pose more for focus than fighting and closes her eyes. One hand moves in a way that one might notice her fingers are doing the strokes to write the kanji for 'life'.

Her hand starts to glow with vibrant ki, the spiritual energy of life itself... and when the mini-pire is bounced her way she thrusts her glowing palm straight into him, scorching him with the divine energy and sending him off in another direction like he was a stray ball. "Pong!" She calls back to Miyako.

Normally that was a technique for touch healing. But everyone knows that Heal magic is as dangerous to the unliving as Fire!
Mizuki
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    "Indeed." Mizuki replies to fight now, questions later, as she draws her daggers and takes on a fighting stance...

    Only for the gnome to suddenly zip around like crazy! "What kind of vampire is this?!" She swings and misses again and again, before finally being mesmerized, swaying on her feet in a daze.
Baroness Wake
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    "I'm honestly not sure what to make of this! Last time I encountered the undead it was rather more serious. I feel like I've wandered into a Mel Brooks film," Wake observes. "Not that I'm complaining. I've always been a fan."
    But yes, there is work to be done and all that. The Baroness has played tennis before, and this isn't so different. She pulls forth her blades and slashes at the hurtling ball of vampignome. Sure, her weapons aren't exactly tennis racquets, but in a pinch, they'll do well enough.
Gwen
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There are things Gwen never liked when she was younger the whole tween vampire thing replused her. So she had a special dislike for them and shens he behold one for a moment. "With pleasure."

Gwen will march right up towards it holy fire burning about her body as she works on channeling a spell as she raises her sword.

"The hearts of men are black with corruption and must needs be cleansed!"

She then brings down her blade sending a pillar of fire at the vampire.
Amalthea
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    "I'm not going to think too hard about this." Amalthea says putting her lockpicks away once the door is handled and the group is beset by...
    A gnome vampire.
    That's... A thing. A small thing.
    "I hate to ruin everyone's fun but... You're all overthinking this." The old knight begins to say, putting her sword away and drawing a dagger.
    Which she promptly uses to stab the vampire in the chest.
    "Did you know, Quincy Morris killed Dracula with a bowie knife in the original novel?" She points out FAR too casually while trying to end something's life.
Wisteria
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    Wisteria joins in on the combat, bouncing from wall to wall trying to keep up with the vampire. Her blade glowing with a black light. And it's about then that Mizuki stops moving, hit by the vampire's mez. The bun slams into her smol friend and the two end up tangled in the remains of an empty coffin over in one corner while the rest of the group really takes the little guy to task.
Vertina
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Once the tiny terror is trounced Vertina turns to look at her two friends, and has to hold back a bit of snickering. "Hey you two, don't you know what happens to people that go to graveyards to make out in like every horror story ever?", she teases, just because she knows full well the bunster isn't really into that sort of thing.
Mizuki
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    Mizuki comes to... tangled with Wis in a coffin. One of those things is pretty nice, but the timing is concerning! "...Wis?! What happened?" She looks around in alarm and sees the battle is won. She must've only been out for seconds... She disentangles herself. Shuddering. She's never been hit with a mental effect before. She blushes at the comment... The cat might be into that sort of thing but she knows the bunny isn't. She looks at the new item in her inventory and tries to ID it, reading aloud the description and what skills it can be used with.

    "So vampires are animated by a curse, then? Can it still be spread by biting?"
Amalthea
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    "Depends on the legend." Amalthea answers Mizuki. "In some lore a vampire who drains all the blood from their victim turns them into a spawn. In other stories, the vampire must feed their blood to a bite victim in order to start the transformation." The old knight says as she sheathes her dagger and stretches her arms over her head.
    "As none of us were bitten, I think it's a moot problem."
Baroness Wake
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"Amelia," says Wake, as the gnome is finally put down, "You know we really need to do this more often. I admire your way of handling these challenges." The Baroness is quite happy to pick up the loot. Granted, with some gloves. "I guess I've picked up odder things in a dungeon," she mutters to herself.
    Turning to Gwen, Wake swiftly changes the subject, since this dungeon is clearly handled. "Did you have any time to work on my last order, dear? I'm rather hoping to beat the summer rush. And there's just so much going on with these undead and their.. Queen, I guess it is?"
Miyako
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    Miyako nods. "It's werewolves that transfer it by just a bite. And, well." She shrugs and gestures at the werefang of the group. "I think we've got that taken care of."

    "Personally I plan on turning the fang into a necklace. Maybe if we do this again I can collect a whole set."

    Then she pauses and blinks. "Queen? Like, what, Hatshepsut? Mina Harker-Tepes?"
Wisteria
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    Wisteria gets up brushing herself off. "Looks like you got hit with a stun effect or something, you stopped moving and I couldn't turn cause... well... I was air bounding." she shrugs a little and picks up her sword putting it away. "Hey you know I only hug and lean." she sticks her tongue out at Vert shifting back into her human form. Then she hugs Miz and leans on her. "I'm likely to turn it into enchanting materials." most everything becomes enchanting materials since she figured enchanting out really.
Amalthea
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    Flashing a genial smile, Amalthea takes a flourishing little bow to Wake, somewhat amused and partially flattered. "I tend to find 'direct' to be the most suitable means of solving a problem."
    Before she frowns at Miyako.
    "Don't be silly. It was Lucy Westenra that Dracula turned. He had his eye on Harker, but was killed before she could be /fully/ transformed into a vampire."
    Literature is serious business it seems.
Gwen
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After the fight is over she will look to Amalthea.

"Yeah, though if we had to I'd use my Ka-Bar."

She has a Ka-Bar?! She grins a the fith is over and she'll grab her loot as well with a grin. "We should be fine also check for status effects on your HUD. Even what happened when I made my big project. There was a status effect Uta found."
Vertina
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"I know. That's why it was funny!" Vertina returns with a smirk and wink. Picks up one of the teeth knocked out of the mini-vampire and holds up. "And to our defeated foe, for this Loot, we say FANGS a lot!"
Miyako
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    "In the original novel," Miyako concedes. "But there have been lots of fan-sequels, mostly focused around Mina. Including some where she's partially or fully turned." She grins. "Was a favorite of mine for a while."
Wisteria
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    Wistera sticks her tongue out at Vertina again. "Lots of books, especially the older stuff that gets stuck in with the light novels when it gets reprinted or reused as a light novel... well they're pretty interesting but they all seem to have this obsession with romance and sex." she blehs and shakes herhead "Duno what the big deal is..." she sighs "Everyone's so obsessed with boys and girls and girls and girls and boys and boys and whole freaking genres dedicated to the stupid thing."
Vertina
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Vertina uughs. "Don't remind me. I got -so many- of those sent to me when I was laid up. I mean, people meant well, but they didn't know -me- enough to send me something I'd actually enjoy!" She brushes some crypt dust and grime off her arms. "I suppose we should find our way out of here before something else decides to spaw and reset the instance."
Baroness Wake
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    "It's a dungeon clear and a book club. I totally missed the book, sadly," admits Wake. She will turn her attention away from the literary debate and towards Miyako, "You know, I'm not entirely sure, but she and her ilk are enough to earn a meeting of the Alliances, so she's got to be a pretty big deal. A real raid, I'm thinking." She pauses to consider, "I haven't been in a proper raid in some time. It should be fun."
Mizuki
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    Mizuki gives Wis an awkward look. "It IS a biological instinct that ensures the survival of the species, after all. But there's plenty more to life than that."
Miyako
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     "Yeah, a proper raid's... well. Have we even got the level for it? Anyone know what level she is?" She pauses a second, then adds, "And is she hot?" Chuuni gonna chuuni.

    "Book club... mmm. We should start writing down all the stories... oh grief." Her eyes go WIDE as she comes close to a sudden panic. "Oh gods. The /music/. I need pen and paper and I need it now."
Gwen
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Gwen says "I read here and there, it really depended honestly. Did Romance of the three Kingdoms a while back." She grins a bit as she pulls something out of her inventory and she will file he way out. "Is it really spawning or is something else going on. Ha we could write down the stories of our world and sell them here also the music...I know someone did the sheet music for Queen. This world shall know the glory of Freddy and his band."
Amalthea
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    "That's not canon." Amalthea says very firmly, lips set into a thin line. Before she clears her throat.
    "Aye, Giganpor wanted to organize a meeting about the undead. I guess I'll be going to that whenever he holds it." She asides to Wake.
    So much for retirement now that she's helping Gardenia run things, eh?
Wisteria
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    Wist shakes her head and starts towards the exit "Don't get it, if it's something you're suppose to be all moony over then I'm broke." she says and sticks her tongue out once more.. it's out a LOT tonight. She sighs and shrugs again. "Eh... I think it's stupid so much more stuff to do that doesn't involve boys trying to paw at you or notes of confession in your locker." she says and shakes her head. "It's all just stupid. Lets go turn this in so the guild knows this graveyard is clear for now at least and people can come for their mourning."
Miyako
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    "Canon, schmanon, fanfic /happens/, girlfriend. Learn to love it. Before they start writing it about /you/." Miyako grins at Amalthea. "Better to pick your own than to let someone else ruin it for you."