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After cleaning up after the guards we disposed of, we returned to town. We talked with the bartended at the inn we stayed at, since Agatha seemed to think we could trust him, and he told us he thought the townspeople would consider us as "heros" of sorts, since the current people running the town forcibly took it over from House Morcane, the rightful rulers of the town.
We showed him a letter we took from the leader of the troops we killed, since we were having trouble translating the Moracne's system of time, and he assisted us, telling us that the recipient of the letter was supposed to be at House Morcane in two "surface hours".
We stocked up on a few provisions and decended to the bottom of the spider web just outside the city, where we found the entrance to House Morcane, though it was not obviously marked as such.
Just inside the entrance, we found a room with more of those acid spitting undead we encounded a few days ago. Killing them wasn't hard, but I had to chase after one of them as it was running away to alert its masters.
I chased it into a room with its two masters - vampires - and a barely alive drow woman chained to a pillar in the middle of the room.
We managed to defeat the vampires with some difficulty and freed the woman, who said she was Dessa, last of the House Morcane. Dorina made this rescue a bit more difficult that necessary, as she allowed herself to be charmed by one of the vampires and insisted on defending it until we managed to make it flee.
Agatha returned to city Morcane with Dessa so she could get healing and rally her support in the town, while Yhorn and I remained below. We spent the time resting, though it really should have occured to us to search further inside to try and determine where the vampires escaped to.
Since we didn't, we had to fight the fully restored vampires again with out diminished resources after Agatha and Dessa returned. This time, since we found their coffins, we waited for them to return after fleeing so we could permanantly kill them. It was somewhat tiresome to have to wait two hours for them to give up and return to their coffins, but it's better than we waited and permanantly slayed them than risk something happening and them returning to fight us yet again.
Dessa led us further into her house to the matriarch's chambers, where we found a very beautiful drow woman reclining (apparently asleep) on a chair in the center of the room. I went up to the woman and attempted to wake her up, but not surprisingly, it was a trap set by the fiend in charge - yet another vampire.
We killed it - with considerably more difficulty since we had used up a large amount of our resources fighting her two lieutenants twice. It didn't help that she insisted on flinging spells at us from the ceiling, but Agatha finally gave Yhorn her wings of flying, and he was able to, and this time, we waited attack her directly. The vampire didn't make our job any easier given she summonned a ghast, a demonic spider, and a fire elemental to her aid to distract us, but she eventually ran out of spells and we were finally able to beat her to the point where she fled. We tracked her back to her coffin and destroyed her.
With the coffin, we found a burnt letter we were unable to read, and map leading to an unknown location further underground.
Dessa, a vicious fighter, gave us a long-winded explanation of her family's fall from power. I'm not sure what exactly we're going to do about the map and letter we found, or where we are going to go next. Probably it will be a good idea to consult the wizard that Yhorn talked to to get information about the monestary he was trying to go to.
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