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"Congratulations, you've found yourself a new passenger," he said, eliciting a roll of the eyes from the witch of abominations and a glare from the human.
"Returning to us, Boots of Elvenkind, the wearer becomes more stealthy and the sound of footsteps is silenced... as well as blinding you with their tackiness,", he exclaimed, showing a grimace.
"I think they're cute enough, I think I'll take them," said Luz, taking the boots.
"And you are the last, here, Ring of Jump, it allows you to use the Jump spell like a Cantrip, you can jump three times as high or far," Merren finally said, handing the ring to the witch.
"Seems nice, I guess," she said, raising an eyebrow.
"Now that we're done, we should discuss what to do about the gathering of vampires below Pearlpoint," Freya commented, tending to the campfire.
"Oh yes, we could infiltrate, I have my invisibility glyph with me," Luz exclaimed, holding up her tome with the aforementioned glyph.
"And since this doesn't have to hold your breath like the old glyph of invisibility we could all be invisible for a long time, infiltrate the gathering and discover important informations," she added with a smirk.
"It's a good idea, except for one small problem," Merre commented, sipping from his flask.
"That is?" Luz asked, raising an eyebrow.
"How are we going to see each other? We certainly can't all walk holding hands", replied the other, lowering the young witch's morale a little.
"Yeah, that's true," she murmured, showing a slight pout as Amity patted her back comfortingly.
"It's not a bad idea though," Freya said, trying to cheer her up.
"If we could see each other it would be a good plan, I'm sure that with the right spell or magical object it could be resolved," she added, eliciting a slight smile from Luz.
"I have an idea," Merren began shortly after.
"And is?" Amity asked, tilting her head a little.
"You three will become invisible and stand next to me the entire time we're at the gathering... because I'll infiltrate myself by masquerading as the vampire bitch we killed," he said, surprising the rest of the group a little.
"Oh that's right, you had used a camouflage spell when we met," Luz said, her eyes widening.
"If you have to use it, will you be able to imitate her behavior perfectly?" Freya asked, crossing her arms.
"Oh don't worry, I'm a talented actor... and then I won't need it because Disguise Self only disguises my appearance and not my voice," he shrugged.
"This... is quite an inconvenience," Amity commented, unsure of the plan now.
"Again, don't worry... I'll make up an excuse or improvise if necessary, you're safe and sound with me!", he exclaimed, still drinking from his own flask.
Amity, Luz and Freya exchanged doubtful looks, the plan didn't seem to convince them much but it was the best they could have for the moment.
The creaking sound of rusty doors could be heard throughout the corridor as the light from glowing globes illuminated the way.
An unpleasant sewage smell hung in the air as the waste from the city's aqueducts spilled into the sea.
With disgusted faces, Luz and Amity followed the two adventurers along the dark sewer channels, following the directions in the letter addressed to Juniper to reach the meeting point.
"Eww, why did they have to have their vampirecon in some sewers? Couldn't they have done it in one of those fancy houses gathering in masks and cloaks?" Amity asked, somewhat disgusted as she tried to stay away from the drains.
"Because it would have been too obvious and besides, vampires keep themselves as far away from sunlight as possible and like the rats they are, they prefer dark places and away from prying eyes," Merren exclaimed, grimacing at the fetid smell of the environment.
"Mmm... that makes sense," Luz murmured, holding her nose.
Continuing to follow the directions, the group reached a gallery where a stone staircase led to the lower floor.
"Alright, this is where the gathering begins, let's proceed with the plan," Freya began, nodding to Luz.
The latter reciprocated it and then tore four pages from her tome and handing two sheets to Amity and the paladin, the human witch pressed the other two remaining sheets at the same time, triggering the spell which was activated for them too.
Merren instead moved his hands and uttered the Disguise Self incantation, changing his appearance as an illusion, taking on the appearance of Juniper.
"Well, the curtain opens ...", murmured the half-elf, going down the stairs and being followed furtively by the rest of the group.
Going down the stairs, they were greeted not far away by the lights of torches while along the entrance to a corridor two guards were waiting, vigilant.
They were dressed in half-plate armour, simple helmets and red robes beneath their armor while clutching two-handed swords, their pale, scarlet-eyed faces hinting at their vampiric origins.
As soon as they saw Juniper's figure advancing, the two guards stood at attention, greeting her with a nod of the head.
Merren made a simple gesture with his hand and then passed along the entrance.
Along the corridor lit by torches and where the air was pungent and ferrous, the half-elf spotted two figures discussing, possibly vampires dressed in red hooded robes.
Looking to his right and left he found the entrances to a corridor and a room.
Stretching his gaze towards the room he walked towards it, reaching what must have been a small study with a table full of paperwork with some chairs and a shelf with several tomes.
The half-elf raised an eyebrow, looking at what was in it when a voice behind him caught his attention.
"Oh Juniper, I see you arrived quickly... not that I'm surprised, after all you've always been a promising student," began an affable male voice.
Turning around, Merren could see an elf sitting in the corner, reading a book.
He looked like a drow, but the red eyes and sharp fangs of his slight smile clarified his status, as well as making him quite elegant and menacing with his smooth black hair and robes of the same color.
Merren showed a friendly smile, giving a nod and a slight bow.
The elf returned it and then stood up and placed the tome on the shelf.
"You know, our lord has big plans for all of us and he has decided, given your record of success, to entrust you with a mission of extreme importance," he said, eliciting a perplexed look from the woman.
The elf reached under his robe and pulled out a scroll which he handed to Juniper.
"Here, I expect you to complete this assignment with the same efficiency you have always demonstrated," he said, still wearing an affable smile.
Merren took it, nodding at him.
"Very good, I think I'll take my leave now... the initiation ritual is boring and then, after the three hundredth time they all start to become all the same", he chuckled and then turned and walked away but not before giving one last look to the vampire.
"Oh and if you don't want to further taint yourself with the putrid fumes of these sewers forgotten by the Gods, I suggest you take the shortcut to the ritual room, you just have to extract the sword from the statue... goodbye," he said and then left.
Merren took a deep breath, easing the tension.
"Man, that guy was creepy..." he muttered.
"Yeah... he reminds me of someone I know, someone I really don't want to remember right now," Luz murmured.
"Yes but we have a golden opportunity now, we can directly interfere in any plan they have," Freya commented softly.
"Guys, we better not talk now or they might hear us, we need to go see this ritual and what it's about," Amity whispered hastily.
"Okay," Merren murmured, walking towards the other corridor.
Walking he came to a room with four other vampires arguing with each other, two dressed in red leather armor and armed with crossbows and two dressed in scale armor and swords, they must have been elves judging by their appearance.
Merren passed by them without looking at their faces and proceeded down the corridor to the right, reaching the doors of a room.
They were large and made of dirty metal, decorated with a multitude of skulls, which only unnerved the group.
Upon opening them, they were welcomed into a large room illuminated by a multitude of candles arranged at the base of a statue depicting a figure.
For Luz, Amity and Freya the statue said nothing to them, but for Merren it seemed like it was seeing a nightmare materialize in front of him.
He had seen that figure before, the thick armor, the elegant sword at his side, the hands stretched forward with sharp claws, the long mane and the sharp, predatory gaze.
"Very good, welcome Juniper," began a male voice, attracting the half-elf's attention.
In front of him, flanked by two vampiric guards and further into the room beyond the statue by four other vampires, two dressed in red tunics and with slender figures and ashen skin, possibly drows and two armored in scale mail, shields, hammers strapped to their hips and with short, stocky bodies of clear dwarven orig...
Coming closer he took the red-haired woman's hand and kissed the back of it.
"Your soft paleness is always a delight to see," he said, showing her a slight grin.
Merren tried to force a smile and then break the contact under the gaze of the blue vampire.
"Do you feel ok? You seem strange," he said, somewhat perplexed.
In response, Juniper showed an uncomfortable expression, rubbing her throat to mimic a sore throat, something which made the vampire even more perplexed.
"Have you lost your voice? This is kind of strange...are you sure you-" suddenly his sense of smell caught something that made his eyes narrow.
Beyond the stench of sewers he perceived a strange, familiar odor, a smell... of blood.
Just before he could do anything, Freya's voice boomed through the room.
Suddenly chains of light sprouted in the ground, enveloping the vampire and immobilizing him in the grip of the Litany of Debasement spell while the paladin’s figure behind him had her halberd raised which she brought down on his head with a deadly blow, splitting his skull and pulling out the blade, she saw the corpse...
The paladin turned her gaze towards the latter while she exclaimed an order.
"Amity! Close the entrance to the room, no one must enter or exit here! ", she said, obtaining an affirmative nod from the witch who, casting a spell, materialized an abominable hand in the middle of the doors of the room, barring the entrance.
Luz on the other hand materialized her magical hand which, holding her tome, allowed her to tear a page and inscribe a glyph in an arrow which she immediately shot at one of the guards at Freya's side.
The arrow penetrated the vampire's leg, causing him to scream in pain only to be seriously frozen by a conical blast of ice, as were the two elves and the dwarf vampire behind him.
Except for the latter who protected himself with his shield, the two vampire elves and the vampiric guard found themselves with their feet frozen in the ground, immobilized.
Amity on the other hand pointed her finger at the back of the room and materializing a flame on her index finger she threw it, launching a fireball.
The explosion overwhelmed them and with it the flames that burned most of their bodies.
To her great annoyance, however, the witch could see the vampires taking her spell with reasonable ease, being protected by armor and shields.
The only ones who suffered significant damage, however, were the two vampires wrapped in now singed red robes.
Merren raised an eyebrow, pointing his index finger at them.
"The idea was good, the execution not so much... Arde!", he said, throwing a fireball of his own.
This time the explosion was more violent and screams of pain could be heard from all of them.
After the light and flames cleared, the half-elf grinned as he saw that the two hooded vampires were ash and a guard and a dwarf were now with one foot in the pit, suffering from heavy burns.
Freya, however, with a movement of her wrist materialized her armor and, turning, struck the vampiric guard to her left with a slash charged with divine light, breaking his armor and immediately impaling him with the tip.
She was about to finish him off with a blow from the knob, but the guard reacted quickly, parrying the attack.
The other guard instead quickly hit Merren with his sword, launching two blows but the half-elf masterfully parried both with his sword.
The two dwarves instead summoned blasphemous power, channeling their faith and casting the Spirit Guardians spell.
They created a necrotic aura around them, spawning ghostly bats and then approaching the group of adventurers.
The impure energy overwhelmed the group of adventurers but thanks to Freya's protective aura, the effects of the spell only caused them some slight internal pain.
Luz tore a glyph of fire from the tome and positioning herself better, she shot the arrow at the dwarf vampire, killing him instantly and activating the spell, generating a small cone of flame that hit the guard massacred by Freya, putting an end to his suffering.
Amity created a magic circle, generating four beams of fire aimed at the last remaining guard and dwarf vampires.
The first quickly dodged the spell while the second blocked one of the rays with his shield and received a fair burn on his face from the other, screaming in pain.
Merren charged his Eldritch Blast, firing it at the guard in front of him, the latter dodged again, showing a smug grin that immediately turned into surprise when he felt a burning puncture in his chest.
Opening his eyes wide, he saw a hole in the center of his chest and a grin on the half-elf's face.