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Fangs for Nothing

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Broom mimics Lord Korvax's voice, saying "I need you now, hurry, it's urgent," to pull the half-giant Ulf away.

1. Knights of the Rolled Table runs a Dungeons & Dragons combat in the lowest cellar of Korvax Keep, where the party has just found Deleth's brother Popol in a cell. 2. The party is Jarek (a paladin), Sarsa (a cleric), Silius (a sorcerer), and Deleth (a rogue), joined by Broom, a Kenku stable hand who guided them to the cell. 3. Two unmasked guards reveal fangs and Jarek's divine sense reads them as vampires, so the DM calls for initiative with the line "looks like we get to feed a little earlier tonight." 4. Silius opens with a 28-damage fireball ("you should cook your food first"), and Deleth's insightful fighting lets him sneak attack one vampire for 44 damage after a contested check. 5. Broom sweeps a burning vampire's legs with his broom to knock it prone, and Jarek hits with advantage using Blinding Smite and a level-2 Divine Smite for 10 radiant damage, while Sarsa's level-7 Spirit Guardians deals 38 radiant damage to one vampire and 19 to the other. 6. Ulf the half-giant storms in with two more vampire guards and uses "rubble pile" to collapse stone from the ceiling, which Deleth dodges with a Dexterity save against DC 14. 7. Silius casts Thunder Step and turns one vampire to dust, which the DM compares to Buffy the Vampire Slayer rules, and the blast is heard within 300 feet and may alert the whole castle. 8. Broom mimics Lord Korvax's voice to lure Ulf away and nearly succeeds, but loses the contest 8 to 10 against Ulf's perception. 9. Ulf turns into a werewolf alpha and breathes cold for 30 damage, where Jarek's Warding Bond lets him and Sarsa split the damage at 15 each, then Silius's psychic attack is halved to 12 by Ulf's legendary resistance. 10. Suits listeners who enjoy tactical D&D combat with high-level spell and class mechanics.

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