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Pool of Radiance (Part 56): Valhingen Graveyard (Part 6) - Valhingen Graveyard completed!
Having sanctified the vampire's coffin, we are actually going to backtrack a bit for an encounter that can only take place at this point. It's a bit awkward to have to head back, but for some reason, the programmers didn't allow for the encounter to be triggered the first time you go through that location.
So we head back towards the edge of the wight zone, and meet a man wandering, completely not suspiciously, around the graveyard.
Nah, bud, you're an obvious trap (and he is, he'll betray you the first chance he gets if you let him join).
A 6th-level magic-user is nothing to sneeze at at this point, but there's only one of him and six of us.
And that is that.
Intriguing.
Nice, we'll give that to Buffy, who only has a +1 ring right now.
We'll trade the old +1 ring to Brin, to be saved for later.
This encounter taken care of, we return to the northeastern corner of the graveyard to search for our elusive vampire. We find what looks to be a wall in front of us, but GBC shows there's a door there...
We go through and find some stairs going down.
A pit seems as good a spot to find a vampire as any, so down we go!
We'll ask him if he's seen a vampire anywhere around.
Woah! The tall, pale man with very white teeth was the vampire all along!
Note that our efreet buddy, who has been chilling out in his bottle this whole time since the kobold caves, has decided to pop out now that we've encountered a vampire. Unfortunately, he's not in the best position to get at the vampire, with little hope of the battlefield opening up in a way for him to do so.
The vampire has apparently called for some wolves to aid him, as vampires are wont to do.
Time to start taking this threat down before he can harm us! The magic users pop some magic missiles.
The efreet, in the only useful thing it can do in this battle, takes down one of the wolves.
I move Buffy around to get into position for an epic backstab. Honestly, a character named Buffy taking down the vampire from behind? You couldn't script it any better!
She misses.
Baroness Bella takes down the vampire right after.
With the vampire down, the remaining wolf goes quickly.
The battle is won! The vampire is dead!
But suddenly...
Argh. Stupid vampires!
But before we follow it...
We sure do!
Nice!
That's a lot of gold. Enough that it threatens to start encumbering my party. We'll still take it anyway - we're adventurers after all!
As for the items it had here...
Oh look. Even more scrolls of restoration. Not like we don't already have a couple dozen already. And why would a vampire have scrolls of restoration anyway? I guess loot from previous, less lucky, adventurers?
The shield gets put aside to be sold, and I'll give the wand to Bragir, whose wand of lightning seems to have used its last charge and crumbled into dust the last time he used it.
But it's no time to linger. We need to track down the vampire before it can re-form and regain its full power. Obviously, it's going to head back to the coffin we encountered earlier.
That's a pretty funny way of putting it. "Oh, by the way, there's a vampire here." Not even "The vampire you previously defeated is here" or something similar.
He's considerably weakened compared to the last fight, so we hopefully can take him down quickly.
And indeed we do...
With the XP of killing him, Baroness Bella can now gain a level!
And somehow I missed the screenshot for the level-up window. She will now have 105 HP, her THAC0 goes down by one, and, like Bant, she will now get 3 attacks every 2 rounds.
Now that we're done here, it's back to the city to earn our well-deserved reward. The Valhingen Graveyard is one of the toughest and most combat-intensive areas of the game, so the reward better be good!
We leave the graveyard and head towards the boat.
And return to the city.
Instead of going straight to the City Clerk, we head to the weapon shop so we can clear out inventory and consolidate our cash to lighten our encumbrance. Several party members were down to only a 3 speed in the last vampire fight.
The first thing we do is sell all those extraneous cleric scrolls. We have a lot of them.
Yes please.
Brother Baltor's inventory in particular is filled with them.
We'll let him keep a couple just in case, as well as the scroll with 3 spells which has some non-restoration spells. His inventory looks much better once the rest are gone.
Remember how I gave Brin the extra ring of protection +1? It's because we can buy her just plain old non-magical banded mail and have her wear that with the ring, which will lower her AC compared to her chainmail +1 alone.
With that, we buy some arrows to consolidate our coin. Our funds at this point:
All done at the store, it's time to see the City Clerk!
"Some" undead. My dear City Clerk, there was far more than just "some". Still, we'll take the reward...
That's OK I guess.
Then she speaks again:
OK, "special prize" sounds more like it!
Wow, that's a lot of XP!
25 jewelry is actually quite a lot.
Once she's given us the reward, she mentions that Urslingen wants to see us, which is just him imploring, once again, for us to capture the Stojanow Gate:
It's our next stop anyway, so hopefully we'll give him cause to quit his whining about this soon.
To prepare for our assault on the gate, we head back to the in to heal up and memorize spells. And to scribe those spells on the magic-user scroll we found!
Brin will scribe the one spell on the scroll she doesn't have.
And after that's done, Bragir will scribe the remaining two.
Spells scribed and memorized, we rest up. Next stop, the Stojanow Gate! We'll start up that mission in the next post. With only this and the castle left to go, we're in the endgame now!
Valhingen Graveyard map:
Having sanctified the vampire's coffin, we are actually going to backtrack a bit for an encounter that can only take place at this point. It's a bit awkward to have to head back, but for some reason, the programmers didn't allow for the encounter to be triggered the first time you go through that location.
So we head back towards the edge of the wight zone, and meet a man wandering, completely not suspiciously, around the graveyard.
Nah, bud, you're an obvious trap (and he is, he'll betray you the first chance he gets if you let him join).
A 6th-level magic-user is nothing to sneeze at at this point, but there's only one of him and six of us.
And that is that.
Intriguing.
Nice, we'll give that to Buffy, who only has a +1 ring right now.
We'll trade the old +1 ring to Brin, to be saved for later.
This encounter taken care of, we return to the northeastern corner of the graveyard to search for our elusive vampire. We find what looks to be a wall in front of us, but GBC shows there's a door there...
We go through and find some stairs going down.
A pit seems as good a spot to find a vampire as any, so down we go!
We'll ask him if he's seen a vampire anywhere around.
Woah! The tall, pale man with very white teeth was the vampire all along!
Note that our efreet buddy, who has been chilling out in his bottle this whole time since the kobold caves, has decided to pop out now that we've encountered a vampire. Unfortunately, he's not in the best position to get at the vampire, with little hope of the battlefield opening up in a way for him to do so.
The vampire has apparently called for some wolves to aid him, as vampires are wont to do.
Time to start taking this threat down before he can harm us! The magic users pop some magic missiles.
The efreet, in the only useful thing it can do in this battle, takes down one of the wolves.
I move Buffy around to get into position for an epic backstab. Honestly, a character named Buffy taking down the vampire from behind? You couldn't script it any better!
She misses.
Baroness Bella takes down the vampire right after.
With the vampire down, the remaining wolf goes quickly.
The battle is won! The vampire is dead!
But suddenly...
Argh. Stupid vampires!
But before we follow it...
We sure do!
Nice!
That's a lot of gold. Enough that it threatens to start encumbering my party. We'll still take it anyway - we're adventurers after all!
As for the items it had here...
Oh look. Even more scrolls of restoration. Not like we don't already have a couple dozen already. And why would a vampire have scrolls of restoration anyway? I guess loot from previous, less lucky, adventurers?
The shield gets put aside to be sold, and I'll give the wand to Bragir, whose wand of lightning seems to have used its last charge and crumbled into dust the last time he used it.
But it's no time to linger. We need to track down the vampire before it can re-form and regain its full power. Obviously, it's going to head back to the coffin we encountered earlier.
That's a pretty funny way of putting it. "Oh, by the way, there's a vampire here." Not even "The vampire you previously defeated is here" or something similar.
He's considerably weakened compared to the last fight, so we hopefully can take him down quickly.
And indeed we do...
With the XP of killing him, Baroness Bella can now gain a level!
And somehow I missed the screenshot for the level-up window. She will now have 105 HP, her THAC0 goes down by one, and, like Bant, she will now get 3 attacks every 2 rounds.
Now that we're done here, it's back to the city to earn our well-deserved reward. The Valhingen Graveyard is one of the toughest and most combat-intensive areas of the game, so the reward better be good!
We leave the graveyard and head towards the boat.
And return to the city.
Instead of going straight to the City Clerk, we head to the weapon shop so we can clear out inventory and consolidate our cash to lighten our encumbrance. Several party members were down to only a 3 speed in the last vampire fight.
The first thing we do is sell all those extraneous cleric scrolls. We have a lot of them.
Yes please.
Brother Baltor's inventory in particular is filled with them.
We'll let him keep a couple just in case, as well as the scroll with 3 spells which has some non-restoration spells. His inventory looks much better once the rest are gone.
Remember how I gave Brin the extra ring of protection +1? It's because we can buy her just plain old non-magical banded mail and have her wear that with the ring, which will lower her AC compared to her chainmail +1 alone.
With that, we buy some arrows to consolidate our coin. Our funds at this point:
All done at the store, it's time to see the City Clerk!
"Some" undead. My dear City Clerk, there was far more than just "some". Still, we'll take the reward...
That's OK I guess.
Then she speaks again:
OK, "special prize" sounds more like it!
Wow, that's a lot of XP!
25 jewelry is actually quite a lot.
Once she's given us the reward, she mentions that Urslingen wants to see us, which is just him imploring, once again, for us to capture the Stojanow Gate:
It's our next stop anyway, so hopefully we'll give him cause to quit his whining about this soon.
To prepare for our assault on the gate, we head back to the in to heal up and memorize spells. And to scribe those spells on the magic-user scroll we found!
Brin will scribe the one spell on the scroll she doesn't have.
And after that's done, Bragir will scribe the remaining two.
Spells scribed and memorized, we rest up. Next stop, the Stojanow Gate! We'll start up that mission in the next post. With only this and the castle left to go, we're in the endgame now!
Valhingen Graveyard map:
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