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[Rolan7]

Nice reversal of Elan's "uplifting" speech at Azure City.
Interesting update regardless.

[Enemy post]

A comic.

[smjjames]

No surprise that any remaining clerics are on alert.

[Akura]

*puts on analysis hat*

Searing Light and Daylight are both 3rd-level spells, meaning those clerics are at least 5th-level. Probably not too bad for night-duty guards, but certainly by-and-far inadequate to repel a vampire. Especially one of Durkon's level. Or four >10th-level vampires. They also misunderstood Daylight's effects, since it apparently does not actually affect vampires(it doesn't count as actual daylight and vampires aren't weakened by bright light).

[Enemy post]

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[Elephant Parade]

*puts on analysis hat*

Searing Light and Daylight are both 3rd-level spells, meaning those clerics are at least 5th-level. Probably not too bad for night-duty guards, but certainly by-and-far inadequate to repel a vampire. Especially one of Durkon's level. Or four >10th-level vampires. They also misunderstood Daylight's effects, since it apparently does not actually affect vampires(it doesn't count as actual daylight and vampires aren't weakened by bright light).

Seeing as they talked about "definitely having more" divine power, I'm going to guess that they're not actually full-fledged clerics—just regular priests who've acquired a few spells through diligent study, or because of the current situation, or whatever.

Or maybe they just used up all their spells earlier, I dunno.

[Rolan7]

It's a good point that daylight wouldn't actually work.  And at the same time, they might have been attempting to Intimidate.  I and GMs I know would give a bonus for casting Daylight with the intimidate, even though it doesn't have mechanical effect.

[smjjames]

Not sure how daylight would help the intimidate, though I guess being backlit by a really bright light helps?

[Rolan7]

Because the light-as-like-day would invoke a primal fear in the vampire, perhaps.
Maybe I've played too much Vampire the Requiem recently...  There's certainly no *rule* about that, just saying.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'd rule that if the vampire in question wasn't familiar it would cause normal fear because...you know...it might work. But certainly not the primal fear of actual sunlight and fire. The spell is no different than a UV bulb, it's just that the vampire wouldn't know that.

Though that actually opens the hilarious possibility of them panicking and then realizing it's just normal panic instead of the supernatural panic of unlife.

[Egan_BW]

Could someone come up with a spell that shoots ACTUAL sunlight? Like, open a lens to space right next to a star kinda thing.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Ah, but you see, sunlight does not gain the power to destroy vampires until it is refracted through the holy firmament above the skies of the world.

[Egan_BW]

Fine, optic portal to the sky just below the holy firmament, on whichever side of the planet is currently in daytime.

[Trekkin]

Fine, optic portal to the sky just below the holy firmament, on whichever side of the planet is currently in daytime.

Or you could cast Wall of Iron a lot in space and get a golem to polish the plates until they shine. Given a set of Decanters of Endless Water to act as a reaction control system, you could have a functioning heliobeam for around 8 million gp.

Come to think of it, if vampires were the only thing such a system was intended to destroy, a set of smaller mirrors in geostationary orbit would allow for localized daylight anywhere on the planet.

[Harry Baldman]

Could someone come up with a spell that shoots ACTUAL sunlight? Like, open a lens to space right next to a star kinda thing.

Sunbeam and Sunburst! Sadly only the domain of druids, sun clerics and (only for Sunburst) wizards, but it's definitely around.