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[Harbingerjm]

((Hmmm, can we get a map of the room, with our, the fungus, the table, etc's placement?))

[Tawa]

Saeberth hears a voice in the back of his head.

don't attack the mushroom guy or you're going to die

Saeberth assumes that it's the legendary spirit said to haunt his home island, the Boy of Ninety-Nine Flames, a child who was supposedly killed in a forest fire and keeps watch over the natives. Saeberth backs away from the room and slams the door shut.

[flame99]

Spoiler: Quickly-done map (click to show/hide)

Players are in the northern entryway, weird multicolored...thing is the closest token I could find for a purple fungus, and the key is a key.

[GiglameshDespair]

Zarn lurched towards the purple plant-creature while Chaika darted in, grabbed the key, and quickly ran out, shutting the door behind her.

The zombie would fight until it was destroyed, and by that point the fungus would have long since forgotten about the adventurers.

[flame99]

Zarn successfully distracts the Purple Fungus, giving Chaika enough time to get the key and run. Through the door, you hear a few painful-sounding thuds, then silence. Trying the key in the large doors, it fits, unlocking the door. Opening it reveals a large room covered in elaborate runes, with pentagrams and summoning circles littering the floor. In the center is a pedestal, on which a skull sits, covered in similar runes. At the far end is a man who is, judging by his extraordinarily pale skin and the amount of blood on and around him, a vampire. He's sitting at a desk covered in various writings.
As you come into the room, he looks up and sees the party. He shouts something in a language you don't understand, though it's likely profanities, before making a few gestures and intonations. The stagnant air in the room seems to begin moving, before becoming a small whirlwind in the center of the room. A great flash of heat, light, and sound comes, before three giant scorpions appear in the center of the room.

Initiative time!

[Tawa]

((Oh noes! The EARTH FIEND is coming up! ))

Roll: 11!

Stabbity fun times, as usual.

[GiglameshDespair]

Init 1d20+7=12

The remaining zombie attacks a giant scorpion. Chaika zaps a second one with a ray of enfeeblement.

[Harbingerjm]

A Vampire, huh. Just how large are the Scorpions?

[GiglameshDespair]

Good question.

Actually, just generally, can we have more descriptions of enemies and stuff? Is the vamp armed, armoured?

[flame99]

The vampire doesn't appear to be armed nor armoured, save for an intricate looking cloak and some rather tattered clothes. The scorpions are about equal in size to you, though a little shorter.
((The scorpions are medium size, is what I'm trying to say.))

[Harbingerjm]

Hmmm. What does +8 to Spellcraft tell me about what just happened, along with +10 to Knowledge (nature) and +4 to Knowledges... Arcana, Religion and The Planes (I suspect are the relevant knowledges)?

[flame99]

You can tell that the Vampire just cast Summon Monster III. Additionally, you're able to identify the cloak he's wearing as a Cape of Mountebank, though it's very heavily faded.

[Harbingerjm]

1d20=1
Ouch.

[Flying Dice]

Init: [13]

[flame99]

Spoiler: Initiative (click to show/hide)

Vampire: 22
Scorpions: 17
>Rikas: 13
Chaika: 12
Saeberth: 11
Malkor: 3
Ishmael: 1

The vampire begins to speak in heavily broken Common, clearly used to speaking more guttural tongues.
"Fear name of Tyraach! Tremble 'fore Skull Plague, for you make enemy of power this sun!"
With that, he activates the Cape, disappearing in a cloud of smoke. His scorpion followers begin to charge the party, with #1 going towards Ishmael, and the other two attacking Malkor.
Scorpion #1 misses by a long shot, and wastes Smite Good on the missed shot. Not that it would have done anything to Ishmael anyways.
Scorpion #2 and #3 also both activate Smite Good, though only #2 hits. It gouges out a sizable amount of flesh through Malkor's armour [5 damage], tackles and pins him, then begins to constrict around the unfortunate cleric [5 damage]. He manages to keep consciousness, though only just.

((Okay, I might have made the scorpions a little too hardcore... Anyways, Flying Dice, you're up.))

EDIT: A quick overview of the situation. The party is standing near the entrance to the room, with Gulthun, Ishmael, Saeberth, and Malkor in the front line, and Chaika and Rikas in the back line. Malkor is disabled and being grappled by scorpion #2. Ishmael can hit any of the three scorpions, Saeberth can only hit #1, and Gulthun can't hit any without moving, so he's not attacking this turn. I can toss together another poorly-done Roll20 map if the description above isn't enough.