Volenta
When using her hail of daggers, Volenta prefers to target the players instead of Father Lucian. As she fights them, she taunts Father Lucian gleefully, noting, “I’d intended to rip out your throat in front of your cute little congregation, but I guess decorating the church steps with your friends’ heads and entrails isn’t a bad second place!”
- FIRST TURN Throw alchemists firebomb
- SECOND TURN multiattack
- THIRD TURN tanglefoot or thunderstone
- FOURTH TURN multiattack
- FIFTH TURN other of tanglefoot or thunderstone
- SUBSEQUENT TURNS multiattack Volenta flees from combat if her first form is reduced to 0 hit points, using her smokestick reaction to escape if possible. (The other vampire spawn don’t accompany her, and fight to the death.)
When Volenta flees, she smashes through a nearby window and gallops across the rooftops like a four-legged beast. As she flees, she snarls, “You think your precious little church can keep you safe? He’ll burn down the rest of Vallaki to get to you, and kill the rest of this stinking vermin to force you out!” She then sneers at the players and promises to see them again soon before vanishing from sight behind a chimney.
Father Lucian
Stats
- Health: 27/27
- AC: 13
- Spell Slots Remaining: 4 1st level, 2 2nd level, 1 3rd level
Details
In combat, Father Lucian directs the players to form a defensive line around the door, hoping to funnel the vampires one-by-one into a choke point in order to dispatch them individually. Father Lucian himself attempts to end his turns behind full cover on each round of combat, ducking out only briefly to target vampires with his offensive spells.
He stands as near to the front lines as possible while remaining behind full cover, seeking to ensure that any attacking vampire spawn will inevitably be drawn into range of his spell.
- FIRST TURN Spirit Guardians
- filling the air with a galaxy of swirling, fiery suns that burn with fierce golden light.
- SECOND TURN casts spiritual weapon, summoning and attacking with a golden ethereal mace whose head resembles a sunburst
- THIRD AND SUBSEQUENT On his third and subsequent turns, Father Lucian uses his action to cast guiding bolt and his bonus action to attack with spiritual weapon once again. If any of the players are reduced to 0 hit points, Father Lucian spends his action casting cure wounds on them. If his concentration is ever disrupted, he spends his action to renew spirit guardians instead.
Vampire Spawn
The two vampire spawn fight by using their claws to grapple enemies, who they then drag away to feast upon in private—preferably by hauling grappled prey out of the windows and onto the rooftop of the shop. Both spawn fight to the death.