"When The Lights, Go Out, In the Dungeon" or "Sister Crimson"

The party leaves the docks of Miomanta, and makes their way to Malcanthet's palace.  They are stopped by a group of glabrezu, informing them that they are not properly 'attired' to get an audience.  The glabrezu discover the parties short fuse and are corpses in the streets in mere moments.

Arriving at the palace, the building is remarkably open to visitors.  The adventurers try to find Malcanthet's throne room, but no one seems interested in helping them.  Scenes of decadent, hedonistic, carnal frivolity fill the building.  The air is thick with perfume and sweat.  Eventually the party finds the throne room.  Malcanthet seems irritated and amused by the groups bad form.  Her off beat humor draws out the discussion, but eventually gets to the point.  She is willing to help, but wants the party to retrieve her lost sister Crimson.  To seal the deal, she wants a kiss, and directs the inquiry at Nesta.  Nesta, not-as-reluctantly-as-you-might-expect agrees, and Malcanthet plants a long, wet, deep, level-draining kiss.

The party travels to an old, run-down, building.  It's a mockery of a temple of Pelor.  Searching the grounds for some time, Daria finally uncovers a trap door leading to the lower levels.  Slabs of tables for the killing and dismemberment of humanoids fill the first room, a large dining hall fills the next.  The third room is a crypt.  Exploring the crypt, elite vampires attack the party.  Ortho breaks out the Light of Pelor, but quickly has it disarmed from his grip.  Then in the darkness, the item is stolen.

The fight continues on and Nesta discovers the room where Crimson is resting.  After telling the party to leave several times, and the party killing off the last of her vampire-ninjas, Crimson strikes.  Nesta gets her head ripped off by Crimson's razor-barbed whip.  The fight goes on...

[to be continued]

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Session Characters:  Mittens, Nesta, Maybold, Ortho, Gwendelyn, Vin, Rudolpho, Hjalmgerdr, Daria
Session Loot: no loot, just lost the Light of Pelor