Centrum Glacies 2021 Session 21: Psychic Vampire
Week 21 in 2021 of this Dungeons and Dragons Campaign in Centrum Glacies continues as the party gets attacked by a Psychic Vampire.
Like my other campaign, I’m turning this one into a book series. However I’m still working on that project. Give it some time.
Anyway, just like my other campaign, there is a whole lot going on and I don’t want to elaborate on every moving piece in the story. You can see the whole thing once the book series starts hitting virtual and real shelves.
!!!Trigger Warning!!!
This story deals with a cruel world with some horrific twists. So far, this campaign has featured: Animals getting killed, Genocide, lots of body horror, evil cults, brainwashing, torture.
Most recently one of the party members had an eye gouged out and lost an arm. Not exactly the way it happens in Berserk, but that might have been the inspiration for it. The group at large is currently succumbing to magical wounds that appear to be turning them into Demons.
!!!Final Trigger Warning!!!
The group felt safe and secure in the Orc town. They had advanced technology that the party had never seen. Nothing could hurt them here. Platinum Adventurers and even Mithril ones respected the Orcs. And Gold ranked members couldn’t even leave this place without an escort.
Which is why no one found it strange that all four were awake at dawn. Nor did they think anything was wrong when it started snowing heavily with only a few clouds in the sky. That changed naturally when the party noticed that the Orcs didn’t look calm at all.
Nor did the four shopkeepers who knew a bit more about the Guild than the party did. But they learned why soon enough. A voice beckoned to them. “Are you cold?” It asked. And all of them, from Faustus to Jyona all started shivering.
Only once the Orc guards demanded that she show herself did the party understand what was happening. Engelique and Persphine had warned the four that the other Platinum Adventurer’s would come after them. But no one had predicated that Zynbella, one of the most dangerous of them all, would try and kill them in a sanctuary.
“Give it to me.” the Psychic Vampire demanded that Faustus hand over the Mental Law of Magic. Luckily he had enough mental strength, in no small part because of said item, to refuse her request. He even managed to put her on guard when he made counter threats.
Fighting for the Artifact:
But she didn’t stay on edge long. She reminded them that she was much more powerful than they as she demonstrated that she had powers over more than the weather and their minds. It turned out that she was the one reanimating the dead. Trent wasn’t the only Druid here. She used those same abilities to pervert nature.
Naturally Trent grew violent and attacked her. A foolish move. She drained his very thoughts and the few wounds he managed to inflict on her quickly faded. The others took on the Zombies. They weren’t strong, but they were durable and got up every time the three thought they had been defeated.
Meanwhile Adrene went right for the other Vampire. Unlike other foes she had faced on the Abyssal Continent, Zn quickly overpowered her. Declaring that once she was destroyed the other four would be easy pickings, she focused her incredible psychic power on her blood drinking relative. Adrene couldn’t even scream.
Jyona got the brilliant idea to use her teleporting dagger to try and save their companion and powerful ally. While she did manage to break the Vampire free, the half elf needed saving herself. The three were now high up in the air, above the rest of the fight and the Artificer would not survive the fall.
Meanwhile on the ground, Malcolm proved that his powers were effective against Undead and managed to destroy enough of them that Zyn was forced to come to the ground. However, she ignored him and flew straight at Faustus. The world seemed to stand still. If the Psychic Vampire managed to get that item, then they were finished. And the world might be as well.
A Yandere Appears:
But as she reached out towards Faustus to take that item, a powerful force repelled her. And a furious screech shook the entire town. “KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY BOYFRIEND!”
Zyn was taken aback by this new opponent. The Orcs started to panic and alarms sounded warning that a powerful Demon had entered the town. The party however knew exactly what was happening. And a certain Psycho Succubus appeared from thin air.
Faxina was back and she once more intended to kill any woman who came too close to Faustus. The Warlock muttered about how he had agreed to no such thing. Naturally she didn’t hear that.
Zyn demanded to know who the Succubus was. Faxina didn’t answer. Instead she trapped herself and the Psychic Vampire in a shield to keep her away from the man she lusted after.
The Psychic Vampire still was able to bring her Undead horde back though. The wasn’t out of her grasp yet. Unfortunately, the Demon wasn’t going to let her do what she wanted. Once more demonstrating her potent mind control powers, the four shopkeepers, all Gold Rank Adventurers fell into a trance and drew weapons.
Wrap Up:
None of this is what the party expected when they awoke at dawn. Now they are trapped in a three way fight where a Psychic Vampire wants to kill Faustus, and a love crazed Demoness wants to kill everyone else.