Right. That’s what I meant about legalism. The rules are obviously intended so each priest has two bodyguards to get him to the door. Once on the floor, the intent is that the priest remains safe because any violence from another party would cause all the clerics to dog pile the aggressor.
But, there’s no rule for a bodyguard attacking his patron priest. Thus, there’s probably no rule for casting heals or buffs on a bodyguard attacking his patron. Or if a priest can change bodyguards part way through. If Roy can violate the obvious intent with a loophole then every other loophole is also potentially exploitable.
It would seem foolish for Durkula to have killed those clerics just for a meal. He was in the middle of a literally world-changing mission that he had been directly ordered to carry out by Hel. He wouldn’t risk that just to stop and have a snack. So presumably vampirizing the clerics was part of the mission.
He could have done the voting without vampirizing anyone, so my guess is that vamping Gontor and the Stone Creed priestess were just taking advantage of opportunities that presented themselves.
No doubt the two thralls are busy draining the rest of the Stone Creed priests. It’s not certain whether they can immediately vampirize them or not. The staff has the Instant Vampire spell and Durkula has been studying it (supposedly just to learn the Protection From Daylight spell), but I’m sure he would want Instant Vampire too. Assuming he learned it, would he have been able to teach it to his thralls in the short time he had with them? Don’t know, but we have to assume the worst. The entire creed will probably be vamped by sunset (which comes early, since it’s the winter solstice) when they get to recharge their spells.
I doubt he could teach it that fast and, even if he could, the thrall clerics wouldn’t be able to pray for it (since they pray for spells at dusk).
If Durkon did make a couple thralls, wouldn’t they also all need Protection from Daylight? There seems to be plenty of windows in the joint, including in the main chamber where all the voting is taking place. Even if Durkon did cast PfD on his thralls, they again wouldn’t have access to cast it on anyone else.
Damn Roy rolled up well. Dude just doesn’t have a weak stat anywhere(well maybe Dex, I can’t remember him using that too much).
Also, I wonder if a procedural execution for attacking a vampire counts as dying in battle? The other dwarfs present may not have much to lose by jumping in.
I’m not sure Charisma is that high, either. But I wouldn’t be surprised if he took Iron Will: seems like the sort of fellow who REALLY doesn’t enjoy mind-control.
It really can’t be that bad, Celia seems impressed enough, and everybody seems to give a very positive reaction to him. I can’t see him having any penalties for charisma, and I’d think probably a bonus.
Man, Durkon’s really half-assing the “You don’t want to fight me” thing if he can’t even affect the accent while Dominating
I don’t know how resistances are figured these days but the deva weighing Roy’s soul commented that he has “halfway decent Wisdom and Charisma scores” and could have made a decent cleric.
Now that the big reveal of Hel’s plot has come down, Durkula is no longer pretending to be Scottish-burred Durkon. He has no need to continue faking the accent.
Yeah, that was somewhat tongue-in-cheek but still, he could have given it that extra effort when trying to talk Roy out of attacking him. It’s like Durkon has no idea how to be a villain. I bet Tarquin would have advised using the accent
More seriously, Roy’s first two hits and just ineffectual clonks against Durkon. Spell effect or Vampire damage resistance? I’m guessing the former just because of the swords anti-undead properties but I dunno.
The second hit went “Clank” so figure it was the armor that took the hit. Last hit did some damage,though. Interesting that Durkulas wounds are purple. And D did cast something on himself after the first “Thonk.” either dark healing or some kind of buff.
