I suppose initiative rolls are in order, although we could also do things informally, with the skeletons acting last each round.  (to represent the fact that the party should get suprise rounds on the new skeletons being coughed out by the doomsday machine.)<br/><br/>As for the machine's ability to affect a vampire's downtime, let's just say that Ith'ika wasn't the only one who acheived transcendance when the shadow realm was brought to Eberron...