Aria helped Rose expose the room to the light and watched avidly as she reached into the bag. She glanced to the door, once again thankful that the dimension dooring seemed to 'fool' the golems as to which way they'd gone, which a more intelligent observer might've guessed from their following of the gaseous vampire (such as Rose herself had deduced from its trajectory). Aria stood by Rose with a silver-headed arrow drawn in her bow, having some vague notion from popular stories and lore of the realms back home that the things hated silver and wooden shafts through the heart.<br/><br/>In an effect somewhat visually comic but quite familiar to worldly and well-outfitted adventurers such as themselves, Rose extracted from the bag a black-stained wooden coffin many times the bag's size. With the familiar narrow-hexagon shape, it was easily flipped open, to reveal the resolidified but seemingly in-statis vampire. Thanks to the placement and preparations, the body immediately caught fire, in a ghostly haloed sort of way, the undead flesh burning away to no ill effect upon its clothing or the coffin wood. The spontaneous cremation took only a few moments, leaving behind the black cloak and atop it, clothing, a bow and quiver, a rapier which Aria indicated as magical, and the sort of pouches which corroborated the vampire's final tactical act as a spell caster. "Ashes to ashes and all that," she grinned at Rose after the body had 'burned' away, "Thanks for dealing with Lord Neckbiter there in the fight - as with golems and the ooze, I find undead quite troublesome, especially those who seem to resist or regenerate blows such as it did. And nice to really kill this thing and the nasty troll..."<br/><br/>Aria rummaged curiously in the bag, finding documents (they recognized several drawings of the druidic circle and a few other places, like the 'teleportation aids' found amongst the pirates) and books (one of which looked like a typical enough wizard's spellbook) and grisly personal effects such as bottles which looked a bit too viscous to be red wine. They also found a metal rod-like item with a branching head which seemed designed to hold a document or two - it reminded Aria of nothing so much as a music stand, for holding a performer's sheet music, although it was shorter and lacked a tripod base or other means for standing itself alight. She mentioned that this item too was magical, with a stronger aura than most of their looted things so far.<br/><br/>She glanced about the room saying, "Nothing else magical....just that same aura that seems to fill the whole keep."<br/><br/><br/><br/>Happy Halloween! You slayed a vampire!  ;D