When Nicole came out of the room onto the balcony, she could hear sounds of a fight and furniture breaking down in the party below. Taking a look down, she was startled to see the party had descended into madness.

There was a massive orgy taking place in the center of the room, several people were in the midst of a sword battle, and one man was screaming he was drowning as another man was pouring bottles of wine over him.

Whatever was happening seemed to be getting stronger, in fact a strange sense of corruption could be felt in the air. Nicole quickly left the balcony and headed to the wing she hadn't been down yet. 

A couple of servants were in the hall, they were giggling madly with their pants down and wiped something brown onto the walls. Stepping around them, Nicole started to check the rooms. Most of the rooms appeared to be bedrooms, and she quickly searched them for a hidden door.

Not finding anything Nicole moved on from these rooms. She came across what was obviously a Master Bedroom, that was split into three rooms. The entrance chamber had several masks on the walls. The masks seemed to be depicting several races, she noticed one was missing. From what was depicted she guessed it would be the Human Mask that was missing.

Moving on, Nicole took a look at a nearby bookshelf. Pulling one off the shelf she flipped through it and realized it was a romance novel about a werewolf. Taking a look at a few others, they were of a similar theme about maidens being taken by wolves. Seeing one that caught Nicole's interest, she placed it into her inventory. Seeing nothing else in the room, she moved on to the next.

This room looked like it was meant for hosting a visitor to their rooms. White cushioned chairs, and a couch took up most of the space in this room. Opening a glass cabinet in the corner of the room, she discovered a nice collection of spirits. 

Spotting a nearly full bottle of one of her favorites, she picked it up and put it into her inventory. On the bottom shelf she took note of several red bottles. Opening one, she gave it a whiff, and smelt the smell of blood.

Guessing what was in them, Nicole moved on to the bedroom. A large four poster bed lined in white silk dominated the room. On one of the walls was a painting of a large wolf looking up at the moon. Opening a closet door, she discovered a collection of women's clothes.

Noticing one of the walls had a strange open space, she took a look around it, and found a switch hidden in relief carved on the wood trim near it. Pushing it she stepped into the glowing red room. Like the other hidden rooms the statuette was on a pedestal surrounded by that strange carving. In baskets around the pedestal were rotting piles of fruit and vegetables.

Unlike the other hidden rooms however were the two dead bodies of cultists lying in front of the diagram missing their heads. Alarmed Nicole was on guard for whatever killed them, and quickly moved to pick up the Statuette. 

It was a fat man sitting on the ground and looking at a sprouting plant carved out of jade. Picking it up and placing it into her inventory, Nicole felt the now familiar sensation coming and a window popped up.

Finished here Nicole turned to go, only to stop when she saw Elizabeth standing at the door leaning against the doorframe. She had a smirk on her face that scared Nicole, and she started to charge the spark when Elizabeth said one word "Stop." Nicole felt her body stop and found she could not move at all.

Elizabeth moved off the doorframe, and headed into the room. "It's impressive that you are resisting the corruption in the air. Your connection to your god seems particularly strong." Elizabeth said, looking Nicole over. "Still you are taking far too long, at the rate you're going they'll finish summoning her."

Elizabeth walked around Nicole. Nicole could only feel horror as she felt Elizabeth's breath against her neck. "It's amazing how well you've applied the makeup, if I hadn't smelt this" Elizabeth pulled up Nicole’s dress and grabbed her crotch.

"I would have thought you were a natural born woman." Nicole felt heat on her face as Elizabeth ran her hand down the length. "Don't worry, I prefer my men to be more hairy, not looking like a woman." Elizabeth laughed and let go.

Elizabeth said "We need to get going, get things to do, blood to drink." With that Elizabeth picked up Nicole like a rag doll, and the world went like a blur around Nicole's vision. Elizabeth suddenly stopped and placed her down.

Nicole found herself in another hidden chamber, and watched in horror as the ancient vampire grabbed the heads of the cultists and ripped them off. When that was done she turned towards Nicole and said "What are you waiting for? Oh that's right. I release you."

Nicole felt the weight on her will was suddenly lifted and she could move again. "Why are you doing this?" Nicole said confused "Aren't you working with them?"

Laughing Elizabeth said "With them? No, never, they seek to use me, as a guard dog. What I want is the same thing as you, to live as I want, and to take my revenge upon those who have harmed my loved ones. Now go get the Statuette, I don't have all night for you to gossip."

Nicole walked up to the pedestal holding the statuette. It was of a sword sharpening itself made out of obsidian. Picking it up carefully so as to not cut herself on the sharp statutte, she placed it into her inventory. Once again she felt the whisper of a god

Elizabeth said "Good, now the last one is in the basement I'm afraid. I've been banned from going down into the basement so I can't take you there. But I ripped how to get to the last statuette from one of their heads." She said handing Nicole a piece of paper that had a crude map drawn on it.

Nicole looked at Elizabeth and said suspiciously "Why are you doing this?"

Elizabeth returned the look and sighed "I'm trapped, They've placed a Geas upon me when I was weakened, and now I've been sealed within this damn mansion. Now with them distracted with their foolish summoning I will make my move.”

“The Geas is sealed within a medallion carried by the Elder, which he uses to command me.. You're going to go down and destroy that medallion for me."

Nicole exclaimed "Why would I do that?"

Elizabeth narrowed her eyes "It's obvious you're here to stop the Summoning. You can only do that by stopping the Elder. My powers are greatly weakened but I can feel others like you crawling underneath us. Your god must hope by you disrupting his little ritual up here, it will weaken the elder enough for them to kill him. If he truly wants the Elder dead, you have to destroy the Medallion."

Elizabeth approached Nicole, "You're too weak at the moment to do it, I would turn you, but I have no time to do it, and your blood hold's no appeal for me. No, I will give you a bit of my blood to give you a boost of strength."

Nicole tried to back up and said "Won't that make me a ghoul?" Nicole had no desire to become a servant of this vampire.

Elizabeth said "Hold still, and no, it would require multiple times granting it, even of my blood to do it. One time won't be enough to change you, though my blood is a bit richer than some of my brethren, so there might be some permanent changes." Elizabeth pulled out a dagger that was glowing, and cut a line on her arm and brought it to Nicole's mouth and said "Drink."

Against Nicoles will, she leaned forward and covered the wound with her mouth. Disgusted she felt the burning hot liquid begin to pour down her mouth. Nicole felt it start to pool inside of her and her body felt hotter, she started to suck on the wound trying to get more down her throat. The world seemed to collapse as she focused on her arm and the incredible liquid flowing out of it.

Watching Nicole sucking fiercely at her arm Elizabeth smirked and said "Just a bit more pet." A minute passed and finally Elizabeth pulled her arm from Nicole's mouth. Nicole tried to grab the arm back only to be flicked in the head by Elizabeth. "Greedy little things aren't you. That's enough for you, any more and you'll get blood drunk. Now focus, you have a job to do."

Elizabeth grabbed Nicole, her vision spun as they moved. Stopping in front of a door, Elizabeth tore the door of it's hinges and Nicole looked down and saw a staircase down. So many sensations were hitting her from the blood, the world looked more vibrant. 

Elizabeth looked at Nicole and said "Your Daylight trick will kill most of my weaker kin. It won't work for the stronger ones. Rely more on that strange concealing ability you have and find the statuette." 

Taking out the glowing dagger she handed it to Nicole “Use this to cut the medallion." Elizabeth brought her mouth towards Nicole's ear "Do this for me, and I will help you achieve what you want and desire.”

Stepping back Elizabeth walked down the hall. Nicole gathered her thoughts and turned back to the stairs and started to head down. The blood was burning her body from within, she could feel everything, she could taste the very wood of the stairs on her tongue as she walked down them. Reaching the bottom she took a look at her status.

As she moved she felt like a huge weight had just dropped off her, she was walking as fast as when she sprinted, and quickly moved down the direction left by the map given to her by Elizabeth. A screen popped up in front of her

Finding the wine storage room, she passed by the racks of wine to the back where some barrels were stored. Squeezing past them, she found the switch indicated on the map and opened the door. Inside was the same style of decor as the previous hidden rooms.

Several dead women were skinned and lined around the pedestal. A cultist was about to start skinning another woman when Nicole entered. Walking forward she reached out and snapped the neck of the Cultist and threw him to the side. 

Nicole then approached the statuette and took a look at it. It was the statuette Frankie was sent to steal. Carved out of emerald it depicted a woman emerging out of a shell of a man. She picked it up and put it into her inventory.

Nicole waited a second for the feeling of the whisper to come. When it didn't she was surprised, only to then feel an ice cold feeling spread down her back.

Feeling incredibly spooked by that message, Nicole turned to go when she heard a voice, looking over she saw the woman that was about to be skinned look at her and say "Nicholas is that you?"

Nicole looked at her, not recognizing her for a second, but then it clicked, "Frankie?"