While their origins are unclear at this time, the community should consider them armed and dangerous. Before attempting to engage with a Paladin, please ensure you reach out to others for assistance.
Those with the power of Perception 2, which up until now has been considered a largely useless power, report seeing a blue aura around these enemies as witnessed below:
And while the second level of Perception may inform us of what they are, it seemingly gives us no warning to their presence until a vampire is in the same block as them and they have already struck.
Five vampires engaged the first of these enemies this morning, causing substantial blood loss to each. Bastian was the first to encounter this new foe, who found himself quickly overwhelmed and zeroed as a result. The vampires Magwayen, Aaliyah, and Luka gave pursuit shortly after, but one after another were defeated as swiftly as the last. It was the vampire Everly Ailios, childe of Inu, who finally managed to rip the sword from the Paladin's hands and drive her fangs into him for the final blow, though she was also zeroed during the fight and continued to press on, undaunted by the loss of her blood. A substantial amount of coin was discovered upon the villain's corpse as a reward for the efforts of those who battled it.
Everly wrote:There's a paladin! She slashes you with a sword for 140 damage.
You drink the human's blood. You extracted 100 pints of blood.
The blood was laced with holy water! It burns your throat before you can spit it out. You lose 0 blood.
You also found 42407 coins. Nice.
Again, we urge all citizens to immediately report any sightings of these new enemies. If we are to survive as a species, we must come together to battle this threat.
[OOC Information: Paladins will damage a player for 50-150 BP per attack. AP count at this time is unknown, but was originally intended to be 50-60. The range of coin for the defeat of one is also unknown at this time. This update was paid for by the players of Julia, Anthony, and the Nightwatch.]
