They must have stolen the boots, then.

Yeah, that's plausible.

Any idea why they'd do that?

Besides the obvious ones like that they're a bad guy who wants to steal stuff and they were nice boots?

None that I think it's a good idea to share.

Do you have any idea who would attack you, or why they might do it?

None that I think it's a good idea to share. Reasons known to me why vampires might want to try to kill my are probably best kept as secret as possible.

Anyway, once I was in the hat, I tried to grab as many useful items inside it as possible and then Dimension Door as far towards safety as I could, to that exact spot in that exact street over there if any witnesses might testify about it.

I started sprinting towards the university, and then at this point I stopped, cast Nondetection, turned down this alley on your map here and started sprinting this way towards this house.

Why did you change direction?

I didn't get a good look at them at the first location, because they were behind me and then I was in a hat, but just before I escaped the attacker pushed the blade of a sword under the edge and was about to force their way in and I heard what sounded like angry wolves nearby and closing in.

It's obvious if you understand game theory that hearing wolves implies I should change direction about a hundred metres after the dimension door.

I knew the family who lived in that house where you found me, I healed their daughter and they owed me a favour, and they all agreed to flee into the attic when I explained I was probably being chased and probably by wolves.

The boy over there came in after and appeared to me to be under Dominate Person and atacked me I was able to pin him and I believe the spell was cancelled moments before you arrived.

He had this knife on him, which seems a higher quality than he was otherwise dressed in and so I infer it was provided by the party doing the dominating, who I infer couldn't themselves enter the house on account of how they are a vampire and weren't invited.

That matches our observations and inferences. We'd still like a bit more information about whether you represent a continued danger to others, by being here.

Do you have any reasons to think they're likely to make additional attempts on your life?

Yes, obviously shouldn't say that.

I think the fact they made the first attempt is reason already to think they might try again. I think the fact the first attack happened where it did is reason to think they wouldn't try attack on university grounds.

If I'm anticipating further attacks by vampires I am willing to agree that, whenever I am in Almas, I will not leave university grounds after dark.

Those sure are some evasive answers.

Have you been involved in anything of a criminal nature, that this might be connected to?

Nothing that I think it's in my interests to mention.

We can't help you if you won't talk to us.

Yes I have been directly involved in a number of crimes

That's true for me too. I can't always help people if they won't talk to me, and they won't talk to me if I'll turn around and talk to you.

I ... don't have any clear reason to think this is connected to any previous crime I know about, or at least not the ones that happened in Andoran. I know a couple things it might be related to that aren't crimes and are also very very secret and unfortunately I can't share them.

Well that's cryptic.

There are enough Caydenites and Desnans and the like in the electorate that they cannot just go around arresting priests for that sort of answer. The Eagle Knights are trying to be Lawful and have the same problem, he understands that clerics really do need to be able to say that sometimes, and knights like him really should just drop it and look for other evidence.

Knowing Chaotic Good priests, crimes outside Andoran almost certainly have to do with helping slaves escape and he's not going to think about it because he doesn't want that information either.

He doesn't think he needs to waste a truthspell on him, all those answers were evasive enough and grounded in other evidence enough that he really doubts they could be lies, and there's few enough clerics total that far too many people have seen him use healing for that to be a lie too.

He'll interogate the person who got dominated.

This person doesn't speak Taldane.

Has this child just been wandering around homeless?

He'll find an Osiriani family who can take better care of him, and maybe translate some questions.

Coincidentally, there is exactly one second-circle Gruhasthan cleric in Andoran, who because of his god can cast an obscure spell nobody else knows to gain insights about the history of an object.

He is strongly in favour of using this ability to spread knowledge and understanding and enlightenment, and is therefore well-known to the eagle knights because actually it's kind of overpowered.

It's not a coincidence! He lives in Andoran because it's the one place where the most good can be achieved by words spoken to Good people. 

Mind Blank protects the subject from all divinations targetted at them, as well as objects on their person. Object Reading targets the object after it has already left their possession, and can sense psychic imprints completely undetectable to all other magic, even if the wielder was Mind Blanked on the past.

Information Security is a hard problem anywhere, but Golarion has it much worse than that, on account of all the gods of knowledge and understanding and such empowering clerics about it.

He knows the spell. To the best of his ability he's already optimised to minimise any useful information you're going to get out of it.

Of the arrow, he shares that the last owner appeared as a teenage girl of pale skin and red eyes, and when the arrow was fired she was - he pauses to try to explain the sensation in words - confident in herself, hopeful that she would prove useful, trying her best but not for her own benefit, that she was following a typically good impulse to do an act of service to someone she cared about greatly, but turned towards ill ends.

Of the dagger, he sees the child they have already found, and can describe enough of what it felt like to be dominated to confirm that story. He sees how he saw and felt about his mistress at the time but does not want to share much of that because it is a lie, a false feeling created by the magic.

He manages to glimpse a bit further back of the dagger. Another night, maybe two years ago, the same vampire as before first obtained it. She is in an upper-class villa in the earliest hours of the morning, she is slaughtering the family that lived there and the father is trying to take her down with the dagger and she kills him and takes it for herself. He sees just enough of her mind as she obtains it to see that she is trying to be Lawful in a strange and damaged way, trying to follow a rule that she had been told to always obey, but instead of something good or lawful or helpful the rule was just "Always Loot" that she is trying to follow when she takes the dagger off the man's corpse.

Also it looked like they weren't from Andoran. That previous owner was - he's trying really hard here to match the psychic impression to the cultures he has met - Varisian, he thinks?

Well that sounds fun.

The search for the vampire isn't turning up any results. No tracks, no trails, no scent, no magical auras. It's a reasonably safe bet she teleported out.

And if this is some international serial killer who teleports everywhere, there's not much a local Eagle Knight can do about it. They'll try a scry because it's worth trying but it will predictibly fail.

He's disappointed, it doesn't seem like anything useful will come of this. At least nobody got hurt too badly.

The arrow had a divination spell placed on it, 6th circle.

Greater Magic Bullet is the most plausible guess.

Over the next few days from how long the aura lingers, they'll be able to infer it was placed by an incredibly powerful caster, at or around eighth circle.

Well that sounds terrible.

They'll warn Robaldo, but really there's not a lot he can do.

Robaldo awakens the next morning to find he can manage a bit more magic than he has managed before. Tet gives him a couple more spells too, he'll pick an extra Remove Disease so he can sell it.

He really needs more money, last night was completely terrible and he doesn't know how to recover.

The guards have had enough of a look now, they'll let him carefully collapse his hat-cylinder so he can re-shrink it and take it home for repairs, not that it's worth anywhere near as much now that the rumours are already spreading and complete strangers are coming up to him and asking if there's any way they could get one too.

No, sorry, there's no way you can get one too, you have to either be a third circle wizard or know one who'll cast the Shrink Item for you every few days and Robaldo is too busy-

Oh you are a third circle wizard in that case sure but it needs a lot of lead and I'm low on supplies for it-

You just want the steel cage version? But that can't block divinations-

Yes it'll still block arrows fine okay you can place an order and pay in advance and I'll get back to you in a month.

Okay maybe that happening wasn't so bad.

An 8th circle? Oh shit. Shit shit shit shit shit.

Robaldo needs to rethink his life choices.

For example, it's been really convenient these last few years living at the university, but he knows approximately all the spells now, and is starting to feel like the fact his location is public knowledge is starting to be a disadvantage.

There comes a point in any successful wizarding life where he starts living in an inaccessible box under constant wards and Robaldo really hopes he hasn't hit it yet because he wanted to have done more interesting stuff by now. He'll try a bit longer, even though it's terrifying.