MistBusters - A Curse of Strahd PbP

One of the hunched creature’s eyes squint, while the other lolls around before focusing on you, “You’re not too bright are you, kiddo? Fine. Fine. Did you actually ever understand how you have magic? You understand how sorcerers work, right? Bloodlines! Izek was telling the truth, sonny! Your mother made a pact with me before she met your father, sweetie! Her family’s luck for magical power. Now you have the ability to mold magic as good as any fey. Sure bit her in the hindquarters. Lost her kid, lost her other kid’s arm, and died. Bottom line, that makes me your Fey Grandmother, which is very important to hags.”

"I'd like to think my strength lies more in my charm and good looks" Bry said in regard to not being too bright, but then after listening to the rest the creatures story he was more confused than ever, "So what you are saying is, my mother was Izek's mother, she made a pact with you, and now we can do magic because of it? What proof do  you have?"

The hag looks in a thousand-yard stare and growls with distain, “Proof? Your father... You can thank him for your ‘charm and good looks.’ He found out about your mother’s pact after she was pregnant with you. So he did what any sane man would do. He made a deal with a fiend. His soul for the fiend’s boon to be given to his family. Now you, my little one, are an anomaly. The magic of the wilds and the luck of the Hells. The descendant of a fey and a fiend. I have no proof other than you. Well, and the dolls.”

"Yea about those dolls, that's a bit creepy right, how do these factor in?" Bry pulls the figurine from his pouch

“Unfortunately, for all my power, I was never able to see you. I knew you would come back, of course. This place has a way of doing that. It draws it. It feeds off of sorrow and drama. However, your ‘grandfather’ could see you. He watched and waited. Izek was always his favorite grandson of the two of you, which is why he personally gifted him with the arm. He speaks to him, whispers in his mind, and shows him visions. He tried to gain your favor before I could and showed Izek what you looked like. The dolls were made to focus that vision. Lot of good it did him. Even I think that room is a creep show! They aren’t magic though. He doesn’t need that to spy on you. Your existence is enough.”

"Well, if you haven't been able to see me then you don't know my backstory. Let me enlighten you, my parents didn't want me, they sold me off to a Half Orc slave trader when I was too young to know anything more than Ma and Pa. I grew up beaten, and poor, and it was only through the use of my talents that I made it this far. So frankly Granny, I could care less about the 'rents and the deals they made, it's creepy all the eyes peering down on me but then again whatcha going to do, when you're this pretty people are going to watch." Bry began to turn and leave the forest, but turned back, "I'm glad we had this talk, going to head back to my group of folks now, we got this whole vendetta against Strahd for killing one of our own, nearly killing all of us again, and generally just being kind of a ******, so unless you had something else you wanted to talk about or something you want to give me?..."

OOC: Bry is reeling from all of this...

“Your mind is made up, I will not stop you. Know this, fate is coming to a head. Dark things lie within the Amber Temple.” She turns around and ambles into the forest, yet shakes a finger in the air, “Suffering and drama, Bry. This world craves it! We will be in touch again.” 

Bry finds himself outside the forest, at the edge of the Yester Hill where he entered.

Bry turns back around and heads back to where the rest of everyone else is gathered, grumbling the entire time, "Weird people, watching me, giving me vaguely threatening messages about places I didn't even know existed..." Bry exits the tree's, "Dark things everyone, Dark things await in the amber temple...anyone want to tell me what an Amber Temple is?"

George shrug. 

Lightning strikes a mountain, Mount Ghakis, in the distance.

"I swear, if the freaking temple is on that mountain, oh what am I kidding, nothing surprises me now. Time to roll the dice and let it ride"

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George shrug. 

"Dim elf!  No ear!  George remember!  George no know what mean, but George remember!" 

((The frightened Vistani mentioned Kasimir was going to the Amber Temple))

 "Who did you meet Bry?" Grim asks

Bry takes a seat and kicks his feat up on a log, putting his arms behind his head, "She called herself Irontoes and let me tell you, she was a looker from the top of her head to the tip of those iron toes." Bry sighed as if he had fallen in love when in all actuality he was still trying to absorb everything he had been told. 

So, having completed your goal, and then some, the MistBuster set off on the road once more. Are you returning to the Winery or are you heading toward Mount Ghakis?

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Bry takes a seat and kicks his feat up on a log, putting his arms behind his head, "She called herself Irontoes and let me tell you, she was a looker from the top of her head to the tip of those iron toes." Bry sighed as if he had fallen in love when in all actuality he was still trying to absorb everything he had been told. 

(( are we supposed to try and get all three gems (?) to give back to the wereravens - if so then perhaps we just hold on to it until we get the other two and then drop them off with the ravens at the winery ))

"I don't thinks he was, but I am not really taking much of what she said to heart"