The door is smashed off of its hinges. Inside, the smell of dust and old death greets your senses. Long stretches of darkened stone cover the hallways as the air hangs eerily still.

Adanmar Windblood

"Damn George, that was a quiet entrance, let's go"

The Revenant goes inside and looks around ((Is there light inside? Perception check: 11))

Elwarith pauses a moment to take in the smell of death, smiles a bit and turns to the party "The hunt is on!" and with a twinkle in his eye and his bow drawn, he'll head in to the tunnel after the shifter.

Viorela smirks. Elwarith looks like a kid in a candy store... or perhaps more like a wolf in a pen of sheep. Despite what she is sure to find, Viorela will Divine Sense. 

With Adanmar’s undead sense of where Strahd is, it is clear that you have a direct idea of where the vampire waits for you. The room, meanwhile, is essentially empty aside from the water-ridden floors. Roughly an inch of standing water covers the molding stone. Viorela’s divine sense curls out through the carverns and, from what she can determine, there are no immediate creatures of those kinds within sixty feet of her. Of course, this is Castle Ravenloft, and you’re sure that that could change any minute. The group continues forward. Making their way throughout the underground labyrinth of tombs and burials, I’ll need a Survival check from whoever is leading to continue onward amidst the winding curves of the tunnels.

Adanmar Windblood

The Revenant heads the group in the catacombs ((Survival check: 26)). "With all the distraction outside we could search for the artifact we miss to destroy the damned sucker, what do you think folks? How it was.....a place of supplication? Any idea? Davmorn, do you think it could refer to a kind of.....spiritual place here? It sounds awkward enough just to say it..."

"Elwarith, I could Help you finding traps here if you mind looking for theme"

With both you and George putting your heightened senses to use, the two of you can work to find your way around the catacombs. Davmorn, meanwhile, considers for a moment, “I know it sounds odd... but I think I might. It’s somewhat o’ a callin’. I feel like it’s this way.” Davmorn points down one of the tunnels, and will lead you down it if you would like.

Adanmar Windblood

"Sure, priest, I will follow your calling too" 

 Elwarith will nod at Adanmar and scan the area 

[Perception: 14]

Viorela brings up the rear of the group and keeps a watchful eye on the priest. "Careful not to answer too many calls from a damned place like this."

And so, the MistBusters continues to follow Davmorn’s sense. Eventually, as you make your way through the shadowed halls of the castle grounds, you reach a dilapidated room. What looks to have once been a church, now lies in ruin and disrepair. You make out the glint of fine metal upon the altar. However, Elwarith notices something else. Kasimir has vanished.

Elwarith will cautiously approach the altar to see what the metal is. 

You see this buried beneath the ash and rubble.

Elwarith will pick up the amulet and show it to the rest of the party.

"It appears that we have found maybe one of the items we're looking for to handle the devil Strahd...."

Adanmar Windblood

"Yeah, maybe, Davmorn, is this a kind of Amulet of some sort? and...bloody hell, where is the Dusk Elf?"

Davmorn slowly steps forward, approaching to look over the amulet. He takes it in his hands gently, “Aye... aye it is. Powerful one too. Don’t need no magic to know that.” He seems to hold a far off gaze as he looks over the amulet. However, he blinks and snaps himself back. “Sorry, just a lot o’ history to this thing. It’s seen a lot o’ death over the years.”

Kasimir, meanwhile, is nowhere to be found. You remember him saying that his sister lay somewhere in the castle.

"I never really trusted that elf....probably up to no good.  Was there another artifact somewhere in here we needed to locate?"

Davmorn nods, “Aye. The-“ Thunder peals outside as in the rafters, a voice cuts him off, “Tome of Strahd, yes? This is vhat you are looking for then?” Sure enough, amidst the darkness, the vampire scourge holds a book bound in thick leather and steel. “I grow tired of this game, MistBusters. Your pathetic attempts at defiance will end only in a pain beyond death for each of you.”

[Gulthias Longbow: 12 Damage: 30]
[Gulthias Longbow: 13 Damage: 29]

Without much thought - at the sound of the vampires words two arrows are already let loose towards their target

(OOC - assuming I can - also assuming I've surprised him - if not I'll roll two more for not surprised)

[Gulthias Longbow: 22 Damage: 12]
[Gulthias Longbow: 27 Damage: 14]

(EDIT - oops can't add sneak attack damage to the second attack - forgot - been a while since we were in combat - so adjust those 2nd attacks to 17 damange (surprised) or 5 (not surprised) - I think those are correct)

As you loose the arrows, Strahd simply backs away into the wall and vanishes. Meanwhile, the arrows find purchase... firmly in the wood paneling. You hear a voice like thunder surround you all, “Do you really believe that you hold any form of power over me? You stand solely upon the ever-shrinking ground of my mercy, amidst the all-consuming tempest that is my rage! You live because I allow it. You will die because I will it.” With that, silence falls upon the room.

(Held action: Move if Attacked.)