my character was a teifling Bard, this is written as if he wrote it.
Not perfect but i wanted to share
Day 1
So I don't know where I am, I just escaped a cursed house. I, Morthos the tiefling bard, woke up in a stone coffin. How did i end up in said coffin? good question! I was on my way to Waterdeep when fog set in and then things went dark. Well when i came around i found a Human, two elves and a halfling. We fought some horrible creatures. Later the Human disappeared and then a Dwarf showed up. Within the first few hours I had many questions, the biggest were how did I get here and who everyone was. Apparently there were bones of children we had to put into other coffins in the basement. which the elves and halfing did, then the building seemed to start falling apart. On top of that there were swinging blades going through the door frames rather than doors. the house seemed determined to kill us. We fortunately escaped the house. even with my mistake of pulling a string that released swarms of rats. Which bit a couple of us but did no real damage. upon the escape. I wrote this in a notebook I found and now I'm writing my experiences of this odd adventure I found myself. Everyone is asleep and it will be a day hopefully in several hours. i need to rest
Day two
We woke up today, it seems odd, it should be day time, for we see everything is brighter but there is no sun, it must be hiding from all these clouds. well the light reveals that we are on the outside part of a village. it looks abandoned but there are people clearly walking around. the town must be very poor indeed to be in this state. I wonder who is in charge of the village, and why the villagers haven't done any upkeep to the buildings, even the poorest village I've seen in the sword coast isn't like this. This seems strange, very strange. it also appears that there is a large castle at least 50 miles west of this village.
I have learned that the party includes one wood elf who is a ranger of some kind, along with a high elf who seems to be some kind of Wizard. The halfling appears to be a rogue, only they have so many daggers, and finally the dwarf says, and appears, to be a Paladin. There is something very wrong about him, some terror surrounds him. I naturally don't trust the halfling, rogues are untrustworthy. the elves seem to be the best bet for me, those two will do something to allow me to write songs about! I still haven't learned their names yet. oh well. There is no time for we are heading into town, the dwarf wants to visit a blacksmith and I have to agree, they are most likely to have information, them and tavern keepers.
I met with a delightful man named Corvin, he is a solemn but polite man, he seems to have dealt with many outsiders before by his tone. But I was curious about this land. During my talk the dwarf repaired a sword, plate mail and a warhammer. Corvin also answered my question and gave me more to ponder. Corvin told me that we are in the village of Barovia and the land itself is called "The Valley Barovia'' which according to him is cursed. The master of the land is a man called Strahd, who is called a "devil" by Corvin. The odd part is that Strahd has apparently been alive for hundreds of years. This can't be right, no normal man can live for that long, maybe he is in fact an half-elf, these fine folks seem to not have met too many non-humans before.
The more I spoke with Corvin the more I became worried that I have ended in a land I can not escape. The land is surrounded by mist that keeps all inside the land. The only group that we are told that can leave are a group called the Vestani. This group is a loyal group towards Strahd, they say he likes them and they do his dirty work. They are called thieves by Corvin. What I learned about Strahd from Corvin is that: He has a brother who is possibly dead, and he is the son of a long dead king named Barov. We also learned the castle's name is Castle Ravenloft. What worries me more is how much control Strahd apparently has according to Corvin. Strahd apparently controls all wolves, dire wolves, even the werewolves with unusual efficiency, he controls the weathers, the monster and undead. He even controls the mist. Strahd sounds like a Wizard. That scares me, he seems to be a very powerful Wizard, and I know I can't fight him in my state.
The elf Ranger, Orakan I believe his name is, when he was in the home found these mossy ingants, Corvin says that we should talk to the local jeweler named Turge to learn more. Corvin seemed not to like this Jeweler so we should be aware. The shop wasn't hard to spot and before we even entered the shop our dwarf found that a necklace on display in the front was evil. This told me to disbelieve anything she says it is good. and upon meeting her he addresses Lord Strahd as a wonderful individual. This might be so, but looking at this village I dislike him for the state of disrepair alone. The talk with this woman Turge was very creepy to say the least. she was delighted to talk about moss ingots. she seemed to be very well informed about them. Then upon mentioning that Orakan wanted to learn about his collection, she became overly happy. she asked to see the moss ingot he had and promised to give him a good ring in an hour. so instead of staying inside the shop with this odd woman we went to explore the village.
I can't stress enough the state of this village. as we walked through the streets i would have been convinced it to be totally abandoned if it wasn't for a kid or an adult who would be looking out the window then quickly disappear. As I wondered with the group we heard crying from a house, this house looked like it had been barricaded. the crying sounded from upstairs. I was drawn to the distress along with the dwarf. The others not wanting to be seperated entered the home with us. I with the Paladin walked up stairs, I looked into the room where the crying was from. It was of a distressed woman. She, like the rest in this village, is dirty and poor beyond repair. I was overcome with the desire to comfort this woman. I went in and sat down across from her and consoled her. Her name is Mary, the poor thing, I feel for her. She told us that the devil Strahd came into the home at night and kidnapped her daughter. When we left we continued to explore and discovered a home that looked better than the other buildings. Bell, the Dwarf, said that the building had an aura of good. The building itself looked like it had been attacked by wolves and K9 of the sort.
We knocked on the door and after some convincing gained entry to the building. We were greeted by the Most beautiful woman I've ever met. Her name? Well her name is Irina Kolyana, a beautiful woman, beyond any i've seen before. We met her wearing plate armor and the inside of her home was decorated with multiple religious symbols. Unfortunately her father had passed away. That is a terrible fate. I haven't used the proper words for her unfortunately, that was my mistake, I won't make it again. She wishes to leave this town but is unable to until her father is buried. Irina has a brother named Ismark, he is currently at the local tavern. After we get him we will go to the church and bury their father.
What an annoying brother Irena has, told him we needed to go but he wanted to stay and drink. Once we explained we were with Irina and bringing him back to the family home to bury their father. Nope he wants to drink some more! I mean, really? Then the "Paladin" chooses to drink with him rather than get this man to bury his dead father. I have met Paladins before but this one seems to be very unpaliden-like. But I finally got him to leave the tavern and go to the home, so finally we can bury their father.
We went to the church, and met with the priest. He was a good man, but I determined he was lying about something. Then we discovered the Priest who had a son who went after Strahd and that the son returned as a vampire spawn. We went down to the basement and vanquished him. It was a horrible thing to do. I wish we could do more for him, but couldn't. We buried the son and the father. During this fight a minotaur name Urine was discovered… well he kinda just popped out of the ground… but he helped us with this spawn.
We slept for a night at the church. Apparently according to urine, ghosts showed up marching past, i haven't heard about this before. I wonder what it means?
when the father was buried the halfling who had vanished showed back up. chased by 3 werewolves. which we fought and won. we had to patch ourselves up, we went to the black smith once more and i spoke with corvin again. the Paladin started working again as i spoke with him. Urine and all of us silvered our weapons and I found a silver dagger with a wolf hilt. I was able to identify the magical properties and learned that if I draw the blade, all werewolves, wolves, and dire wolves will come to me and attack those who hold the blade but it strikes true against the said wolves. I may use this somehow, for now it will be here with me, unused.
After some time of travel we came across a fork in the road, with a hanging corpse, hanging from a gallow. the paladin looked like he saw death while the rogue shot it with some arrows. I say that rogue is not that nice, ha!
Well I must say, the paladin, ranger, Ismark, and the wizard went the way described as quick and dangerous, while urine, the rogue, Irina, and I took the long and safe way. I hope we see them again.
HAHA! Urine made a raven friend, named Jack. very nice raven too, he sits on Urines head. I love it! It's adorable. and Urine can speak with animals at will. so we can tell what Jack says. The two of them seem to become strong friends really fast. but Jack said avoid an old mill called the "Bonecrusher" seems really bad, once the paladin heard about this place, he became set to go into the place. oh great. This paladin is not like other paladins I've been with
okay, I might have been stupid. So the other guys got in a fight with dire wolves. werewolves and simple wolves on a bridge. during the fight it seemed we were going to all die but then i remembered the dagger and thought, " will they follow me off the bridge?" yes... yes they do... so i jumped off the bridge, cast feather fall, looked down a 2000 ft drop and realized i might have made a mistake. luckily Urine threw me a rope, i had to drop the dagger to catch it, i could have slipped through, but luckily Urine got me back on the bridge. I never did anything that stupid before, i dont plan to do it again.
we went down the road some way then made camp, I'm happy, i need a sleep. we will see what the next day brings.
Day three
oh... could this day get worse? so we got to this "Bonecrusher" mill. The first floor had an oven and a barrel full of bones. We heard some noise upstairs. so the Paladin, and the wizard go to the second floor. There was an old Lady, obviously a Hag, but really that paladin is self centered. I don't know why the paladin or the wizard chose to do this but while everyone was still walking up the stairs and on the stairs, they decided to attack the hag, who was only trying to sell something called "Dream pies" seriously what the hell. I saw them and knew it was a Hag, the Paladin had to have known. but he should have also known the rest of us were in no way to help. That wizard has to be the boot licker of the paladin.
so when the Paladin and the wizard starts attacking the one Hag, it turns out, IT'S A COVENANT OF HAGS! I mean OH OKAY, Like how did he not think there might be more of them. so unfortunately Urine is on the first floor. and I don't blame him. He wants to get to hitting something. I accidently set a part of the second floor on fire. 1 hag on the second floor, the other 2 on the stairs. well Urine didn't hear the children coughing on the upper floors. If he did He wouldn't have continued to do what he did... well he swung his ax at the floor right below the one hag. and unfortunately he swung too powerfully. He caused the whole second floor to collapse. Well when the second floor collapsed, the windmill started to collapse. and then a four legged pig demon thing popped out of the barrel of bones.
Well we escaped as the windmill collapsed. Unfortunately I couldn't see the children and cast feather fall on them. that might have saved them. but i didn't see them... Well now Urine is digging their graves. I've made their tombstones, not much I could put on them, I don't know their names. The paladin is clearly angry with Urine, yeah sure Urine made a mistake But who are the two who started fighting 3 hags while blocking all of us from getting up there. I mean really. oh lord... he really needs to look in on himself. I'm not saying myself or Urine are innocent or perfect. but he should reflect on his own actions before Morden revokes his Paladin status, or however paladins work, side note, ask a paladin, not bell, how the whole paladin thing works. we are about to leave, the children have been buried.
For the love of all that is holy and sacred. what is wrong with the paladin. He picks a fight with two werewolves. given they were in their human form, and not being hostile to us. they were there, standing there then started walking away/ in the same direction as us. I mean, this guy for what he says is a good and lawful dwarf is doing a lot of aggressive actions. apparently according to Irena they were look outs for Strahd who was hidden in the woods!
When the stupid Paladin attacks the two were wolves, guess what! 4-6 other werewolves show up and start attacking us. OH GREAT! exactly what i wanted. being viciously assaulted by cursed creatures. of course the whole party got screwed. Obviously we survived but just barely. I got knocked out, Urine got knocked out. Orakan got knocked out. Ismark got knocked out! only the paladin, the blasted wizard and Irena stayed conscious. Currently I'm in a City called Volaki, In an Inn. by the love of God I need to sleep but when Irena explained what happened until i was brought back from being unconscious. I had to write this down.
So. Paladin gets us into a losing fight with werewolves. Strahd, finally bored with the fight, FIREBALLS us all. well of course even with my resistance to fire i still got knocked unconscious. Well apparently Strahd has some strange obsession with Irena, I don't understand, and apparently the paladin has some bravado about him as well, saying "I've dealt with worse than you" Excuse me? Have you ever read actual stories of things worse than a Vampire? Demon lords? the Devils of the 9 hells. if he actually saw and dealt with things worse than a Vampire, He would have died already or marched his dwarven butt to Castle Ravenloft. I'm not scared of Strahd the Vampire but i understand That we need to respect the power of this monster. I swear this Paladin will be the death of someone in the party.
Day four
So we go into the inn. The paladin is running around talking to people. Urine is happily feeding Jack, hell i even like jack. We ran into a supposed Vampire hunter but who knows if the guy is or is not. and then the bar keeper and the Halfling (who needs to quit disappearing and reappearing) said there was a job to get wine bottles form the Vineyard cause the road has been blocked by something, I love wine! So I was in, to make this town happy.
Well as we were leaving, the Paladin had to go to the church of the Morning lord. and while there... oh was this an insight. so the story is there was a saint of the town, in the worship of the Morning lord. well she was so Holy even her bones protect the town even in death. and apparently this kept Strahd at bay. Well the priest and the altar boy said the bones were missing. Even worse, the Alter boy STOLE THEM! HE KNEW THE PROTECTION! he knew with the bones the town was forever safe! and guess how much he sold them for? 100 Gold pieces. that actually is not a lot. I could make 100GP a week playing instruments in a Tavern.
Lucky thing is the kid was scared by Urine and the rest of us told us he sold the bones to the coffin maker. then idk why but the Ranger casted Zone of truth and i became compelled to tell the party i thought Irena was cute. oh lord, my choice of words. Urine told us that his military company was slaughtered by a Dragon. I didn't know. that is horrible. but we must go to the Coffin makers shop.
What a disaster! we went to the coffin shop. The Paladin told Urine to "Guard the entrance" and well when the Rogue, Holdo saw coffins he climbed in. Immediately the coffin closed and Urine became worried that Holdo was going to die if not found he ran from coffin to coffin, finally finding Holdo in a Closet. which fell apart as urine ripped the door off it. I mean... HAHA! what a loyal man. i'm a little over enthusiastic. well unfortunately the bottom floor didn't hold the bones, the Paladin in his arrogant wisdom and decided to try to find the bones. well he led us into a Vampire Swarms DEN! We faced 8 old adventurers who were turned into vampire spawn.
Unfortunately all I remember is losing then I was knocked unconscious. When I woke up I learned the floor had collapsed and Urine grabbed me before leaving. If he didnt I might have died. I own Urine a debt for that.
Day 5
it's difficult to say what has happened. we collected a Blue dragonborn at least that was the only good i can see today.
We returned to the Coffin Shop, on the way Jack comes and tells Urine something. and Urine tells us all that Strahd has come and is at the Shop. then a panic picks up all down the road starting closest to the coffin shop and through the town. Well there was strahd with the bag of bones and the coffin maker. the dwarf being the dwarf tells him to drop the bag and let the man go. well strad drops the man. I had to cast Feather Fall on the man. the wizard goes to catch him, and then falls down with the man. i'm not sure if he died or not.
I managed to get strahd to drop the bag but he quickly picked it up again unfortunately
the battle devolved into a cluster... god... the Dwarf thinks it is a great idea to cast "Compel duel" on strahd. who threw the bag on the roof. and we got attacked by 8 vampire spawn and 6 wolves. well it soon became 7 vampire spawns cause one ran off with the bag. I cast a Locate object while next to the dwarf. idiot man, stupid man. anyway. I chased after the Vampire dwarf. and apparently after i left the party they were able to kill all the vampire spawns with the help of Jack and the other Ravens. Apparently the ranger broke the Dwarves spell. and Strahd left.
from what the ranger told me Urine asked the party where I had gone. The dwarf said he didn't know and didn't care, apparently and the wizard just sat down. Apparently the Dwarf went to the dragonborn and asked to go drinking. the dwarf on a mission to go get a saint's bones decides to go drinking instead? sorry i'll not rant now... well Urine tells everyone to follow him to go get me, apparently the Dwarf chose not to listen to the spell i cast next to him. I ran down. I managed to get the vampire spawn to drop the bag…
I should have realized something was wrong when the vampire spawn just stood there.... didn't grab the bag or anything, well... Strahd was there and well I grabbed the Bag. and ran from him. out of nowhere Urine shows up and throws a Javelin at strahd cause Strahd tried to cast some kinda mind spell on me. Then when Urine tried to run himself Strahd Got him with this mind spell. I think it was a Charm Person but i don't know. and well Urine then was under his control. The whole time I ran I cast a spell that made my voice booming, and even then I was screaming for the party and the Paladin to come save me and Urine. But no I saw the Paladin in the distance walking away, there was no way the Dwarf didn't hear me. HE IGNORED ME! the coward the wretch chose not to get the bones... he chose not to face strahd. then says he wont help me save Urine. the Dwarf is no Paladin... One day Mordan will turn his gaze towards this Dwarf and he will be judged whether or not he is a Paladin or not. Listen to me I'm a Bard and even I recognize a fake paladin! and that is hard to do at times, especially with Mordan.
Well then, Urine struck me while running and then... strahd cast fireball in front of me... I took what I thought was a bone from the bag and put in my bag right before the fireball hit. and I fell unconscious. According to the Ranger the Dwarf finally chose to after a fireball explosion went off to see what was going on. It wasn't a Big booming voice saying to come down the alleyway. it wasn't hearing me casting a spell looking for the bag, it wasn't Urine telling the party to look for me. but an explosion... once again not a Paladin! and then once again it came to Irena saving me, that sweetheart, to rescue me and revive me.
When i woke up i opened my bag and found it was a twig. i opened the bag and found it was nothing but twigs... nice go Strahd... and i told them that Urine was missing. and only after this did the dwarf choose to look for the Bones. The ranger and the Dragon born and Irena and everyone else didn't hear him say Bones until after i was found. and apparently the bones were in the coffin makers room, if the bugger had removed the shelves he would of found a secret compartment... but when he first was in the room all he did was look at them, the idiot. I believed him being a paladin he would know something about religious artifacts would find them. I was mistaken. I will not let this paladin look for anything that i don't look over again. I will not listen to this dwarf ever again. I will find Urine in castle Ravenloft. Jack is worried about the safety of Urine and so am I. I will send Jack to scout out the road leading to Castle Ravenloft and i will convince the Rouge, Ranger, and Dragonborn, if i convince them then the Dwarf and Wizard should fall in line. and Ismark and Ireana shouldn't come, or if they do they shouldn't enter the Castle. having Irena walk into Strahd's stronghold is a bad idea. I must sleep now. but when i wake. I will rescue Urine. Alone if i must and If i die I hope Urine is safe. and I hope even if Urine and I both die. someone finds this Journal and sends punishment to the dwarf! Forsake that dwarf Mordan if you are there.
Day 6
so today is Horrible where to start? Well I'm writing this in an abandoned tavern. By Urine's report talking to Blood drinker, a saber tooth tiger, the town has either fled, been murdered, or killed themselves in the lake. It's terrible. where to start.
So the Wizard wakes up and does some stuff involving the coffin maker's body. and apparently the church of the morning lord has been desecrate beyond all hope. even with the return of the bones now i dont think it would save the town or bring anyone back...
well before that happened Urine Reappeared, I was soo happy, I was trying to convince everyone to go to Castleraven loft, the ass wizard thought it was a good idea to try to silence me, ******* pig. I understand some don't Like Urine but he is a kind hearted soul who is always trying to do the right thing. well Urine at first seemed groggy and disoriented then Jack pokes him a couple times. Then Urine kinda snapped out of some kinda trance and he remembered everything.
He sat down for a beer and told us he woke up in a bed chamber with a young human girl named gertruda. The mother being Mary from Barovia, who we met some days ago. It seems that she too is under a Charm spell. Well Urine was taken to Strahd. Which what he stated was... interesting to say the least.
Strahd told Urine to kill him, not right then and there but to kill him. when? no idea, how? With Urines Great Axe. why? well apparently according to Strahd it will make him stronger and able to "Protect Everyone" well this is a quandary. If true it is a mistake to kill strahd. but we have to stop strahd, it is possible this is a lie to keep us from trying.
Well during this Jack is hopping between us. then freaks out at the wizard. Urine then starts speaking raven... Lucky... and then starts speaking Infernal to me. haha, must have been other tieflings in his old unit. must have picked it up. He told me the Wizard was evil. And of course I told Urine in Infernal that he has to talk to the Dwarf about it, for he claims to be the expert on it. of course the dwarf looks livid at the fact we are speaking infernal to each other. luckily I switched to writing in this journal in Infernal. felt like it kept my thoughts more private.
Well then I bet the dwarf is surprised as i was when Urine starts talking to him in Dwarven. haha, Dwarf then turns to the wizard and speaks to him in common. asks him about the evil presents.
Well the Wizard was explaining he went to the coffin shop then went to the church and as stated before found the church desecrated. did something with the priest then left the coffin makers shop. the wizard mentioned something about the coffin maker being bled dry.
Well the Dwarf stood up and rushed out of the Tavern. well, I followed, then Urine, then the rest of the party. We got to the church and bats flew out and the ravens rose up and fought above us. The Coffin maker, Priest and other Zombies came out of the darkness and we took care of them. but a Devil was in the church and oh well the Dwarf did a number on the devil and the dragonborn was able to take care of the devil in a javelin strike.
well after this the town was oddly silent. We took everybody in the church and burned them. I then with Ismak burned the church down, no reason to allow Devils and Demons and other filth from infesting it. and if we get the bones again we can rebuild the church and the tomb is still intact.
Well the dwarf and others went into homes and found many towns folk dead in their homes. and here we are in the Tavern, everyone gone, dead, missing, or left... there is nothing left for us. There is another town, well it's an abby. We are going there to go to the vineyard, collect the wine and sell it there. useless in my opinion, Money doesn't really matter here in my opinion, it is useless. but oh well.
Well slight change of plans. on top of seeing the bodies of those who committed suicide from Valaki going down the river, we came to a cross road, fond the right road. then we came across a rock with the emblem of a silver dragon. same as the dwarf had acquired. we headed down the road to it.
Well we came across this manner or castle. ruined. sad it must have been nice when it was in its prime. We are in front of the place itself and we see this silver dragon facing the front door, it's stylish. we might go in. I heard about the Order of the silver dragons. an Order of Paladins under the command of a silver dragon. and now they all have failed and become what is called Revenants. I've only heard about them in legend, never seen one. Well, here is for the best.
Well here I am in the middle of the hall. I have to say upon trying to enter the front doors I didn't expect a blast of cold air. I mean the place was creepy as is, why make it colder. then the rogue and wizard goofed off on the statue. I was half convinced the statue was going to come to life and attack them for what they were doing. But luckily we got in without dealing with traps, except cold air. We are in here, the dragonborn went into another room, the rogue and Urine went into another room. There are tapestries and Statue busts of men who look similar to each other. either they are all brothers or they are all the dragon. We also saw what appeared to be the ghost of the dragon. It didn't hurt us but it is creepy. The elf went upstairs and stole a longbow from the house. of course i didn't find out about that till just now. oh lord…
I heard clicking and spitting noises and then Urine left stating that the room is filled with Huge spiders and they will not attack us as long as we do not enter the room again. Also it looks like the Wizard and dwarf are in some kinda weird catatonic state. I swear I don't understand those two. Well the Rogue ran out of the spider room now, and now i hear clicking at the door... great, not what i need. and Urine stuck his head into the room where the dragonborn was and I picked up the word "Ghost" from Urine... half to ask about it later... anyway... wait where is Irena going?
Well Irena found an Altar to the sun god, then ran into these revenants. skeletons with weapons and armor. Everyone went to fight them and help Irena, I told her to back out of the room to allow us to help her. She was defending herself. Well the Dragonborn came out and took the place of where Irena was... He is a barbarian. The fight wasn't hard, I beat my drums and cast heat metal on one of the revenants and called them Names... best i could do. Urine was amazing and fought with the revenants. Once one went down we were about to fight and surround the rest and we took care of them.
After that everyone explored the bottom floor. I went into a kitchen where a kettle started rattling. Well I got out my rapier and tapped the rapier. Well a bat showed up and I called for urine, who talked to the bat and told me that the bat was upset you desturbed him in his sleep. Well of course I left.
After this I went back and went into the chapel and looked at the altar trying to see if there was anything about it. it was just normal. then the Wizard and the dwarf kinda snapped out of whatever was affecting them, and the wizard began asking about the doors, I told him there were Giant spiders in there and there was nothing in the room of value. I swear the wizard and the dwarf are going to get us killed, I caught a gleam of a wish to launch a fireball in the room. I mean sure burn down this manner. The Dwarf would have to stop hating Urine for things the dwarf really caused. Anyway…
Well The Wizard found another elf... well the elf is called a dusk elf. I never heard of that race of elves. He was looking for a girl named Erabell, a vestani girl. 9 years old with red hair. went missing around the vistani camp near Valaki. well i guess she might be dead in the lake. but Strahd wouldnt attack the Vestani so she wouldnt have commited suicide. but i hope he finds her. I kinda think we should find her maybe... anyway... I think we are going up stairs now.
Well up the stairs and well I moved and looked about. I saw a curtain and I moved it to see the other side and it was a wall. I looked over the wall and there was no secret door. I turned around and then looked back and the curtain was back where it was before I moved it. Urine didn't see anything. that is odd. kinda scary, well me and urine went to a room and a soot dragon showed up, I tried to talk to it in common, and it just left the room. I followed it. and called out to the party to follow.
well... then everyone followed. I passed a door but the dragonborn wanted to see what was behind it. well... i didn't see it but apparently olo the halfling went in the room and attacked a revenant who was talking, then the wizard and dwarf entered the room and got cut down by this revenant. if it wasn't for olo rolling ball bearings under its feet, who knows what it could have done. but he kept falling because of these ball bearings. and the dragon born and Urine were able to kill this creature.
There were 4 other revenants we took care of. Olo called in Blooddrinker the saber tooth cat. And while I was taking care of Irena, she opened a door and a Silver dragon showed up. It was a baby dragon. I mean what? well we are here resting for a bit. we will continue to see where this dragon spectre went to.
Day 7
Well, I don't know what the hell happened. the last couple hours. and i Think we are on day 7 of being here. the sky doesn't make it easy to tell time. but well... it's hard to even put down what has happened... just so much has happened... well we met i guess the second in command of the old order of the silver dragon. well guess what. I asked him for help to kill Strahd, what we wish to have happened. well... he says that he doesn't want to see Strahd dead, just to remain here and suffer. then approaches to attack me and Beelzabub came forward and rescued me.
then these ghost warrior looking things popped up, and we all chose to run. The ghosts went through the walls and I was about to get everyone to jump through a window and I would cast feather fall. well Olo saved us all. Idk how but he did. He said some stuff to the guy, the ghosts went away and Olo pushed outside. Apparently Olo acted like he was a member of the silver dragons, and told him we wanted to get the bones of the dragon. excusing my comments as rash apparently. and got him to give information with the promise of getting the bones of the silver dragon.
When we got outside we ran into a Vestani dressed woman riding a horse named Ismerelda. She wanted to go in and search the manor on how to kill strahd, we told her it was fruitless to go in as no information to tell about strahd besides what was already known and we could provide that. she was unimpressed by our attempts to help and walked in anyway, should have warned her about the spiders and not to mention you want to kill strahd...
Well she released the horse to go back up where she came. almost as soon as she vanished into the manner. a vestani man named araggon i think rode up with two wolf mounted others. demanding where the woman, Ismerelda i believe, went saying that strahd had asked for her capture. well... we don't see anyone who wants to stop strahd as an enemy, and we didn't want to fight or kill any vestani. killing them would keep any help they could provide to vanish potentially.
Well Olo and I did very well in distracting and convincing the man that the horse had come by riderless. but Urine detected the dire wolves had picked up her trail and I had noticed that it seemed they were about to become aggressive. Luckily devil language makes you seem like a friend.
Well Urine standing around where the woman walked passed, thought quickly and where he was standing just took a poop. and let me tell you... Minotaur poop is not to mess around with. The smell was awful and obviously covered her smell. good thinking i guess? well the vestani men were disgusted and were about to leave it seemed, his tone denoted him wanting to leave.
WELL... that woman shot lightning from the second floor window. they were going to leave... and she shot lightning. wel we had to fight then. we luckily killed the wolves and vestani men real quick. but it isn't what we wanted. well the woman didn't want our help and actively caused us trouble. if he wishes to ask for our help... I am going to be reluctant... but she might be of some use if she can cast lightning after all.
all of us walked our way down the road and back to where the vineyard should be. I hope there isn't anything too dangerous there. We are currently camped out just off the road in the woods so no travellers or those loyal to strahd could catch us. I hope when we all wake up from this rest... we will get to that vineyard and find some wine. i will agree... I'd like some…
Day 8( i think)
Well We made it to the Vineyard but before we showed up the owner warned us there were Druids who overran the vineyard and had plant monsters infesting the area. The owner wasn't able to clear out the Druids or the monsters. This was the reason why the wine wasn't going anywhere. It was a task we thought, I thought, we would be able to talk out with these druids, I have dealt with them before, and you can talk with them and come to an agreement or at least get them to be more cooperative.
The Druids immediately upon us showing up outside the vineyard’s house we got attacked by needle blights. Pests of creatures, Urine and beezelbub were cutting them down quickly. And because they were plant based creatures. Ismarks and I with our firebolts made quick work of them as well. Poor olo though, had the worse of luck with them. He keeps swinging wide and getting struck for his trouble. But he was able to deal with his nasties.
Urine was a monster with the druids. There were 3 druids each coming out of the house one by one. Now the first one everyone cut her down from range. But when the second one showed up, Urine just Rawred ran up to her, swung twice causing huge gashes in her torso, I think she had died by then but then he lowered his horns and skewers her. Not only that, it tears her in half. Her lower half flew 10 feet, and the upper half was literally on Urine’s horns. Urine, Ignoring a dead body on his head sees the third Druid come out of the home, well he swings at her as well, and kills her right out in two swings. Holy hell, I did know he was that strong. Well after the fighting died down. He realized he had the body on his head and removed it. I must say it was something to see.
So now here is the stupidest thing I ever did. In my life. More than jumping off the bridge, more than telling a revenant we want to kill strahd after he tells us he doesn't want strahd dead. Well Future self, never do this again, you were a moron this day. So I guess I didn’t want to be accused of theft or anything, I turned back to get the owner before I entered the house, Luckily Urine and Orakan came with me. I am indebted to Urine, He has saved me so many times
Now It must have been the fog in the vineyards, cause I swear the place where we met the owner wasn't that far, but shows what I know… so alot of this battle is blurry… but Those hags arent dead. Oh no they are alive. We ran into two of them, where the third is? Who knows, finding a new home, in the ethereal realm, dead (I hope).
So a hag disguised as a little girl shows up. Lightning bolts us, Had direwolves,. And scarecrows(which are terrifying). I am so thankful for Jack… Jack has saved us so many times. There should be a statue to that raven. Well he got the rest of the group. Even then, we were being battered back, I blacked out a couple times, i remember waking up in a healing spirit, being carried, dragged, so many different things by Urine trying to escape combat. Well, Jack called all the other ravens together apparently, and thats when me and urine got back up. We helped out as best as we can, the Hags were losing now, and they went into the Etherial planes… too bad, they should have stayed and died.
Well everyone wasnt happy with the three of us running off, but we rested in the mansions porch. And we rested and tended our wounds. That was a terrible fight. And I should never leave the group. That would be horrible to be separated again.
Well we explored the house and we didnt find anything of value much, all of us spread out around the house searching, apparently, Urine told me he found a contraption with letters on it and he moved a bunch of the letters around. Oddball, and i'm not putting that wordpress back together.
Urine and I went down to the basement, well, I discovered a hidden door. I didnt find an handle to open the door, and Urine showed me alittle later, all i had to do was apply alittle pressure to the door and it would have opened. (stupid me) well Urine charged through the door, and he was met by cold air. Dont know where it was from, we got the rest of the party in the basement just in case their was a monster in the room.
Turned out it was actually brown mold. It was too dark for me to recognize it at first, but when it was described to me it finally clicked. It wasnt registering with me what it was when i had gone into the room myself. But Beezelbub got a bottle full of it to chill the bottles of wine we had gathered and put in a wagon.
Well we had gathered the wine together, and we had an argument over whether or not we should stay at the mansion for the night or leave for Kresk. Well we left for kresk, or going to kresk now, im sitting in the wagon Urine says there is some movement up ahead. Im not worried. We are all together.
Well im resting here in Kresk, we convinced the Burgermaster to let us in by the fact we were selling wine. Oh no stuff is happening in Kresk which doesnt seem right. I put on a little show as Olo tried to sell the wine, we only managed a small amount of sales at the moment but hopefully if we escape Barovia we can sell more outside.
There is alittle abby at the top of a hill here, and there is strange sounds that sounds like laughter and animal noises and it doesnt seem right. But we are all resting, we had to deal with some direwolves but nothing too serious. But lets see what the morning has to offer us.
Things got bad, I cant believe how bad it got. Well where to start. We wake up and we met the abbot, who incidentally gave all of us the creeps but we dont know what exactly is wrong. Well then we saw the abbot go up to the burgermaster. As we are talking to each other they talk then he convinces the man to dig up his sons grave.
Well I recognized that he cast ‘raise dead’ which is a necromancy spell, but i dont know if it is evil or not. Its necromancy but at the same time i didnt see anything directly evil. Us talking about it, i missed a part of the abbots and Burgermasters talk. Oarkan also told us he detected a celestial in the area, well Either the abbot is he, or the celestial is in the abby itself
We convinced the Abbot between all this mess to give us permission to tour the abby. Maybe we will learn what is happening up there. Who knows, but as everyone was walking to the abby i stayed and asked the burgermaster what the abbit wanted. And according to him, the abbot wanted a wedding dress. What the hell? Why would he want that?
So on our way up to the abby, Irena saw something in the pool, in fact we all saw it glow. We had no idea what it was and it seemed Irena was determined to go see it. When we got to the pool, we all looked in, and we saw strahd… or we thought it was strahd. It turned out, after I looked up some notes I had taken, that this must have been his brother Sergei.
At first I was wanting to hold her back thinking it was a trick by strahd, but Ismark held me back for a moment, and I couldn't detect anything evil going on. The sight was amazing to see. Irena called out to Sergei, it didn't seemed like she was Irena anymore. Well then from the pool Sergei called her Tatyana, and a physical hand came out of the pool, she took it, and then they were in the pool together. They both looked happy, but I kinda wanted both of them to come out of the pool.
Strahd then summoned a bolt of lightning from the sky, and it struck the pool and all of us as well. Right before the bolts struck I heard Strahd first saying “No Sergei! She is mine!” me and a couple of us dodged direct strikes. But Olo went down and i had to heal him. He is now asleep next to the pool. We have to recover from this shock.
So I think I pieced some things together on what was going on. This is a guess from what people have said to me or to us. And what I heard. Some time ago Irena was Tatyana, she met Sergei and strahd. And obviously this is where things go south. The fact Sergei is dead i have to think Strahd must have killed him, either by his hands, or by others. So it is a little obvious that Barovia is a demiplane now, but the question is how does Irana or Tatyana keep coming back? I guess if we are physically stuck here then our souls are also stuck? But it seems like she wont be coming back for a while, if ever again, seems she escaped this demiplane, Now we must escape. We must kill strahd and escape. But first let us see what this abbot can do to help us.
Its night time, there is a pile of celestial ashes, two piles of burned flesh, and dead abomination in the abby. We didn't expect what we saw, and we haven't even finished seeing everything that has happened here. It is scary how much evil has been done here.
So it turns out the abbot was sowing different animal body parts to each other. Creating mongrel abominations. At first the abbot was making sense but things turned dark and i couldn't trust him. On a small laugh, we saw scarecrows in the garden in the abby. Urine told me he thought one of them had moved and charged the offending scarecrow. It turned out to be just normal and not alive.
But once we went inside the abby itself. We saw this female, who seemed odd, the skin tone was even and one color, nothing mixing it. Well then the biggest what the **** of the day, or even time of us here. The abbot was planning on creating the “perfect wife” for strahd. From our knowledge of Strahd, we pointed out that Irena is who Strahd was after, and now that Irena is gone, Strahd will not be happy with anyone or any wife.
Well he seemed not to understand his plans were foolish and wrong, and against the Morning lord. Oh how i miss Irena, she taught us much about the morning lord. I wish she was there, she would have told him he was wrong and allowed him to see the error of his ways. But alas, she was not here so it fell on me, and i did my best to convince him. My last words were to try to shame him, but they only enraged him. I told him that “he seemed to no longer serve the morning lord, Fallen abbot”
Well the Abbot turned out to be the Celestial. And it was a tough fight, his constructions turned out to be strong and resisted any physical strikes but fire hurt them. The fight turned out to be several misses. In fact silver, the silver dragon we had met several days ago got hit by some of our misplaced attacks. But after our combat, we had hurt him really bad, he flew up out of our melee reach. But Urine and Beezelbub threw some Javelins. And then I got my horn out and cast shatter which finally killed the angel, I took no pleasure in it.
After the Angel died I went over to silvy who had retreated into a corner of the abby and healed her a little. Silvy felt better and we finished the angels monsters. Now they are dead, we are in the abby the door barred. We are upstairs resting from the battle with the angel. Olo found a bottle of liquid. I found a Viol! I am so happy, I wanted a viol for a long time. But after our rest we will explore this abby.
Day 9.
So we rested, well, we took care of the mangral folk, they were nothing but monsters, and one seemed to have a silver hilt but no blade. Orkarn discovered on a spoken word a bright light would form into a blade, and seemed to be solid light.
With the abby effectively destroyed, we left, going back into kresk, we all realized what we must do… Enter the castle ravonloft, kill Strahd and leave this land. Nothing better to note down. We will go back to Volaki, hopefully we will be able to get there without much worry.
Well Volaki is behind us. And as i suspected… it is empty, anyone who might have remained didnt come out. Only target ahead of us is the castle. We might not exit that place.
We got a surprise when we approached the bridge. That female, ismerelda was just about to cross as well. We agreed that we are going to kill strahd, and hopefully we get out together.
Day 11
We did it, we killed strahd... but Ismark… he died… Ismerelda told us about a heart of the castle, it apparently kept Strahd alive past normal Vampire powers. And while we were in the tower, destroying the heart, he came, and we fought, and strahd killed Ismark as Ismark delivered the final blow to the heart.
Strahd screamed in rage and the fight scattered us. I ended up in some odd bedroom with this girl. Marys daughter, she was under strahds charm, we have to end strahd to end this charm.
We all ended up in the dinning room fighting strahd, and some undead guards he had. Well Bezelbub and olo fell dead. And Oarkan nearly died when he made a thrusting motion with the light sword. Strahd turned into mist. And I thought we did it, but Ismerelda told us to follow her, and she led us to a tomb with a coffin. We pushed the lid off and there was strahd. His eyes moved only. Nothing else. Ismerelda took out a wooden stake from a bag.
She drove it into strahds heart. His body began to burn and he burned to ashes. I was happy, it was over. We could leave. Urine, Oarkan, and I took Bezelbub and olo laid them on our cart, and we are riding to the gates leaving Barovida.
The gates opened, we are leaving, we are gone, thank god. We are done,
There is Waterdeep. We are free. Urine asked for us to get a beer when we get into town.
Well wine for beer sounds like a fine trade. We have the entire cart of wine to sell.
I hope the spirits of Barovia escape that plane.
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my character was a teifling Bard, this is written as if he wrote it.
Not perfect but i wanted to share
Day 1
So I don't know where I am, I just escaped a cursed house. I, Morthos the tiefling bard, woke up in a stone coffin. How did i end up in said coffin? good question! I was on my way to Waterdeep when fog set in and then things went dark. Well when i came around i found a Human, two elves and a halfling. We fought some horrible creatures. Later the Human disappeared and then a Dwarf showed up. Within the first few hours I had many questions, the biggest were how did I get here and who everyone was. Apparently there were bones of children we had to put into other coffins in the basement. which the elves and halfing did, then the building seemed to start falling apart. On top of that there were swinging blades going through the door frames rather than doors. the house seemed determined to kill us. We fortunately escaped the house. even with my mistake of pulling a string that released swarms of rats. Which bit a couple of us but did no real damage. upon the escape. I wrote this in a notebook I found and now I'm writing my experiences of this odd adventure I found myself. Everyone is asleep and it will be a day hopefully in several hours. i need to rest
Day two
We woke up today, it seems odd, it should be day time, for we see everything is brighter but there is no sun, it must be hiding from all these clouds. well the light reveals that we are on the outside part of a village. it looks abandoned but there are people clearly walking around. the town must be very poor indeed to be in this state. I wonder who is in charge of the village, and why the villagers haven't done any upkeep to the buildings, even the poorest village I've seen in the sword coast isn't like this. This seems strange, very strange. it also appears that there is a large castle at least 50 miles west of this village.
I have learned that the party includes one wood elf who is a ranger of some kind, along with a high elf who seems to be some kind of Wizard. The halfling appears to be a rogue, only they have so many daggers, and finally the dwarf says, and appears, to be a Paladin. There is something very wrong about him, some terror surrounds him. I naturally don't trust the halfling, rogues are untrustworthy. the elves seem to be the best bet for me, those two will do something to allow me to write songs about! I still haven't learned their names yet. oh well. There is no time for we are heading into town, the dwarf wants to visit a blacksmith and I have to agree, they are most likely to have information, them and tavern keepers.
I met with a delightful man named Corvin, he is a solemn but polite man, he seems to have dealt with many outsiders before by his tone. But I was curious about this land. During my talk the dwarf repaired a sword, plate mail and a warhammer. Corvin also answered my question and gave me more to ponder. Corvin told me that we are in the village of Barovia and the land itself is called "The Valley Barovia'' which according to him is cursed. The master of the land is a man called Strahd, who is called a "devil" by Corvin. The odd part is that Strahd has apparently been alive for hundreds of years. This can't be right, no normal man can live for that long, maybe he is in fact an half-elf, these fine folks seem to not have met too many non-humans before.
The more I spoke with Corvin the more I became worried that I have ended in a land I can not escape. The land is surrounded by mist that keeps all inside the land. The only group that we are told that can leave are a group called the Vestani. This group is a loyal group towards Strahd, they say he likes them and they do his dirty work. They are called thieves by Corvin. What I learned about Strahd from Corvin is that: He has a brother who is possibly dead, and he is the son of a long dead king named Barov. We also learned the castle's name is Castle Ravenloft. What worries me more is how much control Strahd apparently has according to Corvin. Strahd apparently controls all wolves, dire wolves, even the werewolves with unusual efficiency, he controls the weathers, the monster and undead. He even controls the mist. Strahd sounds like a Wizard. That scares me, he seems to be a very powerful Wizard, and I know I can't fight him in my state.
The elf Ranger, Orakan I believe his name is, when he was in the home found these mossy ingants, Corvin says that we should talk to the local jeweler named Turge to learn more. Corvin seemed not to like this Jeweler so we should be aware. The shop wasn't hard to spot and before we even entered the shop our dwarf found that a necklace on display in the front was evil. This told me to disbelieve anything she says it is good. and upon meeting her he addresses Lord Strahd as a wonderful individual. This might be so, but looking at this village I dislike him for the state of disrepair alone. The talk with this woman Turge was very creepy to say the least. she was delighted to talk about moss ingots. she seemed to be very well informed about them. Then upon mentioning that Orakan wanted to learn about his collection, she became overly happy. she asked to see the moss ingot he had and promised to give him a good ring in an hour. so instead of staying inside the shop with this odd woman we went to explore the village.
I can't stress enough the state of this village. as we walked through the streets i would have been convinced it to be totally abandoned if it wasn't for a kid or an adult who would be looking out the window then quickly disappear. As I wondered with the group we heard crying from a house, this house looked like it had been barricaded. the crying sounded from upstairs. I was drawn to the distress along with the dwarf. The others not wanting to be seperated entered the home with us. I with the Paladin walked up stairs, I looked into the room where the crying was from. It was of a distressed woman. She, like the rest in this village, is dirty and poor beyond repair. I was overcome with the desire to comfort this woman. I went in and sat down across from her and consoled her. Her name is Mary, the poor thing, I feel for her. She told us that the devil Strahd came into the home at night and kidnapped her daughter. When we left we continued to explore and discovered a home that looked better than the other buildings. Bell, the Dwarf, said that the building had an aura of good. The building itself looked like it had been attacked by wolves and K9 of the sort.
We knocked on the door and after some convincing gained entry to the building. We were greeted by the Most beautiful woman I've ever met. Her name? Well her name is Irina Kolyana, a beautiful woman, beyond any i've seen before. We met her wearing plate armor and the inside of her home was decorated with multiple religious symbols. Unfortunately her father had passed away. That is a terrible fate. I haven't used the proper words for her unfortunately, that was my mistake, I won't make it again. She wishes to leave this town but is unable to until her father is buried. Irina has a brother named Ismark, he is currently at the local tavern. After we get him we will go to the church and bury their father.
What an annoying brother Irena has, told him we needed to go but he wanted to stay and drink. Once we explained we were with Irina and bringing him back to the family home to bury their father. Nope he wants to drink some more! I mean, really? Then the "Paladin" chooses to drink with him rather than get this man to bury his dead father. I have met Paladins before but this one seems to be very unpaliden-like. But I finally got him to leave the tavern and go to the home, so finally we can bury their father.
We went to the church, and met with the priest. He was a good man, but I determined he was lying about something. Then we discovered the Priest who had a son who went after Strahd and that the son returned as a vampire spawn. We went down to the basement and vanquished him. It was a horrible thing to do. I wish we could do more for him, but couldn't. We buried the son and the father. During this fight a minotaur name Urine was discovered… well he kinda just popped out of the ground… but he helped us with this spawn.
We slept for a night at the church. Apparently according to urine, ghosts showed up marching past, i haven't heard about this before. I wonder what it means?
when the father was buried the halfling who had vanished showed back up. chased by 3 werewolves. which we fought and won. we had to patch ourselves up, we went to the black smith once more and i spoke with corvin again. the Paladin started working again as i spoke with him. Urine and all of us silvered our weapons and I found a silver dagger with a wolf hilt. I was able to identify the magical properties and learned that if I draw the blade, all werewolves, wolves, and dire wolves will come to me and attack those who hold the blade but it strikes true against the said wolves. I may use this somehow, for now it will be here with me, unused.
After some time of travel we came across a fork in the road, with a hanging corpse, hanging from a gallow. the paladin looked like he saw death while the rogue shot it with some arrows. I say that rogue is not that nice, ha!
Well I must say, the paladin, ranger, Ismark, and the wizard went the way described as quick and dangerous, while urine, the rogue, Irina, and I took the long and safe way. I hope we see them again.
HAHA! Urine made a raven friend, named Jack. very nice raven too, he sits on Urines head. I love it! It's adorable. and Urine can speak with animals at will. so we can tell what Jack says. The two of them seem to become strong friends really fast. but Jack said avoid an old mill called the "Bonecrusher" seems really bad, once the paladin heard about this place, he became set to go into the place. oh great. This paladin is not like other paladins I've been with
okay, I might have been stupid. So the other guys got in a fight with dire wolves. werewolves and simple wolves on a bridge. during the fight it seemed we were going to all die but then i remembered the dagger and thought, " will they follow me off the bridge?" yes... yes they do... so i jumped off the bridge, cast feather fall, looked down a 2000 ft drop and realized i might have made a mistake. luckily Urine threw me a rope, i had to drop the dagger to catch it, i could have slipped through, but luckily Urine got me back on the bridge. I never did anything that stupid before, i dont plan to do it again.
we went down the road some way then made camp, I'm happy, i need a sleep. we will see what the next day brings.
Day three
oh... could this day get worse? so we got to this "Bonecrusher" mill. The first floor had an oven and a barrel full of bones. We heard some noise upstairs. so the Paladin, and the wizard go to the second floor. There was an old Lady, obviously a Hag, but really that paladin is self centered. I don't know why the paladin or the wizard chose to do this but while everyone was still walking up the stairs and on the stairs, they decided to attack the hag, who was only trying to sell something called "Dream pies" seriously what the hell. I saw them and knew it was a Hag, the Paladin had to have known. but he should have also known the rest of us were in no way to help. That wizard has to be the boot licker of the paladin.
so when the Paladin and the wizard starts attacking the one Hag, it turns out, IT'S A COVENANT OF HAGS! I mean OH OKAY, Like how did he not think there might be more of them. so unfortunately Urine is on the first floor. and I don't blame him. He wants to get to hitting something. I accidently set a part of the second floor on fire. 1 hag on the second floor, the other 2 on the stairs. well Urine didn't hear the children coughing on the upper floors. If he did He wouldn't have continued to do what he did... well he swung his ax at the floor right below the one hag. and unfortunately he swung too powerfully. He caused the whole second floor to collapse. Well when the second floor collapsed, the windmill started to collapse. and then a four legged pig demon thing popped out of the barrel of bones.
Well we escaped as the windmill collapsed. Unfortunately I couldn't see the children and cast feather fall on them. that might have saved them. but i didn't see them... Well now Urine is digging their graves. I've made their tombstones, not much I could put on them, I don't know their names. The paladin is clearly angry with Urine, yeah sure Urine made a mistake But who are the two who started fighting 3 hags while blocking all of us from getting up there. I mean really. oh lord... he really needs to look in on himself. I'm not saying myself or Urine are innocent or perfect. but he should reflect on his own actions before Morden revokes his Paladin status, or however paladins work, side note, ask a paladin, not bell, how the whole paladin thing works. we are about to leave, the children have been buried.
For the love of all that is holy and sacred. what is wrong with the paladin. He picks a fight with two werewolves. given they were in their human form, and not being hostile to us. they were there, standing there then started walking away/ in the same direction as us. I mean, this guy for what he says is a good and lawful dwarf is doing a lot of aggressive actions. apparently according to Irena they were look outs for Strahd who was hidden in the woods!
When the stupid Paladin attacks the two were wolves, guess what! 4-6 other werewolves show up and start attacking us. OH GREAT! exactly what i wanted. being viciously assaulted by cursed creatures. of course the whole party got screwed. Obviously we survived but just barely. I got knocked out, Urine got knocked out. Orakan got knocked out. Ismark got knocked out! only the paladin, the blasted wizard and Irena stayed conscious. Currently I'm in a City called Volaki, In an Inn. by the love of God I need to sleep but when Irena explained what happened until i was brought back from being unconscious. I had to write this down.
So. Paladin gets us into a losing fight with werewolves. Strahd, finally bored with the fight, FIREBALLS us all. well of course even with my resistance to fire i still got knocked unconscious. Well apparently Strahd has some strange obsession with Irena, I don't understand, and apparently the paladin has some bravado about him as well, saying "I've dealt with worse than you" Excuse me? Have you ever read actual stories of things worse than a Vampire? Demon lords? the Devils of the 9 hells. if he actually saw and dealt with things worse than a Vampire, He would have died already or marched his dwarven butt to Castle Ravenloft. I'm not scared of Strahd the Vampire but i understand That we need to respect the power of this monster. I swear this Paladin will be the death of someone in the party.
Day four
So we go into the inn. The paladin is running around talking to people. Urine is happily feeding Jack, hell i even like jack. We ran into a supposed Vampire hunter but who knows if the guy is or is not. and then the bar keeper and the Halfling (who needs to quit disappearing and reappearing) said there was a job to get wine bottles form the Vineyard cause the road has been blocked by something, I love wine! So I was in, to make this town happy.
Well as we were leaving, the Paladin had to go to the church of the Morning lord. and while there... oh was this an insight. so the story is there was a saint of the town, in the worship of the Morning lord. well she was so Holy even her bones protect the town even in death. and apparently this kept Strahd at bay. Well the priest and the altar boy said the bones were missing. Even worse, the Alter boy STOLE THEM! HE KNEW THE PROTECTION! he knew with the bones the town was forever safe! and guess how much he sold them for? 100 Gold pieces. that actually is not a lot. I could make 100GP a week playing instruments in a Tavern.
Lucky thing is the kid was scared by Urine and the rest of us told us he sold the bones to the coffin maker. then idk why but the Ranger casted Zone of truth and i became compelled to tell the party i thought Irena was cute. oh lord, my choice of words. Urine told us that his military company was slaughtered by a Dragon. I didn't know. that is horrible. but we must go to the Coffin makers shop.
What a disaster! we went to the coffin shop. The Paladin told Urine to "Guard the entrance" and well when the Rogue, Holdo saw coffins he climbed in. Immediately the coffin closed and Urine became worried that Holdo was going to die if not found he ran from coffin to coffin, finally finding Holdo in a Closet. which fell apart as urine ripped the door off it. I mean... HAHA! what a loyal man. i'm a little over enthusiastic. well unfortunately the bottom floor didn't hold the bones, the Paladin in his arrogant wisdom and decided to try to find the bones. well he led us into a Vampire Swarms DEN! We faced 8 old adventurers who were turned into vampire spawn.
Unfortunately all I remember is losing then I was knocked unconscious. When I woke up I learned the floor had collapsed and Urine grabbed me before leaving. If he didnt I might have died. I own Urine a debt for that.
Day 5
it's difficult to say what has happened. we collected a Blue dragonborn at least that was the only good i can see today.
We returned to the Coffin Shop, on the way Jack comes and tells Urine something. and Urine tells us all that Strahd has come and is at the Shop. then a panic picks up all down the road starting closest to the coffin shop and through the town. Well there was strahd with the bag of bones and the coffin maker. the dwarf being the dwarf tells him to drop the bag and let the man go. well strad drops the man. I had to cast Feather Fall on the man. the wizard goes to catch him, and then falls down with the man. i'm not sure if he died or not.
I managed to get strahd to drop the bag but he quickly picked it up again unfortunately
the battle devolved into a cluster... god... the Dwarf thinks it is a great idea to cast "Compel duel" on strahd. who threw the bag on the roof. and we got attacked by 8 vampire spawn and 6 wolves. well it soon became 7 vampire spawns cause one ran off with the bag. I cast a Locate object while next to the dwarf. idiot man, stupid man. anyway. I chased after the Vampire dwarf. and apparently after i left the party they were able to kill all the vampire spawns with the help of Jack and the other Ravens. Apparently the ranger broke the Dwarves spell. and Strahd left.
from what the ranger told me Urine asked the party where I had gone. The dwarf said he didn't know and didn't care, apparently and the wizard just sat down. Apparently the Dwarf went to the dragonborn and asked to go drinking. the dwarf on a mission to go get a saint's bones decides to go drinking instead? sorry i'll not rant now... well Urine tells everyone to follow him to go get me, apparently the Dwarf chose not to listen to the spell i cast next to him. I ran down. I managed to get the vampire spawn to drop the bag…
I should have realized something was wrong when the vampire spawn just stood there.... didn't grab the bag or anything, well... Strahd was there and well I grabbed the Bag. and ran from him. out of nowhere Urine shows up and throws a Javelin at strahd cause Strahd tried to cast some kinda mind spell on me. Then when Urine tried to run himself Strahd Got him with this mind spell. I think it was a Charm Person but i don't know. and well Urine then was under his control. The whole time I ran I cast a spell that made my voice booming, and even then I was screaming for the party and the Paladin to come save me and Urine. But no I saw the Paladin in the distance walking away, there was no way the Dwarf didn't hear me. HE IGNORED ME! the coward the wretch chose not to get the bones... he chose not to face strahd. then says he wont help me save Urine. the Dwarf is no Paladin... One day Mordan will turn his gaze towards this Dwarf and he will be judged whether or not he is a Paladin or not. Listen to me I'm a Bard and even I recognize a fake paladin! and that is hard to do at times, especially with Mordan.
Well then, Urine struck me while running and then... strahd cast fireball in front of me... I took what I thought was a bone from the bag and put in my bag right before the fireball hit. and I fell unconscious. According to the Ranger the Dwarf finally chose to after a fireball explosion went off to see what was going on. It wasn't a Big booming voice saying to come down the alleyway. it wasn't hearing me casting a spell looking for the bag, it wasn't Urine telling the party to look for me. but an explosion... once again not a Paladin! and then once again it came to Irena saving me, that sweetheart, to rescue me and revive me.
When i woke up i opened my bag and found it was a twig. i opened the bag and found it was nothing but twigs... nice go Strahd... and i told them that Urine was missing. and only after this did the dwarf choose to look for the Bones. The ranger and the Dragon born and Irena and everyone else didn't hear him say Bones until after i was found. and apparently the bones were in the coffin makers room, if the bugger had removed the shelves he would of found a secret compartment... but when he first was in the room all he did was look at them, the idiot. I believed him being a paladin he would know something about religious artifacts would find them. I was mistaken. I will not let this paladin look for anything that i don't look over again. I will not listen to this dwarf ever again. I will find Urine in castle Ravenloft. Jack is worried about the safety of Urine and so am I. I will send Jack to scout out the road leading to Castle Ravenloft and i will convince the Rouge, Ranger, and Dragonborn, if i convince them then the Dwarf and Wizard should fall in line. and Ismark and Ireana shouldn't come, or if they do they shouldn't enter the Castle. having Irena walk into Strahd's stronghold is a bad idea. I must sleep now. but when i wake. I will rescue Urine. Alone if i must and If i die I hope Urine is safe. and I hope even if Urine and I both die. someone finds this Journal and sends punishment to the dwarf! Forsake that dwarf Mordan if you are there.
Day 6
so today is Horrible where to start? Well I'm writing this in an abandoned tavern. By Urine's report talking to Blood drinker, a saber tooth tiger, the town has either fled, been murdered, or killed themselves in the lake. It's terrible. where to start.
So the Wizard wakes up and does some stuff involving the coffin maker's body. and apparently the church of the morning lord has been desecrate beyond all hope. even with the return of the bones now i dont think it would save the town or bring anyone back...
well before that happened Urine Reappeared, I was soo happy, I was trying to convince everyone to go to Castleraven loft, the ass wizard thought it was a good idea to try to silence me, ******* pig. I understand some don't Like Urine but he is a kind hearted soul who is always trying to do the right thing. well Urine at first seemed groggy and disoriented then Jack pokes him a couple times. Then Urine kinda snapped out of some kinda trance and he remembered everything.
He sat down for a beer and told us he woke up in a bed chamber with a young human girl named gertruda. The mother being Mary from Barovia, who we met some days ago. It seems that she too is under a Charm spell. Well Urine was taken to Strahd. Which what he stated was... interesting to say the least.
Strahd told Urine to kill him, not right then and there but to kill him. when? no idea, how? With Urines Great Axe. why? well apparently according to Strahd it will make him stronger and able to "Protect Everyone" well this is a quandary. If true it is a mistake to kill strahd. but we have to stop strahd, it is possible this is a lie to keep us from trying.
Well during this Jack is hopping between us. then freaks out at the wizard. Urine then starts speaking raven... Lucky... and then starts speaking Infernal to me. haha, must have been other tieflings in his old unit. must have picked it up. He told me the Wizard was evil. And of course I told Urine in Infernal that he has to talk to the Dwarf about it, for he claims to be the expert on it. of course the dwarf looks livid at the fact we are speaking infernal to each other. luckily I switched to writing in this journal in Infernal. felt like it kept my thoughts more private.
Well then I bet the dwarf is surprised as i was when Urine starts talking to him in Dwarven. haha, Dwarf then turns to the wizard and speaks to him in common. asks him about the evil presents.
Well the Wizard was explaining he went to the coffin shop then went to the church and as stated before found the church desecrated. did something with the priest then left the coffin makers shop. the wizard mentioned something about the coffin maker being bled dry.
Well the Dwarf stood up and rushed out of the Tavern. well, I followed, then Urine, then the rest of the party. We got to the church and bats flew out and the ravens rose up and fought above us. The Coffin maker, Priest and other Zombies came out of the darkness and we took care of them. but a Devil was in the church and oh well the Dwarf did a number on the devil and the dragonborn was able to take care of the devil in a javelin strike.
well after this the town was oddly silent. We took everybody in the church and burned them. I then with Ismak burned the church down, no reason to allow Devils and Demons and other filth from infesting it. and if we get the bones again we can rebuild the church and the tomb is still intact.
Well the dwarf and others went into homes and found many towns folk dead in their homes. and here we are in the Tavern, everyone gone, dead, missing, or left... there is nothing left for us. There is another town, well it's an abby. We are going there to go to the vineyard, collect the wine and sell it there. useless in my opinion, Money doesn't really matter here in my opinion, it is useless. but oh well.
Well slight change of plans. on top of seeing the bodies of those who committed suicide from Valaki going down the river, we came to a cross road, fond the right road. then we came across a rock with the emblem of a silver dragon. same as the dwarf had acquired. we headed down the road to it.
Well we came across this manner or castle. ruined. sad it must have been nice when it was in its prime. We are in front of the place itself and we see this silver dragon facing the front door, it's stylish. we might go in. I heard about the Order of the silver dragons. an Order of Paladins under the command of a silver dragon. and now they all have failed and become what is called Revenants. I've only heard about them in legend, never seen one. Well, here is for the best.
Well here I am in the middle of the hall. I have to say upon trying to enter the front doors I didn't expect a blast of cold air. I mean the place was creepy as is, why make it colder. then the rogue and wizard goofed off on the statue. I was half convinced the statue was going to come to life and attack them for what they were doing. But luckily we got in without dealing with traps, except cold air. We are in here, the dragonborn went into another room, the rogue and Urine went into another room. There are tapestries and Statue busts of men who look similar to each other. either they are all brothers or they are all the dragon. We also saw what appeared to be the ghost of the dragon. It didn't hurt us but it is creepy. The elf went upstairs and stole a longbow from the house. of course i didn't find out about that till just now. oh lord…
I heard clicking and spitting noises and then Urine left stating that the room is filled with Huge spiders and they will not attack us as long as we do not enter the room again. Also it looks like the Wizard and dwarf are in some kinda weird catatonic state. I swear I don't understand those two. Well the Rogue ran out of the spider room now, and now i hear clicking at the door... great, not what i need. and Urine stuck his head into the room where the dragonborn was and I picked up the word "Ghost" from Urine... half to ask about it later... anyway... wait where is Irena going?
Well Irena found an Altar to the sun god, then ran into these revenants. skeletons with weapons and armor. Everyone went to fight them and help Irena, I told her to back out of the room to allow us to help her. She was defending herself. Well the Dragonborn came out and took the place of where Irena was... He is a barbarian. The fight wasn't hard, I beat my drums and cast heat metal on one of the revenants and called them Names... best i could do. Urine was amazing and fought with the revenants. Once one went down we were about to fight and surround the rest and we took care of them.
After that everyone explored the bottom floor. I went into a kitchen where a kettle started rattling. Well I got out my rapier and tapped the rapier. Well a bat showed up and I called for urine, who talked to the bat and told me that the bat was upset you desturbed him in his sleep. Well of course I left.
After this I went back and went into the chapel and looked at the altar trying to see if there was anything about it. it was just normal. then the Wizard and the dwarf kinda snapped out of whatever was affecting them, and the wizard began asking about the doors, I told him there were Giant spiders in there and there was nothing in the room of value. I swear the wizard and the dwarf are going to get us killed, I caught a gleam of a wish to launch a fireball in the room. I mean sure burn down this manner. The Dwarf would have to stop hating Urine for things the dwarf really caused. Anyway…
Well The Wizard found another elf... well the elf is called a dusk elf. I never heard of that race of elves. He was looking for a girl named Erabell, a vestani girl. 9 years old with red hair. went missing around the vistani camp near Valaki. well i guess she might be dead in the lake. but Strahd wouldnt attack the Vestani so she wouldnt have commited suicide. but i hope he finds her. I kinda think we should find her maybe... anyway... I think we are going up stairs now.
Well up the stairs and well I moved and looked about. I saw a curtain and I moved it to see the other side and it was a wall. I looked over the wall and there was no secret door. I turned around and then looked back and the curtain was back where it was before I moved it. Urine didn't see anything. that is odd. kinda scary, well me and urine went to a room and a soot dragon showed up, I tried to talk to it in common, and it just left the room. I followed it. and called out to the party to follow.
well... then everyone followed. I passed a door but the dragonborn wanted to see what was behind it. well... i didn't see it but apparently olo the halfling went in the room and attacked a revenant who was talking, then the wizard and dwarf entered the room and got cut down by this revenant. if it wasn't for olo rolling ball bearings under its feet, who knows what it could have done. but he kept falling because of these ball bearings. and the dragon born and Urine were able to kill this creature.
There were 4 other revenants we took care of. Olo called in Blooddrinker the saber tooth cat. And while I was taking care of Irena, she opened a door and a Silver dragon showed up. It was a baby dragon. I mean what? well we are here resting for a bit. we will continue to see where this dragon spectre went to.
Day 7
Well, I don't know what the hell happened. the last couple hours. and i Think we are on day 7 of being here. the sky doesn't make it easy to tell time. but well... it's hard to even put down what has happened... just so much has happened... well we met i guess the second in command of the old order of the silver dragon. well guess what. I asked him for help to kill Strahd, what we wish to have happened. well... he says that he doesn't want to see Strahd dead, just to remain here and suffer. then approaches to attack me and Beelzabub came forward and rescued me.
then these ghost warrior looking things popped up, and we all chose to run. The ghosts went through the walls and I was about to get everyone to jump through a window and I would cast feather fall. well Olo saved us all. Idk how but he did. He said some stuff to the guy, the ghosts went away and Olo pushed outside. Apparently Olo acted like he was a member of the silver dragons, and told him we wanted to get the bones of the dragon. excusing my comments as rash apparently. and got him to give information with the promise of getting the bones of the silver dragon.
When we got outside we ran into a Vestani dressed woman riding a horse named Ismerelda. She wanted to go in and search the manor on how to kill strahd, we told her it was fruitless to go in as no information to tell about strahd besides what was already known and we could provide that. she was unimpressed by our attempts to help and walked in anyway, should have warned her about the spiders and not to mention you want to kill strahd...
Well she released the horse to go back up where she came. almost as soon as she vanished into the manner. a vestani man named araggon i think rode up with two wolf mounted others. demanding where the woman, Ismerelda i believe, went saying that strahd had asked for her capture. well... we don't see anyone who wants to stop strahd as an enemy, and we didn't want to fight or kill any vestani. killing them would keep any help they could provide to vanish potentially.
Well Olo and I did very well in distracting and convincing the man that the horse had come by riderless. but Urine detected the dire wolves had picked up her trail and I had noticed that it seemed they were about to become aggressive. Luckily devil language makes you seem like a friend.
Well Urine standing around where the woman walked passed, thought quickly and where he was standing just took a poop. and let me tell you... Minotaur poop is not to mess around with. The smell was awful and obviously covered her smell. good thinking i guess? well the vestani men were disgusted and were about to leave it seemed, his tone denoted him wanting to leave.
WELL... that woman shot lightning from the second floor window. they were going to leave... and she shot lightning. wel we had to fight then. we luckily killed the wolves and vestani men real quick. but it isn't what we wanted. well the woman didn't want our help and actively caused us trouble. if he wishes to ask for our help... I am going to be reluctant... but she might be of some use if she can cast lightning after all.
all of us walked our way down the road and back to where the vineyard should be. I hope there isn't anything too dangerous there. We are currently camped out just off the road in the woods so no travellers or those loyal to strahd could catch us. I hope when we all wake up from this rest... we will get to that vineyard and find some wine. i will agree... I'd like some…
Day 8( i think)
Well We made it to the Vineyard but before we showed up the owner warned us there were Druids who overran the vineyard and had plant monsters infesting the area. The owner wasn't able to clear out the Druids or the monsters. This was the reason why the wine wasn't going anywhere. It was a task we thought, I thought, we would be able to talk out with these druids, I have dealt with them before, and you can talk with them and come to an agreement or at least get them to be more cooperative.
The Druids immediately upon us showing up outside the vineyard’s house we got attacked by needle blights. Pests of creatures, Urine and beezelbub were cutting them down quickly. And because they were plant based creatures. Ismarks and I with our firebolts made quick work of them as well. Poor olo though, had the worse of luck with them. He keeps swinging wide and getting struck for his trouble. But he was able to deal with his nasties.
Urine was a monster with the druids. There were 3 druids each coming out of the house one by one. Now the first one everyone cut her down from range. But when the second one showed up, Urine just Rawred ran up to her, swung twice causing huge gashes in her torso, I think she had died by then but then he lowered his horns and skewers her. Not only that, it tears her in half. Her lower half flew 10 feet, and the upper half was literally on Urine’s horns. Urine, Ignoring a dead body on his head sees the third Druid come out of the home, well he swings at her as well, and kills her right out in two swings. Holy hell, I did know he was that strong. Well after the fighting died down. He realized he had the body on his head and removed it. I must say it was something to see.
So now here is the stupidest thing I ever did. In my life. More than jumping off the bridge, more than telling a revenant we want to kill strahd after he tells us he doesn't want strahd dead. Well Future self, never do this again, you were a moron this day. So I guess I didn’t want to be accused of theft or anything, I turned back to get the owner before I entered the house, Luckily Urine and Orakan came with me. I am indebted to Urine, He has saved me so many times
Now It must have been the fog in the vineyards, cause I swear the place where we met the owner wasn't that far, but shows what I know… so alot of this battle is blurry… but Those hags arent dead. Oh no they are alive. We ran into two of them, where the third is? Who knows, finding a new home, in the ethereal realm, dead (I hope).
So a hag disguised as a little girl shows up. Lightning bolts us, Had direwolves,. And scarecrows(which are terrifying). I am so thankful for Jack… Jack has saved us so many times. There should be a statue to that raven. Well he got the rest of the group. Even then, we were being battered back, I blacked out a couple times, i remember waking up in a healing spirit, being carried, dragged, so many different things by Urine trying to escape combat. Well, Jack called all the other ravens together apparently, and thats when me and urine got back up. We helped out as best as we can, the Hags were losing now, and they went into the Etherial planes… too bad, they should have stayed and died.
Well everyone wasnt happy with the three of us running off, but we rested in the mansions porch. And we rested and tended our wounds. That was a terrible fight. And I should never leave the group. That would be horrible to be separated again.
Well we explored the house and we didnt find anything of value much, all of us spread out around the house searching, apparently, Urine told me he found a contraption with letters on it and he moved a bunch of the letters around. Oddball, and i'm not putting that wordpress back together.
Urine and I went down to the basement, well, I discovered a hidden door. I didnt find an handle to open the door, and Urine showed me alittle later, all i had to do was apply alittle pressure to the door and it would have opened. (stupid me) well Urine charged through the door, and he was met by cold air. Dont know where it was from, we got the rest of the party in the basement just in case their was a monster in the room.
Turned out it was actually brown mold. It was too dark for me to recognize it at first, but when it was described to me it finally clicked. It wasnt registering with me what it was when i had gone into the room myself. But Beezelbub got a bottle full of it to chill the bottles of wine we had gathered and put in a wagon.
Well we had gathered the wine together, and we had an argument over whether or not we should stay at the mansion for the night or leave for Kresk. Well we left for kresk, or going to kresk now, im sitting in the wagon Urine says there is some movement up ahead. Im not worried. We are all together.
Well im resting here in Kresk, we convinced the Burgermaster to let us in by the fact we were selling wine. Oh no stuff is happening in Kresk which doesnt seem right. I put on a little show as Olo tried to sell the wine, we only managed a small amount of sales at the moment but hopefully if we escape Barovia we can sell more outside.
There is alittle abby at the top of a hill here, and there is strange sounds that sounds like laughter and animal noises and it doesnt seem right. But we are all resting, we had to deal with some direwolves but nothing too serious. But lets see what the morning has to offer us.
Things got bad, I cant believe how bad it got. Well where to start. We wake up and we met the abbot, who incidentally gave all of us the creeps but we dont know what exactly is wrong. Well then we saw the abbot go up to the burgermaster. As we are talking to each other they talk then he convinces the man to dig up his sons grave.
Well I recognized that he cast ‘raise dead’ which is a necromancy spell, but i dont know if it is evil or not. Its necromancy but at the same time i didnt see anything directly evil. Us talking about it, i missed a part of the abbots and Burgermasters talk. Oarkan also told us he detected a celestial in the area, well Either the abbot is he, or the celestial is in the abby itself
We convinced the Abbot between all this mess to give us permission to tour the abby. Maybe we will learn what is happening up there. Who knows, but as everyone was walking to the abby i stayed and asked the burgermaster what the abbit wanted. And according to him, the abbot wanted a wedding dress. What the hell? Why would he want that?
So on our way up to the abby, Irena saw something in the pool, in fact we all saw it glow. We had no idea what it was and it seemed Irena was determined to go see it. When we got to the pool, we all looked in, and we saw strahd… or we thought it was strahd. It turned out, after I looked up some notes I had taken, that this must have been his brother Sergei.
At first I was wanting to hold her back thinking it was a trick by strahd, but Ismark held me back for a moment, and I couldn't detect anything evil going on. The sight was amazing to see. Irena called out to Sergei, it didn't seemed like she was Irena anymore. Well then from the pool Sergei called her Tatyana, and a physical hand came out of the pool, she took it, and then they were in the pool together. They both looked happy, but I kinda wanted both of them to come out of the pool.
Strahd then summoned a bolt of lightning from the sky, and it struck the pool and all of us as well. Right before the bolts struck I heard Strahd first saying “No Sergei! She is mine!” me and a couple of us dodged direct strikes. But Olo went down and i had to heal him. He is now asleep next to the pool. We have to recover from this shock.
So I think I pieced some things together on what was going on. This is a guess from what people have said to me or to us. And what I heard. Some time ago Irena was Tatyana, she met Sergei and strahd. And obviously this is where things go south. The fact Sergei is dead i have to think Strahd must have killed him, either by his hands, or by others. So it is a little obvious that Barovia is a demiplane now, but the question is how does Irana or Tatyana keep coming back? I guess if we are physically stuck here then our souls are also stuck? But it seems like she wont be coming back for a while, if ever again, seems she escaped this demiplane, Now we must escape. We must kill strahd and escape. But first let us see what this abbot can do to help us.
Its night time, there is a pile of celestial ashes, two piles of burned flesh, and dead abomination in the abby. We didn't expect what we saw, and we haven't even finished seeing everything that has happened here. It is scary how much evil has been done here.
So it turns out the abbot was sowing different animal body parts to each other. Creating mongrel abominations. At first the abbot was making sense but things turned dark and i couldn't trust him. On a small laugh, we saw scarecrows in the garden in the abby. Urine told me he thought one of them had moved and charged the offending scarecrow. It turned out to be just normal and not alive.
But once we went inside the abby itself. We saw this female, who seemed odd, the skin tone was even and one color, nothing mixing it. Well then the biggest what the **** of the day, or even time of us here. The abbot was planning on creating the “perfect wife” for strahd. From our knowledge of Strahd, we pointed out that Irena is who Strahd was after, and now that Irena is gone, Strahd will not be happy with anyone or any wife.
Well he seemed not to understand his plans were foolish and wrong, and against the Morning lord. Oh how i miss Irena, she taught us much about the morning lord. I wish she was there, she would have told him he was wrong and allowed him to see the error of his ways. But alas, she was not here so it fell on me, and i did my best to convince him. My last words were to try to shame him, but they only enraged him. I told him that “he seemed to no longer serve the morning lord, Fallen abbot”
Well the Abbot turned out to be the Celestial. And it was a tough fight, his constructions turned out to be strong and resisted any physical strikes but fire hurt them. The fight turned out to be several misses. In fact silver, the silver dragon we had met several days ago got hit by some of our misplaced attacks. But after our combat, we had hurt him really bad, he flew up out of our melee reach. But Urine and Beezelbub threw some Javelins. And then I got my horn out and cast shatter which finally killed the angel, I took no pleasure in it.
After the Angel died I went over to silvy who had retreated into a corner of the abby and healed her a little. Silvy felt better and we finished the angels monsters. Now they are dead, we are in the abby the door barred. We are upstairs resting from the battle with the angel. Olo found a bottle of liquid. I found a Viol! I am so happy, I wanted a viol for a long time. But after our rest we will explore this abby.
Day 9.
So we rested, well, we took care of the mangral folk, they were nothing but monsters, and one seemed to have a silver hilt but no blade. Orkarn discovered on a spoken word a bright light would form into a blade, and seemed to be solid light.
With the abby effectively destroyed, we left, going back into kresk, we all realized what we must do… Enter the castle ravonloft, kill Strahd and leave this land. Nothing better to note down. We will go back to Volaki, hopefully we will be able to get there without much worry.
Well Volaki is behind us. And as i suspected… it is empty, anyone who might have remained didnt come out. Only target ahead of us is the castle. We might not exit that place.
We got a surprise when we approached the bridge. That female, ismerelda was just about to cross as well. We agreed that we are going to kill strahd, and hopefully we get out together.
Day 11
We did it, we killed strahd... but Ismark… he died… Ismerelda told us about a heart of the castle, it apparently kept Strahd alive past normal Vampire powers. And while we were in the tower, destroying the heart, he came, and we fought, and strahd killed Ismark as Ismark delivered the final blow to the heart.
Strahd screamed in rage and the fight scattered us. I ended up in some odd bedroom with this girl. Marys daughter, she was under strahds charm, we have to end strahd to end this charm.
We all ended up in the dinning room fighting strahd, and some undead guards he had. Well Bezelbub and olo fell dead. And Oarkan nearly died when he made a thrusting motion with the light sword. Strahd turned into mist. And I thought we did it, but Ismerelda told us to follow her, and she led us to a tomb with a coffin. We pushed the lid off and there was strahd. His eyes moved only. Nothing else. Ismerelda took out a wooden stake from a bag.
She drove it into strahds heart. His body began to burn and he burned to ashes. I was happy, it was over. We could leave. Urine, Oarkan, and I took Bezelbub and olo laid them on our cart, and we are riding to the gates leaving Barovida.
The gates opened, we are leaving, we are gone, thank god. We are done,
There is Waterdeep. We are free. Urine asked for us to get a beer when we get into town.
Well wine for beer sounds like a fine trade. We have the entire cart of wine to sell.
I hope the spirits of Barovia escape that plane.