The hags Bella, Ophelia and Morgantha surprised us by showing up at our own camp! They hissed we'd need to be taught a lesson. Our heroes fought with vigor and determination against the hags, using any and all tools at their disposal. Yet one by one, they were overcome with fear, paralysis and unconsciousness.Narmo used the combat as an opportunity to learn the horrible truth of Old Bonegrinder: a pair of cut open children lie motionless in the windmill, seemingly fresh corpses. We were too late.
All hope shattered when, with fading vision and horrified looks, the party saw Bella lean down towards her knocked romantic interest Kevdormu. "This should teach you not to destroy our windmill", she says. Bella gives a gentle kiss, lays her clawed hand on Kevdormu's neck and lacerates his throat with one violent slash. Gurgling, Kevdormu fades into eternal dankness. o_o7
Darkness. Swirls of void. Walking into dimly lit webbed caverns. An endlessly outstretched web. A massive spiderlike entity named Drizlash speaks to Kevdormu. It says his time is not up yet, and soon the dragonborn finds himself darkly fogged up and returned to his mortal shell. Darn it, why didn't he get the spoderussy. Wait, he.. did? He blinks. Everyone is staring at him. "What, it's like I've got something on my forehead". He did. He had a third eye moving independently. Lucky for him Narmo had the perfect eyepatch.
After this, the party cut their losses and made their way to Vallaki.
Vallaki is a strange place. This is what we know of it:
- Last week was the festival of the wolf. Attendance and children mandatory.
- This week is the festival of the Blazing Sun. Attendance and children mandatory.
- The burgomaster is named Baron Vargas Vallakovich
- There are two shops here: a Vallaki Toystore and a Vallaki Coffin shop
- The toystore is run by Gadov Blinski, a jovial slav with a pet monkey in ballerina costume: Piccolo. He asks to help retrieve The Clockwork Man from the toymaker Fritz Von Werk in Castle Ravenloft. If the party does so, Gadov will make any toy the party desires.
- The Coffin shop is run by a bitter old man Hendrich, who started grumbling since the wolf festival last week.
- At Blue Water Inn, a colourful man named Ricktavio said some stuff
- The inn's barkeep is called Urwin. He needs more wine deliveries from the Wizard of Wines winery, which have been disrupted as of late. There should be some clues at the winery.
- Ireena Kolyana is here! She was found by Urwin and friends near Castle Ravenloft and flown here (yes, Yerwin and friends are birds!!). It is to no-one's surprise then that Yerwin and friends are members of the Keepers of the Feather.
- There's weird druid stuff in the south
- There's a guy with a deformed arm walking around Vallaki
- There are Cultists in Vallaki who worship Strahd Von Zarovich
- The St Andrals Church is located in the west of Vallaki and is dedicated to the Morninglord.