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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 7052290" data-attributes="member: 54629">[MENTION=40592]hastur_nz[/MENTION]: I'm pretty sure you had Strahd attack us at the baron's house while we were rescuing Ireena from Izek's clutches. Anyway, my group rescued Arabelle early on, which means that the Vistani are supposed to ignore Lady Wachter's request and return her money. I could still have them go and alert Strahd, but I reckon he already knows what the PCs are up to. I figure he's been watching them closely ever since they helped Ireena escape in Krezk. I was planning on having him initiate the attack on the church in the evening anyway, but maybe he could do it during the day, while the PCs are at Lady Wachter's, as a way of drawing them away from her place (although they wouldn't be able to get there in time to stop the attack, as the church is a good half-mile away from Wachterhaus, going by the scale on the town map.)Regardless, I need to figure out how to have Lady Wachter respond to a bunch of heavily armed strangers bursting into her house from the basement, after having slaughtered her cultists and skeletal minions. I don't think they'll attack her if she doesn't threaten them, but if they do, she's no match for three 6th level PCs, backed up by Ezmerelda. Ernst and Majesto the imp won't be of much help either. I don't think there's any way for her to stop the PCs from turning her house upside down as they search for the item they're supposed to get from her (the tome).Perhaps if they do murderhobo their way through Wachterhaus, I can have Strahd waiting for them outside in his carriage, slow-clapping as they approach and congratulating them on their descent into darkness ...EDIT: I kind of feel like having Strahd be waiting for them at Lady Wachter's anyway. Just for the hell of it. I want to see their reaction when she ushers them into the parlor and there's Strahd!As an aside, does anyone else feel like the 24-hour time limit on Strahd's charm is kind of lame? I feel like it ought to be indefinite, lasting until he chooses to end it or someone removes it with magic.</blockquote>

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