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<blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 7060426" data-attributes="member: 54629"><p>[MENTION=40592]hastur_nz[/MENTION]: I'm not sure. I feel like the escape of Tatyana's soul is a real game-changer. The PCs have removed the one thing that Strahd wants more than anything else. And yet, while he does lash out and try to electrocute anyone in the pool at the time, his next move is just to send the PCs an invite to his castle ... which suggests that he quickly regains his composure and is willing to wait for the PCs to come to him, rather than seeking them out and killing them on the spot. Even so, I reckon he's done toying with them. He wants to wipe them off the map for helping Tatyana's soul escape his clutches for good.</p><p></p><p>With that in mind, I imagine he also isn't that keen on letting them continue to gallivant around the countryside, giving the peasants hope and gaining more power in the process. He wants them to come to the castle ASAP so he can have his fun with them before killing them all.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As for the situation in Vallaki, it's all very uncertain. I don't know what will happen if/when the PCs kill Lady Wachter. Would the Martikovs take over? Would Strahd let them, or would he send his vampire spawn to drive them out of town? Would he install some other puppet instead? Perhaps he sends one of his spawn, like Escher, to take over. I don't really know, but I suppose I'll need to come up with some ideas before the next session.</p><p></p><p>Since Strahd's arrival at Wachterhaus interrupted their thoughts of assassination, I'm contemplating having Strahd give Lady Wachter the means to summon a more powerful devil than an imp. If she gets properly entrenched in power, she might start summoning up some barbed devils to help "protect" the town or something. (My players might not enjoy that, though, since a similar thing went down in <em>The Speaker In Dreams</em>, a 5e conversion of which I ran for them in the previous campaign.) I might just have Strahd assign his vampire spawn (the ones from the coffinmaker's shop) as her elite secret police or personal bodyguard or something.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Nobody knows how the burgomaster died, by the way. The mystic killed him with a <em>thought spear</em>. As far as all the witnesses are concerned, Baron Vargas died from fear and/or stress brought on by the knowledge that a lynch mob was coming for him ... Now Strahd is smart enough to know that the PCs probably had something to do with his death. He may want to get the mystic aside for a little one-on-one chat to find out just how he did it ...</p><p></p><p></p><p>Would it make sense for Strahd to visit the baron's widow, Lydia, and turn her into one of his vampire spawn? Lady Wachter has allowed her to live out the rest of her days in the burgomaster's mansion, although she is planning on stealing Lydia's magic mirror. (She asked the PCs to look for it for her. They found it when they found the wedding dress, but they just put a blanket over it and left it there.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pukunui, post: 7060426, member: 54629"] [MENTION=40592]hastur_nz[/MENTION]: I'm not sure. I feel like the escape of Tatyana's soul is a real game-changer. The PCs have removed the one thing that Strahd wants more than anything else. And yet, while he does lash out and try to electrocute anyone in the pool at the time, his next move is just to send the PCs an invite to his castle ... which suggests that he quickly regains his composure and is willing to wait for the PCs to come to him, rather than seeking them out and killing them on the spot. Even so, I reckon he's done toying with them. He wants to wipe them off the map for helping Tatyana's soul escape his clutches for good. With that in mind, I imagine he also isn't that keen on letting them continue to gallivant around the countryside, giving the peasants hope and gaining more power in the process. He wants them to come to the castle ASAP so he can have his fun with them before killing them all. As for the situation in Vallaki, it's all very uncertain. I don't know what will happen if/when the PCs kill Lady Wachter. Would the Martikovs take over? Would Strahd let them, or would he send his vampire spawn to drive them out of town? Would he install some other puppet instead? Perhaps he sends one of his spawn, like Escher, to take over. I don't really know, but I suppose I'll need to come up with some ideas before the next session. Since Strahd's arrival at Wachterhaus interrupted their thoughts of assassination, I'm contemplating having Strahd give Lady Wachter the means to summon a more powerful devil than an imp. If she gets properly entrenched in power, she might start summoning up some barbed devils to help "protect" the town or something. (My players might not enjoy that, though, since a similar thing went down in [I]The Speaker In Dreams[/I], a 5e conversion of which I ran for them in the previous campaign.) I might just have Strahd assign his vampire spawn (the ones from the coffinmaker's shop) as her elite secret police or personal bodyguard or something. Nobody knows how the burgomaster died, by the way. The mystic killed him with a [I]thought spear[/I]. As far as all the witnesses are concerned, Baron Vargas died from fear and/or stress brought on by the knowledge that a lynch mob was coming for him ... Now Strahd is smart enough to know that the PCs probably had something to do with his death. He may want to get the mystic aside for a little one-on-one chat to find out just how he did it ... Would it make sense for Strahd to visit the baron's widow, Lydia, and turn her into one of his vampire spawn? Lady Wachter has allowed her to live out the rest of her days in the burgomaster's mansion, although she is planning on stealing Lydia's magic mirror. (She asked the PCs to look for it for her. They found it when they found the wedding dress, but they just put a blanket over it and left it there.) [/QUOTE]
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