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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pukunui" data-source="post: 7124168" data-attributes="member: 54629">We're playing again in just a few hours. I've more or less decided to put them in the Guest Room (K50). When Strahd is finished tormenting them, he'll tell them to get what rest they can before the night falls. (They can get a short rest, but if they try to get a long one, the witches will come.) He's going to put the holy symbol and the sword down in the dungeons/catacombs somewhere, so they won't have to leave the castle if they want to recover them. I'm going to randomly determine where he puts them using the cards.As for Strahd and Lysaga: No, I don't think they hang out much either. I was thinking of it more in terms of "Hey lady, don't steal my kills. Those foolish adventurers belong to me." And Lysaga, since she thinks of Strahd as a son, would of course defer to his wishes.EDIT: So that worked out really well. The PCs are now on a mission to stop their dead friend from rising as a vampire. They took a short rest in the guest room, then found the trap door in the closet and went and beat up the witches. They took one prisoner and learned a bit from her (like where the garden is and how to get there), then headed down the stairs. They talked to Escher, fought the rug and painting, found Lief, fought some flying swords and shadows, then fought the gargoyles in the entry hall - at which point the fourth PC (who'd avoided being KOed in Berez) showed up with Ezmerelda. They defeated the gargoyles and made it down to the chapel, where they were able to take a long rest, despite numerous interruptions (Strahd's bloodied hanky showed up twice, as did a floating candelabrum and an animated broom).I had Ezmerelda do a card reading to determine where Strahd had hidden the sword and holy symbol. I had two players draw from just the cards with locations in the castle. Turns out Strahd put the sword in Mad Dog's crypt and the holy symbol in his own. [And they know they can find him in his brother's crypt.]</blockquote>

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