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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endur" data-source="post: 3416608" data-attributes="member: 3346">The burgomaster and the party of traveling adventurers leave the village of Barovia by old road heading north.  The party crosses the Ivlis river while the foreboding Svalich woods stand to your left.  The party heads along the road until they reach a crossroads.  An old wooden gallows creaks in a chill wind blowing down from the high ground to the west.  A frayed length of rope dances from its beam.  The well-worn road splits here, and a signpost opposite the gallows points off in three directions: "Barovia" to the east, "Tser Pool" to the north, and "Castle Ravenloft" to the west.  Across from the gallows, a low wall, crumbling in places, partially encloses a small plot of graves-- presumably housing those who died at the end of that rope.  The left fork circles around the Mountain to eventually lead to Castle Ravenloft.  The right fork leads down to the Tser Pool, an area where the Ivilis River widens and where the Vistani camp and Madam Eva can be found.  Ismark remembers that his father once hung a murderer from this rope, but the burgomaster of Barovia rarely invoked the death penalty for crimes.</blockquote>