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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 8386302" data-attributes="member: 277">Curse of Strahd Session 2Dog Cart or Plots of Land.Days 3 Noon to Day 6 0740Tuesday January 3 to Friday January 6 735Gain a level. 40 GP. 10 Downtime days.PC Killed 0 Monsters Killed 18 Monsters Captured 0 Villains Escaped 1I had a strong group of six. Colin Belasco a Twilight Cleric 2. Jenny sorcerer 2. Radiare Light Cleric 2. Lt. Bucket Ranger 2. Kevin Levin Barbarian1 Fighter 1. Torias Fighter 2.The group of adventurers are waiting outside of Vallaki a wooden fortress town. When Auntie Morgan offers them Apple Dream pies. Radiare buys six and gives two of them to Kevin and Jenny. Jenny passes out. Auntie Morgan dream pies are laced with a heavy sleep potion.The guards freak them out with the constant repeating of “All will be well”, “Be Happy”, And “A Smile a Day Keeps the Vampires Away.” Having the Burgomaster’s kids in the cart they are directed to the Mayor’s Mansion. While passing through the city square, they see the old party announcement is being tore down and the new party The Festival of the Blazing Sun is schedule on this Friday. Attendance is REQUIRED. Some poor saps are locked in the stocks with plaster Donkey heads on top of their heads. Their crime was not being HAPPY.The two meetings in the mansion were interesting. Ireena can stay at the mansion while Ismark will still be their guide. Baron Vargas Vallakovich seriously believes if you are Happy the vampires will not come. Baroness Lydia Petrovna has a nervous laugh. At the tea party which Jenny is invited, Lydia gives off the impression she one minor disaster from murdering the household.Having got one round of free drinks and free rooms at the Blue Water inn they meet some interesting people. The wolf hunters Szoldar Szoldarovich and Yevgeni Krushkin who did not have a successful hunt yesterday but give up the rumored location of a werewolf den. The brothers Nikolai and Karl Wachter two drunken frat nobles. Richtavio an owner of failing circus who had to give up his not housebroken monkey to the toy maker Gadof Blinsky. Richtavio knows the group are from the other side of the Mists. He is spying on the Vistani including the one doing sketches on the tavern patrons.This hint causes Torias to block the door, while Lt Bucket accidently burns the sketch pad. Urwin Matikov breaks up the fight and makes Bucket pay for the sketch pad. Later during the evening Urwin confesses to being a member of Keepers of the Feather and a long discussion follows.The next morning around 0700 Kevin and LT. Bucket push Kevin’s cart outside the town walls and chop down a tree. Kevin is using limbs of the tree to improve his cart with one dire wolf nearly tears Bucket’s head off. (YES NAT 20 on first roll of the night.) The town guards Terrance and Tony run to help the tourists. Kevin now thinks it is good idea to work on his cart in safety. Colin and Jenny are sent an invitation from the noble Lady Fiona Wachter for lunch. During lunch Fiona proclaims she is a priest of Zariel the Duchess of First Layer of Hell. Fiona thinks her book club and prayers are the reason Strahd is kept away and would they join her plot to over throw the current mayor.During the evening the group discuss their options. Stick around for tomorrow’s HAPPY party. Help the devil cultist lead by Fiona to overthrow the mayor. Find out why the Wizard of Wine has not delivered to Urwin. Discover why only some people are born in Barovia with souls. Go werewolf hunting. Discover why a vampire spawn must feed daily. Discover why Strahd must feed on a person with a soul, which means everyone at the table is a delicious feast for the dear count. To find out if the Vistani are spying for the Count.The group decides to help Urwin but an argument breaks out between Torias and the rest of group. If they leave at 0700 a great chance of encountering creatures of night is possible. If they leave at sunrise 0900 it be daylight but they will have to travel back to city during the night or sleep over at the winery. The group chooses to leave at 0700 and pulls out the next morning.0739 they are attacked by zombies.Torias, “See I told you so.”The Morning Glory Cleric R Radiare finds the Strahd Zombies strange. As when LT Bucket cuts an arm off one. The arm tries to poke out Bucket’s eyes. And the head of the behead zombie bites Kevin on the ankle. (Strahd Zombies don’t pop back up.)More information later as I figure out what is going on behind the scenes. I left my notes on another machine. If wasn’t high rolls for wandering encounters, no combat would happen this session. Thanks for taking notes as it will help me find which page to flip to.</blockquote>

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