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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Midnight" data-source="post: 3767970" data-attributes="member: 69">Session 8 - Chapter 3 TORN TO PIECESThe group left the cave and searched the crag of rock around it. They didn’t find the Tome or any werewolves, but evidence of their living around the cave was everywhere. Bones, tufts of shedded fur, and spoor marked this as their home. Arianna even found a place at the top of the rock where she guessed that the werewolves gathered regularly to bay at the moon. The group sat at the top of that rock overlooking the forest around them and took a rest. The moon was full, as ever, and it shone down through the mist that walled off the horizons. The view was almost clear from up here, and they could see for almost a mile over the treetops.“We shouldn’t stop moving. We need to find that book.” Arianna paced restlessly.Gerrit stretched. “’Anna, we’ve been on the move for hours. Five minutes isn’t going to make the Tome any more lost than it already is. Relax.”Toufghar said “I’m really getting tired of this place. Mystery upon mystery. I truly miss kicking open the doors in dungeons and stabbing monsters. Things are so much simpler when you don’t have to investigate shadowy motives and worry about political machinations.” Thendrick and Gerrit agreed with sighs and nods.“We’re still doing the will of Urso,” Ashlyn said. “If we can find this Tome and rid Barovia of…” she stopped and looked around, recalling that Eva said Strahd watched constantly. She cleared her throat. “…We’ll be doing a great deed for the innocents of the region.”Thendrick tossed a pebble off into the forest. “I just wish we knew where all the damned werewolves went to.”With that, Ashlyn remembered the words of the elf-wolf they’d met earlier in the day. Did you come from that village? Did they send you? They will die screaming… After Thendrick had attacked the elf, he’d signaled to another wolf that had run off to the south. The paladin stood up abruptly. “Damn it. They went to Barovia. Come on, we have to move!”The group hustled through the forest back to the northeast, where a trail was visible. “A dozen and a half, maybe, moving at speed,” Arianna huffed as she ran. Jade the giant crocodile crashed along after them as fast as her legs could carry her, but all the same she slowed the group down a great deal even with a haste spell cast on her. Thendrick leaped over a stump. “Maybe we can still catch them in time!”“No,” Gerrit said. “They left hours ago. They’ve had a good long time to do whatever they want.” No one spoke and after another minute of running, he concluded his thought. “There will be blood, and lots of it.” <img src="http://a132.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/74/l_8cb59b0bf1f8084d97818e3453a2be0b.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />They reached Barovia sometime just before midnight. Only a handful of lights were on in all the village and as they moved closer, they saw that those houses with lights on all had doors that had been smashed in by powerful furred arms. The Lightbringers drew their weapons and entered the village, walking slowly. Bodies lay in the street. This bore little semblance to the scene after the zombie infestation, however, as these bodies were little more than wet red rags. They had been torn to pieces. One corpse was a sinewy skeleton lying in a paw-smudged pool of its own blood. All soft tissue had been violently ripped and from it, and splatters of blood on the walls and doors facing the street here were still inching downward in slow drips. There wasn’t a sound in all of Barovia save the heroes’ footsteps on the cobbles.“It’s so quiet,” Thendrick whispered. “Is everyone dead?”“The werewolves are gone as well it seems,” Arianna noted. “They dodged us and hit our weak spot.”Toufghar sniffed. “I don’t know these people. They ain’t my weak spot.”A wailing cry came from the south of town and the Lightbringers broke into a run. They came upon the burgomaster’s mansion. Before it, Ismark lay dead. His sister Ireena was screaming and cradling him with his blood on her clothes. She appeared untouched. Ashlyn reached her first. “Ireena. Ireena! What happened, where did they go?” The grieving woman didn’t even seem to recognize that their presence. Ashlyn reached out and shook her shoulder. “Ireena!”Ireena’s head snapped toward the paladin and after a moment seemed to recognize her. “You! What… did you go into the woods? You went out to the werewolves, didn’t you? You brought this upon us!” She slapped Ashlyn’s hand away and continued to glare at her with clenched teeth. “You brought death upon Barovia!”Thendrick said “Ireena, we understand that you’re upset, but you have to-““You did this to us,” Ireena growled. “Go to hell.” She went back to weeping on her dead brother’s chest as the Lightbringers stood nearby, watching her, feeling utterly powerless to help.Next Session REVENGE .</blockquote>

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