# Curse of Strahd Organized Notes

## **Locations**

## Timeline - Year 735

### Wolf Moon (January)

#### Day 1
- **The original party, Claws, Ghilliewig, Darro, Gildur, and Pip meet.**
- The events of Death House take place.
- **Darro, Gildur, and Pip stick together as Claws and Ghillie run off.**

#### Day 2
- **Apparatus and Kearis join the party.**
- The events of a Wild Sheep Chase take place.
- The Liberators take over Finethir Shinebright's tree towers and make it their base.
- **Apparatus is put into extended stasis**
- The party lives peacefully in the tower for a few months.

### Dragon Moon (June)

#### Day 1
- **Ghilliewig rejoins the party.**
- Wolves of Welton takes place.
- Darro kills the mayor of Tillus Merrion for his greed.
- Darro suggests Father Merickson as leader.

#### Day 2
- A Much Bigger Problem takes place.
- Kearis finds the Ankheg egg that eventually hatched Cuddles.
- After leaving the Ankheg cave, Elma and the God Oni are revealed.
- **Stolas joins the party.**
- Pip chases them through the portal with the party close behind. Find ourselves in a town in the Underdark populated by Minotaurs.
- Blacksmith Minotaur's son is missing, the party agree to help him find him.
- Clear out the cave, killing Gordoni & rescuing the Minotaur's child.
- The Minotaur still owes Darro an axe sharpening.

#### Day 3
- Slept in the Gordoni cave.
- **Ghilliewig flees in the night.**
- A goblin came out of a door, was killed by Pip and resurrected by Gildur. The party went through the door and found the Oni base.
- Darro's zombification process begins.
- Cave cleared out, God Oni killed, Elma rescued.
- **Elma joins the party.**
#### Day 4
- Elma opens a portal, we go through and are back in Barovia.
- Gildur eats a mushroom that takes away his ability to speak.
- Visit the town of Barovia. Meet Ismark & Nadia.
- Go to the Church, meet Donavich, Daro feeds Doru his blood.
- Donavich recommends going to Vallaki to get more info on Darro's condition.
- Shopkeeper is killed by Darro and Stolas.
- Pie lady sells the party Dream Pies, they eat them and sleep after having dinner with the Maliks.

#### Day 5
- Funeral for the former Burgomaster, strange figure spotted by Gil.
- **Nadia joins the party.**.
- Party leaves Barovia with Nadia. Arrives at the Tser Pool Encampment and has fortunes read by Madame Eva.
- Party is attacked by the revenant of the shopkeep Stolas and Darro.
- Slept at the encampment.

#### Day 6
- Headed to Vallaki in a two horse carriage.
- Interrupted on the road to Vallaki by thousands of bats arranged in a human head shape that attack the carriage.
- Party finds an old windmill, where Morgantha, the pie lady from Barovia is inside. Darro inspects and quickly leaves after seeing what he presumed was human remains and foul magic.
- Arrive in Vallaki, rude greeting by the guards, but eventually let into the town.
- Met Izek Strazni who claims Gildur is his brother, has dozens of incredibly lifelike dolls of Gil in his bedroom. Tells the party they're invited to lunch at the Burgomaster's house tomorrow.
- Found the Church of Saint Andral. Father Lucian asked the party's assistance in finding the Bones of St. Andral, which were recently stolen.
- Met the Martikovs that own the Blue Water Inn, who ask the party for help in finding out why their wine delivery is late.
- Met Richtavio, eccentric carnival master & long term guest at the Blue Water.
- Pip spent the night in the stocks for the public disorder of shouting outside the Burgomaster's house.
- Gildur, Kearis, Stolas, and Nadia sleep unrestfully in the Church.
- Darro and Elma sleep well under a tree near the stockade.

#### Day 7
- Went north to Lake Zarovich to question town drunk & fisherman Bluto.
- Bluto reveals he's sacrificing a Vistani girl after Gil casts Zone of Truth on him. Save the girl, whose name is Arabelle, kill Bluto. Burned his body in his boat to try and destroy the evidence.
- Pip & Kearis return Arabelle home to the Vistani camp south of Vallaki where it's revealed she is a descendent of Madame Eva.
- Return to Vallaki and question Milovij, but got nothing useful out of the boy.
- Have lunch with the Burgomaster who informs the party of his issues with Lady Fiona Wachter. Offers us 10g to rid him of his problem.
- Question the Wachter boys in a shed outside the inn. They seemed innocent and terrified.
- Party paid a visit to the Wachterhaus, and met with Fiona Wachter who filled the party in on her plan, prophecy, and Strahd's backstory. Did not deny her allegiance to the Count of Barovia.
- Kearis discovers that Darro's affliction can be abated with holy water.
- Fiona believes that Stolas is her Prophet.
- Return to the church where Darro nearly dies trying to drink holy water, but realizes his condition is improved greatly. Lucian assures he can prepare a bath of holy water if the church is reconsecrated.
- Pip charmed Milovij into telling her that Henrik Van Der Voort, coffinmaker, paid him to steal the bones of St. Andral.
- Go to question Henrik at his home and business. Intimidated he reveals a Vistani man named Vasili van Holtz paid him 200g to smuggle six coffins into the Church of St. Andral & steal the bones of St. Andral before the Feat of St. Andral.
- Before the party can get the bones back, six vampire spawn come out of the coffins and attack them.
- In the fight, Henrik is killed, Stolas & Kearis are downed, and Nadia is kidnapped by Strahd when Kearis's soul demon tries to attack her. Gildur revives Henrik. Four of the vampires run away and attack the town of Vallaki, Gildur gives chase and fights through the night.
- **Nadia is removed from the party.**
- Pip & Darro set the coffinmaker's home ablaze.
- Pip, Elma, Henrik, and Darro take the bones and the unconscious Stolas & Kearis to the church.
- Pip reconsecrates the church, and as promised, Father Lucian begins to prepare a bath of holy water for Darro.
- Sleep through the night on Hallowed ground.

#### Day 8
- Pip, Darro, Stolas, Kearis, Elma, and Milovij set out to assess the damage to Vallaki, and find Gildur.
- Went to the Burgomaster's Mansion first, meeting the town guard Dick McGee. Tell the Baron about what happened, Henrik's complicity, and question him about Gildur's whereabouts.
- Pip & Darro sneak around the mansion, finding and freeing Udo Lukovich, being held in the Baron's personal torture chamber. Udo is a cobbler who dissented during the previous festival.
- The Baron's chef eats one of the magic mushrooms, collapsing and turning into a ghost, levitating through the ceiling and presumably being killed by McGee.
- Went to Wachterhaus, where we're informed she intends to go ahead with the coup tomorrow, whether we're on her side or not. We confirm nothing but imply we will not stop her.
- Went to find Izek, who informs the party that Gildur fought vampires throughout the night, killing at least one. We take Izek to Blinski to get a doll made of Gildur in his current condition.
- Go to the inn, Richtavio is outside and reveals that he is actually Rudolph Van Richten, Vampire Hunter, and that Gildur is inside.
- **Cuddles joins the party.**
- Darro bathes in the holy water, holy rays assail his body as the Fanes of Barovia imbue him with their power and he is transformed into a golden dragonborn.
- Set off for Wizard of Wines.
- Meet Davian Martikov who reveals his winery has been overrun by forestfolk druids and their blights.
- Assault the winery and clear out the druids. Wintersplinter attacks shortly after the druids die and is destroyed in a close fight.
- Wintersplinter powered by a Fanes' Gem, which is returned to the Martikovs, allowing them to produce wine again.
- Davian tells of Yester Hill, a place of some import to the forestfolk, where it appears Wintersplinter came from.
- Set off for Yester Hill where we find the remains of a statue, and a large Gulthias tree with bodies hanging from it and laid around it.
- Gil speaks to a corpse of a druid that tells us he was killed for betraying his people for Strahd's favor, and that there's a Fanes' Gem in Berez.
- Darro discovers a tunnel under the Gulthias tree, which Pip descends into and finds the corpse of Father Donavich.
- The party give Donavich a proper Barovian funeral, then cut off the heads of Donavich and the helpful druid.
- Back to the winery where Davian reveals Baba Lysaga, an evil old woman that lives in Berez, and is an ancient enemy of the Martikovs.
- Return to Vallaki with three barrels of wine for the Blue Water Inn.
- Van Richten reveals the tree at Yester Hill is a Gulthias Tree, that Strahd desiccated each of the Fanes's three shrines to gain power, and that restoring them should limit his power, one of these shrines is Yester Hill. He tells us about the Amber Temple, which was used to imprison a god. He also informed us that Madame Eva is Strahd's sister, Baba Lysaga was his midwife, and the names of his wives.
- Gil went to visit Izek, and told Izek he communed with his deity, and that he was told Izek isn't his brother, and that he trusts this info. Then questioned Izek on his belief system, and how he would lead if he could.
- Yeska spied on the party discussing how to handle the coup tomorrow and what side to be on. Darro gave him gems, Pip showed him the immovable rod, and Kearis showed him Cuddles, terrifying him.
- Long rest in the Hallowed ground of the church.

#### Day 9
- **Festival of the Blazing Sun**
- Lady Fiona Wachter killed by Darro, Baron Vargas Vallakovich killed by Stolas.
- Riots break out in Vallaki.
- Victor & Lady Petrovna Vallakovich sent to Barovia Village.
- Van Richten reports that things seem fine in Barovia.
- Tome of Strahd found in Wachterhaus.
- Party kills the inner circle of Wachter's cult, four Vallaki nobles.
- Pip puts Leo Dilisnya's bones in the ritual room, Darro drains the nobles' blood, regeneration begins in Wachterhaus' basement.
- Darro's 18th birthday. His magical abilities are awakened.
- Party opens up to one another about their pasts over lunch.
- Party goes to the Old Bonegrinder, kills Morgantha and her coven. Restlessness curse removed from Barovia.
- Darro discovers the Forest Shrine at Old Bonegrinder.
- Danya and Vasha, Barovian peasants traded for pies found in the Bonegrinder.
- **Danya and Vasha join the party.**

#### Day 10
- Stolas discovers a man trapped in a mirror in the Burgomaster's mansion. An assassin of the Ba'al Verzi, which was led by Leo Dilisnya. He did not know Strahd nor Leo are vampires. We release him with the order to kill Doru Donavich.
- Martikovs at the tavern reveal themselves as members of the Keepers of the Feather.
- Guard pay due on DM 11 paid. Their pay is next due on DM 18
- Van Richten is unresponsive to Sending.
- Sending on Eva to ask about her loyalty, she says the Vistani have no qualms with Strahd.

#### Day 11
- Party visits the Vistani camp south of Vallaki.
- Kearis gets 600g, Pip gets a rug with a small automoton inside it.
- **Pidlwick joins the party.**
- Death toll in Vallaki for the past few days nears 50, the bodies stacked outside the reformation center.
- Darro meets the three elves of an adventure party from 100 years ago that run the reformation center.
- Pip goes on an awkward date with Milovij.

#### Day 12
- Gil and Darro begin preparing an election to be held in a week.
- Pip gives a 150g donation to the orphanage.
- Leo's mostly reformed.

#### Day 13
- Sonja, mushroom lady of Vallaki, gives the party a package to deliver to Sonja, her sister in Kresk. Also gives Darro detect thoughts for 24 hours.
- Gil convinces Father Lucien to step down from the election.
- Darro intimidates Ernst Lanc into stepping down from the election.
- Party leaves Vallaki heading for Barovia with Danya and Vasha in tow.
- Parents of the girls found, they don't want them back. Darro's detect thoughts senses what the party is about to do, takes the girls to the church with Gil.
- Pip, Kearis, and Stolas kill the parents, the father's corpse is possessed by the revenant and fights the party at the church.
- Gil lays Donavich's head to rest, cloaked figure
- Meet with Ismarck, inform him of Nadia's predicament.
- Spend the night with Ismarck.

#### Day 14
- Vistani owners of the tavern in Barovia reveal Van Richten and Von Holz spent the night in adjacent rooms, neither seen in the morning.
- Ismarck adopts Danya and Vasha.
- **Danya and Vasha leave the party.**
- Party leaves Barovia, heading for Vallaki.
- Izek greets them at the gates, asks to join them on their adventures.
- **Izek Strazni joins the party.**
- Pidlwick left with Blinski, who believes him to be a dread construct.
- Party leaves Vallaki, heading for the Winery.
- Arrive at Winery, greeted by Davian that sets up rooms for the party.
- Sending on Leo, tells the party he is rebuilding.

#### Day 15
- Party goes to Yester Hill, enters the Gulthias Dungeon.
- Fight off Gricks, kill off a pack of Stirges sucking on the Gulthias roots.
- Darro triggers a Remorhaz to attack, causing the party to flee, Izek is killed.
- **Izek Strazni dies.**
- Muriel, a wereraven and former adventurer reveals herself to the party, says she's been watching us since we arrived.
- Gil creates an arena to bait the Remorhaz out and trap it.
- Party rests midday at the Winery.
- Late at night, the party baits the Remorhaz with a horse and kills it.
- Darro pulls Izek out of the cave, Gil fails to resurrect him, his body left in the cold room at the winery.
- Party sleeps through the night at the Winery.

#### Day 16
- Return to the Gulthias tree.
- Descend further, into the realm of the dead.
- Greeted by the souls of people the party has killed. Darro is possessed by and Pip possessed by them.
- Descend further, into a massive room with a blanket of magical darkness on it.
- An Oblex drains Pip and Kearis's memories, and mind controls Darro into fighting the party.

## Session Notes

### September 3 - Dragon Moon 6 & 7
- Izek invited us to lunch with the burgomaster to discuss the Wachters
- Bluto the fisherman might know about the fishhook
- Bluewater Inn is out of wine, winery is 3 hours west of vallaki
- Bluewater is owned by the Martikovs
- Danika and Erwin Martikov
- Davian Martikov is Erwin's brother.
- Yeska - choir boy at church
- Man following us, when spotted he darted into an alley - dark robe, grey hair, old men
- Bluto threw something moving in a sack into the water
- A young vistani girl named arabelle was kidnapped by Bluto to sacrifice in the lake for better luck fishing, we saved her and killed Bluto
- Milovij -
- names in the graveyard: Vandivort, Kogorov (Bluto's family)
- wizard of the wines winery is the Martikov's winery, the only in barovia
- Abbey of St. Markovia far west, north of the winery

### October 2 - Dragon Moon 8
- Udo Lukovich - found bound in the burgomaster's house
- I tried to poison the burgomaster but turned his cook into a ghost instead
- Vallaki is dying
- Wachter is going on with her attempts to murder the burgomaster tomorrow
- Bought some red paint from Blinski
- Rodolf van Richten - Vampire hunter - Richtavio's true identity
- Gildur found at the inn in triage, carried him to the church, after having a long rest
- Session ended with us about to go to the Wizards of the Vine
- Kearis is looking for Izek still

### October 8 - Dragon Moon 8
- i bathed in holy water and turned into a golden dragonborn
- the fanes: the weaver of the swamp, huntress of the mountain, seeker of the forest
- cuddles the ankheg has joined the party
- andy the blacksmith with grey hair
- there are three people working in the smith
- pip stole hammer and put it back, "gw" on the head
- GW stands for gilliewig, founder of the blacksmith.
- Kresk - "imagine this place, smaller but more secure"
- Keep left, over the crossrodes after the bridge, natural left, will be close once the tsvalich woods open up, go in.
- Speak to Davian or Stephanie.
- Martikovs use stones to grow grapes, champagne du le stomp's stone was stolen over 10 years ago, one of the other stones was stolen days ago

### October 25 - Dragon Moon 8
- I was able to control the blights with my staff
- Pip broke my staff (after i tried to break it, hoping it would kill wintersplinter)
- Wintersplinter had a Fanes' Gem inside it.
- The druids are based out of Yester Hill
- In the Martikov master bedroom a ledger was found full of the last century of wine deliveries, delivered to: BV, BW, K, Vistani, and the oldest (~100yr?) is S (Strahd?)
- Pip found a lot of money in the Martikov's safe.
- Izek is not Gil's brother.
- Yester Hill is a few rings of stone structures, the middle of which has a wicker plinth with two feet on it, obviously once a statue of a humanoid. outside of the central circle further south is a large blackened tree with corpses hanging from it and corpses + a cave entrance at its base
- gil cut a body down and spoke with it, it revealed that it was killed for betraying his people for favor with strahd, one of the gems is in berez. i cut off the head and put it in my backpack for later questioning, it speaks draconic.
- pip entered the cave i found, spent a while inside it, came back up with the corpse of father Donavich, priest from the village of barovia.
- Gil gave father Donavich a proper Barovian burial and then cut his head off to eventually speak to.

### October 31 - Dragon Moon 8 & 9
- Berez is a bad place according to davain martikov
- evil witch in berez. once a lovely place but now a dead ruin
- baba lysaga - hates martikovs, allies w forest folk and strahd
- forks in the road between vallaki and the winery: raven river crossroads (north to kresk, east to Vallaki, west wizard of wines). multiple unsignposted right turns heading south. luna river crossroads (kresk to the west, tsolenka pass to the west, lake baritok to NW, berez to southeast.)
- 4/5pm when we arrive back in vallaki
- Gulthias tree, linked
- strahd dessecated the shrines of the fanes hundreds of years ago
- if we restored the fanes shrones he should lose power
- one of the shrines is yester hill
- amber giant - amber temple - old wizards long ago encased a god there, but it broke free hundreds of years ago and now barovia is how it is. near mount ghakis, deep in the south mountains
- strahd's sister is named eva
- lysaga was strahd's midwife
- strahd's brides are named ludmilla, anastrasia, and volenta
- gil went to izek, told him he doesn't believe he's his brother, and questioned him to get info on how he'd be as a leader
- long rest, start day 7 in barovia, day 10 of the dragon moon
- we went to the festival, it was raining, thousands of bats filled the sky, a booming voice laughed at vargas, before pouring down the rain putting the fires out. a riot broke out and wachter seized her opportunity to do a coup. darro stabbed her in the midsection, raised her into the air, and breathed fire onto her. stolas mind spiked the baron's head off.

### November 9 - Dragon Moon 9
- elma and pip find majesto the imp in wachterhaus, he asks her to be his new master
- fiona's husband's corpse is in the master bedroom's bed
- pip stole the copper pieces off fiona's husband's corpse
- pip found an iron key in the master bedroom, unlocks the wardrobe
- in the wardrobe is a huge dusty chest with a full skeleton inside it, and an old dusty tome
- the tome of strahd
- strahd made a pact with death, sealed with the blood of his brother on his, to become immortal
- vampyr is strahd's new identity
- stake in the heart will still strahd but not kill him
- sergei had a powerful sword strahd hid
- wachter had a daughter, stella, her bed looked like something from an asylum
- davit housemade came in and took her shit
- stolas major illusioned to be a massive projection of himself, calming the crowd
- darro slashed the wachter boys open with his sickle
- went to burgomaster house and convinced the crowd to leave, disabled a guard to get in the house
- stolas fireballed the skeles coming out of wachterhaus killing all of them
- pip and stolas killed majesto
- stolas collected a vial of devil blood from majesto's corpse
- we find victor with 3 children (ooc dolls) trying to learn a teleportation scroll
- three permanent teleportation circles?
- gil sent message to van richten about wachter and the burgomaster.

### November 14 - Dragon Moon 9
- van richten is useless
- blumue huanra the cultist tells stolas abt argynvostholt and amber temple
- amber temple, need passage through tsolenka pass, and hypothermia chilled
- berez is in ruins
- order of the silver dragon, when strahd was not cursed he and his armies assaulted the place. rumor has it they stole the head of one of the dragons. they worship silver dragons, nothing left of it
- blinski's is on fire
- church is fine
- tailor's shop is being raided
- hawk on church
- adran naulty
- jebediah had a "cut life scimitar" that did 10 necrotic damage to darro
- stolas got the tome of strahd
- kearis got victor's spellbook

### November 18 - Dragon Moon 9
- fritz von weerg - man made by man thing - madman, piewce of his madness came in everything he build, and he would build men, a dread construct crafter, piddlewick II - commissed to make pid. by strahd's mother, looks like a jester, strahd didn't like him but his family did, had piddlw made by fritz in order to replace the first.
- yester hill is a shrine to the huntress, fane of the mountain
- trial of the huntress and how strahd desecrated the shrine long ago
- house goesha
- pip from amphail, north of waterdeep
- gil is from belton (triell) southeast of waterdeep in elturgard
- darro told the party his backstory, about the skull on his chest
- gil gave darro a coming of age ceremony, allowing darro to decide his age and birthday, it's the 9th of the Dragon Moon, he is 18 years old

### November 28 - Dragon Moon 9
- kearis born in the high forest
- had a strong attatchemnt to frost magic
- left
- went north to icewind dale
- encountered an ancient tome
- magic connection to the tome
- absorb an ice raith far north
- somewthing went wrong w the ritual
- wraith bound itself to kearis
- kearis exibit wraith characteristics
- escaped and greivously wounded him
- headed south to warm shores hoping to contain it
- encountered a large metal man named apparatus
- heat keeps it contained
- kearis is over 260 years old
- gil is about 40
- pip's dad went to waterdeep for work
- pip would go north
- elma missing 6 yrs ago
- didnt get along with parents
- stayathome mom
- dad was a horse trader to waterdeep
- pip's mom hated elves
- elves in forest near amphail that stole humans according to mom
- yeska's parents died when he was very young
- executed by the baron
- pip had left amphail and joined the carriage after a couple weeks away from home
- about 2pm
- vallaki is calming down
- town square is calming down
- darro "hid" a barrel of wine in wachter garden
- left a note for leo
- leo will take 5 days to regenerate
- bella and ophelia
- green-black demon ichor in the vat
- conjuration magic in the ichor
- stolas' investigation finds:
- small human bones on the floor
- wood bowls of herbs and baking ingrediants
- flour, sugar, other white powders etc
- a dozen locks of hair on the cabin door
- three small labelled containers with liquid
- youth - gold syrup || laughter - red tea || mother's milk - greenish milk
- wooden trunk - tiny holes bored into it, 100 croaking toads inside it
- two gagged young girls in the top floor

#### **downtime in vallaki**
1. research fanes with father lucian
3. research krezk, berez, argynvostholt, amber temple, abbey of st markovia
4. explore every corner of vallaki
7. find the reformation center and release anyone who was stupidly imprisoned
8. get elma a set of armor & a shield
9. take the bone cats to the orphanage
10. visit leo every day
11. visit the south vallaki camp to ask them about the fanes
- ask them if they've seen or heard of any magic gems
1. engratiate myself with the guard
### November 30 - Dragon Moon 9-10
- danya and vasha - 7 and 8 years old groza, alek and katerina are their parents
- stones covered in moss - megaliths
- each has a carving in it
- snow, flowers, sun, leaves
- ravens overhead
- inbetween the megaliths is a pile of human teeth
- keethlen of the crooked teeth is the coven's god
- a relic to the forest, a heart to the swamp, the trial at the mountain
- i took morgantha's heart and head
- stolas tries to decipher the tome of strahd, already attuned, failed
- long rest into waking up on day 10 of the dragon moon
- the four cities, said to be cities of paradise where the molrning lord and mother night first lived
- ravenovia and king barov von zarovich
- strahd their firstborn, 11 years his brother's senior
- strahd was forced to defend ravenloft at age 11, killed a man at that age
- barov died young and strahd became king as a child
- ledgers, pay, comings and goings, tax ledgers, etc 25% flat rate tax
- stolas found a magic mirror in burgomaster house
- it asked him to free him
- he's a member of the Ba'al Verzi who doesn't remember his own name
- some kind of order of assassins
- leo dilisnya was the leader of the Ba'al Verzi
- had no idea strahd was a vampire, same with leo
- keepers of the feather

### December 9 - Dragon Moon 10-11
- DM10 gave Izek 280 gold for guard pay due on the 11th
- DM10 bought studded leather armor and a shield for elma, shield for myself, got my clothes
- cant commission warm clothing until we find furs (or in krezk)
- Ba'al Verzi were an order of assassins hundreds of years ago
- Keepers of the Feather are an order of Wereravens
- Erwin tells us about these strong allies of strahd:
- Rahidin, a Dusk elf is alive and was a lackey of strahd that'd do his dirty work
- strahd's brides
- baba lysaga
- wives leave the castle, rahadin rarely seen but travels often.
- Gil casts sending on richtavio, no reply, on madame eva asking if she is on our side against strahd, she says the vistani have no qualms with strahd, and they can leave as they please
- DM11 went to Vistani camp
- divination - Holy Symbol is dedicated to the Seeker, a gift to the faithful
- Arrigal offers pip and kearis a reward for rescuing Arabelle
- Kearis was given an iron box with 650 gold in it.
- Pip took the rug with a lump in it that she swears she saw move.
- she unrolls it and inside is piddlewick, shorter than the avg gnome
- book of heraldry
- basic info about krezk
- ruled by the krezkovs
- berez
- flooded ruin
- swamp
- strahd raised the river until they flooded the town
- a girl named Marina was born and grew up htere, strahd showed an interest in the girl, burgo's daughts, count didnt like it and hid her, conspired with the priest and killed this girl. strahd flooded the town in response, killing most people
- dursts were nobles who lived out away from any town
- house is off from village of barovia, in the hills above
- wachter was married to a cousin nikolai
- maliks have been longtime leaders of barovia
- abbey of st markovia looks over krezk
- pidlwick flinches
- Tome - "I know I am not mad. I am seeing familiar faces reborn. Something in the mists is trapping the souls which would pass beyond -- forcing some sort of reincarnation among my people. Do the Dark Powers mean to taunt me? Trap an entire people in an endless cycle of misery alongside my own? Perhaps they torment me with false hope -- that my Tatyana will be reborn too."
- up to 50 people died in the last few days, bodies stored out back of the reformation center, ppulation is over 1000
- refo center is 2 stories, stone lookout, fortress like building
- RC run by three elven women, (not dusk elves) Ilimir comes up, tall elegant gaunt old woman
- elves arent from barovia, came with a travelling band of adventurers, strived to fight strahd, strahd killed all of them except the 3 remaining
- they were in barovia 100 years a week ago
- Tome - "The great roc of Mount Ghakis remains a danger. I pacified it during my great campaign, but I fear it may soon prey upon my people if the lakes grow barren. That privilege is reserved only for me."
- the mushroom lady in vallaki????

### December 12 - Dragon Moon 11-13
- DM11 pip goes on a date with milovij and gil gave her adv on charisma checks for an hour
- DM12 - Gil and Darro start preparations for an election in a week
- DM12 danika doesnt want to be mayor but will be an advisor
- Ernst Lanc is running
- Gil is running
- Father Lucian is running
- Blinsky is running
- Pip gives a huge donation (150g) to the orphanage
- the lady that runs the orphanage was afraid to take that much money
- Leo is mostly fully together but still unconscious
- buy him some clothes
- visit ernst
- DM13 sonja is vallaki mushroom lady's (lila) sister that gave us snake tongue, truffle, lavender, and some dead tadpols to take to sonja in krezk
- intimidated ernst away from running for burgomaster
- lucien also resigned
- killed a corpse flower
- found the two girls' parents in
- kearis alter self into an ice wraith while speaking deep speech
- pip slits dad's throat
- dad told us the girls have an uncle in krezk
- darro knew this was false bc of detect thoughts
- cloaked figure off in the distance again during father donavich's second

### December 21 - Dragon Moon 13-14
- corpse of the girls' father came back as the shopkeeper revenant and attacked us at the church
- gil's inspiration was used to grapple kearis
- thought checks
- gil - all the seemingly right decisions turned out to be wrong
- stolas is tired
- elma thinking "did my sister/kearis/stolas kill those girls' parents?"
- kearis is a bit mad at gil for grappling and annoyed at the ungratefulness of stolas for killing the revenant, can't believe gil is so upset abt a window
- pip is goingt hrough a lot, very scared, loud in her head atm, thinking about the parents she kill,ed looking at elma, she's going through a lot, as well as ston
- pip's reasoning is elma, she replays the moment she woke up and she was gone
- emotional state is not good, she's just snapped and is very on edge
- looms large - amphail, milovij, darro
- D14 -
- alanka miravel and sorvia
- they know vasili von holz
- richten's journal is in character as richtavio
- organization is odd, comprised of stories
- filmore stunk who could drink enough wine but not get drunk
- vasili von holz was staying in the room next to van richten and neither were seen in the morning

### January 2 - Dragon Moon 14-15
- danny not here
- greeted in vallaki by izek flagging gil down
- pip gleans that there's more to richten's journal
- ellie realizes it's encoded
- Journal:
- richten has an associated names esmerelda - hasnt seen her in 10 years - never arrived at the tower
- mentions a tower
- detailed notes on important people
- ernst is a spy for wachter
- vasili - lesser noble, allied to wachter, allying with whoever wins, bewitched by her
- friedrich the tailor - valuable source of info on nobles in vallaki
- noises in the attic above richten's room
- anya is the only half elf in vallaki, sister tried for witchcraft but vasili stepped in and convinced vargas to banish her to krezk
- blinski thinks pidlwick might be a dread construct
- duchess dilisnya commissioned pidlwick
- left pidlwick with blinski to investigate him over the next couple days
- romulus in the secret attick, 4 straw nests, locked iron strongbox, small square opening south otuside, two trapdoors with iron latches
- romulus maps out the box and finds out there's circular things, prob coins, jewelry, three vial shaped objects,
- lunar river crossroad - signpost is snapped, laked baritok NW, berez SE, tsolekna pass SW.
- raven river crossroad - N edge of lake baritok, tower on a peninsula in the lake (tower mentioned by richten)
- davian welcomes us in and leaves us in the cellar
- pip sees some brown mold in one corner
- takes damage from smelling it
- gil notices there's a secret door in the mold
- small shallow cave is full of brown mold and freezing cold
- yesterhill is a place where the material and immaterial meet, the biggest threat is that which appears trustworthy
- leo told gil he is rebuilding, to stay out of his way
- Long rest in winery, day 15 begins
- in dungeon in a dead end is a tarroka card, skeleton on front with "Death" written on it
- left it there
- 8 gricks pop out and attack us (they were the vibrations)
- pip found a carved bone deer, intricately carved
- stolas and kearis tag teamed dozens of

### January 9 - Dragon Moon 15
- Remorhaz attacks us in the big open room with ankheg holes
- Remorhaz is immune to fire and ice and does too much damage for us to handle.
- Remorhas bites and swallows Izek, killing him.
- Muriel vin Shore - human - 24 y/o - band of adventurers here months ago, everything went wrong, her company was scattered and she left for dead, stephania martikov saved her life, shared their curse with her
- Sometimes you can't control when you transition into a raven, gain some non-ideal traits, difficult to trust people,
- a few people in her group, scattered around most dead now.
- her company had a summons to this place called barovia, probably been 3 months,
- the swamp shrine is in berez
- baba lysaga has a black heart and lives in berez, it is probably her heart that will reconsecrate
- Muriel would help us navigate berez
- baba lysaga loves strahd, he doesn't reciprocate it much, can't toy strahd around in front of him like a baby.
- theorized that she brought strahd's mother's death out of jealousy
- baba lysaga can fly, in the hollowed out skull of a hill giant
- gulthias dungeon is a crossover to the land of the dead
- huntress' trial is mainly a trial of strength
- it's believeed when strahd took over the shrine, the tree withered, and may return
- i named the buff horse justinian
- Muriel has been keeping an eye on us
- Davian gives us a cask of wine, we take a long rest and wake up in the evening of day 15
- Continual flame on my axe (permanent)
- Death ward on Darro, freedom of movement on Darro
- +2 to ac +1 to all saving throws
- Stolas resistance to all damage
- 5d10 rune on the ground
- 49 damage

### January 16 - Dragon Moon 15-16
- Session starts late at night on Dragon Moon 15.
- Remorhaz combat:
Darro - 8 pierce 5 radiant -62
Stolas - 30 radiant -92
Gil - 16, 12, 4, all radiant -124
Kearis - 10 Necrotic -134
Stolas - 7 necrotic -141
Pip - 22 pierce -163
Stolas - 17 radiant -180
remorhaz killed
- darro climbs through the remorhaz from top to bottom and climbs through, finding izek at the bottom in the initial remorhaz cave. darro drags him back to the entrance of the cave
- band of adventurers had a battle at yester hill but got slain and split up (muriel)
- muriel visits darro before going to sleep
- long rest in the winery, darro and pip in a room together, awake on day 16 of the dragon moon
- **back in the cave:**
- large room at the south end
- words of worship, prayers to huntress on walls
- small trinkets and religious symbols everywhere
- "and they shall be made to crawl on their bellies into the realm into the realm of the gone"
- tunnel at edge of huge cave leads downwards into a narro cave down
- pip and gil get down fine, darro gets stuck in the hole and gil tugs the rope and kearis
- darro jumps down into the water and find an amulet:
- clockwork amulet, faint ticking, once per day forego d20 on an attack and replace it with a 10 and add attack modifier
- **beyond the pool room, a door into a cavern of magical darkness;**
- magical darkness that prevents all vision beyond five feet, even dampening the full effect of romulus' blindsight
- tied marching order gil, stolas, kearis, ellie, pip, darro
- elizabeth durst, lady wachter, and olivia, 4 nobles, tillius, merchant periwimple from barovia all show up to greet darro.

### January 30 - Dragon Moon 16
- Tillius Merrion responds thankfully to my apology.
- Tillius Merrion possesses me - I have the flaw that I'd kill for a noble title.
- Obliterate the souls of everyone else, including Liv
- Pip posessed to want dream pies.
- Majesto runs off trying to kill Elma.
- Kearis trying to persuade the ice wraith to come back.
- Kearis pulls it back into him.
- Fought two howlers and an Elder Oblex
- Kearis and Pip had their minds wiped until their next long rest.
- Darro was charmed by the Oblex and nearly killed Kearis (taken to 2hp then crit)

### February 6 - Dragon Moon 16
- In the Shrine:
- darro:
- men come in and hack the roots
- they morph into figures of naked women
- they start falling down
- feels himself sucked in
- kearis:
- he is a hunter in the forest, a large stag, take aim, take breath, stag hears and sees the face of the woman on the statue.
- feels himself sucked in
- stolas:
- house goesha, sat invisible in his paretns' dressing room
- mother getting herself gussied up
- turns to stolas, flowers where eyes should be, feel himself sucked in
- gil:
- man in welton streaked with blood, woman with child weeping, the gulthias tree in the town square, he is hanged from the tree
- pip:
- statue looke like strahd, hands of the statue wrap around her neck, she is suffocating and dying, second leap and she blinks behind him, seeing him strangling the huntress.
- broke through the ground back into barovia, trial complete
- darro learns celestial but doesn't know that.
- back at the winery:
- Davian gives us the high shelf champagne and makes us a wolf pie.
- Adrian Martikov - Eldest son of davian. heir apparent of the winery, quite smart, handles their finances. he's the contact with Erwin
- Elvir Martikov - Second born son. wants to run the vineyard, handles the winemaking.
- Stephania - Erwin's daughter, has quite a few children.
- Elvir arrives and says: "the rage, the anger within, it could be heard for miles, something catastrophic is coming"
- next session: gil is gonna do commune and raise dead before the actual long rest.
- party takes a long rest.

### February 20 - Dragon Moon 17
- Gildur resurrect Izek.
- day 16 ends in the winery and day 17 begins
- Darro wakes Pip up with Romulus as a Tressym.
- Pip and kearis memory restored
- Keepers of the Feather:
- some come from outside
- bestow curse upon a select few
- very few downsides
- stolas shows davian the tome of strahd
- rolled a 13 on a wisdom save when he showed it, davian autofailed an attempt to read it
- grass covered causeway
- old and decrepit tower
- gash splitting wall
- time worn gryphon statues
- mud covered wagon with barrels on top at base
- pip excursion
- pip climbs up scaffolding to third floor which is a stargazing room
- "exathanter" written on the telescope, the room
- pulley systems go down into four clay golems.
- second floor is a library
- hidden room up top
- wagon:
- vial of
- trunk has weapons in it, 10 silvered crossbow bolts
- feminine clothes
- disguise kit, poisoner's kit, lyre
- door: "khazan"
- large embossed symbol center of door
- pip cuts shapes and it opens
- first floor
- the den of a vampire hunter.
- 4 rope
- 2 chain
- 20 wooden stakes
- 8 garlic bulbs
- 4 flasks of holy water
- heavy crossbow
- 20 crossbow bolts
- fourth floor
- pip sees strahd on the balcony of castle ravenloft through the telescope
- gil looks and doesn't see him
- moon; waxing gibbous, full moon soon
- pepe silvia wall:
- three brides
- escher, consort
- rahidin, chamberlain ravenloft - former general
- lady wachter, unknown
- map with directions to werewolves
- second floor
- busty, bust of a man who can speak
- busty says rudolph threatened him, burned the books he read
- busty confirms khazan was the builder
- gil recommends the name nikolai to busty
- "the myth of khazan" a book nikolai wants to read to us
- court wizard during great war
- lived small island on lake baritok
- strahd was only interested in info on the amber temple
- khazan shared everything he knew
- used this info to kill the dragon at argynvostholt
- khazan secretly became a lich at the amber temple
- fleed the tower, magic spells and traps on the tower
- fled barovia as a monk, caught in krezk and turned over to strahd
- tried to cast a spell to become a demilich
- skeletal remains are in the crypts of ravenloft
- skull contains powerful gems
- most recent book is dated to around 400 years ago.
- i affix nic to my chest and take 5 books he's interested in.
- confirmed: barovia in a plane where time has stopped
- outside:
- Rahadin shows up with Esmerelda and a shitload of wolves
- Esme unc.
- Pip res
- darro kill shit
- Rahadin is NOT a vampire. (dusk elf)
- Kearis got two books on the top floor of the tower that look like they have more to offer

## Miscellanious
- The Fanes' Gems are seemingly neutral, incredibly powerful condensations of life magic. Able to be used for all sorts of malevolent and benevolent things. this might be incredibly useful to us if we kept a gem for ourselves, or if darro found it and hid it.
- Huntress, Weaver, Seeker
- Huntress' Shrine is under Yester Hill
- Complete the trial
- There's a Shrine at the Old Bonegrinder
- A holy relic, like one in Argynvostholt
- There's another Shrine in Berez
- heart of Baba Lysaga