Sunny Barovia

 5/24/2022 We stood there in silence for a moment.   “Did we really just pull that off?” I ask. “How the FUCK was she able to get in here?!?” yelled Dasco. “Shit, I think we actually pulled that off.” Fin suggested that as a church is by definition open to the public, she wouldn’t have needed permission to enter.   Also, the bones giving protection to the church had been removed; which was the impetus for this whole mess anyway. We took a moment to catch our breath and decided to see if Fin could re-inter the bones.   He said it would take some time, so I cast Invisibility on Laz so he could go scout the town square and get a sense of what happened. Laz took off, Fin got to work, with Wolfram helping out.     Dasco saw to his weapons, I suppose.   I wasn’t really paying that much attention to him.   I summoned Woodhouse just in case he might be handy, then I rested and studied my spell books.   After awhile, we realized that no ...

  4/26/2022 We returned to the Manse and got cleaned up.   Well, as cleaned up as we could with shared bathing water.   (Note to self, research ways to magically filter dirty water). We headed over to the Wachter house and were admitted by her sons.   Lady Ireena, of course, joined us.   Up to this point, we had only seen her wear every day, adventuring gear.   She was quite stunning in her formal clothing, looking every bit the Noble that she is. We were treated to a fine meal – better than anything we’ve had since entering these lands.   In the course of dinner, we learned that the Wachter’s have been in these lands for hundreds of years and had an understanding, if not alliance with Strahd and the von Zarovich lines.   She makes no mistake for her disdain for the Burgomaster and his festivals.   She feels Strahd rules these lands and, for now, chooses not to interfere in Vallaki. While the Burgomaster purports that it is his festival...

  Sessions 29, 30 & 31 3/8/2022 The shadow of the creature began moving.   We followed it downstairs to the office where it entered a locket sitting on the desk.   Using mage hand (Lord knows I didn’t want to touch it directly!) I closed the locket.   The locket itself had arcane designs across it, and Wolfram got a sense of “good” from it.   Lady Wachter, who apparently has some knowledge of this sort of thing, suggested that the demon must have been bound to the locket, and when the boy opened it up, it possessed him.   By closing it, we had re-imprisoned it. We went to Milivoj’s room and found he was now recovering.   Finn healed him a little further so we could question him about the bones of St. Andral.   He didn’t seem to know what we were talking about.   But upon further conversation, he had some memory gaps.   He did finally admit to vaguely remembering carrying a bundle past the Blue Water Inn, but doesn’t remember wh...