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Westchester, a mostly-human city near the western border of Carindeen
Main Noble Family: Hallinvil
Holiday: Pomnit don Davaset

Spooky House
portrait people?
chanting?
magic fog
really like windmills

Strahd's Letter
master of this house was strahd von zarovich's servant, has been torturing and sacrificing on an altar and in a basement
monster is in the basement
"you are not the ones that brought me here"

Gustav and Elizabeth Durst's will bequeaths everything to two children, rose and thorn - they dead in the attic

Nellshan possessed by dead kid Rose and Thor
now she's bossy, weepy, and terrified

Cultists chanting in the basement

Spooky dude in basement statue has an orb in his right hand and a wolf, looks regal but isn't in any of the paintings upstairs
Nellshan, of course, HAD to take the orb and almost kill us all - it isn't magical but it is smoky

found a wizard's spell book

chanting - "he is the ancient, he is the land" "one must die" "lorgoth the decayer, we awaken thee" "the end comes, death be praised"

crypt - walter, rose, and thorn durst. Rose and Thorn buried and at peace.

Barovia
Spooky Wolves
outside house - turns into Strahd and thanks us for cleansing town of "eViL", has a crush on malicus, seemingly knows stuff about us
stole alistor who is a dick now

met Garret/Gale

Tavern - Blood of on the Vine

Ismark
adopted sister Irina Kolyana is in trouble, needs to be moved out of the town. Strahd is her creepy stalker
Vallaki in the heart of the valley, safe from Strahd's reach
father is Burgomaster - Kolyan Indirovich - he ded

Madame Eva
Vistani, travelers

Church
we buried Kolyan here
Donovich is the priest - pseudo-crazy
screams under the floor - donovich "has done all [he] can for him" - trapdoor in floor
Doru - touched by the curse - man in a black robe "turned them" (vampire) - killed and buried in the church cemetery

Dream Pastries
Gale and Percy buy dream pastries from an old woman in the street. Gale doses Ireena and Ismark and Ireena is pissed. Percy and Gale are feeling emo about it all now.

Windmill
Old Bone Grinder/The Cunt Shack - east of Valleki
Night Hags - Bella, Offalia, Morgantha
kicked our asses and stole our shit. it is on the third floor.

Valleki
made it to town gates. wolf heads on pikes. we've been tracked by werewolves and ravens.
old something road leads to city

locations: blue water inn (martikov family - danika and her hubby run the inn), church and graveyard, mayor's hous, stockyard with rictavio's carnival of wonders wagon, toy shop, coffin maker, town square

enforced happiness? - issik?

mayor - baron vargas vallakovich. issik is his "right hand man" - loyal, has disability?, there are "rumors" - hangs around the town square

celebrating - festival of the burning sun - valleki's burning man

houndmasters - talk to them for "dirty work" - hang out in the inn maybe? - Soldar (sp?) and Yevgeni

Nikolai and Karl (?) - the watchers - noble "in a way" - don't take shit from mayor - they like us, will pay our tab at inn - at the wachterhaus?

Curse of Strahd
Strahd the Vampire. Lives forever. Sleeps in a coffin. Can't enter places without being invited. Can dominate you with a look.

Martikov Winery/ Wizard of Wines - (Wine shipment)
already a few days late - coming from wizard of wines winery - clearing in the woods to southwest, treacherous path
-Davien - Patriarch
-Stefania - wife and Matriarch
-Children - Adrian and Elver
2 seeds one in Yesterhill and one in Berez.

Gale found a spooky spear? something about becoming king of the hill i tell you what

also a spooky bleeding tree had an axe in it. it hurt gale when he tried to use it

Dren Tycos Notes:
Strahds castle is called Ravenloft
Strahds curse forgotten sin
Not sure what aused it
Can summon wolves vermin and can transform
Dren Tycos:bats or mist
Dren Tycos:Do not invite anyone in
Running water
Sunlight
Dren Tycos:Wine is the lifeblood. Keeps the people in check
Only thing keeping the taverns running.
Dren Tycos:Strahd is unhappy about the curse. Hes being a bitch

Magic Spear - gain 2d6 temp hp when target is reduced to 0 by melee hit
covered in blood. Spear of Kavan (sp?) the Ruthless - lived in the mountains centuries ago - pseudo-vampire? - Dren took it

Magic Axe - plants/plant creatures take additional 1d8 slashing dmg. ornately carved with leaves, lightweight

St Andral's (Valleki Church) sun symbol on altar, Percy stole a hymnal

Priest is named Father Lucien Petrovich

St Andral - true follower of Morning Lord, cared for people of Barovia. Bones buried in church, had a normal death

Morning Lord - another name for Lathander, a "king clad in golden armor". brings peace, alliances, and heals. priest doesn't buy story of morning lord's loss of power or story of curse. old sacred site near the windmill

Mother Night - priest at St Andral's doesn't know much about her

Wachterhaus - worn down, mom is mean-looking, hates mayor too

rictavio's carnival of wonders wagon - "I bring you from shadow into the light." rictavio "comes and goes." there is an armored saber toothed tiger inside. Eliath is the cat's name

Stockyard Store - Percy was rude to him, Dren "sold" his sword

Toy Shop - "Is no fun, is no blinsky!" - fucked up toys - ireena and strahd dolls. bell buys a weird merry go round.

Watchers: plenty of stories about gods that forsook so the land. mother night is possibly at the root of it but they don't believe in the curse. mother is "not an enemy" of strahd. they recommend talking to the vistani.

Burning Sun Parade - man taken prisoner for laughing at burgomeister

Vistani told a tale of a wizard that came to fight against Strahd - he was struck by the mountains and by lightning before Strahd himself struck him down - he was spirited away by the river Ivlis - his name "sounded important"

Madame Eva's tarot fortune
Guild Member: your party
a person who may help you and where you might find the man you seek
1: Soldier: history, knowledge of the ancient will that will help you understand the enemy - go to the mountains and climb the white tower guarded by golden knights
2: priest: powerful force for good and protection, holy symbol of great hope. you will find what you seek in the castle amid the ruins of a place of supplication
3: abjurer: power and strength. weapon of vengeance, a sword of sunlight. a fallen house guarded by a great stone dragon. look to the highest peak
4: horseman: sheds light on one who will help us in the battle against darkness. a dead man of noble birth, guarded by his widow. return life to him and he will be your staunch ally
5: executioner: your enemy, a creature of darkness with powers beyond mortality. this card will lead us to him. a dark figure on a balcony looking down upon the land with a twisted smile.

Madam Eva on the Curse
land cursed for more years than anyone living knows
Strahd himself seems to keep the land going but the magic is unclear - true nature of the curse is unknown
mother night - curse does not come from her. she supposedly made a deal with a young woman, many hundreds of years ago when strahd was young. she helped to aid strahd in his domain but it is unknown what became of her.
madam eva is unsure of who could tell us more but she will be here for our answers in the future

Madame Eva on the Cards
no info about where golden knights have been, but "you are looking for the place where the golden knights are"
"perhaps better to think on towers": two places of interest: to the south - tsolenka pass - a grand structure towards mt ghakis. rumor of the mage of the mountains to the north in mt baratok
what can you tell us about nobility? - barovia used to be ruled by king barov. he married ravenovia. had two sons named strahd and sergei, they are the true nobility of this land, but others claim to be of noble birth. in valleki, for instance
strahd killed sergei and his wife (tatiana). she was the "object of his affection." he killed them on their wedding night
dragons? there used to be an order of the silver dragon. they fought against strahd's will, leading to their demise. is there a dragon monument? she doesn't know, check the ruins and lands of barovia. their base was located in argynvostholt
lathander/morning lord: she knows nothing
she knows nothing of where strahd's vampirism comes from

Gallows: saw ourselves again. percy threw a rock and it made the bodies melt into the ground grotesquely. dren noticed 11 gravestones in the distance but we didn't have time to check them out

Barovia priest - Father Donovich - knows nothing of mother night outside of her involvement with a curse
morning lord - savior, protects the children, heals and brings goodness to all. time to reflect will get to know the true light

we gave ireena the doll and made up with her and are taking her to valleki.

Ireena - mid-to-late 20s. adopted, found by Burgomaster in the woods. strahd has been after her for approx 10 years. no other family, no confidantes. possible that burgomaster had a diary, but she doesn't know. We took her to the Blue Water Inn. She has a reservation for two weeks.

Argynvostholt
picture book from Irwin - a knight and his friend the silver dragon, there to collect the wealth of the town. no other relevant info.
mansion with coned turrets and battlements. 1/3 collapsed, saggy roof. 1 dark, octagonal tower. highest tower is windowed tower by cemetery.
man with large white mane peers at us from top window
open graves in cemetery look like bodies crawled out

octagonal tower:
argynvost's mausoleum. silver gargoyles look like dragon whelps
dragon statue in front, looking at the house - aura of evocation magic but doesn't respond to touch. neither does door that it faces
stable seems burned down

Inside Argynvostholt
nobleman in tapestry -- silver armor
three busts of handsome dudes, 4th bust shattered
killed 3 zombies -- they shimmered and one said something about never going away?
Vladimir Hornguard - will kill anyone who tries to end strahd's eternal torment. has a slightly magical greatsword. died defending this land and will come back again to kill anyone who kills him again. said strahd killed argynvost and has died already

"When the dragon dreams its dream
Within its rightful tomb,
The light of Argynvost will beam
And rid this land of gloom."

Gale found a magical crystal light saber in the room where we saw the old man

there is an abbey that we can see through the window, but no white towers (could be "a place of supplication"?)