1 - Journey into Barovia

The Session started at a dinner with Morwen Daggerford at Daggerford Castle. The group was invited and at the dinner Morwen told them that a group of men had been harassing the city, and that if the group couldnt get them to leave before sunrise, that they would need to take more drastic methods to drive them away. The group accepted the quest and traveled to the men.

At the mens camp they talked to Stanimir who told them about the story of The Vistani. Stanimir asked the group to help him with this curse and asked them to journey to Barovia with his group. The players accepted.

Stanimir and the players traveled a few days by carriage before they got attacked by a werewolf and two other wolves. The group defeated the wolves and the werewolf got sent home (By Stanimir using the command spell), but a thick fog had started to surround the group. Abholos started playing music to try to keep the group together in the mist but Strunk had other ideas. Strunk started running a

round in the fog, repeatedly getting lost and ending up with the group until he finally found a way out of the fog.

After Strunk had gathered the group outside the fog, and Abholos paniced and Ivellios had taken control, the group started traveling down a lonesome road going through the forest they had apperared in. They found two huge statues with their heads cut of and a large gate. After Doomslayer approched the heads, the gate opened on itself.

The group found a stench of dead, and as they apporched it they found a half burried man with a letter in his hand. Terrak picked the letter up and read it for the group.

They continued to travel and found the Village of Barovia. As they entered they saw someone purchasing pies from an old lady. The group approched this lady and found her to be Morgantha (Granny) selling both savoury meat pies, and sweet pecan pies for a gold piece each. She gave the group a sample. The group asked some questions, (FILL MORE).

They continued to the Blood on the Vine where they got approched by Ismark Kolyanovich. He bought them a round of drinks and explained that he was in need of help to deliver Ireena Kolyana to Vallaki where she would be safe. He also explained she had been bitten and that they were soon going to be under attack once again, so the quest was urgent.

The group went to Ireenas and Ismarks house which wasnt in a good state. The windows had been shattered and barred with pieces of wood. Burn and claw marks was seen all over the outside of the house. Inside was also the dead body of Kolyan Indirovich, the late burgomaster of Barovia, and the father of Ismark and Ireena. As the players talked to Ireena, she got really interested in where they came from and hadnt heard of either Daggerford, The Sword Coast or even of Faerün which made Abholos leave. The rest of the group got explained to that for her to leave they would first have to bury the body of the Burgomaster and that she wanted to see him safely be burried before she left. She also said that the souls of the dead didnt really leave after Tarrek tried to convince her that a burial really wasn't neccessary. The group accepted that a burial would be held before they would leave for Vallaki.

All the players had wonderful dreams that night. The best they had ever had. Until they woke up and again realized that they were stuck in this dreadful land.

The group and Ismark went to the church in Barovia with the body of the Burgomaster for the burial, but when they entered everything wasnt normal. A priest named Donavich was sitting at the altar, offering prayers to The Morning Lord. A noise of a man crying out for help and for food was also heard from underneath the floor of the church. Donavich explained that under an attack on the castle about a year ago, those who came back wasnt theirselves anymore and that the priest son had changed and was now locked in the cellar. Ivellios and Tarrak went to investigate this son and found out he had indeed been transformed into a Vampire Thrall. The fight went really well, the thrall was even placed in manacles. But as the group couldnt decide on if they wanted to finish the thrall of, or just knock him out, the thrall escaped the cellar and managed to break out of the manacles. The fight continued and the thrall got to bite his own dad, the priest, before he fell defeated by Ismarks sword.

The group gave some life back to Donavich, but as they asked again for a burial they were asked to leave. They instead decided to hold their own burial with Doomslayer as priest and started traveling to the back of the church, to the graveyard.

Thats where this session ended.

Next:

Session 2 - Old Svalich Road