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| We spent the night at the Burgormaster’s house. Dain has a weird dream that evening after attuning to the Tome of Strahd. In a dream, I find myself leafing through a large leather bound manuscript. Some pages are torn, some bloodied, some burned, some branded with unknowable symbols, and others still artfully inscribed with a merky black ink in a foreign script he does not recognize. The first page transforms before his eyes. | We spent the night at the Burgormaster’s house. Dain has a weird dream that evening after attuning to the Tome of Strahd. In a dream, I find myself leafing through a large leather bound manuscript. Some pages are torn, some bloodied, some burned, some branded with unknowable symbols, and others still artfully inscribed with a merky black ink in a foreign script he does not recognize. The first page transforms before his eyes. | ||
| - | **I, Strahd, Lord of Barovia, am aware, some events of my reign were desperately misunderstood, | + | I, Strahd, Lord of Barovia, am aware, some events of my reign were desperately misunderstood, |
| The pages flutter open to a blank pair along the spine and a mist begins to pour from the binding. He feels light headed. His vision fades, and from the blackness now surrounding him, a hungry fog now rolls along the ground. He cries out, but there is nothing. The mist chokes closer from the ground. From the growing cloud, a man clad in a black cloak and regal red tunic looks at him in the face, and piercing eyes, and he steps toward him with the grace of a king. Your eyes meet his cold glare as it bares down on him, and he speaks. | The pages flutter open to a blank pair along the spine and a mist begins to pour from the binding. He feels light headed. His vision fades, and from the blackness now surrounding him, a hungry fog now rolls along the ground. He cries out, but there is nothing. The mist chokes closer from the ground. From the growing cloud, a man clad in a black cloak and regal red tunic looks at him in the face, and piercing eyes, and he steps toward him with the grace of a king. Your eyes meet his cold glare as it bares down on him, and he speaks. | ||
| - | **I am the ancient! I am the land! My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past.** | + | I am the ancient! I am the land! My beginnings are lost in the darkness of the past. |
| The visage of the man disperses into a black and red cloud before reforming into a young boy, no older than 12, with a small sword at his side and tears streaming from his cheeks. The mist recedes further revealing a glorious, well adorned, and sunlit castle courtyard. The low buzz of insects and the humidity add weight to the summer air. And hanging high above him are red banners draped over towering ramparts that depict the same raven iconography, | The visage of the man disperses into a black and red cloud before reforming into a young boy, no older than 12, with a small sword at his side and tears streaming from his cheeks. The mist recedes further revealing a glorious, well adorned, and sunlit castle courtyard. The low buzz of insects and the humidity add weight to the summer air. And hanging high above him are red banners draped over towering ramparts that depict the same raven iconography, | ||
| - | Dain has a crying boy in from of him. He opens with, “Good day to you! Are you master Strahd?”. The boy, sniffing, looks up and says, “I’m going to call you Petrov! You are my friend, Petrov.”. He adds, “I’m lord of this castle, my father says so. Kneel before me Petrov!”, as he is still crying. “Kneel, I’ve got to learn how to do this, help me!”, as he stands up trying to look all tough and stuff. Dain spreads his cloak out behind him gives him a nice kneeling. He says, “I don’t want to do this!”, Dain respoinds, “but it is your birthright, it’s in your blood!”. Stradh replies, “That’s what Rydan says, and father says, and mother says.”. Dain replies, “They are correct! It is in your blood!”. | + | Dain has a crying boy in from of him. He opens with, “Good day to you! Are you master Strahd?”. The boy, sniffing, looks up and says, “I’m going to call you Petrov! You are my friend, Petrov.”. He adds, “I’m lord of this castle, my father says so. Kneel before me Petrov!”, as he is still crying. “Kneel, I’ve got to learn how to do this, help me!”, as he stands up trying to look all tough and stuff. Dain spreads his cloak out behind him gives him a nice kneeling. He says, “I don’t want to do this!”, Dain respoinds, “but it is your birthright, it’s in your blood!”. Stradh replies, “That’s what Rahdin |
| He hears this raucous laughter from the door behind Strahd. Strahd, sniffs and looks back, and says, “All they can think about is that stupid baby!”. Dain replies, “The baby is new, they will be enamored with it for a while, but ultimately, you are the eldest!”. Strahd says, “But I am the heir, I’m the important one.”. Daoin said, “Let them have their time!”, then asked, “I believe that’s Sergei, right, your young brother? | He hears this raucous laughter from the door behind Strahd. Strahd, sniffs and looks back, and says, “All they can think about is that stupid baby!”. Dain replies, “The baby is new, they will be enamored with it for a while, but ultimately, you are the eldest!”. Strahd says, “But I am the heir, I’m the important one.”. Daoin said, “Let them have their time!”, then asked, “I believe that’s Sergei, right, your young brother? | ||
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| - | //For more than three decades now, I have undertaken to investigate and expose creatures of darkness to the purifying light of truth and knowledge. “Hero” I am named in some circles; “sage” and “master hunter” I am called in others. That I have survived countless supernatural assaults is seen as a marvel among my peers; my name is spoken with fear and loathing among my foes. | + | For more than three decades now, I have undertaken to investigate and expose creatures of darkness to the purifying light of truth and knowledge. “Hero” I am named in some circles; “sage” and “master hunter” I am called in others. That I have survived countless supernatural assaults is seen as a marvel among my peers; my name is spoken with fear and loathing among my foes. |
| In truth, this “virtuous” calling began as an obsessive effort to destroy a vampire that murdered my child, and it has become for me a tedious and bleak career. Even as my life of hunting monsters began, I felt the weight of time on my weary shoulders. Today I am a man who has simply lived too long. Like a regretful lich, I find myself inexorably bound to an existence I sought out of madness and, seemingly, must now endure for all eternity. Of course I shall die, but whether I shall ever rest in my grave haunts my idle thoughts, and torments me in my dreams. | In truth, this “virtuous” calling began as an obsessive effort to destroy a vampire that murdered my child, and it has become for me a tedious and bleak career. Even as my life of hunting monsters began, I felt the weight of time on my weary shoulders. Today I am a man who has simply lived too long. Like a regretful lich, I find myself inexorably bound to an existence I sought out of madness and, seemingly, must now endure for all eternity. Of course I shall die, but whether I shall ever rest in my grave haunts my idle thoughts, and torments me in my dreams. | ||
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| When I found the caravan, I threatened to set the zombies on the Vistani unless they returned my dear boy. They replied that he had been sold to the vampire, Baron Metus. Something inside me snapped. I released the zombies, and the entire tribe was eaten alive. | When I found the caravan, I threatened to set the zombies on the Vistani unless they returned my dear boy. They replied that he had been sold to the vampire, Baron Metus. Something inside me snapped. I released the zombies, and the entire tribe was eaten alive. | ||
| - | Yet the story has not ended. Before she died, the leader cursed me, saying, “Live you always among monsters, and see everyone you love die beneath their claws!” Even now, so many years later, I can hear her words with painful clarity. A short time later, I found my dear Erasmus made into a vampire. He begged me to end his curse, which I did with a heavy heart. The darkness had torn him from my loving arms forever, and I foolishly believed that the curse had exacted its deadly toll. I wept, and as my heart emptied, so did rise an insatiate desire for vengeance that I fear I will never quell.//**Bold Text** | + | Yet the story has not ended. Before she died, the leader cursed me, saying, “Live you always among monsters, and see everyone you love die beneath their claws!” Even now, so many years later, I can hear her words with painful clarity. A short time later, I found my dear Erasmus made into a vampire. He begged me to end his curse, which I did with a heavy heart. The darkness had torn him from my loving arms forever, and I foolishly believed that the curse had exacted its deadly toll. I wept, and as my heart emptied, so did rise an insatiate desire for vengeance that I fear I will never quell. |
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| We start wondering where he has gone when Rinn asks, out loud, “If you are here and hiding from us, please come out. We are here to help.”. Rinn looks in the armor, there is nothing in there. The armor is good plate male. Rinn tried the dancing lights again to see if the magic dampening still functions up here. It fizzles. | We start wondering where he has gone when Rinn asks, out loud, “If you are here and hiding from us, please come out. We are here to help.”. Rinn looks in the armor, there is nothing in there. The armor is good plate male. Rinn tried the dancing lights again to see if the magic dampening still functions up here. It fizzles. | ||
| + | Misty open a pouch she found and pulled out a couple of items. When Rinn saw her examining something, he asked what it was. She was very evasive about it, but after a little coaxing, she finally showed it to Rinn. It was a sextant. She also showed him the spy glass. Booth of the items has Exethanter’s name emblazoned on them. Snoggly has her use one of the arrow slits to look out with the spy glass. She looks out all all directions, two of which showed water, one showed a mountain scene, and the last was the way we came in. While looking out here, she saw some movement but couldn’t discern anything specific. Rinn borrows the spy glass but can’t discern anything about what was out there. | ||
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| + | Misty goes down to the third floor and looks up at the star scape. She didn’t recognize any of the constellations showing there. She pulled out some parchment and quill and ink and began drawing them. After she finishes drawing it, she went back up to the fourth floor. She’d spreads out the drawing she made and nothing about it looks familiar to anyone. Zanfyr mentioned that it could be the star scape for this area as we don’t know where this area is. It could be on the other side of our flat world. Rinn poses the question, do we wait here or do we go somewhere. Snoggly decides that the amount of dust on things means that no one has been here for several weeks. We asked Ezmerelda what she thought we should do. She says that Van Richten has many enemies, maybe he has gone after the werewolves. Snoggly said he thinks that might be what we saw moving around out there. Ezmerelda asked what we were talking about Misty told her she saw some movement only moments ago through the window. Ezmerelda said that could be anything, including werewolves. | ||
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| + | She goes and looks out the window facing the mountains. She’s said, that’s were they werewolves live. Misty pointed at the causeway window and said that’s where we saw the movement. Ezmerelda says, that’s where the werewolves hunt. Snoggly says, they’re probably hunting us. | ||
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