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 The werewolf attacks and misses. Rinn returns the attack and hits her, moves around to the opposite side to assist Dain in a flanking maneuver, and calls out, “Found one!”. Initiative dice were thrown and the fight continued on. From one of the cages, a female voice calls out, “No stop, don’t hurt her!”. Misty ran to the battle and came up behind the werewolf. She hit it. Rinn asked, “Why shouldn’t we kill it?”. Haldar moves closer but is not in a position to hit. Dain moes up and uses his shield to push her away from us. There is also a man in a cage and he is also yelling, “No…No!”.
-Rinn moves closer and holds his attack. He says, “Stop fighting us!”. Kyana begins moving towards the battle. Snoggly moves closer to the fight. The sound of crying is getting much louder. Zanfyr also moves closer as well. The werewolf does a backward leap as she moves away from us. The man calls out, “Zulaka, show them who you are! Stop it!”. Rinn says, “Everyone stop, lets calm down!”. Misty see that there are seven cages, five of them occupied. One with the man, one with the woman, and three smaller cages with two of them occupied with children and one of them has what appears to be a teenage male. He is standing at the edge of the cage looking out. There is also a standing wooden statue of a wolf headed woman draped in vines and night flowers with coins and gemstones piled around the base of it.
+Rinn moves closer and holds his attack. He says, “Stop fighting us!”. Kyana begins moving towards the battle. Snoggly moves closer to the fight. The sound of crying is getting much louder. Zanfyr also moves closer as well. The werewolf does a backward leap as she moves away from us. The man calls out, “Zuleika, show them who you are! Stop it!”. Rinn says, “Everyone stop, lets calm down!”. Misty see that there are seven cages, five of them occupied. One with the man, one with the woman, and three smaller cages with two of them occupied with children and one of them has what appears to be a teenage male. He is standing at the edge of the cage looking out. There is also a standing wooden statue of a wolf headed woman draped in vines and night flowers with coins and gemstones piled around the base of it.
 Misty asks, “Why shouldn’t we kill it, everyone else has attacked us?”. Ezmerelda moves to attack and Misty tried to grab her but was unable to. Ezmerelda did score a hit but not a bad one. Haldar moves on up and holds his action to see what happens and puts his hunters mark on her. Dain moves between Ezmerelda and the werewolf, quietly telling the werewolf, “If you attack me here, I will kill you!“. Ezmerelda in incensed by this yelling, “It’s a werewolf, are you mad!”. Dain tells her, “We are going to pause until we know why they think we shouldn’t kill her!”. Rinn moves up and asks, of the people in the cages, “Why shouldn’t we kill it?”. Kyana, begins looking at the children in the cages. Snoggly and Zanfyr move closer and hold their actions, waiting to see how this progresses.
-The werewolf takes a couple of steps back and changes into a human woman. The woman in the cage behind her is emaciated and keeps saying, “No..no..no, don’t hurt Zulaka!”. The guy chimes in with, “She’s not like the others!”. Kyana asks, “What do you mean, she’s not like the others?”. He says, “She’s not blood thirsty like the other wolves!”. Kayana asks, “What do you mean? Has she been helping you out?”. They tell us that yes, she has been helping us. They then begin telling us what has been going on.
+The werewolf takes a couple of steps back and changes into a human woman. The woman in the cage behind her is emaciated and keeps saying, “No..no..no, don’t hurt Zuleika!”. The guy chimes in with, “She’s not like the others!”. Kyana asks, “What do you mean, she’s not like the others?”. He says, “She’s not blood thirsty like the other wolves!”. Kayana asks, “What do you mean? Has she been helping you out?”. They tell us that yes, she has been helping us. They then begin telling us what has been going on.
-Kiril is the leader of this pack. He likes to go out, capture travelers, especially children if he can find them! He likes to torture them. He introduces himself as Haliq of House Wachter. He says that like we should know who he, or the house, is. We try to explain that we are new here and have little knowledge of the people and the politics. He says Vallaki, which elicits a busrt of disgust from a boy in a neighboring cage as he repeats the name Vallaki with contempts on his lips and then spits at the man. He then says the name Fiona Wachter as if we should know it. We didn’t remember her name at the time.
+Kiril is the leader of this pack. He likes to go out, capture travelers, especially children if he can find them! He likes to torture them. He introduces himself as Haliq of House Wachter. He says that like we should know who he, or the house, is. We try to explain that we are new here and have little knowledge of the people and the politics. He says Vallaki, which elicits a burst of disgust from a boy in a neighboring cage as he repeats the name Vallaki with contempts on his lips and then spits at the man. He then says the name Fiona Wachter as if we should know it. We didn’t remember her name at the time.
 Dain remembers the name, Wachter, is all through the tome of Strahd but no mention of Fiona. The name was a prominent name in the region from when Strahd came to conquer this area. Misty remembers meeting a couple of guys in the Blue Water Inn, that were drinking and having a good time, who’s last names were Wachter! They also seemed surprised that she didn’t know their name! Haliq tells us that Fiona Wachter is very influential and wealthy and would reward us well if we released him, but you also must release her. When Kyana asked who she was, Haliq told us Annaka. They stretch out to reach each other.
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 Piddlewick goes up to the fourth floor by climbing the chains. Once there, a box is pushed up to window and he is given a light crossbow to fire. As we ready ourselves, Ezmerelda assures us that they don’t hunt in the daytime. We opt to rest to make sure we are prepared. Misty and Rinn split the watches.
-Dain, during his rest, the book opens before him to a blank page and the mist begins to pour from the spine. He feels lightheaded and the man in black cloak and the regal red tunic look at me with a stern face and piecing eyes. He steps toward me again, with the grace of a king. He says, “I was the warrior, I was good and just, and I thundered across the land like the wrath of a just God! The mist coalesces again into the dusk elf he saw in the previous chapter, not aged a day. The chatter of voices and the clanking of metal sing from outside the walls of an enormous tent. The tents primary occupant is a colossal rectangular table top in which is carve and intricate scale map of Barovia. The Maul M ountains climb to nearly 5 feet in the air and it’s valleys sink deep into the table top. A voice directly to my right orders, “Commander Gwillim, the table is yours!”. The order was delivered by a man in his early thirties, with well-manicured, jet black, hair. His determined face is familiar to him. He does not appear dissimilar to that of a young boy that you met, at his home, one summer afternoon. Yet now he stands
+Dain, during his rest, the book opens before him to a blank page and the mist begins to pour from the spine. He feels lightheaded and the man in black cloak and the regal red tunic look at me with a stern face and piecing eyes. He steps toward me again, with the grace of a king. He says, “I was the warrior, I was good and just, and I thundered across the land like the wrath of a just God! The mist coalesces again into the dusk elf he saw in the previous chapter, not aged a day.
+The chatter of voices and the clanking of metal sing from outside the walls of an enormous tent. The tents primary occupant is a colossal rectangular table top in which is carve and intricate scale map of Barovia. The Maul Mountains climb to nearly 5 feet in the air and it’s valleys sink deep into the table top. A voice directly to my right orders, “Commander Gwilym, the table is yours!”. The order was delivered by a man in his early thirties, with well-manicured, jet black, hair. His determined face is familiar to him. He does not appear dissimilar to that of a young boy that you met, at his home, one summer afternoon. Yet now he stands clad in scarlet armor, adorned with angelic feathers, etched into gold leaf.
+The tent is about 20 feet around and about 12 feet tall. This vision feels so real! When I look over next to me, there is Kyana. She is looking at me as if to say confused, looking to Dain as if he had the answer as to what is going on, He does not! Neither speaks to the other. If Snoggly were here, he’d probably say something like, “See, that’s what happens when you get killed!”. Gwilym appears to be mapping out an assault. We here Strahd refer to an area as Zmei! On the map, we see a castle that sits on a cliff overlooking a valley. We hear Gwilym say, “The order of the silver dragon is proud and plans to fight rather than be starved out of their castle! As you see, the castles sits upon a cliff, overlooking the valley! The knights have nowhere to go but downward towards the village.”. He looks at Strahd and says, “The people of Zmei are commoners who will not stand in the way!”. Strahd says, “and will they be harmed!”. Gwilym replies, “We will do what we can to protect them!”. Strahd replies, “Good!”.
+Gwilym says, “Commander Rahadin!”! The elf steps forward. Gwilym continues, “You will hold the base of the hill, and monitor the tree line to make sure we are not routed! I, will ride up the hill to challenge the remaining forces directly. Strahd will have command centers set up in the town!”. Rahadin looks back at Dain and Kyana. To Dain he says, “You, ide with me!”. He looks to Kyana and says, “You, Lieutenant, you ride with Gwilym! Is that understood!”. Both Kyana and Dain answer yes! Rahadin states, “Very good!”.
+The Conversational chatter of the amp, as they go outside, builds to a roar, and in the blink of an eye, Dain and Kyana find themselves standing in the midst of a quant farming village! Many of its buildings now wreathed in flame. Dozens of soldiers adorned with Ravens, are locked in combat with knights in silver and blue armor. Strahd, sits atop a stocky black mare and points his blade forward and shouts, “Advance!”. As he does so, a javelin strikes his side, and he is knocked to the ground!
+Ahead of Dain and Kyana, Rahadin and Alek begin galloping to their post, and they call to Dain, “Come! Advance!”. Gwilym and Kyana’s team head up the hillside. Dain’s team begins to disperse itself along the base of the hill. Above them is this castle! Dain, looking around, seeing that Strahd is down but a 100 feet or so from him, checking his weapons to see that he is armed, begins running toward Strahd.
+As allies look at Dain, to throw them off, Dain shouts, “Oh my lord!”, feigning concern for his fallen leader! Kyana advances up the hill with her group. As Dain’s group is advancing and realizing that Dain is not with them, he hears voices behind him shouting, “This way lieutenant! Where are you going? This way!”. Dain shouts, “My lord has fallen! I must help!” as he keeps running toward Strahd.
+While running toward him, Dain sees infantry men wearing silver armor and one priest coming the other way! They see Dain and some of his group and they rush to attack. The paladins wearing the Silver armor with a dragon crest on it, move forward on Dain. Dain keeps trying to fight his way past, and calls to a few of the enemy, “Come, we can end this now! Come!”. They seem blinded with their hatred calling out “Defiler! You burned our village!”. They continue coming at Dain and the cleric is casting spells!
+Kyana’s group charges up the hill, and at the top, the commander of her group, Alek Gwilym, points and commands, “Slay that one first!”. He points to another guy that appears to be the leader of the group on top of the hill. Kyana sees them lining up large boulders and begin rolling them down the hill towards the advancing army coming up the hill. The commander on the hill calls down to the one who has called for his death and shouts, “Do not make me slay you my brother!”. Alek calls back, “Slay you, I must!”.
+The battle continues in slow motion at this point! Dain keeps moving forward shouting, “Help me defeat the commander, he is down, Strahd is down!” as he tries to get these guys to react and to work with him, to see the possible end to the battle laying on the ground, just ahead. He feels the blades striking him, getting under his armor. He finally has to turn and take a couple of swipes just to get them off of him. Finally a few compatriots show up and join in the battle. As that battle escalates, Dain see some Vistani rush up to the fallen Strahd.
+As Kyana gets further up the hill, her view of the situation seems to slow down as well. She has never fought in a war and there is not a battle raging around her. People are falling up the hills from her. These boulders are coming down and crushing people. She’s not really oriented to , these are the good guys and those are the bad guys so much. She just sees the rocks coming down and crushing people. She does her best to avoid the rocks. She sees Alek Gwilym charging up the hill. She makes it to the front line and starts to meet the resistance more directly and are locked blade to blade.
+The battle continues, in slow motion, and Dain sees the Vistani begin to carry Strahd away. Strahd is clearly severely injured, the javelin sticking out of his chest. Suddenly, both Dain and Kyana look down and see the same vision.  A river of blood, flowing down the enemies silver sword, lying idly in the mud. A divine cacophony of thunderous booms beat in their ear drums followed by a cold shiver that runs the length of their spines. The cold seems to emanate from the mansion high upon the hill. They hear a blood curdling roar through the air, silencing the battlefield. Everyone just stops as the ground vibrates from the sound of this thing. Their attention is drawn southward, the sun above reflects harshly off of the silver scales and claws as they crest the turrets of the castle. They gaze now, in full view, Argynvost, the Silver Dragon.
+The mists envelope them again as they hear the voice of Strahd saying, “But the war years, and the killing years, wore down my soul, as the wind wears stone into sand!”. They both bolt awake stunned at what they just participated in. Kyana is on the fourth floor while Dain is on the first floor. They are unable, yet, to acknowledge that they each participated in a shared experience in reality. It all feels very real to them.
+Dain gained the ability to cast unseen servant, as a ritual spell, once per dusk. Dain moves to the elevator and says, “Fourth floor!”. The elevator moves upward slowly.
+Misty has bad dreams, so disturbing that in interrupts her rest. More about that next week.
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