Session One: Welcome to Barovia!

General Summary

Prologue: Our unassuming party partake their nightly routines as per usual. Some cooked dinner, some hunted it, however, what all of these men and women have in common is that none of them expected to awake that morning surrounded by evergreen trees and a thick fog as far as the eye could see. While some may be all too used to the wake up call of birdsong and a chill dawn breeze, the howling of distant wolves and the shriek of a ravens cry overhead is certainly a new experience for all. Each man or woman awoke with a letter clutched between their fingers, each envelope disguised as a map, highlighting where they must journey to next: a crudely draw red oblong around the city of Vallaki. As they journey into the mists, the adventurers cannot help but feel disorientated. Every turn they take seems to lead them toward the same dirt covered road which stretches for miles ahead of them. These roads ahead are dangerous... Will they have what it takes to survive?

Having arrived in Barovia with little more than the clothes upon their back and their minimal inventory, Blaidd Laurent, Lysette , Mordecai Verasz, Xaethriell and eventually Cedar Fenfyre, brave the mists and locate their mark of Vallaki. Greeting them at the gates stood a rather beautiful woman, 6'1, with piercing green eyes and jet black hair secured by a bronze circlet in the shape of two feathers. Her name is Danika Martikov, who fought for their entry- not quite expecting such a large turn-out. Upon accepting, rather begrudgingly, her invitation into the city, the party agree to take up her offer of staying at the inn that she and her husband, Urwin Martikov, own in the centre of town, a place called the Blue Water Inn.

From the outside, this city appears most like any other, however the party are yet to experiance the mysteries that are hidden within...