Session 5 report

General Summary

Quill gets painted

While the rest of the party traversed the town quill got painted by famous painter "Papusza Charara". She was impatient but was promised that on completion of the painting he would face paint her to look like a tiger.
He obliged but had never seen a tiger before so the painting was a bit botched, being described as "Completely orange with some pointy teeth coming over the lips".

Boom boom boom boom

As they travel around the village of Barovia, they hear an ominous booming noise.
They later come to find out that Parrwimple had taken a liking to the drum Fassi had sold to Bildrath and was walking around the streets playing it. He looked very happy.

Another monster in the basement

A woman asked the party aside from Quill (who was getting her face painted) to take care of a monster in her basement. The party accepted.
The party met the lady's family, they all sat unfazed at a table eating soup. They didn't care about the presence of the party. The party continued downstairs in to the basement and found that the monster in question was a mouse.

Mad Mary

The players aside from Quill went to find the source of the crying. They came upon a house and knock but get no response. The party let themselves in. They find a woman sitting on the floor crying, clutching a malformed doll. The party asked if she was ok and she told them that her daughter is gone. She broke out a week ago and she hasn't been seen since. She claimed that she had escaped and had no idea where she went. She didn't know of why her daughter would want to leave. She pointed the party to her room to investigate. She mentioned that they are all the family each other has. She mentioned her name is Mary.
The party promised to try to find her daughter. The room contained a bed, some locks and bookshelf with some books. A book of note was Rapunzel and a chapter of note was the one where the prince comes and rescues her.
Mary claimed that the reason her daughter's door had so many locks is that everyone in Barovia was trying to keep their children safe. She also mentioned she may have mentioned escaping once or twice. Mary didn't know where she would want to escape to. She also mentioned that there was no nicer areas to move to.
The players reasoned that she may have gone to visit Strahd. Mary mentioned her daughter's name is Gertruda. She showed the party a painting painted by the great Papusza Charara.
She left during the night.
Mad Mary was clinging to a doll that she mentioned belonged to her when she was younger but that she had given it to Gertruda. The doll was described as malformed, janky and well loved. She let the party borrow it. They saw that the tag on it read "is no fun, is no blinsky".
She also claimed Gertruda did not take any rations.
The party then decided to swap the doll for the painting of Gertruda.

Pies

The party stumbles upon an old lady pushing a cart of pies. They see some villagers go up to her and buy some pies and thank her before walking off.
Hehoo was told the pies are one gold each. He was informed that the pies are very special as they will give him great dreams and no one has ever complained about the price after trying one.
The party bought 6 pies.
The pie lady had not seen Gertruda.
She told them Vallaki is bigger than the village of Barovia and the Burgomaster is Baron Vargas.
She told them the tavern owners were outcast for giving up life on the road.
That Strahd put a curse on the land because of a forgotten sin of the Barovian ancestors.
That Strahd can't enter a residence without an invitation.
Never harm a raven.

Group portrait

Papusza directed the group on how to pose to get their portrait painted. Meanwhile quill tried to steal her portrait and failed. Papusza was not happy and warned her not to touch it again. Quill did her best to sketch her portrait in the meantime. Papusza then painted mini portraits for each character to keep.
He mentioned he hadn't painted anyone in at least a month.
He mentioned that it was hard to get permission to paint Gertruda and that her mother keeps her locked up tight.
He mentioned that he is a vistana.
He mentioned the tavern owners were mortu.
He mentioned the Vistani encampment at Tser lake.

Mary pie

The players give Mary a pie which she eats gratefully as she sobs into it.
Quill sketches the painting of Gertruda and gives her back the painting. They trade it for the doll.

The soulless

The party comes across a villager who won't stop sweeping and won't acknowledge them.
A group of villagers appears to make sure the party aren't hassling him and mention that he is soulless.
The villagers refer to Mary as mad Mary.
Because she locks herself and her daughter away and is very paranoid.
They mentioned that Gertruda has tried to escaped many times and has had her belongings confiscated as a result. Her room is facing castle ravenloft.
The villagers notice Quill's facepaint and find out that she is painted as something called a tiger. They learn they are orange with sharp teeth and hiss like a snake.
As the players are talking, a raven flew over and landed on a nearby roof.
The player ignore it.

Cleaning up the wolves

When the players returned to pick up Ireena, Ismark was cleaning up the remains of the wolves.
Nine wolves and two dire wolves in all.
The party helps Ismark clean up.
Ismark mentioned that the village imports and exports wolf.
Ismark mentions that they mainly eat potatos and wolf. Ismark is happy to hear that Markadoo can grow vegetables.
Ismark mentions that if they escort his sister, he would help fund a business for them.
People without a soul can be born to people with a soul and vice versa.
Ismark mentions the party can use a handcart to wheel the wolves.

Ireena is ready

The party mentions the dream pies and are warned that too many can lead to addiction.
Ireena insists on playing never have I ever.
Ireena does not like Kriz's advances.
We find out Fassi lived in multiple mansions before she throws up.
We also find out most of the party aren't wearing shoes
Ismark threatens Kris not to harrass his sister and he will know if he does.

Selling the wolves

Kriz pulls the wagon and the group decide to sell the wolves to the inn.
The owners were reluctant to sell. Fassi manages to pursued them to buy the wolves as long as Fassi apologised.
15 gold for dire wolves and 5 gold for each wolf
The party splits the gold.

A lay of the land

The party leave town and realise they don't have a map.
They decide to buy one from Bildrath.
The part negotiate and buy the map for 7 gold.
Bildrath mentions that he retrieves a bunch of his inventory off dead explorers.
Kriz questioned him about business but he was not very forthcoming with information.
Parriwimple came out because there sounded like there was trouble but when the party mentioned his drumming he brought his drum out and started playing it, happy that the party appreciated his music.
When the party asked if he wanted to hang out, Bildrath forbid it.
The party vowed they would come back for Parriwimple.

On the road again

The group come across the river Ilvis.
Kriz brought the handcart with him.
They come across a still living man who had his guts ripped out. He was screaming in agony. Heehoo put him out of his misery.
As the party continued they came across a pack of Dire wolves.

Dire wolf battle

The party found themselves surrounded by dire wolves.
Quill stabbed one with a rapier and ran away.
Markadoo convinced one that the party is friendly.
A wolf ran up to heehoo and missed.
A wolf ran up to Quill but missed.
Kriz shot the wounded wolf with his crossbow.
Heehoo ran from the wolf near him and summoned his pact claw.
A wolf came over and bit Markadoo.
A wolf came over and attacked Kris but missed.
Fassi ran up and stabbed a wolf with a sickle.
Quill tried to stab a wolf and almost lost her weapon, then ran off.
Markadoo casted a buff.
The friendly wolf ran over to Ireena and started licking her face.
A wolf bit Kriz.
Heehoo killed a wolf by slicing him through the neck. Then swipped another with his other claw.
The pissed off wolf attacked Heehoo back but missed.
Fassi made fun of one of the wolves, hurting its feelings.
Quill stabbed a wolf with a dagger and ran off.
Markadoo did a small amount of cold damage to a wolf.
Markadoo turns in to a cow.
A wolf misses biting Markadoo.
Kriz hits a wolf with his morning star.
Heehoo slashed a wolf with one of his claws and missed with the other.
Fassi was not happy that quill started using her to hide from the wolf and cried "you bitch" as she stabbed the wolf in front of her with her dagger,
A wolf misses biting Kriz.
A wolf bites Markadoo.
Quill quipped back "i'm here to protect you" before slashing the wolf up with her claws and then digging a single claw in to he wolf's temple, killing it. She then ran back behind Fassi.
Markadoo missed hitting a wolf.
Ireena and the charmed wolf dance around happily. She names it Floofy.
Heehoo slashed a wolf through the neck , cutting it in to three pieces and killing it.
Fassi takes a slash at a wolf but misses and freaks out, the wolf goes to attack her back and hits.
As the party gangs up on the remaining hostile wolf, it looks confused at it's ally and runs off.
Kriz goes and gathers the dead wolves and loads them on to the cart.

Rewards Granted

• Mad Mary's doll

• Six dream pies

• Mini portraits

• 65 gold

• 3 dire wolves

Campaign

Barovia Campaign

Protagonists

Ivory Quill

He Who Looks Upwards

Kriz Topher

Markadoo Gentleheart

Report Date

18 Jun 2023