11. Beneath the Castle

[GreyWolfVT]

Gragog confused look on his face "Who in the hell is Dram? I only see our lost friends and Bragar, are drinking feywine again Agax? told ya that elf wine would do no good it's addled your brain. We just escaped the damned castle and now you wish to return to it because of a ghost parade? Fine! Lets go back to our dooms."

[Zhym]

Date: Trieluna 14, 1222
Time: ~2:00 AM
Weather: Stormy
Location: Castle Ravenloft; Castle Wall
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After a quick debate, you decide to follow the ghostly figures. They march back the way you came, to the castle. For over an hour your follow them, until you once again stand, in the middle of the night, before the castle and chasm.

The drawbridge has lowered since you left. The spectral parade marches across the drawbridge and into the castle.

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Status: Gragog (F8): 57/60; Bragar: 42/42 (C7); Agax (MU7/C4): 45/45; Petyr (F3): 23/23; Bogdana (C3): 23/23; Mindless: Castran: 23/23 (F5/I6); Shinyah (D7): 38/38
Effects: Phantom Armor (Castran): 6 pts; Invisibility (Castran)
Light sources: CL coin (60', held by Shinyah); CL gem (60' Agax's staff)

[GreyWolfVT]

Gragog turns to Braggar and Agax "Alright well now what? Re-entering the castle from hell?"

[Inferno]

Agax frowns darkly. "Hmmm. You might be right Gre... um, Gragog.
"Perhaps that procession didn't mean what I think it did. Let's return to the village and see if anything there has changed, shall we?"

[GreyWolfVT]

Gragog "I'm starting to feel like a kitchen hand back and forth always going back and forth get this fetch that... village or castle? Are we sure on the destination this time? No turning around and walking back to the castle again if we turn around and head for the village again right?"

[Inferno]

Agax smiles and leads the way. "I imagine that depends upon what we find at the village."

[Dram]

Bragar- Aye lets not head back into the castle. Best we see if da village safe.

[Zhym]

Date: Trieluna 14, 1222
Time: ~3:30-4:00 AM
Weather: Stormy
Location: Old Svalich Road, Before Castle Ravenloft
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Your curiosity about the ghostly procession is not enough to pull you back into the castle. As the last of your dead compatriots marches across the bridge and into the castle, you turn and start back toward town.

DM rolls a bunch of dice.

Though you walk in haunted woods in the dark of night, amazingly—miraculously?—you make it back to town unmolested. Perhaps Strahd really has been defeated? You arrive in town as the dim, diffuse light that passes for morning in this dreary place rises. The town seems very much as it was when you left: quiet, fearful, and empty.

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Status: Gragog (F8): 57/60; Bragar: 42/42 (C7); Agax (MU7/C4): 45/45; Petyr (F3): 23/23; Bogdana (C3): 23/23; Mindless: Castran: 23/23 (F5/I6); Shinyah (D7): 38/38
Effects: Phantom Armor (Castran): 6 pts; Invisibility (Castran)
Light sources: CL coin (60', held by Shinyah); CL gem (60' Agax's staff)

[GreyWolfVT]

Did we notice if the fog still remains around the place(town & castle)?

Gragog looking around "Looks about the same here still."

[Zhym]

The mists are still there.

[GreyWolfVT]

Gragog "Appears that even if Strahd was defeated the mist hasn't lifted. Perhaps the curse is far more than just one vampire lord?"

[Dram]

Bragar Best we rest at the abandoned house and heal up. Also see if there are any new guest in town.

[Zhym]

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