The Source of Chanting Report

General Summary

The party travels into the prisons below the Durst Manor and finds a secret door into the room where they chanting was emanating from. As they approached the dais a large hulk of bone and refuse and sinew started lifting out of the back of the cave and the upper sections were populated by cultists(?) with torches that threw a black light of shadow.   As they ran through the house, the escaped zombies, ghouls, traps, wolves and finally an illusion of a cliff to jump to safety into the courtyard in front of the house. Which they promptly set ablaze.   They entered the village of Barovia. Met a granny selling dream pies, visited an overpriced general store, spoke with a weeping woman named Mary who said that her daughter Gertruda had run away from home a week ago and then met a man named Istvan at the Blood on the Vine tavern who claimed that his father died after their manor was assulted for a week straight every evening by a menagerie of horrors. His father died from a heart attack from the stress and he says his sister should be taken to safety.   The party falls into a deep sleep with plans of approaching the manor of the Burgomeister in the morning.