Session 7

General Summary

A Descent into Madness

19th Day of Elient

Beginning the Descent

• Riak and Ilyson made a map
• Return to first floor to smash the Animated Armor
• Salvaged Chainmail from under its plates
• Made way back up to the attic
• Margaret’s body still dead
• Spiral staircase small and web/dust choked

Basement like a Catacomb

• Carved out of earth, clay, and rock. The tunnels are 4 feet wide by 7 feet high with timber braces at 5-foot intervals.
• Rooms are 8 feet tall and supported by thick wooden posts with cross beams.
• Choice of exploration directions
• Can hear low chanting, cannot discern direction

Tomb Raiders

• Found 6 tombs…all empty
• One with no name, other’s listed all Durst family members
• Centipedes boiled out of Mrs. Durst's tomb and attacked

Ghoulies!

• Further West Ghouls pop out of the ground under Rumex
• Attack immediately saying in guttural voice: "Beautifu. We're so beautiful"; "Nothing can hurt us"; "We are perfect. We are immortal"; and "Help us live forever."

Foreboding Statue

• painted wooden statue carved in the likeness of Strahd, his hand resting on the head of a wolf.
• Holds a smoky-gray crystal orb.
• Shackled skeletons, scorch and soot marks on walls
• Vince Mage Hands it over
• Shadows flit past the walls
• Puts it back, shares letters

You Can Take That Cookie and Stick it…

• Further Northwest a Den and Bedroom
• Find a hanging Mr. Durst with a suicide letter and some loot.
• Mrs. Durst bursts out of the wall
• Arrogant to an extreme, she shuns her dead husband, calling him a lecherous traitor who deserved his death. She speaks unkindly of Walter and the nursemaid, and writes off Rose and Thorn as “bothersome nuisances.”

I Hear Voices

• Doubling back East, chanting grows louder
• A staircase leads down to its source

Players

• Kev - Vincenzo Prizzi - CG Tiefling Fiend Warlock - Charlatan (lvl 2)
• Mike - Riak Tao - CN Githyanki Artificer - Cartography Guild (lvl 2)
• Joe - Verse - CN Dragonborn Paladin - Haunted One (lvl 2)
• Milton - Ozan, the Lost- CG Shadar-Kai Twilight Cleric of Ilmater (lvl 2)
• Jay - Ilyson Ott - N Human Fighter - Bounty Hunter (lvl 2)
• DM - Rumex Kocho - LN Wood Elf Ranger - Haunted One (lvl 2)

Starting Notes

• Rumex played by DungeonMaster.

In Game Outline

• Start. Durst Manor, 3rd Floor Nursemaid’s Suite; early morning, 19th of Elient
• End. Durst Manor, Basement lvl 1, early afternoon, 19th of Elient

NPCs present

Lancelot - Underfed dog

Victories

• Animated Armor - Some sweet revenge
• Swarm of Centipedes - Time to jump on the table
• 4 Ghouls - First use of Turn Undead
• Elisabeth Durst - A proper lady

Gains

• Leather Armor, 3 darts (from Library)
• Chainmail
• Vince’s letters…now shared, sheepishly
• Small wooden coffer with 4 red flasks containing a shimmery red liquid
• A Chain Shirt
• Mess Kit
• A Flask of Alchemist’s Fire
• A Bullseye Lantern
• Thieves’ tools
• Mr. Durst’s Suicide Note
• 30 Torches, 15 Candles (in a small leather sack)
• Several Old Robes
• One neat, folded really good condition Cloak
• Wizard’s Spellbook

Report Date

27 Aug 2022

Primary Location

Durst Manor

Related Characters

• Centipedes
• Elisabeth Durst
• Ghoul
• Lancelot

Durst Manor

Strahd Statue

Durst Basement

Dining Hall

Elisabeth's Bedroom (in Catacombs)