Session 13

## Session 13 (April 16, 2023) - Day 7/8 - Save the Girl, Find the Elk

Hairy offers to help Erwin for breakfast the previous night. After many many minutes of awkward negotiation, Erwin agreed to let Hairy help with making breakfast.

Tarlet makes a wood plaque for himself, and a very shoddily crafted one for Orio (emblem of friendship)

Stubbs and Koa tried to communicate with the mist dieties

Stubbs - Zenos, promises to help in Strahd. In the form of a female giff. Zenos feels more disconnected to this plane

Hairy woke up and was late for the kitchen. He was very adversarial overall towards the quality of the inn and food. Danica asked him to deep cleans everything. 777 noticed that she is seething from his attitude and behaviour.

Before we finish long rest, 777 tried very hard to capture some ants in a wine bottle.

Vioxx was busy doing push ups in the room and entertaining the kids while Vallacki was being attacked by the Devil. He has been hanging out in Vallacki for a couple of days, has not experienced a festival. He met 2 hunters who kill things etc and earn their rooms and board etc. They became friends.

We catch up Vioxx of the current events. Strahd’s horse is called Encephalitis.

Hairy joins everyone at breakfast, and discusses how much more delicious the breakfast is. The plates are actually clean. Danica also knows it is better, and that he’s right.

Viktor’s prepped him spells, took about 30 minutes. Additionally took an hour to get ready etc. We threw him on the floating disk to not waste more time.

Stag is the same area as the “Mad Mage”. Located at “anywhere across the northern border”. There is also lightning around the same area.

We are travelling with a floating table, 2 skeletal steeds/camel

On our way, we encountered 3 unarmed people fleeing from something. We are alerted to this by Tarlet’s bat familiar. Orio tried to greet them with “Walk in the light of the morning lord!”, and they are extra frightened. We learned there are undead on the road - a dozen or so. The undead came out of the lake and walking towards Vallacki.

We were attacked by a swarm of zombies running away from swarming butterflies. We also slowly discovered that there are several undead mages and long bowmen, as well as “special zombies” emerging from the woods. Victor did very well in his first combat. We learned that the butterflies prioritise undead, but will continue to swarm others. Orio got poisoned by the butterflies. Unfortunately, we do not know the motives for their attacks. Orio now has named his Llama Kamille (Warhorse stat) - Wama!

Koa hears off in the forest that Arabelle is in danger! We press on.

We see the path littered with 5 or so zombie tracks, and we around the corpse of a deer that was mulchified which is were the zombie corpses started.

We did not spend much time investigating

We look toward lake, there is a person on a small rowboat with a moving object next to him. We see him at 400ft away. There are three rowboats tied by the dock. Tatiana jumps in the water, the rest of the party jumps in the boat. The sac is tossed into the water.

Koa called out for help, and saw Ohana-nani swimming under the water next to the boat. Koa is now under the “freedom of movement spell”, allowing her to swim. She then jumps out of the boat. Hairy tried to tie a heavy item around Koa so that she can be pulled back when needed.

The rest of the party boats are going to run after the boat guy.

Viktor casted 2 ice storms & fireball in the proximity of the boat such that the man is stopped.

Koa and Tatiana found unconscious Arebelle at the bottom of the lake, in a burlap sac. Tatiana freed Arabelle from the tangling vines and burlap sac, Koa grabs her and swims to the top of the water where Hairy rescued them. He realized that she drowned. Tatiana swims up to the boat after distangling from the vines.

Hairy does space CPR and with some success. Arabelle regains consciousness! Arabelle does not have any recollection of what happened. She uses mature language. From Koa’s perspective, Arabelle looks like her sister, but something is off. She doesn’t know what summoned the undead from the lake.

Arabelle is acting extremely unlike a 8 years old. She demands to be taken to Bluto.

The rest of the group arrived and captures Bluto. Viktor misty steps onto their boat. Arabelle stands on Bluto’s face and breaks his nose, and curses him. Koa is still very panicked and very tired.

Bluto believed he could throw Arabelle into the water that he would improve his fishing. Bluto apparently snuck into Arabelle’s wagon and kidnapped her, no one took him seriously because he is known as the town drunk.

Orio talks nonstop about the Morning Lord at Bluto on the way back to the Vistani camp.

The opposite side of the lake is 3-4 miles away. Forest and mountains, and Mount Baratok (large snow capped mountain). Hairy could not locate the White Stag. Vioxx is not able to see any stag either.

Arabelle touched the dead zombies. Apparently they have been dead for a very long time. She needs her deck to be able to understand further. Arabelle is not super convinced she’s a part of our destiny or Koa’s.

Orio laid on hands for Bluto and cured his drunkenness. He seems to know nothing. Apparently in his drunkenness he believes he can get more fish if he throws Arabelle into the lake. Otherwise he seems to not know anything. Before going into Vallacki, the steeds are dismissed.

We entered into Vallacki.

To do:

* Turn Bluto in
* Dinner with Fiona Watcher