Bones of Saint Andral

**"Bones of Saint Andral"** is the seventh episode of *From Barovia With Love*, airing on September 20th, 2022.

The session was DMed by TanisJr93 and hosted on his channel on Twitch.

## Summary

*...continued from session six*
Ismark and Ireena remain at the Church with Father Petrovich while the party heads to the coffinmaker's shop, encountering a group of townguards; Shayne mentions the theft at the Church to them, and they head there as the party arrives at the storefront of Henrik van der Voort. They knock, and van der Voort orders them to leave; instead, Draven finds a side entrance and deftly breaks. The party enters the building and confronts Henrik about the stolen bones, and the man readily admits that he was paid by dark-haired, well-dressed stranger to house half-a-dozen vampire spawn in his attic, and later to acquire the bones of St. Andral.

Henrik tells Draven that the bones are in a cabinet in his upstairs bedroom, and that the nest of vampire spawn are across the hall from his bedroom. The party quickly fashions a dozen wooden stakes and casts preparatory and protective spells before heading upstairs and surreptitiously recovering the bones as well as a satchel containing 60 silver pieces and 12 platinum pieces. Shayne keeps the bones and Lilly keeps the coins, and the party enters the storage room across the hall, removing the coverings from the windows as Draven uses his *Divine Sense* to detect the presence of six vampire spawn. Ira attempts to open one of the crates, at which point the creatures emerge and attack the party.

Ira and Draven keep four of the spawn confined to one part of the room where Lilly casts a *Moonbeam* to inflict massive radiant damage. Avi casts *Protection from Evil and Good* on Shayne, rendering him unhittable, but is attacked by a pair of vampire spawn who grapple and successfully bite her; after Avi teleports out of their reach using the Blessing of the Raven Queen, Shayne viciously decapitates one and impales the other in a pair of devastating attacks. The creatures' attacks are further hampered when Ira unleashes her *necrotic shroud*, and Vive casts *Bane* on them as well as summoning a second *Moonbeam* to redouble the radiant damage being inflicted by Lilly's.

Midway through the confrontation, a member of the townguard arrives, and is shocked to discover the nest of vampire spawn; he shoots one of the creatures with a crossbow bolt as Draven and Ira continue to battle the other two, at which point Vive destroys one with a *Guiding Bolt* and Lilly destroys the remaining spawn with a concussive *Thunderwave*. With all of the creatures dead, Shayne furiously rips the fangs out of the vampire spawn that bit Avi, and the party heads back downstairs to inform Henrik that the nest has been cleared. Shayne spends the next seven minutes casting *Prestidigitation* to clean up the entire party before sharing an intimate moment with Avi in an adjacent room.

The two then rejoin the group, which leaves the coffinmaker's shop to discover black smoke rising from the Church of Saint Andral in the distance.

*continued in session eight...*
## Notes

* Vive was played by DM TanisJr93 for the session due to Megquins being unable to play.
* The session also featured the first roll of **0** in the campaign: TanisJr93 rolled a natural 1 on the initiative roll for Vive, who has a -1 Dexterity modifier, prior to the Coffin Shop Battle.