Winery Gems

### Effects

Growing grapes,Animating houses, Animating trees, Animating dead, Arcane blasts, Healing, Levitating objects, Speaking to spirits (source?), Time travel, Animating revenants, and much more!

### Source

Meteor, approx 6 mil. years prior to the events of Curse of Strahd

### Cost to buy

Eventually the Barovian Freedom Fighters will find you

### Cost to sell

Don't

These little shits are going to keep showing up, might as well give them a page.

The Winery Gems (also known as the Mountain Dew Rock and the Pyramid Artifact) are a set of three seed-shaped gems (or one big rock) of immense power. They have a vast range of effects and abilities, most notable of which being opposing the Barovian Freedom Fighters at every turn.

## Curse of Strahd

The Martikovs, in what the party had yet to realize was a pattern, lost the gems that power their winery. They implored the Barovian Freedom Fighters to retrieve them, and the party obliged, because surely they would take care of their most crucial assets! Once they learned from this little mishap, they would properly guard their property and the BFF would never worry about it again.

### Ravenloft

In the first exploration of Ravenloft, one of the main goals was to locate the first of 3 winery gems lost by the Martikovs. After realizing that the BFF weren't going to help, Davian Martikov explored Ravenloft on his own while the rest of the party looted, miraculously not dying.

### Baba Lysaga

Baba Lysaga used the winery gems to power her big "moving" hut (never actually moved). She was suplexed by MRVN. It should be noted that just one of the winery gems was powerful enough to move a giant hut, yet the Martikovs used all 3 to help grow grapes

### Wintersplitter

The druids of Barovia used the winery gems to bring to life a massive tree blight, which was turned in to a frog by Tokili then killed by fall damage when lifted up to the Barovian height limit then dropped. It should be noted that just one of the winery gems was powerful enough to give life to a giant tree, yet the Martikovs used all 3 to help grow grapes

## A Greater Game

### Birdwatcher

Birdwatcher used the winery gems to great effectiveness by resurrecting the bones of Argynvolst. The puppeted skeleton of Argynvost was chased down and pacified by the Barovian Freedom Fighters aboard the URD-3. After Birdwatcher attempted again to steal the winery gems, the party gave the Martikovs several thousand gold pieces worth of expensive gemstones and demanded that they "buy some actual security birdbrain" and "either bury it deeper than 2 inches underground or go bankrupt, either way we don't have to deal with you anymore".

Fortunately for the Martikovs, the BFF were ejected from their timeline before checking back to see if they took the advice. It should be noted that just one of the winery gems was powerful enough to give life to a giant and ancient skeletal dragon in addition to all previous abilities mentioned, yet the Martikovs used all 3 to help grow grapes

### Doing the Dew

Very shortly after meeting ERA001, the party recovered a massive, prehistoric ancestor to the modern winery gems that had been powering an ungodly abomination with the help of a dead aboleth. It was also revealed to be a critical part in fixing a broken time machine. It should be noted that an ancient ancestor of the winery gems was powerful enough to not only hoist a massive chunk of rock and green drink™ and travel through time and space along with all previous abilities, yet the Martikovs used all 3 to help grow grapes

The tar-filled tyrannosaur skeleton encountered in session 6 was also powered by an ancestor of the winery gems, though the party never learned this in game.

### The Pyramid Artifact

Sometime between 743 and 1043, the Martikovs' three winery gems were embedded into an apparatus known as the Pyramid Artifact. This artifact was hidden, then recovered by Iris the Incredible's adventuring party, resulting in the deaths of everyone except Iris. It should be noted that even lacking their gems, the Martikovs were still successful in growing grapes.

In session 9, the BFF found a poster advertising Iris and the Pyramid Artifact's ability to "levitate objects, talk to spirits, and much more!". Iris demonstrated the gems' ability to levitate objects before being murdered in session 11. It should be noted that the winery gems were able to levitate objects and presumably some other stuff in addition to all previous abilities mentioned, yet the Martikovs used them to help grow grapes

In session 14, the Freedom Fighters faced off against Rahadin, who was reanimated by a breastplate containing the Pyramid Artifact. It should be noted that the winery gems were able to animate and buff a corpse/wax statue that had been rotting in a Barovian chasm for 300 years, yet the Martikovs used them to help grow grapes.

## Powers of the winery gems

* Giving life to trees
* Moving huts
* Giving life to dragon skeletons
* Giving life to ungodly masses of water and slime
* Giving life to 300 year old revenants
* Time travel
* Levitating objects
* Levitating objects
* Talking to spirits
* Much more!

Alternatively: you can farm grapes. I hate the Martikovs.

## List of enemies created by the winery gems

* Wintersplitter
* Baba Lysaga's Hut
* Argynvost (Birdbrained)
* Tar Dinosaur Thing
* Punch Bowl Elemental
* Time Machine Forest Guy
* Rahadin 2
* *To be continued*

## Trivia

* The winery gems should get obliterated imho :/

1. ↑ Documents recovered from a filing cabinet in an as-of-yet unnamed thrift store