Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #203

The Salty Corpse

 

 

Session 203- A Return to Barovia Part 53; Lamordia 2

11/29/2025

• For the sake of discretion, Fecus has the stranger from the mists, 

  Valan, get off the magic carpet and walk into Neufurchtenburg.

• Rams wind their way through the bustling mining town (on the 

  verge of a small city) and find an inexpensive inn called the 

  Salty Corpse, a coffin-style hotel.  Tim has a “AAA” card from 

  the “MIner’s Union” and gets a discount for the rooms.

• The team go in search of food and beverage and end up at 

  The Laughing Golem, a tavern run by the elderly, but spry 

  Fleta Himmelreich.  Rams are astounded at the beer, wine, 

  and liquor selection and Fleta mixes a drink to order for each 

  member after Tim offers to buy a round for the whole tavern.

• Drasha quietly notes a well-dressed woman slinks out when the 

  info is confirmed that Rams are visitors from beyond the mists.

• Rams learn a few things while drinking and eating sandwiches:

• There was a scandal involving the scientist, Dr. Viktra 

  Mordenheim and her team resulting in the mists closing 

  the borders.  They were banished from Neufurchtenburg.

• Ever since the borders closed, trade has been nearly 

  impossible.  Many worry about the coal stores.

• The Schult is weak.  If he were serious, he’d ask the 

  scientists to find a way through these strange mists.

• The well-dressed woman, Rohesia Frey, re-enters The Laughing 

  Golem and approaches Tim and Fecus and extends the invitation 

  of Shult Ulrich Herzewalde to visit his townhouse.

• Rohesia tries to hurry Team Rams, but they stretch it out and get 

  a second round and feed Valan another sandwich before he looks 

  like he’ll pass out, then they send him back to the Salty Corpse 

  and then they follow Rohesia up to the Schulthaus.

• The Schult is direct in his request for help in finding some 

  scientists.  He thinks that Rams could find the assistant of 

  Dr. Viktra Mordenheim, Dr. Yonas Savitch.  He  offers a 50 GP/party 

  member purse up front with a promise of 100 GP/ party member 

  more after delivering the message to Dr. Savitch that they need his 

  help finding Dr. Mordenheim.  Shelby casts Augery and gets the 

  result of Weal, so the team agree to the job, thinking it might help 

  lead to finding their ally.

• Rams go back to the Salty Corpse and set watches which are 

  uneventful except some rowdy drunkards come stumbling back 

  when Gugula sits 1st watch.

• Next morning, Rams set out to sell some inventory and go to 

  Osterhagen’s Jewelry and Gem Market first.

   

   

  12/2/25 Perchance Prompt coffin-style hotel in a fantasy steampunk 

  frozen city background, horror concept art 

Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #202

Entering Lamordia

 

 

 

Session 202- A Return to Barovia Part 52; Exit Barovia, Enter Lamordia 1

11/22/2025

• After the tumultuous and chaotic aborted wedding, watches are set 

  and a nearly uneventful night passes.  No encounters, but,

• The members of Team Rams dream of an alien landscape 

  dominated by an impossibly tall mountain.

• After breakfast the next day Fecus gets to work building a sun 

  shaped effigy to harness the power of the 3 gems.

• The magic-users enact the ritual to bring forth the new sun-shaped 

  being.  It snaps into existence with a crackling plasma-like 

  appearance of pink, red, and purple energy.

• Concerned that they didn’t see him at breakfast, Rams visit Clovin 

  and try to re-assure him and comfort him while he grieves deeply 

  for Vasilka.

• Tira gives a Blessing to the members of the party that are leaving 

  Barovia.  That includes Ezmerelda, Fritigern, Gugula, Fecus, 

  Drasha, Victor, Tim, and Shelby.

• The team ride east past Tser Falls, the gallows, the village of 

  Barovia, and the eastern gate of the land of Barovia.

• After several hours moving through the cold disorienting mists, 

  the team encounters a lost commoner wandering.  They listen to 

  his ravings of dangers and horrors before wrapping him in cloaks 

  and blankets and Fecus puts him on the Magic Carpet and tows it 

  behind his horse.

• Near the end of the afternoon, the team wanders out of the mist 

  into a snowy frozen bog.  “We’ve coyote’d our way through the mists.”

• They pick their path through the bog with no encounters, making 

  their way towards a smudge of haze on the eastern horizon in the 

  hills that they speculate is a town or village producing wood or coal 

  smoke.

• Just as the sun sets, they reach the gates of the mining town of 

  Neufurchtenburg.

   

   

  Perchance Prompt 11/26/25 fantasy adventurers on horseback 

  riding slowly across a frozen bog towards smoky hills, 

  horror concept art 

Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #201

 

Madame Eva's Tarroka Reading

 

 

Session 201- A Return to Barovia Part 51

11/15/2025

• Madame Eva approaches Tim and Fecus and gives them some 

  of the pieces of Patrina’s backstory that they didn’t get because 

  they didn’t work with her brother Kasimir.

• Madame Eva gives the party a Tarroka reading that indicates the 

  powerful Patrina might have fled to another Domain of Dread.  

  Along the way they will need to visit Bluetspur, Darkon, Borca, 

  and Lamordia to receive information, tools, and an ally.

• Cyrus suggests that Vasilka should be buried in the courtyard.  

  Tira performs the rites for the burial.

• Fecus is planning to build an effigy of a sun to make the new 

  entity powered by all three winery gems.

• The Vistani guests leave.  The burgomasters offer their help if 

  needed then leave.

• Rams eat the wedding dinner as a funeral dinner for Vasilka.

   

   

  Perchance Prompt 11/17/25 A middle-aged gypsy woman gives 

  a tarot card reading to a group of adventurers in a gothic castle, 

  horror concept art 

Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #200

 

Morgantha crashes the wedding.

 

  

Session 200- A Return to Barovia Part 50

11/8/2025

• The morning before the wedding ceremony the PCs take a few 

  moments to reflect on how they feel going into the wedding.

• Fecus is oriented towards getting through the wedding, taking 

  Strahd out of Barovia, and returning home.

• Shelby is concerned for the safety of everybody involved in 

  today’s event and wants to return home.

• Tim is excited to deal with Strahd.

• Gugula is ready to fight.

• Fecus asks Ezmerelda for a favor after she leads Rams out of 

  Barovia and the Mists.  Could she bring the 3 gems back to the 

  winery in Barovia?  She agrees.

• Fecus then checks in with Cyrus regarding the food for the 

  reception.  He is relieved when Cyrus tells him that Ismark 

  took care of the catering.

• Tira, who is officiating the wedding in the chapel, gets to the 

  part where she asks if anyone objects to Ireena (Vasilka) 

  marrying tiny puppet Strahd.  Unfortunately for everybody, 

  there are some objectors.

• Patrina Velikovna shows up to stop the wedding and, 

  uncoordinated to her and her brother Kasimir Velikov, 

  Morgantha’s coven shows up with the real Ireena as a hostage.

• Patrina wins initiative, followed by Morgantha’s coven, 

  and Rams going last.

• Patrina casts Time Stop, rips Ireena’s (Vasilka’s) chest open 

  pulling out her heart that encases the Pink Gem from the 

  Wizard of Wines, and throws the heart at Morgantha, picks 

  up tiny puppet Strahd, and then she Misty Steps to the balcony 

  of the chapel.

• Offalia freaks out and Plane Shifts away.

• Fecus enables his Fire Flying power that was a gift from the 

  Sovereign to fly towards Morgantha’s coven.

• Tim Magic Missiles Patrina, then begins to follow her.

• Semyon and Fritigern move to protect Freek, Myrtle, and 

  Arabelle.

• Shelby asks Rabe Voron to manifest and help Team Rams.

• The Abbot shifts into Daeva form and flies after Patrina to 

  attack her.

• Patrina Teleports away from the interior of the castle with 

  tiny puppet Strahd.  Her brother Kasimir covers her retreat.  

  They are pursued by Rahadin.

• Tim abandons the pursuit of Patrina and shifts his attention 

  to the hag coven.  He trades Magic Missiles with them much 

  to his chagrin because Morgantha lights him up.

• Bella dumps the real Ireena on a foe, then Plane Shifts away.

• Rams finish Morgantha off.  Fecus retrieves the Pink Gem 

  from her.

• Lady Wachter and her entourage make a show of leaving 

  the ruined wedding.

• Tira heals Tim.

• Clovin weeps over Vasilka’s body.

• Morgantha killed = 2900 XP

• Pink Gem

• Tim and Fecus each receive 966 XP

• Gugula and Shelby each receive 483 XP

   

   

  Perchance Prompt 11/14/25 A hag casts magic missile at 

  a group of adventurers in a gothic chapel, horror concept art 

Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #199

Castle Ravenloft's Pipe Organ

  

 

 

Session 199- A Return to Barovia Part 49

11/1/2025

• Tiny puppet Strahd walks into Castle Ravenloft followed by a 

  gobsmacked Team Rams.

• Music filters down to the Great Entry (K8) from the Audience 

  Hall (K25).

• Tiny puppet Strahd rushes up the stairs to the Audience Hall 

  (K25) where Clovin Belview is playing his violin while the 

  Abbot and Ireena (Vasilka actually) practice dancing.  Tim 

  uses the visor to determine something is going on magically 

  with the woman who appears to be Ireena.

• Strahd sprints to embrace Ireena and she lifts him up and 

  returns the affection.  Rams stand back and watch the 

  reunion and learn from the Abbot that now that Strahd is 

  back, the rehearsal dinner will be tomorrow night with the 

  wedding the day after.

• Fecus and Tim telepathically ask the crystal raven, Rabe Voron, 

  if it needs to manifest, yet.  It replies not yet.

• At dinner after the reunion, tiny puppet Strahd practices his pipe 

  organ.

• Watch 1 Shelby and Drasha.  No encounter.  Shelby examines 

  her new helmet, trying to figure out more about it.  Drasha draws 

  an image of what she thinks the wedding ceremony will look like.

• Watch 2 Gugula and Szoldar.  No encounter.  Gugula takes care 

  of her armor and weapons.  Szoldar works on a wolf skin bag.

• Watch 3 Victor and Semyon.  Pidlewick II surprises Victor with a 

  set of chattering vampire teeth.

• After breakfast, Tira and Semyon peel off to do cleaning and 

  decorating.  Victor and Pidlewick II practice juggling.  Ezmerelda 

  has a spa day.

• The blue and black frosted wedding cake arrives along with a stream 

  of guests.

• Rehearsal dinner.

• Watch 1 No encounters.  Fecus and Ezmerelda eat squirrel jerky.

• Watch 2 No encounters.  Tim studies spells.  Fritigern cleans his 

  armor and weapons.

• Watch 3 No encounters.  Tira and Yevgeni.

• “Ireena” asks for a maid of honor.  Shelby accepts.

   

   

  Perchance Prompt 11/6/25 a tiny vampire lord puppet playing a 

  giant pipe organ in the dining hall of a gothic castle, horror concept art