Ox --->Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake --->Horse Campaign Session #217

Shrine of Ezra at Nevuchar Springs

 

 

 

Session 217- A Return to Barovia Part 67; Darkon 4

4/5/2026

• As the re-united Team Rams decides which lead to pursue next, 

  a Nevuchar Springs town guardsman named Sythryn Silverbranch 

  arrives at the Shrine of Ezra to bring Gugula, Shelby, and 

  Ezmerelda in for questioning regarding the death of Kasimir Velikov.

• Kasimir’s body was found near a spot where the women were seen; 

  the spot where they spoke to Elyra.

• All of Team Rams decide to play this out, but insist on accompanying 

  Sythrin and the women to the interview site which is in the 

  containment wing of Cascana Sanitarium.  Their new friend Holt goes 

  along as well.

• Elyra is sitting in the gardens of Cascana as Team Rams and Sythrin 

  walk on to the grounds.  She gives a wave to Gugula, Shelby, and 

  Ezmerelda as they walk past.

• The interview room is like a sterile board room or meeting room.  

  Sythrin sits down and begins to ask questions and record the various 

  answers.  Holt stresses the importance of the word of Toret Lirael as 

  an alibi for where the women were all night.  And it seems Gugula 

  might have been a witness to the murder party when she observed 

  the boat rowing upstream from the ocean into the Vuchar River while 

  she sat watch.

• Sythrin seems satisfied with how these answers exonerate the three 

  women.  

  He asks where the party will stay while in town, in case he has any 

  follow up questions.

• Team Rams ask where they should seek accommodations and 

  Riverview Rest Inn is the obvious choice.  They let Sythrin know he 

  can contact them there and then they leave Cascana Sanitarium. 

• They make their way to Riverview Rest Inn where they are welcomed 

  by the proprietress, Phinara Vaelith.  She serves up drinks and dinner 

  as Team Rams discuss the situation.  They arrange for a suite of 

  rooms, since the party is large at this point.  

• Tim notices an anxious elven woman drinking alone, but watching 

  Team Rams.  He invites her over to join their table and learns she is 

  Delimira Starfeather from the Vale of Tears and she is searching for 

  her missing niece, Elyra.

• Tim tells her that some members of his team just met Elyra over in 

  Cascana Sanitarium’s gardens.  He tells her Team Rams can help 

  her look into it in the morning if she would like the help.

Ox --->Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake --->Horse Campaign Session #216

 

Who will be Darkon's next Darklord?

 

 

Session 216- A Return to Barovia Part 66; Darkon 3

3/29/2026

• The 2 canoes on the Vuchar River, pursued by Clangor Asylum 

  Patrols, raft together before slipping into a formidable bank of 

  the Shroud.

• Holt prays to Ezra, empowering his Shield of Ezra protective aura 

  over the 2 canoes and crews.

• Switching to the 3 women in Nevuchar Springs, they choose to use 

  the Scrying power of Mother Luba’s Tarokka deck to get a rough idea 

  that the men are traveling by small boats down the Vuchar River that 

  passes by Nevuchar Springs before emptying into the Nocturnal Sea.  

  They decide to go down to the beach and wait to see if they arrive in 

  the next day or so.

• Down on the beach, the 3 find the Shrine of Ezra in an old lighthouse.  

  They meet Toret Lirael Moonshade and she invites them in for tea.  

  She tells them she’s waiting for her friend to arrive from upriver.

• Lirael allows Gugula, Shelby, and Ezmerelda to spend the night in the 

  shrine/tower.  Gugula stays up and sits watch.  She only observes a 

  small craft rowing from the sea into the mouth of the bay and up river.

• Tim, Fecus, and Victor take turns sitting watch on the boat ride down 

  river.  Although the Mist is thick and heavy, nothing emerges from it to 

  deter the canoes on their trip down the river.  The boats arrive at the 

  beach by the Shrine of Ezra and Team Rams are reunited.  They 

  learn a bit about the factions from Holt and Lirael.  Suspicions of 

  Patrina and Strahd are strengthened by info Lirael and Holt share.

• Toret Lirael is also aware that 1 of the party has the potential to 

  become Darkon’s next Darklord.

Ox --->Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake --->Horse Campaign Session #215

 

Who's child is Elyra carrying?

 

 

 

Session 215- A Return to Barovia Part 65; Darkon 2

3/22/2026

• Ezmerelda finds the letter and Tarokka deck from Mother Luba.

• The team in Clangor Asylum decide to escape via sewer tunnels.  

  As they are working through the tunnels, the Abbot speculates 

  that Patrina and Strahd had trapped him at the Asylum.  After 

  travelling in the sewer for a bit they encounter 3 Giant Frogs…

• Back to the trio of Gugula, Shelby, and Ezmerelda; the Blinsky toys 

  in Gugula’s and Shelby’s packs start gesturing to someone 

  following them towards the town center/market area of 

  Nevuchar Springs.  It’s a visibly pregnant Elf woman who followed 

  them from Cascana Sanitarium.  She said she had hoped to chat 

  with them, but she had been in treatment when they woke up.  

  She is curious and chatty and vapid.  Gugula is distrustful.  They 

  learn she is a pregnancy surrogate for a Dusk Elf woman who 

  needs help with that sort of thing.  They put a few dots together 

  and suspect that Elyra, the pregnant Elf, might be the surrogate to 

  whatever Patrina and Strahd are trying to create.  Freaky.

• Back in the sewer with the Tim and Fecus party.  Tim casts 

  Speak with Animals on the Giant Frogs, the Frogs ask for food.  

  The team unloads a bunch of dried fish, lizard steaks, old dead 

  squirrels, and rations to bribe the Frogs to allow them to pass 

  without interference.  They follow the sewer tunnel to its outlet near 

  the River Watch Tower.  The town of Maykle and Clangor Asylum 

  lie to the south.  A road leading out of town to the east parallels the 

  Vuchar River.  The team decide to search for the female team 

  members they’ve been separated from after the Transport out of 

  Bluetspur in Maykle.  Their first stop is Serenity Inn, where the only 

  customer is a female doctor that recognizes the Abbot.  Tim and 

  Fecus ask if she has seen or heard of the missing Team Rams 

  women.  She has not seen them.  She gives them her business card 

  “Dr. Selene Veyrisse, Surgeon and Anatomist”.  They leave 

  Serenity Inn and make their way towards the docks in the center 

  of town.  Their Blinsky dolls in Tim and Fecus’s backpacks point at a 

  young man following them.  Holt has also escaped Clangor Asylum 

  and followed Team Rams to tell them the asylum siren will go off 

  soon and search teams will begin looking for the escaped patients.  

  He knows boats are stored back by the River Watch Towers and 

  tells them it's the fastest way out of town.  The sirens go off, so they 

  follow Holt to the canoes and start paddling downstream in the 

  Vuchar River.

• Back to the women of Team Rams.  They finish their chat with 

  Elyra as she tires and needs to go back to her room in 

  Cascana Sanitarium.  Gugula strongly resists the impulse to defeat 

  whatever Elyra is host to as Surrogate.  They decide to investigate 

  the Market Center of Nevuchar Springs.

Letter from Mother Luba

Letter from Mother Luba

 

 The above parchment image and the following text are the contents of a letter that Ezmerelda found in her backpack as she left Cascana Sanitarium with Gugula and Shelby.  The letter was accompanied by a powerful Tarokka deck.

 

 

Ezmerelda D’Avenir and friends,

You will no longer enjoy the honor of employing my great granddaughter 

Drasha in your foolish schemes to tangle with Domain Lords, whether 

that’s an unsuccessful assassination attempt on the Lord in his own lair 

or some boondoggle marrying a marionette to a flesh golem.  Now you 

have drawn the interest of Dr. Viktra Mordenheim and her abominable 

creation, which itself might be some fractal of the God Brain of Bluetspur.  

Fools.  

Even in puppet form, Strahd will be formidable and joined with Patrina, 

who knows what schemes they will hatch?  It can be no coincidence 

they have decided to make their stand here in Darkon, Domain of 

Azalin Rex, originally an ally of Strahd’s, eventually his bitter enemy, 

now a missing in action Darklord and lich.  The pompous vampire 

Alcio Metus thinks she has assumed the role of Darkon’s Darklord, 

she mostly stays in and around Il Aluk.  Cardinna Artazas is nursing the 

supposed former Darklord, Darcalus Rex, deep in the grottoes of 

Nevuchar Springs.  And my divination says 1 of your party has the 

dormant potential to become the next Darklord here.  The way you 

all operate, it could be sooner rather than later.  Be careful who you 

ally with… you gained a lot of trust in Barovia, but little of it spreads 

past its misty borders.

A brave and well equipped fool can be useful.  I leave you my special 

Tarokka deck to assist you.  You temporarily killed Strahd once, 

maybe with a little boost you can do it for real this time.  We’ll see.

Mother Luba

Ox --->Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake --->Horse Campaign Session #214

 

High Security Wing Clangor Asylum

 

 

Session 214- A Return to Barovia Part 64; Darkon 1

3/15/2026

• Tim, Fecus, Victor, and Fritigern find themselves in straight jackets 

  in padded cells.  All separated and alone, except Tim realizes their 

  strange and fated ally Elise was in the corner of his cell.  She tells 

  Tim that the Abbot is being held in a high security wing of the facility 

  they are currently in and he is receiving “therapy” of the electroshock 

  sort.  Elise releases Tim from his straight jacket and they make a 

  quiet escape from Tim’s cell into a hallway.

• Elise takes Tim to release Fecus and get him up to speed.  Elise 

  says only four of the party arrived in Clangor Asylum, Maykle, 

  Darkon.  She doesn’t know what happened to Gugula, Shelby, 

  Ezmerelda, and Drasha.

• Elise leads Tim and Fecus to the cells of Victor and Fritigern.  

  She then leads everyone to a supply closet where they find their 

  equipment.  They wait in the supply closet for workers to pass 

  through the hall before they proceed to the high security wing.

• In the high security wing they are affected by a Fear Spell that is 

  triggered by walking down the hallway.

• Victor and Fritigern fail the Save Vs Paralysis and Elise, Tim, and 

  Fecus have to drag them to another supply closet.  Tim casts 

  Dispel Magic on the hallway and removes the Fear spell.

• They get to the observation window of the Abbot’s cell and dither 

  about entering or waiting.  A female patient wanders down the hall 

  and Elise does something Psionic to stun the woman.  Then Elise 

  enters the Abbot’s cell and begins freeing him from his restraints.  

  Tim and Fecus follow her and assist in freeing him.  The Abbot hasn’t 

  had any wine in awhile and Fecus busts out 2 bottles and the reunited 

  friends take a moment to celebrate before Elise gives them the 3 

  escape options: main entrance, sewer tunnel, or maintenance tunnel.

• Switching to Gugula and Shelby who awaken in luxurious hospital or 

  retreat bedrooms in caves in a cliffside near water.  They hear the far 

  off sounds of the sea and soft chimes.  Shelby says her morning 

  prayer.  Afterwards, she explores her room and finds an exit tunnel 

  that leads to Gugula’s room.  They ponder what happened in the 

  transport and where the others of the party are.

• They leave Gugula’s room and find themselves in a larger tunnel with 

  other doors off of it.  The first door they check is luckily Ezmerelda’s 

  door.  She seems woozy from fumes, so they remove her to the larger 

  tunnel.  They pop into another door and meet Tobias who explains he 

  is there for soul healing.  There being Cascana Sanitarium in 

  Nevuchar Springs.  He says they were found washed up on the beach 

  of the Nocturnal Sea.

• They wander outside to the garden and meet Garrik the caretaker, 

  who has stored their belongings.  As they are leaving, they meet 

  Nurse Virell who says they are free to leave, but they are also free to 

  stay if they would like.

Ctyri Ctvrt Chronicles Session #35

 

The Spire of Iron and Crystal's Glitter Skeletons

 

Session 35- Inside the Spire of Iron and Crystal Part 1

3/10/2026

• Pavel from the Duskward Concord finds the secret door in Room #1 

  to Room #2.

• The party enters Room #2 and encounter 6 Fossil Skeletons they 

  fight and kill.  This room includes a teleportal that they note, but 

  don’t explore, yet.

• Entering Room #6 reveals a long gallery on the exterior of the egg.  

  Several tanks with dead specimens are in this room.

• Past the tanks and into a hallway, the party enter Room #7 and find 

  a desk with papers in an archaic language.  Magda casts 

  Read Languages on the papers that reveal an apprentice’s horror at 

  their master’s slip into dangerous experimentation.

• 6 Fossil Skeletons killed = 150 XP

• 2 Potions of Lightning Resistance

• Sword w/ 500 GP Topaz in Pommel

• Scroll of Knock

• Scroll of Detect Magic

• 50 GP

• 1600 SP

• 200 CP

• Total XP = 362 XP

• Danika receives 182 XP

• Hynek and Hallabera receive 90 XP each