Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #184

Don't Eat Morgantha's Pastries

 

 

 

Session 184- A Return to Barovia Part 34

7/5/2025

• Morgantha descends the stairs in her human form of an elderly 

  woman.  She has pastries for sale.

• Semyon, Drasha, and Vasilka all purchase and eat the pastries 

  before anyone else can intervene.  They immediately fall into a 

  blissful trance.

• The Abbot rushes Vasilka outside and Clovin follows them.

• Morgantha keeps trying to push the purchase of the pastries, but 

  the rest of Team Rams resist.  Morgantha says, “Team Rams, isn’t 

  that a jaunty name!”  

• Morgantha’s daughters Bella and Offalia descend the stairs in their 

  human form as unattractive and unkempt women.

• Team Rams are asked to leave if no one else wants to purchase 

  pastries.

• They do not leave; Shelby drinks a potion of Human Control and 

  tries to affect Offalia while the potion is active.  This triggers combat.

• Rams win initiative.  Tim casts Army of One on Gugula.

• Victor uses Magic Missile.

• Shelby casts Neutralize Poison on Semyon.

• Bella almost kills Fecus with Magic Missile.

• Morgantha is nearly killed, so she casts Plane Shift and escapes.

• More fighting happens, then Bella and Offalia escape using Plane 

  Shift.

• The Abbot popped his head in during combat to lend “morale 

  support”.

• After the battle is finished, the Abbot heals those who need it.

• He chastises Tim and Fecus for picking this “shortcut”.

• Tim and Fecus go upstairs in the Old Bonegrinder and rescue 2 

  children, Freek and Myrtle.

• Tim and Fecus get the small treasure out of the mattress.

• On the top floor, they discover the Nightfall Pearl.  Tim had used 

  both Fecus’ X-ray ring and his own Magic Detection Helm to locate 

  it during the last stages of battle.

• Dretch killed = 50 XP

• 6 Pieces of Jewelry = 150 GP = 150 XP

• Freek and Myrtle rescued = 20 XP

• Total XP = 220 XP

• Tim and Fecus each receive 73 XP

• Gugula and Shelby each receive 37 XP

   

   

  Perchance Prompt 7/16/25 a hag disguised as an ugly old woman 

  sells pastries from her windmill
   

Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #183

Old Bonegrinder

 

 

 

Session 183- A Return to Barovia Part 33

6/21/2025

• Rams make their way back to the Blue Water Inn just as the tension 

  between the Abbot and Nikolai Wachter is about to become 

  physically violent.

• Gugula grabs Nikolai and he thinks she is being flirtatious and he is 

  distracted (DM rolled a 10 for a reaction roll).

• Tim and Fecus talk to the Abbot to calm him down.  They float the 

  idea of travelling around to various areas to get more “wedding gifts” 

  (actually they want to collect more artifacts).  The Abbot is indifferent 

  to the idea of getting more gifts, he just wants to get over to 

  Castle Ravenloft with Vasilka.  He’s tired of the “riff raff” in Vallaki.

• Tim and Fecus acquiesce to the Abbot and promise the party will 

  depart for Castle Ravenloft the following morning.

• Tim, Fecus, Victor, Shelby, Gugula, and Ezmerelda spend the night at 

  Victor’s parents’ mansion.  Ezmerelda gives Tim and Fecus a Tarroka 

  card reading to pinpoint a few locations for the artifacts.

• The cards drawn are the following:

• Healer- gazebo at Shrine of the White Sun in Krezk

• Missionary- garden at Abbey of St. Markovia

• Rogue- attic of the Blue Water Inn

• Charlatan- Old Bonegrinder

• Tim, Fecus, Gugula, and Shelby make a late night jaunt over to the 

  Blue Water Inn to search for an artifact.

• They sneak up to the Master Bedroom.  Fecus uses his X-ray ring to 

  observe the attic and reveal that 4 humanoids are sleeping up there.

• Tim politely knocks on the trapdoor to the attic.  Urwin Martikov in 

  hybrid Wereraven form opens the trapdoor and talks to Rams.  He 

  says he’s been waiting for them to pick something up that he’s been 

  storing for them.

• Urwin retrieves a Keepers of the Feather Spirit Board from the attic 

  and gives it to Rams.

• In the morning, Rams pick up the custom silver items from 

  Targalov’s Smithy.

• Rams and Co collect at the East/Morning Gate of Vallaki and then 

  they begin travelling along the Old Svalich Road.

• They arrive at the turn-off to an old windmill and convince the Abbot 

  that it is a shortcut to Castle Ravenloft.

• They arrive at Old Bonegrinder and a raven is perched outside. Tim 

  uses Speak with Animals to talk to the raven who warns them that 

  dangerous Hags occupy the windmill before it flies off towards some 

  nearby megaliths.

• Rams poke around the ground floor that shows signs of being a 

  bakery of sorts.

• Right before the session ends, an old woman’s voice from above 

  shrieks “Bella! Offalia!  We have customers!”

Ox ---> Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake Campaign Session #182

 

Bluto Krogarov As A Goat

 

 

 

Session 182- A Return to Barovia Part 32

6/14/2025

• Although the Abbot, Vasilka, and Clovin are NPCs, I decided it would 

  be fun to have my players roll on the carousing chart for these 3 to 

  find out the consequences of their 4 days of drinking at the Blue Water 

  Inn while the other PCs and NPCs were up to other business while 

  waiting for Targalov’s Smithy to finish the custom silver items.

• Here are the results:

• The Abbot has made an enemy of Lady Wachter’s son, Nikolai.

• Vasilka woke up in her bed with a Scroll of Passwall and 

  Secret Chest beside her.

• Poor Clovin woke up in the Vistani camp.  His violin is missing.

• Shelby and Tira’s religious discussions branch off into speaking about 

  religious and magical artifacts.  Tira is amazed at the number of items 

  Rams have already found and used, but is able to list a number of 

  others that Shelby hasn’t heard of yet.

• Rams discovered:

• Gulthias Staff

• Tome of Strahd

• Icon of Ravenloft

• St. Markovia’s Thighbone

• Sunsword

• Still undiscovered:

• Blood Spear of Kavan

• Holy Symbol of Ravenkind

• Madame Eva’s Tarroka Deck

• Keepers of the Feather Spirit Board

• Duskcrusher

• Nightfall Pearl

• Corpse Slayer

• Gugula, Semyon, and Fritigern train for 4 days and get the following 

  attack bonuses for the weapon they trained with:

• Gugula +1 AB with Silver Sword

• Fritigern +3 AB with Axe

• Semyon +4 with Rapier

• As the party learns that Clovin’s prized violin is missing, Drasha 

  arrives with other news from the Vistani camp.  The Vistani are 

  out of wine and could probably be negotiated with to return the 

  instrument if some wine were provided to them.

• Fecus wants to deliver the wine with some flair.  Why not buy a 

  goat to slaughter and fill with wine instead of a boring old barrel?  

  The piece de resistance is to have Victor cast Animate Dead on 

  the creature and walk it over to the Vistani camp southwest of 

  Vallaki.  The removed innards of the goat are given to Victor’s 

  father’s mastiff dogs.

• While Drasha goes to the tent of the leaders of the camp, the party 

  stands by listening to Ezmerelda explain the tragic story of the 

  Dusk Elves who live alongside the Vistani.  Specifically they learn 

  the story of Patrina and Kasimir Velikov’s tragic entanglement with 

  Strahd. 

• Drasha brings the party to Luvash and Arrigal’s tent where they are 

  punishing a teenage Vistani (Alexei) with lashings of a whip.  The 

  Vistani men are cranky from having run out of wine.  The goat Rams 

  have brought impresses them after Fecus shows that Daniel the goat 

  has been filled with wine.

• Luvash and Arrigal strike a deal that they will give the violin back if 

  Rams agree to help find Luvash’s daughter Arabelle who went 

  missing yesterday after not returning from a trip to Vallaki for 

  pastries.

• Rams agree, the violin is returned to them, and they go investigate 

  the pastry shop to see what can be learned of Arabelle.

• Arabelle bought her favorite treat at the shop.  When she left, the 

  baker said that Arabelle was followed by the drunken fisherman 

  Bluto Krogarov.

• Rams go to the shore of Lake Zarovich and see a figure in a small 

  fishing boat about 400’ from the shoreline.  They borrow 2 of the 

  boats that have been left on the shoreline and row out to Bluto.  

  Bluto has Arabelle tied up in the bottom of his boat.  He was about 

  to sacrifice her to the lake because Vistani are “lucky”.  Tim 

  Polymorphs Bluto into a goat and Arabelle is saved and returned 

  to her father’s camp.

• Luvash and Arrigal are grateful to Rams for the wine and rescuing 

  Arabelle.  They promise to put in a good word with the other Vistani 

  camps for Rams.  They also pay Rams with a little treasure.

• Rams ask if the teenage boy, Alexei, that Luvash had been punishing 

  could be transferred to the Wizard of Wines to be an employee.  

  He could ensure that the Vistani receive a steady flow of wine.  

  Luvash and Arrigal agree to that arrangement.

• Onyx Jewelry Box with Gold Filigree = 250 GP = 250 XP

• 6 Pieces of Jewelry 50 GP each = 300 GP = 300 XP

• Poison in a Crystal Vial = 100 GP = 100 XP

• Bluto Polymorphed into a Goat = 10 XP

• Total XP = 660 XP

• Tim and Fecus each receive = 220 XP

• Shelby and Gugula each receive = 110 XP