Ox --->Tiger --->Rabbit --->Dragon --->Snake --->Horse Campaign Session #232

More drama in the Ritter hunting cabin.

 

 

 

 Session 232- A Return to Barovia Part 82; Borca 9

8/9/2026

• Team Rams, Dmitri Nuikin, and Mimsy Ritter are greeted by 

  Franco Ritter as they arrive at Vetistiqua after travelling from 

  Ocrotire Estate.

• Franco Ritter thanks the adventurers warmly and profusely for 

  bringing Mimsy back in one piece.  He hints at a rivalry with 

  Lord Amthor Ocrotire when both were young men, but he’s 

  also very sympathetic to Lord Amthor’s tragic loss of his young 

  family long ago.

• All of Team Rams are given beautifully tailored fancy dress 

  outfits for the Summer Garden Party Series crafted by 

  Franco Ritter himself.

• Team Rams and Dmitri are invited to spend the night at the 

  Ritter Estate and they agree to stay the night.

• The watches are set and the night passes uneventfully.  Fecus 

  and Gugula use their watch time to try on their new outfits.

• Dmitri, who had taken the last watch, went down to the kitchen 

  early for a cup of coffee.  When he returned to the wing of the 

  house that Team Rams’ rooms are, he overhears Mimsy crying 

  and screaming at her maid regarding the missing bolt of fabric 

  for the dress MImsy will sew for herself.

• Everyone, but Tim and Fecus go down to breakfast right away.  

  Tim casts Locate Object and realizes the fabric is up in a maid’s 

  room in the servants’ quarters in the attic.  

• Tim and Fecus use the various items they own 

  (Rings of Invisibility, etc.) to sneak up to the servants’ quarters 

  and find the fabric.  They quietly return it to Mimsy’s bedroom, 

  then they go down to breakfast.

• At breakfast, Franco tells Team Rams that he and Mimsy will be 

  busy with their last sewing projects today.  He has arranged to 

  have one of the servants give them a tour of the estate.  He pulls 

  Tim and Fecus aside to talk to them about his erstwhile secretary, 

  Mario, who they had “met” a few days ago in the estate’s hunting 

  cabin.  Mario has been in a deep depression since Charlie’s death, 

  and Franco worries he will be a problem during the upcoming 

  Summer Garden Party.

• At the end of breakfast, Franco and MImsy have left to go work.  

  The cook and a stable boy named Mickey come into the dining room.  

  The cook asks Team Rams what they like to eat and they are a bit 

  shy about making requests.  Dmitri says Ritter’s cook is a 

  phenomenal baker, and Tim says it’s been awhile since he has had 

  a good pot pie.  They follow Mickey around that morning, getting a 

  tour of the estate’s gardens, orchard, stables, and kennel.

• Around mid-morning, they ask to be led over to the hunting cabin 

  to check on Mario.  Mickey shows them the shortcut through the 

  orchard, but refuses to go into the hunting cabin with them.  He 

  waits outside.

• At the front door of the cabin, a wave of self-loathing washes over 

  Tim, Gugula, and Shelby.  Fecus is unaffected.  The Abbot tells 

  Team Rams that this cabin is affected by its inhabitant’s spiritual 

  decay.

• Mario allows Team Rams to enter.  They notice he has another 

  slime creature in the corner.

• Things become tense with Mario and conflict breaks out.

• The Memory Slime targets Gugula with its Memory Siphon power, 

  and steals her memory of trying on her new outfit the night before.

• Mario casts Web on Gugula, the Abbot, Fecus, and Time.  They are 

  immobilized and the rest of the Team have to carry on fighting without 

  them.

• They kill the Memory Slime and subdue Mario.  The webbed 

  characters break free.

• Team Rams interrogate Mario and learn that he was using the 

  Memory Slimes to blunt his crushing memories of his involvement 

  in Charlie Ritter’s death.  He was tricked into doing something for 

  an unnamed woman of high status (they assume he means 

  Vana Boritsi).  It resulted in Charlie’s death, and Mario has been 

  haunted by the guilt and shame ever since.

• Dmitri tells Team Rams he must act on this knowledge.  Charlie 

  had been his brother-in-law.  Dmitri says he needs to execute Mario 

  to satisfy his family’s honor, especially his heart-broken sister, Katya.

• Dmitri unties Mario and asks if Mario wants a weapon to defend 

  himself in a duel.  Mario refuses, he seems like he just wants to be 

  put out of his misery.  Dmitri stabs Mario with his short sword, killing 

  him.

• He tells Team Rams that he takes full responsibility for the killing and 

  will inform Franco Ritter himself.

• Team Rams, Dmitri, and Mickey head back to the main house and 

  Dmitri goes straight to Franco’s workshop to inform him of Mario’s 

  demise, he leaves the estate afterwards.  Team Rams have a lunch 

  of foldover chicken pot pies and strawberry foldover pastries with 

  coffee and lemonade.

• After lunch, Mickey takes them to the portrait gallery.  Team Rams 

  get to see the Ritter family portraits, including a picture of Charlie 

  and Katya in their wedding outfits.

• Memory Slime killed = 700 XP

• Mario the Memory Farmer killed = 450 XP

• Mario’s Spellbook