Pickax.

Welcome friends to Highrollers presents The Curse of Strad, a Gothic horror adventure of Chills, thrills, and many blood spills.

I am your dungeon master Mark Hughes and the players joining me are as follows.

Chris Trot as Yesper the Vistani Bard,

Kim Richards as Shadows Beyond the Vale,

a Tabaxi cleric,

Katie Morrison as Rose Vanendi the Human Ranger,

Tom Hazel as Xeros Mistan the Dragonborn Fighter,

and Wianen Gawa as Sikhi Mistan, the Dragonborn sorcerer. Oh, Last time on Curse of Strad, after Ziki's death in the search for the Tome of Strad, after Zecky's death in the search for the tome of Strad, Xeros carried her body to the desecrated

church in Valaki and sought a deal with Asmodious. Unknown to him, Ziki was forging her own pact with the dark powers of

Barovia and both made sacrifices. On returning to the Blue Water Inn, the hallowed bones of

St Andrel, animated and possessing of some Holy Spirit, attacked Ziki, and Xeros leapt to

her defense, destroying the bones and the effect upon them.

The rest of the party returned from the Burger Master's mansion just in time to aid Xeros and

Zeck against the enraged Father Lucian,

and a desperate escape from Valaki ensued. Now the party rushed towards

a Vistani campsite near the town in hopes of finding allies and shelter.

That is where we pick up today, my friends.

It is a bleak dawn as the gates of the lackey are just behind you. The gray dismal clouded sun is just beginning to kiss the horizon

and spread a little light throughout the land, but it is also beginning to rain, soft drizzling rain

as your boots and your claws stamp into the mud of the trail path leading from the west gate of

Valaki and head into deep unknown woods.

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