Pickax. Oh, Last time on Curse of Strad, as the party explore the ruined tower of Kazan, they meet with Esmeralda, the student of a famed vampire hunter.

As she rests after barely escaping Castle Ravenloft, Xeros offers Yesper a chance to speak with Madame Ava in the Hellplane of averness.

In doing so, Yesper gains the power to draw the next Terroka card and aid them in defeating

Strad.

However, Strad assaults the party,

manifesting as a powerful water spirit

in the nearby lake, he destroys the tower,

nearly crushing several members of the party amongst the rubble

before they make a desperate escape on Esmeralda's wagon away from a tidal wave of

water that nearly results in Xeros's death. And that is where we're going to be in today with

Xeros awaking to Irina or Tatiana and Rose stood over him.

Irena having just healed him.

And yeah, everybody is conscious, but what would my first initial question to you all

is what do you do?

Does Irena still have her blade pointed towards me?

No, she's holding it.

She's got her weapon out, but she's not pointing it at you.

Okay, okay I mean that changes things.

Sure.

So the wagon like it's safe like it's safe, like it's not.

I mean it is, you can see that parts of the wagon, Esmeralda's wagon,

some of the walls have buckled some of the wood panes have broken. It looks like some of her supplies have been ruined by the water, but it is still functional. The wagon is still standing. It's taken some damage. She is currently on the front of it. She has not moved. She's not getting up to help anybody

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