Session 29 — Willingly

Area: S — Village of Krezk, Burgomaster Krezkov's mansion

Context

The prepared session did not play. Krezk's temper, the Krezkovs' mourning, the open grave and the empty graveyard were never reached. None of that material was spent, and all of it is still true in the village; see the note at the end.

What did play was short, and it turned on one thing: somebody came for Myra and Kyra, and the sisters went.

The Morning

The party woke in Burgomaster Krezkov's house, the morning after the abbey (session 28). Myra had spent the full moon locked in a bathroom and had not changed.

Mark was not with them. He spent the session on the road: Krezk to Castle Ravenloft and back, on a horse Logi conjured for him. The ride was not played out at the table. It is the whole length of Barovia each way, through the lord's woods, alone, and he made it there and back on luck that should not be counted on twice. What he did at the castle, and whether anyone there received him, is not on the record.

The Sorceress

They were met in the house by a woman nobody had seen before: the Sorceress (The Sorceress (Ludmila)). She did not come alone. Her people waited outside the house, and they did not come in.

Her purpose was plain and she did not hide it: she had come to take Myra and Kyra.

When the party stood against her she summoned a beholder into the burgomaster's house. It was not a bluff. The beholder almost one-shot Logi; he was taken down to the edge in a single exchange and the fight was over as a fight from that moment. There was no winning it at this table's level, and everyone in the room knew it.

Willingly

The end was not a rescue and not a capture. Myra and Kyra went with the Sorceress of their own accord. The sisters were taken away in two separate groups: Myra with one, Kyra with the other, by different ways.

The party was left in the burgomaster's house. Nobody followed in the session.

Where It Stands

• Myra and Kyra have left Krezk with the Sorceress and her people, willingly, in two separate groups. The party does not know where they were taken.
• The party is five: Taara, Khione, Logi, Yager, Mark. Logi nearly died to the beholder.
• Mark rode to Castle Ravenloft and back on a horse of Logi's conjuring, alone, and was not in the house when the Sorceress came. He got lucky both ways. He is back in Krezk by the end of the session.
• A beholder was summoned inside the burgomaster's house in a village that has never let a stranger through its gate. The village has not yet answered that.
• Mark has no weapon of note; the cleaver is Strahd's (session 28).
• Krezk's own business with the lord's guests (the prep for this session) is still unplayed and still true.

Not recorded at the table

Fill in or let lie: what Mark went to the castle for, and what he found or was given there (he came back; the cleaver stays with Strahd unless you say otherwise); what the Sorceress called herself or said about who sent her; what Myra said before she went, and to whom; whether Logi cast fire inside the house (if he did, that fire is still burning, Logi); what the beholder did after the sisters left; what the Krezkovs and the village saw.