Session 02¶

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Hannah - Ghogmuh — 04/04/2022

• Session started back at Durst Manor “Death House”
• Learnt, the children are Rosavalda (“Rose”) and Thornboldt (“Thorn”) and Walter. Gustav and Elisabeth Durst are the parents
• Walter isn’t included in the family portraits
• The children seem to have disappeared into the mist. Gura left a light stone out front in case they are lost and try to return
• move to upper floor of manor
• portrait that includes Walter has the mother with a scornful expression
• This floor is generally dusty and unkept
• Ghogmuh found a secret room in the library with a trapped chest with a skeleton, books, spell scrolls, and a deed in it
• The deed shows that all will be inherited by Rose and Thorn, leaving nothing to Walter
• The skeleton has a letter grasped in its hands
• The letter: Same handwriting as letter 1, but signed with the name Strahd. Recall the letters 1 and 2 had different seals and different handwriting but were signed by Kolyan (Maybe someone can double check that. I wrote down two contradictory things regarding the letters and their writings in session 1 and 2). The skeleton letter was hostile towards the Durst family, referencing an affair and a stillborn child
• move to upper floor of manor
• FIGHT: suit of armour. Tuesday threw a knife at it scaring the party. Heiro (?) and Tuesday threw it down the stairs. We successfully killed it
• FIGHT: spectre ghost weeping. Gura was the first to enter the room and targeted by the spectre. it used life drain and brought her to 0HP, dead without death saves. Hearing a spooky voice she chose to “come back for a cost”. Successfully killed the spectre
• Noticing magic is “off.” Ghogmuh’s mage hands are skeletal and Tuesday has spooky dissonante whispers
• Ghogmuh looked through a keyhole to a child crying in a crib in the nursery, but when the door was open it was an empty covered crib
• No stairs were found to the basement
• Ghogmuh and Gura found a secret attic staircase
• In the attic, Heiro (?) shot a poison dart at some mannequins covered in sheets
• In a locked bedroom, children laughter can be heard
• (I forget who, sorry) found a key to the room
• Two child skeletons were on the ground, as well as a miniature doll house replica of the manor that included miniature dolls of the party in the attic.
• Found stairs to the basement using the dollhouse
• Rose and Thorn appeared as ghostly apparitions, “have you come to free us?”
• end of session
  …still getting used to my new character so just pretend I didn’t misspell ghogmuh as grogmuh everywhere
  ghogmuh obviously is just devastated grog wasn’t there and I’m making up for it with a tribute name
  Hannah - Ghogmuh — 04/04/2022
  I forgot to add that Gura seems to smell like evil/death according to Heiro, her cat Fleur was wary about returning to her after she was resurrected as well
  Alexander — 04/04/2022
  10/10 notetaking Hannah
  Ibrahim - Tuesday”Tues”Silvereye — 04/04/2022
  Comparing to my own notes: Heiro used a crossbow to shoot the doll and mannequins.
  Speculation ~
  Pretty sure Gustav (and maybe Elizabeth) abused their children for some darker poweris
  Walter is Gustav’s illigetimate child
  Gura is turning evil
  Hannah - Ghogmuh — 04/04/2022
  I forgot about the doll! how could I
  Ibrahim - Tuesday”Tues”Silvereye — 04/04/2022
  There’s something about windmills too, so time for Don Quixote?
  Tia - Gura — 04/04/2022
  Who said I was turning evil?
  You have no proof of that
  I am a kind old woman
  Ibrahim - Tuesday”Tues”Silvereye — 04/04/2022
  Heiro’s divine sense detects some evil influence
  Ibrahim - Tuesday”Tues”Silvereye — 04/04/2022
  I almost forget, the player question was “Who would your character die for?”
  Tuesday: “No one, I have very particular reasons why I can’t let myself die”
  Gura: “My faith compells me to sacrifice for others, so if I determined it a fair tried, I would die for anyone”
  Ghogmuh: “I’d die foe Gura and Grog, and I’m a hair away for doing the same for Tues and Heiro”
  Heiro (I’m unsure, but I think it went like this): “No one, I’d get us both out alive, to be strong is to endure, death is cowardly”