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[edit] Vallaki Nights

The town guard won't allow the Vistani in the gates. They agree to take the children to the church while our heroes take him to a nearby Vistani encampment.

The woods part to reveal an expansive clearing: a small, grass-covered hill with low houses built into its sides. Fog obscures the details, but you can see that these buildings feature elegantly carved woodwork and have decorative lanterns hanging from their sculpted eaves. Atop the hill, above the fog, is a ring of barrel-topped wagons that surround a large tent with a column of smoke pouring out through a hole in the top. The tent is brightly lit from within. Even at this distance, you can smell the odors of wine and horses that emanate from this central area.

[edit] Vistani & Dusk Elves

On arriving at the Vistani encampment they meet a Dusk Elf who lives alongside them named Mik'taboe.

Dusk elves have dark skin and hair, live for hundreds of years,

He advises that their elder named Kasimir could tell them more.

[edit] The Boys Are Back In Town

Guardsmen Larry and Donald honour their agreement and let them back inside the town.

They go to visit Father Donovich and Pavel gives each of the children who were initially found at Bonegrinder a gold piece, and retrieves his hand crossbow. He tells them to keep the dagger and to look after each other.

[edit] Back to the Inn

Everyone is discussing the festival, mostly they don't sound like they're looking forward to it.

They're made aware that there are many in stockades in the town square.

Pavel pays for their beds for the night while Pavel tells the hunters to watch out for Morgthana.

[edit] A New Dawn

Pavel wakes with the feeling that he had good dreams.

They wake as it gets light and discuss their options. They decide they should attend the opening ceremony of the festival and then decide from there. Possibly go in search of the Winery, or visit Mik'taboe & the dusk elves.

[edit] It happens to everyone

As the bergermeister tries to light the wicker ball it buckets down with rain, extinguishing the torch. A guard begins to snicker and the baron extends his arm and clicks his fingers, at which point the large man accompanying him whistles for a horse with a board dragging behind and starts to manacle the guardsman to the board.

The impression is that this man will likely be dragged behind the horse until death.

Sardalis, who has approached the wicker ball, attempts to convince the guards near him that he is not doing anything bad when he casts Firebolt at the wicker ball. The senior guard gives the impression that it might just embarrass the bergermeister but Sardalis tries anyway. Unfortunately the ball barely catches aflame.

The baron drags the guardsman behind his horse as he bellows gleefully "I declare the festival of the blazing sun open!"

All hear panicked human screaming coming from the north-east and a large sabre-toothed tiger comes bounding into the square with half-plate barding.

Guards boop it, and it boops them back, instantly killing one and badly wounding another.

Pavel tries to blast it but misses, then does a remarkable impression of a part of the building.

Pavel realizes that Ireena is gone. He tells the group via Awakened Mind.

Delg believes the tiger has gone utterly beserk, Pavel & Sardalis think not.

Delg slams the tiger with his warhammer, and Pavel misses with his Eldritch blast again as he says "Down!" inside the kitteh's head.

Sardalis uses his Hypnotic Gaze ability to try to calm the tiger down but it doesn't appear to do anything.

A man comes up from behind the tiger and as he grows close the tiger settles down a bit, sniffing the air again and moves to his side.

Sardalis says "My goodness, it's better trained than you are Delg."

Delg crumbles into sobs.

The man seems to be dressed as a carnival ringmaster. Delg asks "Is this your tiger?"

"Yes. Someone unlocked the cage Benzima was in."

"Why do you have a tiger? Why is it armored?"

"I'd rather not talk about it here."

"You realize it has just killed a whole bunch of people."

"I would be very surprised if Benzimar initiated this savagery."

Simon the guardsman seems relieved to have

Pavel asks his name and the stranger says "Jim". Pavel buys it wholesale but the others are doubtful.

Ismark returns in a panic, he's been unable to find Ireena anywhere.

They ask a teenage boy if he has seen her (using Ismark's picture of her) and he advises that she was dragged off by Izek Strazni (previously seen with the Bergermeister).

[edit] To the Bergermeister

When they arrive there are 7 guardsman forming up outside the front of the house, some seem to have only just arrived.

Pavel suggests that they might not be best to approach via the front.

They hear horsehoofs and maniacal laughter coming from the south as Pavel absconds to case the house. He finds a relatively unprotected service entrance and starts to head back around to the front.

They discuss options, from sneaking in back to getting guards on board to go in via the front, until Ismark gets frustrated and starts striding towards the front of the house screaming "Ireena!".

A woman emerges and asks him not to yell as she is trying to host a book club. Two other ladies join her as Sardalis asks "During the festival right?" and they ask "Lydia is everything alright?".

Ismark asks "Is Izek here?"

"Why yes."

Delg: "We're coming in."

"Well that's fine, but don't make noise."

As they head up the stairs Pavel decides they're committed and charges ahead, casting Eldritch Blast on the closest. Delg joins him and casts Acid Splash. The guards retreat back down the corridor a few paces and cop more Eldritch Blasts and Acid for their trouble.

Pavel pushes his luck a bit much and gets dragged off into a room with the Bergermeister who threatens him, saying "Tell your friends to stand down or become these dogs dinners.". while Sardalis greases ALL the stairs and causes great calamity for the guards trying to rush up them.

Pavel manages to duck away from the grapple and runs back down the corridor saying "I've found the Bergermeister" which sends Ismark racing down the corridor to try to get in.

Between Delg and Sardalis the guardsmen coming up the stairs are eviscerated, and Delg & Pavel fight their way into the room with the Bergermeister, murdering the guard and then Pavel steps around the desk to confront the bergermeister, lashing out with his rapier and stabbing him through the throat, killing him instantly.

At this point a voice which is later revealed to belong to Isek comes through the door across the corridor which Ismark was trying to break down, saying "If you come through this door I'll slit her throat!"

Pavel looks at the crumpled body of the Bergermeister and calls out "We have the Bergermeister, let her go or we'll kill him!". Ismark calls out to calm Isek down, saying "Okay we're standing down..."

Isek calls back and tells them to throw the Bergermeister in and he'll trade "her" for him. After the obvious question of how they do this is asked Isek advises he will open the door if he can see the Bergermeister through the keyhole.

Sardalis alters his shape to resemble the Bergermeister. He crouches near the door while Pavel holds his shoulders, Delg and Ismark bracketing the door.

Isek peers out the keyway.

Something magical happens.

Pavel manages to slide in and unlock the door, then they open it and extract Ireena, who is unconscious, bound and has a doll resembling her shoved into her mouth. The whole room is full of very similar dolls. Ismark takes her unconscious form and leaves, and the trio remaining prepare to initiate violence.

Violence is initiated. Delg and Sardalis land punishing attacks before Pavel and even get with the programme, and between the three of them they manage to slay him, despite a severely crumpled and on fire Sardalis, who does manage to put out the flames before sending three magical missiles streaking through the air to atomise Isek's skull.

LEVEL GET!

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