Session 1
- We started in a bar just west of Phandalin
- There we met Taako and Barry playing Taako's made up game Taakala
- Anakir lost 2 sp to Elora and also mysteriously lost another 13 sp
- Pelanil did a lot of glaring a folks, and then after finding out that Barry was lich, picked a fight which Taako tried to diffuse
- The Characters received a letter via the messenger Arrigal that was addressed to each of them individually and signed the Kolyan Indirovich, Burgomaster of Barovia
- The group stayed the night at the tavern, then at first light made their way west per Arrigal's directions
- As the fog closed in, Pelanil was struck by a vision of a woman beckoning him
- As the fog cleared, the party was surprised to find themselves in a forest
- Continuing on the road, Carlos the mule in tow, the group caught the stench of death
- they followed the smell off the road where they found where they found a mauled body
- on the body, the found another note in another script, also signed by Kolyan Indirovich
- This one is much more foreboding than the first, claiming that the Burgomaster's daughter Ireena Kolyana has been bitten by a vampire
- Right after finding the note, the party is attacked by wolves, seemingly led by a red-eyed direwolf in the distance
- The party was able to quickly charm, kill, and put to sleep the wolves as the direwolf looked on and make it back to the road
- Bardolf ties the carcass of one of the wolves behind Carlos, and the party takes off right as they hear the sleeping wolves wake up
- After a full day of travelling, night set in as the adventurers arrived in a sleeping town
- Two children (whose names we don't know) begged for help from the party
- saying their parents are missing, their baby brother Walter is stuck in the 3rd floor nursery, and there is a monster in the basement of their house
- The party obliges to help as the mists close in