Session 36

Amber Temple Theme
Amber Temple Ambience
Week of 5/26: https://meetingbrew.com/strahd-5-26
Week of 6/2: https://meetingbrew.com/lpd874

• Amber Temple reminders:

  • Extreme Cold
  • Darkvision limited to only 20 feet
  • Neferon attacks as soon as they walk down the stairs
  • Exethanter meets them inside the safe area
• Exethanter of course knows how to deal with the Dark Powers since he trapped them all in amber centuries ago

  • "Of course, Strahd is not who you're looking to defeat"

How To Deal with the Dark Powers

• Tell them how to kill Strahd in the Amber Temple library
  • Once he is killed, he turns to mist and returns to his coffin where he regenerates
  • There, they have to perform a ritual to either:
    • ~summon the link to Vampyr and sever it~
      • go ahead and do the harder one
    • summon Vampyr himself
      • then either:
        • kill Vampyr
        • or perform a ritual to lock him in an amber shard
  • Ritual one:
    • As a ritual, three casters must proceed with the spell for 10 uninterrupted minutes
    • summons Vampyr
  • Ritual two:
    • as a ritual one caster must succeed on 3 consecutive magic checks in their spell casting ability, DC 16.
    • you can make the casting of this ritual take bonus actions instead of actions so its easier
    • the caster must be able to see Vampyr for each roll. They can't be in a different room or casting blindly in darkness. They've got to see the beast to imprison it.
    • And lastly, the ritual requires a chip of amber as a component.

End of last session:

• Neferon just finished his turn putting out fire
  • have him to ask what the party wants
• Flameskull 3 is in the cloud of daggers, preferring continuing to attack instead of moving out of it
• Shalooti is just south of the flameskull hall
  • I put them on the wrong side
  • She just walked into the other guard room
• Elora is in the head of the statue with Neferon
• Rictavio is down on the balcony
  • 1 failed death save
• Ezmerelda is hiding in the hallway
• Bardolf just piledrived Neferon right after Pelinal
• Metarlos is dead
• The room is lit by Bardolf's stone
• Ezmerelda cast shield on herself
• See paper for number of remaining spells per enemy
• Bardolf found both hidden doors behind the statue