Barovian Blight: First Steps | Curse of Strahd | D&D | Session 0

Описание: 0:00 Welcome & Campaign Intro
3:14 Character Introductions: Jinx & Skitter
7:02 Character Introductions: Xavath
9:10 Character Introductions: Graven
12:44 Character Introductions: Torin "Bob"
15:10 Camp for the Night & Party Backstory
28:05 The Fog Awakens
32:10 The Group Wakes Up
47:15 The Cart is Gone
1:03:28 What Plane Are We On?
1:19:49 Exploring the Road & The Rope Test
1:27:28 Blood in the Woods
1:37:17 The Dead Messenger
1:50:12 The Letter from Barovia
1:58:22 Werewolf Theory
2:07:44 The Village Gates Appear
2:11:13 Entering Barovia
2:17:23 Welcome to Barovia
2:18:23 Rose & Thorn
2:24:10 Durst Manor
2:33:55 Jinx & Pedestal
2:43:12 Spider Recon: The Nursery
2:55:04 Strahd is Mentioned
3:09:09 Entering the Manor
3:14:54 First Floor Sweep
3:41:18 The Dumbwaiter
3:47:48 The Family Portrait
3:54:13 End of Session 1

⚔️ About This Episode:
The party, a group of seasoned adventurers who had worked together for about a year, accepted what seemed like a routine escort contract from Waterdeep to Baldur's Gate. On the second day, an unnatural fog engulfed them, and after making camp, they discovered they had been transported to a cursed land. During Jynx the Warforged's watch, the fog behaved with eerie intelligence, causing periodic deafness and moving with deliberate patterns. When the party awoke, their cargo had vanished, replaced by a gnarled petrified tree, and the landscape had transformed into a desolate realm where the moon hung perpetually in the same position. Following a blood trail through the fog, they discovered the body of a middle-aged man in chainmail who had been savagely killed, likely by a werewolf based on the claw marks and evidence. On his body, they found a desperate letter from Kolyan Indirovich, Burgomaster of Barovia, pleading for help to save his daughter Ireena from a deadly evil. The fog herded them toward massive gates that opened on their own, welcoming them to Barovia—a land controlled by the powerful and feared Strahd von Zarovich. The party encountered two frightened children, Rose and Thorn, outside Durst Manor who begged them to rescue their infant brother from the third floor. The children spoke of a monster in the basement and described how the previous night, instead of the usual sounds of children screaming during their mother's "parties," they had heard their mother and her friends screaming in terror. After scouting with his familiar and finding a mysterious brunette woman with the baby, Jynx and the party entered the manor to investigate. They explored the opulent but eerie first floor before ascending to discover a family portrait that revealed disturbing inconsistencies: the dead messenger resembled the father Gustav Durst, the children in the painting looked identical to Rose and Thorn outside and wore the same clothing, and the blonde woman in the portrait looked nothing like the brunette woman in the nursery. The party stood in the upper hall, surrounded by wolf-headed armor and unanswered questions, preparing to venture deeper into the manor's secrets and confront whatever darkness awaited them in this cursed land.

👥 Meet the Party:
-Jynx Steelspark Presents as Male Warforged Artificer
-Xavath Drodra Male Eladrin Cleric
-Graven Nightfall Male Shadar-kai Fighter
-Torinn Narvull Male Dragonborn Wizard
-DM

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