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Session 23: 11/20/2025

Who attended:

  • Steve (Burton)
  • Saera (Nyx)
  • Darin (Tink)
  • Shannon (Zelanis)

What happened:

The party decided to leave the dungeon. Zel walked through one of the stone doorways in the catacombs and was teleported away. Everyone followed her through the doorway. The party appeared at an impossibly long dinning table. There were wine glasses set for each party member. Strahd stood at the other end of the table and toasted to the party and downed his drink. Zel discovered that the room was an illusion and the room distorted whenever they tried to leave the end of the table.

Burton flirts with "Sandy", they clink their glasses and down the red wine. They disappear. The rest of the party follows suit and drinks their own red wine. The party transition to the balcony of the nursemaid's room. Tink feels that Strahd is just toying with them. Zel doesn't want to keep playing Strahd's games.

Tink attempts to leave the nursemaid's room and is teleported away. Everyone goes after him. The party appears in a endless graveyard. After looking around, Nyx finds her name on one of the tombstones. The rest of the party finds their own names on different tombstones. Tink decides to dig up his own grave. Burton is extremely creeped out by all of this. Tink finds an empty coffin inside.

The party eventually ask "Sandy" for suggestions. "Sandy" asks if anyone in the party has true sight. Zel remembers that she has a Gem of Seeing. She gives it to Tink. Tink uses it and deduces that his coffin is an exit and he must lay down in the coffin to activate it. The rest of the party digs up their own graves to find coffins. Burton refuses to dig up and lay down in his own coffin. The rest of the group digs it up for him and Nyx persuades Burton to lay down.

The party emerge from the illusion in the storage room; each covered by a white sheet. Burton freaks out a bit. The party then decides that they want to confront Strahd. They think he is down in the dungeon, so they head back down to the catacombs. As Burton enters the ritual room, he is teleported away. Everyone goes after him.

The party finds themselves in a bedroom with no windows or doors. The floor is littered in toys. There are two children weeping uncontrollably. Every attempt to interact with the children is met with no answer. Their tears cover the floor of the room and the water starts rising. Tink looks for a Strahd toy. Nyx finds a toy of herself. Tink examines the Strahd toy and discovers that the head can be removed. When the head is removed, the room, all the water, and everyone in the party spirals down the drain.

The party finds themselves shackled to the walls in the prison. The bonds are easily broken. The group then decides to go visit the alter they had seen before. Burton and Tink do "GET HELP", since the group remembered that there were priests in the alter room. The party quickly defeats the 3 priests of Osybus.

Zel searches the alter room and finds a hidden trap door. The trapdoor leads the party back up to the den on the first floor.