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Session 4 - Enter Cragmaw Castle
Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Luna (Matt W)
||Defeated Hobgoblins in Hideout, rescue Droop, and found location of CragMaw Castle. Frontal assault on the castle||
Rewards:
||80 gold
Scroll: Charm Person (Matt W)
Scroll: Fireball (Pablo)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days after a long rest||

Session 1 - Parts 1, 2, 3, (4c)
Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Rhapsody (Astrid), Thiya (Ali)

Rewards:
||31 gold
1 potion of healing (???)
1 potion of climbing (???)||

Story Awards:
||The Demiplane of Dread. You have traversed the mists and now find yourself in the Demiplane of Dread and, until this story award is removed, you are unable to leave. So long as you are trapped, you cannot participate in any adventure or event that takes place outside of Barovia. Tread carefully during your time here, the Dark Powers are watching.
Eye of the Raven. You have aided a member of the mysterious and elusive Order of the Feather. Somewhere, a bird is thinking fondly of you.
Trust of the Burgomaster. You have aided the Burgomaster of Orașnou. News travels fast. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve negotiations with any Burgomaster in Barovia. ||

Session 3 - Redbrand Hideout lower level
Breena (Tia), Ojnab (Ian). Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Zoia (Paul), Marius (Pablo)
||Captured Glassstaff and returned to find the Hobgoblins who might know the way to Cragmaw Castle where Gundalen is being held||
Rewards:
||40 gold
2 potions of healing (???)(???)
Spell Roll: Augury (???)
Staff of Defense
Talon: +1 Longsword
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days after a long rest

Staff of Defense
Staff, rare (requires attunement)
This slender, hollow staff is made of glass yet is as strong as oak. It weighs 3 pounds. You must be attuned to the staff to gain its benefits and cast its spells.
While holding the staff, you have a +1 bonus to your Armor Class.
The staff has 10 charges, which are used to fuel the spells within it. With the staff in hand, you can use your action to cast one of the following spells from the staff if the spell is on your class’s spell list: mage armor (1 charge) or shield (2 charges). No components are required.
The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges each day at dawn. If you expend the staff’s last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff shatters and is destroyed.

Talon, +1 Longsword
Weapon (longsword), uncommon
in a silver-chased scabbard. The sword is inscribed with the name “Talon,” and its hilt is worked in the shape of a bird of prey with outspread wings. It once belonged to a great knight named Aldith Tresendar, known as the Black Hawk. Sir Aldith died fighting off the orcs that attacked through the hidden caverns below his manor. Talon was lost here until the nothic found it.||

Monday game - session 1 with Paul (Zoia), Stacy (Glimerflit), (Meteo) , Brent (Muck)

SAT game

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Rhapsody (Astrid), Thiya (Ali)

Character Death: Gallagan died and was raised by Jenny Greenteeth

Spent: (Spellcasting service) -50gp per player for Jenny Greenteeth to raise Galligan. Also three “puppy” hairs.

Rewards:
||80 gold (up to a cap of 80 per level)

Eyes of Charming

Story Awards:
||The Demiplane of Dread.

Dark Gift (Gallagan) #8 The character’s mouth is magically sewn shut, preventing any form of speech – which also makes it impossible to cast spells with verbal components. As a bonus action the character can use a dagger or similar weapon to rip the seams open, becoming therefore able to speak for a full round before the mouth is magically shut again. Doing so causes the character to suffer 3 (1d6) points of damage. ||

Raise Dead options for Barovia
Season 9.1:
- Give up a magic Item (+ Dark Gift?)
Season 4:
- Pay Jenny 1,250gp + 50 DT Days
- Pay Jenny 250gp + 150 DT Days + Dark Gift
- Pay Jenny 250gp + a special favour + Dark Gift

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Benco (Mitch), Ojnab (Ian)
||Cleared Cragmaw Castle, recovered Gundren alive. Recovered the map||
Rewards:
|| 80 gold
4x potion of healing (Benco, Tythus, Marius, Zearatoel)
Scroll of Silence (Ojnab)
Scroll of Revivify (Breena)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days after a long rest||

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Norn (Pablo), Rhapsody (Astrid), Thiya (Ali), Estiban (Grant)
Rewards: **
60 gold (up to a cap of 80 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days
*DT Activities: *
||Characters who wish to spend more time with the Vistani have special downtime activities available for this adventure only. Each character can perform only one of these downtime activities, and then only once. Record this as a story award on the character's logsheet.
**Cunning Insight. The Vistani are quite good at reading people. If you spend 10 downtime days learning from the Vistani, you may invoke it at any point in the future, granting advantage to all attack rolls made during your turn. Remove this story award from your logsheet once it's been used.
Trackless Travel. Some Vistani know secrets to conceal their passage through the wilderness. If you spend 10 downtime days learning these secrets, you can apply them during future travel. For one day you choose in the future, each creature you choose within 30 feet of you (including you) can't be tracked except by magical means and leaves behind no tracks nor other traces of its passage. Remove this story award from your logsheet once it's been used. ||

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Ojnab (Ian), Luna (Matt)
80 gold (up to a maximum of 80 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick)
*Rewards: *
77gp gold (up to a cap of 80 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days
||Antitoxin (Eryn)
Potion of Cold Resistance (Fogel)
Potion of Greater Healing (Galligan)
Spell Scroll: Detect Thoughts (Rhapsody)
Studded Leather (35gp) (Fogal)

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Ojnab (Ian), Luna (Matt)
Rewards:
|| 21 gold (up to a maximum of 80 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days||

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Mourning (Ash), Tia (Ali)
Rewards: **
240 gold (up to a cap of 240 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days
||Potion of Greater Healing**
Scroll of Flamestrike
Brass-Ring Spellbook :
1st level (4 slots): fog cloud, mage armor, shield
2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, crown of madness, hold person, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): fear, hypnotic pattern
4th level (1 slot): greater invisibility 5th level: Bigby’s hand, mislead ||

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Slene (Matt W), Kal Rune (Andre), GruZak (Mike)
Rewards (Tier 2):
|200 gold (up to a maximum of 240 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days
||Potion of Climbing
Potion of Heroism

Story Awards:
SEER’s Delivery Service. You successfully delivered the rune tablet into the hands of the Lord’s Alliance for study, much to their gratitude. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPC members of the Lord’s Alliance. Additionally, you gain disadvantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPCs that specifically oppose the Lord’s Alliance.
Heroes of Citadel Adbar. Your brave rescue of the Frostbite Platoon has earned you fame and favor within the dwarven citadel. While the citadel normally shuts out visitors, you are granted access to the citadel’s upper reaches. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with dwarves from Citadel Adbar, regardless of where you travel. ||

Suffering, Ken, Veby, Usain Kobolt, Meteo, Bjorn
Finished Cragmaw Caverns. Made it to Phandalin. Started Redbrand Hideout

Eryn (Brittany), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Mourning (Ash), Tia (Ali)
*Rewards: *
120 gold (up to a cap of 240 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days

Eryn (Brittany), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Mourning (Ash), Tia (Ali)
Rewards: **
170 gold (up to a cap of 240 per level)
||Glamoured Studded Leather**
Armor (studded leather), rare
While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. You can also use a bonus action to speak the armor's command word and cause the armor to assume the appearance of a normal set of clothing or some other kind of armor. The illusory appearance last until you use this property again or remove the armor.
Any illusion of normal clothing and other types of armor created by this item can appear only to be of the finest quality. No matter what form it takes, when you wear this item, your appearance draws the eye of those around you. In its natural state, this armor is tight and immodestly cut.||

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), GruZak (Mike)
Rewards (Tier 2):
|240 gold (up to a maximum of 240 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days
||Potion of Healing
Story Award: Frontier Friend: If the characters free Burleigh by convincing Scarn Mikel to let him go peacefully, the Blood Riders gain a new respect for the Frontier Scouts. As a result, the riders stop bullying the scouts and they stay out of one another’s way. As long as you possess this story award, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) and (Persuasion) checks made to influence any member of the Frontier Scouts.||

Ken, Usain Kobolt, Veby, Vladimyr Gladstone, Franke Alamo, Jit, Meran

Wynn (Sarah), Kalin (Craig), Krom (Sascha), Tonk (Ian)
Rewards: **
10 Downtime Days
(Optional) level-up
||123 gp each
Spell Scroll of Create Bonfire
**Whip of Warning
Weapon (whip), uncommon (requires attunement)
This whip is fashioned from a length of rotting, thorn-covered vine set into a handle made of an unusual purple wood. The pommel is a large chunk of unpolished amber with a moving eyeball trapped within. A description of this item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. ||
Dark Gift (Tonk)
||The character grows an additional face on the back of their head. At inopportune times it begins to argue with the character, giving him or her disadvantage on Charisma (Persuasion) and Dexterity (Stealth) checks. While the second face is uncovered the character cannot be surprised, except when incapacitated.||

Session 4 - Enter Cragmaw Castle
Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Luna (Matt W)
||Defeated Hobgoblins in Hideout, rescue Droop, and found location of CragMaw Castle. Frontal assault on the castle||
Rewards:
||80 gold
Scroll: Charm Person (Matt W)
Scroll: Fireball (Pablo)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days after a long rest||

Session 1 - Parts 1, 2, 3, (4c)
Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Rhapsody (Astrid), Thiya (Ali)

Rewards:
||31 gold
1 potion of healing (???)
1 potion of climbing (???)||

Story Awards:
||The Demiplane of Dread. You have traversed the mists and now find yourself in the Demiplane of Dread and, until this story award is removed, you are unable to leave. So long as you are trapped, you cannot participate in any adventure or event that takes place outside of Barovia. Tread carefully during your time here, the Dark Powers are watching.
Eye of the Raven. You have aided a member of the mysterious and elusive Order of the Feather. Somewhere, a bird is thinking fondly of you.
Trust of the Burgomaster. You have aided the Burgomaster of Orașnou. News travels fast. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve negotiations with any Burgomaster in Barovia. ||

Session 3 - Redbrand Hideout lower level
Breena (Tia), Ojnab (Ian). Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Zoia (Paul), Marius (Pablo)
||Captured Glassstaff and returned to find the Hobgoblins who might know the way to Cragmaw Castle where Gundalen is being held||
Rewards:
||40 gold
2 potions of healing (???)(???)
Spell Roll: Augury (???)
Staff of Defense
Talon: +1 Longsword
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days after a long rest

Staff of Defense
Staff, rare (requires attunement)
This slender, hollow staff is made of glass yet is as strong as oak. It weighs 3 pounds. You must be attuned to the staff to gain its benefits and cast its spells.
While holding the staff, you have a +1 bonus to your Armor Class.
The staff has 10 charges, which are used to fuel the spells within it. With the staff in hand, you can use your action to cast one of the following spells from the staff if the spell is on your class’s spell list: mage armor (1 charge) or shield (2 charges). No components are required.
The staff regains 1d6 + 4 expended charges each day at dawn. If you expend the staff’s last charge, roll a d20. On a 1, the staff shatters and is destroyed.

Talon, +1 Longsword
Weapon (longsword), uncommon
in a silver-chased scabbard. The sword is inscribed with the name “Talon,” and its hilt is worked in the shape of a bird of prey with outspread wings. It once belonged to a great knight named Aldith Tresendar, known as the Black Hawk. Sir Aldith died fighting off the orcs that attacked through the hidden caverns below his manor. Talon was lost here until the nothic found it.||

Monday game - session 1 with Paul (Zoia), Stacy (Glimerflit), (Meteo) , Brent (Muck)

SAT game

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Rhapsody (Astrid), Thiya (Ali)

Character Death: Gallagan died and was raised by Jenny Greenteeth

Spent: (Spellcasting service) -50gp per player for Jenny Greenteeth to raise Galligan. Also three “puppy” hairs.

Rewards:
||80 gold (up to a cap of 80 per level)

Eyes of Charming

Story Awards:
||The Demiplane of Dread.

Dark Gift (Gallagan) #8 The character’s mouth is magically sewn shut, preventing any form of speech – which also makes it impossible to cast spells with verbal components. As a bonus action the character can use a dagger or similar weapon to rip the seams open, becoming therefore able to speak for a full round before the mouth is magically shut again. Doing so causes the character to suffer 3 (1d6) points of damage. ||

Raise Dead options for Barovia
Season 9.1:
- Give up a magic Item (+ Dark Gift?)
Season 4:
- Pay Jenny 1,250gp + 50 DT Days
- Pay Jenny 250gp + 150 DT Days + Dark Gift
- Pay Jenny 250gp + a special favour + Dark Gift

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Benco (Mitch), Ojnab (Ian)
||Cleared Cragmaw Castle, recovered Gundren alive. Recovered the map||
Rewards:
|| 80 gold
4x potion of healing (Benco, Tythus, Marius, Zearatoel)
Scroll of Silence (Ojnab)
Scroll of Revivify (Breena)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days after a long rest||

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Norn (Pablo), Rhapsody (Astrid), Thiya (Ali), Estiban (Grant)
Rewards: **
60 gold (up to a cap of 80 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days
*DT Activities: *
||Characters who wish to spend more time with the Vistani have special downtime activities available for this adventure only. Each character can perform only one of these downtime activities, and then only once. Record this as a story award on the character's logsheet.
**Cunning Insight. The Vistani are quite good at reading people. If you spend 10 downtime days learning from the Vistani, you may invoke it at any point in the future, granting advantage to all attack rolls made during your turn. Remove this story award from your logsheet once it's been used.
Trackless Travel. Some Vistani know secrets to conceal their passage through the wilderness. If you spend 10 downtime days learning these secrets, you can apply them during future travel. For one day you choose in the future, each creature you choose within 30 feet of you (including you) can't be tracked except by magical means and leaves behind no tracks nor other traces of its passage. Remove this story award from your logsheet once it's been used. ||

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Ojnab (Ian), Luna (Matt)
80 gold (up to a maximum of 80 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick)
*Rewards: *
77gp gold (up to a cap of 80 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days
||Antitoxin (Eryn)
Potion of Cold Resistance (Fogel)
Potion of Greater Healing (Galligan)
Spell Scroll: Detect Thoughts (Rhapsody)
Studded Leather (35gp) (Fogal)

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Ojnab (Ian), Luna (Matt)
Rewards:
|| 21 gold (up to a maximum of 80 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 10 DT days||

Eryn (Brittany), Fogel (Tyrone), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Mourning (Ash), Tia (Ali)
Rewards: **
240 gold (up to a cap of 240 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days
||Potion of Greater Healing**
Scroll of Flamestrike
Brass-Ring Spellbook :
1st level (4 slots): fog cloud, mage armor, shield
2nd level (3 slots): blindness/deafness, crown of madness, hold person, suggestion
3rd level (3 slots): fear, hypnotic pattern
4th level (1 slot): greater invisibility 5th level: Bigby’s hand, mislead ||

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), Slene (Matt W), Kal Rune (Andre), GruZak (Mike)
Rewards (Tier 2):
|200 gold (up to a maximum of 240 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days
||Potion of Climbing
Potion of Heroism

Story Awards:
SEER’s Delivery Service. You successfully delivered the rune tablet into the hands of the Lord’s Alliance for study, much to their gratitude. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPC members of the Lord’s Alliance. Additionally, you gain disadvantage on ability checks that involve interacting with NPCs that specifically oppose the Lord’s Alliance.
Heroes of Citadel Adbar. Your brave rescue of the Frostbite Platoon has earned you fame and favor within the dwarven citadel. While the citadel normally shuts out visitors, you are granted access to the citadel’s upper reaches. You gain advantage on ability checks that involve interacting with dwarves from Citadel Adbar, regardless of where you travel. ||

Suffering, Ken, Veby, Usain Kobolt, Meteo, Bjorn
Finished Cragmaw Caverns. Made it to Phandalin. Started Redbrand Hideout

Eryn (Brittany), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Mourning (Ash), Tia (Ali)
*Rewards: *
120 gold (up to a cap of 240 per level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days

Eryn (Brittany), Rhapsody (Astrid), Galligan (Patrick), Norn (Pablo), Mourning (Ash), Tia (Ali)
Rewards: **
170 gold (up to a cap of 240 per level)
||Glamoured Studded Leather**
Armor (studded leather), rare
While wearing this armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC. You can also use a bonus action to speak the armor's command word and cause the armor to assume the appearance of a normal set of clothing or some other kind of armor. The illusory appearance last until you use this property again or remove the armor.
Any illusion of normal clothing and other types of armor created by this item can appear only to be of the finest quality. No matter what form it takes, when you wear this item, your appearance draws the eye of those around you. In its natural state, this armor is tight and immodestly cut.||

Breena (Tia), Tythus (Mark), Zearatoel (Terran), Marius (Pablo), GruZak (Mike)
Rewards (Tier 2):
|240 gold (up to a maximum of 240 for the level)
(Optional) Level-up and 20 DT days
||Potion of Healing
Story Award: Frontier Friend: If the characters free Burleigh by convincing Scarn Mikel to let him go peacefully, the Blood Riders gain a new respect for the Frontier Scouts. As a result, the riders stop bullying the scouts and they stay out of one another’s way. As long as you possess this story award, you have advantage on Charisma (Intimidation) and (Persuasion) checks made to influence any member of the Frontier Scouts.||

Ken, Usain Kobolt, Veby, Vladimyr Gladstone, Franke Alamo, Jit, Meran

Wynn (Sarah), Kalin (Craig), Krom (Sascha), Tonk (Ian)
Rewards: **
10 Downtime Days
(Optional) level-up
||123 gp each
Spell Scroll of Create Bonfire
**Whip of Warning
Weapon (whip), uncommon (requires attunement)
This whip is fashioned from a length of rotting, thorn-covered vine set into a handle made of an unusual purple wood. The pommel is a large chunk of unpolished amber with a moving eyeball trapped within. A description of this item can be found in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. ||
Dark Gift (Tonk)
||The character grows an additional face on the back of their head. At inopportune times it begins to argue with the character, giving him or her disadvantage on Charisma (Persuasion) and Dexterity (Stealth) checks. While the second face is uncovered the character cannot be surprised, except when incapacitated.||