[Back with Rollo and gangs adventures in the undead infested town of Barovia]
DAY 342 (9th Alturaik)(February) cont ...
You may remember then, dear reader, that myself, Sylvia, Yli and Mr Pie were hacking away at undead nasties in the far away town of Barovia.
We had been on the way anyway, but we had also a been given a cryptic message had been sent by their Burgomaster, a man called Kolyan Indirovich. We'll get to him later though.
We entered the town square and saw that it was barricaded at each entrance except for the eastern one through which we had arrived.
Here we saw an armoured lady fighting a decent sized group of zombies. We met them with the usual
tactics, namely cleric magic, lightning bolts, arrows and bears.
There was an entomber in amongst the undead (the same sort of thing that Fenrir and his crew were to later face in the Necromancer's Spike) and I tried an Inferno spell on it, but with no effect.
Yli's arrows zipped expertly into the battle, between the lady and the bears, sniping the undead one by one. As I watched I saw that the lady was tougher than we'd first thought and not quite as urgently in need of rescue as I had imagined.
As she bashed one to death, Yli took the head off another with an expertly placed arrow and my bears fell down a well in their eagerness to get at the last of them.
Once the combat was ended we made out introductions. The lady was a cleric of Lythander by the name of Ashlin. She was a member of a small company that called themselves 'The Lightbringers'. Her companions were known as Fendrik and Mathilder, but they had gone further into town and up to the church.
They too were looking for the Sunsword.
Ashlin went on to say that she thought that a woman known as 'Madame Eva' might be able to help, but she lived west of town and presumably more undead prevented easy access to her.
Well, anyway, there was an inn here, inhabited by the living, so for safety's sake I popped back and brought the wagon, the driver and Geyven Tallmer to it. We then helped Ashlin and some of the villagers rebuild the barricade on the eastern edge of the town square.
The driver wasn't all that happy about entering the lion's den, as it were, but Tallmer doubled his fee and that placated him a little.
The cart and horses were stored away in Bill Drath's Mercantile and we went to wash the dust from our throats in the Inn across the street known as 'The Blood on the Vine Tavern'.
(Looking at the sign it had once been called 'Blood OF the Vine Tavern' - Vampire theme pub?)
The main room was pretty well packed with about ten families worth of people, presumably chased out of their houses and sheltering from the undead. As we went in, two men came out.
I also noticed a man dressed like a nobleman in one corner, drinking wine from a goblet. Firstly, though I talked to Arik the land lord and arranged food and drink.
Once I had recovered from all the fighting I went over and introduced myself to the nobleman.
His clothing was expensive looking but stained. He seemed pretty relaxed considering everything that was going on, or just drunk perhaps.
When he said he would talk to me, but that 'talking was thirsty work,' I resisted the urge to walk away and ordered more wine. He opened up and sighing he said,
'My name Ismark the Lesser, my father was Kolyan the Burgomaster. His body now lies in the mansion. My sister is still there and refuses to leave the place. This all began in the church. It was Danovich. Then the zombies came. Fendrik and Mathilder went to investigate the church... Strad, is in his castle. He is a devil! My father stood up to him, with a Holy Symbol of Ravenkind... But one morning father was found dead by poison and the Symbol no longer worked. Erina, my sister, sits vigil on his body and will not leave the mansion...'
Poor Ismark seemed in a bad way and I felt terribly sorry for him. It looked like there was a lot to sort out in this cursed town.
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