[Rollo note: At much the same time as Fenrir was alternating between saving the city of Westgate from airborne dangers and murdering people I was further to the north-east getting all muddled up in my own vampire business!]
To recap, myself and Ireena had flown south to find the King of Damara to tell him that one of his Baron's was a bit of a naughty vampire. The King, being a good chap, wanted to sort that out, so he returned with us to Barovia with his army.
Here we met again my cousin Sylvia, our friends Ashlyn the Paladin, Sir Urik the Knight and Tallmer the scholar who had got us into all this business in the first place. Our former pals Yli and Tie-Pie were missing, probably kidnapped by Baron Strad.
DAY 353 (20th Alturaik)(February) cont ...
King Gareth set up his base of operations in Barovia. This makes everyone there a lot happier.
DAY 354 (21st Alturaik)(February)
Myself and all my friends are now guests of Ireena in her large house in the south side of town. Along with Sylvia I mostly helped heal the sick and injured today.
DAY 355 (22nd Alturaik)(February)
Barovia in a lot better shape today.
The King has decided to march on Strad's castle. It's a long trek through the mountains on foot so it will take a few days. Me, Sylvia and the others will accompany them.
DAY 356 (23rd Alturaik)(February)
The army made good progress today. We camped not far from where we killed those dire bears.
DAY 357 (24th Alturaik)(February)
Another day marching with the army. We are not going near the gypsy camp, but taking the 'back road' to the castle, the only way to get to it if you can't fly.
DAY 358 (25th Alturaik)(February)
We are very high up in the mountains now. The King's army seem subdued in the vastness of this rugged range of snow-capped peaks. We are not far now though.
It has been a good few days for me to gather samples and seeds from the local plants. Everything that grows here is of great interest to me, being either unique to the region or variations on flora I have seen elsewhere. The small purple flowers that grow up in the mountains I have seen nowhere else in the world and I am amazed that they flower this early in the year. The locals call it edel and it apparently has medicinal properties.
DAY 359 (26th Alturaik)(February)
We arrived at the castle a little after lunch. The King has camped the bulk of his army in the forest behind the castle while he sends in scouts and probing attacks on the castle's defences.
A little later on he asked me and Sylvia to investigate a ruined door that had been spotted in the foundations of the castle. I would have thought we would have been better utilised healing wounded soldiers or something, but perhaps he had enough healers already. In any event we went to take a look. Naturally Fluffy and Rolanda were with us.
The rotten old door was easily pushed aside and lead to a long corridor, in ancient dressed stone. The corridor lead to a series of rooms and other narrow corridors that were all full of those nasty tough zombies we had already seen plenty off in and around Barovia. Sylvia turned the first two rooms full of them and we even found a bit of treasure in a chest in the second.
The third room we came to we viewed with suspicion as there was a lot of noise coming from behind the door. I summoned a wood wose and got it to open the door while we stood at the other end of the corridor.
The door burst open and dozens of zombies poured out. Sylvia used her last 'turn' but it did little to hold back the flood. I summoned some dire wolves, then had to use my stone shape spell to tunnel an escape route out of the corridor as they all pummelled into me.
It got even more chaotic after that. Despite all Sylvia's magic and the wolves that I threw at them, they just kept on coming, more than we could count. Retreating down the corridors we had just come along I tried to think of the best way to resolve this situation - considering that I had no more Stone Shape spells left!
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