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• Lilly flies to the Abbey and turns to normal, then begs the Abbot to revive him. She gives a very vague explanation to how he died that we all laugh at. A lot of dead body swapping.
• Anyway the Abbot revives River, but River gains some long-term madness (50 hours of extreme paranoia that gives disadvantage on Charisma and Wisdom checks), and indefinite madness (I am the smartest, wisest, strongest, fastest, and most beautiful person I know.) (Basically he's just Seir)
• Back at Yesterhill...
• Arkan gets up and prepares to leave more, when Belial and Seir come down. He immediately starts fretting over Belial. He helps Belial hold his weight and also feeds him a health potion.
• We get to the winery and fumble around words to explain what happened at Yesterhill. A raven flies in and explains to the winery owner what happened, and reveals that he knows how River died. Two guys try to grab Arkan but he breaks out. After more interrogation, Seir and Arkan reveal they like Strahd.
• We get kicked out. Belial is suspicious because we suddenly love Strahd. Arkan doesn't agree to it, but Seir believes Belial is going to check him out. Arkan is very opposed to this and attempts to interefere, but Belial manages to cast Identify and figure out that Seir is charmed. Given how he and Arkan suddenly love Strahd, Belial figures Strahd charmed them.
• They start to go to Krezk instead.
• On the way, we run into some creepy scarecrow that wants to kill us.
  • The scarecrow moves forward and tries to do some spell stuff. Arkan is unaffected. More move in and do some spell stuff. Arkan gets paralysed.
  • Seir sighs and runs forward, slapping one with his sword.
  • Arkan clings harder to Belial's arm.
  • Belial ding dongs the one Seir hit.
  • The scarecrow reaffirms making Arkan scared, and also make Belial scared. Three attack Seir and try to scare him, but fail.
  • Seir keeps hacking at the one he did at first.
  • Arkan is scared.
  • Belial is scared.
  • Two scarecrows come behind Belial and Arkan and try to attack. They miss Arkan, but get Belial. The four around Seir try to attack. A couple miss, and Seir takes the moment to lash out and kill the one he's been whacking on. The one that hits him gets him good and frightens him.
  • Seir disengages and bolts.
  • Arkan sighs deeply and just blows everything up. All but one die. He tries to shock it and fails.
  • Belial is scared but tries a Shocking Grasp and fails.
  • The remaining scarecrow attacks Belial.
  • Seir finishes it off.
• Belial things we should rest, but Seir and Arkan both agree that's a terrible idea since they'll definitely be jumped. Belial chugs a Greater Healing Potion instead.
• We continue to hurry along to Krezk.
• Seir and Arkan both notice Berserkers hiding in the bushes. They sigh very very deeply.
  • Arkan fires up some Scorching Rays to fuck up the one he saw.
  • It runs forward and misses, and Seir stabs it as a mockery. One knocks down Belial. The others swing, one getting Arkan.
  • Seir continues to stab up the motherfucker.
  • Belial passes a death save.
  • Arkan mutters, "Hang in there, Belial," and does some Shattering on the Berserkers.
  • A Berkserker gets Seir real good. One runs away because our DM would otherwise murder us. The other two hit Arkan but one gets deflected with Shield.
  • Seir murders one and leaps onto another.
  • Belial passes a death save.
  • Arkan does some good ol Shocking Grasp to the face.
  • The Berserkers miss Seir, but down Arkan.
  • Our mysterious Deus Ex Machina from our first werewolf fight reappears! He stabs one of the Berserkers. We OOC put together he's a rogue because he got a 32 on his stealth roll.
  • Seir finishs off the one DEM hit and strikes at the other.
  • Belial fails a death save.
  • Arkan fails a death save.
  • The Berserker hits DEM.
  • DEM strikes back and fucking murders the Berserker. He then runs.
• Seir stabilises Belial.
• I got a nat20 on a death save and got back up. Arkan frets over Belial for a bit, but eventually, Seir and him pick him up and keep moving.
• On the side of the road, Arkan notices a child's corpse on the side of the road. It's mangled. The more Arkan looks at it, the more he looks like Belial. Arkan touches it. It melts away and Strahd laughs on the wind. Arkan and Seir feel reassured since they're charmed.
• They get to Krezk and pass out at Dmitri's.
• River, paranoid, doesn't tell Lilly how he dies. He also refuses to see the others once they get to Krezk.
• The next morning, Dmitri tells the Shit Squad that their friends are at the Abbey and safe. Arkan does not care.
• River attempts to sneak out of the room to get away from Lilly, but Lilly wakes up and follows him around as he searches the Abbey for a place to hide from... everything.
• They enter a nursery. Shadows slink out of the darkness.
  • Lilly tries to Suggest River, but fails. She inspires him anyway.
  • River tries to use Spirit Guardians but Lilly Counterspells it. Ow.
  • The shadows try to attack River and fail.
  • Lilly kills one with Dissonant Whispers.
  • River tries a Thunderwave and Lilly yet again Counterspells it.
  • The shadows strength drain River, who hits them with some lightning shit.
  • Lilly mocks the shadow, saying, "This is all your fault!"
  • River tries to use Silence on Lilly and she Counterspells it... again.
  • The shadow misses.
  • Lilly mocks it again, saying, "You need to go!"
  • River does another Silence. And gets Counterspelled.
  • The shadow strikes, draining River's strength, and River does thunder reaction damage yet again.
  • Lilly tries a Suggestion again and fails.
  • River casts Shatter. Lilly takes it. The shadow dissipates.
  • The two pick themselves up and notice the door is blown open. Whatever is below them is REALLY riled up.
  • Lilly tries a Suggestion. She fails.
• River asks Lilly one more time to leave him alone. She sighs and gives up, but does give him a Healing Word.
• He goes through the door they broke in half and slams it shut behind him. He touches the table and hears screams across time, and blames Lilly.
• Lilly does one more Suggestion and succeeds! She Suggests that she's his friend and they stay together for his safety. They go back to the original bedroom finally.
• Meanwhile, Belial, Seir, and Arkan get some breakfast. They then go out to try and find a way to get Seir a magic weapon. There's no shop in town, so we head to the Abbey.
• We get led to the Abbot by the guards there. Belial asks for an enchantment on Seir's weapons. The Abbot can't do an enchantment, but he can do a blessing.
• We learn about Visilka. Arkan says that she's a lovely bride, but worries that she'll be enough, because she doesn't resemble Ireena at all.
• Meanwhile, Clovis tells Lilly and River that the gang is here. River doesn't trust them.
• Arkan describes Tatyana to the Abbot and shares his dreams. When asked about how he knows this stuff, he and the Abbot mindtalk. He shares about the diary in the chest, but doesn't say where it is or anything.
• The Abbot thanks Arkan, then publicly welcomes everyone to stay as long as is needed.
• The trio leave the Abbot's to head back into town.