Endrid's Diary 3/24/22

 

Endrid's Diary 3/24/22

 

Lady Wachter’s former intern took the microphone after Riktavio to introduce Viktor Volakovich. Viktor’s speech promised a return to normalcy in Valaky. He claimed his platform was  “magic first”. He asked the crowd for monetary contribution. The crowd was wildly impressed with his speech.

 

Izek and his Poindexter companion demanded that we come with him to see the burgomaster. We wanted to see the burgomaster anyway, so we didn’t smash the Poindexter priest’s face in.

 

We followed Izek and Poindexter to the burgomaster’s mansion. We were introduced to Viktor whose inflection was back to its normal dejected state. Apparently, he used magical projection to “Elvisize” his voice.

 

Viktor was still working on his teleportation spell. He asked us to help him and detailed his failings in research. Brace gave a disgustingly optimistic speech about defeating Strahd. I agreed, except for his flowery language.

 

The party debated for a while and decided at the least to give Viktor’s tome a once over for useful spells. The tome had a big old “M” on it.

 

Brace hatched a plan to steal the book from Viktor… it seemed to be an ancient artifact that could help us and perhaps it belonged to the wizard we are looking for. We all decided to go along with Brace’s plan due to lack of better options.

 

Our plan was to snatch the book and have Ireena carry it under her cape. Izek and Poindexter busted in and relayed that there was a vampire attack in progress. Despite the vampire threat the vampire death squad was commanded to stop us from escaping.

 

Ireena had the spell book in tow. Poindexter priest filled the room with a storm and Brace provided us with some holy protection. I bashed open the window and ran out but then saw a horrible vampire coming towards me.

 

Bingdor used the Holy Amulet of Ravenkind to Hold Vampires on the undead in our proximity.

 

We waged a nasty fight with several vampires. During the fight Izek seemed to be completely surrounded and perhaps doomed by vampire spawn. We decided to hightail it away from the fight so Izek’s fate remains uncertain, but it didn’t look good.