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He rode in on his Nightmare in a towering rage, burst into the Abbey and proceeded to beat the Abbot half to death in front of the party's eyes before ripping out his heart and chucking him off the cliff. Strahd, whos interest had been piqued by the teleportation, was on his way to the Abbey, when he sensed Ireena's death. The players get healed up a bit by the Abbot, meet Ezmeralda, who develops a (mutual) distrust for them, then discover the Abbot murderer Ireena to use her parts to "upgrade" Vasilka.
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Passes the roll and gets the party teleported to St Markovia. Cleric calls for divine intervention and I let him roll for it even though the party was level 4. Knock out the Baron, force feed him a dream pastry, and then get absolutely devastated by Viktor after triggering his Glyph of warding and getting a Lightning Bolt to the face while he was invisible.
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Reach Vallaki, try to set up a food license for the dream pastries with the Baron, then attack his mansion upon discovering that Ireena was kidnapped by Izek. Get absolutely destroyed by the Hags, (who I kitted out with a better spell list to make sure they'd be around to antagonize the players later) They get tied up and agree to start selling dream pastries for the Hags (knowing almost for sure that they are made out of children). Players reach madam Eva's tent, get their cards read, then reach Old Bonegrinder and try to explore it. Players befriend Ismark and Ireena (or rather are hired by Ismark and decide to follow along bc Ireena is hot) fight with Doru, who escapes into the mist only to be murdered by Strahd in front of the party's eyes. Players get lost in the mists after running away from a village attacked by a giant pack of wolves and get picked up by Vistani that drop them off in Barovia Village. And it's not that they're scared let me recap. So I've been running Curse of Strahd with my group lately, and the players are not very keen on going up against him.