Winery: There are rather neat friendos here, Wereravens. In game, they offer to convert any who are deemed worthy to Wereravens, making them chaotic good aligned and giving them flight and some other neat abilities. They also, however, have a problem. Their winery is overrun by some crazy, murderous druids who have summoned a metric shitload of blights. Like, an unfair amount of Blights. An obscene amount. We only survived in my game because the bard got very lucky with some fireballs. The lead crazy-ass druid is using a Gulthias Staff, a branch from a Gulthias Tree. Gulthias trees are the source of blights, and are created by the blood of a vampire being spilled upon a tree's seed. So basically...vampire-loving lunatic druids, or neato birbfriends.
Kresk: This is the town that has the Abbot, secretly a celestial being (a deva, I think?) who has been brought here and is trying to appease Strahd in order to save the people of the land. He is also twisted by the world, however, and easy to anger. He expects regular shipments of wine, and has gotten quite angry that the winery has not sent them. You know. Because of the Blight problem. He also was meant to be taking care of the mentally and physically disabled. He got pissed at them for...something, it doesn't really explain what, and turned them all into horrific mongrelfolk. Think the guy from The Fly, but with other animals thrown into the mix too. He is also working on appeasing Strahd's endless search for his would-be bride by creating a gross flesh abomination woman to be his wife. He's kinda fucked up. But he does have a quest to go get said bride a wedding dress. Now, the town itself has this badass healing pool. It's a giant pool of water that was made into holy water, but like...turbocharged, by a Saint. Might have been Markovia, I can't recall. If you bring Tatyana to it, her true love and Strahd's brother appears in it and if you let her dive in, she is released from Ravenloft, denying Strahd forever. The pool also heals you all to hell and acts as a Greater Restoration to remove debuffs, and has a statue nearby which, if you dig under it, has the Tome of Strahd, a book full of information on Strahd's history and goals. This is where I would reccomend we go.
Vistani: This is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, it could be Madame Eva, who tells the players where they need to go in order to find the artifacts to fight Strahd, and can also give them fortune readings to advise them on their course. On the other hand, it could be...pretty much any other Vistani. In which case they work for Strahd as spies and we either get shanked, or Strahd gets information on us. Given that we've managed to find an item without her, I doubt Madame Eva is required, and the risk is too high that this is a trap in my mind.
VOTE: Kresk I think this has the highest odds for being A Good Thing, and the Good Thing is one of several things. Just, nobody be anything other than polite and reverent to the Abbot, please.
I think we should try and face some dangerous encounters.
More of us = more chances to survive encounters. If we'd gone on one yesterday, jason might have been key. Instead we traded him for some artifact, and it will be the same today if we ML again, which I fear doing because I only have a strong SR on culted now. I care about destroying evil and finding Strahd, and doing that requires as many of us as possible.
13 with a potential trader.
My interpretation of the NK is that Strahd did not perform the kill, but sent a minion. If he'd gone himself, we'd have had no NK and probably 4 instead of 3 Evil among us. We couldn't have asked for a better result as a NK, imo.
bulbazoor is now my 2nd SR (far away from culted though) - I am not comfortable listening to him today
You are so scum. Trying to get people killed in a quest (higher percentage of townies, more likely we'll be killed). Bulbazoor isn't even in the game. Bad NK spec. We should have stayed on this yesterday.
We didn't lose town to the quest, we lost town to the nightkill and the lynch just like in any game of mafia. You're arguing that we should do something with a higher chance of getting one of us killed, assumedly in the hopes that it will hit scum? That isn't the likelihood, there are more town that scum. Your argument is garbage, based in bullshit like "We traded Jason for an item" despite him being the -normal day lynch- rather than some consequence of the quest, and then at the end you claim to be scumreading some guy who isn't even in this game because I have a z in my name? Even if I assume you -did- somehow manage to screw up a name that damn bad, your previous points had absolutely nothing to do with me.
no that's not it at all and I'm sorry for the fuckup with your name, seriously, my brain is weird, and it is an honest mistake from being awake early, lots of stress, and the Zs - that is it, seriously
anyway, no, I want to go on a quest and confront baddies because I think that is the avenue we should be pursuing rather than item-gathering. It's the adventurer spirit in me, the RP in me, the thoughtprocess I think about from a mod PoV, it's a bunch of things.
I was not happy with the result of D1.
I think if we'd gone on an adventure isntead of collected an item, I THINK THE MECHANICAL RESULT, will be in our benefit MUCH MORE than the mechanical result of receiving an item
like disabling scum powers and shit, I don't know
I don't give a fuck about getting items in a seemingly rolemadness game and potential scum getting them and becming more powerful. I'll take my odds as they are.
In post 1146, Dunnstral wrote:I don't understand creatures role, was he shot by a vig as well?
The kill was submitted by a goon and not Strahd himself. So he died and wasn't turned. At least that's what I get from the role pm.
VOTE: kresk
With the info given in the thread this place looks like the best option. Fighting allies of strahd and possibly losing 1 more player for unknown benefits is not a good idea so vistani camp is not really an option to me.
I confirm kuroi is not a scum. I can't confirm he is town but I confirm 100% sure he is not scum.
kuroi for me is a wildcard. So I wanted to know asap what was his alignment. Also due to his playstyle he was bound to be a lynch option and I want us to focus on lynching scum.
that doesn't really tell me why you decided to divulge that information at that point
we weren't focused on kuroi, he wasn't about to be lynched, to me it doesn't make sense to tell us that unless you fear his death - it outs you unnecessarily to whatever capacity...
