A Strahd Tail

All right, the wolf has won the pack, in a kind of unfair way, but who cares. All of them cheer and pat the back of the winner as it should be. Perhaps the half orc would not have approved, but probably that’s why he is dead. Life isn’t fair after all, and death, is just closing the eyes to never open them again. Not a big deal. Silenzo followed Serenity, the only righteous character in the party, to the wolves' caves. She wanted to find Hoskgak's bones and save some kids, if by "saving" one understands dropping them on a starving town that barely holds together. From behind, Silenzo was quite pleased watching Serenity navigating a pile of bones and trying to form Hoskgak from them. Impressively she managed to get almost the right bones together, there were a few more femurs than there should have been, but mostly 90 percent of the half orc was there. To his amusement he jumped in and with a serious voice and face pieced together a nice skeleton. All the right bones w...

“I must defeat Kiril to reclaim the pack”, proclaimed Emil. “Ok, so we just go kill him.” Destiny added. “No, I must defeat him in single combat in front of the pack. Only then will the pack respect and follow me.” “Ok, but didn’t you lose against him before?” “Yes.” Emil said sheepishly. “So, how can you win this time? You barely managed to fight off those wights in the dungeon. I think you’ll lose again.” Destiny said matter-of-factly. “I will not lose. I cannot lose.” Emil said, looking across to Zuleika. “My dear, I think first you need to heal up. You are in no shape to fight. Come,” said Zuleika as she runs her hand gently along Emil’s waist, “let’s go upstairs and… heal.” *** The pack gathers around the stone circle as two silver swords are thrown into the ring. Kiril picks one up and throws the other to Emil on other side of the ring. The crowd cheers louder as the two challengers each swing their swords to test for balance. Kiril is visibly larger than Emil. Destiny looks arou...

“Oh my gods, they killed Kenny. TWICE!”. Ok, the escape wasn’t so great for Kenny. In fact, one might argue that he didn’t really escape at all, unless one counts being blasted out of existence by a lightning bolt up the arse, projected off the finger of an animated suit of armour an escape, then yes, Kenny escaped. But even then, it would be a stretch to call his particular escape “Great”. Destiny, however, feels her escape was definitely of the "Great" category, since rather than being stuck in the dungeon of Strahd’s castle, as she was doomed to be a moment ago, she is currently standing several hundred miles away in the safety of the Abbey in Krezh. What’s more, all her companions (if you once again discount Kenny, as so often we have to) have made it out along with the prize they went to steal - Emil the ex-leader of the werewolf pack whom Strahd had kept prisoner. If they could help Emil reclaim the pack, then the Heroes of Barovia will have once again made great allies...