This is a direct continuation of the previous thread:
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5299975/Go there for a recap of the entire adventure.
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You are Aranuel Caniella; 18-year-old human girl, Cleric of Kossuth, and novice swordsman! Your epic quest to find your missing sister has taken you to the Abbey of Saint Markovia, a cursed monastery in the forgotten land of Barovia, a valley choked by fog that traps unlucky souls within the valley's borders.
According to the vampire lord Strahd von Zarovich, Joannus should be hiding here within the walls of this monastery. But the village folk believe the place to be cursed, and they abandoned it centuries ago out of fear.
A few generations back, a mysterious clergyman arrived and demanded to re-open the Abbey for his own purposes. To this day, he is only known as "The Abbot", and he is shrouded in fearmongering and rumors - some even fear that he's Strahd in disguise.
Upon arriving in the cursed Abbey, you were greeted not by ghosts or spirits, not by empty halls, but instead by beastly creatures - mongrelfolk, insane amalgamations only vaguely resemble humans. They seemed to have lost their minds, with the sanest among them acting as servants of the Abbey. You discovered that these creatures were a result of grotesque experimentation by the Abbot on an unfortunate Krezk family known as the Belviews.
After finding the Abbot, meeting his flesh bride Vasilka, and experiencing the lunacy of this cursed place firsthand, you finally snapped and killed an abomination that tried to attack you in the North Wing of the abbey. You succeeded at gaining the loyalty of the twisted mongrel creatures trapped here at the last minute, but there is no more hiding your loyalties from the one with true power up here in the Abbey. The Abbot, in his fury, has just confronted you.
<span class="mu-s">New players are welcome and encouraged to participate. You aren't expected to have any preexisting knowledge of the setting to follow the narrative.</span> To help new players, these threads usually contain recaps of Aranuel's entire adventure - I have decided not to include a recap the this time, since it makes more sense for this thread to directly continue #3, which didn't go on long enough before archiving. If you are new, you are encourged to read the recap at the top of Barovian Legends #3 if they don't want to read the entire quest. There are many events that bring the plot into context.
<span class="mu-s">Character/Quest Info</span>
Stats, Spells, Inventory, Character (updated in real time):
https://pastebin.com/chuTtwgWInfo / FAQ:
https://pastebin.com/sTurBdHZ<span class="mu-s">Archive of Previous Threads</span>
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5195343/ (Barovian Legends #1)
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5242633/ (Barovian Legends #2: The Curse of Strahd)
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive/2022/5299975/ (Barovian Legends #3: Fortunes of Ravenloft)
