Curse of Strahd dnd campaign

[SubPhil91]

Ezmerelda nods and runs for the blade as the spawn is pushed back twenty feet. She grabs the blade from Ireena before heading over to Strahd. Lucan and Erlen keep attacking Strahd trying to keep him occupied. Ezmerelda steps in and starts attacking Strahd with the sunblade but seems to have a tough time landing a hit. Strahd sighs as fire starts to form around him as he points his finger at a point behind Lucan and Ezmerelda. A fireball starts expanding behind them as Strahd looks at Ireena again. "Dont you want to help me by killing off one of these pests? Maybe that pesky archer?" Ireena stands slowly before moving toward Erlen. Ice starts to form around her and she points her hand at Erlen's arm as freezing winds fly out at him.

 

[siobhancan99]

quinn uses her other counterspell to killthe fireball, then focuses on the spawn again. she grits her teeth at the thought she might ahve to put ireena down, but worst comes to worst she can ressurect her. still she has a plan "if you make us kill Ireena strahd, you lose. you should keep her out of the fight" she calls over, then launches her eldritch blasts at the spawn, looking to keep it knocked back away from everyone.

 

[SubPhil91]

The spawn goes down and starts to fade as its hit with two very powerful eldritch blasts. The cold blast from Ireena hits Erlen in the arm and his arm starts to freeze. He tries to ignore her and keep shooting at Strahd. Strahd smiles at Quinn and shrugs, "She won't die tonight. I dont think you will actually kill her, seems like something you wouldn't be able to do." Lucan looks back at Ireena before focusing on Strahd again. He swings his Warhammer again at Strahd as Erlen's two arrows miss. Marius looks over at Ireena and tries to cast a spell on her but she shakes out of it before it can take effect. He sighs as he moves toward her. "Well.. That was the easy, non painful option."

 

[siobhancan99]

quinn keeps an eye on Ireena, well, 10 percent of an eye. she wonders if the woman will take the sun sword back up or not now that she's back in their side... maybe. it could be a ruse. quinn doesnt waste much time ruminating however. she gestures, arcing tow more blasts gracefully towards strahd "keep the pressure up" she also looks to see if that weird red light is continuing or what.

 

[SubPhil91]

The red light doesn't seem to be coming from the tower anymore. Though Quinn has also noticed its been harder to hit Strahd as well. Ireena moves her hand up toward Erlen, a faint glow still in her eyes as fire erupts from her hands. Erlen dives out of the way but the fire still erupts over him. He lands on his freezing arm and it starts to crack in a few spots. Marius looks over at Quinn, "He's still got a hold on her.." Marius runs up behind Ireena and grabs her, holding onto her trying to keep her restrained. Lucan and Ezmerelda keep attacking him from close range as Quinn's blasts miss Strahd. Strahd moves his hands through the air as a thick cloud of fog appears around him, Lucan, and Ezmerelda. They become difficult to see though the fog doesn't extend to everyone else.

 

[siobhancan99]

Quinn races over to Ireena and grabs for her face. she uses her new power, starting to shfit the girls flesh and bones, keeping her hands steady on her lover as she twists her body, trying to turn her into something harmless for now to keep her out of the way, if she was successful all marius would have a hand on would be a nice fluffy white rabbit. (can polymorph once a day). "sorry babe. this is for you as much as its for us"

 

[SubPhil91]

Ireena turns into a small, fluffy, white bunny. The bunny looks around confused before trying to bite Marius. He keeps a firm grip on her, "Well, thats way better than trying to keep ahold of her normally. Focus on Strahd now, I'll keep an eye on her." The bunny continues to struggle as Marius holds her. Strahd disappears in the fog as it disappears. Lucan and Ezmerelda keep on guard knowing he's still closeby. Blood flows heavily from Ezmerelda as bite marks appear on her neck and claw marks appear on her chest. Lucan swings his hammer trying to hit him but clearly misses. "He's invisible.. Fuck what now? He's still close!"

 

[siobhancan99]

"is the daylight still up? i can't see well enough. if it isn't put it back up" she groans "es where is he in relation to you?" she fires off a shot for the space in front of esmerelda, hoping to hit strahd if he's still there, "attack the air around her! its all we can do for now unless you can dispell the invisibility"

 

[SubPhil91]

Lucan presses his hands together as he casts his spell. Strahd appears behind Ezmerelda as he bites her and runs his claw across her throat. She drops to the ground and Strahd steps over her toward Lucan, ready to attack again. Lucan swings his Warhammer at Strahd hitting him hard. The daylight spell is still shining brightly in the room. Erlen stands and tries firing two more arrows at Strahd but both miss again. Strahd looks over at Quinn, "Lucan shall be the next to fall. Turning poor ireena into a rabbit, I suppose I'll have to fix that." Another spawn runs in the room toward Marius and Ireena.

 

[siobhancan99]

Quinn doesn't have time to check to see if Es is dead or just down "marius put down the god damn rabbit and fight. fuck." she launches another eldritch blast at strahd, trying to knock him back away from lucan, and damage him at the same time "we have to keep the pressure up. your sister is a damn rabbit she cant hurt us or herself"

 

[SubPhil91]

Marius sighs and puts Ireena down before turning his attention to the spawn running at him. He hits the spawn with two blasts and watches as it comes running at him. The spawn goes Marius with its claws before looking down at the rabbit. Strahd is pushed back ten feet but moves back up to Lucan and grapples him. Strahd bites down on Lucan and starts to drink his blood, healing himself. Erlen continues to shoot arrows at Strahd, finally hitting him but looking over chunks of his icy arm start to break off. Lucan casts a spell before trying to break his grapple with Strahd, but Strahd holds him even tighter. Strahd smiles and whispers a spell causing 10 small rocks around the room to spring to life. A few fly toward each of you, Quinn getting hit by three, Erlen getting hit by three, Marius getting hit by two, and Lucan getting hit by two.

 

[siobhancan99]

/me falls to the ground as she's pelted with rocks, she crawls over to es, knowing they need another body in the fight. if es is alive she instead shoots strahd, but if she's dead quinn will try to use her gift to raise the dead, hoping to even the odds a little bit.

 

[SubPhil91]

Lucan dispells the magic of the rocks as Strahd drains him of more blood. Ezmerelda opens her eyes and looks over at Strahd. She picks up the sunsword and stabs him with it. Strahd stumbles but manages to keep Lucan firmly in his grasp. Lucan whispers a spell and radiant light comes down from the ceiling, hitting both him and Strahd. Strahd bites Lucan again before letting his body fall to the floor. Strahd starts moving toward Quinn, ignoring Ezmerelda and the sunsword. Strahd looks furious, injured, and almost out of his mind as he approaches Quinn. Erlen manages to hit him with two more arrows as Marius hits him with two more blasts. Strahd's movement is slow as he gets closer to Quinn.

 

[siobhancan99]

Quinn snarls "back fiend! you die this day! TREMBLE BEFORE THE AWESOME POWER OF THE MIGHTY QUINN" she gestures throwing both hands froward, two of those odd alien coloured indescribable bolts blasting forth from her hands, its an attempt to keep strahd away from her as much as to injure him "you die here, beast! I A THE SUN BRINGER I AM THE DEATH OF STRAHD" she keeps taunting him, trying to draw his focus so es can kill him with the sword.

 

[SubPhil91]

Strahd keeps focused on Quinn and bites her and scratches her hard. Her vision starts to blur as she barely remains conscious. "You think you can kill me? You are nothing, call yourself mighty Quinn all you want, but you are still weak. You will watch all of those around you die at my hands tonight. I am immortal, I willjust keep coming back, this land will never be rid of me. You pests have over stayed your welcome, and I'mgoing to make ireena kill you, slowly. She will look into your eyes as she stabs you in the heart until you take your final breath. That's when her charm will end, on your last dying breath." As she's looking at Strahd she sees the sunsword pierce through his chest as Ezmerelda stabs him through the back. His body starts to disappear and he turns into a cloud of mist. The cloud starts moving quickly in the direction you all just came from, leaving the crypts. Marius kills thr vampire spawn with two more blasts before picking up Ireena. He looks over at Quinn, "We need to hurry, if he stays in his coffin too long before we get there we will have another fight on our hands."

 

[siobhancan99]

QUinn nods "chase him. lucan and i will be by directly" she kneels down, grabbing lucan's hand and summons up her power again, wondering at the cost but whatever it is, saving lucan is worth it. she leaves Ireena as a rabbit for now, figuring she and lucan can run to catch up "get up lucan. get up i need you. i cant do this without you. please baby get up"

 

[SubPhil91]

Marius takes Ireena and Ezmerelda and starts running for the crypts. Erlen stays behind making sure no one interrupts Quinn. Lucan takes longer to get up than Ezmerelda did, a minute passes and it starts to seem like he's not coming back. He starts coughing and opens his eyes, a silver ring of lightning flashes around his right pupil. He looks up at Quinn, "Did you beat him? Sorry, his grip was too much. Pretty sure he broke a few ribs. Shit how long was I out?" He looks around noticing Ezmerelda and Marius gone. "We have to go finish this still, don't we.."

 

[siobhancan99]

Quinn nods "you..... you ..." she swallows and closes her eyes and doesnt want to say "you were dead" she feels herself eak from blood loss, but tries to force herself to her feet "we.... we need to run. he.... mist... he's a mist... the others are on their way" she swallows and stumbles, clutching Erlan "come... we gotta run. we gotta run we gotta get there"

 

[SubPhil91]

Both Erlen and Quinn feel healing magic wash over them as you all start running toward the crypt. You all make it to Strahd's crypt where Marius and Ezmerelda wait outside. Marius looks over at Quinn, "Hes in there, hes sleeping.." Lucan nods, "Hes trying to recover, we probably have about an hour before hes back to normal. Well.. An hour from when you all killed him." Lucan looks over at Quinn, "We need to finish this. Thank you for saving me back there. To come all this way just to die at the end.. that would have been rough. Now, who gets to do the honors?"

 

[siobhancan99]

Quinn sighs "ordinarily i'd say Ireena but we can't risk it" she looks over at lucan "how do we do it? do we just hit him? or is there a ritual or something?" she's got no fucking clue and Lucan is the resident expert. she holds his hand, not willing to let go, feeling like the dark gift might take him back as the price, that he might just be temporary "if we just hit him i say we all do it. we all just keep.... banging into him until we're sure he cant come back"

 

[SubPhil91]

Lucan squeezes Quinn's hand and shakes his head. "No, no ritual or anything. I'm sure at this point one solid stab will be enough. But I suppose all of us hitting him wouldn't be the worst idea." You all surround the coffin Strahd is sleeping in, pulling out daggers or short swords, any smaller weapons to impale the vampire. Ezmerelda stabs him with the sun sword, Lucan and Marius stab him with daggers. Quinn pulls out a dagger, stabbing Strahd in the heart. His eyes flutter open for just a moment as Quinn's dagger hits him.

Strahd can't hide his surprise as death takes him into the
black abyss. Surprise turns to rage, and the Pillarstone
of Ravenloft trembles with fury, shaking dust from the
ceiling of the vampire's tomb. The shudders abate as
Strahd's burning hatred melts away, replaced at last with
relief. The dark orbs of his eyes wither and sink into his
skull as his corpse deteriorates before you. In.a matter
of moments, only bones, dust, and noble garb remain.
Strahd von Zarovich, the dark lord of Barovia, is dead
and gone.

 

[siobhancan99]

Quinn sighs in relief. she's weary from blood loss, even with the healing. she brushes her hand through her hair, then releases the spell on Ireena, turning her from a rabbit back into a woman. "well. hopefully that's that" she sighs and looks at the others. "i think we should look for any of strahd's remaining pets, human or otherwise, before we make the mistake of camping. lets take a few minutes for marius and i to recover our spells." she wants to rejoice in the kill, but its just too uncertain they won't be attacked again by other spawn.

 

[SubPhil91]

Ireena stretches and looks over at Quinn. "You're lucky you turned me into something cute.. Being a rabbit is no fun, I've been fine since he went down upstairs." You all wait and take some time to gain your spell slots back before heading out. Lucan takes a moment healing everyone as you all wait.

"Master!" says a voice from behind you. An elf with
dusky brown skin and long black hair, his face a mask of
terror, looks on what you have wrought and screams.

Lucan sighs as the brown elf pulls out a scimitar and steps toward you all. Lucan's Warhammer glows as he hits the elf away. You all can tell this fight will be far easier than your battle with Strahd. After just a few attacks the elf is on his knee, holding himself up with his scimitar. He looks up at you all, "You'll all pay for what you've done here! I won't be the only one coming for you now that Strahd is gone. You better watch your backs, his followers will never stop hunting you down."

 

[siobhancan99]

quinn walks over to the man and points at his forehead "then they, like you, will die." she mutters a word, sending two eldritch blast's from her fingertips to try to blow the man's brains out of the back of his head. "Gods cant we just get a minute to celebrate" she looks over at Lucan "see if anything's magic? then we can look at that lever in sergei's crypt to make sure there's not other spawn or anything we have to worry about, before we do a sweep of the castle." she sighs and looks over at the others, putting her hand on lucan's shoulder and then Ireena's. she needs to just touch them a moment and reassure herself that they are there, and alive.

 

[SubPhil91]

Lucan's left eye glows and he shakes his head. He places his hand on Quinn's and just holds it for a moment. Ireena wraps her arms around Quinn and just holds her. Lucan looks at Quinn, "I think thats just a lever to close the doors to his crypt. But I could be wrong of course. We do need to be careful going forward, I know we are mostly healed, but who knows what all is in this damn castle.. But we can't just attack everyone, there might be prisoners, or people who were under his spell." He sighs as he looks down the hall of crypts checking to see if anything else is coming for them, but there's no movement that anyone can see.