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 ==== Summary ====
+They started this session with the invisible Eryn searching the dock area. She found a trap leading into the area with multiple crossbows pointed at the opening in the fence to the dock area and a trip wire to set them off. She stepped over the trip wire and searched the area. Two buildings with smoke coming from the chimneys. She heard some voices from the western building but couldn’t make them out. She also couldn’t see in as there were no windows. She returned to the group. The discussed strategies for entering the hotel., They decided to use a scroll of silence on a dagger and for Eryn to break into the boarded up windows.
+As they were about to enact this plan, Eryn spotted a girl sitting in a barrel outside a building, two buildings back. It was odd only in that it was misty and rainy and very cold out and she wasn’t really dressed for it. She was sitting there eating an apple, getting soaked, while swinging her legs as if not a care in the world. Eryn snuck down near the girl and checked out the building.As she was doing that, the girl spoke to her, and looked directly at her. They had a pleasant enough conversation where Eryn learned her name was Zara and she was board. Her mother and  sister were off doing something and not here with her having fun. She was interested in the party so they walked down to meet them. Eryn introduced them and pointed out that the girl could see her. They asked how it was that she could see Eryn. Her only answer was that she can just see things, that’s all. She appeared human. There was a conversation where they learned that her family were practitioners of the arcane. Her mother had pretty strong magical abilities.
+She asked about the fight we had with Roger’s crew and we explained that they started it and we defended ourselves. She pointed out to the party that Roger and his crew are bad people. She convinced Symon to play a trick on the gnomes, Fred and Freddie, with an apple. He put the apple near the door and knocked and waited. They came out, squabbled over the apple and each took a bite. A bright light flashed and they suddenly found themselves floating for a moment and then fell to the ground. They grumbled as they went back into their shop and closed the door. Zara also notice Angelique who was standing off a bit. She asked about her and approached her. As she got closer, she looked past Angelique and waved at nobody. After a second, she rolled her eyes and said, ”I guess I need to go!”. They tried to get her to tell them what she saw but she wouldn’t. She finally thanked them for talking with her and left, returning to the building where they’d found her. Just as she was approaching it, she turned and wavered again and moved north between the buildings. Eryn moved quickly to the north side of the hotel to see where Zara went but she never came out on the next street up. They tried to find the invisible sneak and though Cal-El did spot some fresh tracks, he was unable to follow them and they lost any chance of catching the sneak.
+They returned to their plan to enter the building from the eastern side. As they were about to cast their silence spell, Eryn notice six men approaching from the direction of the fight with Roger. They weren’t waking normally so Eryn moved closer, still invisible, to check them out. They were shambling, with cuts and wounds and Eryn recognized them as the six that were killed in their battle with Roger. They had been reanimated. They were somehow a little bigger than they were when they’d fought them. Eryn moved back to the party and waited to see if they were headed to the hotel to meet up with Roger. They didn’t go there but past the door. Then they picked up speed and went after the party. It was a difficult fight as these weren’t normal zombies. They were somehow stronger. They took much more damage to kill and they managed dropped Eryn and Xor in the fight. Symon was able to get a potion to each of them and get them back. Cal-El had sacrificed one of his attacks to throw a rock at the door of the Alchemy shop. Fred and Freddie did come to the door and upon seeing the undead, began squabbling over who should attack what. Angelique just shouted, “Just hit something!”. They cast magic missile at one of the undead and deanimated it. The battle finally finished with everyone back up and all the undead down. Eryn removed their heads and threw them out of town.
+They finally enacted their plane after making a show of leaving the town and then later sneaking back in. They used the silence spell on a dagger that Eryn carried. She used it too pry the boards off the window, breaking the window, and then climbing in. Everyone followed. All of the rooms were empty of people but several showed signs that people had been there recently. The stairs leading up were completly blocked. They finally found a set of stairs in the back of the kitchen heading down. They went down the stairs and found it was a hallway to another set of stairs going up, probably to the livery next door. There was a hallway that broke off to the north between the two stairs and they went up there. It came to a set of double doors, very heavy stone. It had a design on it and a phrase they couldn’t read. Angelique remembered a helmet they’d found that gave the wearer the ability to comprehend languages. She passed it to Symon who put it on and read the inscription. it said, “Here lies the hero’s of the north! The last resting place of the order of the wolves of the north!”. They remembered Sir Evan being given such a title when he assumed mantle of “Sir”. Eryn finally opened the door and exposed the ani-chamber within. It had four unlit braziers, one per corner. There were two statues against the outer walls facing in, holding lanterns that glowed green. They appeared to be Nah priests dressed as they would have dressed hundreds of years ago. Angelique entered the room and kneeled in the center of the chamber to pray. She got the distinct feeling that something was very off and let the others know.
+They moved to the next door where upon touching it, triggered a mouth to show up and in a female voice said, “Go away, I’m busy!”. Everyone tried to talk to it but it didn’t reply. After a moment, Eryn checked the door for traps again and triggered the mouth again. This time it said, “I just told you, I’m busy! Go away!”. Again they tried to talk to it but got no response. Eryn iognored it the next time and simply opened the door. A new message was spoken, “Okay, you asked for it!”. The door opened to a large chamber. There was a circle on the floor in the room that glowed. On either side of the circle, there were alters with cloth across the top. There were six pillars supporting the ceiling. There were two braziers glowing green near it. There were stone sarcophagus in the room, Strahd made a cameo appearance. First thought, who would have thought this was down here. There is another alter to the north, four braziers along the back wall, also a raised dais with a throne on it. Two more statues in either far corner. There were also partitions that look like curtains. On the eastern and western walls were arches and a room divider that you would have to unfolded to go in and out. There were also candles stands with candles that were glowing blue.
+That is where we stopped.
+Start the recorder!
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