The innkeeper's name
Session 13 of our Curse of Strahd demo campaign, exactly as the wiki kept it: one recap, five NPC notes. The party never caught the innkeeper's name. The notes did.
Session 13 · The Blue Water Inn
Vallaki · 3h 12m recorded · 5 NPC notes updated
Key events
- The party rode into Vallaki at dusk and took rooms at the Blue Water Inn rather than push on to Krezk.
- Ismark laid the Village of Barovia burgomaster's ledger on the common-room table and read the last three entries aloud.
- Ireena went up before full dark, bolted her door from the inside, and did not open it again until morning.
- A rider watched the inn from the square, then walked his horse to the Wachterhaus gate and sat there until the lamps went out.
- Rictavio bought the room a round, started two stories about the Amber Temple, and finished neither.
Party moves
- Kaelen paid a week of rooms up front, out of the Barovia strongbox.
- Sabina searched the stable yard after the noise in the wagon and found fresh straw laid over old blood.
- Elivan asked the innkeeper who the rider was and got a refill instead of an answer.
- The party voted to hold in Vallaki two more days before riding for Krezk.
NPCs met
- Ireena Kolyana and Ismark Kolyanovich, travelling with the party since Session 9.
- Rahadin, seen across the square and never approached.
- Rictavio, first meeting.
- Madam Eva's reading from Session 11 came up twice and is linked from this note.
Loose ends
- The party never caught the innkeeper's name, but the notes remember more than the party does.
- Nobody has opened the wagon.
NPC notes touched by this session
Five pages, same four fields, written from the recording.
Ireena Kolyana
- Role
- Ward of the late burgomaster of the Village of Barovia; travelling with the party since Session 9.
- Last seen
- Upstairs at the Blue Water Inn, second door on the left, bolted from the inside.
- Wants
- To reach the abbey at Krezk without being followed.
- Notes
- Would not sit with her back to the common-room door. Left the table when the rider appeared in the square.
Ismark Kolyanovich
- Role
- Burgomaster of the Village of Barovia; Ireena's brother.
- Last seen
- Reading the burgomaster's ledger by the common-room fire, two nights ago.
- Wants
- Ireena behind the abbey walls before the next full dark.
- Notes
- Paid for his own room. Asked twice about the road to Krezk and got two different answers.
Rahadin
- Role
- Chamberlain of Castle Ravenloft; Strahd's oldest servant.
- Last seen
- Wachterhaus, at the gate — still mounted when the lamps went out.
- Wants
- Unknown. He watched the inn and did not come in.
- Notes
- The horse did not move for an hour. Nobody in the common room would say his name out loud.
Madam Eva
- Role
- Vistani seer at Tser Pool; read the party's cards in Session 11.
- Last seen
- In her tent at Tser Pool, dealing cards nobody asked for.
- Wants
- The party to finish the reading she started.
- Notes
- Two of her three cards from Session 11 now point at Vallaki. The third still has no match in this wiki.
Rictavio
- Role
- Travelling storyteller lodging at the Blue Water Inn; owns the wagon in the yard.
- Last seen
- Near the stables behind the inn, talking to something inside the wagon.
- Wants
- The party's attention, and then very much not.
- Notes
- Called the innkeeper by name across the room. Nobody at the table wrote it down.
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