Enroute back to Roanor, the Capreton Military are loading up all available spare supplies to bring back to Forsdon City. It seems all of the food stores in the City have spoiled. Before leaving Roanor, there's messages that have arrived by Hawk for Calvin, Raiden, and Bam-Bam? IG takes the one meant for Bam-Bam. For Calvin, it's a letter from his wife who has traveled back home due to the unfortunate food supply issues in Forsdon. Raiden receives a message from his guild, calling him to investigate further into an issue in Saarten Docks. Bam-Bam also has a message from his guild bringing more light into the history of the broken off piece of the crystal. With knowledge where the other lost pieces may be found, the group travel towards the port of Bayside where the supplies are being loaded to hop a ride back to Forsdon City and from there, charter passage to Saarten. Upon arrival at the ship, while supplies are being loaded, a sly Monk swings down from the crow
After some discussion atop the cliffs over Nylus Academy, the leader, Tomas Esdot, brings you all down into the deepest portion of the Academy basement, through an old, decrepit dungeon. As with most things here however, it has been repurposed into a locked study, complete with bookshelves, desks, and artifacts. Chief of which seems to be a large crystal, floating above it's stand. "Guarding" the crystal and books inside is an academy scholar and Hwei, a crazed old....man? His arm, face and back have mutated by some twisted attempt to extend his own life and survive the ancient age of the blight by drinking Dragonblood Brew. It also seems to have affected his mind as he keeps rambling, muttering to himself, and talking in circles. Calvin bravely approaches as close as he dare to the crystal and finds similarities reflected in the sample of ooze from the wound Denton had in his side from the crystal shard. There also seems to be small cut facets where the crystal us
As we started this episode in the depths of the cathedral, our adventurers are resting in a vacant room. During the rest, we decide to plan our next move in searching the halls, but Virgil is really ready to go take on Strahd and feels that this "search" for more treasure is a waste of time. Dante, on the other hand, feels that it would be wiser to see what we can find in our searches. Maybe we can find something that will help us defeat our cursed host. Their discussion becomes a heated argument in which Dante calls out Virgil’s "eagerness" for battle and basically accuses him of leading the Crimson Order to their deaths. This does not sit well with Virgil and he decides to hang back while the rest of us go check out the room next to ours where we hear voices. Eravan decides to try and play the "lost circus performers" scheme as he knocks on the door and see if he can avoid a fight. As the door is thrown open, the small group sees a band of rough