Overview
This mansion has walls of plastered stone that display many scars where the plaster has fallen away from age and neglect. Drapes cover every window, including a large, arched opening above the mansion’s double entrance doors.
People come and go from the mansion at all hours during the day. Guards bring criminals cited for “malicious unhappiness.”
What the party knows
- Haunted, of late, according to Baron Vallakovich (see The Haunting at Vallakovich Manor)
- Men and women arrive carrying bundles of twigs, which are piled about the mansion’s grand foyer until the construction of the wicker sun for the Festival of the Blazing Sun gets under way.
Visits
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Session 13 - The Lost and The Found (Neyavr 4, Morning) - The party raided the Baron’s library, discovering genealogical records including the death of “Ireena Strazni” eighteen years ago. They also learned about the mansion’s haunting and obtained various intelligence about Vallaki’s history and the Baron’s affairs.
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Session 15 - Killing Izek (Neyavr 5, Midday) - The mansion’s kitchen became the site of the poisoned wine planting operation. Victor Vallakovich cast Greater Invisibility on Fig Fleetfoot, who infiltrated the kitchen while Varnish Gothorn (disguised as Amal, the former head butler) distracted the cook Tereska with a fabricated errand. Fig successfully planted the poisoned Purple Grapemash No. 3 among Izek Strazni’s lunch provisions. The cook unknowingly included the bottle in Izek’s meal delivery, which he consumed that evening at Lake Zarovich, leading to his assassination.
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Session 16 - The Lady, the Witch, and the Ringmaster (Neyavr 6, Night) - Lady Wachter arrived at the mansion with three of her cloaked cultists (Boris, Andrej, and Ruxandra), carrying Izek Strazni’s frozen head in a burlap sack. She confronted Baron Vallakovich and presented the head as proof that his enforcer was dead. When the Baron attempted to flee, Ruxandra used a command spell to freeze him in place. Lady Wachter then forced the Baron to agree to abdicate his position, securing his commitment to publicly step down the following morning.