Meeting back up with the dwarven cleric Gilimi, the party decides it better to investigate the cryptic messages of Madam Eva. Finding the lost Holy Symbol of Ravenkind in the most unlikely of places, the players lose their chance to simply purchase the relic when revealing that they had looted effects from the church in Barovia, leading the shopkeep to refuse any sort of business with them ever.
Frustrated with members of the very town they are trying to save turning refusing them, the party decides to seek out Sir Urik they met at the crossroad several days prior. Not truly expecting him to still be there, they take the road that terminates toward Castle Ravenloft. Not far along that path tho they spot a ruined, burned-down tower on the top of a large hill. At the tower they encountered a conglomerated mass of ghostly faces, attacking them with strange powers and forcing the party to retreat. During the next day they were attack by a raging wild-man, who quickly dropped the dwarf with 2 swings of his sword, and after the warlock was able to destroy his sword he went on the offensive with his fists, and after landing a hit he drained the binder's life force just like a vampire, except it was during the day! They fought him off but were sorely feeling the effects of the fight, that night after revitalizing the dwarf they went back to the tower with preparations to consecrate the ground, bolstering their strength against the strange ghost-thing. They dispersed the thing and searched the tower hard, but finding nothing they went back down the hill to the road and set up camp.
xp gained: 4900
see you all next week!
