#thankfully ireena wasnt with us for this

[xmoriartea]

THE LACK OF INSIGHT ROLES IS GONNA KILL ME

My fellow veteran player and I are trying to not out things, but we play a game of leading the witness where we ask the questions our lads would ask and hope someone other than us catches on

ie. The druid decided to Speak with Animals with our new raven friend, Csonka (it didn't work, he wouldn't talk, so weird and crazy). In the kitchen of the Martikovs. While a Dag was trying to help cook. So because my character is not good at people, but is paranoid and always has his head on a swivel, I vibe checked Dag while the ritual happened — dude was paniCKING into some eggs. This is now the THIRD time someone has PANICKED and FREAKED OUT A BIT at the idea of us talking to ravens —

NO ONE ASKED WHY

My boy doesn't GET people. Even if he rolls high insight, he looks at it from a general 'fear' perspective, should he be worried? should he run? His response to that insight check is to just point out the druid isn't a witch and not someone to be afraid of NOT 'hey dag what's this places deal with birds?'

Its just a wildly diff vibe from the first time I played this game with the same DM and other veteran player. We speed ran things, we were sus of fucking everyone. We knew the ravens weren't ravens the first night in Vallaki when we thought they might be working for Strahd and the artificer 'located animals' and the nearest raven was not one.

Absolutely insane difference in party style here.

We did decide to take a quick jaunt to yester hill and see what was up there though. Hurrah. It included:

A continued hatred for the yester hill scaling (the one thing shared between both fucking parties)

The artificer levitating up to STRAHD on the nightmare to ASK HIS PERMISSION in retrieving the seed from the druids

GETTING said permission, but also being warned that Strahd would protect his loyal followers if necessary

The druid half panicking because Dark Lord Uh Oh

And then getting whispered to by the wind? the rocks? a skeleton? a spear? Unclear. But we dug out the yet unidentified Blood Spear and she's vibing with it

AN ATTEMPT TO SHORT REST NEAR YESTER HILL TO ATTUNE TO THE SPEAR AND THE GULTHIAS STAFF

Needless to say, that didn't work. And next week wee get to pick up with the fact the Big Strahd is a Walkin now

absolutely wild being a second time curse of strahd player with people who don't know the level of shit that's about to go down

we just met the wizards of the wine and have:

not insighted them at all

adopted a formerly dream pastry addicted raven

still not insighted davian though he was SUS of us KNOWING A RAVEN'S NAME big WHO TOLD YOU energy

no interest in checking out the druids we just chased off

even though theyre building Something™

still planning to return to krezk immediately

to meet the abbot

with ireena, the fated ally stella, AND vitktor in tow

look my son is purposefully a timid boy who is afraid of everything even if he does good good monk hits. he doesn't know better. remi's resting heart rate is that of a small animal being hunted for sport cause he's barovian born(?) and raised