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Wizard of Wines

Jan 30, 2024, 3 min read

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The gems

  • First went missing years ago when Urwin was on watch (Champagne du le Stomp)

  • Second went missing Three weeks ago from an attack by Baba Lysaga’s scarecrow. (Purple Grapemash)

  • Five days ago, evil druids stole the third (Red Dragon Crush)

  • Two days ago, the druids returned with a horde of blights and drove Davian’s family from the winery

  • they’ve also poisoned the fermentation vats, leaving the winery with only a few bottles and barrels of drinkable wine

Martov Family

  • Davian
  • Adrian, his eldest son
  • Elvir, his youngest son
  • Stefania, his adult daughter
  • Dag Tomescu, Stefania’s husband

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Players approaching

  • Unpainted fences blindly follow the trail, which skirts north of a sprawling vineyard before bending south toward a stately building
  • North of the trail is a large stand of trees. A man wearing a dark cloak and cowl stands at the edge of the trees, beckoning you

There are 9 wereravens there total all in human form. Davian Martikov is the cloaked figure.

He will say that evil druids and blights have attacked the winery and forced his family to take refuge in the woods

can we have wine?

Adrian can confirm that there are three barrels in the loading dock (area W2), plus another three barrels and several wine bottles in the cellar

If players remove the druid

the players are told about the gems the size of pinecones and that the druids have one

Davain will offer the players 100Gp. If they give him a really hard time he will up it to a total of 200Gp.

He will also give them the following random loot

monster: Druid
name: Vampiric Druid
ac: 16
hp: 46
stats:
  - 10
  - 12
  - 14
  - 12
  - 16
  - 11
actions:
- name: Multiattack
- desc: Make two weapon attacks
- name: Vampiric Strike
- desc: Melee Weapon Attack +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. 6 (1d8 + 2) bludgeoning damage and 6 (1d8 + 2) necrotic damage. Regain a number of hit points equal to the damage dealt by the weapon
spells:
    - "The druid is a 5th-level spellcaster. Its spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save 15, +6 to hit with spell attacks). It has the following druid spells prepared:"
    - Cantrips (at will): druidcraft, produce flame, shillelagh
    - 1st level (4 slots): entangle, longstrider, speak with animals, Snare, thunderwave
    - 2nd level (3 slots): animal messenger, barkskin, Wither and Bloom, Heat Metal
    - 3rd level (1 slots): Erupting Earth
monster: Water Elemental
name: Wine Elemental
traits:
- name: Poisioned Drink
- desc: If a creature ends their turn sharing a space with the Wine Elemental they must make a DC 15 Con save or become posioned. If the creature is already poisoned they now also remove 1d6 from any attack rolls or ability checks until the posioned confition is removed. If the creature has been poisoned twice already they become incappacitated.

The Vampiric druid will be chanting the following

"Bloodied bark, Guthans' mark, grant me strength to tear them apart. Oh Guthans tree, my soul's decree, unleash your power and set me free!" Oh Guthans tree  Oh Guthans tree 
unleash your power and set me free!

Udo %%

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