Saturday 10/24/2009, my gamers and I continued on with our story in Ravenloft inside the home our most gracious host, Marc! After a short discussion about Pedobear and his willy children adventures, we'll move on to the game session. To tell you the truth, I'm just going to go on with the highlights for this one was a long session but the gamers were able to discover information about the Midnight Slasher and Ghost of Graefmotte.

• The party, consisting of Tycha the Druid, Gerhard the Paladin and Champollion the Bard went around town to find information about the Midnight Slasher and the Ghost of Graefmotte.
• Arriving at the local police's office, Champollion asked an officer about the Midnight Slasher and the recent activities of the Ghost
• After providing some basic information, the suggestion visiting the town historian may provide a more fruitful investigation.
• Upon arriving the historian's place, the Raven's Feast, the party met Madame Adeline who was able to provide some needed information about the Midnight Slasher and the Ghost of Graefmotte's case. The party learned that Lord Durven Graef visits the Church of the Morning Lord, a possible associate who may know more about the town's Lord.
• Father Alcester and Sister Regina greeted the party and provided very little information about Lord Graef; that he just pays lip services to the church and donates money in exchange for blessings prior his gnoll raids.
• Tycha suggested that they head on out to the gnoll side of the city but before crossing the river, they came upon a guarded bridge. Apparently it may seem that Lord Graeff likes to keep the gnolls on the rotten side of town for his own bloody amusement?
• The guards allowed the party to cross but warned them to return by 6 for the games would be closed.
• The party encountered a lone gnoll whom the party chased in the neighborhood. But only to end their chase looking up at a waiting gnoll party and I mean waiting with wagons to ram against them!
• Cleverly, the party went through side alleys but ended up encountering spirit balls aka Graefmote Cloud, nasty little swarm buggers who hit the parties defenses with cold and necrotic powers. Atop of which, a Gnoll Death Mage tried to spray the party with swarm of flies, but only ending up dying due to Champy’s bardic insults! The zombie Gnoll Marauders and a gnoll Blazing Zombie tried to strike the party down, only ending up dying…once again.
• The party retreated back to the main city after picking vials of healing potions and gold from the defeated foes, worn from the immense battle.
• Later that evening, due to the encouragement of the curfew, Tycha tried her charm on hunting down the Midnight Slasher with the Champy and Gerhard waiting on the side.
• After I failed to try to play it out a-la-without-miniatures, c’mon I was trying to play it out like 2^nd edition, the Midnight Slasher got away after a short battle.
• Next day, Gerhard received a dream from the Ghost of Graefmotte; a young girl running towards a wooden building located besides a raging river.
• That morning, the party witnessed a mob of children chasing after the newspaper boy. Who dropped one of his newspapers after he dashed into the alley. The newspaper focused on the topic of the Ghost of Graefmotte, how Lord Graef ignores the topic and on the side news, the print shop is shut down due to being claimed by the river. Wooden building from the dream + newspaper article = …
• The party ventured towards the gnoll city, informed by the militants that Lord Graef will return from his gnoll raid sometime today.
• Discovering the tilted wood building, the party went through the second floor only to discover that the Midnight Slasher was below. The Midnight Slasher was standing atop of what seemed a pile of old newspapers.
• The party decided to talk to the Midnight Slasher, so they instead sent out Champy. Poor lone Champy as the rest waited on the side to see what happens. What? I was wondering why you guys sent him, by his lonesome self with a maniac!
• The Midnight Slasher’s past showed that as a child, the Midnight Slasher had a happy childhood living with parents. Another woman came between the Midnight Slasher’s parents, who killed each other as the other woman watched. After the parents were gone, the other woman gave the young child a kiss on the forehead, sealing the child to become the Midnight Slasher and target prostitutes!
• The Ghost of Graefmotte arrived, the child ghost corrected Champy that the Midnight Slasher isn’t a he, but a She. This whole episode can be taken into some day time talk show.
• The Midnight Slasher sensed that the party can do more than she to help the Ghost of Graefmotte, left her knife and followed Tycha’s warning to never kill women in this city again.
• The party took the Ghost’s pendant, to show the killer and maybe provide the Ghost eternal rest.