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Notes
We sleep at the Martikov's winery for the night (Long Rest). Calenya has her watch at the same time as Adrian. Adrian discovers her lycantrhopy when he sees her eyes and wakes up the rest of the family in fear. Anton gets woken up by the shouting and joins the discussion. Edward also wakes up but, too lazy to get out of bed, he throws a book at Lua to get her to deal with the hassle. Davian Martikov wants Calenya to be killed, as he fears she will lose control and slaughter the family. After a lengthy discussion, Calenya agrees to be locked up in the basement for the night. The next morning Lua calls Urwin to gather the Keepers of the Feather to Jester Hill. Then she tries to remove Calenya's curse, but nothing seems to happen when casting the spell. Davian Martikov initially refuses to travel with Calenya and help. We convince him to fight with us but he promises to kill Calenya if she changes any further. At the hill we meet up with the rest of the ravens and march towards the statue at the top. The druids had started with the ritual to summon the tree monster, but we defeat them with the help of the ravens. As we burn the wooden statue, the gem falls from its chest. Davian Martikov thanks us for helping and offers Calenya their help in controlling the shifting if she manages to overcome the lycanthopy. At one side of the hill we see a huge tree with an axe embedded in the trunk and dormant treeblight around it. Calenya is called by the same voice she heard when we were at the hill before and follows it to a grave. In the grave she finds a spear, seemingly the source of the voice.
We take the carriage left by Strahd to go to the dinner at his castle. When we pass through Vallaki, Anton thinks he sees a glimpse of Ireena in the tavern window. We also notice Rictavio's caravan is gone from is previous place. For the rest Vallaki seems the same. At the castle we are greeted by an elf named Rahadin who leads us to the dinner chamber. He says he serves Strahd, but we notice he is not a vampire. Upon entering the dinner hall we find a table with fancy dinner ware and Strahd playing on the organ.
