Session 1

At the tavern, Drawn and Courtier, each person is approached by a man in black gives us each a bag of 20 gold to talk with him instructed by his master.
 
Ireena Kolyana is supposedly in trouble in Barovia

Kolyan Indriovich Burgomaster is asking for our help

- his daughter
 
mystery guy disappears into mist as we leave.
traveling further we are snared in around us by abjeration magic.
come across a house that is the only thing we have seen

there are old fancy portraits with a coat of arms

- Shield = Durst family - has not been seen in ~100 yrs
- Durst crest is a windmill
Death will found that leaves the house and windmill - Rosavalda and Thornbolt Durst - in the event of parents death
Body found hanging out of chest that held will and deeds. Body had an letter with it

My most pathetic servant,

I am not a messiah sent to you by the Dark Powers of this land. I have not come to lead you on a path to immortality. However many souls you have bled on your hidden altar, however many visitors you have tortured in your dungeon, know that you are not the ones who brought me to this beautiful land. You are but worms writhing in my earth.
You say that you are cursed, your fortunes spent. You abandoned love for madness, took solace in the bosom of another woman, and sired a stillborn son. Cursed by darkness? Of that I have no doubt. Save you from your wretchedness? I think not. I much prefer you as you are.
Your dread lord and master,
- Strahd von Zarovich