1. The group were discussing what they would do with Janlynn in her new situation. Nim spent his time reading through the now readable text in the Oath Celestial book. A long rest was definitely in order.
2. Finn was desperate to get through to his friend Janlynn. He and Uphir came close and removed the hood covering her head and removed the gag. If she tried to cast a voice activated spell, Uphir was ready to stop her. Janlynn was sobbing uncontrollably and it saddened Finn.
3. No sooner had the gag been removed then Janlynn reached out with her hand and cast a terrible necrotic spell upon Uphir for a ton of damage. Uphir was caught flat-footed, not expecting her to have gotten out of her restraints.
4. Everyone sprung into action and Janlynn was quickly re-captured and trussed up in such a way that it would be impossible for her to escape her bonds this time.
5. A detect magic spell revealed that she was in fact suffering from a charm enchantment, but we had no way of breaking through that spell, as Janlynn was the only one with a dispel magic spell.
6. Finn used his message spell to communicate directly with Janlynn in her mind - what he found there was a frightened Janlynn voice and also the mocking sound of Strahd's voice. Finn gave her encouragement to fight off the Devil's enchantment.
7. Finn went to try and get a message out to Muriel. She came to the chimney he was calling from and he gave her a full report of what they had found and learned within Arganvosthold. He asked if she knew of a way to defeat Strahd's hold upon her or of anyone who had such power. She did not.
8. Muriel confirmed that there were two Dark Riders upon the roof! We needed an escape route out of this place and she had already been giving some thought to that and thinks she can lead us on a route down through the cliffs and bluffs around the structure and back down into the ruins of Berez that would not be noticed by the Dark Riders. Thick vegetation and fog somewhat obstructs their vision and if exploited properly we might just escape. She was going to continue working on that.
9. Rather than leaving as soon as possible, it was determined that they would move to the room upstairs with the fancy windows of the morning light. Perhaps with enough prayer and the touch of the morninglord, she would have strength enough to fight off the enchantment. We were told by Muriel that the ghosts that guard the halls would be replenished at first light, but decided we would have to risk it and fight our way out.
10. When the morning came, Janlynn had in fact found the strength and broke away from the clutches of the Devil. She said that it happened when she died. Somehow Strahd was able to gain some measure of control over her during that time. He was manipulating her to bring us into hise clutches.
11. Now that we had Janlynn back, it was decided that we would go and meet this Vladimir Hornguard Revenant and see if we could learn more of what we must do to complete our task.
12. The ghost have in fact returned and we are fighting our way through them to get to the stairs to the floor above.
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