Lady Wachter’s

T h e B l a c k n e s s
C u l t o f
DM’s PLAYBOOK

AN EXPANSION TO THE CURSE OF STRAHD CAMPAIGN

 LADY WACHTER’S CULT OF THE BLACKNESS
Setting and Notes
The fools in the Wachterhaus basement were
merely recruits. Lady Wachter’s Cult is very real, and
has a very real headquarters in a decrepit mansion in
a secluded corner of Vallaki.
Lady Wachter and her cult sacrifice a slow stream
of townsfolk to The Blackness, which lives in the
ballroom attic, dripping into a disused ballroom for
its feedings.
Once per season, her cult abducts a Vallakian for
The Blackness, a hideous Black Pudding. After the
death of Lady Wachter at the hands of the PCs, the
cult is in a panicked frenzy. They are about to sacri-
fice another villager when the PCs enter the man-
sion. They have abducted and sacrificed several
townsfolk already to try to curry the favor of the
Dark Powers, and have expanded to arson to sew
additional chaos.
The Dark Powers have listened.
Lady Wachter has returned.
Use these hooks (or your own, of course) to lure your
PCs to the mansion - and their doom?
• Your bloodthirsty PCs simply want to root out
the rest of the cult.
• The PCs investigate this wave or arson, finding
a witness or capturing a cultist at the scene.
• The PCs themselves witness an arson.
• An NPC begs the players to investigate their
missing spouse, sadly already sacrificed.
• There have been stirrings of seeing Lady
Wachter around town, despite knowing the
PCs have killed her.
• One of the PCs themselves have been captured!
(this is great if a player has to miss a session)
As if that weren‘t enough, before her death, Lady
Wachter had long been creating zombies, herded into the
attic, to eventually unleash on all of Vallaki; at the time to
blame the Burgomaster’s incompetence to get him ousted.
Now she simply wants revenge on the living.
This mansion quest is fully fleshed out but also leaves
plenty of flexibility for customization for your specific
game. I‘ve left suggestions appropriate for 3-5 Level 5-7 PCs
- but populate the rooms with CR appropriate challenges.
Feel free to adjust flavor notes such as the stained glass
window (seen from area 15) to intertwine different Barovi-
an factions, or change the fresco (area 13) if the players’
relationship with Dusk Elves suggests it.
General Play Notes:
• Customize Lady Wachter! Make her match the descrip-
tion of how the PCs killed her. In my game, they eagerly
beheaded her.
• I have tried to write the descriptions to fit if your PCs
enter rooms from any direction but of course you must
tailor readings.
• First floor windows are all so old and dingy as to not
allow a view inside. Second floor windows are strongly
boarded shut.
• Room occupants are suggested but not specified. It‘s up
to you to determine your players’ CR.
• PCs can find out the purpose of the zombie mobs by
interrogating any Cult Fanatic. Cultists know about the
zombies, but not their ultimate purpose.
• If Ernst Larnak or Wachter‘s sons still live, they took up
leadership of the cult until they realize Lady Wachter has
returned. They may harbor resentment at being kicked
out of a place of power and either betray the cult or join
the players!
• If PCs pose as recruits or cultists to gain entry, perhaps
they can learn the passphrase “May Blackness Eclipse the
Flesh” by interrogating a captured cultist.
Have fun and remember:
don’t let ‘em see you cry when they
inevitably mess up your plans.
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SECOND FLOOR & ATTIC

ROOF AREA*
ROOF AREA*

15 ROOF AREA*

16 17 18
A 18B 18C

ROOF AREA*

*1st floor roof areas CAN be accessed by a

ROOF AREA*
DC15 climb (Dex) check, and stood upon.

GROUND FLOOR

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Lady Wachter’s Stained Glass Hole for the
Stairs Secret Door Ghast Statue and Abductee Boarded up window window Black Pudding
1) Approaching the building through the fog, you become
aware of why Lady Wachter’s cult uses it as a base of
operations. If Wachterhaus was sagging with self-loath-
ing, this once-grand building is positively repulsed with
itself. You can see that once bright orange-red stones
have become grimy with lichen and twisted black vines.
Windows appear to be cracked thick brown glass. A large
stained glass window over the large entrance door is
mostly covered in black slime and vines. You see at least
three, no, four chimneys rise from various parts of the
structure, but no wisp of smoke issues from them. The
building itself rests on a patch of tall dead grass, far from
occupied buildings; its footprint at least twice that of the
once-noble Wachterhaus. This is owing to what looks like
some sort of ballroom or dance hall to the east; an annex
that appears to have been built only slightly more recently.
[Any available NPC whispers, “it feels like we’re being
watched”.] Notwithstanding the comment, this once
grand structure shows no movement and emits no noise,
for all appearances lurking on its property like a dead
animal.
Everyone roll a perception check:
PASS at DC15 to spot a crude alarm system of twine
running through the dead grass, held up on stakes, leading
to a hole in a window, connected to a bell. If they fail the
check, it doesn’t exist - don’t want to actually alert the cult!
PASS at DC20, they can see the very, very faint flickering
of light from within - weak candles.
2) Beyond the (locked, DC15 pick check) doorway lies a long,
open foyer with cracked stone flooring. Threadbare
carpets lie like discarded dishrags. Though a few spare
candles sputter on improvised wall mounts, the air itself
feels gloomy and dank.
A figure leaps back from the door, his dingy brown
cloak thrown back and a hand reaching for a weapon. On
a weathered looking staircase at the far end of the hall, a
man and woman in cloaks the color of dried blood turn
from their conversation towards you.
3) The door opens into a long hallway. The cultists don’t
appear to have bothered lighting this hallway, but with
the spare illumination from behind you, you can make
out several doors along its length. You also see the
silhouetted form of another fanatical cultist, grinning and
elaborately waving his hands, muttering a grim incanta-
tion.
If the PCs made a lot of noise in the previous room, you
may opt to give this Cult Fanatic surprise against the PCs.
4) You gain access to this dingy room and immediately
notice rack upon rack of (unremarkable) weapons against
the south wall. This appears to be an improvised armory
of sorts. The wooden floor and walls are full of slashes,
dents, and the odd arrow or dagger sticking out of them.
A few antique tables and desks are carelessly scattered.
Several cultists are perched here, waiting.
Cultists get Surprise and use the tables for half cover
(+2AC) or hide behind them for three-quartesr cover (+5 AC)
5) This room is devoid of furniture, but several small barrels
are stacked in the corner. Faded wallpaper hangs from
the walls like strips of flayed skin. A single heavy-
looking door in the far wall is the only other feature that
stands out to you.
The barrels (quantity up to you) are full of a combusti-
ble lamp oil - what the cult uses in their arsons. They do not
explode and make poor weapons, but can aid burning a
structure if poured and lit.
THERE IS A SECRET DOOR IN THE EAST WALL INTO THE
OFFICE! DC15 Perception Check – OR the Cult Fanatic may
come out to surprise the PCs if they dally or make noise.
6) Perhaps the brightest room you’ve yet seen, this small
office boasts no fewer than three oil lamps, flickering with
acrid smoke that has stained the ceiling black. The floor is
plastered with discarded and molding papers - faded
sheets of parchment and scrolls trampled underfoot,
brownish-green with water damage. A weathered desk
holds some newer paperwork, writing implements, and a
metal box, but behind the desk a man with a long black
beard and tiny, cruel eyes snarls at your intrusion.
Clear trails in the paper mess may give a clue to
the secret door in the west wall (see Area 5)
This Cult Fanatic (Memrik “Coinkeeper” Mirosovick)
uses the desk for half cover (+2 AC)
SEARCHING THE ROOM, THEY FIND:
• In the detritus on the floor:
Spell Scroll of Protection from Energy
(For the Duration, the willing creature you touch has Resistance
to damage type of your choice - acid, cold, fire, lightning, thunder.)
• Items on the desk include:
• A list of names (all current cult members) with several
crossed out – ones PCs have killed.
A list of buildings – enemies of the cult - for arson:
The Church of Saint Andral
The Coffinmaker’s shop
The Blue Water Inn
Blinsky’s toys, etc.
Some of these may already have been burned
If so, they have been crossed out, here.
• A small lockbox (DC10 pick check) with:
100 gold pieces, 200 copper pieces
TWO potions of healing (2d4 + 2)
Large iron key (opens ONE lock set in Area 15)
7) The door thuds back closed as you try to open it,
slamming shut. You hear a curse and shouts from
behind it.
(A cultist is trying to hold the door close. DC15 STR
CHECK to throw it open; success knocks the cultist prone)
This large chamber appears to have once been an
elegant dining hall. Now it holds several beat up tables
and a scattering of eclectic chairs. The tables are rife
with bits of old meals and spilt drink. A huge fireplace
on the west wall sits cold and dark. Several cultists
crouch behind tables (with crossbows aimed. They do not
hesitate to fire. – OR – desperately loading crossbows).
8) The odor of stale spices and sour beer waft to you as
you enter this long narrow room. Both walls are choked
with old supplies and sundries. Several small pouches
of spices are tipped over across the floor, along with
trampled moldy bread and rotten vegetables. A barrel
of salt-crusted bass and trout sits open to the air next to
several half full bottles of mead and wine. Another
doorway sits at the end of this pantry, and a flimsy
ill-fitting door sits to the south.
9) This was once servants quarters - several sturdy but
plain beds are scattered about the room. The bedding
on them appears much newer than the rest of the
accoutrements of the mansion - the cult seems to use
this as a sort of rotating sleeping room. A woman
(cultist) with a shaved head and a ruddy complexion
lays passed out on the far cot; an empty bottle of mead
clutched in one hand, and a broadsword gripped in
the other.
10) This galley kitchen is made of coarse-cut stone blocks.
Cabinets have fallen or been torn from the walls and lay
in heaps on the floor. A few scattered lanterns sit on the
stone counters. With this room separated from the main
house, you appear to have caught the folk here
unawares. Several men in disheveled clothes, two bare
to the waist, appear to be preparing some sort of meal.
They are in the middle of dumping old spices on stale
bread and ladeling watery looking soup into cracked
bowls with dried fish. On seeing you, the soup ladeler
drops his utensil, exclaiming, “By the teeth of the dark
prince!” and he scrambles for a large kitchen knife.
The PCs have Surprise here.
11) This was once a walk-in coat room or closet for the
noble family and their guests. You can imagine it being
filled with ornate overcoats and wolf-fur capes, but now
it plays host to several dingy looking cloaks. Some
brownish (Cultists), some blood red (Cult Fanatics). A
few pairs of overalls and other common clothes lay
heaped in piles. Another door stands opposite to you.
The room is otherwise empty.
If they search the room and pass a DC20 perception
check, they will find a cleverly hidden panel in the wood-
working containing several dead spiders and a threadbare
time-worn purse with 80 silver pieces in it.
12) Years ago this room could have functioned as a
delightful den or waiting room. Elaborate wallpaper
now hangs stained and drooping to the floor. Delicate
chairs and end tables sit in broken heaps in the corners
of the room. Two cult members, one quite obese and
the other so emaciated as to appear skeletal, are
crouched on the floor, peering over a fistful of dice.
The skinny man (”Whisp”) curses and exclaims “the
bones are with you today, you stinking dung heap!” – 
the fat one (”Gorge”) peers around him at you and
mutters “Stab me gently and burn the blood, who the
fuck are you?!”
These cultists should have some money but only
copper coins. Perhaps 50 coppers between them.
The dice are a full D&D set carved from bloodwood
worth 2GP.
13) The ceiling of this sizeable room sports a large oval set
into it. The oval bounds a flaking fresco. Despite the
gloom and faded pigments, you can make out several
figures: handsome noblemen and buxom ladies danc-
ing in revelry with exaggerated charicatures of
salacious purple-skinned, naked elves looking divine
and revered. A couple of crossbow bolts stick out of the
fresco in places. As for the rest of the room, years-old
entertaining furniture is shoved up against the walls, a
clear path from where you stand leading to the large,
ornate double doors on the far side of the room.
The Dusk Elves in this fresco are portrayed in an
idealized but condescending way the old noble houses
liked to think of them. Almost mythical nymphs, innocent
and vapid, rather than the depressed remnants of a
people they currently were at the time – and still are.
14) This huge ballroom swirls with some kind of acrid sour
stench. The twenty-foot high ceiling is half-tiled with
blue and white patterns. Many of the tiles have fallen to
the floor, where they have been shoved against the
walls or swept into the two giant, dark fireplaces.
Toward the far end of the room, a stone-bordered hole
is placed in the ceiling. The long dark floorboards are
stained as if wiped with a black ink, or burned, or
perhaps both. It is hard to take much stock of the room,
however, because of the dominating feature therein,
before which stand six cult members, chanting in
monotone. This feature is a wide dais of stone, at the
center of which stands a very large stone statue, roughly
in the shape of a figure in a robe, its arms outstretched
and holding up a stone platter. It is hard to make out
details, for it faces to the east.
But disturbingly you can see legs, human legs,
bound thickly with rope, kicking and struggling off the
side of this platter.
The chanting men and women beseech “the
unholy blackness to envelop the flesh, and the land!”
Lady Wachter’s Ghast stands hidden from view
behind the statue, watching. Waiting.
One of the Cult Fanatics has the second key for the
locks in area 15.
WHEN LADY WACHTER APPEARS: A figure once hidden
from sight strides forward, revealing itself from behind
the massive statue. Its movements are jerky but rapid. It
is deceptively short and confusing to behold. It wears a
crumpled blood red noblewoman’s dress, stained black
in places. It carries its own head in one hand, clutching a
fistful of long stringy grey hair up like a lantern; the
dessicated head of Lady Fiona Wachter herself...cackling
a raspy laugh.
Tailor this description to whatever fate befell YOUR
campaign’s Lady Wachter.
WHEN THE PUDDING FALLS: With a churning sense of
foreboding, you notice the surviving cult members
gasping. “The Blackness comes to consume!” one shrieks
– their attention drawn to the stone circle in the ceiling.
A thick, slimy, yet gritty substance hangs low out of it,
dripping down in slithering tendrils of thick tar. Despite
its apparent viscosity, it pours with speed and intent -
dropping on to the upheld platter of the statue. An
ear-piercing howl of pain fills the hall as you hear
sizzling and popping like frying meat, and see green
smoke roiling. Within seconds this mass of blackness has
enveloped the platter and continues on its way to the
floor, a constant crackle issuing from it as it seems to
burn the very air that touches it.
It would be remarkable for the PCs to be able to save
this random Vallakian, as it should fall mid-combat. If you
used the “Abduct a PC” hook, maybe give them more than
a little leeway. Also a great way to kill off NPCs.
15) Atop the landing you turn to see the stained glass
window. Backlit by the overcast light outside, you can
see it was once a beautiful scene of a white stag, a
brown bear, a tan windmill, and a flying blue raven,
surrounded by a kaleidoscopic pattern. Now many
panes are cracked or missing. It’s held in place as much
by the mold and vines as its original framework. On this
landing, to either side, are heavy doors held fast with
two weighty padlocks each. The doors look to be
reinforced by thick boards and sheets of metal.
DC 20 PICK CHECK FOR EACH LOCK. One key is in the
office. One key is on a cult fanatic in the ballroom. Each key
will only open one lock per door, requiring both keys.
16 & 17) This side of the second floor is pitch black.
Without darkvision, you can see nothing. Thin pencils of
light filter in from heavily boarded windows, but they
illuminate nothing. (With Darkvision or Lanterns/Light)
You can easily see that this area was once several differ-
ent rooms, but all dividing walls have been crudely torn
down, leaving boards and plaster strewn across the
floor. This now single, large room houses a (certain
number, DM’s choice) of shuffling, shambling corpses,
their dead black eyes rolling ceaselessy as their mouths
work, chewing the air. As the scent of living flesh wafts
to them, they turn their mindless attention toward you.
18A) A short, steep, narrow staircase, leads up to another
door, on which you can clearly see layer of grimy dust.
18B) opens into a black room that feels like it must
stretch the length of the ballroom below it. Without
Darkvision/Light, you can see nothing. The ceiling is only
6 feet high in the center and steeply angles down to
meet the floor at either side, making for cramped
quarters. Even with darkvision (or light) you can’t quite
see to the far end of the room. As you put a foot
cautiously into this space, you realize that the floor of
this attic is lined with flat unsecured flagstones. The
wood trusses and beams beneath the stones creaks
unsettlingly. An acrid burning assaults your nostrils.
Because of the cramped quarters, you may want to
impose penalties to DEX, or use Squeezing in the PHB, p192
18C) As you move into the room you discern the old
framework of crates and chests, reduced to little more
than blackened rubble. If this was once storage, it is now
empty. The floor groans menacingly underfoot. The
acrid smell burns your throat. Ahead you see the dim
outline of a circle of muddy light: a hole in the floor. Just
behind it, you see a glimmer of movement. A gritty,
slimy ebony mass lies pooled and spread out at the far
end of the room. It shudders and slides towards you.
The stones’ weight and black pudding’s acid have
weakened the floor here. If two heavy PCs walk close
together, they fall through the floor taking 2d10 damage.
If they already fought the Black Pudding in the
ballroom, this attic is empty.
THE WACHTERGHAST (modified ghast)
Lady Wachter has a terrible stench of putrid flesh and spoilt blood. Poisoned creature has disadvantage
on Attack rolls and Ability Checks.

Stench: Any creature that starts its turn within 5 ft. of the ghast must succeed a DC 10 CON save or be Poisoned
until the start of its next turn. On a successful save, the creature is immune to the Stench for 24 hours.
Turn Defiance: Advantage on saves for turning Undead. “The blood of Barovia suffuses me! Your power is impotent!”

The Wachterghast has 2 attacks; one bite and one claw.

Bite: +3 to hit, 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage. (If holding her severed head, Wachterghast swings it for this attack)
Claw: +5 to hit, 10 (2d6 + 3) slashing damage. DC 10 CON save or be Paralyzed for 1 round.

SPELLS – Spell Save DC15 – can cast each spell twice – see PHB for full spell descriptions
Guiding Bolt: +5 to hit; 4d6 radiant damage, the next Attack roll against this target before the end of your next
turn has advantage, thanks to the mystical dim light glittering on the target until then.
Spirit Guardians: Black imps swarm around Wachterghast in 15’ radius. Good creatures’ speed is halved in the area,
and when the creature enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, it must make a WIS save,
DC15. Failed save: 3d8 necrotic damage. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage.

AC 15
STR
DEX
16
17
(+3)
(+4)
60 WACHTERGHAST moans the following:
• Eternal Straaahdddd Come to Ussssss!
CON 10 • The Powers Have Blessed Meeeeeeee
INT 11 • The Flesh will be consuuuuuumed
WIS 10 • I Cannot See the Brightness!
(laughing if the PC has the sunsword;
CHA 8 (-1) she has no sunlight sensitivity)

THE BLACKNESS (modified black pudding)

Corrosive Form: A creature that hits The Blackness with a melee Attack while
within 5 feet of it takes (1d8) acid damage. Nonmagical weapons of metal or wood
corrode: After dealing damage, the weapon takes a permanent, cumulative -1
penalty to Damage Rolls. If its penalty drops to -5, the weapon is destroyed.
Nonmagical ammunition is destroyed after dealing damage.

Pseudopod: +5 to hit, 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 18 (4d8) acid damage. In addition, nonmagical
armor worn by the target is partly dissolved and takes a permanent and cumulative -1 penalty to the AC it
offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10.

Split: When a pudding is subjected to lightning or slashing damage and has at least 10 HP, it splits into two new
puddings. Each new pudding has hit points equal to half the original pudding's, rounded down. New pud-
dings are one size smaller than the original pudding.

AC 7
STR 16 (+3) 85 THE BLACKNESS dissolves when killed, revealing:
• 2 partially digested skeletons
DEX 15 (+3) • 5 misc gemstones (worth 50 GP each)
CON 16 (+3) • an ivory wand of Lightning Bolt
INT 1 (-5) with one charge left
WIS 6 (-2)
CHA 1 (-5)
CULTIST 9 9 9 9 9 9
AC 12 (leather armor)
STR 11
DEX 12 (+1)
9 9 9 9 9 9
CON 10
INT 10
WIS 11
CHA 10 9 9 9 9 9 9
Dark Devotion:
The cultist has advantage
on saving throws against
Charm & Frighten. 9 9 9 9 9 9

SHORTSWORD:
+3 to hit 1d6 DMG
CROSSBOW: 9 9 9 9 9 9
+3 to hit 1d8 DMG
Range: 80/320

CULT FANATIC 22 22 22
AC 13 (leather armor + DEX)
STR 11 INT 10
DEX 14 (+2) WIS 13 (+1)
CON 12 (+1) CHA 14 (+2) 1st LVL
SLOTS
1st LVL
SLOTS
1st LVL
SLOTS
2nd LVL 2nd LVL 2nd LVL
SLOTS SLOTS SLOTS
DARK DEVOTION: Fanatics have advantage on
22 22 22
saves against being Charm & Frightened.

DAGGER (two attacks): +3 to hit, 1d4+2 DMG

1st LVL 1st LVL 1st LVL
Spell save DC 11, +3 to hit with spell attacks SLOTS SLOTS SLOTS
2nd LVL 2nd LVL 2nd LVL
SLOTS SLOTS SLOTS
CANTRIPS:
22 22 22
• Light • Thaumaturgy
• Sacred Flame – 60 ft range, +3 to hit,
DC11 DEX save or 1d8 radiant dmg
1st LVL 1st LVL 1st LVL
1st LEVEL (4 slots) SLOTS
2nd LVL
SLOTS
2nd LVL
SLOTS
2nd LVL
• Command – DC11 WIS save or follow one SLOTS SLOTS SLOTS

of these commands as its next turn: 22 22 22

Approach, Drop, Flee, Grovel, Halt
• Inflict Wounds – Melee Spell Attack, target
takes 3d10 necrotic dmg. 1st LVL 1st LVL 1st LVL
• Shield of Faith – +2 AC for 10 minutes, SLOTS
2nd LVL
SLOTS
2nd LVL
SLOTS
2nd LVL
SLOTS SLOTS SLOTS
CONCENTRATION
22 22 22
2nd level (3 slots):
• Hold Person - 60ft Range, DC11 WIS save
each turn or Paralyzed 1 min.
• Spiritual Weapon - BONUS ACTION & move/attack 1st LVL
SLOTS
1st LVL
SLOTS
1st LVL
SLOTS
2nd LVL 2nd LVL 2nd LVL
as bonus action. 1d8dmg, melee spell attack SLOTS SLOTS SLOTS
ZOMBIES (note: NOT Strahd zombies, because all those body parts are a pain to track)

Undead Fortitude: If damage reduces the zombie to 0HP, it makes a CON save with a DC of 5+the damage
taken, unless the damage is radiant or from a critical hit. On success, the zombie drops to 1HP instead.

AC 8
STR 13 (+1)
20 20 20 20
DEX 6 (-2)
CON 16 (+3)
INT 3 (-4)
WIS 6 (-2)
CHA 5 (-3) 20 20 20 20

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CULT MEMBER ITEMS
This page lists some items which the cultists might have if your players search the corpses.
Check them off as you use them.
2GP, 10CP, bundle of aromatic dried flowers
(potpurri used to mask the stench of the attic zombies)
10GP, blacksmithing tools (ball-peen hammer,
long pliers) They just killed the town Blacksmith - too
bad if they were going to have him silver their weapons!
A worn, handcarved symbol of the Morning Lord
This cultist lost his faith but carries a reminder.
4GP, 15CP, leather thong necklace with a green
glass ring (nonmagical; it’s actually the top of a bottle
from the winery ground smooth, worth a few coppers)
5GP and a finely detailed Vistani handkerchief,
and a key to the outside doors
2GP, a Blinsky doll of a baby you can turn
inside out to look like a zombie, a tinderbox
8GP, 10CP, and a dented pennywhistle
A shopping list, a copper ring (worth 20CP),
and a key to the outside doors
A headless child’s doll carved from wood
The head of a child’s doll carved from wood
A copy of one of Lady Wachter’s cult books, a
tinderbox, whetstone, and key to the outside doors
3GP, 15CP, a pouch full of dried fruits and wolf jerky
An ornate dagger with a human femur hilt and
black opal pommel, worth 75GP – due to its
awkward grip but excellent blade, it is -1 to hit
but +1 to damage.
A crumpled up poster for the Festival of the
Blazing Sun, a pouch of matches, a few bits of jerky
5GP, 25CP, A lock of long blonde hair tied
with a bright green ribbon...stained with blood.
A scribbled note reading “no more dream pastries,
no more dream pastries, no children left anyway,
no more dream pastries...” (repeated)
A bracelet of bronze and gold intertwining eels,
worth 25GP, and a key to the outside doors
A pouch full of leathery dried human ears, many
with earrings (the earrings are worth a total of 5GP)
A wooden spoon with a face in the “bowl” of it.
Its mouth is an open hole, making it difficult to use.
5GP and a scarf of blue and gold silk worth 10GP
A pocketful of birdseed and two dead pigeons,
several matches, and a key to the outside doors
A carved wood talisman of a crude devil’s head,
painted black and red (nonmagical, useless)
A well done and detailed sketch of the naked Dusk
Elves from the ceiling fresco (If the PCs haven’t been to
that room yet, this could be quite confusing for a while!)
A list of names: Rahadin, Ludmilla Vilisevic,
Anastrasya Karelova, Volenta Popofsky, Escher
A note saying “Blinsky’s monkey... weird but cute
little thing. Try to steal it before setting building
on fire. That toymaker is so obnoxious.”