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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #125 on: April 04, 2018, 07:04:06 AM »
After visiting the Burgomaster's House throughout a noapte, Valerca was seen exiting it with the Minstrel. They left past the checkpoint and returned soon after.

The recruit has returned to her duties since then: even though she seems to leave for the Lowlands throughout a day or twwo at a time, the wood she returns with to fix up signs and barricades might point at her simply going looking for it.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #126 on: April 06, 2018, 03:15:29 PM »
Valerica no longer leaves Krofburg, and she has stopped maintaining the road's torches, signs and barricades. Instead, she can be seen patrolling the city, Tent city and vineyard.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #127 on: June 12, 2018, 08:51:26 PM »
In the early morning, cold from the rain, a young woman entered Krofburg entirely naked and shivering. She appeared in a dazed state, and shortly after her arrival, received some clothes and was whisked away to a tavern.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #128 on: July 17, 2018, 01:18:34 PM »
A familiar copper-haired bard can be seen wandering about the tent city. She ignores the corpse of a fey woman, as she enters the Merriment, only to exit seconds later, and heave the body over her shoulder. Her path to the alcove across from the Burgomasters is made in clear, and she remained there a hour or two, before going about her business once more.
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #129 on: August 25, 2018, 05:12:24 PM »
Chaos once again struck the quiet village of Krofburg as, out of nowhere, a dark armoured figure appeared and kidnapped the steward, Constanta Lazarescu. All who came to her aid were slain, and then assailant and victim fled into the shadows...
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #130 on: August 25, 2018, 07:42:04 PM »
Several hours later, assisted by a small band of people (leaning her weight against one in particular), Constanta Lazarescu returned to Krofburg. She looked rather worse for wear, bloodied and pale and a little uncertain in her steps, but she was alive. The woman she rested against, identifiable by some as Morrigan Harding, the Minstrel, looked bloodied and wounded herself. Constanta was ferried into the Burgomaster's House and did not emerge.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #131 on: September 27, 2018, 08:58:52 AM »
[After a short time of calm following the demise of the Silent Scream, it seems that Krofburg is again suffering a new threat. A sombre air hangs over the Burgomaster’s House. Several militia members posted to guard the Burgomaster’s House have been slain. There is also a rumour that a crazed prospector viciously attacked Lord Bochinsky’s Steward, who was so fearful for her life that she beat him to death with her rod of office. The Steward herself is rarely seen outside of the House, and when she is, she appears to have lost much of the colour in her face. Weariness clings to her features.]

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #132 on: October 02, 2018, 09:28:26 PM »
After a bestial screech was heard in the dead of Old Night, large handfuls of individuals were ushered indoors by a woman dressed in dark armor, both in the village and the Tent City. As the first light of dawn broke over the nestled settlement, the villagers were greeted by a horrid sight -- near three dozen of their goats torn asunder by something massive. In the Wandering Billy, and in the field of the massacre, the culprit was confirmed to be the Liliacul Negru. After a rousing speech given by the Steward, most of the peasantry that nearly erupted in a riot were quelled, and their resolves hardened for the time being.


Guards and villagers alike are said to be seen setting up torch brackets all across the village and tent city in hopes to ward off this ancient terror of Old Night..
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #133 on: October 08, 2018, 08:40:20 PM »
In the tent city of Krofburg, there is a minor epidemic among the prospectors as an illness takes hold around many campsites leading to coughing of blood, dehydration, and severe fatigue. Two were reportedly deceased as a result of this wave of illness in the cold, winter town of Krofburg. So far, it appears the native populace has been spared from most of the illness in the town. The reports of illness has kept the local Barovians even more wary of the foreigners, keeping their distance from the strangers who had come only to fill their pockets with the mineral riches of their homeland...
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #134 on: October 12, 2018, 10:02:38 PM »
It has been a night of bloodshed.

The open court was disrupted by a masked woman, who, when made to leave, struck all those in attendance with terrible sorcery.

Many have fallen. While reports are few and scattered, given the scale of the bloodshed, it becomes known they have begun to be tended.

The air over Krofburg, and particularly over the House, is quiet and sorrowful.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #135 on: October 15, 2018, 04:34:58 AM »
It was said Vallaki garda were slain on the way to Krofburg from Vallaki including a Sergeant whose body was covered in arrows and slashes indicating a long battle against an archer with a mask. The next day, word spreads as some bizarre murders had occurred at night in the mining tunnels of the Great Rift. The bodies of three men were uncovered including the locally known criminal kingpin Dmitri 'the Sly' were found with gunshot wounds and their arms crossed on their chests in a ceremonial manner. Although the plague deaths have drawn most of the attention of the local guards and the rowdy foreigners of the tent city who have been traumatized and concerned about the minor outbreak that was since contained.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #136 on: October 20, 2018, 11:38:59 AM »
A trio of Darkonians arrive in the Tent City of Krofburg, escorted by Understeward Harding. Two haul large oxen, each carrying large, sagging satchels and an assortment of coffins – while one of the Darkonians hauls several satchels with much strain.

They quickly take their load to a large, brown tent near the Tent City’s entrance. After some time, two darkonians emerge. But one remains, toiling through the night, stepping out only to accept deliveries from small, hand-drawn wagons that unload near the tent’s doorway, as if to obscure the contents.


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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #137 on: January 16, 2019, 03:29:51 AM »
A Gundarakite man has been seen entering and leaving the Bellegarde Consortium’s office in the company’s colors. He brings in mining supplies and books in tow. The young gentleman surveyed Bellegarde operations near the Rift before lounging and reading inside the office. Word is that he seeks knowledge of Barovian folklore and local history.
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #138 on: January 30, 2019, 02:15:17 PM »
A young woman clad in bright garments has been seen wandering about the tent city in Krofburg.  She leaves only to make quick deliveries, however is said to be in search of more stable work at one of the local venues.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #139 on: February 07, 2019, 12:15:22 AM »
The mountain Village had seen dark days before - many overshadowing the massacre that happened in the late hours - Though it was rare for the miners and shepherds to be reminded so vividly of the bestial plague down in the vale, and even less expected was the outlandish, timber beast bursting out of the Bellegarde office covered in viscera, shredding the unfortunate souls that rested their weary bodies closest to the building before roaring out in rage and sprinting back inside...
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #140 on: February 07, 2019, 03:15:12 AM »
A bloodied and limping man stumbled into the Tent city with single minded purpose and walked into the ajar entrance of the Bellegarde Consortium and disappeared inside without closing the door. He could be described as the grey-eyed, olive-skinned Gundarakite Subdirector that shortly before had been missing for several hours. No comment could be reached from inside of the Consortium's building at the time.
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #141 on: March 12, 2019, 02:57:51 PM »
[Old posters begin circulating again, and it seems the Anchorite has come back through the mining village on his travels...]

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #142 on: April 01, 2019, 05:21:58 AM »
In the last hours of dusk, as night encroached a preacher of the declared "Hailed Final Revelation" sermonized the miners of the tent city. When a Krofburg Guard attempted to disperse the preacher with a threat of violence, an apparent new convert in the crowd threw himself unarmed and unarmored to save the preacher and was killed. The preacher was grievously wounded but left after pleading for the safety of his flock.
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #143 on: June 21, 2019, 05:59:05 PM »
In the darkest of night, a small, weary looking elven woman entered the quiet town, drenched by the torrents of rain falling at the time. She made her way slowly to the inn, face concealed, though a large sword was seen sheathed on her back, while a golden harp was hanging from her belt.
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #144 on: June 27, 2019, 01:20:37 AM »
Notices are posted in Krofburg at the Miner's Merriment and the General Store,

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #145 on: August 23, 2019, 01:52:39 PM »
The last couple of weeks a young man with golden hair has been seen moving about the city, talking with the inhabitants, and helping out those whom ask him. He seems to be working at the Miner's merriment, where he spends most of his time conducting repairs and maintenance of the building.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #146 on: September 11, 2019, 10:07:19 AM »
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The Burgomaster of Krofburg, Dimitry Bochinsky, was seen departing early in the hours of a recent morning. Travellers passing on the Old Svalich Road describe seeing a small party in the colors of the village of Krofburg approaching the gates of Castle Ravenloft itself. A day passes; then another; then three; but the Burgomaster does not return.
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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #147 on: September 12, 2019, 05:45:37 PM »
On recent mornings, Lord Bochinsky's Steward, Constanta Lazarescu, is seen upon the road heading into the village.

At times, she stops travellers in their tracks to ask them about their journeys up the mount. Heavily clothed against the wintry chill, she remains a silent watch-woman on the mountain road for an hour or so at a time, holding fast to her rod of office with one hand, the other held protectively across her round belly. She watches, waiting for her Lord and his men to return, before returning to her duties.

With each passing morning, hope flickers a little less brightly in her eyes.



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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
« Reply #148 on: September 21, 2019, 09:17:32 AM »
Krofburg is visited by dreaded figures that dot the slope like malign mountain goats; grisly shrines and effigies are left to gruesome dinner. Plates with human eye's and thigh of elf, and tongue of dwarf. Old bodies buried returned to the surface once more for one last meal.

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Re: Barovia - Krofburg
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