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The Beginning
Schmebulock, Thalion, and Isolde met under strange circumstances involving a stolen pastry, and, all of them strapped for cash, agreed mutually to cooperate as a sort of adventuring party in order to pick up jobs and buy a new pastry.

In search of said job near the outskirts of Brassbell, the trio came across a pair of children who begged them to enter their house and save their baby brother from the monster. They did so, and immediately, the large front doors shut and locked behind them—and an elf monk rushed toward them, trying and failing to get to the door before it shut. Galadriel revealed that she, too, had fallen for the children's tale and had been trapped in the house for the better part of a day.

The four of them stuck together and explored the manor, discovering the children's dead bodies in the attic as well as an empty crib, a restless, hostile specter, and a secret room in the library containing several incriminating letters between a Mr. Durst and a Lord Strahd; Mr. Durst must be the adultering father they've discovered once lived in the abandoned home, but Strahd's identity remains a mystery.

Behind a secret compartment on the third floor, they found a staircase leading down; farther down than the main floor, into a cavernous basement that absolutely must not be allowed under city ordinances. They've explored a little bit of the basement and so far discovered a small family crypt (containing two dead parents and two empty child-sized coffins), a dining area, and a creature who seems to think people being in the dining area must be food. They killed it and elected to take a long rest before exploring further.