Act I: Inauspicious Start

Veroth will look at the boarding around the ground floor and notices that it does indeed look solid and secure... if a bit amateurish. "Oh well", he muses, not everyone has his particular set of skills...

He makes his way to the second floor and notice it looks as if she started boarding up the windows, but stopped for some unknown reason. At first, you find this very foolish and risky, but then remember those zombies are definitely not the climbing type. You assume she probably wasted some time and energy starting to secure the second story before she had the same realization you just had... You then wonder if she should still board up the second story in order to prevent entry from that Strahd fellow. But as you pass in front of a window which gives you a good view of the twisted and broken front iron gate, you wonder if that was Strahd's doing... if so, no amount of wooden planks and nails will do much to stop him...

Whoever's up during third watch will start hearing the distant howls of wolves. That person can then make a Perception check (in addition of any other action that person may wish to take).

Shortly after hearing the distant howl of wolves, you hear them again, slightly closer this time. Then Roland will hear growls getting closer, the thuds of running feet, and the clanging of an heavy armor. Weiryn will eventually hear the same, a few moment later, just as a voice shouts something in dwarven. You can both hear clearly the urgency in the voice, and it does not require you to speak dwarven to understand that whomever is out there is running for their lives...

Alright, well, roll initiative then...

You can also place your characters on the map. Durgrim can place himself next to his cousin, the rest in the same room Ireena is in.