Act II: Ill Fortunes (Part 2, the morning after)

The group makes its way back to the Blood on the Vine Inn, trudging through the muddy streets of Barovia. They meet very few locals, probably because of the bad weather, probably because there might still be zombies roaming around (not that the party encounters any on their way to the inn).

As you enter the inn, Arik the innkeeper greets you. You notice the rest of the party is at the inn, which will be the first time Heather meets Kuroi (a crow-headed humanoid), and Sir Urik (an older gentleman in armor with a silvered sword resting at his hip). Seeing you, Weiryn suddenly looks worried as he approaches you.

"Suffer no false life brothers. I did not expect seeing you all so soon. Is there anything wrong?"

"Oh, yes. I guess I should have tried to try and identify this object before I left the party. Sorry about that. I guess the bad news Kayleigh bore distracted me from this task..."

Kayleigh then glares at weiryn.

"Do not try to pass this oversight of yours on me!"

Weiryn then answers sheepishly.

"Oh no, far from me... Well since I'm going to cast a spell, if you have anything else which might require identifying. Ujjaya, found anything of interest on that old crone back at the swamp?"

Weiryn begins by casting Detect Magic.

"Okay, the holy symbol, the scroll, and the wand are definitely magical, the rest are simply mundane, if valuable objects..."

He continues to concentrate for a while and then attempts to identify the objects.

"The scroll is a scroll of detect thoughts, the wand is a wand of burning hands which is fully charged. As for the holy symbol of ravenkind, a very interesting object indeed. It is a a phylactery of faithfulness, and of course, can be used as a holy symbol by any good divine spellcaster for things which usually require a holy symbol, and this regardless of religion. If used to channel energy through it, it will also flare up for about 6 seconds in a manner similar to a light spell. I feel there is more however, as if more powers can be unlocked once the item has been bonded. It is probably a scaling item, like those galvanic gauntlets I'm wearing."

"No brother Ujjaya. It is an item which grows in strength with you. As the wielder grows more powerful, so does the object, hence it 'scales' up."

Just messing with you, man. :-D Ujjaya doesn't understand game terminology.

"When I say channel energy, I mean channeling positive energy through a holy symbol like we cleric do in order to harm undead, heal our allies, or use it to some other effect we might have been trained to do like turning the undead for example. The phylactery of faithfulness aspect could still be used by a non-channeller, I suppose, but the overall effect of the magic item would be wasted. Then there is also the fact that we also have no idea what other powers might appear once the item is bonded. It could be that those powers would be better suited to a divine spellcaster or someone capable of channeling positive energy..."