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We are on Reddit so I assume most people heard of Ea-Nasir, but for those who didn't, here is the TLDR :

Ea-Nasir was a copper merchant in Ancient Mesoppotamia some 4000 years ago. Archeologists discovered several clay tablets that can be considered "customer complaints", detailing how Nasir basically scammed people with poor quality copper.

So anyway, I've been running CoS for 7 sessions. On session 4 or 5, they met Madame Eva and the Vistani camp. During their stay, one of the Vistani, called Nana, offered them some discount magic items, made of copper.

One of my player bought Boots of Striding and Springing for the low price of 10 gold. Little did he know, they are cursed. They still work as far as the movement speed and carry capacity, BUT he can't take them off. He didn't tried yet to jump with them, I plan to make him roll and have a 50% chance of jumping backwards instead of forward. It's only been a couple of days in-game for them, so I also hesitate to give him a penalty because he can't take them off at night (Bacteria infection maybe ? Or straight up a level of exhaustion).

Anyway, last session they met the second Vistani camp outside Vallaki after finding Arabelle and delevering her to Luvash, and he told them Nana (short for Nasir) is a scammer and he laughed at my player's boots. One of the players got the reference and we had a good laugh about it.

So I've been running CoS for 5 sessions, I used parts of Reloaded and homebrew. We did 2 sessions in Death House, 2 sessions in Barovia village and this one session on the road. The PC's are level 3 : Aasimar Paladin (Oath of Devotion), Deep Gnome Rogue (inquisitive), Elf Ranger Gloom Stalker, and Human Wizard (Chronurgy).

Tonight we had the Taroka reading, a few stories shared around the campfire and some games with the Vistani (I used Pyram King's Vistani supplement).

On midday after they left the camp, they encountered 6 wolves on the road, and after 3 rounds of combat, the Wizard fell. He passed his first Death Saving Throw, and on the next initiative the Paladin decided to continue attacking (since the wizard succeeded his first check), and Ireena attacked also instead of helping him. Important to note that the wizard player was also controlling Ireena.

Then the wolf who got him last round bite into the fallen wizard, adding 2 failures on his DST.

Next round, he failed with a 8. He used his inspiration point to reroll and... a 3.

RIP Napster the Wizard.

The good news is, we continued playing for about 30min after and they passed the Old Bonegrinder. The raven and Ireena warned them about going in there, so they thought "well we already lost someone on the road that is supposed to be the less dangerous, so let's not go there and continue dying".

We finished the session on the doors of Vallaki.