The letter you received was strange, but stranger still was the letters that followed. When your superiors wrote back saying they didn't know where Barovia lay or how to get there, Burgomeister Kolyan Indirovich wrote a series of instructions to meet with a man at the Bear and Board Tavern in the deep south of the Sword Coast. Your group was cobbled together as the best of the expendable members. Your mission remains mostly the same: meet with this contact at the Bear and Board, travel to Barovia wherever it lies, and slay the Vampire who's been harassing the noble's daughter. All very simple, very direct.
Your group has been traveling for some time. While you may have worked with others in the past, as a mercenary you've had to keep track of faces and cases beyond counting. As you've walked the roads south, the sun is reaching its final hours of the day as it sets to right. The last embers of its light shine on the Bear and Board, easily reachable within the hour.
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