Overview
A taproom with a long bar and a fire that is actually lit. Through the kitchen, the guest rooms; through the back door, the stable yard and a painted wagon.
Resting: Safe: a Long Rest here isn't interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Vallaki: The Blue Water Inn
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the street |  Vallaki |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
Danika Martikov
Goodwife Marta, Yevgeni
Iron-bound lockbox
People
- Danika Martikov, Mistress of the Blue Water Inn: Kitchen (#3)
- Goodwife Marta, Of the Market Row: Taproom, 18:00–22:00 (#8)
- Old Kolya, Carter to the Baron's Festivals: Taproom, 19:00–23:00 (#9)
- Dragan, A drinker at the Blue Water Inn: Taproom, 11:00–23:00 (#10)
- Oana, A drinker at the Blue Water Inn: Taproom, 11:00–22:00 (#11)
- Yevgeni, Szoldar's Son: Taproom (#13)
Who turns up at points in the story (6)
- Urwin Martikov, Taproom (#2): when not (festival begun and not festival over)
- Rictavio, Taproom, Rictavio's room (#4, #5): when day and not rictavio gone and not rictavio with the party and (vallaki backed isn't “wachter” or tarokka.ally.npc is rictavio); or when not rictavio gone and not rictavio with the party and (vallaki backed isn't “wachter” or tarokka.ally.npc is rictavio)
- Ireena Kolyana, Guest rooms (#6): when ireena sanctuary is “inn” and not ireena with the party
- Ismark Kolyanovich, Guest rooms (#7): when ismark guards ireena and ireena sanctuary is “inn” and not ismark with the party
- Szoldar, Taproom (#12): when not greytooth beaten or szoldar turned or szoldar stays
- Bray, Kitchen (#14): when quest the ravens ransom at home or quest the ravens ransom at done
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | Iron-bound lockbox | Holy Water ×3, Dagger ×2, 25 gp | lock DC 18; Rictavio's, so taking is theft |
| 18 | a loose board under a guest bed (hidden) | Gloves of Thievery | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 19 | a loose brick by the hearth (hidden) | Bead of Force | Search: Investigation DC 15 |
Tarokka treasure spots. If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Vallaki Blue Water Inn:rictavio Wagon (wagon_lockbox)
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 5 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Skill checks
| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | Carving over the door | History 13 | Read the raven over the door | lore: The raven over the door |
| 17 | a covered cage | Animal Handling 15 | Calm the great cat in the cage | Heroic Inspiration; on a failure: 1d6 slashing damage |
Locked and secret doors
- Rictavio's door: lock DC 15
- Wagon door: lock DC 20
Quests and lore
- Aurel's Last Chapter: Silvain Aster's colleague Aurel Mirescu went into the mists after a book written in a vampire's own hand, and wrote home exactly once: He…
- Black Roses: Last winter Ignat the lamplighter's daughter Catalina was found smiling and white at the lake gate, and black roses came with a card. This…
- Lady Wachter's Book Club: Lady Fiona Wachter wants the Baron's chair, and she is not shy about who she would rule for.
- Ribbons: Daciana gives out yellow festival ribbons in Vallaki's square and writes down everyone who won't wear one. It isn't her who wants to know.
- Sanctuary: Ismark wanted Ireena behind walls. Vallaki has walls. Whether it has anywhere safe inside them is another question.
- The Bones of St. Andral: Someone has stolen the bones of St. Andral from the crypt of Vallaki's church, and with them the only thing that kept the dead out of it.
- The Destined Ally: Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- The Doll Collector: Izek Strazni, the Baron's enforcer, has dreamed of a red-haired woman all his life, and has had her face carved over and over.
- The Festival of the Blazing Sun: Baron Vallakovich holds a festival every week to prove Vallaki is happy. This one, with its great wicker sun, will decide who rules the…
- The Hunters at the Inn: Two hunters in the corner of the Blue Water Inn sell wolf ears to the Baron at a copper apiece, and want help with the one wolf he pays…
- The Missing Girl: Arabelle, the young daughter of the Vistani headman Luvash, vanished from the camp outside Vallaki in the night.
- The Ravens' Ransom: Urwin and Danika Martikov's younger boy flew out of the inn's window after dark to look at the castle, and didn't come home.
- The Wizard of Wines: Druids from Yester Hill have driven the Martikov family out of their winery and taken the magic gems, the family's three vine stones, that…
A battered journal
A hunter's journal, in a small, exact hand. Lists of weaknesses: running water, a threshold not crossed without leave, sunlight, a stake through the heart. A page of notes on 'the lord of this valley' that stops halfway down. Inside the cover, a bookplate: from the library of Dr. R. van Richten. Below it, in fresher ink: Never again by that name. Never again.