# The Blue Water Inn

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> [!infobox]
> ![loc vallaki blue water inn 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-blue-water-inn-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/vallaki.md) · level 5
> **Resting:** Safe
> **Light:** dim
> **Getting here:** [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md)
> **Quests:** [Aurel's Last Chapter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/aurels-last-chapter.md), [Black Roses](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md), [Lady Wachter's Book Club](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md), [Ribbons](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/ribbons.md) and 9 more

## Overview

Vallaki's inn: a warm taproom, a careful kitchen, rooms upstairs, and in the stable yard a gaudy carnival wagon its owner lets nobody near.

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.

![loc vallaki blue water inn overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-blue-water-inn-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md):** The Blue Water Inn

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Out to the street | [Vallaki](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/vallaki.md) |  |

## Map

![vallaki blue water inn](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/vallaki-blue-water-inn.svg)

**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

![loc vallaki blue water inn spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-blue-water-inn-spot1.webp)
*Danika Martikov*

![loc vallaki blue water inn spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-blue-water-inn-spot2.webp)
*Goodwife Marta, Yevgeni*

![loc vallaki blue water inn spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-vallaki-blue-water-inn-spot3.webp)
*Iron-bound lockbox*

## People

- **[Danika Martikov](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/danika-martikov.md)**, Mistress of the Blue Water Inn: Kitchen (#3)
- **[Goodwife Marta](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/goodwife-marta.md)**, Of the Market Row: Taproom, 18:00–22:00 (#8)
- **[Old Kolya](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/old-kolya.md)**, Carter to the Baron's Festivals: Taproom, 19:00–23:00 (#9)
- **[Dragan](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/dragan.md)**, A drinker at the Blue Water Inn: Taproom, 11:00–23:00 (#10)
- **[Oana](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/oana.md)**, A drinker at the Blue Water Inn: Taproom, 11:00–22:00 (#11)
- **[Yevgeni](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/yevgeni.md)**, Szoldar's Son: Taproom (#13)

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (6)
> - **[Urwin Martikov](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/urwin-martikov.md)**, Taproom (#2): when not (festival begun and not festival over)
> - **[Rictavio](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/rictavio.md)**, 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/ireena-kolyana.md)**, Guest rooms (#6): when ireena sanctuary is “inn” and not ireena with the party
> - **[Ismark Kolyanovich](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/ismark-kolyanovich.md)**, Guest rooms (#7): when ismark guards ireena and ireena sanctuary is “inn” and not ismark with the party
> - **[Szoldar](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/szoldar.md)**, Taproom (#12): when not greytooth beaten or szoldar turned or szoldar stays
> - **[Bray](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/bray.md)**, 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#holy-water) ×3, [Dagger](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#gloves-of-thievery) | Search: Perception DC 15 |
| 19 | a loose brick by the hearth (hidden) | [Bead of Force](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/aurels-last-chapter.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/black-roses.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/lady-wachters-book-club.md): Lady Fiona Wachter wants the Baron's chair, and she is not shy about who she would rule for.
- [Ribbons](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/ribbons.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/sanctuary.md): Ismark wanted Ireena behind walls. Vallaki has walls. Whether it has anywhere safe inside them is another question.
- [The Bones of St. Andral](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-bones-of-st-andral.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-destined-ally.md): Madam Eva's fourth card named the one who will stand with us against the devil.
- [The Doll Collector](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-doll-collector.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-festival-of-the-blazing-sun.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-hunters-at-the-inn.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-missing-girl.md): Arabelle, the young daughter of the Vistani headman Luvash, vanished from the camp outside Vallaki in the night.
- [The Ravens' Ransom](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-ravens-ransom.md): 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](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/quests/the-wizard-of-wines.md): 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…

> [!quote]- 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.