Strahd Episode 4: That Was for Balasar
Fifteen minutes before midnight, under the Durst house, the party follows the sound of chains and finds Petra. The real one, ankle-chained in a cell, begging not to be left alone. They free her. Then they open the portcullis on the thing in the water.
Balasar cuts his own palm rather than put a child on the altar. The mound rolls forward, and when it bleeds its ribs open on a baby held up by tentacles lined with teeth. Walter. The amber necklace stops him once. Then he falls to the bottom of the water and grows into something much worse.
Balasar steps between the abomination and Genji twice…
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