tsr09497 - AD&D - Ra.. - Property Is Theft!

Player's Handbook (PHB), and either the two basic appendices of the Monstrous Compendium (MC1-2) or the Monstrous
Manual (MM). We also assume that you have access to the campaign setting. Either the old Realm of Terror or the new
Ravenloft boxed sets will suffice: this adventure can be incorporated into any gothic horror campaign setting. Finally, "The
Evil Eye" has been designed to accompany Van Richten's Guide to the Vistani. While enough detail has been included so
that VR's Vistani will not be necessary to play the adventure, a few encounters will have greater depth if you have access to
that resource.
To a lesser extent, the adventure also includes a number of ghosts, apparitions, and other monsters that are fully detailed in
Van Richten's Guide to Ghosts and the RAVENLOFT appendices to the Monstrous Compendium. Though details about
these creatures have been included in the adventure, feel free to substitute other monsters and creatures if these resources are
not readily available.
Adventure Background
As a young girl, Gabrielle Aderre was warned by her mother Isabella to never have children:
"A man, a babe, a home - these things can never be for you, Gabrielle, for tragedy will be the only result." For many years,
while the bitter pair wandered the wilds of Ravenloft, Gabrielle pressed her mother for details about her future and her
mysterious father, though Isabella forbade it. Gabrielle learned nothing more until she turned 19, on the eve of her mother's
death.
While traveling in Arkandale (a domain that dissolved during the Grand Conjunction), Isabella allowed Gabrielle to set the
warding circle around their camp. They had argued that day, and (as usual) Gabrielle had lost. Tired and seething with
anger, Gabrielle wove the protective charms too hastily, and by the light of a rising moon, a werewolf stormed into camp
through the imperfect wardings.
Before Isabella could ready an assault, the creature knocked her down and ripped open a huge gash in her leg with its jaws.
Crawling frantically away, Isabella fixed the werewolf with her evil eye, blasting the creature with the full force of her hate
and malice. The lycanthrope fell dazed to the ground while Isabella's enchantment seized him. As the blood pulsed out of
her gashed leg, Isabella called to Gabrielle for help, but the cruel daughter saw only a window of opportunity.
"Tell me about my father," Gabrielle bargained, "and 1 will save your life."
Isabella was furious. "The charm will not hold the wolf for long! His strength will return, and he will kill us both!"
But Gabrielle would not be swayed, and as Isabella's vision began to blur, she told her daughter vaguely about her past.
Isabella's voice was calm and strong in the cool night air.
"1 was captured as a child and sold as a slave in Falkovnia. My master was a sadistic monster. For amusement each night he
would gather a group of slaves and impale them before his castle. Their dying screams would mingle with the chamber
music and polite dinner conversation. But because of my beauty and Vistani gifts, he refused to kill me. Many nights I
wished he had. Years later, when I finally escaped, 1 was two months pregnant with you.
"1 have told you enough of your father. Bring my potions before the wolf kills us both."
Gabrielle was stunned. For years she had fantasized about her mysterious father, and her romantic dream was shattered. She
stumbled away from Isabella into the vardo, packing her mother's prized tarokka and potions in a sack. The wolf still
convulsed in its enfeebled state, helplessly charmed by the evil eye. Gabrielle returned to her mother's pool of blood. By
then she had made up her mind.