Shadowborne Files: Curse of Strahd

About the adventure

The Shadowborne Organization dispatches your team to a secluded frontier village where something has gone terribly wrong. During the town’s ancient occult festival, a child vanished into a deathly cold fog that swept through the streets. Two weeks later, the fog returned — and every remaining child disappeared with it. Now the village sits half-silent, half-mad with grief, terrified to speak above a whisper once night falls. Your assignment is simple on paper: investigate the disappearances, follow any trace the fog left behind, and recover the lost children. But the village offers only contradictions and dread. Homes stand abandoned mid-meal, frost clings to windows even in warm weather, and survivors insist the fog felt… aware. Some swear they heard footsteps behind them. Others claim they saw the silhouettes of children walking willingly into the mist. Shadowborne’s concern is clear — a phenomenon strong enough to abduct an entire generation is no ordinary haunting. Something ancient is stirring, something tied to forgotten rites and the strange sigils carved on stones around the village perimeter. Whatever force is behind this is growing bold, and every night the air grows colder. Your investigation begins at the edge of the mystery, where fear and superstition choke the truth. Somewhere in this dying village lies the path to the children — and a doorway leading far beyond the world you know. What waits on the other side is unknown… but the fog is coming again. And this time, it may not let you stay behind.