When we were first starting, we had bluffed our way into getting a horse, which our halfling bard rode. So we were told to go through the mists to the west and just keep walking and we'll know when we've arrived. So we did until we got to this fortune teller, who basically gave us our quest to defeat Count Strahd von Zarovich. She told us we needed to gather some items before facing him in his throne room. and then she said to keep going west, as going east will kill us. So, we continue and come across a couple owl bears that we've this creepy village called Barovia (in a country called Barovia). There are sounds of wailing, no one's around, and we go to the inn, i don't remember what ended up happening there, but then we go to the Church, that's old and decrepit looking. So we go inside. We hear the priest sniffling, urgently praying, and a voice from down below saying, "Father, i'm hungry." and things like that. Mind you, the halfling is still on the horse. So because of that, the [i]floor falls out from under him and the horse[\i] and he jumps off the horse as the horse falls through the floor to the basement, and all we hear is " MEAT!" from down below when the horse lands. It looks to be a good at least 60 feet down. So, we hop over this hole in the floor to go talk to the priest, who only started praying more frantically. He doesn't wanna stop his prayers but we're persistent so he stops and explains that his son was in an army to fight Strahd, and came back different. The bard cracks a joke about "well that's probably not your son anymore, but we'll go take a look." Which makes the priest cry a little more openly, And so then we climb down the hole with a rope tied around a tree. I manage to fail my dex save(which is ironic because i'm a dexterity based character- a ranger), but fall on the horse, so i'm ok. We get down, look up to see the priest looking down the hole, still crying, and in the corner there's a man that's been chained up, straining to get to the horse. So we decide, ok, we can see he's hungry, maybe he needs food, so we toss him a ration pack, but he only cares for the meat parts, so we're like ok, well he's still hungry, so let's give him some of our dead horse. So we hack off a leg, toss it to him, and he devours it. So at this point he looks halfway between a vampire and a human (the bard called him a thrall? idk), and the bard yells up to the priest, "Unless you've got something to tell us about your family, that's probably not your son anymore." And the priest cries harder insists that it is, he's just different, and he can be cured. So we ask more about the cure, and decide that that's not something we can do nor really want to spend out effort on, so the bard says, "i have this super pure water," (basically the purest form of water you could get, there was a river of it that we crossed before we got to town when we got my owl bear (we saved him from bandits)) "let me try something." So he pours a little of the water into his hand and flicks it at the son, who promptly screeches in pain, making the priest cry a little more, and then the bard goes, "Yeah that's not your son anymore, and even if wer could cure him, it would be agony anyways so we're gonna kill him." Which makes the priest start Bawling. And then we do.

tl;dr: Our bard lost a horse by riding it into a building that had a deep basement and rickety floors. Then he made a priest cry because his charisma checks failed. it wasn't supposed to go the way it did.

So a little back story, because it is needed. We came across this item called Daern's instant fortress that basically grows to a 30 foot by 30 foot fortress thing, that you can store items in when it shrinks, but living things would die if inside when it collapses. So Basically, we stole Strahd's diary and a prisoner from his home, and went to this temple. upon leaving, Strahd confronts us, tells us he wants his things back, we basically say no finders keepers, and he initiates a fight. So we're getting our asses handed to us, and i decide, oh i'm going to throw the fortress, open the door as it falls on Strahd so he's inside it, and then shrink it back down before he can get out of it, effectively treating it like a pokeball that would kill a normal person, but strahd is a vampire, so we can't actually kill him this way, so he turns to a mist that goes back to his home so he can recover.