Blinsky

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Blinsky

Status: Alive — at Blinsky's Toy Shop, Vallaki

Known Information

Heavyset toymaker operating out of a cramped shop south of the Blue Water Inn in Vallaki. Wears a moth-eaten jester's cap at all times. Has a monkey. The monkey wears a custom-tailored ballerina tutu. The monkey will shit on you.

His welcome slogan, delivered upon every customer's entrance without looking up from whatever he is doing: Welcome, friends, to the House of Blinsky, where happiness and smiles can be bought at bargain prices. Perhaps you know a little child in need of joy? A little toy for a girl or boy?

His merchandise is priced at nine copper per item and includes, among other things, a headless doll with attachable heads (including one with eyes and mouth stitched shut), a miniature gallows with a working trapdoor, nesting dolls that get older as they get smaller until the innermost is a mummified corpse, a wind-up merry-go-round with wolves chasing children, and a Strahd von Zarovich ventriloquist dummy.

He makes custom dolls for Isaac, the Burgomaster's henchman. Isaac commissions them as attempts to render a woman from his dreams. Blinsky does his best. None of the dolls have ever been quite right. They look like Ireena Kolyana.

He recalled that Milovaj had come in about a week ago with more money than children in Barovia normally have and bought a wind-up merry-go-round. He had recently noticed Milovaj visiting Henrik van der Voort's coffin shop more than would be explained by routine business, which Blinsky shared in exchange for nine copper and Sable's deployed ears.

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The winery workers' quarters contained a wooden rocking horse labeled Bocephalus with the slogan No fun is no Blinsky. The horse was black with wild eyes and painted orange flames where the mane, tail, and hooves should be. Blinsky's merchandise reaches farther than Vallaki.

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