Our Campaign minor results update from last night

 Kid's spying bat heard (rolled a 20) the Arcanaloth speaking inside the giant statue head when he cast fireball on the shield guardian. 

Shield guardian is a thing now... and yeah, it's probably a level 20 item, not a level 9 item. So kid thinks OP, and will give it away to the town to help protect them later. Maybe he'll use it against Strahd tho, then be done. 

• Shield guardian prevents climbing rope (or can't stick with group). 
• It's so good, it's an extra 100 HP and +2AC for one char basically per fight. 
• Or it's a level 12 fighter-vampire... with 10 HP regen and all that stuff. Yeah, pretty much too good at this stage of his party being level 9. 

So if the Shield Guardian doesn't die soon, options are:

• 1. give it to town, kid likes that idea.
• 2. it stops working outside of Barovia or maybe even too far from Amber Temple.
• 3. it stops working one step outside of Amber Temple (seems a let down though). 
• Could just have it so that the further away, the less it regens, and since can't heal it, eventually in one fight it'll die. 

Dark Gifts are almost all revealed. I told him actual pro+con for a couple, so he understands what is at stake. He might pass on all. Maybe... .... Or maybe keep just for Barovia. Doesn't want his party to be gross after CoS is done.