(From MPOV, I'm just dumping gold into whoever finds it or receives it from a sale or trade, but we can basically just treat everyone's gold as one big pile unless people are really intent on having their own gold)
Szoldar: You're a talker. Listening to talkers makes me thirsty. He downs another glass.
Abandoned town is Berez. Flood wiped it out long ago. Only thing there is mosquitoes and ruins. No wolfs, so we don't go there.
Haunted mansion? Is house of dragon knights. Spirits attack anyone that enters.
Mad Mage is crazy man. Lives on north side of lake and shoots lightning from his ass to catch fish. Might be good wolf hunter. Szoldar shrugs.
Burgomaster dislikes unhappiness. Everyone in town must be happy. No one in town is happy, but don't let him find out. Anyone not happy is "in league with Strahd" and gets "purged of evil." We spend most of our time out in the woods, so we don't deal with it much.
Yevgeni: Spend time in woods. Da. Thirsty. Da. Yevengi finishes off his glass.