After investigating the body they found near the boarder walls, the party decide to head further into the region. After travelling through the fog cloaked farmland for a while, the party comes across a fork in the road:
One oath leads towards a town while the other leads towards a manor on the outskirts of the town.
Debating on which path to take, the party hear the sounds of a crying child coming from the manors direction.
As they approach the manor, the group can hear another voice trying to shush the crying child.
Francesco tries to convince the children that he's friendly but somehow scares them more.
Slate steps up a threatens the kids, Intimidating them into stepping out.
The girl and her younger brother step out of hiding only when Abe introduces himself as a monster hunter.
The girl introduces herself as Rosa Durst and her brother as 'Thorn', children of the manor before the party.
Rosa tells the party that her parents had locked them outside while they fought against a monster in the basement. She worried that her baby brother, Walter, was stuck in the manor when they were forced outside.
After Slate pops the front doors lock, the remaining party enter the home. Abe knocks out a family emblem on the wall while looking around the foyer before the party enters the main hall.
While Summer, Abe and Slate look around the hall, Francesco and Torbin enter a study.
Torbin finds it odd that the fireplace is still going while there shouldn't have been anyone around to keep it lit, but Fran is already searching for a key to open the liquor cabinet.
With some help from Torbin, the two find the keys atop the cabinet and open it up. While Fran investigates the drink selection, Torbin uses the keys to open up another cabinet to find a set of crossbows of various sizes.
With drinks in hand, the two exit the study to find the rug in the centre of the room rolled up with Summer and Abe commenting on the strange icons of snakes and skulls found in the art and architecture of the main hall.
Seeing Slade finding the dining hall, Fran comes into just as the pantry is opened while Summer, Abe and Torbin head up to the next floor.
Torbin and Abe examine a family portrait and talk about the mothers look of distain for the baby in the fathers arms, Summer spots movement in a side room.
Heading into the music room with her staff raised like a bat, she finds an old dog hiding under a piano.
Slate and Fran arrive to find Summer staring down the dog, Torbin steals a leg of ham Fran took from the pantry and gives it to the dog.
As Torbin and Fran befriends the dog and Slate starts checking out the other instruments, Summer joins as he enters the master bedroom.
Slate joins the two in the bedroom as Abe comments on how the books on the shelf appear to be nothing interesting.
Slate pulls an odd book off the shelf, the shelf sliding aside to reveal a hidden room with more books and a treasure chest with a skeleton lodged in its opening.
After seeing that the chests trap had already bene sprung by the skeleton, Slate opens the chest to find a single note.
The note mentions the master of the house, Gustav Durst, had a bastard son. Guessing it's Walter, the party remember that they need to find the baby and rush for the stairs with their new dog friend, Lancelot, in tow!
The first thing the party realise is that the place looks dirtier up here, but this is the floor where the children sleep?
Entering a bedroom, Slate notices a mirror is slightly ajar to a hidden room.
As he opens the hidden door, Summer is startled by a ghost woman's appearance as she runs through the bedroom into a side room!
Not believing in ghosts, Summer blames Torbin and Fran for the mean joke before they check out the side room.
Inside they find the ghost woman standing beside a cot in an nursery. Abe approaches the ghost, learning her name is Margret and that the baby is sleeping.
She asks for everyone needing to leave the room so the baby can sleep.
After Summer tries to ragdoll and pretend she's a toy and gets kicked out, Abe sneaks back in to uncover the baby only to find rags in the bundle...
Seeing as there may not be a baby here, the party follows Slate up the hidden staircase leading to the attic.
Seeing a large locked door, the party decide to investigate the other rooms first.
Finding another child's room with a familiar creepy doll, the party find a room where old furniture is kept.
Spying an old chest, the party uncover it and open it up.
After pulling out many bloody sheets, the party find themselves looking at a pile of bones and ragged remains of clothes that look awfully similar to what Margret was wearing.
With this revelation in mind, the party return to the large heavy door as Tariel climbs up into the attic and they prepare to enter...
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