After slaying the Greck in the closet, the party took a moment to collect themselves and discuss if they should continue exploring the basement or leave the place before noticing Summer had wandered further into the next passage.
Poking her head back into the room, she lets them know of a room with bodies lining the walls around it with an altar at the end of the room.
With the party following Summer to the entrance of the room, Abe enters the room first to examine the strange wooden statue that had been painted a pale white color. As Tariel informs the party that she can feel undead nearby, the lights in the room go out and Abe is swarmed by moving shadows that grab hold of him and begin sapping his strength from his body at a rapid rate!
Gathering that the shadows were waiting for the lights to go out, Abe cries out that the light is what keeps them at bay before falling to the floor.
As Slate lights a torch to see the room again, Summer bolts into the room and starts dragging Abe out.
Francesco casts sleep on the shadows as Summer and Slate drag Abe away, but it doesn't seem to affect them.
Torbin starts to lead the party out of the basement, but runs into a ghoul! As he begins to fend off the ghoul, Fran rushes to his aid with a thrust of his blade into the undead's neck!
Hearing Slate mention that light keeps the shadow creatures away, Torbin attempts to light a table on fire to no success.
With Summer, Tariel and Slate hauling the weakened Abe out of the dungeon and up the stairs, everyone starts to notice the walls and steps are oozing a bloody liquid that makes it hard to climb... A red light almost blinds them as they ascend into the Attic of the house..
Reaching the Attic first with Abe in their arms, Summer and Slate are almost sliced by blades protruding from the wall as the spin rapidly!
The house itself is actually trying to kill them now!
Slate jams his torch into one of the blades mechanisms and manages to stop one set of blades, enough for the party to slip into the storage room they found the maids body within.
Slate and Francesco start looking to disable more of the blades while Tariel heals Abes wounds, but his body's strength is still sapped...
Summer and Torbin work together to make a harness for Tariel to carry Abe better.
Slate finds the stairs leading out of the Attic and sends Fran to collect the party as he tries to work out how to open the new portcullis now barring their way down with spikes randomly stabbing out of the walls down the staircase.
Bringing an armchair with them, the party uses one of its legs to wedge open the portcullis enough for Slate to slip under and navigate the traps to a lever that seems to turn off the traps in the attic.
Heading down to the second floor with Abe strapped to Tariels back, Slate breaks another blade trap at the foot of the steps so the party can enter the room they first met the maids ghost in.
As Slate begins to dismantle another trap, Torbin and Tariel note that the windows on the floor appear to have been bricked over to seal the building as a strange black smoke is slowly filtering from the fireplace into the room...
Leading the party to the stairs and noticing the smoke is getting heavier the further they go down and obscures their vision of any traps that lay ahead, Tariel wonders aloud if they could potentially break their way through the bricked up windows.
Jamming her spear into the brickwork in the maids room, she doesn't seem to make any progress until Summer points out that a blunt weapon is better for knocking down brick: like a fist!
Punching at one of the bricks, Summer hits it hard enough to dislodge it and with a few more strikes she's able to knock the brick out and see the world beyond the house!
Seeing their chance to escape, the party relentlessly batter the wall with all they have until the can fit through!
Using some rope and a support beam, they create a way to safely descend the building to the ground.
Slate passes out as Torbin climbs down, but Tariel gets him up in time to get down themselves.
Summer jumps and misses the rope, almost falling to her death if Francesco hadn't flicked the rope around her leg to catch her!
Once the party all stand (except for Abe) outside the house, they notice everything within the house appears to return to normal as it awaits it's next prey...
As the party make their sigh of relief, they hear the sound of applauding hands behind them.
In the driveway up to the manor is a lone figure beside a black coach, the figure praising the party for managing to survive the house before climbing inside the driverless coach and leaving.
Not wanting to think about it too much right now, the party leave the estate and back to the fork in the road. Reaching the fork, Slate spots the sign on the fork that has a message scrawled into it: 'DO NOT SPEAK TO THE CHILDREN'
With an agitated and tired sigh, the party trudges into the town toward a tavern to rest.
Torbin at the back of the part hears a faint barking sound and turn around to see a small spectral shape of Lancelot, his dog friend following him now as a ghost.
With a smile on his face, the Gnome enters the tavern after his allies to eat, drink and rest...
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