This place is evil and twisted. We search this, for lack of a better phrase, haunted house for the child. We find a ghostly nanny. I speak with her and she runs away to go find the missing infant. We find the body of the nanny in a trunk, and then the corpses of the children in a locked room, locked in an embrace in death. The child’s dollhouse is a replica of this house, and shows all the hidden passages. When I touch it, the ghosts of the children we met outside appear, and ask us to not touch their toys. This tells us the children outside were not real, but were likely bait.
Then the boy attempts to possess me. I retain control, however, he is inside me, and the terror he feels threatens to overwhelm me. As long as he was with me, his powerful emotions threatened to cause outbursts of fear and childish tantrums. I manage to keep it under control, however, and we go do what we must.
In what appears to be the master bedroom, we find a condescending letter to the owner from the overlord of the area – one Stradh. The master of the house sounds like a jerk, cheating on his wife with the nanny and fathering a bastard on her. The overlord doesn’t sound any better, though.
We search the rest of the house, and then take a secret stairway to the basement. We find all manner of unholy things down there, an altar to the noble overlord, rooms dedicated to torture and death.
In what appears to be a second bedroom, we find the former master of the house, dangling from a noose. His wife, now undead, bursts out and attacks us. The party makes quick work of her, as I stand paralyzed in the terror coming from the child at the sight of what used to be his mother. We find a suicide letter to his children, apologizing for everything. We also found a letter from the lady of the house, saying she was going to sacrifice an innocent. Whether this was the nanny or the bastard child of her husband, we do not know.
We then find the crypts prepared for the family, and those of the children. We put their bodies in their crypts, and our cleric says a prayer, and the spirit of the boy thanks me, and leaves to be at peace, thankfully for us both.
We find another stairway down, and a very unholy room filled with evil relics. There is also a dungeon, mostly unoccupied (one skeleton is still shackled). We also find a water filled room with an altar. When we investigate it, a portcullis slams down, trapping most of us inside and Revlok on the outside (he had gone harrying off for some reason). A golem-like creature animates as voices chant and tell us one of us must be sacrificed. We refuse and start fighting the creature as it hits us with waves of terror and strikes at Cardiel and I with his misshapen limbs. As Cardiel and I hack and slash at the creature, we see an infant inside it, I manage to grab it and tear it out of the creature, which collapses. We take a few moments to determine what our next steps should be, and if the house will let us leave.
