Haldar begins searching around the outside of the house for a way into the house.

Rinn let everyone know that his injuries must be addressed before they continue on. Misty brings him a bit of potion and he drinks it. It seemed to help quite a bit.

Rinn looks into the room adjacent to the room where they had just battled the ghouls and see's a wardrobe. The chanting is coming from the West, maybe this is the way. Rinn moves into the room to find a bedroom with no apparent exit, a footlocker, wardrobe, bedside table, and a skeleton hanging from a noose. Below him was a knocked over stool. It appears he hung himself. Rinn lets the rest of the group know about the body. Kyana seems to be scared and Snoggly tells her not to worry and to stay behind him. She does as he says. Nothing about this sounds right but then again, I don't really know these two that well.

Rinn moves over to check the hanging skeleton. Searching his pockets, he finds a note and begins to read it out loud.

“My Beloved Children,

I wish I could do what all fathers do and tell you that monsters aren't real. But it wouldn't be true.

Life can create things of exquisite beauty. But, it can also twist them into hideous beings - Selfish - Violent - Grotesque - Monstrous. It hurts me to say that your mother has turned into one such monster”

It was then that a female undead thing came out of the earthen wall and started telling Rinn, in a seriously evil sounding voice, that “He deserved to die”. Rinn asked, “What could he have possibly done to warrant his death?” The creature replied “ He was an adulterer! All men are scum!”. As she moves to attack Rinn, she says “Die!”. In a single attack, she put Rinn down. The battle is joined!

Dain moves to battle the creature that just put down Rinn. Misty moves to the bed to bandage Rinn. Kyana steps into the room. Misty notices the skeleton beginning to move. Kyana brings forth daylight burning the creatures. Snoggly introduces himself with a series of magic misses. Meanwhile, the skeleton attacks Misty but misses. Dain hits the undead female creature. Misty attack back at the skeleton. Kyana lights up and drops the hag. Snoggly fires bolt the skeleton. Misty dodges a another attack, Dain retaliates, and then Misty lands the death blow.

After the battle finished, Snoggly asked what the note said. Before Rinn was healed and able to, he read the note outloud again.

“My Beloved Children,

I wish I could do what all fathers do and tell you that monsters aren't real, but it wouldn't be true.

Life can create things of exquisite beauty, but it can also twist them into hideous beings - Selfish - Violent - Grotesque - Monstrous. It hurts me to say that your mother has turned into one such monster, inside and out - and I'm afraid the disease that afflicted her mind has taken hold of me as well.

It sickens me to think what we've put you through, there is no excuse. I only ask of you, though I know I do not have the right to do so, to try and forgive us. I despise what your mother has become, but I love and pity her all the same.

Rose, I wish I could see you blossom into a strong, beautiful woman. Thorne, Walter, I wish I could be there for you, but I can't. This is the only way.

Goodbye”

After finishing the letter, it became very clear that we just killed Gustav and Elizabeth. Perhaps killed is too strong a word for what we did. We stopped the undead life and set their spirits free. It took only a moment for Rosa/Snoggly to catch on and become almost inconsolable. Thorne/Kyana took longer to come to terms. It had to be explained to him, after which, he too was very upset.

We had Snoggly and Kyana leave the room while Dain cured some of Rinn's damage. Dain then, wrapped the bodies in blankets pulled from the bed. It was but a short distance back to the crypts so the party took the bodies to their final resting places. Here, Dain prayed to Clanggedin Silverbeard to help them to go to their final resting place and to help bring peace to the children.

Haldar is outside searching for outbuidings and anyway into the main house.

The party moves back to a room which had two exits that go down stairs. Listening, it sounds as though the chanting is coming from down below. The children are still highly upset. Misty breaks off to go back to the room where the parents were killed and searches the armoire and footlocker. She finds a cloak(pretty nice), small wooden coffer, chain shirt, mess kit, flask of alchemy fire, bullseye lantern, spellbook(room 34) and thieves tools. She puts on the cloak and seems to like it and then meets back up with the group.

Snoggly attempt’s to regain control, focus, but Rosa is still too upset. Rinn backs back into the room with everyone else and suggests that we consider resting. We’ve been drained, and Rosa and Thorne need time to process and recover from what they witnessed.

Haldar is still searching around the house and he starts hearing noises in the woods. He see’s a couple of big canine forms stalking him. Haldar readies his bow and watches and waits.

Misty hands the thieves tools or Rinn. They are in good shape but not exceptional. She lays the rest of the items out on the table for all to see.

Haldar is watching the dogs and they freeze and watch back. The party inside decide to go back up to the main floor to rest.

Everyone rests but the children are still quite upset. Though physically rested, they are not fully recovered on the arcana part.

Rinn returns to the closet to get the jewelry box he left earlier. Misty reminds him of the sword so he goes and gets that as well. It’s nice but again, not exceptional, but it does have a cameo of a windmill on it. Then Rinn goes back to the room with the skeleton and the chest to see if there is anything he missed. There wasn’t anything else in there.

Haldar notices a wagon moving down the road. An individual inside the wagon wakes and after getting his bearings, climbs down out of the wagon which at first seemed to be in good shape but is now falling apart. The dogs were distracted by the new sound and turned to approach it. Haldar followed them and put a Hunters Mark on one. The newcomer seems to hear the movement of the dogs headed toward them. He doesn’t notice Haldar following them.

Haldar notice that they are approaching something, but not sure what, decided to take a shot. He fires on the dog with the hunters mark on it. The dog yelps in pain and drops. In the next round, Haldar moved his hunters mark to the other dog which is now clearly a wolf, and then attacks it and cuts it downs as well. The newcomer seems to be aware of something occurring but didn’t seed anything.

Snoggly tries to refocus his energies by focusing on the globe he acquired earlier. There seems to be some evocation magic involved.

Haldar moves, quietly, closer to the noise on the road. He sees the figure on the road, and determines it’s possibly human. The wagon behind him appears to be broken down. Haldar realizes that the wagon wasn’t there earlier. Finally, he decides to approach the figure. He puts his weapon up and steps out into the road announcing himself. The newcomer seems as confused as Haldar about where he is and how he got here. Haldar explains that there are others in the house down the road. When asked his name, the newcomer replied, “Zanfyr”. They make their way back to the house to see if they can find a way in.

Rinn attempted to contact Haldar during that time but was unable to. He is a little concerned that something may have happened to him. Haldar tells Zanfyr what he knows of the group inside and what he’s experienced and what they have relayed to him about what is going on inside. They keep looking around and the other buildings look to be in very bad shape.

The rest passes and though everyone recovers physically, they didn’t recover but about half of the spells they would have normally recovered. Snoggly does a ritual identify on the globe and decides it is a communication device. With what device it communicates with, that is unknown. Misty approaches Dain and asks if he is the godly type. He is, he tells her. She suggests that we should look into putting the skeletons of the children to rest below. Aye, says Dain. I wanted to do that before we left anyway, now would be an excellent time. Maybe this would allow them to moved beyond the vail and finally rest.

Dain and Rinn go upstairs to wrap the bodies of the children in blankets and bring them down. The kids seems to feel strange as but are not certain what it means. Dain and Rinn then get the bodies to heir correct tombs and Dain prays over them. He closes the crypts and as he does, peace comes over Snoggly and Kayan as the spirits leave them.

Misty tries the front door and the door is still locked. We decide that they must still have to deal with Walter before the curse will lift.

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