Session 30 - Intoxicating Horror.

Sneaking out of the master bedroom, Snowball was able to avoid the specter that had been following him, heading back into the hallway he decided to check the remaining door, this was a closet which contained some salt soap and a broom, on closer inspection the broom animates and attacks, successfully avoiding many attacks from Snowball while dealing a substantial amount of damage to him. Outside as some of the party come to his aid the suite of armor animates and attacks Grimdur and Mulberry while they deal with that quickly the battle of the broom continues in the closet. 

Finally they are able to heal Snowball and take the broom to the cleaners. Expecting such a powerful foe to be protecting something of great value or perhaps a passage into the attic the party search the room to find only bars of Soap and a bag of salt. 

Mulberry heads into the master bedroom to check out the dumb waiter, changing into monkey form she looks up the shaft to find that it doesn't unfortunately go up to the Attic.

The rest of the party fan out and search the third floor, finding nothing in the bathroom they focus on the Nanny's room, where they discover a secret door leading to stairs up to the Attic.

Upstairs they find the Kids bedroom, two skeletons lay on the floor one clutching a small doll. In the room is a toy chest and a dolls house which appears to be a recreation of the house they are in. Baromar and Denzel enter the room and as Denzel tries to open the toy chest the children appear this time as ghosts. "Our parents locked us in here, to save us from the monster in the basement, we starved to death a long time ago. Please don't touch our toys they are all we have." The kids show them how to find the secret entrance to the basement in the storage room using the dolls house. They explain how the kids downstairs don't know they're dead but these ghost kids know...and know how they died. 

They refuse to join the group to the basement and when they turn to leave Baromar and Denzel are possessed by the ghosts taking on new traits. 

Baromar - “I like being in charge and get angry when other people tell me what to do.”

Denzel - “I’m scared of everything, including my own shadow, and weep with despair when things don’t go my way.”

The players try to head to the rest of the group and onto the basement.....however their possessing ghosts wont let them go that way

Mulberry hears whats going on and runs into the room monkey style and tries to scare the ghosts serving only to scare them into their hosts long enough to enable Denzel and Baromar to head to the basement. 

Entering the dark of the basement, the party quickly discover that its more of a dungeon than a basement, extending well beyond the bounds of the house a maze of tunnels carved into the earth. 

They discover the family Crypt and the empty coffins for Rose and Thorn, as they stare at them Baromar and Denzel get shivers down their spine's, and are quickly overcome with fear as they realize where they are. 

Remembering the child size skeletons in the room in the attic the party decide to lay the mortal remains of Rose and Thorn to rest in their appropriate crypts. As they lay Rose's remains to rest her Ghost exits Baromar and hovers over the crypt for a moment until she conveys her thanks and vanishes. 

They restore Thorns bones and Denzel is released from his possession. The party start to search the area and find a common room and bunkhouse area which seems to have been used by the cultists, along with crypts for the parents of Rose and Thorn, Gustav and Elisabeth Durst. 

As Baromar opens the crypt of Gustav he is attacked by a swarm of centipedes which he is able to make short work of and now has centipede guts all over his sandals.

They explore some more of the dungeon and find stairs to a lower level.