Session 32 - Get me out of this house of death

The party inspect the wooden statue of Strahd, will touching or taking the orb make him appear? They decide to head to the lower level and come back to the orb on the way back.

Downstairs snowy owl explores on their behalf and finds a prison, an antechamber and a ritual chamber.

The antechamber holds 13 alcoves with 13 artifacts, detect magic shows nothing magical in here, most of the items appear to be fakes.  There is however a wand that appears to be a wand of polymorph.

Snowball heads down into the Cultists ritual chamber, flooded with about 2 ft of water the center contains a sacrificial dais covered with blood. As he steps up onto it the room is filled with a chanting "One must die, One must die"

The party deduce that they must sacrifice a life to be able to leave, and immediately look to Baromar to be their lamb. But they decide not to go down that path and as Snowball steps down from the dais the chanting changes to "We have been denied, you will not leave here alive" followed by "We summon Lorgoth the Decayer to take your lives"

The party look into the room and see a massive writhing bundle of vines rise from the water, they attack and Pallas starts with fireball in his signature Burning Bush move. 

Mulberry uses speak with plants, and tries to ask the plant behemoth what it wants, it shows her an image of a desolate plane with a single dead plant on it. She asks if that is a child of the plant that needs saving, and the tree shows her an image of 7 dead plants, kind of resembling the 7 members of the party.

Denzel mentions that the plant wanting to kill them all makes it a soil sport

The party attack, Gnarvick gives it termites, they spray acid, and fire and take it down. Searching the bone pile under where the Tree appeared from they find a few gold teeth and an eyepatch with a ruby sewn into it.

They head back up to the statue of Strahd and decide to position themselves and pick up the orb using mage hand. Everyone holds their breath as Snowball picks it up with mage hand and it immediately shatters releasing 7 black smoke like figures which circle the room and then land on the remains shackled to the walls. 

Grimdur slices and dices through the undead beings with his Sun sword, and Mulberry makes a primal savagery attack to bring one down, Baromar takes some healing from Snowball and then goes on to take a Shadow creature down. 

Mulberry finds a secret door that leads to a ladder and trapdoor. They head back upstairs and find themselves in the Den with the wolves, they search the room and find in a cupboard a logbook of the families windmill operations, containing the location near Lake Bartok and a history of issues with wolf encounters, the last entry states they have found the den of wolves.

As they turn to exit a scythe swings down and almost gets Grimdur, the house starts to shake and clears a passage telling them to get out, they take the houses lead, and escape. 

At the front of the house the see Rose and Thorn appear to thank them for defeating the monster in the basement, and then disappear forever as the house crumbles into the ground.