Overview
A narrow gallery with doors on both sides. Somewhere a pot is boiling, somewhere bats are shifting, and behind one locked door somebody is humming.
Resting: Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.
Getting here
Ways in
- From Castle Ravenloft, the High Tower: The door to the tower rooms
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs: A hatch down to the tower rooms
- From Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost: A narrow stair down to Escher's rooms
Ways out
| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The door to the high tower |  Castle Ravenloft, the High Tower | |
| 2 | Up to the roofs |  Castle Ravenloft, the Roofs | |
| 3 | A narrow stair up behind the wardrobe |  Castle Ravenloft, the Ravens' Roost | spires back stair found or spires back stair told |
Map
Key: gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.
Close up
the bat-keeper's trunk
a glass-fronted cabinet
the witches' shelf
People
Who turns up at points in the story (1)
- Escher, Escher's suite (#4): when not escher fight won and not escher saw dawn and not (night and (quest escher petition at asked or quest escher petition at held))
What to find
| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | the bat-keeper's trunk | Rope, Vial ×2, 30 gp | open it |
| 6 | a glass-fronted cabinet | Potion of Healing ×2, Alchemist's Fire ×2, Acid, Vial ×3 | open it |
| 7 | the witches' shelf | Herbalism Kit, Basic Poison, Candle ×4, 25 gp | open it |
| 8 | Escher's dressing table | Perfume, Fine Clothes, 180 gp | open it |
| 9 | something in the cauldron's ashes (hidden) | Wand of Fear | Search: Perception DC 15 |
The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 10 the first time you come (Random Treasure). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.
Locked and secret doors
- Escher's door: lock DC 16
Fights
- Around the cauldron, women in black rags look up all at once with the same wet smile. The brew heaves, and…, in Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms: Barovian Witch, Black Pudding. Scales with your level.
By party level (the first line your party fits is the fight you get)
- Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms, when not cauldron coven cleared and level ≥ 11: 8 × Barovian Witch, Black Pudding (1900 XP)
- Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms, when not cauldron coven cleared and level ≥ 10: 6 × Barovian Witch, Black Pudding (1700 XP)
- Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms, when not cauldron coven cleared: 4 × Barovian Witch, Black Pudding (1500 XP)
- Escher's smile goes long in the teeth. The bats in the canopy of his bed come down like a dropped curtain., in Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms: Vampire Spawn, Swarm of Bats.
Quests and lore
- Escher's Petition: Every night for nine years Escher has slid the same petition under the count's door: let me see the sun. Now an answer has come back.
- The Heart of Sorrow: At the top of Castle Ravenloft's high tower hangs a crystal heart that takes Strahd's wounds before he does.