# Death House, Third Floor

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc death house third 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-death-house-third-1.webp)
> **Region:** [Death House](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/death-house.md) · level 2
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dim
> **Getting here:** [Death House, Attic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-attic.md), [Death House, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-upper-floor.md)

## Overview

The family's private floor around the balcony: the master suite and bathroom, a storage room with a broom that doesn't like being touched, the nursemaid's suite and the nursery where her specter waits for a baby who is never coming back. The stair to the attic is hidden: behind the balcony's carved paneling, guarded by a suit of armor, or behind the nursemaid's mirror.

**Resting:** Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.

![loc death house third overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-death-house-third-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [Death House, Attic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-attic.md):** Stairs down
- **From [Death House, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-upper-floor.md):** Stairs up

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stairs down | [Death House, Upper Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-upper-floor.md) |  |
| 2 | Attic stairs | [Death House, Attic](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-attic.md) |  |

## Map

![death house third](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/death-house-third.svg)

**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

![loc death house third spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-death-house-third-spot1.webp)
*the wardrobe, a second wardrobe, a jewel box*

![loc death house third spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-death-house-third-spot2.webp)
*a painted chest*

![loc death house third spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-death-house-third-spot3.webp)
*letters tied with ribbon*

## People

> [!note]- Who turns up at points in the story (1)
> - **[The Nursemaid](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/people/the-nursemaid.md)**, Nursery (#3): when not death house nursemaid calmed and not death house nursemaid destroyed

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | the wardrobe | [Fine Clothes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#fine-clothes), [Perfume](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#perfume) | open it |
| 5 | a second wardrobe | [Fine Clothes](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#fine-clothes) | open it |
| 6 | a jewel box | 900 gp | lock DC 12 |
| 7 | a medicine cabinet | [Antitoxin](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#antitoxin), [Healer's Kit](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#healers-kit) | open it |
| 8 | a painted chest | [Blanket](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#blanket), [Potion of Healing](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#potion-of-healing) | open it |
| 9 | a false bottom in the dressing-table drawer (hidden) | [Circlet of Blasting](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#circlet-of-blasting) | Search: Investigation DC 13 |
| 10 | a bundle under the nursemaid's mattress (hidden) | [Cloak of Elvenkind](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#cloak-of-elvenkind) | Search: Perception DC 14 |

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 2 the first time you come ([Random Treasure](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.

### Traps

| # | Trap | Find DC | Disarm DC | Save | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | a breath of soot | 12 | — | CON 12 | 1d6 poison |

### Locked and secret doors

- a seam in the carved paneling: secret, found at DC 12
- the tall mirror's frame: secret, found at DC 10

## Fights

- *The armor on the landing steps down off its stand.*, in [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md): [Animated Armor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/animated-armor.md).

- *She wants her baby back.*, in [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md): [Specter](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/specter.md).

- *The broom against the wall has opinions about visitors.*, in [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md): [Broom of Animated Attack](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/broom-of-animated-attack.md).

- *Every blade on the floor has woken up.*, in [Death House, Third Floor](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/death-house-third-floor.md): [Animated Flying Sword](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/animated-flying-sword.md).

## Quests and lore

> [!quote]- letters tied with ribbon
> Letters from Gustav Durst to the household's nursemaid, kept tied with a blue ribbon. They begin politely and stop being polite. The last is short: the mistress knows, the child must be kept quiet, and he will see that both of them are cared for. Under it, in the nursemaid's own hand, someone has written the name Walter and drawn a small, careful sun.