Death House
Built for a party of about level 2: random treasure here is rolled for that level.
Places
- Death House, Attic: Low beams and dust: two spare bedrooms, a storage room where a trunk holds what's left of the nursemaid and a nook in the corner hides the stair down inside the walls, and the padlocked children's room where Rose and Thorn's ghosts wait beside their dollhouse.
- Death House, Dungeon (Upper Level): Below the house, cut into the rock: the Durst family crypts, the cult's quarters around an old well, a dining hall and larder, a passage strewn with bones where the cult's dead still wait, a shrine to the lord in the castle, and Gustav and Elisabeth Durst, still keeping house behind a door that isn't one. Stairs lead further down toward the chanting.
- Death House, Dungeon (Lower Level): The cult's heart: a reliquary of strange relics at the foot of the stairs, an old prison, a flooded passage to a rusted portcullis and the winch that raises it, and the ritual chamber where the cult's shades chant around the altar and Lorghoth the Decayer sleeps in a mound of refuse.
- Death House, Ground Floor: A handsome townhouse kept as if its family stepped out a minute ago: entrance, main hall with the grand staircase, the Den of Wolves, kitchen and pantry, dining room. Quiet on the way in; it turns on the party after a refusal at the altar, bricking the front door and leaving only the dining room window.
- Death House, Third Floor: 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.
- Death House, Upper Floor: The second storey: the upper hall with its hearth, the family portrait and two suits of wolf-helmed armor, a library with a secret study behind a bookcase (Strahd's letter, the family deeds), the servants' room and a conservatory with a harpsichord that remembers a lullaby.
Quests
People
Elisabeth Durst, Gustav Durst, Lorghoth the Decayer, Rose, The Nursemaid, The Shades, Thorn