Adric, though you struggle some with the unwieldy dimensions of the chest, you do manage to get it up to a point where you could carry it if you'd like.

Struggling with the strange weight, he manages to lift it and makes his way back to the rest of the group, and upon seeing the once locked door open, he steps inside and sees the children, his brows furrowing. "Are those...? Don't tell me those are the children that sent us here."

Rosa stands up and says, "Probably. We were about to decide what to do now." Seeing the large chest, Rosa offers to carry it, after putting the doll in his pack. "I can carry that for you if you want, but what's in it?"

“We should find the corpse of the little one, the one we were sent to help, and bury them all, so they can finally rest.” Says the ranger lowering his swords.

Arkanon looks at Rosa and bares his teeth in a savage, ghastly grin. "What's in it? My burden," he says to the larger man, "and as much as I would love the help, it's mine to carry." He then approaches the two children and kneels by their corpses. Then he looks back towards the ranger, "perhaps in one of the remaining rooms?"

Investigation: 11

Muirdan blanches, then grits his teeth and prepares to follow the ranger into one of the untouched rooms.

"Very well," says Rosa. He focuses for a moment, then, remembering the description of each room, he goes into one, and looks in the stove to see what's inside.

“We should check them “ 

The ranger goes out and if all the rooms in this floor are already checked he will go upstairs looking for the remaining corpse.

As the others search the rooms Tengen kneels and prays for a new beginning for the souls of the children to the Morninglord. Afterwards while she waits for the others to return she looks over the doll's house, the child's toys bringing a stab of pain at a childhood spent in a monastery not with her parents.

Perception 6

Tengen, you spend some time looking over the dollhouse and note a few unique things. It's an exact replica of the house you've been exploring. You also note the little secret door you took to the attic is there, as well as a tiny little spiral staircase off the storage room, hidden behind a bit of wooden paneling. The spiral case extends through all levels of the house, but only a door at the very top.

You also note a library with a hidden room on the second floor, along with a music room, and a spare bedroom.

As you inspect it, your finger lightly bumps the dollhouse. When you graze it, you hear a small voice behind you call out. "Hello, are you here to take care of the monster?" A pair of ghostly images, exactly like the two children from outside earlier have appeared with sorrowful looks on their faces.

The rest of you, which rooms/doors are you exploring?

(OOC: Technically, Tengen has seen what all of the rooms in the house are, thanks to the dollhouse at this stage, if you'd like to handwave investigating them.)

Tengen turns slowly, the exciting discovery of the doll's house temporarily forgotten by the appearance of the ghostly children.

"If there is a monster then we will take care of it, yes" she replies "Do you know what it is, have you ever seen it?"

Voice breaking slightly she continues "What happened to you both, why were you left here with nobody to look after you?  Where were your parents?"

OOC Assuming Tengen isn't alone in here I'm thinking that one of the others would call for the party to come back up, if they don't then Tengen will call out to get them back into the room.

OOC 2: Does the staircase going down have a door on the ground floor to get out of?

Arkanon who had still been in the room examining the children's bodies looks up to see their ghosts. At the mention of a monster he stands and steps up next to Tengen, a deep scowl on his face and his eyes now a deep red as a swirl of emotions ran through him. "I found the mother," he says to Tengen softly in response to her question, "Back there in that chest, stuffed in as if she weren't even human."

"Mother and father locked us in here to keep us safe from the monster. I think they forgot about us though, we were so hungry." the girl says, as her younger brother looks up at you with a ghostly doll dangling from his hands. 

"My stomach hurt a lot. It got so bad, Rose and I just lay down on the ground so it would get better, and then one day we turned into this." he says, a tinge of remembered pain evident in his voice.

"Mother wouldn't have been stuffed into a chest. She was a proud Durst. I think she was really very cross with Nanny when the baby came. She never forgave Father, but she hated Nanny." Rose says, a look of confusion on her face. The boy whimpers at the mention of the baby.

Tengen, there are no other doors off the spiral staircase in the dollhouse, no. Just the one at the top.

Milamber had Remained in the room where the children's bodies were found and decided to examine them to see if he could tell what had caused their demise (medicine check) 8 . He remembered his childhood and pondered what would have caused a parent to leave their children to die like this. A sudden burst of anger filling him. After checking the bodies he stands up and notices the ghosts of the children as the begin to talk and listens to see what they had to say. 

Milamber, you hear the ghostchild talk about being hungry and know that death due to extreme hunger is not uncommon, though the state of these bodies it's hard to judge a proper cause of death. The skeletons appear to be hundreds of years old.

Muirdan hears the call from Tengen and rushes into the room.  At the site of the children, his knuckles tighten on the hammer and he seems to try to recede into the background.

Looking at the children, Milamber gets a grim expression on his face and then forces a smile there in it's place. "We are here to stop the monster, little one. Where is it so we can do so. Also, can you show us where the baby is so we may help it too?" Milamber remembers talking to the children of his village growing up and attempts to utilize a friendly but confident tone when talking to the children. 

"Indeed, we are here to do that," he says giving a glance to Milamber, then he gets down onto one knee so his eyes are level with the ghost children, "this Nanny you mentioned. Why was your mother cross with her? What did she do?"

"The children tell us the monster is downstairs, we didn't see anything on our way up but I'm wondering if the route had been hidden. While you were all going through the rooms I looked at this dolls house. It is a tiny replica of this house, even the secret passage up here is copied and I found another one that seems to head down from here to below the house." The flash in her eyes shows her anger. "Those children will be avenged if it is in my power".

Remembering something else Tengen adds "this house seems to have another secret room on the second floor, it might be worth investigating before we go down the hidden staircase.." 

Milamber nods in agreement. "There may be some sort of clue that will give us important information. I just wish I knew the nature of this monster they speak of."