Relieved that there's no creepy monsters on this room, at least for now, Alev will follow Sergei into the room he's investigating... But not before taking a moment to take out a piece of black chalk from his backpack and try to write a small, crudely written message on the dust-covered walls. In the purely hypothetical case that they all die here, he wants to leave a message behind for any future unlucky bastard coming here.

   Burn down the house! BURN IT DOWN

After doing that, he walks into the room Sergei's in.

Alev, You watch your message rearrange  itself into 'Alev will burn.'

Sergei, You open the last door and reveal a dusty chamber packed with old furniture that includes chairs, coat racks, standing mirrors, dress mannequins, and the like. All are draped in dusty white sheets. Near an iron stove, underneath one of the sheets, is a wooden chest poking out.

Sergei cautiously enters the room, muttering to himself, “This isn’t creepy at all.” He will nudge the chest with his foot. If nothing happens, he’ll inspect it for funny business.

3

You find nothing suspicious about the chest. Carefully, you open it and find the skeletal remains of someone wrapped in a tattered bed sheet stained with blood,. The skeleton appears to be wearing a maid's outfit. The clothing looks suspiciously like the clothing of the spirit you fought earlier. Looking closely, you determine that the skeletal figure died due to several knife wounds.

Sergei mutters, “Why did the maid have to be stabbed and stuffed in a chest? A lot of dark deeds happened in this house. No wonder it’s under the sway of evil spirits.”

Gently closing the chest, Sergei will carefully inspect the rest of the room.

(and hopefully roll a bit higher, he’s not a very good investigator so far) 7

Rudick grimaced and shook his head. "Now this is creepy." He mutters under breath. Yet, for posterity's sake at least, he stepped on inside to thoroughly check out the room, flipping over the bed and even tapping the back of the wardrobe for a hidden door if shifting it to one side didn't rule out the possibility first.

Perception: 15. (if investigation would be more appropriate, then take off the +4 bonus completely)

Once all that's done, Rudick exits likely around the same time Sergei has moved on to his latest room, finding the body. And hearing nothing in the way in the of a scream coming from the room, he looks to the lock door again, ready to bust it open if the more roguish members hadn't picked it open by then. 

(@Todd: Hardly anyone are that great at it. Most we got is a +3. XD)

Creeped out, Alev walks to the room Sergei is in. He just wants all of this to be done with.

"...Probably cult stuff." He answers from behind him. "Letters about summoning demons, a possessed house, now this? Definitely a cult."

He looks over the human's shoulder to see the skeleton. "Do you think she could have been the ghost from earlier?"

Choosing to not say what just happened with the walls, Alev will try to help Sergei inspect the room.

Investigation: 11

Skip slinks up to the door that is locked, fingering his theives tools. He doesn’t kneel down at the lock, he doesn’t need to, and he starts to get to work at the lock

theives tools 21

“If we can’t pick the lock, maybe we can break the door down? Or would that anger the...house?”

"If the house can be angered, I pretty sure we already did... You know, what with the armor moving and stuff. Sorry about that one again." Alev says nervously, thinking about the writing on the wall but saying nothing about it. I'm really sorry.

With Skip's expert skills, the door swings open. This room contains a bricked up window flanked by two dusty, wood framed beds sized for children. Closer to the door is a toy chest with windmills painted on it's sides and a doll house that's a perfect replica of the dreary edifice in which you stand. These furnishings are draped in cobwebs. Lying in the middle of the floor are two small skeletons wearing tattered but familiar clothing. The smaller of the two cradles a stuffed doll that you also recognize.

Alev caws an expletive when he recognizes the clothes and the doll. He takes a step back and decides to wait outside the room.

"...I don't want to stay in a room with two dead kids." He mumbles. "I... They were just kids! We talked to them! What happened in this hellhole? What is this nightmare?" He doesn't even sounds terrified, he's just genuinely confused. Confused and tired. He just wants to leave this house already.

Sergei didn’t notice the locked door room - he’s still investigating the creepy room

Rudick and Sergei, you don't notice any other details of the room. It appears to just be storage with a dead body stuffed in a chest.

Sergei moves in to the room that had been locked and looks around. He’s actually somewhat relieved to see the corpses of the two children. That means what I saw before... Wasn’t real...

Mindful that the house has secret panels and doors, he starts examining the walls and furniture for a secret door or trapdoor.

Investigate 5

((wow, Sergei is on a “roll”))

Looking incredulously around the hidden room, Skip mutters who puts their babes to sleep in a hidden loft? 
he then proceeds to investigate the room

investigate 14

You don't find any secret doors. 

While you are snooping around, you begin looking at the doll house. You open it and begin inspecting its contents for clues when you hear Rose's voice behind you say, "That is our toy; leave it alone."

Whirling around, you see a spectral form of Rose and Thorn floating above the two small skeletons.

Sergei groans inwardly. Why can’t the dead stay dead?

”Children, you lured us in here? Why?? What would you have us do here?”

After what happened with the ghost maid, Alev turns and jumps in a defensive pose at his companions' side as soon as he hears the voice of the girl he now knew to be dead, ready to attack. 

If the ghosts do not attack first and stay floating where they are, he will relax a little, but won't drop his guard. He isn't even sure if these are the same ghost children who lured them here, for all he knows it could just be the house toying with them yet again. Regardless, he just has one question: "What do you want from us?"

Rose angrily responds, "That wasn't us! It was the house. It made fakes of us."

Thorn adds on, "We just want to sleep." He runs a bleary eye with the back of his hand.