Chapter 1: Into the Mists

The double doors to this room have dusty panes of stained glass set into them. Designs in the glass resemble windmills. The dusty, cobweb-filled bedroom has burgundy drapes covering the windows. Furnishings include a four-poster bed with embroidered curtains and tattered gossamer veils, a matching pair of empty wardrobes, a vanity with a wood-framed mirror and jewelry box, and a padded chair. A rotting tiger-skin rug lies on the floor in front of the fireplace, which has a dust-covered portrait of the mother and father figures you saw in the portrait in the second floor hall hanging above it. A door facing the foot of the bed has a full-length mirror mounted on it. Cold air wafts from around a corner to your right, where the noise is now plain and clear.

You climb the stairs and confront silence as you attempt to open the lock. Unfortunatly, the lock proves too secure to pick. The lock looks old and rusty and wouldn't take much to break.

The old, brittle lock gives way under Baroth's shield. The door stands unlocked, the sounds that Wil heard absent from the air.

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 its sides and a dollhouse 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.

You don't notice much but you do, at a brief glance, inspect that the dollhouse is an accurate, to-scale replica of of the house. Knowing your way around the house is very useful and this seems to show what's behind every door.