Durst Manor

Durst Manor was located on the Old Svalich Road west of Village of Barovia. The Durst Manor was explored by the party when they first arrived at Barovia. The wizard Lerak was the first to arrive at this building to investigate at the request of the Durst children Rose and Thorne. The rest of the party arrived from the Svalch road. The children requested you check on their baby brother Walter.

Upon entering the house it was as-if the house had a will to keep the party there and the choking mists which surround Barovia overtook the house. While exploring the house the party discovered the secrets of the Durst family including an affair with the milk-maid, a bastard baby, a cannibalistic cult worshiping Strahd and the Dark Powers, and the ultimate sacrafice of an innocent child at the hands of the cult creating a slavering flesh beast in the basement dungeon the Durst Cult was completing their rituals in.
Ultimately the party put the Durst children (Rose/Thorne) bones to rest in their crypt and freed the baby Walter from within the heart of the flesh beast. With this act the powers keeping the ghostly manor intact all these years began to crumble to peices. The house wanted final victims and moved and shifted the doors/windows/steps before the party, threw traps at them, and conjured visions and hallucinations of the past events within its walls.
At first it seemed the house collapsed upon Meldrus before he could escape. However, he did emerge from the rubble. Changed, but present.

Durst Manor

Residents: Gustav Durst (hanged man) Elisabeth Durst (ghoul) Rose Durst (ghost) Thorne Durst (ghost) Walter Durst (flesh abomination) Margaret the nurse maid (banshee)

Type

Mansion / Villa

Rose & Thorne