The Crooked House | A Mini Folk Horror Adventure | Lvl 3

About the adventure

Beneath the watch of the Crooked Moon, the old house at the edge of the village has begun to lean… not with age, but with intention. Once it belonged to a quiet family whose lantern burned every night to keep the dark at bay. But something answered that light. Since then the walls have warped, the chimney coughs black smoke into starless skies, and the doorway stands open like a broken jaw waiting to swallow the unwary. Those who pass the road before the Witching Hour claim they hear voices inside—soft prayers, children laughing, chairs scraping across the floor though no one has lived there for years. Others swear the house shifts when no one is watching, bending a little more with each rising of the Crooked Moon. Household pets wander toward it and are never seen again. Candles relight themselves in its windows. And sometimes, in the deepest hours of night, pale hands press against the glass from the inside… as if something trapped within is begging to be let out. Or begging to be let in. The Lord and Lady of Druskenvald have been given the estate as their home while visiting Wickermoor Hollow and the village. The house is claimed to be in prestine condition....but something isn't right about the house. Phillip and Adela Druskenvald have invited you to dinner after they settle in as thanks for assisting their travels to Wickermoor Village upon the hour the clocktower ushers in the Evening Hour. And an old groundskeeper in the village square keeps staring at the house as if....remembering...or having a nightmarish vision. The Crooked House is a folk-horror mini-adventure steeped in dread, superstition, and creeping corruption from The Crooked Moon Campaign. Players must uncover what lives within the warped timbers and rotten halls and assist the Lord and Lady Druskenvald once more—before the house learns their names… and decides they belong to it.