Only one road provided access to the region: a long and winding track that became increasingly overgrown the further it stretched from Kintargo, the capital of Ravounel. As the travelers rounded the final corner to take in the sight of the long-abandoned settlement, a partially collapsed sign proclaimed the site to be "Crook Cove." The town's buildings had largely collapsed into rubble. Half-collapsed pilings of wood jutted from the surf, all that remained of many of the structures that once graced the shoreline.

None could miss the lone surviving building that stood within a clearing atop an otherwise wooded bluff overlooking the town to the northeast. Surrounded by a rusty iron fence, this manor was built so many years ago by Ioseff Xarwin, and among the town's buildings, it alone had stood the test of time. A short additional walk up the hill along a barely0discernible track lead the party to the front gates of the manor grounds.

The overgrown road came to an end at a pair of rusty, wrought-iron gates flanked by two stone pillars. Beyond, the woodlands receded before a large clearing of tall, dry grass, at the center of which loomed Xarwin Manor. The building's roofline rose in the middle to a third level surrounded by a walkway, while the closed dome of what appeared to be an observatory rose above. Slate shingles covered the steeply-slanted roofs below this central dome with more rusty ironwork adorning its eaves. The paint along the manor's wooden walls had mostly peeled away, leaving behind a weathered building clad in creeping vines that looked forgotten by the world. Even at a distance, the building's facade seemed unusually... moist, as if it had just weathered torrential downpour despite the dryness of the surrounding grounds.


Who wants to explore a haunted house for Halloween?
Malevolence is a published 2nd-edition Pathfinder adventure for characters of 3rd through 6th levels.


UPDATE: Thank you! Closed to new interest.
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