Rose and Thorn

Rosevalda and Thornboldt Durst

Rosevalda "Rose" Durst (Sister)

Thornboldt "Thorn" Durst (Brother)

## Appearance and Summary

Rose is a young slender teenage girl. She’s seen with her younger brother Thorn. Thorn looks to be about 5 and is seen holding a stuffed animal toy.

## Personality

Rose being the older sibling, seems to know how to take responsibility, having cared for her younger brother. She seems stubborn. Thorn seems to be somewhat of a cry baby.

## Story

The adventurers encounter them briefly outside of their house exclaiming that their parents are inside the house with a monster.

Upon entering the household, they are heard of in the journals of their parents - Gustav's Journal - Elizabeth's Journal, as well as in the clutches of their father's suicide note.

Here the party learn of their parents fate and who their parents are: Gustav Durst, and Elizabeth Durst, though Rose and Thorn never heard or seem to care for knowing what happened to them.

The party eventually come across their room in the attic, where their bones are seen huddled together in the center of the room. As they go to reach for an item in the room, the ghostly visage of the children appear. Brig gives Thorn a porcelain doll to hang on to.

They tell the group that they have no recollection of meeting them outside or telling them that their parents were fighting a monster within the basement of the building, and they know of their death and how they come to it.

Their mother locked them upstairs in their room, which was custom during their parents dinner practices, but their mother failed to ever return, leaving the kids to starve to death.

They came back, and now remain in the room, waiting for their rest. When the party encounter them and question them, Rose reveals to Brig that they may find clues on how to descend into the basement via the dollhouse, to which Brig responds: "Ahh the staircase is in the dollhouse.". Equuleus takes this time to inspect the dollhouse and sees that it's a perfect replica of the Durst Manor and finds that it unassembles to reveal a staircase leading from the attic to the basement floor.

As the party goes to leave, Thorn holds on to Brig and Rose stops Equuleus from leaving, then attempt to enter their bodies. Reffins, who along with Brig, know about specters and that they need either their bones to be reunited with their bodies or to be laid to rest, persuade the children to let them take their bones into the crypts downstairs so that they may find peace.

Understanding this motive, Equuleus and Brig allow the children to enter their bodies and bring their bones with them downstairs. Finding their crypts behind huge stone slabs, they eventually after much effort push aside the slabs and open the coffin to lay down their bones. Thornboldt leaving Brig's body and with a tiny wave, fades away and finds peace finally. Rose also leaves Equuleus's body and thanks the party and fades as well.

They are seen once more during the escape of the Durst Manor for the trio, as Brig is making his descent off the balcony of the 3rd floor, a giant hand from the house as it goes to grapple Brig. Thorn and Rose appear before the hand and stop it, allowing Brig to safely float to the floor to his companions.