Rainforest's Home

Finding the house

The house is also south-east of The Blushing Mermaid, making that tavern a useful broad landmark.

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Ground floor

The ground floor contains the staircase, ordinary household objects and the hatch leading to the basement. A copy of the Bloodstained Parchment can be found near the hatch after a DC 10 Perception check. This document lists murder targets connected to the Bhaalist killings.

The ground floor is also one of the places where Ratin Sesescor wanders. Ratin may move between the ground and upper floors rather than remaining in one fixed spot.

Upper floor

Alexander Rainforest’s corpse lies on the upper floor. There is no significant personal treasure on the body, and it is missing one hand. The missing hand is associated with the serial killer Dolor and the murder investigation.

Rainforest does not know the killer’s name when questioned after death. His testimony is therefore useful evidence, but it does not by itself identify Dolor.

Basement

The basement is reached through the hatch beneath the stairs. The initial route contains a tripwire and blast mine, each requiring a DC 15 Perception check to detect. The traps can be disarmed, bypassed or triggered deliberately, but careless movement can injure the party before the main discovery.

Beyond the trapped approach is a ritual murder scene. Two blue dragonborn victims are present in the scene described by the location’s documentation. The clearly identified body is Winslow Reginol, whose corpse holds:

The basement is the most important area for both quests associated with the house.

Rainforest’s study

A door from the main basement area leads to Rainforest’s study. The room contains research notes and documents concerning Candulhallow’s Tombstones. These papers make the house more than a simple murder-site container: they show that Rainforest had begun assembling a case against the establishment before his death.

The eastern wall conceals a further section. It is visually marked as suspicious and can be revealed with a DC 15 Perception check. The location documentation notes that the wall appears trapped, although it does not function as an actual trap once discovered.

Hidden basement section

Behind the concealed wall is a compact storage area containing:

The key is found behind the eastern wall of the study and opens a strongbox in the northern storeroom.

Southern storeroom

The southern storage area contains another trap sequence matching the approach to the basement. The Strongbox in the eastern wall can be opened with Rainforest’s Chest Key or by succeeding on a DC 15 Sleight of Hand check. It contains gold and a random gem. The exact random contents may vary, so the strongbox should be described as a loot container rather than a fixed named-gem placement.

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Front entrance

The front doors are locked and marked red. Lockpicking them in full view of the street can attract the attention of nearby authorities. The area is watched by a Flaming Fist patrol and a Steel Watcher, and a guard may question the character who is seen attempting to break in.

The exact consequences can depend on who witnesses the act and on the party’s current relationship with Lower City authorities.

Rear balcony

The rear of the building is generally the most convenient entrance. The broken balcony railing allows a character to jump to the balcony. The balcony door is red-outlined but not locked. Characters can also reach the rear approach with movement spells such as:

The lower rear door is also red-outlined and not locked. A party member who enters this way may need to open the front door from inside so that the rest of the group can follow.

Recommended entry route

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Alexander Rainforest

Status: Deceased resident

Alexander Rainforest was the owner and occupant of the house. In life, he worked as an ombudsman connected to Grey Harbour Docks. His job involved dealing with problems and checking irregularities. He had become increasingly focused on the activities and history of Candulhallow’s Tombstones.

Rainforest was one of Dolor’s murder victims. His corpse is part of the wider chain of ritual killings being investigated in Lower City. His missing hand is not found in the house, and his body carries no important loot.

Ratin Sesescor

Status: Resident animal

Ratin is a rat wandering through the ground and upper floors. The party must use Speak with Animals to understand the dialogue.

Ratin describes Alexander as a “cheese-dropper” and explains that a “man in red” came to the house. After that, Alexander began dropping red morsels instead of cheese. The implication is deliberately grotesque: Ratin has been eating pieces of human remains.

The nearby Cheese Record provides additional context for Ratin’s unusual diet. Repeated attempts to converse with the rat can produce increasingly threatening remarks, including a suggestion that the player character might themselves make a tempting meal.

Winslow Reginol

Status: Deceased murder victim

Winslow is a blue dragonborn found in the basement murder scene. His corpse is the fixed location of Dribbles’ severed foot. Searching him also provides murder-related material, including Orin’s Ritual Notes and Abazigal, the Fourth.

Character directory

No merchant, quest giver, Flaming Fist officer or Steel Watch guard is permanently stationed inside the house.

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Bhaalists

The basement murder scene and the documents found there connect the building to the Bhaalist serial killings. Alexander was killed by Dolor, a Bhaalist cultist seeking recognition as an Unholy Assassin of Bhaal.

Flaming Fist and Steel Watch

The authorities do not occupy the house, but the street-facing entrance is watched. The nearby patrol and Steel Watcher make the front door a poor choice for a careless burglary attempt. This is an environmental security problem rather than an interior combat encounter.

Murder Tribunal connection

Rainforest’s papers point towards the suspicious operation of Candulhallow’s Tombstones. That funeral business is a front for Bhaalist activity and conceals access to the Murder Tribunal. Rainforest’s investigation therefore provides background evidence for a location the party may later visit directly.

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Investigate the Murders

Rainforest’s Home is one of the murder scenes in this investigation. The location can provide several pieces of evidence:

The house does not by itself complete the whole quest. It is one part of a city-wide investigation involving other victims, murder targets and Bhaalist locations.

Find Dribbles the Clown

The basement contains Clown’s Severed Foot on Winslow Reginol’s corpse. This is one of the fixed Dribbles body-part locations. It can be collected whether or not the party has already completed every other stage of the circus investigation, although turning in the full set requires gathering the remaining pieces from several locations.

The complete quest rewards Spellmight Gloves, unless they have already been pickpocketed, in which case the reward is replaced with a small amount of gold. Returning the parts also grants background-specific inspiration opportunities. These rewards come from completing the wider quest, not from merely entering Rainforest’s Home.

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Fixed or quest-relevant items

The available location documentation lists additional books and notes, but some are incidental literature rather than quest objects. Their presence is useful for environmental storytelling, especially when searching the study and upper-floor rooms.

Containers and variable loot

Because several containers use minor or random loot, the exact contents may differ from one source’s inventory example or from one playthrough to another. Fixed quest items should be distinguished from these variable containers.

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Basement traps

The main danger is the series of blast mines and tripwires in the basement. Use a character with strong Perception and Sleight of Hand, or proceed in turn-based mode so that the party does not rush into the murder scene.

The study’s concealed eastern wall is visually suspicious, but the documentation specifically notes that it does not actually produce a normal trap despite appearing to do so.

Missable evidence

Rainforest’s Home contains evidence that is easy to overlook because it is distributed among ordinary household objects:

None of these should be treated as guaranteed progression locks for the entire Act Three plot. Other murder scenes and investigative routes can provide overlapping evidence. However, skipping them means losing some of the clearest local context.

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