Apparently, all the excitement of the day's activities had exhausted Ling and Vladimir.  They elected to wait behind while those of us with a work ethic continued our task.

We explored the first of the two labourers' dorms without incident.  When we arrived outside the second, we heard the squeaking of rats from inside.  Cracking open the door revealed three dire rats, trying to get into a closed off room.  It looked like someone was holding the door shut against them.

We engaged and slew the rats.  Lik was bitten, and started feeling unnaturally hungry.  His injury was blackened and rotting, but a dose of holy energy seemed to cleanse it, and eliminated his hunger.

We spoke with the man hiding in the room.  Initially, he refused to come out, but was eventually persuaded.  He introduced himself as Salazar Druse, and explained that he had come to the farm to pick up a parcel.  However, the place had been overrun with ravenous undead, whose bite communicated their foul hunger to the victims.  He agreed to wait with Ling and Vlad, but would not enter the farmhouse.

Druse described the "parcel" to us: a wooden box with a design like a ziggurat on it.  We said we would bring it to him if we found it.  He warned us not to open it, as it was trapped.  Something about his manner told us that Druse was not being entirely forthcoming about this package.

Entering the house, we discovered a scene of carnage: bodies everywhere.  Eirik was afflicted with a vision of the fight that caused all this death, and heard what sounded like a small child singing.  In the next room, a knife levitated off the bench and flew across the room at us, but no-one was harmed.

Moving on, we heard more child-like singing, and entered the room from where it came.  This proved to be a small Chapel to the Holy Chorus.  Within it, a small girl was crouched against the altar.  We spoke with her, trying to calm her, and learned that her name was Saskia and that she was hiding here from "Mr Zorn", a bad man who had caused all the terrible things happening on the farm.  We asked Saskia if she wanted to leave with us, and she said she couldn't.

Approaching her slowly, we discovered why: the child was dead, and we were speaking with her frightened spirit, which could not yet move on.

We explored the rest of the house, and killed some zombies.  No sign of Mr Zorn, though we did find a note from him saying that he "hadn't been able to put the package in the normal place; it's in the alternate location".  We deduced that this was intended for Druse.  

When we told Saskia we could not find Zoen, she said he was hiding "in the ground".  Lik worked out that this probably meant the well, outside.

We went outside and attempted to apprehend Druse, who clearly could not be trusted, but he escaped.

Zorn was indeed in the well, though he was now a ghoul.  We spoke with him.  He had been hired to bring the package - a magical "Singing Stone" - to Druse, who would then take it to the town of Brindleford, though Zorn was not sure if this was its final destination.  He'd placed the package in the well (the "alternate location"), but the box had broken, and the "Singing Stone" had tainted the water, just as it had already (though not to his knowledge) tainted him.  Zorn said that anyone exposed to the stone for too long started to hear its song.  They would become afflicted with a hunger for flesh, and plagued with visions of a green, underground city in the wastes.  This is what had happened to him, and to the people of the farm.  After he was changed into a ghoul, Zorn had gone back into the well to get the stone, but was now trapped: the stones at the top of the well were blessed, and burned him so much he could not climb out.

We offered to let Zorn go if he gave us the stone (we lied).  He agreed, though it wasn't clear if he actually believed us, or just figured the stone would do terrible stuff to us, as well.  We then destroyed him with weapons and holy energy, though we had to rest overnight to have enough power to do so.

The next day, with the stone sealed up inside three iron pots, we headed on for Fort Reldik and reported all that had happened to Father Osterbolger.  Thus far, it seems that regular doses of holy energy keep the Stone's malevolent influence at bay, and can even cause the stone to shrink in size.