Glibberig wrote:Fortunately I have dealt with vampires several times in my travels. I know that they sparkle in the sunlight and often take drippy girls as their lovers. I once cleared a den of them using nought but a wooden toothpick to stake them through the hearts.
It's a mess. There are already a few people leaning out of the overhanging windows of the inn watching the coroner and mortician prepare the body for removal, and two members of the town guard stand either side of them while they work, blocking off direct access to the alley. Prince's backs on to the town's infirmary and is only a minute or two away from the southern guard post, which is probably why there are already officials on the scene.
The guard are putting a bit of distance between yourselves and the bloodied body, which appears to be swimming in a puddle of its own making, but you might be able to make out some details at this distance.
Everyone who wants to eyeball Mr. Lahaed's body, make a Spot check.
I was going to go climbing, but I reckon that might do it.
Actually, I think I'll go climbing anyway. Regardless of what I can see I'm going to scoot round a quiet side of the building and try to climb onto the roof for a better look. Sneaky, like.
Climbing bare brickwork unaided's not the easiest of things to do, but Forenrond makes it about three foot before his hands slip and he falls unceremoniously back to the ground. But hey, at least he does it quietly and secretively!
Your eagle half-elven eyes do get an eyeful of Mr Lahaed's mutilated body though. He has a gaping chest wound right over his heart, and there appears to be a hunk of flesh and skin missing in the precise shape of a blood-drop, with the crimson slot the blade went through right in the centre. You don't seem to see any discarded weapons nearby.
You do however see no more than three bloodied boot-steps leading off deeper into the alleyway that just appear to.. Stop.
Orovan steps out from a nearby crowd in a manner that suggests that he'd just popped into existance
Orovan wrote:Hmm.
He leans forward slightly and tries to catch a glimpse between the guards legs, at the scene, to see if he can spot anything Shankley might have missed.
Thoroar wrote:We could be looking at it the wrong way - maybe it isn't the footsteps that disappeared, but their owner. The way the victim died also seems rather ritualistic to me. The whole vampire theory seems more and more realistic to me.
Roman Totale wrote:Does my Bardic Knowledge reveal anything about the blood drop type cutting in the victim?
Bard level (0) + Intelligence modifier (1)
15,+1 = 16
Alas, Bardic knowledge extends to local people, legends and landmarks.
However, while you don't recognise the blood-drop from anywhere specifically, from your travels and the tales you've shared with fellow bards you think that it might have some sort of religious significance.
This sounds like a job for the clerics. To the Popemobile temple! I'll go speak to the clergy types and describe what I saw. Do they know of any such cult or religion.
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