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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4792411" data-attributes="member: 3285">Chaugnar Faugn: Part 3b – The MonasterySebastian looked carefully at the shooter’s head.  “That’s Carlo Schippone.  I saw a drawing of him in Sweet Savona.”They entered the monastery through the door Carlo had used.  Inside was a rough-hewn cave, very dark, with steps leading up. Stone steps and wooden ladders led up to another unlit cave and then into a larger assembly hall.The hall had three small windows, each letting in just a glimmer of light.  At one end was an elaborate wooden altar bearing frescoes of five Nyambe deities.“Ever see these before?” Sebastian asked the others.Kham frowned.  “I don’t need to.  Look at the last one.”It was a yellow deity clothed in robes.Above the altar sat racks with statues, books, and copied manuscripts.  In the center of the room was a pallet, several blankets, a small barrel of water, some cooked rice, nuts, honeycomb, and hard bread.Beldin sniffed.  “Do you smell that?”A grim, sweet smell emanated from nearby.  Vlad ducked his head out of the adjacent chamber.  “That’d be the bodies.”Vlad discovered five bodies, laid out neatly should to shoulder: four adults and a child.  The bodies showed advanced decomposition. “This must have been the holy man Schippone mentions in his diaries,” said Sebastian. “He slaughtered them all.”“Let’s give them a proper burial.” Beldin thought of all the deaths he had witnessed at Semar.  “We have the time.”</blockquote>

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