CSI: Sharn (Help create 100 corpses)

[TheAuldGrump]

139. The woman's body is undeniably dead, flies gather in her eyes, and have laid their eggs in her mouth. Yet the chest still rises and falls as though with breath, and her abdomen swells in pregnancy for a child not yet born....

140. This is the fourth body found, the wrists and ankles nailed to the walls of the basement with crude spikes, the number 5 carved in its forehead. The previous bodies bore the numbers 1, 2, and 4. Is there a yet undiscovered corpse?

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[Agent Oracle]

141. The smell of alcohol hangs heavy in the air around this corpse. The body is of a human male, somewhere between forty and fifty years in age, though highly bloated and decomposed. Nearby is a freshly opened barrel of rum.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

141. The smell of alcohol hangs heavy in the air around this corpse. The body is of a human male, somewhere between forty and fifty years in age, though highly bloated and decomposed. Nearby is a freshly opened barrel of rum.

Admiral Lord Nelson I presume?

142. The skin has has been stretched tight against the wall, held in place by hundreds of small brass nails. A Dragonmark is centered on the back, but no one can recognize its origin... No sign of the body it was stripped from has yet been found, though the fairness of the coloring would indicate that it was taken from an elf.

The Auld Grump

 

[Agent Oracle]

Admiral Lord Nelson I presume?

Actually, it's based on a Bavarian Tourist who died on vacation in Jamaca, and then his corpse went missing. Ten years later, some Hungarian laborers were kicking back after a hard day of working, and one of them cracks open an aged cask of rum. Guess where the tourist's body had gone The story is true, but it's about fifteen or so years old. You see, the family of the deceased was very poor, and they couldn't afford a burial in the tropics, nor could they afford to send him home legally, so instead, they packed his corpse in a barrel of alcohol, and shipped him home air-freight. But the barrel never made it home. I just felt really, really sorry for the workers, since they had drank quite a bit of the rum before they found the body inside ~

143. This disturbingly fresh skeleton was tied to a crudely-made torture rack. It's joints are still held together by cartilage and some ligaments, but almost everything has been torn off the bone by animals. The tattered rags of clothing it wears indicate that the victim was female, or else a man in woman's clothing. when there's this little left to work with, it takes some deeper study to determine what occured,

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Actually, it's based on a Bavarian Tourist who died on vacation in Jamaca, and then his corpse went missing. Ten years later, some Hungarian laborers were kicking back after a hard day of working, and one of them cracks open an aged cask of rum. Guess where the tourist's body had gone The story is true, but it's about fifteen or so years old. You see, the family of the deceased was very poor, and they couldn't afford a burial in the tropics, nor could they afford to send him home legally, so instead, they packed his corpse in a barrel of alcohol, and shipped him home air-freight. But the barrel never made it home. I just felt really, really sorry for the workers, since they had drank quite a bit of the rum before they found the body inside ~

143. This disturbingly fresh skeleton was tied to a crudely-made torture rack. It's joints are still held together by cartilage and some ligaments, but almost everything has been torn off the bone by animals. The tattered rags of clothing it wears indicate that the victim was female, or else a man in woman's clothing. when there's this little left to work with, it takes some deeper study to determine what occured,

Heh, you may want to look up what happened to Lord Nelson as well then...

144. The corpse is sitting at a small table in one of Sharn's gardens. A lit cigar smolders in a tray that rests beside a sumptious meal. Fine brandy has been poured into a cut crystal snifter, lightly held between his stiff fingers. Four other settings are at the table, the meals consumed, the cigars smoked, and the glasses empty. The corpse itself seems strangely... satisfied, smiling gently, eyes closed. Though the cigar still smokes, and the food is still warm the corpse is cool to the touch. [Going away party.]

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[Angel Tarragon]

145. This fully clothed corpse has slight yellow tinge to its coloring, its face is contorted and its lips have swelled to twice their original size. The corpse is clutching a scroll case in one hand and a silver dagger in the other. Opening the scroll case reveals the identification papers of the corpse. The corpse is one Thaddeus Daywood, the las heir of the Daywood estate.

 

[Agemegos]

Just quoting (from memory, so I could be wrong) a sign painted on a wall at a Jack the Ripper murder scene (and no, the sign said "Jews", not warforged

"Jewes", not "Jews".

 

[Agemegos]

A stout casque, its top removed occupies the furthest corner of the chamber, two tankards lie on the floor, their dregs spilling across the stones. A comfortable chair completes the ensemble...

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/casque

 

[Slife]

146 The skeletons of a kobold and a viper are here, flesh blasted off their bones. Investigation will reveal they were simultaneously incinerated by several gods... but why?

 

[TheAuldGrump]

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/casque

However it was, in its time, also an alternative (though not preferred) spelling of 'cask' - see Poe's 'Casque of Amontillado' for the term being used in this sense. (And for the scene that I described for that matter, it was shamelessly cribbed from the Bostonian. My choice of spelling was not accidental. ) Both refer back, if I recall correctly, to a Latinate noun meaning 'head'.

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