CSI: Sharn (Help create 100 corpses)

[TheAuldGrump]

147. Each of the three bodies is seated rigidly in an ornate chair, a woman, a man, and a small girl, all bear an unmistakable family resemblance to each other. A grey cat, subject to expert taxidermy, sits in the girls lap. Beside each chair is a formal portrait of the chair's occupant, framed in a style that matches that of the chairs. In the portaits each is wearing the same attire that they now wear in death, the cat is also featured in the portrait of the young girl. In all of the portaits the subject's eyes are closed.

The Auld Grump

 

[Angel Tarragon]

148. Six skeletons of orcs lie in the gutter, each one clutching scraps of paper. If all the scraps of paper are reassembled, it turns out to be the identification form of one Thaddeus Myritil, resident roden warlock and member of the Royal Eyes of Aundair.

If the PCs do their homework, they find Thaddeus to still be alive and will reward the pcs if they give him the scraps of his identification paper with 25 gp per character.

 

[Rechan]

149. The underside of this bridge is coated with dense webbing. Twelve cocooned bodies are found throughout the webbing. Each body is of a half-elf, and after thorough examination, the cause of death is old age.

150. The body is a halfling woman with a shaved head, middle-upper class clothes, and a single, deep puncture wound in the lower abdomen.

The identification papers accompanying the body are for that of a man, with every aspect of the papers fit the woman - from the eye color to height, the birthmark on the upper left arm, and the shaved head.

(Yes, I know 129 had an apparent cross dresser. The trick to this one is: play up that it isn't an obvious case of cross dressing.)

151. A pool of blood is in this otherwise empty lightning rail car. Looking at the pool, it appears to be smeared by something having pressed down onto it. A search (15) DC finds an invisible body on top of the pool.

152. The zombie of a headless shifter walks in a circle. His head is in his hands. It does not attack when disturbed. The decapitation appears to be perimortem (pre-death) (Heal check 15).

153. A Circle of Protection (from Chaos) is etched in the center of the alley. Just outside of the circle, the body of a Kalashtar male stands. There is no apparent reason for his up right nature, and a search check 17 (with the Investigation feat) or Heal 17 shows the cause of death to be drowning.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

154. There is no secret or mystery as to where either of the bodies came from. The first floats in the air, held in place by a rope. The other is hanging from a rope, the victim of an upset band of adventurers. They should have known better than to ask a gnome sorcerer to raise dead....

The Auld Grump (ducks)

 

[Rechan]

155. The bodies are of three men. The first has a dagger stuck in his stomach. The other two are curled up in fetal positions, and next to them are two shattered bottles of wine. Close by, a coffer filled with 500 gold can be found buried an inch beneath the surface.

(Name the source, get a cookie.)

 

[Rechan]

Bump. Er, "Raise Thread".

 

[Gundark]

Shouldn't there be a sign on the wall saying "The warforged are not people to be blamed for nothing" "

You're getting two different killers mixed up.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

156. There are parts of corpses scattered about the room in a fashion that at first seems random, but then the signs of careful sorting become apparent.

The bodies are all of people who went missing within the last three days, stripped and disassembled - save for the most recent, a halfling who bears a dragonmark of house Jorasco, garbed in surgical gown, his head twisted around and his neck snapped.

Open upon one of the tables is a book on the crafting of flesh golems, in the margins minuscule handwriting reads 'fresher is better'. Enough parts are missing from the gathered corpses to assemble an entire body, and the side door gapes open into the alley....

The Auld Grump

 

[Isida Kep'Tukari]

157. This body is of a middle-aged human male, with sticking plaster stuck to his back to make a crude, makeshift knife sheath. He is barefoot, with what seems to be wounds from glass shards on the soles of his feet. They've been crudely badaged from the sleeves of the man's shirt. His clothes are bloodstained and dirty, but of decent quality. He seems to have died from a stab wound to the chest.

(You get a cookie if you get the reference.)

 

[Rechan]

157. This body is of a middle-aged human male, with sticking plaster stuck to his back to make a crude, makeshift knife sheath. He is barefoot, with what seems to be wounds from glass shards on the soles of his feet. They've been crudely badaged from the sleeves of the man's shirt. His clothes are bloodstained and dirty, but of decent quality. He seems to have died from a stab wound to the chest.

(You get a cookie if you get the reference.)

McClain is too badass to be taken out with a knife.