Hewligan's Rise of the Runelords: The Skinsaw Murders

"More servants of the mistress I am sure" replies Jovik as he searches the bodies and the room.


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The room holds nothing of interest, although there are lots of broken bits and bobs (the usual things one would find in a sitting room).

The townhouse is three storeys, so the ground floor you have explored, and then two more. It is time to move on.

The move through the rest of the house is slow and methodical, but also very uneventful. Jovik take the lead, as usual, stopping, listening, moving forward silently, signaling for you to join him, room by room.

The second floor contains a small landing; several paintings have fallen here, a guest room; The bed’s mattress is slashed open, and the footlocker upended and emptied of its contents, and a library; hundreds of mundane books litter the floor.

The third floor contains only two rooms. The Master Bedroom is a large room has been thoroughly ransacked.

Finally there is the Master’s Study: The exotic zebraskin rug on the floor here is worth something (perhaps 20-50gp?) and strangely remains intact when most other things have been broken and slashed. The bed and
chair are torn apart, and the desk and foot-locker have been looted.

There is an ornate fireplace mantel. This mantel is decorated with two roaring lion heads at either end. You recognise the lions as matching the one on the key ring that you found in Foxglove Manor (the keyring to the very key that opened the front door to this house).
 

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Jokad immediately notices that amid the chaos the odd zebra skin rug remains undisturbed. "The only reason this would be untouched was if they wanted it to cover something..." he mentally concludes.

Carefully he crouches near one corner and slowly begins to lift the exotic rug.
 


"Or it held sentimental value," suggests Kael. "Even in his atavistic state, Foxglove still treasured it. But, better safe than sorry."
 

There is nothing under the rug - it is just a nice exotic rug that has been left untouched by the chaos that was visited upon this house.
 

Danth can't help but chuckle when nothing is revealed beneath the rug. "Oh, well...now what? It doesn't appear that we have any clues at all except for the two creatures we found below."
 

"But we are on the third floor," says Danth quietly, as his companion reaches out to yank on the rug.

Jokad casts a sidelong glare at the cleric as he lifts the rug completely off the floor and inspects the tanned underside. Without looking at him he says, "I realize we are on the 3rd floor. I thought it may be covering some magical diagram, blood stain, or yes... possibly a concealed niche or door."
 

The cleric shrugs. "Well, no harm done. But there must be some sort of clue in this house, and we are just missing it?" Danth turns to face Jovik. "Finding things that are hidden seems to be your niche...any ideas as to where to go next?"
 


The cleric shrugs. "Well, no harm done. But there must be some sort of clue in this house, and we are just missing it?" Danth turns to face Jovik. "Finding things that are hidden seems to be your niche...any ideas as to where to go next?"


"Well, We have looked. But I don't know where else to look."
says Jovik

Jovik's eyes though are drawn to the fireplace and those lion heads. His recalls the last time he looked closely at a fireplace and shudders with the recollection. So Jovik investigates the fireplace more closely.
 

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