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<blockquote data-quote="InVinoVeritas" data-source="post: 3123462" data-attributes="member: 41485"><p>Perrin and Gis head back down the hallway to fetch a pitcher of water, glass, and a basin. <span style="color: DarkSlateBlue">"The body was reported to us by the witness about 15 minutes after midnight, and we arrived on the scene about 10 minutes later. We were able to retrieve the body before the clock struck one. I can't imagine what the mess that would have resulted if we hadn't gotten there when we did; it would have been ground up by the gears. If the victim was killed before midnight... we would not yet know about what happened when."</span></p><p></p><p>Perrin and Gis return with the water. A glass is poured for the gnome, and Torhan delivers the glass. He asks about the events of the night, while Darian and Ru stand by to listen.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: MediumTurquoise">"Thank you," </span> she begins. She takes a sip before climbing into the chair. <span style="color: MediumTurquoise">"I don't know how much I can help... I saw the body, dangling from one of the chains in the clock tower by the face... It was terrible... Up and down, up and down... Dripping all over..."</span> She looks upward, sobbing, terrified, as if the corpse floated above her. <span style="color: MediumTurquoise">"I don't know who it is--I don't know! Just... Keep it away from me!"</span></p><p></p><p>"It" lay on the table while Hieran took notes. Although he had never seen the diagrams traced out on skin like this before, the patterns were familiar to him. He even recognized some of the tracings from his own spellbook. Along his left arm, the formula for resonances in negative energy in animated corpses. Across his chest, the sigil for imbuing the skin with protective hardness. Pity it did him little good. The patterns were not recent, though, but tattooed over a long period of time--years, Fr. Breman confirms. And still, there is the question of the surgical precision of the heart's removal and the crude brutality resulting in the head's removal. Neither of the two investigators know of any ritual or religion that would ask for or require two extremely different steps. </p><p></p><p>Fr. Breman takes the opportunity to wash his hands. "Help me wrap him up," he says, and the two finish their discussion just in time to witness the gnome's outburst.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="InVinoVeritas, post: 3123462, member: 41485"] Perrin and Gis head back down the hallway to fetch a pitcher of water, glass, and a basin. [COLOR=DarkSlateBlue]"The body was reported to us by the witness about 15 minutes after midnight, and we arrived on the scene about 10 minutes later. We were able to retrieve the body before the clock struck one. I can't imagine what the mess that would have resulted if we hadn't gotten there when we did; it would have been ground up by the gears. If the victim was killed before midnight... we would not yet know about what happened when."[/COLOR] Perrin and Gis return with the water. A glass is poured for the gnome, and Torhan delivers the glass. He asks about the events of the night, while Darian and Ru stand by to listen. [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]"Thank you," [/COLOR] she begins. She takes a sip before climbing into the chair. [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]"I don't know how much I can help... I saw the body, dangling from one of the chains in the clock tower by the face... It was terrible... Up and down, up and down... Dripping all over..."[/COLOR] She looks upward, sobbing, terrified, as if the corpse floated above her. [COLOR=MediumTurquoise]"I don't know who it is--I don't know! Just... Keep it away from me!"[/COLOR] "It" lay on the table while Hieran took notes. Although he had never seen the diagrams traced out on skin like this before, the patterns were familiar to him. He even recognized some of the tracings from his own spellbook. Along his left arm, the formula for resonances in negative energy in animated corpses. Across his chest, the sigil for imbuing the skin with protective hardness. Pity it did him little good. The patterns were not recent, though, but tattooed over a long period of time--years, Fr. Breman confirms. And still, there is the question of the surgical precision of the heart's removal and the crude brutality resulting in the head's removal. Neither of the two investigators know of any ritual or religion that would ask for or require two extremely different steps. Fr. Breman takes the opportunity to wash his hands. "Help me wrap him up," he says, and the two finish their discussion just in time to witness the gnome's outburst. [/QUOTE]
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