Ptolus: The Legend of Longcoat

[Erekose13]

"We have no one who is suited to finding traps, I will endeavor to prevent lasting harm from befalling anyone who wishes to try the chest." says Maugra, her back still turned to the room.

 

[Voadam]

"Go on, open it." Garn wipes blood from his neck and flicks it onto the floor. "Don't worry sweetie. We'll drag your unconscious body out if anything bad happens and stop the bleeding. The dwarf's good at that."

 

[Cthulhudrew]

As the others debate about who is going to open the chest, Vanden searches the rest of the room more thoroughly.

[sblock=ooc]Anything with any kinds of arcane symbols on them? Something that looks similar to the pentagram in the last room by any chance?[/sblock]

If he fails to turn up anything interesting, he will rest for a moment, then go back into the room with the fountain.

 

[Trench]

Ada gestures rudely to the half-orc before snorting and unlocking the chest with the key.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Vanden looks through the room, and is sorry he did. Although Longcoat was apparently endlessly creative with the mutilations and humiliations of his victims -- at least some of whom appear to have been alive for some of the torture, based on the bloody hand and footprints -- his interests do not seem to have extended into arcane magic.

And then, with a click, Ada turns the key in the lock and opens the iron strongbox. Insider are yet more vile momentos of Longcoat's -- what separates them from the others, none can or want to guess -- as well as treasures of a more conventional sort, including gold and silver coins, a silver ring carved with dolphins and a pair of leaded glass flasks containing dark watery liquid.

 

[Trollbabe]

"So what is our next move? Are we sure we can even put the spirit woman to rest?" Garnet lowers his arm as the nausea passes. "Perhaps we have already done all that can be done..."

 

[Erekose13]

"Any more clues to our murderer's identity? Is he as inhuman as he was during battle?" asks Maugra not willing to try and search the body of Longcoat herself.

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Vanden shakes his head, dismayed. "Nothing- there is nothing that ties this creature to the murderer of Coraithe Whitetree that I can see. I believe my earlier suspicions about this being a copycat killer were correct. I don't believe this was Henry Crofter."

He leans against the wall for a moment, resting, then- "Perhaps those men in the inaccessible room might shed some light on things, if they still linger?"

 

[Trench]

"Why bother?" Ada says. She looks up to the sudden glances from the others. "The killer is dead?.The wh-women are safe. And we have this," Ada points to the coin and treasure in the chest, while picking up a bloody trophy and tossing it out onto the floor. "It'll take some cleaning, but I'd say we're done. Any arcane types care to take a guess on this?" Ada holds up the ring.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

With a shriek, Longcoat -- his wounds partially healed -- springs from the floor, leaping at Garn. One claw catches the half-orc in a previously sheared-away portion of his armor, and fresh blood spatters the wall. The half-orc folds to the floor, unconscious and bleeding out.

[sblock=ooc]Garn takes 5 points of damage, bringing him to -4. He is bleeding out and will die in 6 rounds.

Pausing for everyone else's action.

And never trust that a serial killer -- especially one with enhanced healing -- is dead just because he stops moving![/sblock]