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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 3905549" data-attributes="member: 34958">You head up two levels of stairs, following a trail of blood that gets thicker as you climb.  It seems as if the fighting continued all the way up, as the stairwell shows the signs of weapons glancing off the walls.  When you reach the top the Watchman takes you into a chapel of a kind, where there are several overturned pews and a golden cross hanging on the far wall next two two large windows.  Despite your long campaigning years, you nearly retch from the sight and the stench.  Three bodies are laid out close to you, one that looks like a pulverized gnome and two others that show repeated cut marks that have made their features nearly undiscernable.  The Watchman explains that these three were found downstairs and brought up here by the Watch.  Five other piles of body parts lay nearby, and it would seem as if the killers mutilated and cut apart these bodies and the Watch did their best to guess what went with whom.  One such body may have once been a silver-haired woman in a blue dress, but you find that you cannot keep looking at such an atrocity for very long.  Rags seem to have been ripped from the corpses and were used as makeshift brushes to coat the walls in red blood, and different symbols.  There are lightning bolts, four lines that form the shape of hourglasses, and crimson-filled crescent moons and circles.  One symbol is an amalgram of of a few shapes: two crossed lightning bolts are topped and bottomed by a third and fourth lightning bolt so that the four lines form an hourglass-like shape while a red-filled circle are inside the top and bottom of this particular hourglass, as if sand.  This particular combination of shapes desecrates the golden cross hanging in the room.OOC: Kantris does not believe that kind of magic was used in this case, but it instead seems as if something large smashed a gnome into the door with such force that it partially broke open the door and probably killed the gnome.</blockquote>

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