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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Isida Kep'Tukari" data-source="post: 3854356" data-attributes="member: 4441">The commander catches that comment as he was about to walk out the door and works his mouth sharply in distaste."Host's favor, why on my watch?" he mutters softly as he leaves.  It's a ragged counter-sunwise spiral, probably drawn with a finger in the victim's blood, the opening pointing west.  It corresponds to no known ritual that you're aware of, but the fact that it was hidden and done deliberately means this probably wasn't just done for a lark.  Someone did it for a purpose.  It's not any ritual that you know, but it still has the hallmarks of a ritual all the same.  The commander looks irritated in the extreme, though not with you.  "He called you over because we didn't wany anyone else tramping around the crime scene.  Proper proceedure, of course.  Master Vorj says you keep to yourself primarily, a good traveler and hunter."Predictably, Maavnod has no inclination for small talk.  The commander looks over at the roof, and finally waves over a few of his officers.  With some whispered conversation, they depart to return with a ladder and they start scouring the rooftops.  After many long minutes they return, one of them holding something in his hand.  He takes it to the commander, and they confer for a moment.  Finally the commander turns and opens his hand to you to reveal what was found."This mean anything to you?" he asks.The item is a piece of flat, twisted metal, a ragged spiral drawn on it in green paint, a broken loop of wire punched through one side.  The one place you recall seeing a symbol like this before was... back home.  Symbols like this popped up occasionally, usually connected to random acts of violence by some of the crazed inhabitants of the Wastes.</blockquote>

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