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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Iron Sky" data-source="post: 5341355" data-attributes="member: 60965">The Hunted: Day 1, Hour 2, Minute 32Krav, Earth, and Xander investigate the maid's room while Mab tinkers with the brass contraption in the basement and Devinihm and Raijin carefully examine the main crime scene.[sblock=Xander]Your first instinct would be to assume the single deep stab wound into her chest was the result of a knife blade.  Then you notice that the wound curves considerably, implying a curved blade.  Examination of the bottom of the wound though shows tearing and bruising.  Your final conclusion is something drove a single foot-long, razor-sharp talon or claw into her chest, puncturing the heart and killing her in seconds.[/sblock][sblock=Earth]You examine the woman and determine she probably awoke, saw who or whatever it was that killed her standing over her, and curled into the fetal position as she was dying.  Whatever it was she saw clearly terrified her.  Under the blanket, she is wearing a pale blue nightgown stained with blood.  It looks as though whatever killed her stabbed her through the thick blanket and nightgown.[/sblock][sblock=Mab]This contraption is an ingenious mix of mechanics, alchemy, and magic.  It looks as though it draws water from deep underground and pulls it up where it is separated into a hot and cold tank.  A system of pipes activated by a dial cause air to be drawn in from outside, blowing over the cold tank and through the aerated pipes running through the main rooms, releasing cool though slightly damp air.Other pipes run from the hot tank into the main bathroom, ending at a giant brass tub that presumably fills to the brim with hot water at the twist of a knob!  It also supplies water to the kitchen where hot or cold water may be accessed via waterspouts in brass basins, providing hot or cold water straight to the kitchens as needed.[/sblock][sblock=Raijin]You examine the mantle, discovering several points of interest:* All of the bowls and chalices have similar markings, implying they are all from the same location despite their variety of styles, materials, and apparent ages.* There is a perfectly circular spot clear of dust and blood in the center of mantle, with enough room on either side that a wide bowl could probably fit there.* You spot the man's decapitated head lying behind his desk.  His eyes are wide open with shock and a hint of fear and his expression seems slightly resigned, as if he was perhaps expecting this?* You notice that the blood-spattered picture over the mantle has the dead man in it standing in the middle of some other figures that you can't make out with all the blood over them.  They appear to be on the Daunton docks.  The man also has his hands extended as though he's holding something, but what exactly is obscured by blood.[/sblock][sblock=Devinihm]You examine the desk, finding mostly dry accounting sheets, log reports, shipping manifests, crop yield figures, tax documents, warehouse inventories, and the like.  Most are in a clean, technical, precise hand.  One of the sheets lying on the floor catches your eye, however and, looking closer, it has something scrawled hastily on it.It seems to be a partially complete ledger with a few fast-jotted lines written: "one is here, i dont now which but it has to be related to dartanian yesterday  i heard it kill justeus downstairs and its coming up  if somone finds this warn dartan and the others its - gods..."[/sblock]</blockquote>

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