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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2555027" data-attributes="member: 2205">(OOC: I'll roll up any Spot/Listen and or Search checks as needed behind the scenes here.  I don't suppose either of you has Track or ranks in Survival?  Pity.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />)Delicately searching through the house, it is obvious that the body parts scattered about represent more than one individual -- there may be as many as six bodies here.  It is difficult to say for sure, due the mangled and mutilated nature of the corpses, and the mixture of arms, legs and entrails.  You both spot a trail of blood that leads out through the back of the house; neither of you has the expertise to tell which of the two it may be, but someone either crawled or was dragged through the house and out the back.Here the door is missing; in fact, a large portion of the wall is entirely missing as well and the house ends in a gaping, ragged hole.You spot another cryptic clue; the sides of the broken wall seem to be dripping with a blackish, oily slime.  Looking carefully, your senses augmented by your psionic abilities (Arlenanen), you spot something even more peculiar.  The house is, other than the fact that it's been ransacked, in pretty good shape.  That is, the construction is solid and appears relatively recent.  Around this ragged tear in the back wall, though, the wood frame and panelling seems ancient, silvered, rotted and riddled with worms, termites and maggots.And what's even more peculiar is that this rotten state appears to end suddenly a feet away from the hole; the same piece of wood could be new and shiny on one end, and rotted on the other end if it came within a certain distance of the hole.While examining this strange clue, you both hear a low moan.  Behind the house is a small garden of shrubs, bushes and small trees.  Many of them are apparently trampled or knocked over.  And from under one such fallen tree, you see a human hand poking out of the downed foliage.  It seems to be moving weakly.</blockquote>

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