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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 3782576" data-attributes="member: 36160">Karalain: The ash coats the room, it's true, but it blends with the walls. In fact, there's less than you would have thought, all told. It's concentrated near the bodies: it lies heavily on the bed, the walls around it, and the bedspreads on the floor, and the walls and ceilings about them. And, of course, the bodies. It's heaviest in the cavities. ninja edit! Sorry. My brain got ahead of my fingers!The thicker patches, and their placements, remind you of nothing so much as paint-splatters.The coating of ash on the floor is muddled and blowing about, the crossbreeze from the door and the window muddling the prints. Yes, there are shifter prints there, and a claw mark around the window, on the inside -- left by the perps on the way out? -- it's an enormous paw, easily capable of the wounds on the bodies. Three, maybe six perps. Hard to say exactly.The belongings are still here, just as they were left: assorted cutlery of the "three feet long, worth hundreds of silver, ill-maintained" variety, a collection of rings and baubles, a pouch of soft golden coins lying within reach of one of the bedrolls.A coating of the strange ash over everything. It's clear that the deceased were Adventurers.There's also a blackened staff in the closet, tipped with a small, tasteful jewel, and a supply of rope, lanterns, and some digging equipment was neatly coiled behind the door.All the paper and cloth at the scene are mildly singed, as though an overhot iron were passed over them.In other words... perps entered through the window, and took nothing.</blockquote>

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