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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Myth and Legend" data-source="post: 5788035" data-attributes="member: 82679">Rufus searches the children's bedroom quickly. He doesn't find anything of worth in the children's "treasure hoard" - a wooden sword, a helmet fashioned from an old tin pot, a half finished embroidery of a meadow with the sun shining over it are all the belongings the children had hidden away in a chest below one of the beds.Next to the other bed he finds a piece of flat, grey rock, like one would find at the bottom of a rapid stream. It's the size of a man's palm, and it seems to have been used as a canvas. A set of eyes have been drawn with white chalk, watching from what appears to be darkness around. It is a somewhat disturbing drawing for a child to make.The door opposite  of the children's bedroom and a bit further down the hallway is a room used as a toolshed, with a door on the other end of the small room that leads to the barn. The toolshed holds nothing of note apart from farming implements, two saddles, a woodcutter's axe and a hunting knife of obviously mundane quality.Zinerath's thin arms covered with wiry muscle, hold deep reserves of unexpected strength. His scythe flashes and tears the toolshed's door to splinters with a loud crack. A second hit dislodges the remaining pieces of wood from the hinges and sends them flying across the room.Going back to the corridor and across it lies the final third door and to the left is the staircase that goes up. The door across the hall is barred, and it takes Zinerath several minutes to break it open as it is a bit thicker than the other one and it had a thick wooden beam reinforcing it from the inside.The room beyond reveals a horrid image - this once was the master bedroom it seems. There is a wide, two person bed on the right, a barred window and a dresser with a mirror across the room, something of a luxury for common farm folk. Here the group discovers the inhabitants of this household, lying dead and lifeless with pale skin and unblinking eyes. A brown haired woman still clutches a baby's corpse close to her chest, both frozen in death as if this were a grim painting. The father, the little girl and her brother all lay scattered about the room, still and empty, the remains simply reduced to hollow husks of what used to be vigorous bodies.The little girl lies stiff and staring at the ceiling, she has auburn  hair and blue eyes. She appears to be wearing a medallion around her  neck. The little boy is brown haired and brown eyed, lying on his side  with the cudgel in his hand.The father used to be a strong man, obviously having been used to the life of a  serf who toils for his liege-lord. He has a thin wedding band on one  finger, which matches with his wife's. The father's corpse still clutches a rusty longsword.The family seems to have had barricaded itself in side the room and nothing had been able to break in until Zinerath came with his scythe. They appear to show no wounds or blood. Searching the room reveals a loose plank in the floor, where a small sack of gold lays hidden, as well as the Decree of Serfdom for this land and the house, signed and sealed by Baron James Balar of Angelwatch Shire.[sblock]You find 34 gold, 22 silver and 56 copper pieces in the bag.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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