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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4152085" data-attributes="member: 3087">Archer turns up his auspex looking up at the ceiling above his head he sees a cunningly concealed trap door, a mass of tell-tale gouges around it suggest that it's used frequently as an egress.At the far end of the ceiling, above the door leading out the alley, is a small wooden shelf, the Slasher was probably sitting on it (or crouching there isn't enough space to really sit even for a hunched old man).There is nothing that looks remotely like it could be a security camera.Searching the corpse is a quick affair. The old man is wearing a crude pair of jeans, the pants cut off to form makeshift shorts. Two sheaths and several leather pouches and are attached by leather cords to his body. The sheaths are empty now, he obviously kept the two blade he was using in them.There are also some unpleasant smelling substances in containers in the pouches, one in some sort of hollowed out horn or tooth and the other in what looks like a discarded woman's  lip gloss container. Other than that he has a few hard candies and a couple of dollars in his pockets.Physically the old man has the body of someone whose had a hard life, his hands are a mass of calluses, he's heavily scarred, his back is bent, most of his teeth are missing (those that remain seem to be filed to points). His fingernails seem to be abnormally long and very hard and his hands and arms are extremely developed.Archer bumps into Diego as he comes back down the stairs. [sblock=Diego]The blade is an unplesant looking item: a small scythe with two blades. It can be held in one hand or two. It looks like it's half way between a farming implement and a surgical device.It would be OK in a fight, the cutting edges are on the inner side of the blades. You could do a lot of really nasty damage to somebody if you could gore them with it.It's too big for a pocket, so you've either touched of shadow it, or it's pretty visible.[/sblock]Diego pulls the knife from the body, which gives a twitch and lets out a small stream of blood. He gets his hankerchief a bit dirty wiping off the knife blade, it falls to the ground with a clunk in the rapidly spreading pool of blood.</blockquote>

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