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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 2981795" data-attributes="member: 7006">Khalia begins looking over the bodies as delicately as she can, and starts the investigation.  Using her keen observational and deduction skills, she is able to come up with the following:Both bodies are laying face down on the floor and the large bloodstains on their backs seem to indicate that they were stabbed from behind.  No weapons are in evidence, so either the two of them were defenseless when they were killed, or whoever did this took the weapons with them.  However, based on body placement and how they landed, it's more likely that they were unarmed and facing the wall when the swords(?) were plunged through their backs.  A cold-blooded murder of two defenseless people.The large dried bloodstains on the floor and on the bedspread tells you that no attempt was made to cover up this murder, and thus it was done by someone (or a group of someones) who does not seem to care about hiding his guilt.  So this isn't some sort of "murder of passion" or anything like that.  The people involved were obviously looking to take the stuff from the lighthouse and these two were in the way.  Thus they were eliminated.Based on this evidence and the evidence gathered from the lizardman you had already questioned, it seems most logical that the humans down the beach (probably pirates) came here to steal stuff from the lighthouse, killed off the man and woman, stationed themselves in a camp to the south, and then hired the lizardfolk to attack the town and thus keep them militia busy so no one would come down here and discover this situation any time soon.  The question now is... are the humans down the beach keeping tabs on this lighthouse?   And if they are... now that they know their murders have been discovered, how long will they stay in their camp before deciding to head for the hills to avoid capture?  Because they must know that once Seawell's militia finds the lighthouse keeper's dead body... the entire militia will be down on them like a load of bricks.</blockquote>

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