2021/09/08: Cubit - Mysteries Death Part 4 Report
General Summary
Knight, Sith, Immori, Keel, Ios
Continuing their adventure through the Mysteries Death dungeon in Cubit, the Shadows of Existence have been charged with discovering who murdered an innocent young woman and what happened. They began interrogating the available suspects in the interview room. The investigative notes follow.
Body of young woman.
Four witnesses.
Suspect: Vorgath the Wicked Despoiler. Suspected of murder and possibly vampirism.
Arresting officer. Sergeant Brims Wolsky.
Local businesswoman. Audrey Wilstoy. Runs a boarding house for young women.
Local businessman. Runs carriage service. Mourn Kilroy.
One possible perpetrator.
Body found (and incident likely occurred) at 0500, before most things were open.
Multiple puncture wounds. Two. Almost vampiric fashion.
Audrey and Mourn saw suspect fleeing the area.
Arresting officer saw the body, looked around, and found the suspect a street and a half over.
Coroner’s report:
Two puncture wounds near neck, though poorly placed for vampiric draining. A number of older wounds and bruising all over the body, mostly appearing between 1 and 3 days old. Legs and especially wrists and ankles are bruised, possibly indicating confinement. Lacking a lot of blood but still had some. Probable heart attack due to loss of blood.
Greyish pallor. May mean dehydration, wilting, disease, curse, or other such cause of death, rather than blood loss. Possibly from post-death preservation? Sith says likely preservation via salt for less than a week.
Ashen blonde hair. Tiny crystals in the hair, quite possibly salt.
Jane Doe. Origin unknown.
Found at mouth of an alley. No sign of a lot of blood or an altercation. Her dress looked oddly clean for coming from that alley.
Sergeant Brims Wolsky interview:
Large, blustery man.
On the way to work. Saw a corpse half out of the alleyway. Saw a shadowy figure who ran. Wolsky chased him down. Applied a bit of persuasion and brought him in.
Figure was a block and half away when first seen, six blocks away when caught. Ran to the west.
Sun may have been coming up. Light grayish.
Saw wagoner coming from the direction of the body as Wolsky pursued the suspect. Other officers brought the woman in.
Cart has four wheels, so reasonably large.
Wagon: 12ft. long, high sides, filled with barrels. She probably could have fit in one of the barrels. Lots of weathering on the wagon, with a wide variety of stains. Four of the ~16 barrels are open and empty, with some pickle brine stuff at the bottom. Given the brine and her dry dress, she probably wasn’t in one of those empty barrels. There were tarps and some ropes.
Corpse is dusty but not too grimy. Likely washed of blood and put in new clothes.
The alleyway is next to a butcher shop and full of appropriate debris. Given how clean she is, it’s likely that she was very freshly dropped.
Girl has middle-class frilly dress. Easy to acquire.
Boarding house looks like a small, evil Hogwarts. No visible movement from outside. The place is heavily warded.
Audrey Wilstoy interview:
Prissy middle-aged woman. Large, almost golden-red hair. Very unusual hair color, reminiscent of a sunset. Floofy dress, top hat thing. She’s fairly short.
Claims she was just nearby and was called in. Said her donkeys were acting a little odd.
Runs a boarding house.
“We keep very firm control of all of our children.” They check in on the children every morning.
Got the boarding house from an eccentric noble because it was cheap. Still finding secret passages.
Was out procuring supplies. Shoes, clothes, food.
Claims she passed the street and her donkeys started acting funny, but she didn’t see anything. Claimed the donkeys acted up on 22nd street, down by the butcher’s around six blocks west from where the officers found her.
Her cart should still be in the impound yard. Should have bags, boxes, perhaps some string and rope.
Found by the officers around 22nd street and Elm.
Says she may have seen Mourn Kilroy. They hire him to move things for them occasionally, when her cart isn’t large enough. They cross paths regularly in the early mornings.
Last hired Mourn a few days ago. They needed him to carry some garbage, such as furniture and parts from the stable.
Vorgath interview:
Very tall, very skinny. Wearing suit-ish combination of clothes. Long, greasy hair. Pale skin. Deep, offputting eye sockets. Some of his paleness may not be natural, as it’s running a bit.
Extremely dramatic. Not undead. Claims he was responsible for the girl’s death, along with countless other crimes.
Clearly pretending to be a vampire.
Clearly didn’t actually do it.
Kilroy interview:
Solidly built. ~6 feet tall. Horribly ugly. One eye is looking out to the corner, the other is milky but appears to allow sight. Very little hair.
Very quiet, very still. You can barely tell that he’s breathing, and it’s hard to tell if he’s paying attention.
He’s possessed by a spirit devourer. Party infiltrated his mind with Knight's dream nail and destroyed the monster.
We correctly accused Audrey Wilstoy of the murder. She was leading an evil cult, with human sacrifice and demon summoning and the like. With her being taken in for her crimes, the party was moved on to the fourth challenge.
In the next challenge, we have to do an investigation and find an item, but unlike in the challenges before it, we have no authority in the matter. We need to get the item and get out. The item is a golden gemstone named the Mazarin Stone.
Missions/Quests Completed
Challenge 3 complete!
Character(s) interacted with
Vorgath the Wicked Despoiler, Sergeant Brims Wolsky, Audrey Wilstoy, Mourn Kilroy
Report Date
08 Sep 2021
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