Normont looks up at the pair, wondering whether he confused them.
"That is fine, it is for me to investigate, there is no requirement for you two to go above your pay grade", he explains. "Under the rose bush, then? And you didn't see the grocer enter or leave from this gate? Thank you", he adds.
He then wanders over to towards the rose bush, stopping a little short so as not to contaminate the crime scene.
"I wonder if there are any tracks, or anything unusual", he says to the others, as he guidance focusses on carefully checking the area. He is looking for the grocer's tracks and anything else around the area that is unusual or leads to or from the exact point where the body was found.
Normont investigates the area thoroughly but it looks like there has been some degree of gardening efforts undertaken here since the body was found and there doesn't seem much of anything physical left to find....he does note a number of likely routes taken to this spot.....and.....if the grocer never went outside the gate then whatever happened to him must have happened inside the city walls.....that's if he didn't go outside. Its quite possible he went out while someone else was on watch......or these two just forgot.....
“What… erm… the grocer…,” Dev fumbles to the guards, picking up from Normont when the gnome starts to investigate the bushes, “…what did he look like? Did you see him? I mean I guess someone else might have been on duty. Unless he was found around this time in the morning?”
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DM for Candlekeep Mysteries //Dev Horndin Curious Critters
“What… erm… the grocer…,” Dev fumbles to the guards, picking up from Normont when the gnome starts to investigate the bushes, “…what did he look like? Did you see him? I mean I guess someone else might have been on duty. Unless he was found around this time in the morning?”
The guardswoman turned toward Dev, " Dead......he looked very dead.....I found him. I sent Bert here off to fetch the boss and they came and got him.....later on they said his skull was empty......bit weird if you ask me......."
Lokilia had stepped away from the guards, keeping a few steps behind Normont as he went to look for clues. "Not finding anything?" she asks. "I wonder who the man was. Doesn't seem like a grocer would be a target." She then adds, "Unless he became unnecessary," thinking about what had been said about Glinnick.
“What… erm… the grocer…,” Dev fumbles to the guards, picking up from Normont when the gnome starts to investigate the bushes, “…what did he look like? Did you see him? I mean I guess someone else might have been on duty. Unless he was found around this time in the morning?”
The guardswoman turned toward Dev, " Dead......he looked very dead.....I found him. I sent Bert here off to fetch the boss and they came and got him.....later on they said his skull was empty......bit weird if you ask me......."
"I mean... we already knew about the empty skull part...," Dev shivers, his eerie voice cracking slightly, "but, like. Aren't you curious? Who he was and why he was here? Like, what store does -- did -- he work at?"
He whispers to the others, "Was he a target? Or just..." his face scrunches up in distaste... "...food?"
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DM for Candlekeep Mysteries //Dev Horndin Curious Critters
"...And also," Dev continues after a moment in a whisper to the others, harsher now as he touches upon a thought that causes him to narrow his eyes in indignation, "Since the Nameless Ones know we are investigating them... I mean, this is kind of obvious right? A dead body just appears? Maybe it's meant to throw us off the track. They're usually more, like... careful. And if we're looking at this, we're not trying to find the missing Huntsman which is their, like, Ace in the hole. It makes me so mad that they're gambling with his life..."
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DM for Candlekeep Mysteries //Dev Horndin Curious Critters
Food, that's good. Werhann eats a small portion of the dried apples. The tack would be too hard and dry to eat as it is, and the liquor, at his current state, can't do any good. Dwarven resilience to poisons or not, he hasn't eaten or drank anything in too long to gamble on this. Werhann closes both crates and leaves everything but the dried apples he ate inside.
After listening at the door, he decides to leave it alone. Whatever is inside must be the source of the stench, he reasons, and in any case he wishes to avoid whoever is there.
Finally, ready to move onwards, Werhann begins sneaking up the other corridor, the one that slopes upwards. If there were traps inside, there might be more traps closer to the entrance to the place, he reasons, so he tries keeping alert to any slits, holes or ropes that might give away the presence of traps in the way.
Normont investigates the area thoroughly but it looks like there has been some degree of gardening efforts undertaken here since the body was found and there doesn't seem much of anything physical left to find....he does note a number of likely routes taken to this spot.....and.....if the grocer never went outside the gate then whatever happened to him must have happened inside the city walls.....that's if he didn't go outside. Its quite possible he went out while someone else was on watch......or these two just forgot.....
Still....
“What… erm… the grocer…,” Dev fumbles to the guards, picking up from Normont when the gnome starts to investigate the bushes, “…what did he look like? Did you see him? I mean I guess someone else might have been on duty. Unless he was found around this time in the morning?”
DM for Candlekeep Mysteries // Dev Hornd in Curious Critters
The guardswoman turned toward Dev, " Dead......he looked very dead.....I found him. I sent Bert here off to fetch the boss and they came and got him.....later on they said his skull was empty......bit weird if you ask me......."
Lokilia had stepped away from the guards, keeping a few steps behind Normont as he went to look for clues. "Not finding anything?" she asks. "I wonder who the man was. Doesn't seem like a grocer would be a target." She then adds, "Unless he became unnecessary," thinking about what had been said about Glinnick.
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard || Iromae Quinaea, Cleric
Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer || Bronnryn Hethgar, Cleric
"I mean... we already knew about the empty skull part...," Dev shivers, his eerie voice cracking slightly, "but, like. Aren't you curious? Who he was and why he was here? Like, what store does -- did -- he work at?"
He whispers to the others, "Was he a target? Or just..." his face scrunches up in distaste... "...food?"
DM for Candlekeep Mysteries // Dev Hornd in Curious Critters
"...And also," Dev continues after a moment in a whisper to the others, harsher now as he touches upon a thought that causes him to narrow his eyes in indignation, "Since the Nameless Ones know we are investigating them... I mean, this is kind of obvious right? A dead body just appears? Maybe it's meant to throw us off the track. They're usually more, like... careful. And if we're looking at this, we're not trying to find the missing Huntsman which is their, like, Ace in the hole. It makes me so mad that they're gambling with his life..."
DM for Candlekeep Mysteries // Dev Hornd in Curious Critters
Lokilia finds herself nodding along with Dev's comments. "Yea, if we're not finding anything here, let's get moving to find our missing person!"
Rabbit Sebrica, Sorcerer || Skarai, Monk || Lokilia Vaelphin, Druid || Britari / Halila Talgeta / Jesa Gumovi || Neital Rhessil, Wizard || Iromae Quinaea, Cleric
Meira Dheran, Rogue || Qirynna Thadri, Wizard || Crisaryn Melkial, Sorcerer || Bronnryn Hethgar, Cleric
Food, that's good. Werhann eats a small portion of the dried apples. The tack would be too hard and dry to eat as it is, and the liquor, at his current state, can't do any good. Dwarven resilience to poisons or not, he hasn't eaten or drank anything in too long to gamble on this. Werhann closes both crates and leaves everything but the dried apples he ate inside.
After listening at the door, he decides to leave it alone. Whatever is inside must be the source of the stench, he reasons, and in any case he wishes to avoid whoever is there.
Finally, ready to move onwards, Werhann begins sneaking up the other corridor, the one that slopes upwards. If there were traps inside, there might be more traps closer to the entrance to the place, he reasons, so he tries keeping alert to any slits, holes or ropes that might give away the presence of traps in the way.
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