"Good shot Ms. Nasha." The pale winged tiefling says with a pleased smile, moving closer to the fallen hybrid experiment. "Well done everyone, I can see now why the Watchmaster picked you all for this dangerous mission." He adds, picking up the shining coin and then kneeling down by the creature to examine it, particularly the collar.

Investigation: 18

With the arrow hitting its mark, the collar breaks and this seems to be the end of the abomination. 

"Third time is the charm..." Nisha murmurs, before getting closer, so she can collect her arrows and have a proper look at the creature as well, while keeping an eye for anything worth looting. 

As she gets closer, she gives the tortle a critical look.

"Are you going to live?" She asks, nodding at his injuries.

Perception: 4 Investigation: 8

On closer inspection Nathaniel reads in small print at the base of one of the vials attached to the collar.  Prototype:  Devourer Mark 1

Nisha does not discover any more information as she may be distracted by Gavyn's wounds. 

“I’ll live,” Gavyn says, knowing he did his job of taking the brunt of the attacks. It doesn’t feel any better for knowing that, though somehow the physical wounds sting little in comparison to the fool he made of himself earlier in the evening.

He kneels down next to Mr. Jones, almost afraid to touch the dead body. He’s never seen a dead person before, let alone someone he knew personally. In the end, he searches the shop owner’s person for some clue as to what happened here.

“Oh, Dartwick,” he says to himself. “How did this happen?"

Investigation: 21

Kaelen walks over to Gavyn and places a hand on him "Well fought friend. You definitely have the protection of the Dawn Father on you." as he says these things energy courses through the minotaurs hand flowing into Gavyn.

OOC:
Cast Cure Wounds on Gavyn for 6

Dartwick face is set in a grim look of surprise as a 1/3rd of his body lies separated by vicious jaws of the Half- wolf. In his pocket there is a keyring with 3 keys. 

If the collar can be removed from the body without too much mess, the pale tiefling does so and hands it to Nisha for safekeeping together with the other evidence they've gathered. "We should investigate the rest of the bookshop too." He says, ready to head on and upstairs, if he finds a stair that is.

"I wonder if this was magic or something else, " Nisha ponders out loud. Tonight hasn't been her strongest, but she shrugs it off to being incapacitated for far too long after Sleek's failure of a plan. 

20 for potential Arcana check on the beast and the collar

"I can certainly take a look at it." 

Laine kneels down, casting detect magic. 

Laine do you cast detect magic with a spell slot or a ritual as the ritual would take 10 minutes.

Laine sees the aura of a transmuation magic laced within the oily liquid that spilled out from Nisha's attack. 

"Mm.. definitely magic. Transmutation to be precise. I'd have to take a longer look at it to get a proper read of it though."

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Cast outright, gathering we're not wanting to linger for a ritual. 

The bite and scratch wounds stitch themselves mostly together on Gavyn’s neck and arm and he shudders a little at the sensation. “I’ve never…uh…wow…that was something else,” he says. “Thank you, Kaelen."

He jangles the keyring. “This should get us around the shop."

He tosses the keys to Nathaniel and wields his shield and battleaxe. Gavyn steps back into the ground floor of the shop and searches for any sign of more wolf creatures.

Investigation: 10

The pale winged tiefling nods and smiles quickly at the tortle as he catches the key ring, quickly looking at the keys to see if he can determine what kind of locks they could be used for. He would then resume looking for the stairs up to check on the body of Miriam.

Perception: 22

The party heads out of the stockroom and in search of the stairs. Which is not hard to find as at the far end of the shop are the stairs. There are singe marks and melted bits of railing. Definite signs of a struggle. There on the second floor you see the blood pool and Miriam.

20ft away on the floor is a gnome that is sharply dressed, and some would say dashing. He is missing his left hand. The wound is cleanly cut by something very sharp. Nearby lays a satchel cut open and devoid of any documents. The severed left hand is still clutching the satchel. His face is deathly pale, but he still breathes shallow breaths. 

The light from the coin fails to illuminate a darkness in the corner of the room, a roiling cloud of blackness. 

Kaelen rushes instinctively over to the man as he places his massive hand on the gnomes should as he begins to pray over the man for healing “Death will not be yours today sir.”

OOC:

casting Cure Wounds for 8

After healing the man of his injures Kaelen will then begin to apply a tourniquet and addressing the man’s wounds in order of severity.

OOC:

medicine check: 9

Kaelen expertly bandages the stump of gnome's forearm. 

The bleeding stops and the flesh knits back together. The gnome on the ground weakly points the cloud of darkness. "Danger..." 

The cloud begins expanding spreading across the second floor like tendrils of some evil monster and you hear the clink of metal from within. 

As it spreads it reveals a door partially covered by the shadow.

Kaelen just lifts up the gnome and begins dashing back to his friends trying to get the gnome to safety.