Captain Brisby's Apartment
"Locks, can you confirm this is Capatain Brisby?" Asmundr asks, which prompts the Watchman to approach and kneel at the side of the face down body. The head of the deceased man lies with his left side of his face against the floor, and the right side of his face partially covered by long strands of dirty blonde knotted hair. With a gloved hand,
Locks brushes the hair away from the man's face and bows his head. After rising to his feet,
Locks nods affirmatively, confirming that the man rumored to have solved the mystery of the rat pox can no longer share what he knows.
"Let's search the rooms," he says.
"And please be careful to not destroy anything that could be evidence. Report any findings to me."
With that, the Watchman pulls out a few sheets of folded paper and an ink pen and begins scratching out notes, detailing the state of the room and preparing to document everything shared with him.
While not in Waterdeep,
Asmundr's background and training in a city watch has conditioned him to be thorough in situations like this. Careful to avoid stepping in the pool of blood,
Asmundr quickly moves to the body, where he notes that the Captain's body is
covered in tiny bite and claw marks. Between these bite and claw marks, and the tiny footprints that leave where the body lies and into the kitchen, it appears as if Brisby was overcome by rodents -- a lot of them. With so many injuries covering his body, it's difficult to say for certain whether there are defensive wounds, but there does not appear to have been a significant struggle. The stench of death is powerful near the body, but it is not enough to mask the strong odor of alcohol... which would explain the empty bottle lying a few feet away from
Brisby's outstretched hand. A small pool of liquid has formed under the open mouth of this bottle.
Continuing his search of the Captain and his possessions, the sorcerer begins to work top-down.
The first interesting item
Asmundr discovers is a small pouch which dangles from the Captain's belt. Inside this pouch are 18 coins -- 11 copper and 7 silver -- plus a key which, if tested, fits the lock on the front door.
The only other item of note isn't discovered until the sorcerer reaches the Captain's boots, where his keen eye and attention to detail catches a glipse of a tiny piece of parchment hidden in the captain’s left sock:
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Louchi joins
Asmundr near the fallen body, and without getting too close, looks to see if there's anything she or her divine magic can do to revive the Captain. Carefully inspecting the exposed hand of the deceased shows the lower half of the hand, except where the hand actually makes contact with the floor, is a much darker shade. The firbolg's medical training informs her that lividity has definitey set in, which suggests that the Captain has been dead for at least six hours, and any chance for revival is long past.
Shaking her head, the mini-giant rises to her feet and moves to the Captain's sleeping area. Above the bed are a pair of pictures which appear to have been disrupted. A closer look reveals that the two prints are actually meant to look as they appear -- two rectangle frames, one lying at an angle on top of the other, intentionally fastened into this angled shape. Both framed images appear to be sketches of the captain with a young girl with red hair and freckles.
Azalea joins
Louchi in the sleeping quarter and quickly glances at the unmade bed. The mattress is old, and dirty, and the bed does not appear to be well-kept, but nothing extraordinary stands out about it. Men can be dirty, after all. Using her dagger, she shifts the pillows and sheets, releasing a small billow of dust or dirt, but neither turns up anything.
Under the bed, near its foot, wedged between two of the wooden beams supporting the mattress, the rogue spots what appears to be a rolled up sheet of paper. After carefully removing it, the elf unrolls it and discovers an advert or newsletter of some kind:
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Garl, question how rats could kill a man, wonders if maybe the Captain wasn't awake at the time of the attack. Or, glancing at the empty bottle nearby, the ranger comes to the assumption that
Brisy was just passed out drunk at the time. While reading is not necessarily his strength, the half-orc makes his way to the chair near the window, with an open book and a what looks like a pottery dish filling the seat.
The bottom of the dish is ink stained and filled with water; an ink pen rests point down in it.
The book is open to a pair of journal entries, apparently documenting
Captain Brisby's many adventures at sea. Flipping through the book, it's page after page of the same thing.
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Giving up on trying to make sense of the nautical noties, the ranger moves to the small chest at the foot of the bed, which is unlocked... and releases a funk when opened. The chest, apparently serving as a laundry basket, is stuffed with clothes, most of them heavily stained and none appear to be clean.
Sandro is the first to wander into the kitchen.
"Hey, Locks Dude, did the captain live alone? This place looks too small to have others living here with him, but the table is set for multiple people. Maybe he had company?" The Watchman shares that he believes the Captain had a daughter, but isn't aware of any other family members.
"My guess is, his crewmates probably spent a fair amount of time here."
The kitchen -- including the table, cookware, untencils, dishes, and stove -- all appear to be normal items. In the far corner of the kitchen, however,
Sandro discovers a wooden box with a hinged door... that overwhelmingly smells of cheese. Opening the box confirms the source of the smell as it is
full of cheese! Small chunks of more varieties of cheese that can easily be counted. Also inside the box is a small chest containing a carton of crackers.
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Some of the many bloody rodent tracks which lead from the body here to the kitchen deviate from the main trail to this icebox, but eventually work their way out of the kitchen through a fist-sized crack the window.
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The amount of information that needs to be exchanged is -- a lot! Apologies for the long wall of text again.
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Date: 19 Quintilis, Year 7102
Time: 08:31 (Sunrise: 06:58, Sunset: 18:43)
Temp: 65 F
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Character Status
- Rex | Asmundr | Human | Sorcerer (1) | NG | HD (1d6): 1 | HP: 9 | AC: 10 | SP: 30' | Initiative: +0 | Darkvision: No | Inspiration: Yes | Background: City Watch / Investigator
- Languages: Common, Dwarvish, Elvish, Halfling
Spell Slots: 2 | Spell Attack: +5 | Save DC: 13
Features:
- BearSiren817 | Azalea | Wood Elf | Rogue (1) | CN | HD (1d8): 1 | HP: 9 | AC: 14 | SP: 35' | Initiative: +3 | Darkvision: Yes | Inspiration: No | Background: Charlatan
- Languages: Common, Elvish, Thieves' Cant
Spell Slots: None
Features:
- Ravenn4544 | Garl Wickedwind | Half-Orc | Ranger (1) | CG | HD (1d10): 1 | HP: 13 | AC: 13 | SP: 30' | Initiative: +0 | Darkvision: Yes | Inspiration: No | Background: Soldier
- Languages: Common, Orc, Undercommon
Spell Slots: None
Features:
- OGREMAGE | Louchi | Firbolg | Cleric (1) | N | HD (1d8): 1 | HP: 10 | AC: 17 | SP: 30' | Initiative: +0 | Darkvision: No | Inspiration: Yes | Background: Archaeologist
- Languages: Common, Elvish, Giant, Infernal
Spell Slots: 2 | Spell Attack: +5 | Save DC: 13
Features:
- Scott308 | Sandro | Tortle | Monk (1) | LG | HD (1d8): 1 | HP: 10 | AC: 17 | SP: 30' | Initiative: +0 | Darkvision: No | Inspiration: No | Background: Hermit
- Languages: Aquan, Common, Goblin
Spell Slots: None
Features:
- prospero | Zeb | Human (Variant) | Fighter (1) | -- | HD (1d10): 1 | HP: 12 | AC: 16 (17) | SP: 30' | Initiative: +1 | Darkvision: No | Inspiration: No | Background: Urban Bounty Hunter
- Languages: Common, Giant
Spell Slots: None
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