Moonglow Murder House
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Title: Moonglow Murder House
Author: Rizan
Initial location: 15 Ahm Road, small thatch roof house, owner unknown. House unlocked, open to the public. Plain house, unfurnished, save for one Ter-Mur style chair directly opposite the door.
Exceptionally well crafted. Maker unknown. Sitting in the chair activates a one-way teleportation device which sends the unwary victim to a second location.
Location 2: Sandstone construction, small house. Filled with piles of bones, dried blood on the floor. Dismembered limbs and a rotting torso strewn about. Blood splattered across the walls. The door is blocked shut by a copper stone wall. preventing egress. Remarkable note on construction: several small holes built into bottom walls of house. A fire field scroll located by one of the dismembered torsos. Construction of the building, being stone, and with the location of the air intake holes to create a blast furnace effect suggests location could have been used to try to burn the bodies beyond recognition, also to try to reduce the evidence to ash. A charred diary was found among the remains, mostly burned beyond recognition, legible contents included at end of notes for reference. A bulletin board marked as "CoM Storage" contained no notes of the former contents of the house, but did contain the phrase "Save Us" repeatedly. Pattern of blood splatter across walls suggests victims were brutally murdered before being incinerated. Wooden door and flooring remarkably undamaged by flames; magic?
Building Exterior: Sign marks the house as "Corwin's Ointment Market", proprietor Corwin Oakmane. Tile roof partially collapsed in. Several stones dislodged from building's second floor/attic. Building also on Verity Isle, east side. Charred Diary Contents as readable, owner presumably a little girl named Madeline:
Maddie's Diary - Do not read!
Yes this means you, Dad!
May 1st
We had fish again for dinner. YUCK. I told Dad I wanted soup tomorrow, or even baked potatos. Anything but FISH!
May 20th
Dad was yelling at someone tonight. Something about gold. I get scared when he yells.
May 29th
I saw someone strange outside my window. He had blue robes and looked like one of the mages in town. He creeped me out. I told Dad and he looked angry.
June 1st
There's someone in the house. I yelled for Dad. He didn't come. I'm scared.
(Rizan's note: this page partially burned, date unknown)
Dad is gone. It's dark here. There's others with me. I don't know them, they look scared too. The Council said we were payment. Payment for what?
(Rizan's note: Following several more burned pages, only the following phrase found, date unknown) Save us
The rest of the diary was burned beyond recognition.