Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5583506-20150708222546/@comment-5583506-20150715130349

At least this man shows some respect for position as head of the healers in this town...

"Up in his study", explained Beatrix and walked over to the steel table where the body was covered with a huge, white taurpaulin. She pulled it off in one smooth sweep, exposing the corpse.

Her co-workers made a grimace of disgust and disdain when they saw the body. One of them had to remove himself from the room, supposedly to have an appointment with a nearby trash bin or privy.

Even Beatrix seemed to turn pale at the sight of the body, slightly covering her nose to prevent the smell from getting to her. She brought up a couple of gloves and started to point out the major facts she had been able to figure out.

One eye and the entire lower jaw of Theomyr was missing. His rib cage had been ripped open forcefully and his entrails looked like they had been either shredded or torn to pieces by claws or teeth. The steel table beneath the body was drenched in blood.

"The first blow delivered to his lower abdomen wasn't fatal, it would have presumably been enough to make both his digestive system and his liver to resign from their given duty. Then he was given this..."

She pointed at an area between his right shoulder and his neck. "He was bitten", she explained. "Our analysis of it describe it as a 'dog assault', judging from the bite marks, but what's strange is that there are also bite marks of human interference, in the same row as the teeth coming from whatever... dog that attacked him. It's as if someone out there is walking around somewhere out there with a mix of canine and sapient teeth."

She shook her head in confusion. "That will be a bitch to find out." All too late she realised the joke she had unknowingly made. "The claw marks", she continued, "are about 19-20 inches long. They shredded him about four or five times when he was still alive from his ripped open stomach. None of them were fatal as well, but they would most likely have numbed his senses. The last one tore off his lower jaw completely. I doubt he felt much pain in the end due to the loss of blood. What was lethal however was..."

She headed over to the head of the body. "This", she said and pointed at the backside of Theomyr's skull. "A fracture against his cranium. It was most likely that which caused his left eye to give out. We found it under the bookshelf in his study, still hanging onto the optic nerve. After he was dead, his body suffered from multiple fractures in the entire skeleton, most likely cause by having his body swung against the walls and the roof by some incredible force. I doubt that his killer knew that he was dead by this time. Hell, even his rib cage was then ripped open as if the killer thought that he had delivered the final blow, unaware of the fact that Cordius' had been dead some minutes before that incident."

She sighed and smacked with her lips, crossing her arms over her chest. "But this wasn't the reason why we brought you people here." She signaled for the Investigators to lean closer to the body. "We brought you here for this..."

She carefully lifted the right side of the ribs, exposing what was left of the old man's vital organs. "All his insides, well before they were shredded to pieces by gigantic claws, were in perfect condition. Too perfect for someone of seventy and two years old. His metabolism is all wrong as well. It's like... his exterior was that of an old, gaunt man, while his entire system, his skeleton... was that of a twenty year old."