Vix Private Sequence 1

Vix disguised herself as a human peasant.

She made her way over to the central mausoleum in the Dragon Crown Graveyard.

She found torches lit in the mausoleum, and the entrance was slightly ajar.

She investigated the caretaker's shed. There was a cart full of bodies bearing identical neck wounds and blunt force trauma to the head.

The caretaker was not home.

Vix took a halfling's body from the cart. She brought it to the north mausoleum and investigated it.

There was no lock on the door to this mausoleum, and it looked more disused than the other and much older.

She investigated it, and found a disguised trapdoor at the third and bottom level, leading to the sewers. She noticed bare footprints leading through the mausoleum and down to the passage. The footprints seemed fresh.

Vix performed an autopsy on the halfling woman. Results indicated below.

She opened up an old grave, bearing the inscription "Ignatius Jafratti, 964 DR". She stole a gold and pearl necklace from the sarcophagus and stowed the halfling woman's body inside.

Vix left the north mausoleum and headed to the caretaker's hut. She found it unlocked. She determined nothing of value was inside and left.

She went back to the central mausoleum and decided to investigate further.

She heard a man whispering something about "Doresain, king of the ghouls". She advanced down the stairs and spoke with him.

He was surprised. She found him and his creepy little altar.

The man appeared thus: he had a bow and the bearing of a woodsman, looks like a creepy middle aged loner. He is mostly bald, and not in a graceful way. His baldness split a bushy head of hair down the middle, and he looks a bit like a clown. He is pale and looks paranoid. He has small beady gray eyes, and has a medium frame. He is human.

Through Vix's questioning, the man told her he worships Doresain, "a god who embodys hunger, desire, and our wants".

He conveyed he feeds the ghouls, like birds at a park, and cheaply purchases bodies from a strange purple man who frequents a run down bar in Westgate. The description matches the man they turned into the guards. The caretaker told her he does not ask questions about where the bodies come from, and he buries some to avoid suspicion.

Vix left and performed autopsies on the women in the cart. Here are her findings.

halfling - 30s, working poor, clean neck wound, signs of malnutrition and lack of sleep. blunt force trauma back of head
half elf 1 - 20s, working poor, neck wound, blunt injury to head, ate better than halfling and slept better
human 1 - 20s, overweight, possibly more wealthy, same injuries
human 2 - 20s, working poor, same injuries
human 3 - 20s, prostitute, sannish addict, same injuries, hasn't eaten in about 24 hours
human 4 - 20s, shaved bald, better health, possible slave, well fed, sexual injuries similar to above half-zakharan, amnese phenotype
half elf 2 - late 20s, early 30s. sannish addict, same injuries as prostitute. hasn't eaten in about 24 hours

Commonalities: most of them appear to be poor women, most of them appear to be locals, killed in the same way. They are all of the ages of early twenties to early thirties. All except one are skinny. All except one are attractive.

Vix sewed them back up and put them back in the cart.

She looked at the fresh graves and saw the names "Kiara H., Isolde J. Jennifer A. Heinrich D." as well as many "unidentified woman" markers.

She returned to her wagon.

Later on, she questioned Simon on the caretaker.

He described him as "a useful idiot, who feeds us ghouls." Simon elaborated that he knows the way through the sewers from the north mausoleum.

1 alignment point towards chaos. (0,49)