1.2 - In Search of Sanity - The Dead Don't Dream

Axon looks through the bloody rags with his arcane touch but finds nothing of any interest.

Razhel moves north and pulls another of the strung sheets aside, revealing a long hallway beneath a lofty ceiling. High windows, alive with the nauseating fog beyond, give the space an airy feel.

The hall extends north and appears to corner to the west about halfway down its length.

Along the western wall are four doors, spaced about 10ft apart from one another.

Heading up the hallway you stop at the first door on your left and find it opens easy enough. Inside is a bed and a low table - all that is likely, truly required for a patient to quietly convalesce here. The accommodations look comfortable enough. A portion of this room's tiled ceiling has given way, allowing heavy bricks to fall across the bed and floor. Fortunately, no one seemed to be in the room when the collapse happened.

The next room on the left shares the same sort of setup as the last one, but here you find three figures laying dead. Two wear yellow robes and lie slumped on the floor, having suffered repeated vicious blows to the face. A third - an old man easily in his eighties and wearing a light cloth dressing gown - has fallen back across the bed. He is dead but has a satisfied smirk on his face. He still grips a sturdy leather boot with blood on his heel. The boot's partner lies on the floor nearby.

The boots are very clearly of exquisite nature and bare the mark of their maker on the soles. They are well-worn, but otherwise in great condition.

If scanned for magic, they appear to contain none.

The boots tucked inside his backpack, Grim moves up the hall and checks the next door.

A shapeless mess of sheets and pillows piles atop two plain beds. Bold chalk letters high on the opposite wall proclaim this to be "Brenton and Debis's Room." In the tangle of sheets at the foot of the southern bed are a pair of carved wooden knights, each about 4-inches tall.The next, and final, room in this series of doors is a horror show. Human-shaped carnage covers the bed, what appears to be the remains of a person that was savaged by some monster or animal.