The Castle - Floor 4

When Gregory touches the woman he feels she is as cool as the room. If Gregory has ever seen a corpse, this woman was certainly one. She neither wakes nor responds.

Varos lifts the sword hilt out. The blade is clearly missing but it would clearly be a longsword judging from the length and size of the hilt.

Gregory thinks she was run over by a carriage, fell off a cliff, drowned in a lake, and then tickled to death.

Looking at the rose, Anton sees it is just a beautiful and very expensive trinket. The steam and leaves are solid gold and the rose petals are carved ruby.

Inspecting the woman, Anton can see by the bruising around her neck as well as the concavity of her throat that this woman was killed by hanging. Either snapped neck or crushed windpipe. The woman looks freshly dead but in a world of magic and mystery it is hard to interpret the causes of that. She was clearly some of great importance to be interred in the highest tower and with such a valuable trinket as the rose in her glass coffin.

Varos turns over the hilt but finds no secrets. The ruby is rather large and is usually only found on ceremonial weapons. Varos also sees that the slot for the blade is very shallow and no blade would stay in place if just slotted in.

With the items acquired and room explored, the only exit is a spiral staircase down the center of the tower.

[ +- ] Trackers

Stress Level: 12
Light Spell: 20 min
Candle: 10 min

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