Entering the mill, you come upon a horrible scene. The floor of the mill is coated with sawdust intermixed with a large amount of blood. There are many foot prints in the sawdust, showing that a mighty struggle took place here. The smell inside the mill is horrible, smelling like rotting meat much too strongly for it to have come from the recently-deceased bodies.
Two mangled bodies occupy the room; one male and the other female. The horribly-mangled body of Katrine Vinder lies amid a heap of firewood on the floor below the log-splitter. It's quite clear that the woman was pushed into the log-splitter and suffered a horrible death.
Banny Harker's body is affixed to the wall by a number of hooks normally used to hang machinery. His face has been peeled off and his lower jaw is missing entirely. Carved into the bare chest of the man is the seven-pointed rune that's become all too common lately. Shadow's examination of the body reveals a number of claw marks, as though made by claws on a five-fingered, human-sized hand. These claw wounds stink strongly of the same rotting flesh stench that fills the whole building.
Embedded into the floor by the log splitter is a handaxe. Bloody finger marks are on the handle and the blade is caked with rotten flesh and fragments of bone. The blade of the axe smells even worse than the claw marks on the body. To Urthask, it smells like the rotten stench of some corporeal undead monstrosity.
Out on the pier where the timber is delivered from upriver, you find a set of muddy, barefoot footprints leading toward the mill's interior.
OOC:
Sorry for the delay on this! It was quite difficult to find the time to write such a long post where I had to reference the book a dozen times.
