Workin' #925

*Vandole
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Worker #925 and his associates lay out the body of the most recent Draconic related murders upon a table at the mortuary. The body has been gutted, and a large portion of flesh on the victim's back is missing. "Disgusting..." The worker mutters to itself as it examines the remains of the entrails - still somewhat fresh and soft. He carefully draws his bony fingers along the intestinal tract to extract the remains of the stomach contents. "Now what do we have here?" A slop of bone-meal porridge along with partially digested scales lands in a bowl with a wet plop. "White dragon scales... Cannibalism?" The worker provides some commentary as an associate takes notes.

White dragons aren't exactly known to be picky eaters but there are plenty of other options for food about the planes and within the Cage itself. Something was off. It's doubtful this was the only thing in its stomach as well - as the the stomach itself was opened prior to examination. "Something of importance to the perp's ritual was no doubt taken from the victim's stomach..." The worker was oddly serious about his work this cycle.

"Now for the other missing part..." The victim's back had a sizeable section removed. Further examination along with some dweomers would reveal that beneath the scaly skin of the victim that ritual scarring was present underneath the epidermal layer. "Easy to miss something like this from a glance - you'd need a very good eye to notice it beneath the scaly exterior." What could it truly mean though? It was clearly draconic magic in nature - but aside from that, the work appeared rather... unique compared to  most work of this kind.

There was something else of note to be made here. "No weapon again... but the wounds..." Much of the blood was thinned - evidence of water. "This victim's been eviscerated with... Ice? Clever." This could easily have been missed. 

"So... let's summarize... Icy weapon, missing stomach contents... and ritual scarification." The skeleton looked over to something else that had been collected along with the body - the desiccated heart, "This was located within the circle, likely a critical reagent. I would pose whatever was extracted from the stomach will likely be used in the next victim's ritual."

There wasn't much left to examine at this point. The eviscerated remains - once cleaned - are collected for later use as... "Spare parts" for the mortuary. The Worker was no expert in magic, presently, he didn't have any comments about the draconic runes found at the murder site.

"Nothing left to see here. Send this off to the Harmonium." The worker's words echoed in the mortuary as he finished the report.

[[Harmonium will be able to see the details of this post as if IC]]
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