User blog:PeteGoz/The Dredges Episode 1

On investigating noises under the mission building, we discovered a distraught Elwood Christie, the young son of the Hope blacksmith. When we coaxed him out, he told us that his father had been murdered and his mother had been arrested by the marshalls .We promised to look into it, before anything befell his mother.

Stopping off at the smithy on route to the undertaker’s, we let ourselves in and had a good look around, while DeFago kept watch for inquisitive townsfolk. In the bedroom there was no sign of any blood, but a number of struts were broken on the bed, suggesting a great weight had pressed down on it. Clyde found a sliver of flesh caught on a floorboard under the bed, which Dorvid identified as necrotic flesh from some form of undead creature.

We blagged our way into Thurman Gray’s Undertaker’s (…and carpenter’s) to examine the body of Sullivan Christie. The body had been crushed (a feat clearly beyond Verla Christie) and more necrotic skin was found in his airways and under his fingernails.

Finally, we made our way to the Marshall’s office where Marshall Reginald Bennett was asleep and deputies Taylor and Wright Coghill were partway through a bottle of whisky. Despite Dorvid leading with their incompetence to hold their office, we have managed to talk our way in to see Verla on the pretext that we are looking out for her mortal soul. We are about to quiz her on the events of the previous night.