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Several things to notice :
First, the place reeks of blood. Source seems to be the Altar, where a decaying corpse, maybe a couple days old if you had to guess, is layed.
Upon closer examination, the poor man slayed had his eyes and genitals ripped of. No clue what happened to the latter, but the former might be somewhere in the stack of eyeballs raised in a pyramid erected between the leg of the mutilated body.
There is more desecration : Nipple slashed, fingers partly cut. Your anatomical knowledge learns you that the subject was still alive when most of the exaction where inflicted, and he slowly and painfully died. The callous hands, and frame a bit shorter than your average human seems to indicate this forty-something man was the lowest of the hierarchy, working class.
In the altar, several symbols are displayed. A strange candelabra, with four crooked branches and 5 feet, is laying just in front of the eye pyramid, and an iconography is everywhere - on the altar, painted in blood on the window you glasswalked through, and painted in blood and salt on the wooden floor. The floor seal is dry since a long time, as the blueish hue indicate.
But it's not morbid curiosity that made you approach the altar - not only that, that is. Your treasure sense is tingling, and hidden behind the originally-white, blood stained, with the addition of metal lines - copper? - linen covering the altar, you find a chest, containing spoils of wars. Coins, precious stones. That goes to the necklace. A gang of knight sidestep to avoid the heavy intrusion to their already cramped vital space
"Well, Hector, looks like I have to get closer to you...
- <span class="mu-b"> Can I come too?</span>
- <span class="mu-s"> No. </span>
- Lucien, as respectfully as I can, if you don't get your elbow out of my nose, I'm kicking your arse once I can move my knees"
Time to...
>Move around silently, try to assert the forces around - You've seen Vikings and cultist, what else is around? (Sneak, DC10 thanks to past successes)
>Search and Kill. Use wind whisper to bait and start eliminating cultists in small groups - they are no match to your knights.
>Write-in
Chest contents are still roll-able
