Missives From A Corpse

An adventure starring Rollo, Dr. Crud III, and Olive. 
Description: Join Dr. Crud, Olive, and Rollo as they work through personal problems, eat pineapple, and solve a murder mystery! 
Setting: In a solemn manor house, atop a high hill dizzled with rain. Lavish in nature but deeply unwelcoming. 
Characters:
*Barret Dillahunt
*Lily Dillahunt
*Blithe Hoard
*Dieter von Richenbach
*Clark McGillicutty
*Regal Dillahunt
*Richard Dillahunt 
*Tropicana Toucann
*Samantha Dillahunt
*Matthias Gunn
Plot Summary: The Dillahunt family is having a very rough morning. The Patriarch of the house is found dead in his study and everyone is a suspect. Luckily the Firebreathing Kittens are on the case after receiving a letter... from the deceased?!? Secret compartments, mysterious alliances and a body full of secrets. Join our adventurers as they unravel this sordid home as well as the secrets of the people who dwell within.
Dr. Crud III and Tanager are in the Firebreathing Kittens guild hall drinking heavily after the events of Cucurbitacin left them a bit emotionally distressed. Olive and Rollo, eating cheese in the guild hall, are worried about their friends and want to distract them. To distract Dr. Crud III, (Tanager was passed out), they invite him along when they receive a letter with a mystery. The letter says that by the time they're reading this letter, its writer, Barret Dillahunt, is deceased. They are tasked with finding out who killed him and making sure the right people inherit his money. They go to the address on the letter. There they find a cast of characters (see above). Dr. Crud III sets to autopsying the body and discovers that the organs are... odd. Not normal organs for a dwarf. Rollo talks to the people in the room and learns that Blithe Hoard was a business rival of Barret's and also received a letter from him, and Rollo dislikes him very much. Olive returns from the autopsy and notes that in the meantime, Matthias has disappeared. The three meet back up again and tell everyone not to leave. They talk to Clark the orc chef in the kitchen and learn that Lily is the second wife, that she yells a lot, but never at Regal, Barret's brother. Clark also tells them that he saw Barret's ghost go into the cellar. The adventurers go to interview Tropicana and find the missing person in the suit, Matthias, interviewing them. It turns out that Matthias also received a letter from Barret. Matthias's job is to make sure the Firebreathing Kittens don't take all of Barret's money for themselves. He's watching the watchers. The party learns that the will says that if one of the family members was responsible for his death, that they can't inherit the company. Lily, the wife, was the person who said she wasn't surprised that Barret committed suicide, so this raises Olive's suspicions that Lily framed Barret's death as a suicide to protect the inheritance. Tropicana tells them he saw Barret's ghost, and that the ghost told him to hang his body up to make it look like a suicide. Now very suspicious of who this ghost was and how the use of the ghost might have been involved in the cover up of the murder, the investigators go to the cellar and find... a pickling body, the body of Barret Dillahunt. Now they're wondering who was the first body they found? Why are there two bodies for one dead person? Who else died? They interview Regal and Lily, and both confess to killing Barret. Richard also killed his father, too. It turns out the body they first autopsied was a changeling. Upon having a prophetic vision that he would die and a changeling would take over his place, Barret arranged things so that his family members killing him actually killed the changeling who had taken his place. A classic case of multiple people trying to kill him at once. Barret's son Richard wanted to poison him with tea and his brother, Regal, and second wife, Lily, gave him a strangling cravatt. But they actually killed the changeling; it was, as Lily suggested, from his own power that Barret took his own life. Knowing that it was coming due to his prophetic visions, Barret took his own life and arranged for all that followed. Samantha, the only family member who hadn't killed Barret, was due to inherit the company. But, preferring the life of a simple milkmaid, she instead sold it to Blithe Hoard and retired, very wealthy, to the country side. 
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