34 lines
1.6 KiB
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34 lines
1.6 KiB
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# Orenn — The Barkeep (dead)
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**Look:** Tall, lean man in his mid-fifties; silver-streaked hair, precise beard, clean rolled sleeves over old scars, measuring grey eyes.
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**Vibe:** Calm professional respect backed by the certainty that his single house rule will be obeyed.
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- Before brawl: personally serves PCs, asks “business or pleasure,” offers useful introductions if they earn his trust
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- Secretly still a fixer with Mags; kept the Guest imprisoned and used it to investigate the Order
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- Xarrul kills him during Rennt's blackout: Brand → Visions → claws; resurrection always fails
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- His death is the investigation scene, not a combat encounter
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**Body — Evidence**
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- **DC 14 Medicine:** Mundane brawl wound is survivable; fatal damage radiates outward from the heart. No defensive wounds.
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- **Black hand-brand:** Surface unburned, flesh charred underneath.
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- **DC 15 Arcana:** Necrotic, fiendish, personal signature.
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- **DC 18 Arcana:** Pattern contains a fragment of Xarrul's true name; compare with Haddon's texts or Orenn's bestiary.
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- *Revivify*, *Raise Dead*, and *Resurrection* find no soul to call back.
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**On His Person**
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- Tavern keys; 12 gp, 8 sp; plain silver ring.
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- **Black iron key:** Deep Cellar concealed door and Vault.
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- **Silver mirror:** The reflection functions as *See Invisibility*, including ghostly Ethereal creatures; no attacks cross planes.
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**What His Records Reveal**
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- Watched the Order and district disappearances but never connected them to the tear below.
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- Case board, recent anti-fiend purchases, and letter to Mags show growing fear.
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- Grey Quay bottle opener links him, Mags, and Sevra; old books link Haddon and Bren.
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