<strong>OOC:</strong>Holy shit.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Perhaps the best thing about the death of Aldox Ventle was that he didn't feel it.  Patch's claws seared through his chainmail, ripping chainlink from chainlink, and sending them sputtering across the wall and nearby floor.  The loss of sudden blood made Lt. Ventle numb, and his mind went into a dusty delirium that couldn't recalibrate.  He was dying, but still standing.  Ventle's life flashed before his eyes:  first his youth, then his school, and his friends, and the boy he loved, and then the military, and his loss.  He turned to face Patch, and another part of him was ripped from him.  His left arm was severed, and dangled from a a tethered sinew.  And finally, in Patch's rage, he clenched his throat between his teeth and ripped it out.<br/><br/>Blood spewed like a fountain, and what was once Lt. Aldox Ventle toppled unto the floor.  Dead.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>It didn't take Scarlet very long to do away with the monster that lurked within the room.  One more blow did it.<br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/>The search was then underway:<br/><br/>It appeared as if Ventle was preparing to move away from Andres-Upon-Vail.  Within a small compartment, beneath a floorboard, and behind a shelf, Scarlet discovered a chest that contained:<br/><br/><em>30 pp, 417 gp, 408 sp, 2250 cp<br/>An Amethyst (90 gp)<br/>A Black Pearl (500 gp)<br/>A Bloodstone (45 gp)<br/>A Chrysoprase (60 gp)<br/>A Freshwater Pearl (11 gp)<br/>A Hematite (11 gp)<br/>A Jasper (40 gp)<br/>An Obsidian (9 gp)<br/>A Peridot (35 gp)<br/><br/>Plus, an Oil of Magic Weapon (cr, 50 gp)</em><br/><hr/><br/>Furthermore, Ventle's longsword was of a masterwork make, with an ornate pattern.<br/><br/>Patch utterly decimated his masterwork chainmail.<br/><br/><hr/><br/>Scarlet had a moment to look out the window and notice that several guards were crowding down at the street.  They were pointing towards the flat.