Check the sheriff's office.
"There may be written records of disappearances in the sheriff's office. I'd start looking for clues there." Otto frowns. "I'd suggest the guy with the shotgun pistol take the lead."
- You'll tell me that thought-reading secret of yours later, okay? I want to read others' thoughts, too. Sure thing we'll check the office first.
Head to the sheriff's office, my revolver bare, set to shoot normal rounds.
Sunan grabs whatever gun is left and follows the pair into the sheriff's office.
[Otto Intelligence: 6]
[Kuzma Intelligence: 4]
[Sunan Intelligence: 3-1]
The inside of the sheriff's office is in fairly good condition, especially considering the sorry state that the rest of the town is in. Kuzma is the first to enter, and his eyes immediately fall upon the desk in the center of the room. Digging through it, he finds that it's filled with several sets of records, including a recent report of some sort of black dust cloud filling the streets. Looking at the date, it's from only a day or two before the town went silent, and it's pretty safe to assume that this 'dust' is linked to the monster in some way.
As Kuzma looks through the records, Otto thoroughly searches the room. As he moves a case of old rifles out of the way, something wriggling in the corner of the room catches his eye. Approaching the thing, Otto can see that it's some sort of flesh-colored worm or maggot, about four feet long with thick mandibles and a barbed tail like that of a scorpion. When it notices Otto, the creature immediately coils up like a snake and clacks its jaws together angrily, clearly none-too-happy about being disturbed from whatever it was doing.
Sunan is the last to enter, and between Kuzma's archive binge and Otto's worm-wrangling, he doesn't see anything else that could be looked in to.
Check the Smiths shop, go inside with my shield across my body covering me.
Head into the Smith's Shop, investigating it for clues.
[Corran Intelligence: 3-1]
[Carl Intelligence: 4+1]
Corran leads the way into the smithy, his shield in front of him to block any surprise attacks. Unfortunately, it also blocks a good deal of his vision, and he can't make out very much of the shop. Still, better safe than sorry.
Carl however does manage to look around. Interestingly, not only is the forge still lit, but there's something sticking out of it. Upon closer investigation, that something is revealed to be body. Most of the corpse has been burned away by the flames, but one of the legs failed to catch, and is completely covered in cysts, ranging in size from just larger than a bullet to a single massive one on the top of the foot nearly the size of a grapefruit.