The Dream Palace (part 4)

After destroying the wights in the Necromantic Lab, the squad found the Skinsaw Shrine. A square-sided pit yawns in the stone floor on the eastern side of this room, its bottom a nest of long metal spikes. On the wall above and behind the pit hangs a large, black metal sculpture of a mask with one starburst eye. Directly above the pit, the ceiling opens into a dark shaft leading upward. A red rug is positioned along the pit's western rim, and a wooden lectern in the room's southeastern corner holds a large book.

Hendred Pratchett

The book is a ledger of Pratchett's crimes, stretching back before the hotel. He saw the murders as acts of religious devotion to Father Skinsaw The list includes many of the Watch's list of missing persons, either by name or description. The book is written in victim blood.

The pit is 10 feet deep and the spike at the bottom are covered in gore.

The faith of the ascended god Norgorber is divided into four distinct branches, each overseeing one aspect of the deity's portfolio. Three are fairly well-known—the Reaper of Reputation (secrets), the Gray Master (thieves), and Blackfingers (poison). The fourth, however, is not readily admitted—that which attracts the most extreme and murderously insane, who commit atrocities as acts of worship to Father Skinsaw. 

Next door is Pratchett's Dungeon, where the squad confronted Pratchett himself, and an undead spirit called a Bitumir, Bitumir are paired spirits that attack as one, with a ghostly wail and a chilling touch.

A large metal dissection table with attached catchment basins stands in the center of this room, with a half-flayed human corpse splayed out atop it. A large desk in an alcove to the southwest is piled high with bottles, alembics, and other glassware half-full of variously colored liquids and powders. Next to it stands an incongruous child-sized bed, its comforter pink and embroidered with happy-looking frogs. Next to the northern wall, a stove with a small mound of coals burning inside keeps a large cauldron warm.

Binumir wailed and some of the squad were taken aback. The chilling touch froze Valcos' soul, and he was relieved when Simi destroyed them with her holy weapon. The rest fo the squad engaged Pratchett, who got the worst of it. He ran, dropping a flask of oil into the burning coals, but Simi pulled it out before it could detonate,

Bitumir

The rest of the squad beat Pratchett handily, in no small part because Pratchett's mobility had been impaired by Jorin's frost magic. pratchett was stripped to the skin and bound several times over - nobody wanted him to "pull a Ralso". More clerics were summoned from the temple to de-consecrate the Skinsaw shrine, and deal with tbe myriad corpses and remaining constructs.

Ralso's diary indicated a planned bank robbery by the Copper Hand, her former criminal gang.

Pratchett was turned over to the Watch, and Sgt. Ollo was impressed, expressing his congratulations that the squad had managed to close the case with speed and thoroughness. TheLietenant only commented "So you solved a case - that's your job. We don't give medals to  you every baker who doesn't burn the bread."