Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5914541-20131019153409/@comment-5914541-20131117143913

June 15, 1903

"I am sorrowful to report about the gruesome death of my colleague, Harrison Vitriez. Harrison and myself were scouting a strip of unnamed beach on the southernmost coastline of Florida. A small town in the vicinity had recently encountered a rash of reprehensible murders seemingly caused by a powerful poison. We knew the culprit had to be Wesen, but we were unsure of exactly what we were dealing with; there are so many different Wesen species that utilize deadly poisons. The two of us were distracted by a pod of dolphins moving quickly west in the distant waters when the sound of footsteps on the rocks made us both turn around in alarm and unsheath our machetes. A figure stood facing us only what must have been around four feet away. The man did not move a muscle and his eyes were kept closed the entire time, I should have known. The woge occurred as suddenly as he had appearred and his skin grew pale white as his eyes dissappeared completely. Before I could do anything, the creature uncoiled a grotesquely long tongue tipped with what can only be described as an organic arrowhead. The tongue arched back and lunged with incredible speed and accuracy, striking my colleague in the soft area between his clavicle and the main tendon of his neck. I fleed to a rock pile nearby and killed the monster with my crossbow. I tried to revive Harrison, but the venom had already taken its fatal tole."

"I am sorry to report that this monster was ideed a Tod-Schlag, a humanoid fascimile of the dreaded tropical cone snail, who had taken up residence on this quiet beach. These vile Wesen are too cunning for their own good and, lacking vision, use clusters of chemoreceptor cells to form mental images of their surroundings. Vitriez will be sorely missed, he was the best Grimm I've ever known."

- Nickolas Salveza (Grimm)