Habeus Corpus

As you approach the feeder pipe, you can see that it is almost excatly like the pipe that you were in first, in terms of size and composition. Some 25 feet beyond the feeder pipe is a large, locked grate that completely covers the wider east-west pipe that you are walking along (via its southern catwalk). The grate has accumulated floating debris, altho not as much as one might think. It has probably been cleared recently. (Such grates are supposed to be cleared periodicly and that was one of the duties of the men that you are looking for.) The catwalk goes all the way up to the grate, and you see a series of steps that goes into the water. There is another series of steps on the other side that leads up to the other catwalk (on the north side of the pipe).

As for the north-south feeder pipe that you are approaching, you can now see why the water flow apepars different. Something is obstructing the water flow.

Or someone.

There is a dead body sprawled just inside the pipe. A human. You have no ranks in heal, but you think he's been dead at most 48 hours and probably less.

I'm assuming that you are taking 20 on your Search check. The body has had its valuables removed, and half of its clothes taken. It is still wearing one wader boot (a boot that goes up to the hips), and it has its belt, but apparently the belt had a belt buckle that has been taken.

The body has two wounds, both consistent with crossbow bolt, arrow, or javelin wounds. One is in the shoulder, not fatal, but bad. The other is in the thigh, where an artery was torn open. The pockets have been turned out, and it is missing a filling in one tooth, with a slight trace of gold in the cavity.