Talk:The Art of Claywork Is Dead/@comment-25047183-20140626230122/@comment-1307131-20140729024650

He realized that in the dream they were trying to tell him that the statues had dead bodies in them. From decomposing, the one he bought ended up deteriorating enough to seep rancid blood and break the clay, revealing the corpse inside. Hence the loose arms, smell, black liquid sliding down the clay, and the reason the tent was gone.