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A red sun rose, heralding the dawn and the start of a new Day. A great many villagers would have preferred simply to stay in bed and leave the werewolf problem to work itself out… but, of course, this was not an option and the villagers reluctantly trudged out to the square for the morning head count, which revealed that they had once more lost once of their numbers during the night: Kath was conspicuously absent.
With a tingling of dread, the villagers traipsed off to Kath’s simple cottage. The door was opened, so the villagers went right on in where they were met by a gory sight. Kath’s body lay in a heap on the floor, her head face down. The back of her head was a gory mess… in fact, where was the back of her head? Apparently, Kath had been scalped!
One of the villagers tried to take a step forward for a closer look and tripped. The villagers didn’t see what but realized that it must have been a some kind of wire or string because at the same moment the villager tripped, Kath’s body sprung up as if alive, hanging from the ceiling. For a few instants, her eyeless face gazed eerily out at them before the villager who had tripped hastily untangled his foot from the tripwire and Kath’s body fell once more to the floor with a whump.
What was more, the remaining wolf had been excessively eager with the scalping, taking out the back of Kath’s skull – so that when Kath’s body once more crumpled to the ground, her brains began to spill out at impact. The villagers hastily averted their eyes at this gruesome sight.
Looking straight ahead, the villagers could see the mantelpiece, which they realized had been swiped clear of all its contents. Only three items remained: Kath’s scalp and her eyeballs. Kath’s Seeing eyes saw no more, and what was more: it seemed that any information she had gleaned on the villagers had been cast into the fireplace and burned. Nothing concrete had been left for them to follow up on.
“Dead men tell no tales,” mumbled someone.
Sickened by the sight of Kath’s body and having seen all they needed to know, the villagers hastened back outside, wondering who among them had committed this gruesome act.
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Living:
Encai
Eomer
Lhuna
Mormegil
Saurreg
TORE
Wilwarin
Dead:
Firefoot – drowned and burned by werewolves on Night 1
Nilpaurion (Ordinary Villager) – beat piñata style and killed by villagers on Day 1
Fea (Ordinary Villager) – gutted and stuffed by werewolves on Night 2
Oddwen (Ranger) – killed by Nilp’s villager-provoked wolves on Day 2
Durelin (Hunter) – Deadheaded by werewolves on Night 3
TGWBS (Ordinary Villager) - Slain by Hunter on Night 3
Kitanna (Werewolf) – Paralyzed and hung by villagers on Day 3
Dancing Spawn (Ordinary Villager) – Twisted like a pretzel and stuffed in a closet by werewolves on Night 4
Elf-Warrior (Ordinary Villager) – Stabbed through with knives by villagers on Day 4
LMP (Ordinary Villager) – Suffocated by werewolves on Night 5
Oromin (Werewolf) – Crushed under gallows by villagers on Day 5
Kath (Seer) – Scalped with eyeballs ripped out by werewolves on Night 6
Score:
Werewolves – 1
Villagers – 6
It is now Day 6. Shirriffs may start PM’ing. Day will end in 24 hours.
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