[Diamond18]

Kath did not want to get up and leave the safety of her home, but her moonflowers needed tending to, so she crept out into the garden under the silvery light of the full moon. "If I'm quiet," she thought, "they won't know I'm up and about...."

She snuck about with her watering can and garden shears, being very careful not to make too much noise. She thought she was doing very well, and was almost done when she heard the ominous twinkling of wind chimes. Gasping involuntarily, she looked wildly about. It was only the wind....

Or was it?

Suddenly, out from behind a forsythia bush, leapt the Werebear. Kath screamed, dropping the watering can. She waved the shears at the bear, crying, "Get away!" But the bear seized her arm and broke it off, tossing shears and limb aside. Kath fainted from pain and horror, and the bear dragged her limp body through the marigolds to devour it under the rose trellis.

Nearby, the Werebear's lover mused, "Would a Kath by any other name taste as sweet?"

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The Living Elves:

Mac - Builder of Gibbets, unemployed for millennia
Durelin - Lead Tragic Actor
Lhuna - Beautiful Girl with Sleeping Sickness
Farael - Patient suffering from Mad Elf Disease
Rikae - Contortionist

The Dead 'Uns

tgwbs - Tragic Elven Hero and Lover of Diamond - (co-mod) - Stabbed himself eight times and subsequently eaten by the Werebird

Diamond - Elven Maid - (mod) - Crushed in the embrace of the Werebear

Menel - Mad Scientist - (ordo) - Beaten with an undead leg and a chamber pot and stabbed with red hot tongs (Day 1)

Nogrod - a Smith of the Billmarins - (watcher) - Savagely murdered by the Werecat and devoured in the long grass (Night 2)

Arctic Storm - Raving Alcoholic, Resident Moocher, and Lover of Naria - (lover) - Devoured head first by the Werebird (Night 2)

Naria - Lemba Baker - (werecat) - Dashed out her brains on the Ringbearer's Rock (Night 2)

Kitanna - One Legged Chambermaid - (ordo) - Ripped in two by the Werebear (Night 2)

Rune - Humungous Fungus Grower - (ordo) - Minced up into fertilizer by the Werewolf (Night 2)

Holbytlass - Oliphaunt Whisperer and Lover of Fintaeph - (lover) - Burned at the stake (Day 2)

Fintaeph - Mutton Herder and Purveyor of Fine-Quality Undead Prosthetic Limbs - (werebird) - Died a fiery death trying to save his lover from the flames (Day 2)

Lommy - Ostrich Chaser - (ordo) - Lured into a dark alley and devoured by the Werewolf (Night 3)

JennyHallu - Countess and Lover of mormegil - (lover) - Ripped apart and scattered in countless pieces by the Werebear (Night 3)

Mormegil - City Street Cleaner - (werewolf) - Despaired and died amongst the shreds of his lover (Night 3)

Valier - Arranger - (ranger) - Smothered to death with a goosedown pillow (Day 3)

Kath - Flower Girl - (ordo) - Devoured in her flower garden by the Werebear