night one; hunters

[gamehead]

Through the night, the wind howls and a blizzard rages, but everyone is safe and warm locked inside their cabins. Everyone, that is, except you. At 11 PM precisely, the door from your bedroom to the outside world creaks open. If you were sleeping, you will find yourself stir to the sound.

Outside, despite the sounds of a blizzard and the whiteout blocking the views from your window, the world is still and calm. The ground and trees are blanketed in thick snow, but no snow is falling and the wind is no longer blowing.

You find yourself drawn out into the snow, unable to feel tired or cold despite the freezing temperature and the late hour. It is impossible to resist the call you feel to journey out into the dark woods, past the old graveyard, to where the trees meet the cliffs and caves at the edge of the mountains.

Here, you and fourteen others gather. There is a feeling in the air as though you are being watched, but besides the other visitors, you're all alone. For now, you don't know what has brought you here, but you can't bring yourselves to leave.

((OOC: Just a note on how threads with Critter will work! There will be several 'stages' to Critter's explanations, which I'll be accomplishing by posting various subthreads. You can tag into any stage assuming your character has heard the rest, or you can tag earlier on and we can thread until you reach the next stage.

So, for example, in Critter's arrival, when you reach the point of needing to know the rules, your conversation progresses to the next subthread directly below the arrival. You can then reply to that subthread to continue the conversation if you want. I may stall on replying to you if your reply is getting to a subthread I don't want to post quite so quickly.

I know this is confusing, but this is so I can thread with all of you as much as you want without having to get into weird thread orders and so everyone hears all the relevant info.))

Comments

[gamehead]

Don't worry, Tony. You don't have to play if you don't want to.

But when you hear about the game, I know you'll want to play!

[manofiron]

Somehow, I find that a little hard to believe coming from someone wearing a snarling wolf mask. That kind of adds an element of ominousness to the whole thing, FYI.

[gamehead]

That's because you think wolves are mean and scary, right?

But I wonder what that means for you...you're a wolf now, too.

[manofiron]

Um, no, see, technically, I'm a man.

[ He gestures to himself, clearly without fur. Or a tail. Or a snarling wolf snout. ]

Or is this some kind of weird nature baseball team? The wolves and the—Please tell me you're not a fan of Twilight. Because if you are, sure. Yes. I'd rather be a wolf.

[gamehead]

I'm more of a fan of the dark.

You may have been a man when you came here, mister, but you're sure a wolf now! Hee hee, I wonder what Pepper would think of you like this!

[manofiron]

How do you know Pepper?

[gamehead]

I know a lot of your friends, Tony. Because I'm your friend, so they're sort of my friends, too!

And I think all of them would want you to try hard and do well at the game, don't you?

[manofiron]

I think that's going to depend on what kind of game you're talking about.

[gamehead]

Oh, right! Silly me, I forgot to tell you.

You can read all about it in your notebook!