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

[terryplz]

[He pauses for a moment to consider and then nods his head.]

My room door opened and I thought it would be wise to see why. I began walking and found myself here. The blizzard outside...it didn't even seem real.

[unadorned]

Are you sure no one opened it for you? [Because the last thing she wants to entertain right now is dealing with witchcraft, on top of everything else]

Well, look at this! It seems we've been summoned.

[terryplz]

No one opened it. I'm positive. [He looks around the cave again. Caves. Like a second home.] How many people do you think will be here?

[unadorned]

If we try to go by a certain system, then I suppose we may have one person per cabin, don't you think?

Although there are other sets of feet that aren't ours so far.

[terryplz]

One person per cabin. [He thinks back to earlier today.] There were cabins labeled A through R. 18 cabins...which means 18 people in total may meet here, assuming your theory is correct.

[He's not making hasty judgments, but it is plausible.]

But why only us? What would make us different?