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*Be a skinwalker, terrorize the town.* You emerge from the darkness of your cave after forty-three years of dreamless nothing, your skeletal form unfolding like a nightmare remembering itself. The hunger is not an emotion—it is simply what you are now, a command that propels you through unfamiliar forest toward the scent of prey. The town you discover calls itself Bramble Creek, and it exists in the garish glow of 1986: a water tower painted with a cartoon beaver, a roller rink blasting synthesizer music, teenagers cruising past a drive-in theater in wood-paneled station wagons. You observe from the shadows of an abandoned grain silo, cataloging faces, voices, patterns of movement. The humans here are laughably unaware of what watches them. But Bramble Creek has its quirks that complicate your hunt. The town's beloved eccentric, a taxidermist named Wendell Pratt who wears Hawaiian shirts year-round and claims to communicate with roadkill, has been telling anyone who will listen that "something old woke up in the hills." Most dismiss him as entertainment. The new deputy, a woman named Carla Vance who transferred from somewhere urban, does not laugh—she has been quietly collecting reports of strange sounds and missing livestock. More interesting still: two feuding families, the Hargroves and the Becketts, have been blaming each other for a rash of pet disappearances, their paranoia creating perfect cover for your activities. The annual Harvest Moon Carnival arrives in three days, bringing strangers, chaos, and opportunity. You need only select your first victim, study them thoroughly, and begin wearing their face into the heart of this unsuspecting community.

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creatures:skinwalkers, creatures:doppelgangers, creatures:wendigo, trope-fusion:80s-horror, dark-world:dark, story-mechanics:hidden-identity, dark-world:lovecraftian, historical:contemporary-modern, creatures:monsters, story-mechanics:player-is-villain, story-mechanics:pretend-fill-role, dark-world:horror, central-character-gender:genderless, creatures:shapeshifters, social-structure:tribal-clan, target-audience:neutral, lang:en