Ashfires

:The setting for The Werewolf of Ashfires
Small village. 200 people. Everybody knows each other. Mostly farmers. Land route to nearest village is 3 days. Each person may only know a few people from that village. Lots of farm animals and herds. Packs of wolves live nearby.
A werewolf comes through the area, living their best werewolf life. They have a large territory, this village is only a small part. No idea where the werewolf lives.
Raids livestock in wolf form when it’s feeling lazy. If a person gets in their way, change into hybrid form and fight them off. If the person is tasty looking, they might get dragged off and eaten, else their survival is of no concern one way or another and the werewolf is just here for the tasty livestock.
4 people have been killed in the last year. 4 more are injured, and 2 more have been infected with lycanthropy. All farmers defending their livestock. 
The first time someone turned into a werewolf, they didn’t turn until halfway through the night, while they were sleeping. They ripped their whole family (6 more people killed) into pieces, and injured the neighbors (2 more wounded). Woke up in the woods, covered with blood. Remembered the previous night, came back to town, turned themselves in. Very broken up. Asks for death. Village says it was not their fault, and builds “accommodations”. 
A special dungeon has been made. Dug into earth and made of stone so it cannot be broken down. Heavy door. Everyone in the village helped make the dungeon. Those cursed spend the nights around a full moon chained up inside, howling and clawing to rampage through the town. 
Two months later, a second person was turned. 2 villagers and 1 town guard were mauled. Nobody revealed themselves in the morning, but a search of the town and woods turned up a young single person who lived on the edge of town - a sobbing wreck found in the woods. They had been clawed by a wolf in a pack, not bitten by a werewolf. 
The dungeon was divided, walls put up to create 4 small cells instead of one large one. Those suspected of being cursed (e.g. injured by any wolf) must spend the first night of the full moon down there. It is a terrible place next to all that howling. Farmers began letting wolves take livestock rather than risk being injured.
The three nights of the full moon are filled with howls and shrieks. Few get much sleep for not only are the cries of the werewolves echoed by the wolves of the wilds, but for the fear of friend or family bashing down the doors. Injuries from wolves have been hidden before - fear of the dungeon.
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