Season 1 Episode 15: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolfman

## Cast

Setting: Elkhorn, WI

Synopsis: A sinister group summoned an extradimensional beast to kill livestock and spread belief in the supernatural. The hunters killed it and hopefully blocked future summoning.

Our story was set in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, though there's a small possibility it was actually Elkhorn, Wyoming. The town is famous for its cryptid, the Beast of Bray Road. Lately, livestock disappearances attributed to the Beast had been on the rise, and crop circles had been found burned into the local pasture.

The hunters first made their way to a local diner, where an extremely uninterested cashier named Maddie gave them directions to one of the crop circles and warned them to beware of killer cows. Bram bought all of the diner's pastries in gratitude, and Kauan drove them to the circle. When they sat inside the circle, Bram had a vision of a group of robed figures with moon talismans, summoning the Beast from out of the circle. They also had a vision of a low stone platform, like a filled-in well, covered in broken magical inscriptions.

The group tried to search the field for physical evidence, but Bram drew the attention of one of the killer cows. Kauan jumped in to try to protect him, but ended up getting a firm but gentle headbutt. The hunters beat a humiliating retreat, and returned to town to look for more clues.

Bram contacted their sponsor, Jacob, who identified the inscriptions as runes of containment, designed to keep the beast in. Claire and Kauan chatted up the owner of the Beast of Bray Road Museum, who told them about a theory that the beast was extra-dimensional, and that most of the best research about it had been done by Maddie's recently deceased grandfather.

The hunters went back to the diner and found Maddie being smarmed at by Ace, an alleged human being and confirmed asshole. When they had rescued Maddie, she agreed to let them help her organize her grandfather's files. On the way out, after Claire rebuffed Ace's attempt to smarm at Bram, she recognized a group of college students from a dream she had had, in which they were the Beast's next victims. Kauan approached them and said many confusing words, and they accidentally let slip where they would be that night, giving the hunters a means to protect them and find the monster.

At Maddie's house, the hunters learned that the Beast was indeed from another world, and that only a weapon from its world could kill it. They also learned the location of the containment stone. The group went to the stone, and Bram did a spell to summon a sword that could kill the Beast, trying his best not to feel like Gaston. He also learned in doing it that the Beast's head would be needed in order to do a spell to prevent another one like it from being summoned.

They tracked the college students down, and defeated the Beast. On their way back to the stone, they encountered Ace, who revealed himself as one of the occultists from Bram's vision. He said that the hunters' actions were only helping his side win, because they were making more people believe in magic. But the hunters, exhausted by a long struggle, ignored his boasting, did their containment spell, and walked unceremoniously away.