Remember Fort Owens

*Murphy’s vision sends him to a large loft apartment with the words “Remember Fort Owens” on the wall, with coordinates underneath written in red string. Murphy stands up to realize that he’s tangled in red string, with the loops stretching out behind him, he cannot move forward.*

*The wall behind him is covered in red string, almost moving, it pours out of the kitchen appliances. The string begins to wrap him tighter, until it constricts around his neck.*

Murphy calls his boss, Samantha Duke (no relation)

**Fort Owens:** A bustling suburban town in Eastern Maine that doesn’t show up on any maps.

*Murphy calls the usual suspects to investigate. Road trip to Washington County!*

FORT OWENS:

* The town is completely abandoned, used to be the pinnacle of suburbia.
* Toys in the abandoned streets
	+ *It appears that the entire town left overnight*
* Jaime goes into a house, and there’s no furniture

*There is no graffiti, and this place is 10 minutes away from the nearest town. The hunters decide to try and find the town center.*

TOWN CENTER

* Tables set up in a u shape, with random junk. Old yard sale?
* Between two trees in front of the municipal building is a faded banner
	+ “Fort Owens Town Festival 1979”

*An abandoned town festival. Something happened to this town, and no one was expecting it. Quick footsteps and running from behind a row of houses.*

Terryl, Callum, and Jaime walk a street over, and peak down the road. There’s no one there, except one of the screen doors down the street slams shut.

*Back in the Town Center...*

* Murphy attempts to cast a spell to read the creature’s intention back in 1979. It’s not very helpful.

Terryl, Jaime, and Callum go to investigate the door. Suddenly, Terryl realizes that they are alone in the street. Jaime, then Callum, in turn, becomes alone.

* Callum smells ozone in the air.
* Jaime runs to the town center.
* Terryl flies into the air to find the boys.

*Callum senses that there’s weird energy that’s been left unchecked in the town. Whatever just happened happened because of this.*

* Jaime finds a newspaper from 1979 that was not there before. August 28, 1979, reporting on the town festival.
* Uses magic, tries to find Murphy and Holster, appears at the table near them, shouts for their attention

*There is a gathering storm, gathering very quickly. This seems to be bad.*

* Terryl observes the town below them (fails the roll)
* The storm is making it hard to stay stable
* They call Jaime, but get a “service not available” message.
* Terryl tries to fly down to the ground, goes into a tailspin, and before they hit the ground, they are suddenly standing upright in the street where they were before they fell.
* Jaime, Holster, and Murphy can hear Terryl screaming.

*Holster reads the newspaper, and sees the date. He’s heard stories about fae creatures causing havoc like this before. Extra-dimensional creatures have also been known to do this to a whole town. Holster believes it’s the fae. The three hunters go to get Terryl.*

* Callum tries to smell for Jaime, can’t get anything
* A small child with a bowl cut appears behind him
* He realizes this is not a child. It runs around him in a bad at running sort of way (???)
* Callum follows the child, she runs along a picket fence to the back of a house, she enters. Callum follows.

THE HOUSE

* The front door opens. A woman in her late 40s with a long floral 70s dress is in the house. She greets Callum. She *asks for his name*
* Callum retracks Jaime’s scent, and then turns around to follow the scent. He sees Terryl on the road. The group is reunited!

*The group starts talking, reconvene. They decide to use fake names (this is an excuse for Zach to make the joke of the characters using the players names). The hunters notice that the specific house that Callum approached looks more lived in. They try to figure out what to do. Jaime suggests a tea party. Murphy decides he’s stupid, again. Murphy tries to figure out how to ask if the child is tangible without asking if Callum touched the child. Holster does not appreciate being called Hot Dog. The party approaches the house.*

* **Hot Dog, C Dog, Wings, Spirit, and D Money** approach the house.
* D Money knocks on the door, the woman and child open it
* Wings gives the daughter, Janie, a stuffed animal wolf
* **Beth and Jane Caufield** - the only residents of the abandoned town.
	+ People left after the festival
	+ Couldn’t bear to leave the town. Doesn’t know how long it’s been
	+ Jane goes to school in town. Beth won’t elaborate.
		- *She doesn’t seem to realize the town is entirely empty*
* D Money suggests that the group walk to the school.

*Meanwhile, in the street, Callum has some questions for Holster about his vampirism. He also has some more personal questions about the person Holster lost. They agree to look out for each other. Callum wants to know why Jaime is back, Holster has absolutely no idea. Callum wants the magic tomes that Holster took from the witch’s lair, because necromancy.*

* Beth says that she can’t leave the house, because she’s been grounded by her mother. Jane can’t leave either, because she’s a friend staying with Beth
* Jane and Beth met in 5th grade, they’re friends.
* Spirit asks to go see the basement
* Wings stays upstairs, D Money and Spirit head downstairs

THE BASEMENT

* Jane sits criss cross applesauce in front of an old TV displaying only static, holding the wolf doll
* D Money sits down next to Jane with his sword
* Jamie tries to read a bad situation and fails miserably….

*Cut back to THE KITCHEN*

* Wings calls CDog, gets no response. Looks out the window and gestures to CDog and Hot Dog that they can’t use their phone
* Beth is vibing in the corner. Anna’s words.
* Beth hasn’t has visitors other than Jane for a very very long time, not since the festival
* Wings goes to the stoop to smoke a **phat blunt** and survey the town. Beth holds the door open. Wings is staring directly at CDog and Hot Dog.
* CDog notices Wings staring at them

BACK TO BASEMENT

* D Money looks around to see an easel with a drawing of two little girls, high windows, and the door we entered from.
* D Money asks Jane to play a game. This is a spell that keeps her from leaving the basement. He asks her to do the second window
* Jane copies him, and cannot do the spell. D Money does it for her
* Jaime copies, and takes harm
* The three go upstairs

THE KITCHEN ONCE MORE

* D Money invites the rest of the people to play the game
* CDog and Hot Dog approach and enter the house. Wings does not know how to do a thumbs up
* Hot Dog recognizes Jane, sort of. She’s from the obituary section, **Jane MacAlister** is dead
	+ Hot Dog grabs the newspaper from the table, reads her obituary. Died in a tragic accident, drowned in 1979
* **Hot Dog realizes that there’s untamed magic growing off of Beth, Jane is stone cold dead, but Beth’s magic has brought the dead child back**
* Beth does the spell, and does it perfectly
* Jane tries to do the spell, and as she gets agitated her voice begins to splinter into more than just one, a layered speak.
* Terryl attempts to calm her
* Beth begins to cry, Terryl attempts to soothe her
* Beth goes and sits on an old couch, Jane is blurring, but now Jane and Beth are hugging on the couch
* Murphy attempts to banish a curse, but introduces it as a song so that Beth will sing along?
* Holster takes Jaime and Callum outside and explains that Jane is dead, and Beth has summoned her back, full necromancy style.
	+ Jane is a manifestation of Beth’s psychic energy. **The disappearance of the town is separate**
	+ Beth’s magic is untamed and its making some WACK shit, causes the hallucinations of being alone
* Holster, Jaime, and Callum try to figure out what the *hell* to do with this FUCKING WOMAN
* Holster, Jaime and Callum walk back into the kitchen
* Holster takes Murphy and Terryl outside to catch them up on what’s going on
	+ Holster thinks that the coming storm in the “hallucinations” is tied to Beth’s magic, and shit’s gonna go south soon
* Murphy decides to call back to the sect, inform them of the situation

DOWN THE STREET

* Murphy is transported to the mirror dimension, sees the gathering storm
* He begins to hear screaming and hoofbeats from the town square

*In the Town Square….*

* There’s a little girl in a sundress frozen in the center of the square, facing away. Murphy approaches her, while the sounds of hoofbeats and screaming continue all around!
	+ She looks *terrified*, and appears to be looking at something much taller than her that Murphy cannot see
	+ Murphy tries to get her attention, very calmly. He \*boops\* her nose, and realizes she feels like a dead body
	+ He tries to pick her up, and it doesn’t work
	+ Murphy tries to locate the source of the hoof beats, and shouts for them to “show yourself, let her go”
	+ He hears a small, panicked voice in the back of his head say “bring them back”
	+ Suddenly, he’s back to the normal world
	+ Murphy hops in the church van and drives to the last town before Fort Owens

NEAREST TOWN

* Murphy makes a call

BACK IN THE CAULFIELD RESIDENCE

* Holster asks Terryl for more details on their “hallucination” of the storm
* Holster wants to try and experience the hallucinations with Terryl nearby
* He enters the spooky plane, and asks “What is this?”
	+ Response: “Holster, kid, you know what this is”
* Holster asks the voice (by name, Keenan) if it can tell him where he is, what’s happening
	+ Keenan responds that he’s dead, and Holster is also dead (vampire), and he’s in a pickle
* *Holster begins to ask Keenan for advice. Keenan is just a voice in Holster’s head.*
* Holster begins to hear the sound of hoofbeats and follows them

*The storm is directly overhead, and the hoofbeats cease. Holster sees nothing in the town square. Now that Holster has heard the hoofbeats and the storm, he recalls reading something about **Woden’s Hunt**. This is a myth based on a real supernatural force known as **the Wild Hunt**. That’s it, that’s the monster, a force of nature that steals people.*

*Holster gets out of the storm, now armed with the knowledge of what took this town.*

* Holster, Jaime, and Callum, have a huddle
* Holster plans to leave Beth, the hunters try and consolidate their story for why they need to leave
* As Jaime asks where Murphy went, the hunters hear the church van start up
* Terryl, inside, tries to stop Beth from crying by suggesting a game
* Jaime decides to start the conversation: claims that the hunters have to go to attend Holster’s mom’s birthday party
* Terryl doesn’t want to leave, wants to stay with Beth but will leave if Callum leaves
* The hunters wait for Murphy to make his call…..

BACK TO MURPHY

* Murphy finishes his phone call, and goes into the general store in FULL ARMOR with a SWORD and a GOLD RIFLE, to buy power bars and a sweet treat
* He tries to ask directions from the clerk and manager, and reminds them to “Remember Fort Owens” as he leaves.

BACK TO FORT OWENS AGAIN

* Terryl and Callum are inside, and talking about what they're going to do
* Suddenly, Terryl’s eyes flash, and they start talking to Beth, and talking about “good moves”, they are visibly distressed
* *Terryl is Distressed and Anna is typing a lot and the party is scared*
* Terryl feels kind of sick
* Terryl begins to explain their celestialness to Callum in order to stop him from trying to help them (;-;)
	+ *I think that Terryl got a message from their boss?*
* Terryl finally explains their purpose to Callum, he still doesn’t really get it.
* Jaime gets restless and takes off down the street, Callum TAKES OFF after Jaime
* He tries to sidestep Callum, and the two of them end up on the ground
* Jaime convinces Callum to let him go find Murphy
* Jaime rides his motorcycle while Callum, Terryl, and Holster follow behind

THE NEAREST TOWN

* Jaime notices the church van parked behind the general store. The posse parks
* Murphy is in his van, waiting for a call back from the sect, eating a Snickers bar.
* Holster is PISSED
* Holster and Murphy have a pissing match, Holster leaves in a FURY
* Jaime goes inside to get a Snickers for himself, feeling a lil guilty for fucking this all up
* *Finally* Murphy gets the call back from the sect, it’s *completely* useless
* Jaime is left at the store, so confused

*(So everyone is goin back to the town again wheeee oh my god end me)*

*Murphy finally gets his fucking ending, and tells Beth she’s been alone for 40 years. He pleads with her to come with him, so that he can save the person deep inside. She comes willingly, and after a hellish day, everyone goes home.*