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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Forsaken One" data-source="post: 610492" data-attributes="member: 799">You escort him to room 211 while the Indian constantly looks over his shoulder and narrows his eyes suspiciously at anyone who comes near you on the way up to the conference room. Hurry, he insists. There isn’t much time! and his eyes are everywhere.Once you arrive at the room and he is convinced that no one can overhear the conversation, the Indian continues. I am John Stonehill and this, he says, gesturing toward the snow and the sky, this is the time of the Beast. When the snow is deep and the moon is full, the Beast returns to this valley to quench its thirst for blood. But the Beast…the Beast is not the problem.Stonehill goes on to explain about the Darkness in the valley, and tells you investigators that his people have warred against it for many generations. But now the Darkness is growing stronger each day. Soon his people’s medicine will not be enough to keep it at bay. Furthermore, he says, the werewolf is only a servant of the Darkness. It is an ill omen that the Beast grows bolder, but it means that the Darkness is also growing stronger.Before the werewolf first arrived more than a hundred years ago, Stonehill says, the Native Americans prayed and were granted by the Sky Father a circle of metal that weakened the Darkness. Later, our warriors used the disc in battle and badly wounded the werewolf, but it ran away before we could kill it. The next night, we sent our best warrior to find and kill the beast. He never returned, and the disc was lost with him.Through our medicine, we have found where the sky-metal lies. But we are old now, too weak to carry spears, too weak to war against the Beast. We are old and now one of our circle’s number is dead—run down in the road like a dog.Stonehill gives you a sharp meaningful look after that last remark.It is your duty now to retrieve the sky-metal disc from the bottom of the Delaney’s copper mine where it has waited all these years. You have but one day to complete this task. Any longer than that and the Darkness will be too powerful for my circle’s ritual. One way or the other the circle is performing the ritual tomorrow. But without the sky-metal to protect us, I fear that we will all be killed before we can complete it.</blockquote>

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