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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5319412" data-attributes="member: 19675">Possibilities:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">A dormant old god of harvest/circle of life is stirring in its fitful sleep, and its dreams are causing townsfolk to unconsciously re-enact the blood sacrifices it used to demand in tribute from its worshippers.&nbsp; They are completely in thrall to this being and have no recollection of their actions.&nbsp; The more sacrifices that occur, the closer the god gets to awakening fully.&nbsp; The beginning of the problem was when two brothers quarreled over a woman they both loved, and one killed the other by braining him with a riverstone...the blood from the killing falling upon the god's unrecognized altar stone, buried in the mud by time and seasonal flood.&nbsp; The murder must be solved; the altar stone cleansed both physically and spiritually. 
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">A gang of half-demon doppelgangers are moving into the area, hoping to establish it as a base of operations for their kind.&nbsp; The killings are being committed by doppelgangers who have assumed human form, because they have discovered that the kids are seeing through their disguises rather quickly.&nbsp; In their haste to kill and replace the adults, the doppelgangers are not taking enough time to accurately mimic their victims well enough to fool the kids...and none of the doppelgangers want to take on child-sized forms. 
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<li data-xf-list-type="ul">An old vendetta between two families that rule the area has been revived.&nbsp; Originally, the renewed fighting was done between the adults, but one woman who lost her brother spent all of her hidden savings to hire a wizard to set an Invisible Stalker loose upon the family of her brother's killer.&nbsp; And on the other side, another family released a Barbed Devil to do likewise...</li>
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[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5319412, member: 19675"] Possibilities: [LIST] [*]A dormant old god of harvest/circle of life is stirring in its fitful sleep, and its dreams are causing townsfolk to unconsciously re-enact the blood sacrifices it used to demand in tribute from its worshippers. They are completely in thrall to this being and have no recollection of their actions. The more sacrifices that occur, the closer the god gets to awakening fully. The beginning of the problem was when two brothers quarreled over a woman they both loved, and one killed the other by braining him with a riverstone...the blood from the killing falling upon the god's unrecognized altar stone, buried in the mud by time and seasonal flood. The murder must be solved; the altar stone cleansed both physically and spiritually. [*]A gang of half-demon doppelgangers are moving into the area, hoping to establish it as a base of operations for their kind. The killings are being committed by doppelgangers who have assumed human form, because they have discovered that the kids are seeing through their disguises rather quickly. In their haste to kill and replace the adults, the doppelgangers are not taking enough time to accurately mimic their victims well enough to fool the kids...and none of the doppelgangers want to take on child-sized forms. [*]An old vendetta between two families that rule the area has been revived. Originally, the renewed fighting was done between the adults, but one woman who lost her brother spent all of her hidden savings to hire a wizard to set an Invisible Stalker loose upon the family of her brother's killer. And on the other side, another family released a Barbed Devil to do likewise... [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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