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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 5508971" data-attributes="member: 36349">Hmm...So you actually want it to be the work of a lycanthrope? You could keep it as is and make them think its the work of a lycanthrope or you could throw in a few twists in the tale like for example its actually the work of someone who wants people to think just that perhaps even so they can get the locals on the side of his/her cult who want to use the murders to promote their faith and keep them afraid of whats going on out there in return for keeping their control over the settlement. Now lets assume there IS a lycanthrope out there BUT rather than being the killer he/she was an intended victim and killed their attacker(s) and is currently lying low hoping to avoid being identified. The cult arranges for the PCs to head after a suitable cats paw whilst they're trying to find the killer of their friend(s) since they believe there are no lycanthropes in the settlement but the PCs own investigation thanks in part to the misinformation believes there ARE. Of course they're going to use silver to identify the killer and this leads to a tragedy as a child whose burnt by the silver is killed whether by the cult of the PCs you decide but the child is far too young to have been responsible for the killing so they either go looking for his/her family or even try to find out if the kid had been bitten by anything recently. The truth is that the child was born out of wedlock with a local girl who was driven from town by the family of her child's father who had the child fostered to hide their shame. The girl however grief stricken at the loss of her child isn't interested in revenge or wasn't until her child is killed... so you have a phoney series of lycanthrope murders that results in the death of an innocent and THEN the lycanthrope starts killing people and most likely her target will be the PCs as well a any members of the cult depending on who was involved when the child died. No probably better to keep it simple!</blockquote>

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