Player Character List

1. Tucloc Hedat - The Spooky. Town weirdo with premonitions and a secret dark bargain.
2. Felix Fraunhofer - The Expert. Town Librarian with a secret haven in the backroom.
3. Marty Mikaelsverd - The Divine. Neurotic pothead with his weird ass dog.
4. Jack Dalton - The Mundane. DJ Qualls with a broken bicycle.
5. Juniper Jones - The Monstrous. Party girl who doesn't know she's a faerie.
6. Peter Lowell - The Wronged. Hunter with a bloodthirst for devils.

Mystery

"The Circles" by Paul McBride from the Tome of Mysteries.

2 boys disappeared while investigating crop circles in Hendersonville, Indiana. The team suspects UFOs and/or a government coverup.

• Tucloc has a premonition of a terrified person running through fields.
• We all ride to the town to investigate the crime scene. We run into a famous UFO Expert, Paddington Reynolds. Juniper and Tucloc attempt to talk to him, he provides very little useful info.
• Juniper talks to the local Sheriff, Wayne Gibbs. He thinks the kids just ran away to get out of their small town.
• Felix left his geiger counter in the library bathroom, but the investigation continues!
• Felix and Jack find drag marks in the field, so they and Marty go into the corn and follow the tracks to the end.
• Marty finds that the tracks led to the center of the corn maze. He notices clean circle markings in the middle of the clearing, imprinted by something large. This is clearly where the murder was done.
• They also notice hoof marks in sets of 2 that lead to storm shelter.
• Juniper and Tucloc go to talk to the farmer who owns the fields. He says he makes crop circles and makes up missing cases to get $$, but he didn't do that this time. He also thinks the kids just ran away.
• Tucloc and Juniper try to investigate the storm shelter, but right as they pick the lock, they are threatened with a shotgun, so they leave.
• Everyone regroups at IHOP!
• Based on the clues and Felix's knowledge, the creature must be a satyr or minotaur. If it's a minotaur, we have to chop its head off. If it's a satyr, we have to kill it with a silver knife.
• 10 pm: we head back to the farm to investigate.
• Paddington's car is there but empty.
• We all go to the storm shelter. Tucloc accidentally discharges his gun, but we're okay for now. There are creepy murals all over the walls depicting the classical greek story of Theseus, except the Minotaur devours Theseus in the end.
• Cut to: Paddington running through the maze with a minotaur chasing him and breathing fire
• We all head to the crop circle, but we're stopped by the old farmer with a gun. Juniper runs to the crop circle, Jack manipulates the old man to let everyone else go. He wants them off his property.
• Marty throws pocket sand, the old man shoots and misses. Tucloc tries to bolt, Felix gets clipped, Marty makes it to the crops. Jack tries to beat the shit out of the old man.
• Tucloc and Juniper follow tracks, Marty is just....running. The tracks just stop, but new paths develop to the right and left.
• Back to Jack - he keeps beating the old man, who screams "Daddy help me" (cute). The minotaur screams through the night. Jack shoots himself in the foot.
• Felix stabilizes Jack and the everyone (separately) heads to the center of the circle
• Juniper and Tucloc get there first. In the clearing, there's an 8 ft. tall Minotaur and an ancient stone dais with Paddington breathing but unconscious.
• Tucloc traps the Minotaur with Magic and runs in to save Paddington while Juniper distracts the Minotaur. He fails.
• Everyone else arrives at the circle.
• Marty paints a red cross on his chest pulls a sword - of fire apparently - from his chest??
• Jack loses his bicycle.
• Felix shoots the minotaur and gets gored.
• Juniper helps Tucloc, who takes Paddington to the safe side of the circle
• Marty fails to strike the minotaur with his weird flaming chest sword.
• Juniper makes a little cut on its neck.
• Tucloc takes a shot and loses his gun.
• Marty yells to Felix to ask what would hurt him, even though it's obviously the sword. Felix says it's obviously the sword. Marty runs, charges, and beheads the minotaur.
• The labyrinth no longer moves, all the crops are dying.
• Marty keeps the head of the minotaur as 'proof', strapped to Reg.
• We slide Paddington back into his car and leave.

End of Mystery Questions

1. Did we conclude the mystery? Yes
2. Did we save someone? Yes
3. Did we learn something new? Yes
4. Did we learn something about the hunters? Yes