The source of the problem is the Night Stalker. He who walks the Night. That is his own name for himself. He moved into Firetree, into an abandoned mansion, about a month ago. He is from Pirate’s Cove. His ancestors once lived in Stone Goblin, but were thrown out under suspicion of sacrifice. That was over a century ago. He discovered references to the secret crypt beneath the crypt, and decided to return to find it.
He is now using this area as a base to create magic items.
He summoned the two main ghouls, and they have since created more ghouls in the area of Stone Goblin.
The ghouls are not the only killers. Sometimes he has his two ghouls capture a woman or old man when he needs a sacrifice to create a wand or magic item.1 He takes from Stone Goblin, Firetree, and Pike Hole.
This morning, walking through the woods, Carol Langtree took a route home past the graveyard, stopping by her father’s grave. On her way out, she found a small doll, ragged, which she decided to clean and fix up for her sister, Wendy. This doll had been carried the night before by a young girl from a Pike Hole farm, on her way with her parents to Stone Goblin. The girl was Susan Williamson, and her parents were Jason Williamson and Susan Martin Williamson. Her parents were killed by ghouls, and she ran, but was caught also. Her ghost is tied to the doll, a very emotional gift from her parents. Until her spirit is put to rest, she will continue to haunt the doll on nights of the new moon.
The Night Stalker has already sacrificed six people for wards and magic items:
2 from Stone Goblin: Arthur Smith and John Wilson Jr. (Alice’s nephew: her brother’s son)
3 from Pike Hole:2
and 1 from Firetree:
He is about to create a massive human ghoul gem.3 The night after the incident at the Langtree’s is a new moon. He will attempt to kidnap Carol around 9 PM, and use her in a sacrifice starting at 10 PM and ending at 4 AM.
