The Wolf Moon event has officially concluded.
While more information has been gathered on these mysterious beasts that terrorized the town and presented to the Supernatural City Council, they are no closer to being caught. One thing we may be certain of, though, is that Edgewood hasn’t seen the last of these fiends...
Below the cut is a summary of the events and encounters that took place over the weekend of the Wolf Moon.
In the days leading up to and during the full moon...
Frankie Holloway and Monty McAllister had a series of bizarre visions alluding to possible events taking place during the course of the Wolf Moon.
Friday, January 10th
Around 2:30PM an unusual howl was heard in The Outskirts. Not long after that, something attempts to enter the Mystery Shack. After the tour concludes, Phoenix Castillo discovers tracks around the building that head toward town.
As night falls and the moon rises higher, Monica Rodriguez took to the woods of The Outskirts. Here, she discovered a trail of red and blue colored tracks that smelled like blood and some kind of chemical. The tracks led towards town.
Around midnight, Bridgette Kingsley witnesses a cat-like creature attack Dr. Kenneth Blackthorne in the parking structure of Edgewood Memorial Hospital. While the security guard discovers the body and calls for a lockdown, a howl echoes from the city and the cat vanishes into the shadows.
At the same time, Charlotte Kingsley is run off the road near Old Edgewood by a massive wolf-like creature. She’s injured in the accident and makes it over the town line in time for the Veil to prevent the monster from mauling her. The same howl from the city draws the beast’s attention and it takes off toward it.
Saturday, January 11th
At 12:41AM, Monty McAllister finds Charlotte’s car and takes her to seek medical treatment. Due to the lockdown at Edgewood Memorial Hospital, they are rerouted to BHM.
Having heard the howl earlier in the night, around 3:00AM Logan Cree goes out to investigate the area. He covers from the North Star Lounge in Uptown to the Downtown area, and eventually discovers two bodies in an alley by the vampire bar Last Drop. One is still alive, but after touching Logan, she turns into a large wolf-like creature and attacks him. He’s left alive but injured, and with an unusual psychic connection to the beast’s other victims. Having sustained what he believed to be a werewolf bite, he seeks treatment at BHM.
The body of Nora Li-Marin is discovered around 4:00AM by police.
At 5:00AM, the lockdown is lifted at Edgewood Memorial Hospital and patients, visitors, and staff are allowed to leave.
Later that morning, Bridgette Kingsley relays what she saw at the hospital to the SCC’s witch representative, Rose-Marie Arceneaux. While there, she receives a phone call from her mother and learns of Charlotte’s accident.
Beatrice Larson gets the feeling something is following her, but every time she looks there’s nothing there.
Monica enlists Simon Romero-Martin and Ronan North to help her follow the trail she discovered in the woods the night before. Following the tracks, they discover two more sets of tracks heavily intersecting with the original. All three have a chemical smell, but a slightly different scent below that. The trail leads them to the Olympus subdivision and the golf club, both deep in Callaghan Pack territory. They inform Pete Callaghan of their discovery, and he takes the investigation from there.
After a morning of restfulness and healing, Charlotte gets restless and sneaks out of her room at BHM and goes exploring. She finds Logan Cree is also checked in and the two compare the events from the night before. Upon learning of Logan’s apparent connection to the creature, Charlotte attempts to scry for its location.
After all the... excitement of the night before, Xavier Bennett forgot to take his medication. As he goes about his day, he feels a presence following him as he runs errands and opens up the North Star Lounge for the evening. He serves a young woman asking odd questions about the attack the night before and swears he recognizes her from somewhere. It’s later he realizes he saw her in that day’s newspaper.
Sunday, January 12th
The body in the alley is officially identified as Nora Li-Marin. Publicly, her death is ruled as an overdose; the supernatural community know differently and host a vigil for her.
Late Sunday evening, Ernie Vesper was found critically injured in his warded bunker in the abandoned Olympus subdivision. He was found by Liam and Fiona Callaghan after Monica’s crew put the pack on the case.
Despite treatment of human and supernatural origin, Kenneth Blackthorne is unresponsive and his condition continues to deteriorate.
What We Know:
Three different creatures were involved in the attacks. While they resemble werebeasts, none of them were recognizable members of Edgewood were-packs or neighboring packs.
It’s likely they are not werebeasts at all, as the full moon did not seem to dictate their Changes, and their bite did not kill a vampire.
Two of the creatures resembled wolves, but larger and much larger than a normal wolf. The third resembled a large jaguar.
The jaguar is able to disappear into shadows, but also felt rage, relief, and fear while it carried out its attack.
The smaller of the two wolves was human before the touch of a supernatural turned her into her beastly form. She was fearful and apologetic before Changing quickly.
The larger of the two wolves is massive in size and seems to relish in the thrill of the chase.
The only known victims of these creatures’ attacks have been other supernatural beings. Christian Valentine, chief of police and SCC werewolf rep, still believes there may be other victims out there that haven’t been found yet.
Known victims include Dr. Kenneth Blackthorne (a warlock; deceased), Charlotte Kingsley (a witch; alive), Nora Li-Marin (a shifter; deceased), and Ernie Vesper (a shifter; alive).
Since the night of the Wolf Moon, no new attacks have occurred. Everyone injured by the beasts was attacked Friday night or Saturday morning.
