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could act. They viewed the home as something of a shrine. They moved to her village so they could be close, and on many a night they would sit by her empty home in a silent, tear-filled vigil. They could never bring themselves to enter, finding it too difficult. Then the elderly couple heard rumors that the decrepit home was going to be restored. That would mean someone would move in. In their madness, they perceived this as someone desecrating their daughter’s home (and her memory). They felt they had to do something… so they did.

Meeting the Town Terror is tangible in Hagsbrook. If you don’t feel it, you may want to check your pulse because you may already be dead! The characters receive a summons or otherwise learn of a desperate call for help from the nearby village of Hagsbrook, named for a brackish stream in which a vile witch was once said to lurk, luring children to their deaths. Lightning lashes the sky and rain pelts down from gray skies as the characters meet Cobb, a local landholder in need of help. He’s arranged for lodging at the local boarding house owned by an elderly couple, who go by ‘“Ma and Pa” to the locals (“It’s nothing fancy,’ Cobb says of the boarding house, “... but the beds are warm, the roof don’t leak, and Ma makes the best dang pumpkin pie this side of heaven.”). When Cobb is asked about the nature of his problem, his face drops with the end of pleasantries. “I’ve got a very serious problem,” the rail thin man says, wringing bony hands. “It involves a house I purchased some time ago. It originally 31