CHAPTER 2
"You can barely seen 'em, but one of them ended up dead, aye! I saw it's body...rotting, still I saw it...They're silver-blooded and their head's look like a mad cow's skull. Long claws like a great blades and from the body I smells a terrible fume..."
"How big are they?"
"Like a dog, but they walk on two legs sometimes..."
"You see them? How many?"
"I dunno, a pack of 'em...you can't sees em quite right in the dark, their silver fur blends in the dark and becomes weird, shining aye but it absorbs the light."
"Damn, man, these are werewolves!"
"Manwolves? No, no you can't be talking right. Why would they be ere..."
"I have dealt with them before. Back in the eastcountry there was a platoon of men, I heard from the people, that went down to kill this pagan cult. They didn't come back, and no bodies were found. Only deep depressions in the earth, and pools of dried blood inside them. Like the earth revolted against these creatures. I say man, it was a wretched thing!"
"Come inside then! I have torches and a small forge! They must fear the fire!"
"Nay, man, only silver can harm them. A silver blade cuts their link to their plane of heretical magic if it strikes at their flesh."
"Plane?"
"They are planar being, simply beings outside of this world. I don't understand it myself, but I can only gather that they are creatures summoned by the magicks of a wizard"
A hunting horn? You hear a sound outside the building.
"Man, if you have any silver, give it to me!"
The man hurries inside; the horn blasts again! And with a gale that threatens to blow down the entire house! You shut the door quickly, but you catch a glimpse of a scuffle near the beetle's pen. Then it is so that the bodyparts of the bugs come flying down barrelling towards the building; and you see one of the wolves! It is tearing them apart!
It is not unlike a dire wolf, yet in the place of it's head is an animal skull covered in thin blood and fur. You see that it stands oddly, not unlike a dog standing on it's hind legs, yet it's forepaws are deadly claws of steel-like bone!
You quickly lock the door. Yet you hear the scraping of claws against the wall outside, trying to find the lock?...the beast is trying to open the door!
BARRICADE THE DOOR