*It has come to the local athouraties attentions that, while the subject of Vampires and Werewolves is oft discussed, very few people actually know what these fould creatures are, or how they opperate. It is widely belived, for example, that a single silver bullit can slay a werewolf or that a head of garlic can keep you safe from Nosferatu.
Rest assured that these are not but folk tales meant to comfort small children as they fall asleep. The only reliable way to destroy a werewolf is to remove it’s head. Upon the removal of the head from the body of a werewolf the body itself will transmute showing the true shape and nature of the beast at hand*. For this purpose you have imported from a nearby village a very large, very heavy, and very sharp axe. You have also imported a very large, very heavy, and rather dull man to weild it. The man and the axe are both experts in their field, their field being death. They are the only things in this town that any of you are able to trust, and it is to their waiting arms that One and Only Wanderers, your friend and neighbor, has been delivered.
As he walks to the platform where man and axe reside, arms bound behind his back and escorted by two strong townsfolk, he has a wild gleam in his eye. There is something almost, you suspect, ferral about him. Could it be that you have chosen correctly, and so soon?
As Wanderer’s head is placed on the block he wispers his final words. You lean in, straining to hear what his oddly smiling mouth has to say, but all you hear is a single word. Wolf.
The axe comes down fast and true and OneAndOnlyWanderer’s head is removed quickly and almost bloodlessly from his body. It is not until the head reaches the ground that the first drop of blood begins to seep from his neck, the executioner is good at that he does.
You wait…
A moment longer…
Is it changing?
No, Wanderer’s is most decidedly human. The executioner’s axe glints in the fading light as he wipes it’s blade and returns it to it’s place of honor. Next to the gallows.
Slowly, wordlessly you exit the hall.*
OneandOnlyWanderer - Town
Has been killed.
Night 1 will last longer than 48 hours since neither Diver or myself will be able to start Day 2 until at least 6pm PDT 9pm eastern.
*There are of course, other ways to kill Vampires, as some of you may well know. Taking off their heads works well though. But that, along with the story of how werewolves are created, is a tale for another time.