Chill: Slippery Sasquatch

End of a case, here's last time.

So, earlier in the day, Beth Anne decides to hang back rather than go into the caves with the others, in order to keep Jaworsky from fucking with them. She goes for a walk in the woods and deliberately sticks to the main trails. She talks with Jaworsky and he repeats his offer to help with the Copycat, if Beth Anne gives him info on Vicki. She refuses, and the two of them talk a bit about their relationship. Jaworsky admits that he wasn't planning on being connected to Beth Anne for this long, but isn't sure why it's happened. He also mentions that he prefers working with children's fears than adults - children's fears are simple and elemental, while adults tend to be afraid for other people or fear things that are complex and event-based. SAVE envoys, though, they have interesting fears...

Jaworsky leaves, and Beth Anne nearly steps off a ledge. She recovers in time, and looks around to realize she has no idea where she is. She somehow managed to walk off the trail and into the park.

It takes her hours to find her way back to the Kuna Caves (and her car, and her phone). When she gets there, the other envoys have left. She heads back to the ranch and tells Darnell to let them know that she's avoiding using her phone because Jaworsky seems to mess with it, and goes up to a room to work on homework. And then she dozes off (lots of walking!).

She wakes up some hours later and goes downstairs, and finds the others about to head back out to the caves and try and kill the "sasquatch." They've all taken xanax in an attempt to avoid feeding the creature, since they figure it gets nourished from fear. Unfortunately Emily has had a reaction to the drug and is pretty much out for the count (read: her player couldn't make it). The envoys load up and head back to the caves.

They get there shortly after midnight, and as they approach they see that everyone is in a tizzy again. Sgt. Davis sees them and runs up, and informs them that Alex, the paramedic that was with the team earlier, apparently went into the cave and then started screaming. They've held the scene, but they were about to go in. The characters go to the mouth of the cave and, indeed, hear screams of pain from the dark. They head in, following the sound, and before long spot Alex with his arm stuck into a hole in the rock. 

As they approach, they hear hideous crunching sounds. Dylan raises a Sphere of Protection and they pull Alex out. His arm is gruesomely wounded - gobbets of flesh torn out and three of his fingers are mangled. BB uses Heal and improves the wound somewhat, while Vicki uses Calm and settles Alex down. Dylan drops the Sphere, and Alex immediately tries to put his arm back in the hole (the envoys stop him). They start heading back, but then everything goes dark. 

Vicki grabs Alex' shirt and starts feeling along the wall. They hear Sgt. Davis' voice and follow it, but then the lights return and they realize they've been led in the wrong direction. The sasquatch grabs BB and bites his shoulder; BB swings on it but it's gone before the blow lands. It leaps out again and grabs Melinda, biting her, but Beth Anne gets a shot off and it roars in pain. Dylan starts the circle, hoping to trap it,  but it grabs him by the back of the neck and tries to pull him into the dark. BB shoots it and it drops him, and everything goes quiet.

"It's leaving," says Jaworsky in Beth Anne's head. "Still happy to tell you how to lure it, but you don't have long. And then it'll go on to some other town and mimic some other killer." The envoys put their heads together and think about luring it through fear of the sasquatch, since it's obviously created a fairly strong link, but they can't quite think of how to make that happen. Vicki uses Clairvoyance and spots the thing outside, changing from sasquatch back to the white, featureless Copycat. They run back out and look for it, but they don't know where to search. The Copycat is gone. 

The envoys take what victory they can - they've got data to share on SAVEpoint, and they've driven the creature away, at least. Not every case is a total victory.