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“We were making our way from the landing site to the nearest road. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary. Then… eyes appeared. Like you hear about in stories around a campfire. Started as red eyes in the trees and then what appeared to be werewolves emerged and braced for attack. Blaze did manage to piss one off with an arrow.” David sighed. “Are there any sensor dark spots? Anything that looks natural even?”

-Lt Cmdr David Malkin, XO

“Fascinating!” Chris replied. “Indeed that is some scary campfire tales there. And none that I’m aware of. Science is rechecking the sensors again. I’ll let you know more when I do.”

“So you say Dr. Blaze managed to hit one with an arrow but all it did was make it even more mad? So when we go back down there we will have to have bigger and stronger weapons and armor it appears and still not break the prime directive. This will need some more planning.”

“I don’t know if you’re aware Commander but I have a very keen interest in anything macabre and horror related. Assuming these things are really werewolves and not just something that takes the form of someone’s fears. Then could they be affected like Earth lore werewolves by silver and the like? Did anyone get any readings or data from them before you were beamed back?”

“Kane got at least a partial scan.”

“Excellent! Have it analyzed right away. Top priority.”

“One other thing concerned me greatly Commander. The way the werewolves moved on you. It looked liked they tracked you, set up an ambush and when they went after you all, it was not a frenzied beast but a well thought out tactical plan to flank you all and trap you. These things are very smart. I bet we’ll find out if they can make and set traps too. I wonder what else is out there? But we’ll find out later when we go back.”

Captain Chris Taggart CO

“They are at least natural predators, if not intelligent. They seemed to be using their apparent stealth as their primary tactic.”

-Lt Cmdr David Malkin, XO

Maybe but define natural in this instance Commander? We don’t know if they were human or some other being before the chance or they are really just a species of Lupine here like our own Mwezi here. We need to stop thinking that these are Earth folklore. “

Captain Chris Taggart CO

“Well. Every carnivore and omnivore has some predatory instinct. Could be highly evolved. Especially given their appearance… if they exposed their position too early, their prey would run. So it could be an evolved part of the hunting instinct. Hide and strike when they’re close. If we are to assume that these are just bipedal wolves.”

-Lt Cmdr David Malkin, XO

Scans of the ‘werewolf’ creatures quickly showed why they hadn’t shown up originally on scans. Their bio-electrical signature was different then expected to normal life signs. Had the Chernov scanned for non-standard life or had a more detailed scanning array like on a exploration ship they probably would have picked them up. Now that they knew this they could adjust scans to perform more detailed scans for non-standard life.

Biologically overall the werewolves seemed like a humanoid wolf, their strength was nearly triple that of a Vulcan and there was strong evidence of regenerative properties. Whether they would be vulnerable to silver or the like was impossible to tell from scans.

GM CockRoach