AFHBNA22

You stand up.
You walk toward the window.
You look out the window.
Dark aura is rising through the ground.


>Suddenly your head pulses.
>Your vision goes blurry.
>Disconnected voices scattering through your mind faintly echoing.
>What the hell is going on?
>"Once most of us had been consumed, the darkness came and took us here. Anything caught in this place was taken too."
>Your stomach sinks with an uneasy feeling..
>"There aren't many people in town."
>Suddenly you feel yourself sink back into reality.
"No.. No thats impossible.."
>"Anon what are you talking about?"
"Most of them.. Consumed, there weren't, that many.."
>"Anon? Are you ok?"
>You stand up.
>You walk toward the window.
>You look out the window.
>Dark aura is rising through the ground.
>Another epiphany hits you.
>"Alright, I've got it."
>You pull out the knife on your belt.
>"Anon, you need to explain things before just acting crazy! Ugh, you never learn."
>You pull out a bottle.
"Alright, this, will be risky."
>You uncork the bottle pouring the water on the blade.
>"Anon, please, just explain-"
"Directly into their bloodstream, like a blessing with the holy water. The reason it took so much to cure me might be because it didn't get absorbed the right way."
>"Are you sure thats safe?"
"I'll have to cut them, so probably not.."
>"Anon, why are you so gung ho about this?"
"This town is about to be consumed, I can feel it, Amnesty too, I think she can feel it too."
>Amnesty looks away.
>"But-"
"They don't have to be dead to be 'consumed'. If they're only barely alive, I think the town can still be absorbed by the Malformed."
>"T-that can't be.. But, they're still alive, they aren't getting consumed by the Malformed!"
"Not yet, but their state leaves them only with their base actions, maybe Nathaniel left this town in sirens hands, because at a certain state, people lose their humanity, allowing evil to seize it."
>"You're sure about this?"
"I don't get these kind of in-tune feelings that often, but my instincts are telling me this is D-day. We need to wake these people the fuck up or this town is going to be hell by morning."
>"Alright Anon, I'll trust you. So, where do we start?"

Well?


You notice something else, that Innkeeper is gone.
The lights from the candles blow out.
You're in the dark now.
Sudenlly you hear harsh knocking on wood coming from above you.
You hear some kind of ghastly moan.
The Innwoman is standing behind you with soulless white eyes, her jaw unhinging as her body spasms.
Fuck!
She jumps on you knocking you onto the floor.
She chomps down hard on your arm.
You stab her with the knife.
Shes biting in super hard.
It hurts so fucking badly, you're screaming.
Suddenly shes lifted off of you and slammed into the wall.
It seems to incapacitate her.
They're really prone to influence..
It seems that with their minds wiped, they're blank slates.
You decide to get out of the inn.
You gasp.
Malformed have already come and are devouring the townsfolk.
The townsfolk aren't resisting, lifeless eyes staring off into nothing.
More coming in, hordes of them you can see in the distance like a great plague, coming in from all entrances.
This town went from quiet to Satans playground in about 3 seconds.
>"We have to save them Anon!"
"Fuck, I know!"
You rush over, firing your gun at a large beastie eating a woman.
More people being eaten all over.
You fire at the malformed.
It's like a swarm of insects drawn to food thats been left out.
You fire.
The noises they make like guttural wheezing, it's hard to describe.
You look at the church..
For the love of god how did it come to this?
Distorted barking as the hellhounds surround you.
Your water tank half full as you never got it filled up again.
If only you'd thought to remember the chant, or use the silver pentacles, you could have made more when you were by the river.
Not as though you'd have known that hell was coming to town tonight.
Screams from nearby as the three sirens run from their house.
A nude humanoid monster is chasing them running at them on all fours like an animal.
You can't help them right now.
The dogs jump but sunset shields as they smash against it.
They bark their strange angry barks.
You fire your soaker at them melting a few away.
God that pain in your arm fucking hurts so much..
You look over at Amnesty, she looks like shes zoned out or something.
But at least the Malformed don't seem interested in her.
Sharp shrieks from the air as the flying ones are climbing around on the rooftops.
Some of them are devouring townsfolk they've lifted up there.
It's too late for some.
Hell has come to Salem, demonic judgment comes to reap the sinners.
Taking them to where they belong, or some such nonsense.
It's bad, its really fucking bad.
>You stay vigilant as you fend off the hellhounds and 7 foot monsters that lumber toward you.
>The water cutting though them like a saw.
>Sunset is swinging around your holy sword cutting through.
One of the 7 foot beasts goes unnoticed till the last second, it vomits black sludge on you.
Its, fucking disgusting..
You fire at any abomination