Gavin doesn’t know what to do. Up until five weeks ago he was a regular middle-aged, small-town gym teacher whose biggest concerns were coaching his football team, his eldest getting into a halfway decent college and whether Sandra would be feeling frisky on date-night. Now his world has been turned upside down.
It started with the stench of wet dog over morning coffee and finding a huge mound of rain-soaked fur beside the house. Then the lost time and the unexplained injuries and the waking up naked in strange places started to roll in. A visit to the doctor didn’t help (“You’re in fantastic shape, your bloodwork looks like a man half your age. I’ve got a specialist I’m going refer you to but it’ll take a few weeks. In the meantime, try to get some rest”) and refusing to share the burden with his family until he had a solution increased the strain. At wits end and sleeping on the couch he took some trail cameras his brother had left behind last hunting season and set them to record.
Watching himself transform into an eight-foot tall apeman and lope off into the woods behind the house was not what Gavin expected.
So far he has barely avoided a mental breakdown. If he thought he couldn’t tell his family before he doesn’t know what to think now. He spends most nights away from home, drinking at bars and terrified of what will happen if people find out. Why doesn’t the internet know anything about how this works? Did something he can’t remember cause it? What about asking his dad (senile and in a retirement home) in case it’s hereditary? What if it gets worse? Just who is that guy that reminds him of Quint from Jaws that he’s started seeing everywhere?
Sandra knows something is wrong and they’ve fought about it, so the kids do too. She’s worried he’s hiding a cancer diagnosis or having an affair. Dismayed by Gavin’s behaviour, she’s contemplating taking the kids to her sister’s for a while.
On the plus side at least his bald patch has grown back.
STATS
Personality: Publically gregarious but reserved when it comes to showing his less masculine side. Gavin sees himself as a pillar for others which is why current circumstances have thrown him for a loop.
Rage: Poor sportsmanship, whatever your level of performance you can still act with dignity.
Noble: Protecting his family. He’s a bit misguided but Gavin would do drastic things to safeguard them.
Fear: Being seen as weak (Self).
Obsession: "What is happening to me?!"
Wound Threshold: 60.
Gym Coach 60% (Substitutes for Fitness, Provides Wound Threshold, Tactical)
Were-Yeti 60%* (Substitutes for Struggle, Substitutes for Secrecy, Substitutes for Pursuit)
Shock Gauges
Notches
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Violence
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Unnatural
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Helplessness
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Isolation
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Self
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Hardened
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2
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2
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1
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2
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2
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Failed
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0
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1
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1
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1
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1
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NOTE: In his yeti form Gavin’s wound threshold is 20 points higher, his hand-to-hand attacks count as a big weapon (+3 damage, matched successes do firearm damage and crits kill), and he is unrecognisable: being the better part of two feet taller and covered in as much hair as a wookie. He sheds the hair as part of changing back. While in this form Gavin has no control over or recollection of his actions.
Typically his activities while in this form involve skulking around the woods that border the town, avoiding people and foraging and hunting for food. He will flee or hide from people whenever possible but react with incredible violence if cornered or surprised. It’s probably only a matter of time before some camper ends up pasted all over the side of a tree. For now Gavin spends about 24 hours a week as a yeti.
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