This thread is for the adventures of Scourge, Huntsman of Death!

"Who would do this?" Sobs the old woman as she clings to the chest of the man you presume is her son. "Who would do this to my sweet Teddy?"

"It's ok, Ma" says the son. "The cops spent a good long time lookin' everything over. They'll catch whoever took Ted."

The old woman nods. Arm and arm, the two somber figures turn and walk away from the broken earth where Theodore Preston was recently buried. His newly cut grave stone probably looked dignified when it was placed above his plot. But looking at it now, lying face down amidst the upturned dust and mud? It's hard to see any sort of dignity in it. A short lived monument for a short lived man.

You wish you had the faith in terrestrial law enforcement that Theodore Preston's younger brother did. Fortunately, you are not a helpless as he. This is the fourth upturned grave you've come across as you pursued this fiend, and this one can't be more than a day old. The stink of the evil that stole Theodore Preston's body still hangs heavy in the air.

You are Scourge the Hunter. And you smell your prey.

I searched through the desecrated grave sites trying to figure out why they were being ransacked. Have the corpses been defiled? Was this just a spree of grave robberies or something more sinister?

The other three disturbed graves were in other towns along the middle of the east coast. You investigated them thoroughly and they look identical to this. It appears to have been torn up with large clawed hands. From there, they cracked open the coffin like a Walnut and stole the recently deceased from with in. None of the stolen bodies had been buried for more than a week either.

In reply to GM (msg # 4):

So it seems like some kind of monster or demon then. Time to start tracking them down. Before I leave I check to see if the bodies are in any way related besides the manner in which they were taken and the freshness of their corpse.

A cursory glance of the head stone tells you the deceased, Theodore Preston, was 36 years old at the time of his demise. That checks out with your information so far, as none of the bodies that have been taken have been older than 40. The youngest of them was 17.

Give me a survival roll to attempt to follow the perpetrator with your track feat.