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The next day, something truly bizarre occurred... The Buer Hearts were growing on the trees surrounding the town, all emitting the same beat of a drum in unison. Thankfully, it wasn't very loud. So, the noise didn't really annoy anybody. Of course, some called it witchcraft, though the town thought they had rid their village of sin. If only they knew what was coming for them, they would have ran.
 
On the 13th, people mysteriously started to go missing. Men, women, children, livestock, nobody was immune to the mass recession. Children began to tell their parents about a tall, thin man with a hunched back and many limbs who would survey the forest, stalking them. Some called it Holzfäller, der Baummann, or der Große Mann. They would state that he had little to no facial features (in a way that a child from the 1800's would speak of course, many didn't have the luxury of a fine education in that time period). But, one young boy claimed he got closer to the mysterious figure than some of the children. He described the creature as having a completely blank face, save for his mouth, with was littered with sharp and jagged teeth that were randomly placed at different angles, as well as having two long goat horns, and an extravagant Victorian suit. The townspeople had a new name for this…this... Thing…Thing... Der Ziegenmann.
 
On June 30th, the old village had a visitor; it was the colleague of the professor. The stranger was in the same profession as he was. Professor Diedrich Welldone was his name. Not much else happened, Welldone took one of the Buer Hearts for studying, and left. As simple as that. Rumor had he was studying monsters. Not like the Bogeyman, Nachtkrapp, or Krampus, but real monsters. Eldritch horrors that plagued the mortal realm. Of course, it's never a good idea to believe in rumors. However, most rumors form from some kind of truth, don't they?
 
Only one day later, July 1st. The dissipation of Krähendorf would truly kick into action. First, it was the fog…fog... Or, whatever you would call it. It was a mass of black clouds with limbs and tendrils reaching out. This taint surrounded the whole village, forming an arcane barrier. One person tried to escape, but one of the arms poking out formed its hand into a mouth, and ate the man whole. Of course, people were terrified, some even thought it was the work of Satan himself. If only they knew what was really at play. But, perhaps they brought it on themselves.
 
The next day, there was a loud heartbeat, one that everyone heard. All over the ground were strange little items. Black, beating hearts with mouths. They weren't the source of the heartbeat, though, but rather the barrier was. The day after that, the mouthed hearts would periodically scream, and when they did, it sounded outlandish to say the least. It sounded like an young girl and a fully grown man screaming in unison with some beastly howl, singing their agonizing tunes.