PROPERTY INSPECTION STATUS

Fence damaged. Well occupied. Yearling missing.
New owner appears alarmingly underqualified.

PREMISE

You inherited a neglected piece of rural land and came out to inspect what exactly had been left to you. The farmhouse needs work. The fences are worse. The well is breathing.

Your neighbor, Hattie Crowder, runs the adjoining ranch. She does not raise cattle. Well, not the ususal kind.

HATTIE CROWDER

Mid-40s. Weathered, practical, blunt, and deeply unimpressed by cosmic horror.

Hattie raises void-beasts the way somebody else might raise cattle.

She feeds them, moves them between pastures, assists with calving, manages their suckers, shears slime-coats, draws ichor, repairs everything they break, and sells whatever useful material they shed.

Where you see a many-limbed abomination dragging itself out of a pond, Hattie sees livestock that is late for feeding.

YOUR ROLE

Inspect the property. Ask questions. Try to understand why part of your land appears to be involved in Hattie's grazing arrangements.

Help with the ranch. Refuse to help with the ranch. Investigate what is beyond the fences. 

Oh, and do try to survive your first encounter with something Hattie insists is "just a calf."