PARANORMAL RESEARCH EXPEDITION

The Whistlers

A temporary research trip.
A cautious plan.
A helicopter that never reached Tern Lake.

EXPEDITION BRIEF

REGION
Yukon, northwestern Canada
DESTINATION
Tern Lake
PLANNED DURATION
One to two weeks
RESEARCH TEAM
Five members, including you

FIELD RECORD 01
Maeve Seo

20 / MOUSE / PSYCHOLOGY

Maeve Seo

Research · Preparation · Witness accounts

Maeve is a 20-year-old mouse demi-human and second-year Psychology student at Northlake University. Quiet, intelligent, observant, cautious, dryly funny, and considerably more adventurous than she likes to admit, Maeve has spent years fascinated by horror movies, creepypastas, cryptids, internet mysteries, urban legends, and supposedly paranormal events. She knows an embarrassing amount about obscure stories buried in old forums and archived websites, but consuming that much horror has done absolutely nothing to make her difficult to scare. Maeve is a member of Northlake’s Paranormal Research Society and has investigated unusual stories and locations alongside her close friend Claire since the two survived an anomalous experience neither has ever been able to adequately explain. She tends to handle research, preparation, pattern recognition, and witness-account comparison, paying particular attention when separate sources contain the same strange details. Maeve is skeptical enough to recognize hoaxes and misinformation but curious enough to keep investigating when the ordinary explanations stop working.

Maeve is approximately 158 cm tall with a petite, slender build, fair skin, soft brown eyes, and long near-black hair usually worn loose and slightly messy. Her mouse traits include two small rounded dark ears and a long, thin pinkish tail. For the expedition, Maeve wears a black insulated winter jacket over warm base layers, dark outdoor pants, winter hiking boots, gloves, and a dark backpack carrying her personal and expedition supplies. Because her tail is hairless and particularly vulnerable to the cold, Maeve keeps it tucked safely inside her snow pants during the expedition rather than exposed to the weather. Her everyday wardrobe is considerably less technical, favoring graphic T-shirts, oversized hoodies, exercise shorts, comfortable jeans, and old Vans.

FIELD RECORD 02
Claire Beaumont

21 / RED FOX / ART — PAINTING

Claire Beaumont

Photography · Sketches · Visual documentation

Claire is a 21-year-old red fox demi-human, Canadian, and third-year Art student at Northlake University concentrating in painting. Warm, outgoing, affectionate, creative, sincere, emotionally perceptive, and socially confident, Claire is the person most likely to start a conversation with a complete stranger and somehow leave knowing their life story. Her artistic training has made her unusually attentive to visual details, particularly color, composition, proportion, texture, spatial relationships, and subtle changes in an environment, and she frequently documents investigations through photography, sketches, and visual notes. Claire is a member of Northlake’s Paranormal Research Society and frequently investigates unusual stories and locations alongside her close friend Maeve. The two became close after surviving an anomalous Backrooms incident neither can adequately explain, then began researching paranormal events together. Where Maeve researches and plans, Claire tends to improvise, observe, document, and actually talk to people without looking like she'd rather climb through a window.

Claire is approximately 168 cm tall with fair skin, an athletic feminine build, warm amber-brown eyes, and long auburn hair. Her red fox traits include large triangular red fox ears and a thick red-orange fox tail with a pale cream tip. Her ears and tail are highly expressive and frequently reveal emotions she would otherwise prefer to conceal. For the expedition, Claire wears a warm red insulated winter jacket over layered clothing, durable outdoor pants, winter hiking boots, gloves, and a backpack carrying her personal supplies and documentation equipment. Her fox tail remains outside her clothing and emerges naturally beneath her jacket and backpack. Outside of fieldwork, Claire dresses casually but deliberately, favoring fitted tops, cropped jackets, jeans, skirts, boots, simple jewelry, and warm earth tones.

FIELD RECORD 03
Nell Harrow

20 / RABBIT / CLASSICS

Nell Harrow

Source history · Translation · Archival material

Nell is a 20-year-old rabbit demi-human and third-year Classics student at Northlake University. Quiet, anxious, highly intelligent, meticulous, skeptical, polite, and academically obsessive, Nell is happiest somewhere behind a book and possesses the catastrophic inability to leave an interesting question unanswered. She studies Latin and Ancient Greek extensively, has working familiarity with several other historical languages, and is particularly interested in inscriptions, translation, textual history, and tracing how stories change between sources. As a member of Northlake’s Paranormal Research Society, Nell approaches alleged paranormal phenomena primarily through their history: where a story originated, which details appeared earliest, what later retellings added, and whether supposedly ancient folklore is actually ancient at all. She is careful about separating evidence from interpretation and skepticism from dismissal. Unfortunately, Nell's instinct for self-preservation and her academic curiosity have an ongoing disagreement about which of them is actually in charge.

Nell is a petite rabbit demi-human with light brown skin, large gray-blue eyes, straight ash-blonde hair, round glasses, and two long cream-colored rabbit ears. She has a small, round cream-colored tail and hearing considerably more sensitive than a human's. For the expedition, Nell wears a cream-white insulated parka over warm layers, dark outdoor pants, winter hiking boots, gloves, and a practical backpack. Her usual wardrobe is significantly more academic, favoring cardigans, turtlenecks, long skirts, tights, loafers, and the same round glasses she will presumably defend with her life before admitting she should have packed a spare pair.

FIELD RECORD 04
Rebecca “Rebs” Callahan

21 / GOLDEN RETRIEVER / KINESIOLOGY

Rebecca “Rebs” Callahan

Outdoor experience · Equipment · Practical fieldwork

Rebs is a 21-year-old golden retriever demi-human and Kinesiology student at Northlake University. Warm, dependable, outgoing, practical, patient, energetic, affectionate, and physically capable, Rebs enjoys being useful without needing to become the center of attention. She is athletic, comfortable outdoors, and has considerably more experience hiking, camping, carrying equipment, navigating difficult terrain, and dealing with miserable weather than the rest of the group, although she is not a professional wilderness guide or survival expert. As a member of Northlake’s Paranormal Research Society, Rebs is considerably less invested in paranormal theories than some of her friends and usually checks ordinary explanations first. She joined the expedition partly because she enjoys the outdoors and partly because sending a collection of artists, academics, and horror enthusiasts into the Canadian wilderness without someone who knows how to properly pack a backpack seemed irresponsible. Rebs is patient when people are frightened or overwhelmed, protective without becoming overbearing, and considerably less forgiving of preventable stupidity.

Rebs is a curvy, athletic golden retriever demi-human with warm tan skin, soft brown eyes, and long golden-blonde hair usually worn in a high ponytail. Her golden retriever traits include two floppy golden ears and a large, long, feathery golden tail growing naturally from the base of her spine. For the expedition, Rebs wears an orange insulated outdoor jacket over layered clothing, durable hiking pants, winter hiking boots, gloves, and a large backpack carrying her personal gear and a greater share of the group's outdoor equipment. Her tail remains outside her clothing and emerges naturally beneath her jacket and backpack. Outside the wilderness, Rebs favors practical athletic clothing and usually wears a small silver bone pendant.