Bestiary

Danforth Stern

Former Director of Acquisitions (AQD)

Stern was once highly respected throughout the company as a strong executive with an unflinching abil­ ity to direct Pentex towards making some of its riskiest decisions, the majority of which paid off dividends in natural destruction and civil turmoil. All of the respect he had built up evaporated when he began to rant and rave about alien invaders, twitched physically in meet­ ings, and missed numerous AQD planning meetings. It all came to a head at a Board meeting, the first he had attended for several months. He vomited up a tentacled creature shortly after the meeting started.

Escorted from the room by a First Team at the behest of the rest of the Board, the Directors suspected they would never see Danforth Stern again. When the meet­ ing ended, they instead found the eviscerated corpses of the First Team. Something had torn their elite execution team apart. The Board sent further First Teams out to capture and kill the former Director, but Stern has suc­ cessfully escaped all of them.

One year ago, a man calling himself “Father Worm” showed up as the leader of a small religious order in Minnesota. The cult comprises young, impressionable men and women who see something appealing in Father Worm that most people cannot. The once heavyset man is now unwashed, unkempt, and half-crazed. As a result, he’s hardly recognizable as Danforth Stern. He preaches about the Wyrm, the aliens and shapeshifters. In television interviews, he’s taking responsibility for multiple acts of civil disobedience and vandalism perpetrated by his cult.

His followers have appeared on the national news repeatedly, ranting about Father Worm. When the Board of Directors connects the dots, they will want their ex-colleague terminated immediately. The truths a crazed Stern may leak to the news would be minor when com­ pared to what he may say to the Garou, and both could be incredibly damaging to Pentex.