[quote]I have this idea that Church is a widower who has like adult children, maybe even grandchildren, but is distant with them and is like a stoic playboy because of trauma and heartbreak surrounding his late wife's death
So he keeps his children at arm's length to protect them so they don't come to harm the same as their mother[/quote]

Scene opens with hobbyist murder podcast discussing the killings. Speculations etc, ends with following one home, red herring only to redirect elsewhere.

Murder
-Animal Manipulator? 'Apex'

Switch to Church being pulled from vacation, establish Church and Duquesne before building the setting and opening the game up properly to the other players.

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A pair of half-drunk wine bottles sat atop a table littered with snack platters. Music played softly in the background, blending with the din of the small crowd, as Dolores O'Riordan's vocals set the tone for the night. The group of five sat in a semicircle, an easel propped up in front of the large television set boasting an impressive 27" screen. 

Gesturing towards the cork bulletin board propped up on the easel, Scott Winters was the first of the partygoers to speak.

"So this one," He gestured towards the first image tacked to the upper left corner of the board, "This one was originally thought to just be an animal attack," The gruesome picture in question was of a man's body, one of his arms missing while his other limbs were covered in bite marks along with his torso.

"There was so little left of his face, they had to identify him by dental records." 

"Sure," The woman to his left interjected, "But that could just be a rabid dog, it doesn't mean murder,"

"I'd agree, if it had been an isolated incident," Another man replied from across the recessed sitting area. "That attack was in Seattle, but then you have that," He pointed to another image on the board, "Occurring just down the road in Tacoma."

"And what about that one, here in Portland," Scott asked, pointing to a third image.