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Welcome to Carter Lake, Washington, population 5800. Carter Lake is located between Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Olympia. It is known as the largest little small town.
Located three miles from an Interstate 5 off ramp, it has all the conveniences of city life yet being off the main highway, does not attract city traffic. Carter Lake is able to maintain a small town feel even though several tech start ups have office space due to the surprising low rent of office space. The town managers continually rely on other sources to keep the town thriving.
Carter Lake's population comprises of many tech employees as two tech companies were created by former Microsoft Engineers who moved from Redmond six years ago. Another segment of the population are Military families due to the close proximity to US Army base Fort Lewis and McChord Air Force base. Carter Lake has been seeing growth since the first tech company opened six years earlier to the disappointment to some of the original residents.
The town is considered one of the safer communities in the region, like with the tech recruitment and Military family’s drawn to this off the main road community, the police department mostly consists of former Military Police and State Police who chose to be away from big city politics prevalent in larger metro departments. Carter Lake police department is not the traditional small town department.
With the influx of population, within the last several years there has been an uptick in missing persons reports and more reports of unusual activities. Some of the original residents displeased with the expansion refer to their selves as Pre Tech Carter Lakeiens.
There has been some Tavern Talk recently. Some speak of mysterious outsiders doing super natural things. Residents tend to dismiss these stories as ‘Old people who watch too much Netflix’ or simply lushes who got a bad batch of moonshine. Reporters frequently press Town Managers and Police Representatives for comment on missing persons and odd happenings recently. Typical canned responses of "Hysterical people unhappy with progress spreading unfounded rumors to hurt progress."
Today Carter Lake thrives, people enjoy the comforts of small town life with all the amenities of their large city counterparts, life goes on … so do the rumors … and the missing. Carter Lake does get visitors, many wanted, yet with any small remote location, not everyone … or everything… that visits has good intentions.
Cast:
Dave Nichols - Storm
Rayne Summers - Bluemoon
Pam Nichols - Storm/Bluemoon
Notable NPCs:
Angela Ksioszk - Nurse at the hospital, Rayne's friend
Jeremy Ksioszk - Angela's Husband
Kevin Mercury - Blogger
Sandy Hamilton - Waitress at Jackie's Diner (cover)
Denise Chin - Traveling writer (as a cover)
Claudius - Ancient who transformed David and Rayne
Dr. John Fitzgerald (Head of research with a sense of humor)
Mr. Phillip Michaels (Director of Operations - extremely dangerous)
Karin Larson - King County Deputy
Brad Larson - Karin husband, Physiatrist
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