Something in the Rows

Something is moving through the corn. Find the wards before it finds you. In 1934, with the crops dead and the bank at the door, Thomas Halloway walked into his dying fields and struck a bargain with something tall and thin that came out of the rows. The rain returned. The harvests never failed again. The price was his family. October 2016. You slip into the Halloway Farms corn maze after dark. At 12:13 the light in the mansion's spire goes out, a bell rings three times, and every clock on the farm stops. The last Halloway named in that bargain has just died, and whatever Thomas dealt with is free. The gate has locked behind you.Recover the eight wards For decades, eight wards kept it in the rows. Now they're scattered across the farm: the farmhouse, the grain bins, the windmill's cistern, the caves beneath the old well, the scarecrow field, the bottle tree, a field altar and the family graveyard. Each one is guarded by a puzzle or a ritual, and every ward you take makes the hunt more dangerous.Make them whole Some wards come back broken.…