Site-wide Plot on The Book of Moons

It's said that if you trip on a cobblestone in Welkinweep, the Arch-Devil will steal your toes. If you see a crow alight on a lamppost at midnight, the Arch-Devil will steal your eyes. It's become a popular fairy story that children delight in telling for a scare. Often the storyteller will swap out which part of you he will steal; teeth, nails, tongues.

The tale is loosely related to a string of suspicious disappearances over a half-century’s span; each missing person's next of kin received a package containing one small part of a body, assumed to belong to their loved one. Each was either a current or former resident of Drake street and the areas nearby.

Several innocent denizens have been falsely fingered over the years. Some have been proven to be pranks or copycats, and the true mutilator’s identity has eluded the Recondite Police thus far.

The most recent grisly find took place last year in early winter, 1874, reigniting both the investigation and the imagination of Reconditians:

A package arrived at the doorstep of the Lovett family, a newly wed couple. Valerie Valdez Lovett, the wife, had been missing for several weeks, according to her husband, Hugo Lovett. He opened the package to find a note along with a severed finger which wore Mrs. Lovett’s wedding ring. The contents of the note have not yet been shared to the public.