Terror in the Corn

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Terror in the Corn

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It's Thursday, and you know what that means! It's Meet the Character Thursday! Every Thursday we will be profiling a different resident of Raven's Gulch. Today, we profile Sherry!

Sherry first came to Raven’s Gulch when the railroad came to town. A lady of the night by trade, she moved her way west one mining town at a time, moving on once the Johns or the money began to dry up.

Sherry was diagnosed with schizophrenia early on and hidden at home in hopes of protecting her. By the time Sherry was 16 her parents had passed, so she was discovered and sent to an institution to treat her schizophrenia. Sherry underwent four years of shock therapy, the first year, she stopped seeing things and went mute, the second year she saw more than ever. She began escaping her room at night and wandering the halls, decorating them in her mind with parts of every doctor who had done this to her. The third year she started seeing the faces of the people she has seen wheeled down the halls unconscious, accompanying the furniture she had placed in her mind. And finally, before completely going mad and escaping the asylum, Sherry murdered three doctors, harvested their bones and skin, and was never seen here again. Throughout the few months after her disappearance, the doctors began showing up back at the asylum. The first doctor in two pieces. A beautiful lantern, made out of his cleaned, dried up skull, and a chair, made from most every other bone in his body, lavishly upholstered in his skin where you would sit. The second doctor showed up as a tea set. His knees turned to tea plates, his vertebrae carved out just enough you could fill it, and all stuffed inside his rib cage she has made to contain these pieces. And finally the third, a croquet set, made of his longest bones and beaten down vertebrae, all stuffed inside a case she had sewn out of their skin.

At first, she found Raven’s Gulch no different from any other town she worked, but she soon began to notice that repeat customers were more sparse than most places. People seemed to disappear much more often than other towns. Some of the repeat customers she did have began showing up with fresh cuts or stitches, their skin suddenly cold to her touch. They acted differently as well. Meaner. More violent. Something was odd about this town, and it resonated with Sherry. This town felt like home to her.

Her first notion was to talk with Flo, owner of Flo’s Saloon and see if she knew what was happening. While Flo told her she didn’t know anything, the voices told Sherry that she wasn’t being completely honest, that she was holding something back. Sherry needed to know what. She hid outside of Flo’s Saloon and watched.

Late into the night, just before closing, Sherry watched as a well-dressed man entered the saloon, humming a tune to himself. She had heard rumor of the wealthy and powerful Charles Wells around town, but had never seen him in the flesh until now. A few moments later, he emerged from the saloon helping what appeared to be an extremely intoxicated miner walk towards the Wells Hotel. Knowing a thing or two about drunken men, however, Sherry noticed that something wasn’t right about the miner. Charles was more dragging him than not and the man seemed to be more than just drunk, he looked like he had been given laudanum or opium.

Sherry barged into the Saloon, and confronted Flo, who she found behind the bar counting a large pile of gold coins. Flo came clean, admitting that Charles had been paying her handsomely to drug and turn over townsfolk for some time. A girl had to make a living, Flo told her, and times were hard. This was a sentiment Sherry knew all too well, and seeing how Sherry loved gold just as much as the next person, she blackmailed Flo into cutting her in. She began using her talents to seduce victims for Charles, luring them into a state of vulnerability before helping Flo drug them.

It turned out Sherry and Flo made quite the team and it wasn’t long before they became something like friends, but closer to business partners.

Sherry hoped to make enough money to open her own brothel in Raven’s Gulch and eventually transition from a working woman to a madame, but to be successful, she would need help from both Flo and Charles…

Meet Sherry and all of the residents of Raven's Gulch this fall at Terror in the Corn! Opening September 26th!! ... See MoreSee Less