Field Reports | Lore of the Appalachian Wizard Gang

Appalachian Wizard Gang field report artwork for The Meat Puppet Incident - Bravo Squad operators and a wizard fighting goblins and reanimated figures wearing AWG gear in Echo 63.
Field Report: The Meat Puppet Incident
EYES ONLY // LEVEL III AFTER-ACTION REPORT INCIDENT DESIGNATION: THE MEAT PUPPET INCIDENT AREA OF OPERATIONS: ECHO 63 UNIT: BRAVO SQUAD STRENGTH: 12 OPERATORS MISSION: Conduct a combat patrol through... Read more...
Operation Rat Maze after-action report artwork — Task Force Rat Catchers in the goblin tunnels under Echo 63
Field Report: Operation Rat Maze
APPALACHIAN WIZARD GANGAFTER-ACTION REPORTCLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY // LEVEL IIIOPERATION: RAT MAZETASK FORCE: RAT CATCHERSAREA OF OPERATIONS: ECHO 63 — NORTHERN RIDGELINE SUBTERRANEAN COMPLEXCOMMAND AUTHORITY: MAGUS ACTUALSTATUS: RECONNAISSANCE PARTIALLY COMPLETE //... Read more...
Operation Bad Neighbor II field report artwork - Magus Actual with Pappa Squatch, Grey Bro, and Mothman standing over defeated goblins at a ring of carved standing stones in Echo 63.
Field Report: Operation Bad Neighbor II
APPALACHIAN WIZARD GANG — AFTER-ACTION REPORT CLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY // LEVEL III OPERATION: BAD NEIGHBOR II AREA OF OPERATIONS: ECHO 63 — NORTHERN RIDGELINE SECTOR ELEMENT: MAGUS ACTUAL / PAPPA... Read more...
Operation Bad Neighbor field report artwork - Bravo Squad and a thaumaturge in ghillie gear observing a fortified goblin settlement on the northern ridgeline of Echo 63 under a yellow moon.
Field Report: Operation Bad Neighbor
APPALACHIAN WIZARD GANG — AFTER-ACTION REPORT CLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY // LEVEL III OPERATION: BAD NEIGHBOR AREA OF OPERATIONS: ECHO 63 — NORTHERN RIDGELINE SECTOR UNIT: BRAVO SQUAD COMMANDING OFFICER: BRAVO... Read more...
Operation Echo Lantern II artwork
Field Report: Operation Echo Lantern II — Pt. 2
APPALACHIAN WIZARD GANG — AFTER-ACTION REPORTCLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY // LEVEL IIIOPERATION: ECHO LANTERN IIAREA OF OPERATIONS: ECHO 63 — NORTHERN RIDGELINE SECTORCOMMANDING OFFICER: MAGUS ACTUAL OPERATIONAL SUMMARY: 2015 hours: Magus... Read more...
Operation Echo Lantern artwork - antlered figure on the ridgeline
Field Report: Operation Echo Lantern — Pt. 1
AFTER ACTION REPORT — AWG FIELD OPERATIONSCLASSIFICATION: EYES ONLY // LEVEL IIIOPERATION: ECHO LANTERNAREA OF OPERATIONS: ECHO 63 1840 HRS: Bravo Squad crossed the designated perimeter and advanced into the... Read more...
The Jersey Devil: 300 Years of Terror in the Pine Barrens
In 1735, in the heart of New Jersey's Pine Barrens, a woman known as Mother Leeds gave birth to her thirteenth child. Tired and bitter, she is said to have cursed it — and the child transformed: cloven hooves, a horse-like head, bat wings, a forked tail. It screamed, flew up the chimney, and vanished into the pines. It has never really left. The Jersey Devil is America's oldest cryptid, with nearly three centuries of sightings. Joseph Bonaparte — Napoleon's older brother, living in exile at Point Breeze — claimed... Read more...
Bigfoot in Appalachia: The Squatch That Never Left the Holler
The Pacific Northwest gets the documentaries, but ask anyone in the hollers: Bigfoot has always been an Appalachian. From the "Knobby" of western North Carolina to Kentucky's backcountry — where dedicated research groups still run expeditions — to the Carolinas, where Bigfoot 911 fields reports from locals, the big man's footprint in these mountains runs generations deep. The pattern is always the same. Wood knocks in the dark. A smell like wet dog and rot. Trail markers stacked in ways no hiker would stack them. Then the eyeshine — and... Read more...
The Mothman of Point Pleasant: The Legend Behind the Tee
The true story of the Mothman of Point Pleasant, West Virginia — from the 1966 Scarberry-Mallette sighting to the Silver Bridge collapse. Read the legend, wear the cryptid. Read more...