Balance/Amnesty crossover idea!

I have a plot. It’s such a plot. A crazy plot. A silly plot…

Okay enough riffing on Professor Elemental. This would take place shortly after the disaster of Idiot World, so the crew are EXTREMELY cautious of interacting with a tech world again.

But the Light and the Abomination somehow coalesce into a new threat for the Hunters in the Manongaheela(?) National Park. The first anyone knows about anything is a rash of child abandonments in the park. Kids aged between five and ten are just… found. Wandering lost and scared (and all alone, and there was darkness and… stop riffing on Steam Powered Giraffe) with fragmented memories that may or may not match the rash of missing adults.

Ned insists he’s seen a four-eyed creature in the woods. All he ever sees is the eyes. They’re in a row, and highly reflective. Green, two ambers, and another green. The encounters are seconds brief, and it dashes away before he can get a decent blurry photo.

Visitors who are NOT missing adults or suddenly-found children swear they’ve seen two golden-haired kids wandering in the forest. Always from a distance, always running away the instant they’re spotted. One hippie/crunchy new age type was meditating in the woods and when they came out of it, they had been robbed blind. Sort of. Whoever they were stole their boots, all their food, and every single coin they had on them.

Duck has been finding campsites. Unauthorised campsites. Always long since cold. Always full of signs that someone’s been poaching. And the immediate area shows signs of foraging. He knows someone’s living off the park, but he’s damned if he can track them.

And then these two strangers come into town. Fresh-faced kids in weird gear. Who are asking about a set of twins they’ve mislaid. And they’re both kind of young to be parents…

The Monster of the Week is sucking time from its victims. Reducing them to an age where they’re more or less helpless. Or, at the very least, incapable of putting up much resistance. Of course the twins, being 140-something, were a fucking feast for the beast.

It can’t eat anyone under forty years of age. So it’s up to the babies of the crews to save the day.

Good plot? Bad plot? Shiny? Let me know.