Full Moon came 3 days later than I expected. I was just about to sleep in a peasant's lair and thought I'd better rise with the sun, and found semi-shelter to sleep. At midnight, the dots crawled. In this world, the lairs are spread out around the hamlets instead of chained and clustered in the city region, where they can all congregate for a bloodbath. If they were going to have a battle royale, wouldn't they already have done that in any of the years of moons up to that point? My companion got bit without losing a limb, and the next Were we stopped at, I got to watch her metamorph into a WereChincilla, shedding her clothes. Mostly it was Werellamas and Weresheep. I finally got strong enough to wear full iron, but didn't slow down to do that, and in fact forgot to recover the armor they tore off of me. All I had was leather shirt and leggings and I came out without a scar. One of them had plenty of opportunity to tear my teeth out, but didn't, so I even got away with all of those.
These lairs were spread across a 4x6 area of region tiles. On the last night when I finally got around to the far corner, I noticed the last one was actually a shrine, right there sharing a region tile with a hamlet. A giant feathered raccoon with two tails, beware it's fire! There was a pool nearby, so I thought I would risk it. It turned out to be firebreath rather than fireball, and Proficient Shield was enough to block it. First mega meat! But no cooking skills.