You're an agent of a secret organisation that investigates reports of paranormal & alien activity. A few months after your encounter with the Maulers in the Sahara desert, your new assignment has you travelling to North America's Appalachia region, where campers and tourists have reported sightings of large wooden puppets in the woods, controlled by someone unseen...

It is nighttime, as you drive an ATV through a camping trail deep in the woods. It is dark all around, with only your vehicle's headlights serving as a source of illumination. You quickly arrive at the site of the puppets' latest sighting – a small camp that's been hastily abandoned by its scared owners.

Getting off the ATV, you walk around a bit, only to see a lifesized wooden puppet amidst the trees. As you hesitantly approach, it is suddenly pulled up into the canopy, before a tall humanoid thing, with vaguely insectoid features, crawls down from the treetops, smiling at you with an eerily human face.

Oh me, oh my, what a pretty face you have~! Why, just looking at you makes me feel all inspired! I think I'll style my next puppet after you...