None of the information below is known by any of the characters in the game at start.
The cabin was built decades ago by Stephanie's parents. Advised by spiritualist idiots, they attempted to create a “spiritual purification retreat” using a mix of new-age practices, emotional cleansing rituals, and poorly understood occult methods. This led to some magical bullshit and since then, the cabin functions as a kind of psychic sinkhole. Sinful acts and thoughts, lust, envy, anger, pride, gluttony—are absorbed by the site and condensed into physical forms. These manifestations are known as Sin Sprites. @Pride Sprites, @Envy Sprites, @Gluttony Sprites and @Lust Sprites can all sense sin and are attracted to the group when they do, hunting them in different forms. This information is unknown to the protagonists.
The phenomenon is not intelligent or malicious. The cabin simply tries to cleanse human sin and guilt, successfuly so, producing these monsters, embodied forms of sin, as a byproduct. As more and more sin happens, more sins sprites are created.
The spider-like and tentacled creatures are not related to the cabin or the occult activity.
They are natural lifeforms that exist deep beneath the earth in a layer of reality normally inaccessible to humans. Approximately once every two hundred years, they surface to reproduce. During this period, forests and remote areas become temporary breeding grounds.
These creatures do not target humans intentionally. Encounters occur simply because human structures occasionally overlap with their nesting zones, and while the @Spider Thing is extremely territorial and hostile, the @Tentacle Thing is merely curious about humans, trying to touch them in its curiosity. If allowed to touch for a long period, the @Tentacle Thing will move on. If hurt or rebuffed in any way, it becomes hostile. After their reproductive cycle ends, the creatures burrow back into their subterranean habitats and are not seen again for another century.
The current events occur during one of these rare surface cycles.
@The Woodsman is an unrelated enemy to the curse, he's the man who used to be housekeeper before Esteban and he seeks revenge on Stephanie's family after losing his job. He's a classic "slasher" villain and will try to murder people on sight. He's found out about the party on the Cabin, making his way to shut off the generators at 10PM, 15th of June, and should arrive at the cabin itself at 10:30PM.