Other scenarios still have a tiny chance of change even if they suck beyond belief. Death's the one thing humans aren't meant to come back from. I'm counting it as worst-case.
You're thinking small scale. I'm not saying get more people in on it, I'm saying get everyone. If whatever it is you're fighting is hiding in plain sight, the second knowledge becomes public they're screwed.
Believe me, if it were that simple it'd be over and done with. People don't want to talk about it and they don't believe a single word that someone says if they mention it. People who do know don't really go for the whole trying to understand what's happening thing either, they just go straight for the whole "faster pussycat, kill kill" bit no matter who they're talking about.
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[ It's supposed to be one person. The handful of people is really a Buffy-specific trait. ]
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