[Spirits] A mile of shopping districts, partying, and skyscrapers, business and entertainment boomed along the Magnificent Mile, even with the light fall of snow that paints the area in a wintry landscape – pristine and white, almost beautiful.
The lights from shop signs flash in an array of colors, making the drab grey day seemingly brighter as they stood out more. Even with the cold weather and the threat of snow flurries that fall like white rain from the sky, it does not drive the people indoors. Businessmen, housewives, teens that skip school manage to find something to do as they move around from shop to shop, bar to bar, diner to restaurant.
Adrian’s cellular phone had ran earlier that morning, a call coming from a cute little brunette that had roused him out of bed with an offer of buying him something if he was her shopping companion for the day. Therefore, the cute kin would find himself half drug along by Moira to wander the little boutiques, trying to decide on where to go for lunch.
Marni – is hunts around for her next meal, her stomach demanding something a little different this time around and as the sun tries to peek through clouds, she might have luck pilfering a wallet or two to fill her belly that’s gnawing at her insides.
A text finds its way to Fireblood, an invitation to drag his ass out of the Brotherhood, to join a pair of kin that he knows and has met for lunch on the Mile…
[Spirits] (No posting orders, feel free to post freely)
to Adrian, Connor, Marni
[Marni] Its nearing noon, and the little Gnawer be HUNGRY. Of course, she’s nearly always hungry, so that’s not necessarily a revelation. Three days ago some awesome takeout was forgotten on top of a car, and that lasted her until late last night. It’s time to scrounge.
Mag Mile is upscale enough to have folks with decent sized wallets. She never takes it all, just enough – she doesn’t aim to hurt, just survive. And so it is, one curl-haired gnawer is on the prowl, eying those who pass for a good mark… and then she steps forward, ‘accidentally’ bumping into a random stranger…
(dex+stealth= pilfered wallet?)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Marni] … and comes up with a wallet as she murmurs her apologies with that oh so happy cute smile. The man hurries away, and she steps back into the shadow to check what she’s made – slides a ten out of the wallet shoves it in her pocket and then…
…calls after the man “You dropped this! Hey!” and waves away his thanks as he hurries on.
Lunchtime!
[Connor] Connor grumbled under his breath as he stalked through the streets. His hands were jammed into his jeans pockets and his collar was turned up to protect him against the cold. It didn’t really work. There was never this much snow back home and he was fed up of it. He had taken to barricading himself up in the Brotherhood and drinking whiskey to keep warm. This wasn’t really different from his tactic at dealing with anything else but what could he say, he was a slow learner.
The only thing worth being dragged out into the cold for, at least as far as he was concerned, was Moira. And since it was she that had text him…
Connor’s thoughts are interrupted as he spies Marni giving a wallet to a guy.
“I’m willin t’bet that’s lighter than it was before he lost it,” he says to the litterl Gnawer, sidling up to her after the man has gone.
[Adrian] Adrian actually does not have to be dragged shopping, though the Mile is a bit rich for his student’s budget; with her, here, like this – no prying Garou or kin around, no one to make comments or take offense – he’s as close to his natural self as he comes anywhere outside of his flat. He laughs, has obvious taste and style (more London-Milan-runway than Chicago street, but still), occasionally snarks about a really bad outfit, but mostly? He’s just easy, relaxed, and pleasant to hang out with.
Then it’s time for lunch, and while he certainly has no issue with Connor, Moira can practically feel it as he shuts himself back up, tucks pertinent details that he’d prefer go unknown away behind that wall of quiet civility. Talk shifts to innocuous things that couldn’t possibly be read from or into, like the weather and a paper he’s writing, and whatever’s going on with Moira, how she’s doing. Topics stay far away from things that contain risk, especially once they see Marni, who gets a broad smile.
“Hey, you,” comes in that clearly foreign accent. “Doing alright?”
And there’s Connor with her; the smile he gets is more reserved, but then, Adrian’s talked to the Fianna even less than he has the cute little Gnawer. “Hello.”
[Marni] Connor startles her – and she jerk her eyes upwards, only to find his own, smiling, laughing ones as he teases her. She dimples into a smile that tries so hard to be innocent… and fails miserably at it, though she gives it the good college try anyway.
“I’m sure I haven’t the faintest idea what you’re talking about.” She nudges his arm with her shoulder and winks, before she turns to see Adrian joining them. “Heya! Hanging in there, which, as you well know, is my forte.”
[Spirits] Starving stomachs and shopping sprees seem to be what brings the quartet together. Marni running into the pair of kin and Connor on the Mile, Moira grins adjusting the large bag she has with her when they left one of the shops. She wasn’t shopping for herself it seems, as her particular tastes are more feminine than what she bought earlier.
She suddenly becomes more attentive as they reach the pair of Garou. Her eyes crinkling up and her smiles brighten at the sight of the Fianna. She offers Marni a little wave of her hand… “Well, isn’t this a surprise.”
[Adrian] The kid’s hair is brushed down and held back neatly at the nape of his neck today, with the bits that escape tucked behind his ears, and he looks like any other twenty-something masters degree candidate. His jeans are just a hair too long, a hair too baggy, cinched with a belt, and over that there’s a black leather jacket that got zipped up the moment he and Moira walked out of the store. Below freezing is, after only a few weeks in town, still too cold for blood that took forever to acclimate to milder, damper climes. He was born in a land of desert and sun, after all, and lived there for his childhood and the beginning of his adolescence.
“I do know, yes,” he answers Marni. “We are all going to go inside somewhere to get a bite, yes?” He knows Moira texted Connor, and it’s a given to invite Marni along as well; even if he didn’t think her someone he may well grow to like (as far as one can get attached to Garou), it’s only polite. It’s cold outside, and there’s food in.
[Spirits] For the past hour, unknown to the pair of kin, two individuals had been tagging them. They weren’t obvious, a pair of men, young possibly in their late teens. A tall skinny shit with sandy blond hair that keeps falling into his big brown eyes and an adorable baby face that he likely gets teased about often.
His companion was shorter, bulkier – bound in baggy street clothes and an army jacket that hides the thick layer of muscle wrapping around his frame. His head covered by a black knit cap pulled low over his ears and eyes. He cracks his knuckles, cracks his neck, sending long strands of small braided tails that hang over his shoulder to writhe like jungle vines.
Boogaloo – the shorter of the two pauses by a shop, frowning as he watches the glass window, his eyes on the reflection of the kin. Nostrils flaring out as he breathes in deeply of the air. “We’s gonna hit it or what? We’ve been following thems for an hour now, Ratty.” He grumbles in a low growlish voice as if he were chewing stones when he talked.
The thin one shakes his head, his eyes alert – bright and attentive as they roamed over Adrian like a piece of steak. He hissed softly under his breath… “Paaaatience…. scrumptious will come. Just need to get them alone… softly sweet… smell so nice, oh so nice. Don’t know which to take first…. girl will be good to have yes indeed… mustn’t show alpha…. Never show alpha. He will take them from Boogaloo and Rattail.”
A snort, Boogaloo turns around, eyebrows lifting up as he casts his gaze to Marni, a slow shark’s grin spreading on his grisly face.
[Marni] [ I always feel like.. somebody’s waaaaaatchin me….. per+alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Spirits] (Whisper me with questions for rolls in here. I’m more likely to pay attention to this window than the chat room since conversation will go by too fast for me to follow)
to Adrian, Connor, Marni
[Spirits] There’s a creepy vibe that runs up Marni’s spine… it makes her feel dirty. And dirty for Gnawer is well… just baaaaad.
to Marni
[Connor] roger, Roger
to Adrian, Marni, Spirits
[Spirits] [Evil Rolls – nothing to see here!]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 5, 5 (Botch x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] [Evil Roll+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 2, 6, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Marni] Invite a gnawer out to eat – there’s no chance in hell she’s gonna say no. Especially since she has a fresh crisp tenspot in her pocket, which means she doesn’t have to beg Moira, Connor or Adrian to pay for her. A good morning all around.
Speaking of around – Boogaloo smiles a sharks grin, and her brows furrow slightly. There’s a creepy vibe that’s dancing up her spine, and she’s always been one to listen to her instincts… she turns, feeling dirty, dirty, dirty (and it has nothing to do with the fact she hasn’t seen a shower in a couple days!) and turns her head, looking for the source of the feeling – and finds the pair, one which smiles that not at all nice smile…
A soft sound to Connor alerts him too as she tips her head toward the watchers, though all she says is in reply to that lunch invite. “Lead on…” without looking away from the that dirtydirty grin.
[Spirits] [Willpower check]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6 (Failure at target 6)
[Connor] “Food sounds good to me!” says Connor with a smile. “I’m starvin!” He looks around the group, marvelling at how he keeps bumping into people like this. But his smile fades as Marni catches his eye and makes a small sound. Connor looks around as subtley as he can. He notes the watches, one short and stocky, the other tall and thin, both of them practically stinking the place up with the smell of evil.
Instantly Connor’s body language changes. Gone is the carefree Fianna, relaxed and smiling. He’s replaced by a surely character, tense and scowling. He has no intention of taking his senses off the pair. If either of them dares come near Moira…Connor’s Rage flickers at the thought and he fights it back down. Not yet. Not just yet.
[Adrian] He doesn’t know what the Garou are suddenly uptight about, doesn’t want to know. He simply links arms with Moira and lets the (potentially) bigger and stronger of their number stay between the kin and whatever it is that has their attention. “Let’s go, there’s an Ethiopian place just over here. Do you like ethnic food, or should we go for something simpler?”
Regardless, there’s time taken for a glance over his shoulder – okay, so he’d lied, he does want to know – and then it’s off for the nearest restaurant. Maybe being tucked away inside will help.
[Connor] [perception + alertness]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 3, 8 (Failure at target 6)
[Spirits] [Moira]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Adrian] [Per + Alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5 (Botch x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Thank Gaia for Marni! The gnawer’s gut is twisting, like she was having a really horrific day surfing the crimson wave. Moira seems to share Marni’s expression as the same gut-wrenching pain also stabs at her. Instincts – animal prey alertness telling her that something wasn’t right. Moira begins to move up to Connor, reaching out to touch his arm and effectively put herself in front of him.
The Fianna can’t seem to focus on his surroundings, nor Moira for that instance. His rage snaps at him like a cage beast. His eyes pinned to the stocky form of Boogaloo, like a wolf that now has to protect his territory as another dominant male came along to threaten it. There is only one alpha here. Boogaloo has turned his sights on the pair, mostly on Connor who seems to pose the biggest threat and he just grins, rather insanely. His eyebrows waggling at the Fianna as Boogaloo makes crude hand gestures towards Moira and then indicates his crotch.
Poor Adrian! It is love! NO Lust! At first sight. He glances around, notices the two men… notices Rattail – who has been staring – no gawking – at the pretty boy intently. There is a look of desire on Rattail’s face, and Adrian is the only thing in his world as hearts begin to pop around his boyish features. Adrian can feel a warm blush spread over his cheeks, he isn’t aware of anything else except the adorable sandy blond Rattail….
He should go get his phone number – Adrian will know the look of desire as Rattail is looking at him, itching to step forward – begins to start pacing towards the group, fingers curling up in a come-hither waggle to Adrian.
[Adrian] [WP!]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Marni] She may be the only who notices the real intent here – until she glances at and shares a look with Moira.
They know.
She nods, slightly, and then returns her eyes to the creepy pair, one gesturing for Adrian. She hooks her arm in the taller kin’s, and pulls him back, instead. “I think we should get you Kin inside. Now.”
A glance at Conner Do you trust me? and to the pair again. “I gotta feelin…”
Trust the lil Gnawer. She certainly trusts her instincts – in fact, as she looks at Rattail, who’s staring so intently at Adrian, she snorts, and tips her head and concentrates a moment. She ALWAYS goes with her gut. This is no different.
[-1gn – scent of sweet honey on rattail, wits+sub, 1 suxx needed.]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 7, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Spirits] (Adrian and Connor get a post out and I’ll see where we go from there. It may be into Initis, keep in mind you are in public in daylight)
to Adrian, Connor, Marni
[Adrian] It is most certainly not love – even distracted as he is by the tall and thin Rattail’s looks, he knows that. There are other people to whom he’s reasonably close, who he trusts to invite to his home rather than envisioning . . . well, where ever happens to be handy. Besides, right here, right now – with two Garou, even if they are Fianna and Bone Gnawer! – is hardly the time for this sort of indulgence. While the look does linger on the (gorgeous) boy for just a moment longer than is strictly necessary, he turns his attention back to Moira without giving any more indication that attention might be desired than that.
There’s Marni’s arm in his, and that helps. Oh, no, he needn’t be thinking about some stranger that way. “Inside would be good, yes,” he says, suddenly more nervous than he’s been in a while. Never mind Ethiopian – it’s into the nearest place with coffee and sandwiches.
[Connor] Connor’s face twists in a snarl as the stocky one makes a crude gesture but he’s had worse from jocks outside clubs before. Of course, none of that was directed at someone he cared about. Connor’s muscles bulge beneath his clothes as he feels the urge to change, march over to the little snot and tear his face off. But Marni’s looking at him, trying to signal something. To get the kin out of danger? Yeah, that seems like a good idea, but then I’m gonna rip that feckers arm off n beat him to death wi’the wet end. Connor looks to Moira, checks shes still safe, as though the two watchers could have done something to her from where they are. Then he looks back to Marni, satisfied to follow her lead, at least for now, he waits for her move. I trust yeh, Sticks.
[Spirits] Boogaloo and Rattail know that the charade is up. It was a now or never situation to snag the kin. They exchange glances. Boogaloo has to slap Rattail in the back of the head to get him to shake off the little hearty expression. The pair exchange looks and begin to spread out, circling from left to right.
A totem phone flickers… there’s more than one of them, they get a message across that there was gonna be some fun. Boogaloo seems to have little disregard for his surroundings, or the mortals within it. His form starting to bulk up a little as he is moving into a larger form, glabro at best. Rattails – still desiring Adrian seems to be doing the same thing.
There’s a sweet smell, like honey that begins to fill the air around Rattail, he makes a face. Glancing down as he brings his hands up and notices that there is something on his hands. He smells wonderfully sweet and the aroma starts to carry…..
(initiative rolls please)
[Marni] +6!
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Connor] + 5
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4 (Failure at target 6)
[Connor] (lol always forget to remove the diff)
[Spirits] [Boogaloo + 10]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Adrian] [+6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Spirits] [Rattail + 6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Spirits] [Moira 5+]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Spirits] Order:
16 Marni
16 Boogaloo/Rattail
15 Adrian/Moira
9 Connor
[Declares start with the lowest number: Connor, Adrian/Moira, Boogaloo/Rattail, Marni]
[Connor] [Switch to Glabro and knife the little fucker]
[Connor] [so yeah spend one rage to shift ((sorry))]
[Adrian] [get inside!]
[Spirits] [Moira’s retreating with Adrian]
[Spirits] [boogaloo: 1 rage spending rage…. wyrm hide
Split action1: Claws on Connor
Split action2: Claws on Connor]
[Rattail: going after the kin]
[Marni] [declare – 2 rage. 1 for shift glabro
1a get behind boogaloo!
1b stab with switchblade boogaloo
1r stab again! ]
[Spirits] (Marni roll)
[Marni] 1a: get behind
1b: Switchblade: dex+melee = 3+3 = 6 diff 4 – 1 for behind
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 4, 4, 5, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 3)
[Marni] Swtchblade dam: str+2+(suxx-1) = 4+5=9 [L]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Spirits] [Boogaloo’s Soak +wyrmhide]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 5, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] [Rattail going after Adrian]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 7 (Success x 3 at target 7) [WP]
[Adrian] [Changing to dodge, +1 diff]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 6, 6, 7, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 7)
[Spirits] [Boogaloo on Connor split1 action 9 -2 split]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Claw damage
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 5, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Connor] Soak: Stam + Glabro
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] (connor roll soak)
[Spirits] Second claw split on connor 9 -3 split
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 5, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Claw damage
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Connor] Soak again (like we did last summer)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Connor] Stab!
[Dex + Melee]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 5, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 4)
[Connor] Damage
[Str 3 + 2 Glabro + 4 suxx]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Spirits] (Marni rage action!)
[Marni] DIE MOFO! [STABBITY!]
Switchblade: dex+melee = 3+3 = 6 diff 4-1 for back attck
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 5, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 3)
[Marni] NO SOAK FOR YOU! DIIIIIIIIE!
Swtchblade dam: str+2+(suxx-1) = 4+3 [L]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 4, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Spirits] The pair of spirals has advanced on their prey, Boogaloo swinging both claws at Connor, wanting to tear his face open. He swings, left and then right, catching the claws of his right hand across Connor’s right shoulder in an upper swing, claws rend into the flesh, shred the protective layer of clothing and spill the first drops of blood onto virgin snow.
Rattail goes after the kin, leaping into the air tackle Adrian, but the tall Brit manages to gracefully step aside as he and Moira try to run.
Connor and Marni try to tackle the short muscled Spiral, but Boogaloo seems near impervious as the pair constantly tries to poke them with their knives. His skin thickening like rough hide… it only seems to irritate him as he seems set on tearing them apart.
“I’m skull-fuck yous little girlfriend, Fianna, once I’m done play witchu… then I’m gonna fuck this one sideways to hell and back…” an indication to Marni as he grins leeringly.
[Spirits] (Round 2 – new initiatives roll please)
[Adrian] [+6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Marni] 6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Connor] 5
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Spirits] Boogaloo 6+
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Spirits] Rattail 6+
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Spirits] Moira 5+
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Spirits] Order:
16 Boogaloo
12 Adrian
11 Marni/Connor/Moira
9 Rattail
[Spirits] [Rattail pissed now… tackling Adrian again…]
[Spirits] [Moira… looking for something to throw]
[Marni] [Reflexive Speech: “I don’t think so lil man – ya ain’t got the balls!”
– Also screw THIS: RARSMASHHISPO!
2 rage, 1 for insta hispo
1a: bite -2 boogaloo
1b: bite -3 +wp on boogaloo
1R: bite! Rattail]
[Connor] [1 Rage
1a) Claw
1b) Knife]
[Adrian] [dodge!]
[Spirits] Boogaloo
-1 rage to snap-shift Crinos.
Split action1: Claw Connor
Split Action 2: Claw Marni
Split action 3: bite Connor
[Spirits] First split claw on connor 8 -2 split
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 8, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Spirits] Claw Damage
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Spirits] Split claw on Marni 8 -4
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Spirits] Split 3 bite on connor 8 -4
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 4, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Spirits] Bite damage
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Connor] Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 5, 6, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Marni] Bite 1a: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-2 for split =5 d5-1 for flank
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 5, 8 (Success x 4 at target 4)
[Marni] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 3
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Marni] Bite 1b: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-3 for split =4 d5-1 for flank +wp
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 4, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 4) [WP]
[Marni] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 4
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Connor] [First action
Claw Dex 2 + Brawl 3 – 2]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 4, 6, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Connor] Damage
[Str 3 + 2 Glabro + 2 suxx]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Connor] [Second action
Knife: Dex 2 + Melee 3 – 3 split]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 4)
[Connor] Damage
[Str 3 + 2 Glabro + 1 suxx]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Adrian] [Dex + Dodge]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Spirits] (Rattail tackle Adrian)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Spirits] (rage actions)
[Marni] 1R Bite: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7 d5-1 for flank
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 6, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 4)
[Marni] OH COME ON! DIE MOFO!
Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 1
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 5, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Connor] Claw Boogabastard
[Dex 2 + Brawl 3]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Spirits] (walking connor through actions, be just a moment)
to Adrian, Connor, Marni
[Connor] Damage
[Str 3 + 2 Galbro]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 5, 6, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak [FAIL DAMN YOU!]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Spirits] (recapping)
[Spirits] The fighting has started to draw attention now – the moment that Boogaloo goes into full blown Crinos. He is a grisly looking monstrosity, he resembles an ugly bull mastiff/wolf crossbreed layered over three times with muscles. His batlike ears twitching atop his head as he flicks tail, dancing between Connor and Marni as he tries to take them both on. Claws and teeth continue to tear into Connor as he’s ready to bring the Fianna down, but Marni’s persistence is paying off, her jaws ripping and tearing away fur and muscle, opening deep aggravated wounds as Connor tries to help.
The little springy Gnawer – attacking like a Jack Russel Terrier on speed seems to be out-performing the Galliard.
His pack mate, Rattail, seemed determined to get a hold of Adrian, but the kinfolk manage to get out of the way. People coming out of the cafe behind them scream, the delirium taking a grip on reality. Moira frowns – looking at the area around them as people begin to flee. One employee locks the door to the cafe so the kin can’t get inside.
The totem link flares between the two spirals. Boogaloo screaming at Rattail for help. The sandy blond Spiral finally tears his attentions away from the skin, wiry frame twisting up into a cruel mirror image of a once-Gaian Silver Fang and starts to turn on Marni at the order of his beta.
[Spirits] (Roll initiative)
[Connor] + 5
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 8
[Marni] Inits! Hispo +8
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Spirits] Rattail +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Spirits] Boogaloo +7
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4
[Spirits] [Rats!! +3
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Spirits] Moira 5+
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 8
[Spirits] Alpha +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1
[Adrian] [+6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Spirits] Order
17 Marni
15 Adrian
13 Moira/Connor
7 Alpha – coming onto the scene
9 Rats
1 Rattail falls to bottom of line, swarmed by rats.
[Spirits] [Moira Split actions 1 Get to Connor / healing]
[Alpha appearing on the scene]
[Rattail is swarmed by a pack of Rats popping out of the snow and thusly ineffective this round since he’s swatting at them. ]
[Spirits] Boogaloo goes after Connor and Moira. attacking Marni
[Connor] [Spend 2 Rage
R1 Reflexive – move to Crinos
1a) Bite Boogaloo
R2) Bite him again]
[Marni] [OH COME ON! -1 rage
1a: bite Boogaloo
1b: bite Boogaloo
1R: BITE Boogaloo (or Rattail if he’s dead – please to be dead?)]
[Marni] RAAAAAAAR!
Bite 1a: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-2 for split =5 d5 -1 for flank.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 4)
[Marni] Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 2
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Marni] This is RIDICULOUS! DIE!
Bite 1b: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7-3 for split =4 d5-1 for flank
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 3, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 4)
[Marni] DIE MOFO!
Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 4, 4, 6, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo Rage Back : He doesn’t want to Liiiiiiiive!!!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 8) [WP]
[Adrian] [woo, no one’s attacking! Dragging Moira inside and away from bad things doesn’t require dice, does it?]
[Connor] Bite
[Dex 3 + Brawl 3 – 1 Wound + WP]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 5 (Success x 1 at target 5) [WP]
[Connor] Damage
[Str 7 + 1 bite]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 7, 7, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Spirits] (Connor HOLD ON DICE)
[Spirits] Boogaloo Soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 3, 7, 7, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Spirits] Moira gets to Connor Mother’s Touch -3 dice
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 5, 5, 8 (Success x 4 at target 1) [WP]
[Spirits] Boogaloo on Marni flipping his shit as he’s frenzy. 8 -5 wound penalty
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 6, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Spirits] claw damage
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 8 (Failure at target 6)
[Spirits] [Alpha’s on scene, Rattail Swarmed. Rage Actions]
[Marni] You can DIE NOW.
Bite: Dex+brawl+hispo = 3+2+2= 7 d5
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Marni] DIE MOFO!
Dam: Str+hispo+bite = 2+3+2+ (suxx-1) = 7 + 4
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Spirits] Boogaloo soak
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Spirits] [Boogaloo x_X]
[Connor] Bite on Alpha
[2 Dex + 1 Crinos + 3 Brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Connor] Damage
[Str 3 + Crinos 4 + Bite 1 + 4 suxx]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Connor] Re-roll
Damage
[Str 3 + Crinos 4 + Bite 1 + 4 suxx]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Spirits] Alpha soak
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Spirits] (recapping!)
[Spirits] Blood paints the snow-covered ground that drifts in small flurries around the combatants. The humans – witnesses to the horrific scene have fled. Shop doors are going into lockdown as people are getting the fuck out of dodge.
The Gaians dance around Boogaloo, finally taking on war forms as wicked claws and teeth begin to carve open the Spiral like a Thanksgiving Day turkey, Marni hitting home on the killing blow that sends him over the threshold of death and back again as the Spiral burst into a frenzying determined to take the Gnawer down with his last dying breath to no avail… the tenacious Gnawer gets in the last dig and renders Boogaloo lifeless with a snapping of her jaw, tearing away meaty chunks of foul flesh that sullies her mouth with the coppery taste of his bittersweet victory.
The Alpha – fool that he is – comes to late to be of any help. Rattail continues to writhe on the ground, gnashing and biting at himself and at the rats that begin to swarm over him. Little black bodies pour from the snow, out of a nearby sewer grate and literally cover the Spiral as the they chew him to death.
Connor – turns on the homid formed Alpha before he has a chance to treat. He barrels down on the lead spiral with a snapping of jaw, rage fueling his actions the last of his fires spent as he brought powerful down on the human’s shoulder and tears an arm away from its socket – cloth and all. The Alpha falls into a state of shock, his remaining hand coming up to grab at his torn shoulder, blood leaking through his fingers as his body starts to writhe…. he’s still alive.
Moira – for her part managed to sneak in and heal the fianna. She scrambles away, back out of the line of fire to Adrian who has stood back the entire time out of harm’s way.
[Spirits] (free posting, combat over for now)
[Marni] Boogaloo finally falls, and falls for good. Marni stands over him, mottled patchwork fur covered hispo snarling as she just dares him to get up again. Go on. Do it DO IT.. and when he doesn’t, she gives herself a vicious shake, blood and gore flinging from her fur, her jaws as she turns to see who is left. Connor stands over the Alpha, and she snarls once, in High Tongue. “Finish him.”
Then she moves to where the rats are doing a number on Rattail, and pushes enough away to see his head, his face, and then with a carefully placed massive paw, snaps his neck with a stomp. Just to be sure.
[Adrian] Adrian’s no dummy – he’s been watching (except for the rats chewing on the pretty boy he’d considered, however briefly – it’s more than he can handle to watch even an apparently bad guy get eaten alive) as things go on. He saw Moira go to Connor, debated stopping her, but knows this is what she’s here for – she’s to help them when they can’t help themselves. Which is nice, really – all Adrian is is a walking history. Which also has its uses, or will at some point, when there are only people like him to tell the stories, to speculate at what might have happened, to find the things that are lost. At any rate, Moira comes back to him, and he wraps an arm around her, lending her some of his warmth.
He’s trying for comfort when he says, “I think tea and ‘P.S. I Love You’ might do us better than lunch right now. We should go . . .”
In case there are more. Three isn’t much of a pack, and it’s better safe than sorry.
[Connor] Connor pants heavily. His breath, hot with Rage and blood, rises in heady plumes. The arm he ripped free of the newcomer lies discarded on the ground. Blood and gore is thick on the fur around his mouth. His heart hammers. His body aches with the ghosts of wounds healed for him by Moira’s Gift. Moira. He turns to look at her, calming slowly. She is safe.
But how long for.
He glances at Marni to see if she’s hurt and spares Adrian a similar glance. Satisfied he turns back to the remaining Spirals, his gaze fierce again. Marni tells him to finish the Alpha but he needs no such order. He looks down at the striken creature, pathetic in it’s maimed Homid form. It’s breath comes quickly, hastened by pain. It’s face is pale with shock and bloodloss. Connor feels not a shred of pity. Because of this creature, this abomination, Moira came under threat.
With a snarl, Connor lashes out and tears out the Spiral’s throat, hurling it aside and flicking the foul blood from his fingers.
[Spirits] It is Moira that is going to Adrian to see if he is alright. She looks him over, padding the pretty boy down for any signs of damage. She looks a little panicked but not because of the carnage. Her resolve seems to hold intact as she looks back over her shoulder, even with Adrian pulling the arm around her. She refuses to leave and just stands there shivering in the cold.
The bodies lay around them, three spirals dead. One gnawed on. The rats start to disappear as quickly as they came, scurrying back to the sewers as if they had never been there, leaving only little bloody prints in the snow. Boogaloo and Rattail begin to revert down to mangled human forms.
[Marni] She gives herself another shake, and with a huffed breath, thanks the rats as they scurry away again. If not for them…
Then she’s melting down into her homid skin, her slender form covered in blood, but none of it her own. It stains her mouth, her neck, her chest – but all things considered, it’s much better than the alternative. “Who has a car? Connor, lift that manhole cover will ya – we can stash the bodies there until we can dispose of them properly. Adrian, Moira – see a hose anywhere? Gotta get rid of the blood – the crowd won’t stay away long…”
And she reaches down, grabs rattail, and drags him toward the manhole in question. It’s not the best solution – but it is the middle of the damn day.
[Adrian] Moira refuses to leave (and it’s a good thing, all told) Marni’s asking about a car, “Haven’t got my American license yet,” and clean up, and he eyes the nearest hydrant, trying to guess if its spray would reach just right. He decides its worth a try, at any rate, and moves to help Connor with Bugaloo as he says, “If we break the hydrant, it’ll spray away the blood. Will make a mess of the road, but . . .”
He shrugs. Sometimes, it can’t be helped.
[Connor] Connor moves quickly under Marni’s instruction, calming alot faster now he’s dealt the killing blow. He grunts in response to her order and he moves the nearest manhole, sheathing his knife hefting the heavy lid out of the ground and tossing it aside for now before dragging the slim form of Alpha and letting it slide down the hole. He tosses the arm and the ripped out hunk of flesh that used to be a throat down after it.
He moves then to Rattail, hefting him onto a shoulder before taking Boogaloo by the arm and with Adrian’s help moving them both to the hole. Before dropping Boogaloo in he glares at the corpse.
“You ain’t gonna skull-fuck anythin,” he says in the High Tongue. “Now the maggots skull-fuck you.” With that he casts the body into the hole. That done, he shrinks down into his Homid form, looking at his bloody and tattered shirt. With a sigh he pulls off the remaining shreds of jacket and t-shirt, leaving him topless in the snow.
“Try the hydrant,” he says. “It’ll be better than nothin.”
[Marni] She nods slightly – but stops Connor before he shifts down – or tries. “We’ll do that – use what we got and all. Hit the Hydrant before you shift…” She grins at him sheepishly. “I’m tapped out.”
And she is. There’s no thrum of rage under her skin, and she shivers without the core heat that usually keeps her warm.
[Spirits] “We won’t find a hose around here, I don’t think…” She replies to Marni, her eyes sweeping across the mess with a shake of her head. She puts a hand over her mouth to block out the smell, her stomach rolling over. She’s lost an appetite after seeing this. The shopping bag bangs against her side helplessly with a crinkle of brown paper.
She looks around, glancing off at the locked cafe doors, trying to see if anyone was going to come take a look. Not spying anyone just yet, she lets Marni, Connor and Adrian deal with the removal of the bodies. “I don’t drive at all that’s worthless.”
Her eyes fall to Connor, watching his movements, satisfied that she doesn’t see a wound on him and breathes out a sigh of relief.
[Spirits] The fire hydrant looks like it would take a little more than human strength to rip it open and get the water to spray out…. most of it frozen over from the cold temperatures.
[Connor] Connor nods to Marni and shifts again. With a grunt of effort and a strain of muscle, he breaks open the hydrant. That done, and after splashing some of the blood from his fur, he becomes human once more.
“I’m not surprised,” he says to Marni. “Yeh fought like the devil. Truth be told, yer the hero here.” There’s no bitterness in his words, just a genuine smile for his friend.
“We should get out of here, eh?” he says to all of them. “Delerium or no, someone’s bound t’have called the cops.”
to Adrian, Marni, Spirits
[Connor] ((Gah, didnt mean to do that…and not sure how I did it…))
to Adrian, Marni, Spirits
[Spirits] Connor
Tue 4:26 pm
to Adrian, Marni, Spirits
Connor nods to Marni and shifts again. With a grunt of effort and a strain of muscle, he breaks open the hydrant. That done, and after splashing some of the blood from his fur, he becomes human once more.
“I’m not surprised,” he says to Marni. “Yeh fought like the devil. Truth be told, yer the hero here.” There’s no bitterness in his words, just a genuine smile for his friend.
“We should get out of here, eh?” he says to all of them. “Delerium or no, someone’s bound t’have called the cops.”
[Spirits] (Should start wrapping it up… need to go for a little bit.)
to Adrian, Marni
[Marni] She wrinkles her nose, and watches as the water starts to wash away the blood, soaking the snow and sending it for the drains – maybe it’ll help wash the bodies farther away too. She winks at Connor. “Go big or go home, right? Reminds me – I got someone I want you to meet. We’re forming a pack. If ya hit it off with him, maybe we can see bout pulling you in too.”
A pause.
“But for now? time to disperse – I’ma take to the sewers, make sure the bodies get away from here a bit, until I can take better care of them later. Make sure Moira and Adrian get home?” She nudges Connor with her shoulder as she moves past, grinning, always. Then with a wave for them all – she makes for that same manhole cover, having no qualms at all for slipping underground into the sewers.
[Adrian] “I’ll text Ethan, give him warning. I can’t imagine this won’t end up on his desk.” Who knows the Gnawer kin (other than Marni) and who doesn’t, he has no idea, but at least they know it’s covered. “Come on, Moira. We’ll share a cab, and you can keep me company at my flat, or I’ll keep you company at mine.”
Either way, he’s making sure she gets where she wants to go safely – there’s not a question there. It’s just where she wants to be.
[Spirits] However they disperse. Connor going with the kinfolk, they all manage to leave, hopefully not noticed by anyone.
[Marni] [Yay! thanks for STing, Paws!]
[Spirits] [wraaaaap!]
[Adrian] ((Yeah, thanks!))