[Karl Holds the Line] Karl is out of options. Even before Moira is stirring, he reaches into the pocket of her coat, pulling out her cellphone. It only takes him a moment to search for the name he is looking for in the phones contact list. He just hits the call button when Moira rolls forward. One strong hand goes to her shoulder to steady her as she coughs up the filthy street water, even as the other presses the phone to his ear.
“It’s alright Moira… You are safe.”
His words meant to be comforting. His voice is cold and hard. He can’t help it. Then he is speaking into the phone.
“Bai, Its Karl. I need your help. I think…. Yeah, its Moira. No… some spirals attacked her and another kin. We killed them and… Yes, they are both hurt, in need of healing. Yeah. We are about 10 blocks from the overpass that borders china town, just due south….. Yeah. Thank you.”
He hangs up the phone, placing it on the hood of the car before glancing over at Bone-Grinder.
“A theurge is on his way.”
[Bone-Grinder] He looks back to Karl then smiles.”Or we can stuff the things down a manhole or something and come back for them later.”He says with a shrug before looking back down at the woman. A smile took shape and he shrugged his shoulders in response to her question.
“Simon, who the fuck are you?”He asks her in his own charming manner. He was dripping blood from what looked like a vicious wound, this was beginning to be a trend for poor Simon. He was spending more time critically wounded than not lately. He really needed to either learn some means of suppressing the pain or at least finding someone who can provide him with the necessary supplies to do it himself.
His attention turns his attention back to Karl.”Does this theurge have a car? Cause right now I couldn’t care if he was a one eyed retard with a hair lip… As long as he had a car…”He pauses a second.”As long as he had a car.”
[Jotun] The rain continues to beat down at a steady pace. Lightning illuminates the sky in violet-white hues, flashing over their heads as it lights up the dingy alley and intersection that had played out as their arena tonight. Karl finds Moira’s phone, manages to put a call in the local Theurge Elder for aid. Moira doesn’t say anything, she remains curled up with her knees drawn until she starts to regain her bearings. At the sound of Karl’s voice, Moira looks up at him, brows furrowed. She grimaces in discomfort, nodding her head to him.
The Blond seems more lively than Moira at the moment, despite the throbbing ache in her head. She blinks at Simon’s charming mannerisms and closes her eyes. “Jenny…” a wince, her hand lifts up to touch the side of her head, drawing it back down to stare at the blood smeared across her palm, she just stares at it.
Moira blinks as well, reaching out to steady a hand on Karl’s shoulder, gripping a hold of his coat as she tries to pull herself up to stand. Wavering on her feet, the Fenrir kinswoman leans back against the car, looking around as her eyes widen slowly. “What did we hit?”
[Karl Holds the Line] [Sta + primal urge]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Karl Holds the Line] Karl sighs, his free hand rummaging around the leather satchel. A side pocket opened, and he pulls out a recyclable plastic bottle. At one point it had probably contained soda of some sort, but the labels were all washed away, and instead the transparent bottle that seems to hold water just has a strange mark on it, painted with some brown/red color. He unscrews the cork, letting the red piece of plastic fall to the ground.
As Moira gets to her feet, Karl stands with her. He does not glance back towards the large white body.
“A spiral pack.”
Stated, as if it were the most natural thing in the world. Karl takes a second to upend the bottle of water, chugging it all down quickly, then leaves the empty bottle on the hood of the car next to the phone, even as the spiritually enhanced water revitalizes his own spirit.
“Don’t move Moira.”
Karl turns from her then, walking towards the Large white corpse. As he does, his own body changes. Joints crackle and bone pop as he assumes the crinos form. Midnight black fur slick with water already. Reaching down, the Rotagar grabs the white furred, headless corpse and drags it into the alley, away from the street. He shifts down again. Taking your birth form always easy, requiring no effort. He goes back, lifting the massive crinos head by one of the large white (blood stained) ears, and carries it to where he left the body in a deep shadow, placing it ontop.
Only then does he return to Moira.
[Bone-Grinder] He looks down at Jenny.”Well I am Simon and we need you to not die on us right now. I mean apparently we risked our lives to rescue you two so that would be really fuckin’ ungrateful of you two to die on us without so much as a thank you.”He adds with a bit of a smile down to Jenny.
He then looks up at Moira when she begins to stand. He shrugs his shoulders in response to her question.”I’m guessing you hit road block over there…”He says with a gesture towards Jotun’s corpse.”Fucker hits like a truck. Well he used to anyway.”He then nods at the assertion from Karl.”Yeah one got away… One always fucking gets away! Why does one always get away? Mila had the same problem a couple weeks back! Hmm, I mean I guess I wouldn’t hold it against ’em. I’d run if I saw me coming too.”He laughs then looks back down at Jenny.
“Hey you’re still alive right?”He asks making sure the little kin didn’t die on him in the last few seconds.
[Jotun] “I don’t remember seeing a pack of Spirals…” Moira says absently, her eyes sliding to the side to watch Karl. She turns, catching a hold of the car’s frame to steady herself as she moves to suddenly, the world spinning all around her. Karl moves off to grab a hold of the Spiral’s body, dragging it and the head back into the alley with them. She looks to the things that start to collect on the roof of the car, seeing her phone there. She reached for it, tucking it back into her coat pocket. A hand lifts up to run across Moira’s face pushing the wet tendrils of hair from her eyes.
She looks across the crunched in hood of the car to Simon, recognizing him as he stands near Jenny. “Jenny, are you alright over there?”
The Blond looks up again, the initial shock still running through her. She looks up towards Moira’s voice, frowning now, her breath rolling out in a sigh. “Yes, I think so, but –” she takes a long, mournful look at her car, “They wrecked the damn Beemer.” Jenny doesn’t expect help from Simon as she uses the wall to brace herself, pushing herself up to stand. She wavers on her own feet, leaning back against the wall to steady herself, obviously worse off than Moira at the moment. “We aren’t going to die.” Jenny snorts softly at Simon, “But thanks… for the help, Superman.”
[Bai Chou] Bai eventually arrived. He slipped from the shadows, a satchel hanging from his shoulder. It would be obvious to Moira that the Uktena was less than pleased. He -loved- walking in the rain…near midnight..due to a phone call….from her ‘mate’. Oh wait….strike the walking bit. He had to run…because people were hurt. The Theurge glanced around, taking stock of the situation before he moved over..he glanced at Simon…before the eyes dismissed him and took stock of the car and the two kin.
“…so someone please explain to me what happened and who it is that’s exactly needing aid before they die?”
[Karl Holds the Line] He smirks over at Simon.
“I don’t know. I was too busy saving your scrawny hide from that beast of a spiral to bother about a coward that left his pack to die…”
But he does offer the other a grin then. It is a grim face, but there is at least a trace of humor in it now.
“We killed three, and these two are safe, and alive. I do not think anyone could have asked for more at this point. As for the last one… I really wish I had the ability to track my prey with the aid of spirits. I would make sure it knew of my displeasure for what it tried to do here.”
Tried, and failed. But it had been pure luck that the Rotagar had stumbled onto this gathering. Pure luck that Simon had been close nough to help. Gaia’s own blessing that the spirals had aggravated the water elemental to the point where it had forced them from whatever their purpose with the kin were.
He stands next to Moira then, looking at her.
“Bai is on his way. I know he cant heal, but I am hoping he can call on a spirit that can. Once he gets here, I am going to hunt down a cab and get you two away safely with him, understand? I will follow as soon as we clear the scene here.”
[Karl Holds the Line] ((Change that last too the following))
He stands next to Moira then, looking at her.
“Bai is here. I am going to hunt down a cab and get you two away safely with him, understand? I will follow as soon as we clear the scene here.”
And the Fenrir looks to Bai, glacial blue gaze fixing on the diminutive theurge.
“spirals attacked the girls. We killed three, chased the fourth off. We need to get rid of the body, but I would not leave them alone, hurt as they are. Can you get them to Moira’s place or to your shop? I will be there as soon as we clean the mess up here.”
Two bodies in the alley, another hidden in shadows, a decapitated metis body, pure white, with four huge arms.
[Jotun] Moira shakes her head at Karl, arms folding across her chest as she runs her hands over her arms. She looks at the decapitated head of the white metis that stares at them with vacant eyes. “No.” She looks across the car at Jenny, at Simon, and then back to Karl.
“You need to leave the scene. We -” a gesture to herself and the Blond kin, “We can wait for Bai. No Spirits…” her words are cut off as Moira looks up at the Uktena slipping out of the shadows. There was nearly a foot of water left that still floods the alley, it reeks of blood. There was a decapitated body of a four-armed white crinos laying near the car. It’s head on the crunched in hood. Behind them, the spray of the fire hydrant mingles with the wash of rain. Somewhere down the other end of the body were two more dead bodies… a broken shop window.
The Blond kin touches a hand to the side of her head again, she seems to be the only one to have suffered an injury from accident itself. The Shadow Lord still carried his wounds… but he’s not seeing a car anywhere and all they were doing was standing around.
[Jotun] (other end of the alley… not body)
[Bone-Grinder] He laughs at Moira’s comment.”Yeah by the time we got here the place was under twelve feet of water. I’m guessing you two were too busy drowning to notice.”He then looks back down to Jenny when Moira asks about her.
“Good cause I can’t offer you much more than my moral support. My job is usually not to help folks out.”He chuckles a little and actually smiled back when she called him Superman.”Better not or someone will be pissed off at us for letting you.”
He then hears Karl’s comment before smiling and turning his head to look at karl.”Scuse me? You wanna rewind time and let you get hit by that thing instead? I did my job… I drew it’s fire and let you finish the job. I don’t think it woulda mattered who got hit by that thing one of us was going down. You’re just lucky I was so nice about it and let you get all the glory.”He adds in response with a smile on his face.
When he hears Bai he looks up. Simon was soaked in his own blood but he was up and active, learning to adjust to living life in constant pain was part of what being a full moon was all about. He was alive… Dripping blood or not he was alive and week to week that was all a full moon could ask for.”Yeah I think Jenny here is dying or something. Bump on the head probably an Aneurysm or something medical and important!”He adds in response to the man before standing up and looking back to Karl.
“We gotta go after the thing sometime. He’s gonna remember us, we can’t have that…”
[Bai Chou] Bai looked over the scene…he glanced around at the bodies. He even listened to what Moira said. The Uktena then moved over to the kin that he presumed to be Jenny, inspecting her for a moment before speaking.
“…Karl…Moira’s right…you two being here will only draw attention. The cops will show up and we can’t exactly just ditch the vehicle. I’m not injured…I can easily say I came by and saw the scene.”
He glanced at the girls and then back to them.
“So…make like garbage boys…get the bodies out of here. The water will clean up most of the blood before emergency services get here. I’ll stay with them, make sure they’re both stable.”
Bai doesn’t give it as a question…not even a request. It was an order from a Fostern.
[Bai Chou] Perception 4 (Detail Oriented) + Medicine 2
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 9 (Failure at target 6)
[Bai Chou] Perception 4 (Detail Oriented) + Medicine 2 (Trying again, +1 diff)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 7) [WP]
[Bai Chou] “…besides…the girl’s not going anywhere…she’s got a concussion and moving her around is only going to get worse.”
Bai said after a moment, his fingers moving her hair back…inspecting the cut…as well as flashing a small little flashlight into Jenny’s eyes after checking dilation, even her pulse…
[Karl Holds the Line] Karl looks unsure for a moment, then nods, looking to Bai, then to Moira.
“Let me know where you go. Ill meet you there.”
The Rotagar is unhurt, and the blood on his dark clothes barely visible even as it is washing away with the constant rain.
“Bone-Grinder, you heard the man. Lets go. Get the two small guys. I got the metis.”
And with that, Karl is moving away from Moira, slowly shifting to Crinos. The Rotagar grabs the large body, hefting it up. Its bulk makes it hard to carry, but he gets it up, as well as its head. He waits for simon to do as instructed, then heads of into the dark shadows of the nearby alley, to do whatever Garou need to do with bodies such as this. Its best not to think of really. Who knows how mnay pieces it will have to be in to fit down a manhole after all.
[Jotun] Jenny looks at Bai Chou as he starts to check her over. She blinks, wincing in pain and tries to shy away from the flashlight. She makes a face, her eyes skimming across the distance to focus on Moira. The Fenrir kinswoman exchanges glances with the Blond kin, trying to smile at her reassuringly. She sighs, air expelling from her lungs as she watches Karl. Her eyes never wavering from his Crinos form. She crinkles up her nose, biting down on her bottom lip as she moves to sit back down inside the car in the passenger seat. The door to that side of the vehicle lay on the ground, ripped off and discarded like it was nothing.
Moira leans forward, elbows pressing into her knees as she covers her hands with her face. “She needs a hospital, Bai,” Moira calls over to the Uktena.
[Bone-Grinder] He gives a roll of his eyes then shakes his head. “Yeah because Metis corpses can just be put in the Metis be gone machine and poofed! I totally forgot about that.”He taps his tongue against his canine then shrugged his shoulders and stood moving down the alley in Karl’s direction. Once more he could taste the blood of a traitor upon his tongue and it gave him no comfort.
He paused to scoop up one of the corpses and toss it over his shoulder, before moving to follow Karl’s lead. With a corpse over his shoulder he heads down the alley and into the darkness. They needed to get the fuck outta here ASAP that much was true anyway. Though the largest concern was the giant Metis corpse.
[Bone-Grinder] Changing his mind Simon drops one of the corpses and grasps both by the ankles, using the high water level to his advantage so he can drag both corpses easily through the blood soaked water and off into the darkness so they don’t have to make multiple trips.
[Bai Chou] “I know…if you got a cellphone or something…call 911. If not, I’ll go find a payphone real quick…”
Bai said as he inspected the scene…looking for any detail out of place that might indicate they hit something else other than a fire hydrant…constructing the scene in his head and how it looked currently while the two moved the corpses. He wondered if he should extort some chiminage from Karl later for this little incident. Something to consider.
[Marni] As Karl and Simon disappears into the alley, there is a distinctive POP and a dirty, STARVING, curly haired and curvy gnawer spills into the shadows from the other side. “Jesus, I was GONNA take a SHOWER.. can’t a girl do ANYTHING without having to run all the way across town to save your ass….”
…oh. Damn. They’re all dead already. She snorts and crosses her arms and arches a brow up at Karl’s Crinos form. “AND you didn’t leave ANY fun for me?! Come on Karl!”
[Karl Holds the Line] The massive midnight black crinos stops as Marni appears, and he growls at her. The high tongue coming easy to the war-form.
~Sorry to disappoint. Next time, Ill make sure to be the one without a head so you can gloat of having to come save me…~
But there is no real ire in his tone. Simply an anger fueled by his immense rage, still burning like a wild-fire after he discovered Moira was injured. A brief touch of minds as hummingbird speeds their thoughts and mirrors emotion between the packmates.
[Karl Holds the Line] The totem flares to life between them.
~Moira is back a little ways. Please stay with her. I do not trust Bai Chou to keep me informed. I hate having to leave her.~
Marni would perhaps understand that feeling all to well.
~I’ll make it up to you later, I promise.~
He did not like having to ask such a favor from even his packmate, but the truth was that Bai were right. Disposing of the bodies had to come first, before anyone showed up at the scene.
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[Jotun] The only problem they may have trouble explaining was the passenger door being ripped off its hinges, but other than that. The Uktena tries to construct the way it could have happened. He can see where the car would have hydroplaned into the fire hydrant, possibly something had jumped out at them, but he isn’t too sure.
Moira grimaces as she straightens in the seat, digging through her coat pockets for her phone again, she pulls it out and starts to dial up the local emergency. A glance through the windshield and she looks over at Jenny, biting her lip.
[Bone-Grinder] He smiles at the sight of Marni. She fed him before that makes her good people.”Fun for you? Please this fucker took all the fun for himself. Jumping from Rooftops, killing four armed monsters while other people are getting their skulls ripped off their bodies. Next time we run into a pack of spirals you get to play decoy and I get to hog all the glory!”He adds with a smile before looking back to Marni.
“You can help us get rid of these things. I mean I don’t think anyone would exactly complain.”He looks at the legs of the corpses he is dragging then holds one out for Marni.”Grab a leg! It’ll be fun.”
[Karl Holds the Line] ~What is the matter Bone-Grinder? That scratch got the better of you? I did not think a pair of bodies would slow down a son of Twister.~
Mocking the Shadow Lord. The wound on Simon is grave, but far from what it had been not long ago. The midnight crinos huffs at Simon, and then starts to move again.
~Stop trying to push your work on someone else Full Moon.~
[Marni] She arches a brow at Karl, and there flashes something in her gaze as they communicate farther, then she grins at Simon.
“I’ll help – but you carry. Gonna Sweet Honey them. The Horde will dispose of them nicely. But ya better get em tore up and dumped fast, else ya get some on you too. Ready?
Scent of Sweet Honey on ze bad guys: -1gn, Wits+subterfuge = 3+2= 5 d6 – 1 suxx needed, lasts 1 hour per suxx.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6) [WP]
[Bai Chou] Bai glanced around…eying the door…then looking around….eying for something solid that could rip a door off its hinges…calculating in his head…a scenario of the car hydro planing…the hydrant first…maybe the door hadn’t been shut firmly…so the impact…it flies open…the car spins a little…the door latches onto a lightpost…a lamp…newspaper bin….rips it off…
His eyes open as he looked along the street for something that could work..
[Marni] Alright. Get them dumped fast – sending for the Horde to help. Wouldn’t want ya to get bit…
A smirk, and she’s off toward the car, to check on Moira.
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[Marni] A smug grin as she winks at Simon, and touches Karl’s shoulder on her way by. “Get em dumped quick. I hear’em coming. I’ll check on everyone else…”
[Bai Chou] Perception 4 (Detail Oriented) + Investigation 2
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Bone-Grinder] He smirks back at Karl and shakes his head.”My job is to kill ’em… No one ever said anything in the brochure about dancing with ’em after I killed ’em.”He says with a bit of a laugh.”Though I understand they did that pretty well when they were alive.”He chuckles to himself and reaches down to grab the ankle he had dropped.
“Fine fine… I’ll do all the dirty work again.”He sighs to himself as they slip further down the alleyway.
[Jotun] The Uktena continues to search for clues, trying to find something that can be used to help fabricate a story. He can see the pair of kin in his peripheral, Moira has climbed out of the car to stand up. She makes her way over to the blond kin, huddling up next to Jenny as she places a comforting arm around her shoulders. They lean against each other, Jenny’s eyes closing as they wait for the Police to arrive.
Jenny glances at Moira with a raised brow, nudging her gently, “You alright, Moira, you look pale.” The dark haired kin shake her head, feigning a small smile, “I’ll be fine. Just shaken up and I always look pale.” She snorts, lifting her head up to look off in the direction that the Garou have vanished in.
Bai Chou will eventually locate something that might serve the purposes of tearing the door off, a lamp post in need of bending to make it look right, but it would have to do.
[Bai Chou] Bai quickly moved towards the lamppost…he cocks his head, looking at the angle…before he quickly shifted to Crinos to give it just a little bit of muscle work…sizing up where the best place was to bend it inwards.
[Bai Chou] Str 2 + Crinos 4 + Brawl 1
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6) [WP]
[Karl Holds the Line] ~You whine and complain way to much Bone-Grinder. If I didn’t know you were one hell of a warrior, I would think you were a Fang.~
The midnight black crinos motions for a nearby dumpster.
~Put them in there. The critters will handle the rest of them. Help me dismember this thing. We need to get it down into the sewers so I can cleanse it and carry it away quietly.~
The horde would not be able to do much about the Metis bones after all. The body was simply to big. For the two homids however, it was the best possible solution to the problem.
With simons help, after dumping the two smaller corpses, they tear the metis body apart. Sickening sounds as the thing is wishboned not once, but enough to leave it in pieces large enough to press down a manhole. Karl follows the body down after, to cleanse it and carry it off through the sewers.
[Karl Holds the Line] ~I owe you another dinner. Real BBQ style this time.~
She can feel the gratitude in her packmate. He really does not seem to have much trust in the Uktna theurge.
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[Marni] She follows Karl’s directions, until she see’s Bai, and then searches until she finds the kinfolk. Marni isn’t… well. She doesn’t smell very nice at the moment, her intent on a shower having been disrupted, and the stains on her clothes have stains themselves, but sometimes, even a low down dirty [honorlesstheifbitchwhore] gnawer is the best thing ever.
She chuckles at something unheard, and then grins at the kin. “Hey. Someone said you needed rescued, but I told them that MY pack’s kin could take on anything and not even flinch. But still, here I am to check in…”
Incorrigible, Marni.
[Marni] oooooooooooh bbq…. with corn on the cob and potatoes and ribs melting off the bone and enough sauce to kill a horse and… and…and…
Shocker. Marni’s hungry.
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[Jotun] It takes some time to gauge the lamppost, looking it over several times until the Uktena can gauge a nice sweet spot and applies a bit of Crinos strength to it. He gets it bent as best as it will go without overdoing it. The sounds of sirens ring in the distance. The rain continues to beat down, only slightly letting up after several minutes. The pair of kinfolk continue to lean on each other. Jenny wrapping an arm around Moira’s shoulders.
Marni comes back to find the kinfolk still shaken, but seeming alright as they stand and lean on each other. Moira shakes her head at the Gnawer, smirking a little. “You should go. I think we’ll be alright, I am going to get Jenny to the hospital.”
[Karl Holds the Line] (ok guys, im really sorry but i am falling alseep here! i need to get to bed. Thanks for the scene and for coming in to help with the clean up and evrythig guys! And thank you for Sting madly when tired Paws, was oodles of fun!))
[Bai Chou] Bai quickly shifts back down, moving back over towards the car…he gives a glance towards Marni and then back towards the sound of the sirens…but for the most part…everything looked good.
[Marni] She arches a brow, and chuckles. “I’ll be close by. Orders, ya know.” She winks at Moira, and melts back into the shadows and out of the way, so that she won’t be anywhere in sight when the police arrive – but true to her promise, she’ll be close by right up until Moira gets home.
[Karl Holds the Line] (Rite of cleansing before I go!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Jotun] (Uhm, who all is going to chase the ambulance to the hospital?)
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[Marni] Marni has orders to keep watch over Moira, so she’ll be around – but unseen/unheard/etc. :)
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[Jotun] (thanks for the scene folks! I am logging out!)
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