Rory | Organized? [Multiple]

Simon Zahradnik

Simon had dragged Ki out after contacting Adara and giving her the location. Somewhere that was away from the streets. Somewhere that would be easy to escape and somewhere that had lots and lots of cover.

He was dressed darkly, backpack slung over his back and an empty look was worn on his face. He did not look pleased, or happy, or especially glad to be here but something had set the full moon off. He knew none of this was going to be an easy undertaking but something a Kin had said to him had been eating him up and he could no longer sit back and ignore it. So here he was.

Rumor and Ruin

Mila lingered in the shadows not far off from the meeting place. She was waiting for her pack – and then they’d make an appearance in force. She wore a dark blue hoodie with the hood pulled up, hiding her dark hair and shading her green eyes. Her hands were tucked into the pockets of her sweatshirt.

Carefully.. carefully she watched and waited.

Adara Mires

Shehad contacted her pack through the totem link and made her way to the meeting place. The Fury was dressed the same way as she was earlier today, jeans, tank top and sandals. Her hair was left free to fall down her back and over her shoulders.

She heads toward Mila, sensing her position, smiling at her beta “Hello Mila. Seem like you’re going to see Simon again sooner than you thought”

Simon Zahradnik

(Hey guys… If any of your characters KNOW garou… They’re welcome to invite them as well! I’d like to get as many Garou together as possible here)

Ki Mondblume

*Ki is surprisingly quiet.  But it might be the bag of french fries he’s eating.  With cheese and bacon.  Hopefully there’s something else in the bottom of the bag keeping it from leaking out.*

Rory

The reply to the summons over the totem link is likely not fit for everyday ears, even as mixed up as it was. either way, though, she came  as asked, stopping only to drop off her guitar at the apartment.

Jeans, a tank top, tennis shoes at the bottom and those red, red curls at the top – same as she always is. She moves toward Adara and Mila, and lifts her hand in a little wave.

Simon Zahradnik

He smiles at Ki and waits quietly for the others arrival. His senses were alert and aware of his surroundings. He kept the meeting inside the trees. Lots of cover to keep them hidden away and if the worst happened they’d be at the advantage. This wasn’t their city, and quickly Simon was beginning to realize this.

So quietly he waited for the others to join him. Any and all who could make it were welcome. The more the better… The Garou had Zero organization and that needed to change now more than ever.

Rumor and Ruin

“So it seems. I wonder what he’s got up his sleeve. Something ambitious, no doubt.” Mila spoke quietly. “Let’s make our appearance.. Adara – it’s your lead. We’ll be right behind you.”

And from the dark emerged the three female figures. All imposing and frightening in their own right – but even more so as a pack.

Shadowstep

The Strider is not visible, not yet anyway. The shadows harbor the small woman to conceal her form as she made her way through the foliage of the park under the secrecy of her auspice’s gifts. Her image blurred; she tracks and follows the Garou that go to gather at the meeting place designated by the Shadow Lord.

The invite offered to her by the Black Fury she had met with prior that morning; dark eyes watch as Ki and Simon settle in to await the others, simply biding her time.

Ki Mondblume

*They should be terrifying as a group.  The Uktena is not afraid, it seems.  He digs into the bag, and he licks off his fingers, again digging in, and waiting.*

Adara Mires

She nods with a smile “When it comes to Simon, all is possible but I think tonight we’re going to talk about organization.” She then nods to her pack and start to move, slightly ahead, walking with a grace that would make many dancers jealous.

She stops near Simon, Ki and Sofia “Evening everyone. You gentlemen knows Shadowstep yet?” She says, motioning to the Strider with her hand. Her pack already knew about her, she had told them about her previous meeting

“Shadowstep meet Bone-Grinder, Twisting-Wing and my packmates Rumor and Ruin and Sgian-dubh” If they want ot say more about each other, they were all welcome to it

Ki Mondblume

((Twisting-Winds)) I haven’t met her yet!  Hello!  *He looks around for the Silent Strider.*

Shadowstep

The one Adara calls Shadowstep finally makes herself known. A small woman, dark of hair and skin and eye, she barely stood two inches over five feet. She inclines her head to those gathering, arms drawn to her sides and head bowing. They can see the black lines of a tattoo on the inner forearm of her left arm – the tribal glyph of the Silent Striders.

Simon Zahradnik

Simon was smiling when they joined him his nod offered to all three.”Is this everyone we could get?”He asks Adara softly. Five was better than nothing for the moment. The Garou were a scattered lot with almost nothing resembling a central focal point. That bothered Simon but his eyes showed that something else troubled the Full Moon as well.

He nods a greeting to Shadowstep.”It is nice to meet you…”He says with a smile back at the woman.”If you’d like to chat a little afterwords I would be happy to stick around a little but right now I should get to the reason for inviting everyone here.”

He looks around.”I invited Hunter… Hopefully he’ll bring a few. Even if he can’t at least it’ll help get the word out let’s give him a few more minutes.”He says looking around and up, paranoia showing on the full moon as he even checks the skies for anything resembling a possible threat.

Ki Mondblume

I looked for the ninja-guy, but he’s not around any more, and he stalked me and Nat for like a MILE while we walked.  *He shrugs, although he perks up once more.*  Hunter’s here too?

Shadowstep

“Do not mind my silence. I am here on invitation of Adara, and to be play the Herald as befitting my tribe. I came to listen to your words, and to relate them back to the Adren Fianna that I have also met here. He, who has been trying to call a gathering of wolves as well.”

 

Hunter

It could be considered hesitation, what Hunter Matthews is going through on the outskirts of the more densely wooded area of Golden Gate Park. He can’t hear them but he can smell them and their foot prints, the thinly veiled nervousness; the uncertainty; the lingering doubt as to what they’re all doing not only in this park but in this city and why they haven’t done anything but sit around and ask themselves questions until now.

He comes with a wolf beside him, walking on two legs with trinkets in her fur and curiosity in her eyes. For his part, Hunter hasn’t changed a whole lot except for that hideous scar on his cheek. He looks tanner, leaner, meaner, like the west-coast sun has been stripping all the fat of Chicago away from him day by day by fucking day and he doesn’t have smiles for those he knows — can’t have smiles for those he knows.

“Don’t wait for me Bone Grinder, let’s hear it.”

Adara Mires

(sorry for the typo Ki…i knew that :))

She nods to Simon “Hunter is here? Wow, that’s a nice surprise. I called Owen, he’s from Chicago as well and left him a message” Her eyes glanced at those presents. Simon was right, they were far form being an army but it was a start

“Evening Hunter” She says with a nod when the Fostern makes an appearance

Rory

It should be no surprise to those that know her that Rory chooses to be silent. She remains a step behind her packmates, her hands tucked into the pockets of her jeans as she listens and studies those who gather here. Simon is on edge, and that has her shifting her position slightly, so that she guards her pack sisters more than simply stands with them.

Not from Simon, per se, but certainly from anything that might jump out at them.

Simon Zahradnik

He looks at Shadow Step and his eyes Narrow.”Then you can inform him that he needs to get workin’ a little harder. Cause we’re out here, and things are about to get a whole hell of a lot worse.”He says before his attention shifts to the others.

“I met a Vampire the other day… I didn’t know he was a Vampire but he was. To make matters worse this Vampire’s been close to, or associating with a kin of my tribe.”He says with a shrug of his shoulders.”If He had met her… Or just me… That might be a coincidence but the fact he’s met us both and had the balls to challenge me to my face implies to me this asshole knows what is what. Either he is really fuckin’ stupid or he knows what he is doing.”

He says this before looking around.”Which brings me to the fact that one of my first days here I watched them kill one of our own right here in this park. Torched her… Left nothing put a pile of dust. Swat team and… Something else.”

He shrugs his shoulders.”At first I thought she was protecting the others but the others claimed they were protecting her. Which finally clicked in my head… They were hunting her. Whoever the fuck she was… They found her ass and they killed her the second she was alone.”He says with a smirk.

“I don’t know that this vampire has anything to do with this, but most undead wouldn’t make a point of startin’ shit with Garou. Maybe he didn’t know I was garou… But like I said… I find it too much of a coincidence if he’s hangin’ out with my kin that he doesn’t know how to find us. Which tells me my head is already on the chopping block…”He says as he looks around at the others.

“So is the head of every one of you who has been seen by this guy.”He smirks a little.”There’s a reason the Wyrm controls this city. They know how to fight us.”He says with a shrug.

“We can’t let that happen… Mark my words they’re not going to wait for us to organize. They wouldn’t be able to hold this city if they waited.”He says before looking at Hunter.”We need to hit them before they can hit us… Hard and fuckin’ fast.”

Simon Zahradnik

((Sorry about the space… No clue why it does that))

Rumor and Ruin

Like Rory, Rumor and Ruin also chooses to remain silent during the introductions. Everyone she knew seemed to be cropping up here. She wouldn’t in fact.. be surprised if Jesus suddenly arrived or something.

Vampires, eh? Interesting. Finally she spoke up. “Who is this vampire you speak of, Bone Grinder?”

Shadowstep

The Strider folds her arms across her chest, tiling her head curiously to one side as Simon addressed her with a narrowing gaze. She arches an eyebrow at him, lips twitching, her nostrils flaring slightly as she breathes in and out.

“If you had paid attention to the spirit markers that the Adren has placed, you might have known of his presence. His name is Marcus “Priest” Cartwright. He has been here longer than you, Bone Grinder – yuf. I will be happy to supply you with his contact information as well as relay your message to him.”

Brooklyn

The woman beside Hunter is just a few inches shy of being as tall as Hunter. But, unlike the big brute of a full moon, she’s much leaner and thinner – scrawny looking-  but that’s no surprise, she was Urrah. Dirty blonde hair is braided through with various baubles and trinkets, the front pulled back severely from her narrow and gaunt face. Her wide blue eyes focus on all of them but never really light on any one particular person for too long.

A messenger bag is slung across her shoulder, and she sucks on a lolly, four fingers bear rings that glisten and catch what faint light there is surrounding them at the moment.

 

Adara Mires

She listens to Simon. She heard about the death of the Garou already. And Mila asks the question she was about to. Who was the vampire, what did he look like?

Her eyes watches Sofia for a moment. A Fianna Adren was here? She definitely will have to find those markers and let him know of her presence. Or she’ll ask Sofia if she can have the man’s contact information. This will make things easier.

She nods to the woman beside Hunter, before her gaze studies the Gnawer. He had changed and she wondered what happened to him.

Ki Mondblume

*He offers over the fries to Simon.*  So we find this leech.  Problem is, if he knows there are wolves here, well.  He’ll be expecting us to gather.

Simon Zahradnik

He looks back at Shadowstep.”That’d be really helpful cause an Adren Ahroun would be really useful right now considering the fact we have no real organization or connection. Right now we’re flailing in the dark. We’re gonna be picked off one by one like that girl in the park if we can’t organize immediately.”He says with a shrug of his shoulders.”That SWAT team had no fear of a Garou in her war form. They didn’t even flinch or hesitate which tells me that the Police are on the Wyrm’s side in this city. Worse yet they know how to kill our kind and have already done it once since I’ve been here at least.”

He then looks at Mila.”I don’t know the Vampire’s name… I only know what he looks like. I would like to consider him our first and primary target since he’s already been snooping around my kin… I don’t want Vampires snooping around anyone’s kin. That’s getting too far and too personal.”

Shadowstep

The Strider’s dark gaze slips from face to face, settling on each speaker. She watches intently the shape and movement of the speaker’s lips, reading the words and filing it away into memory. Hunter and Brooklyn are giving long curious glances. Her attention only divided once Simon addressed her again.

She inclines her head to the Shadow Lord, “Very well.”

Rory

A fianna adren? Rory arches a brow slightly, and shifts her weight uneasily this time. She takes a slow breath, and then simply listens.

Ki Mondblume

((Sorry… can’t keep eyes open.  Ki will be there, and quiet, listening.))

Simon Zahradnik

He nods his head to Ki.”If he knows wolves then he knows that he can’t let us have the time to organize and establish ourselves… Once we’ve dug our heels in we are as hard to get rid of as ants.”

He looks at Hunter.”I think we need to find more than just one leech… I think we also need to find where their power base is. Your kind are big on uncovering secrets and shit can you see if they can’t get the word out? It’d be nice to have eyes and ears on the town… An advanced warning system in case they send out more of those SWAT patrols it’d be nice to have some way of warning our kind to get the fuck out of their homes.”

Hunter

Hunter hears it all and does not interject, at least not at first. “They do that,” he finally speaks up and his voice is gruff and course and almost weak, like he needs a large glass of water. “Take kin,” his voice is quiet, if anyone spoke over the top of him they would drown him out and he sits down at the base of one of the large trees, folding his legs and his arms and turning his head to look up at the canopy above them.

“Just to get to us mind, but they take em’. That don’t worry me so much though; things tryna’ snatch our kin ain’t new. Somethin’ turnin’ us into piles of ash don’t sound too good though n’gettin’ hunted down don’t sound too good neither.”

His hands are playing with the dirt when he speaks.

“I think we’re gettin’ a bit ahead of ourselves, I mean, findin’ their power base? How do we even know they got a power base? What does that mean? I don’t know about you guys but I been here months and months already n’I can count the things I know about these vampires on one hand. Whose to say how we spot one? whose to say where they live or what they’re capable of.”

A beat.

“Enemy, terrain. These are the things we should think about, after that we try find the spot where we can get one without the other.”

Adara Mires

She listens to them, tilting her head “My pack is trying to claim Nob Hill as territory at the moment. Don’t know how much of it we can hold yet, we’ve just started. But if any of you runs into trouble, that’s where we spend most of our time, come over, we’ll help you”

She pauses “As for vampires, I don’t know much about them. So maybe we can all pool or knowledge and try to get a better picture of them. Then maybe if we get our claws on one we can interrogate it?”

Rumor and Ruin

“I agree with Hunter – let’s not get ahead of ourselves. One thing at a time, Bone Grinder. This issue is a serious one – but our response needs to be thought through and well planned.”

Brooklyn

“I’ve seen one control the mind of a Garou before. Then move so fucking fast I couldn’t track him. Maybe it wasn’t a vampire – maybe it was some fucking caern raidin’ witch.” She pauses, “Point is ….we may not be at the top of the food chain here.”

Hunter sits and Brooklyn leans casually against the same tree.

Hunter

[IT’S A SPY]

Shadowstep

The Strider’s lips tremble, a sound rumbles in the base of her throat that is barely drowned out before it erupts from her lips. She grimaces at all the talk of vampires and what they are doing. “My people have no great love for the Cult of Sutekh, they are not kind to us and will go out of their way to eradicate us if possible. Going all out to destroy them is not the way to do it, should chase the snakes from their burrows, one by one, if we must.”

—Fly—

Hey All do you people mind if I lurk for a bit while at work?.  Will leave if it’s not

Simon Zahradnik

He shrugs his shoulders.”That girl told me that they’re pretty damn proactive… Whether that girl made a bad mistake or she was just happening through town they hunted her down and killed her…”He says back to hunter.”Keepin’ our heads low isn’t gonna help if they’re minglin’ with our kin. If they hare hanging with our kin then they know how to find US…”He shrugs his shoulders.”If they know how to find us then they know how to kill us.”

“I don’t know much, if anything, about these folks… But I can’t sit back and wait till they send a SWAT team to corner my ass in a dark alley and gun me the fuck down. I suspect at least one of them knows what I am… That one needs to be found and silenced.”He says with a shrug of his shoulders.

“We know they have a power base because we know they control the police… And the fuckin’ media. Fire fights in city parks… Dragons flying around… And it didn’t even get a blurb on the Evening news.”He says with a shrug.

“It’s their city… If it were my city you can sure as fuck bet I would be hunting each and every one of you down right now. Because I know that things would not get pretty if I let you all have the time to formulate a plan.”

“We need organization… Active organization… We need communication… And we need to travel in groups. We need safe houses, and we need scouts keeping an eye out there. Otherwise they’re gonna do to us what they did to that girl one at a time when we’re alone.”

Rory

She listens. She really does. She misses very little. Simon – as always – gets ahead of himself, and the others speak the sense so that she doesn’t have to try too.

He amends his previous speach to speak of proactive protection vs. hunting down a power base right off, and she relaxes a touch. All it would take is for one hothead to get ahead of himself and they’d all die, one by one. Sometimes, babysteps is the way to go. Sometimes.

Rory is good at survival. She’s had to be. She’s also good at killing things. She’s had to be.

She looks at Adara, and asks her something, silently, letting her decide if it should be voiced…

Rory

Do we have any kin in holice,pere? LIke in Chicago?

Hunter

It seems a simple step from Simon’s statements to Hunter’s questions, but he voices it anyway: “So how do we get any of that? More importantly, how do we get any of that without anyone knowin’?”

Adara Mires

She nods “All right, like I said, we are trying to dig our heels in Nob Hill. So maybe there’s a way to have a few safe houses around. Or maybe some of you have already places we can use.

Hanging in groups does sound safer. I don’t know if anyone of you are packed, but having various pack members hanging with each other means that if something happens, a call through a totem phone is much quicker than a phone call to have people coming over to help.

Maybe Riddle Me This or another Theurge and make us distress beacons or something.”

She looks at Rory and nods slightly “Also, any of you knows if we have kin in the police, like we did in Chicago?”

Simon Zahradnik

He looks back at Hunter.”I know one vampire in this city… That is a Start. We have the means and we should be using it to detect the presence of Wyrm creatures among us. I do not know of a time in our peoples history when the Wyrm was allowed to ever walk among our kin unrestrained. Excepting for one tribe…”He says.

“We need to keep in communication. We need to know where one another are. All of us need to know where one another are.”He points at Brooklyn, and then Shadowstep.”These are two Garou I did not know existed in the weeks I have been here and a third Adren. You know of several who you did not even offer to put me into contact with.”He says back to Hunter.

“That is not organization. We are not organized and we need to change that much now. Every single one of us needs to get into contact with all the others in this city as soon as possible. That is the first step…”

“As for finding out about the Vampires… I know one.”He shrugs his shoulders.”That one knows of me and my kin. I would like the aid of my own to deal with that threat rather than doing so alone. As soon as I can locate it. I would like to believe we might be able to organize and deal with it.”He says with a shrug of his shoulders.

“As for others that will take time… But I only have two eyes. However we have dozens of pairs of eyes out there on the street including our kin who are not in communication with each other. A pair of eyes who sees something, but doesn’t know how to reach us is useless. We need communication.”

Rory

She chews on her lower lip, and rubs at the side of her nose. then… softly… “You’ve said twice. He weard. ”

Adara asks her question, as well as putting forth a couple of ideas too. Rory nods, slightly. “Needs noted. Now, ideas.”

Brooklyn

“I’m usually at Brainwash, about a mile and a half from here on Hyde. If I’m not there, Hunter can reach me. If and when you guys can pull something together….call me.” Her eyes cut down toward the seated Ahroun. “I’m leaving.” With that the Glass Walker Philodox turns to go.

[gotta go guys, tiiiiiired!]

Shadowstep

The Strider raised an eyebrow when Simon points at her, she wrinkles up her nose, sniffing the air. Her head canting to the side, “It would have been difficult for you to even know I was here if I had not decided to make my presence known. I do this more for the Adren than myself. I have not been here long, Bone Grinder.”

Simon Zahradnik

He nods his head.”I’d like to start by exchanging numbers and getting everyone situated in homes together as quickly as possible. I’d rather not have anyone sleeping in a room alone.”He says with a shrug of his shoulders.”We also need to hold some kind of immediate planning meeting where we can fiigure out our numbers and maybe get people meeting up… Possibly even form a few packs. That would be a good start.”

Rumor and Ruin

Mila was quietly considering all that was discussed. Things like this would take time.  Need planning. While the dark haired Lord would stand there beside her pack, she’d have nothing further to say tonight.

{Bedtime!}

Rory

He doesn’t want anyone sleeping in a room alone… That gets a little lopsided grin, though she ducks her head, slightly, to hide it behind her curls. Her other question – asked through adara – hadn’t been addressed or answered. Maybe he doesn’t know – or maybe it wasn’t deemed important enough. Either way, she remains quiet, and tucks her hands into the pockets of her jeans.

Rory

Guess we’d fetter bind Mila a mate – or invite her slo teep in our room so she’s not alone… She’s teasing, of course, but it still amused her.

Adara Mires

“Hmmma threesome sounds delightful” She says kidding “And Simon is too intense..same house is fine…same room is not”

Rory

All talk. No ideas.

Simon Zahradnik

He looks at Hunter.”You said there are others… I don’t know why they wouldn’t want to contact us. However they must have eyes and ears… Information. All we need are leads… Once we have leads we can begin moving in directions which make sense and will gain us ground.”He says with a shrug of his shoulders.

“We’re hunters… Not prey. Before the hunt can begin we’ve gotta find a scent right?”He asks with a tilt to his head.”So why don’t we start there as far as gaining ground and information.”

Rory

Simon, she means, of course.

Adara Mires

She nods “All right, that sounds fair. I’ll give you all my number and you can call me at any time.” Her emerald gaze looks at Simon “So why don’t you tell us what your vamp looked like so we can recognize him when we see him and catch his scent?”

She looks at the others “I am looking for a place to gather outside the city during the next full moon. So keep your ears open for my howl that night. We’ll use the place for a Moot and we can organize some more then, maybe more of us will show”

Shadowstep

“If there is nothing else to be discussed… I shall take my leave. I cannot linger much longer I am afraid.”

This is spoken mostly to Simon, but it still applies to the others if they had something else to say. She begins to retreat, albeit slowly from the group, but remaining in ear shot.

Shadowstep

Adara catches her attention, “If you need assistance, Adara, there is something I can do about helping those that wish to gather but have no caern to call home. We, Striders, have rites for such events when we are far away… I know them.”

Adara Mires

She smiles “Then I’ll call you shortly. We’ll get together and talk about it. We can at least give us a safe place to gather away from the city so those who hear the howl won’t be easily followed.”

She nods to Sofia “Thanks a lot Sofia”

Simon Zahradnik

He laughs.”He was white… Had HUGE hair… Kinda scrawny looking!”He smirks.”I will find his ass again and when I do I will contact people. Hopefully we can get a few to identify him before we…”He smirks a hint.

Shadowstep

The Strider takes her leave, stepping back into the shadows and cloaking herself into a blurred state once she is certain no one will see her, and heads off into the city.

Rory

White. With huge hair. Well that narrows it down, doesn’t it – after all she’s wite, and on particularly humid days, her curls could be considered huge. She shakes her head, slightly, and then with a touch on Adara’s back, turns to take her leave. While there’s safety in numbers, they don’t all have to be within touching distance..

and most certainly not all in the same room.

She takes to the trees, and goes about silently patroling, to make sure the little meeting has not been noticed, prowling near silently through the darkness. Her days with the sneakiest shadow lord she’d ever known had certain benefits… and this is one of them.

[bedtime for me soon. night.]