[Gut Song] (Persuasion. Cha 3 + Sub 1. Diff 6)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 4, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Ancestors)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 4, 5, 7 (Failure at target 8)
[Lil Master] (Let me ask… anyone have any cosmology or Occult and at what levels?)
[Lights Out] [Charlie has Occult 2.]
[Gossamer Wing] (Joss has occult 2 as well)
[Gut Song] (Wyrm Lore 2, occult 2)
[Hunter] [Hunter has Occult 3]
[Ylva Rattlebones] [Occult 4: Specialty Wyrm Lore]
[Gossamer Wing] It was time.
She is strong, she is healed, and they cannot wait much longer, else The Master attack again.
A few weeks ago, she and Charlie hatched a plan. In the interim, she had requested he make talens. She had intended on doing so herself as well – but between everything else she was doing and making talens for, she’d fallen behind. She knows he will have a good supply. She knows she will handle the brunt of the summoning, the spirit wrangling. Together they shall be fine.
She hopes.
She had called Charlie. She had sent word, and each of them answer or not, come or not, for their own reasons. So she waits – an abandoned building in the Green, neutral territory, where none has claimed. She will not do it where there are ties to individuals, to packs, to the Caern itself.
She is inside, kneeling, and meditating as they arrive. Simply… breathing.
(…8…9…10…)
[Warcry] [Soak Talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 2, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Gut Song] Joss need not have waited long:
The Godi and Elder Seer of the Sept had done many things for the Skald and the Jarl in their short time with Maelstrom and had requested only one thing in return on several occasions:
I ask only for your help, should I ever have need of you
…So Thomas had come, Faith like a Hailstorm, howling and fierce, moving through the dark of Cabrini’s streets at night, nothing but the play of a dark hoodie at his back and a pair of comfortable cargo pants. The Boots were sockless, not that it mattered much. This was to be a Spirit War, against a foe Joss had been struggling against for weeks. Months?
It was enough to fire the blood. No Fenrir stood alone unless they had to and that this Master had been striking at them one by one, with hauntings and dreams and visions of the Coil.
…The door to the building creaks open loudly as the Skald makes his way inside, slipping it shut behind him with little ceremony. He pushes through the halls, dark and faint until he spies the outline of the settled Godi. His steps slow briefly, halting only when he’s reached a place of six feet distant, hands clenched at his sides and gaze resting resolutely upon the Elder’s own features.
Waiting…it would seem…
[Hunter] [soak talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 1, 8 (Failure at target 7)
[Ylva Rattlebones] [soak talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Lights Out] He’d had to find his way back to the rock he’d hidden.
It’s been an entire cycle of the moon since he and Gossamer Wing met to discuss their plan to take down Master. Thus far, nothing beyond discussion of their options and the dangers ahead has transpired. That changed tonight.
Lights Out is still not in fantastic shape after the week that just passed. Between the battles and the losses and the performing of two Gatherings for the Departed, he has been doing little more than simply sleeping all weekend. The call to the Brotherhood had come while he was asleep, and he had had to rouse himself into action. Despite his exhaustion, despite his grief, he’s ready.
Master had visited him mere weeks after his arrival in Chicago. It is because of the visions and the dreams that assailed his sleep that his Rage has crept higher, that he finds it more difficult to control himself. He’s got a small vendetta against this particular spirit: she’s affected Charlie, she’s affected people Charlie cares about, and she shows so signs of stopping just yet.
When he arrives at the designated location, Charlie is dressed in hiking boots, battered jeans and a stitched-up white t-shirt. His hair has been recently shorn, and he’s got a lavender book bag over one shoulder. He hands out talens to aid in the absorption of blows, to heal those who come to the battle wounded, and to ensure that should they need to travel into the Umbra that their journey will be a safe one.
[Translation: Everyone who wants one gets one soak talen, one Gaia’s Breath and one Moon Glow.]
[Gnosis: Activate Soak Talen.]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 7)
[Warcry] She doesn’t come because Joss summoned her specifically. She doesn’t come because she’s one of the Theurges who has been investigating this thing from the start. Sinclair hears about it, and she comes anyway, her spine tense all the way. She’s been a ghost around the Brotherhood for a couple of days. It’s been long enough for almost everyone to hear about what happened in the alleyway with Arthur.
What she did to him.
Sinclair comes dressed in jeans and a red t-shirt with the neck and sleeves both cut off, turning it into a ragged sort of muscle shirt. Where once there were four names tattooed on her right bicep, there are now four, the last fresh and dark, still almost wet-looking. Her hair is slicked back off her face and wound into a tight knot at the nape of her neck.
She has a score to settle with the Master. When Charlie starts handing out talens, though, she hesitates, meets his eyes, then exhales a breath and takes one of the healing talens he offers, along with a moon glow. “Thank you,” she says, weighted but quiet.
[Hunter] The theurges had their work cut out for them. They knew what was to come, and were prepared. Hunter was not a spirit talker. She was an ahroun. A fighter. And when she’d heard from the Godi that there was to be a fight… she’d trailed along beside the other woman like an ever-watchful guard-dog. She was doing that now. Guarding. Watching. Waiting. Off to the side where she would not disturb the rituals. When the others arrived, she glanced in their direction, but said nothing. When Charlie offered her talens, she took them… and even offered a cursory nod of thanks.
[Ylva Rattlebones] A spare set of hands…was an extra boon to the endeavor. The moon-eyed Godi had been lurking about the caern when Joss had found her, barely spoken a word to her and offered the request to help. Rattlebones did not turn it down, and rather gleefully accepted the task.
Perhaps it her way of redeeming herself for the insults she laid to the Fianna mule, or the very fact that Joss was Elder Godi and her name had touched the young wolf’s ears when she had passed through Elder Godi’s birth sept just a month before showing up in Chicago.
Whatever the reasons, she is there. Short, silent, standing in the backdrop with her hands folded in front of her, thin fingers curling around a necklace of bleached bone tablets with black runes painted on their surface, clinking the dragon bones together as they slide from one palm to the other quietly.
Brown hair fell about her face, the right eye a milky-white sightless as the green eye dances around in its socket. Thin white scars run along her left cheek to the jaw line in a detailed design of scarification. She was plain, perhaps could have been considered cute, if it wasn’t for the markings. Somewhere a raven-spirit gathered with her, chattering away in the back of her mind.
[Gossamer Wing] People arrive. One by one.
And she breathes.
(…11…12…)
There is nothing that causes her to waver from her meditation. There is nothing that shakes her focus. She is Fostern. She is Fenrir.
She is Godi.
(….13….)
And she is ready. Her eyes open and she finds Thomas first, her smiled greeting holding a warmth for the intense Gut-Song. He had promised he would come if she had need and he has made good on that promise. They have need of those who will protect the Theurges as they summon and deal with the spirits, and others arrive as well to answer her call.
Her father would be proud. Hopefully when this is over, he still will be.
As they gather she rises, her skirts fluttering about her calves, her feet bare, her dreads hanging heavily down her back, woven through with an eagle feather, pigeon feathers (…don’t ask…) beads, strings and colorful strips of cloth. She looks every bit the Godi, and their Auspice elder. Perhaps they expect her voice to boom, powerfully…
…it does not. She speaks quietly, instead. “Thank you for coming. Many of you have been visited by the one that calls herself The Master. We aim to put a stop to it tonight. Light’s OUt and I will be summoning, and we have need of each of you to be ready to fight while we do so. Theurges – be prepared to summon and command as well. Should we be successful, and the Valet and the master appear to us through their portal, I want you to send whatever destroying spirit you can through the portal to the Master’s Garden to destroy it – while we deal with The Valet and The Master here. I don’t have a specific plan in place, as they have appeared to each of us differently. That is the bare bones of it. Be aware, be ready, be strong.”
A beat as she looks oer the group assembled. “Any questions?”
(Rolling Troll Skin – on suxx, she goes warty, green, tough, and smelly. yum!)
Sta+PU (current form, Homid)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7) [WP]
[Lights Out] Charlie isn’t a complainer. He doesn’t spend a lot of time feeling sorry for himself, and he doesn’t spend a lot of time holding grudges, either. He gets up every morning and he does what he needs to do without asking why things are the way they are or dreaming about a time when things will be different. That isn’t to say that he doesn’t ask questions or dream or even do much thinking. It’s just that he’s pragmatic about it. He’s focused. He isn’t easily distracted.
There are those who would hold grudges against some of the people present today, either because of the way they’ve treated him in the past or due to their tribe or because of what they’ve done recently, but Charlie doesn’t. He hands out talens as though this is what he is supposed to be doing, and when Sinclair meets his eyes, he swallows and looks back at her. There’s not much anger left in his gaze. Not to the extent that there was the other night.
She thanks him, and after a moment of terse silence, Charlie nods.
“You’re welcome,” he says, just as quiet.
When Joss speaks, Charlie sets down his book bag and crosses his stringy arms over his chest. He listens. He knows the plan already, had helped devise it, and he doesn’t appear to have any questions. There’s a good chance none of them will make it out of here tonight, but he isn’t thinking about that. He’s thinking about what they need to do to end this threat, and that’s about the extent of his mental energy expenditure.
He’s aware. He’s ready. He’s as strong as he’s going to get.
[Gut Song] (Activating Visage of Fenris: Charisma 3 + Intimidation 2. Diff 6 -1 for Persuasion.)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[Hunter] [Shifting to crinos – Stam+PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Hunter] [Apparently that was to glabro. Trying again, one…more…time!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] Only when everyone is ready, and has signified that they are so, does she nod at Charlie. “You have the stone?” When he has given it to her, she holds it in her hand for a long, silent moment, takes a slow breath, and nods.
She’s ready. “I’ll go for the Valet. Be ready for him and the Master.
She sinks gracefully to the floor, kneeling there as she sets the stone before her knees. She slides her skirts upwards, baring her thighs, and the matching set of perfectly placed clawmarks there – the scar tissue gnarled and tough, as her fingers slide over them.
Then she begins to drum. Slow, steady, feeling the beat, losing herself to the sway of the sound that resonates far to deeply to be skin on skin. There is magic here. Godi Magic.
And so it begins.
(Spirit Drum: 6 d5)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 5, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Lil Master] The gathering of troops has been called. The plague the garou of Chicago have named “Lil Master” has been assualting minds and dreams for weeks, nay months. Sleep was a thing to fear now, some more than others. They have been weakened, tainted, corrupted, drained, threatened, flawed, wounded and all around tortured by the invasive powers of the wyrm creature and her minions. Now they wanted pay back and they would get it. If this plan worked out the way they wanted it to.
Oh but the best laid plans….
Or as the saying goes. They had gathered in the hopes of summoning Valet, summoning the creature that was the right hand to Lil Master herself. But as the little gathering had come together…. well they will find the black stone given to Mia, handed on to Charlie was more than it seemed.
As the gathering of rage came together, as the troops amassed, the interior of the stone seemed to ripple, seemed to shake from within. With each passing moment of Joss’ drumming, of the planning and preparing until…..
Laughter… a man’s deep, dark laughter.
And the stone seems to explode out light, a blinding white light. Blinding the whole of the gathering as the laughter died in echos.
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When next they can see, they will find themselves within a field, a green lush field. Sinclair will know this field, Joss may have seen it slightly from her dreams.
The pocket realm of Lil Master. Her turf. Her home.
They were in the den of the wyrm now.
(Everyone with Occult 2+ or Cosmology 1+ will get a little bonus for the scene, via there auspice. Anyone without those stats, sorry.)
[Lil Master] (Theurges: You may spend 1 gnosis and roll WP. Each sucess will allow you to one one element of the environment and what is in it. You may take this chance now or decline it as you see fit.)
to Gossamer Wing, Lights Out, Ylva Rattlebones
[Gut Song] The World shifts. Changes. A blinding light and then…
…Summer returns around them. The Haunting of a subtle creature. Defiler and illusion.
…He growled, low and guttural. The Sept’s Talesinger offers a broad and steady nod, obvious to any without a hint of displacement, turning to regard the group with nothing but a brief glance cast at their surroundings.
“…We are the War sound.” A crackle, as fingers curl into fists, Hunter’s body dislocating limbs and flesh and muscle as the broad Crinos shape takes form above them all “…When our voice is joined, the Hollows of the coil will shake and his blood will quail from the vein and the skin, terrified to come out for the wounds we bring him.”
His voice rises slightly. Not a shout, but an oratory. The fierce spit of a practiced speaker, crawling into the air like some lumbering monster freshly wakened, gaze leaving Joss to dance from face to face, eye to eye, his own lip curling as fists rise to either side.
“…The Wyrm seeks to pollute and touch the minds of Gaians, in hopes that their dreams are as weak as the crooked bones he throws to divine and the wretched eyes he squints to see with. He wishes his weakness upon us for he can’t stand the sight of himself and when the Blood! Drips down his hands, as he scrawls cracked fingers in the entrails, perusing dreamscapes and fantasy at his leisure, he seeks out the Fears that would make us prey-” A Snap of a fist into his chest, stepping forward to regard Charlie…and then Sinclair…
“…He wants you to shake and tremble. He needs you to fear and breathe him. He wishes you to know the hate that Doubt would seed in your chest and hands…” His eyes have traveled to Ylva, an unknown cast in these Fanatic’s eyes.
“…He wants the Dread to wake you screaming…” His head is shaking, a sudden snarl creeping into his expression, with nary a sound to join it.
“…He will not have it” Faith. Certainty. Surety. Pride. “…He will find the Hate that binds us. He will find the Wrath of the wicked and the true.” …And finally he’s marched in front of Hunter, a small thing compared to the crinos height, yet no less intense in his gaze.
“…He will hear the War Sound from Throats united…Throats unhinged…Throats not to be given in fear…but Taken if he dares…” The long length of rusted pipe is drawn forth from the flesh, the Skald stepping back to regard their surroundings, jaw thrust forth and eyes in the full fervor of his moon.
“…This Day, he will know Dread’s shake in his spine…”
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 6, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 4)
[Gossamer Wing] She feels the shift, she feels the sudden pull even as she hears the laughter.
his laughter.
So much for the best laid plans… They are in a field, the realm of the Master, her garden, her turf. Her home. “…shit.” Her brows furrow, and she searches the area… Even as Gut Song rouses their blood for battle.
(1 gn – WP roll)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 5, 7, 7, 7
[Lil Master] (Each scored three on roll:
This is the realm of the Wyrm known as little Master. She is here. Valet is here as well as some of the little pets that Lil Master has in her control. The realms has been created and nourished by the taking of the will from others. It has grown strong. But it is entangled with Lil Master. She dies and the realm withers and dies. Instinctually they will know the location of Lil Master, Valet and some of her pets as their roam the hills and area.
The creature has hidden Wahya somewhere within the area, trapped within the realm.)
to Gossamer Wing, Lights Out, Ylva Rattlebones
[Ylva Rattlebones] The necklace of dragon bones returned around her neck just as the beating of the drum started and she watches patiently. Her one good green eye narrowing slightly as the World around them begins to shift. The landscape changing as reality bends in on itself and they are no longer in the place they once stood.
Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore…
A snarl caught in the back of Rattlebones’ throat, raising up as her body begins to change from the monkey skin she stood in to the thick white wolf pelt of her breed form. The vibration of the snarls thickening as her ears lay back along her skull and her tail presses to the inner thigh of her hindlegs.
[Hunter] As they prepared themselves for the fight, Hunter shifted. First to glabro, then crinos. She sharpened her claws while she waited, scraping them quietly against the stone floor of the abandoned building.
And then… the world suddenly warped.
Blinking, she looked around at the field she now found herself in, as the echo of laughter rang in her ears. She crouched down, silent and wary, ears pricked forward to listen. Alert. Watchful. Waiting.
[Activated Razor Claws -1 rage.]
[Lights Out] The last time he was in Master’s realm, it was in his dreams, and he was surrounded by corpses.
This looks nothing like the land that had revealed itself in his sleep, is not an endless cavern in the dark with nothing more than a tiny light in the distance to give him any indication of its depths. It’s a sprawling, green area with hills and valleys, and it looks peaceful.
He knows better. He knows what lives here, lurks here, and as Gut Song speaks, he cannot bring himself to look away from his surroundings long enough to give him the benefit of a rapt audience. He’s waiting for an ambush, perhaps, or for a sudden darkness to descend upon the area.
One of the last ones to abandon his human skin, he finally explodes into his birth form, a snarl leaving his throat once he has settled. He looks to Gossamer Wing, and he waits.
[Gut Song] (Shifting: Crinos: Stamina 2 + P.U 2. Diff 6)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 4, 5, 5, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (And one more time: Diff 7.)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Lil Master] The gathering find themselves within a field at first. The field of the Lil Master. The field built on the willpower sucked from Charlie, from Lee from Sinclair. From the pained anguish of Wahya. From stun of Decker and Imogen.
From all that were so touched under the watchful eye of the powerful little spirit known as Lil Master.
But in such sort order, the hills are no longer lush and green, no longer fields of lflowers and grass. But under the influence of Gut Song and his will, he forces it to change.
No longer are they standing in a field, but on a harsh gray field of stone. The world around them starting to shift and crack and break. The world morphing into a harsh environment, one the Fenrir is quiet used to. And off in the distance a cry goes out. A scream of anger and annoyance.
Lil Master is now pissed.
[Warcry] She has no questions for the Theurge Elder. She has no other words for Charlie, and for the most part, keeps her eyes forward. She stays at the rear of the group, a place she seldom takes, and as the Godi mentions the Valet and the Master, Rage bakes off of Sinclair in waves that almost warp the air around her. She starts breathing more heavily even before the drumming reaches a hard pitch, and when she finds herself in the field she once was meant to help fortify, Sinclair is in hispo before an eyeblink.
For once, her eyes do not look like aquamarines but are cold, glacial, and gleaming. Fur the color of iron and steel washes over her massive, broad-shouldered form, her sides moving with deep, furious breaths. Her fur is on end. A low, heavy growl rattles from her throat in answer to Gut Song’s speech, and then —
— things change.
It’s probably for the best that a Garou in hispo can’t swear as eloquently as a human being. Mostly they just piss on things, and Sinclair doesn’t bother.
[-1R to hispo
-1 WP to activate Resist Pain]
[Gossamer Wing] She looks at Charlie. She looks at the others. And she shrugs with a grin. “Guess we’re winging it.”
The Godi grins – and it’s disconcerting, and dangerous.
Then she stops, and it is war.
She squares her shoulders, she stands, as Gut Song strips it to a land barren, steeping the lushness for the harsh world Fenrir know all too well.
The cry goes out as she lifts one hand and points in that direction. “There. The Master is there. The Valet is near too – watch for him, her pets. Let’s go.”
She shifts then, to hisbo, and takes the lead, her body thrumming with Gut Song’s call to war, her skin twitching with eagerness, her steps resolute.
This ends. Tonight. No matter who’s turf they are on.
[rage to hispo, wp to resist pain.]
[Gut Song] …And Gut~Song’s reaction as the scream of outrage, peels away in the distance is one of broad pleasure, eyes lit clear and fierce.
“…Let the Dread Shake…”
…And flesh suddenly spawns and sprouts gray ashen fur, the thrall of the War Form creeping through his bones, popping them out and back into place as the confirmation changes and the mass evolves, until a hunched over shape stands where the boy had been, nothing of breeding in that mottled fur and little of distinguish but the broad white scar that runs from shoulder to hip.
Claws flex and he breathes deeply, lips peeling back from his maw and a rolling growl dropping from his jaws, to land and slither about their feet. A single step takes him within reach of Gossamer~Wing, a protective shadow at her left shoulder, the pipe gripped in one hand, near as long as the Crinos’ arm.
Gossamer~Wing’s words come and a barking snarl travels in her wake as the Hispo Elder lunges forward, the Crinos limbs throwing him into a dead run by her side, chuffing breath a thunderous thing.
The rush to war. A Battle to be joined. Not since the Balkazeth. Glory to be found…
…And something begins to bubble in his gut…
(Call of the Wyld: Stam 5 + Emp 1.)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5 (Failure at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Call of the wyld. +1 Diff)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Ylva Rattlebones] The environment was lush and rich with rolling green hills and fields of flowers and grass. It changes under the breath and song of the Skald, jagged spires of stone gut upward through the earth, the skies darken to storm-grey and the landscape becomes a rugged harsh place. She can feel it thrumming in her bones, in each twitch of muscle under white fur. Green-gold eye rolling to look up and down, the milky-white mirroring a motion that no longer functions.
Her body begins to change, the ferocity of her nature pulled over Rattlebones like a sheath as she calls rage to snap her lupus form upward into the bulkier, heavier war form of her hispo. Jaws snap at the air, nostrils flare out hot breath on the wind. An ear rolling as the war song goes out and the Garou start rolling in. She scans the skies for the small dark shadow of the raven-gaffling that has never left her side… The dragon bones around her neck cling to her throat like a collar, clinking together with the increasing pace of her run.
[1 rage snap-shift hispo, 1 willpower resist pain]
[Hunter] One by one, they moved forward, following in the wake of the Godi, who was the eldest among them. Gossamer Wing called them forth into battle, and the wolves snarled their agreement. The tall strider followed just behind the Fostern, ready and willing to defend her, despite the fact that none of them were packed. Ready to fight, as she always was. As all of them were. Because she was built for it. Because she knew nothing else.
Whatever it was up there, waiting for them, it needed to die. That was all she understood. All she needed to understand. She growled, low in her chest, and followed where Gossamer Wing led.
[Lights Out] The scenery melts away, becomes something far less pristine and lush; it’s sinister, the landscape they’re looking at now, all gray and broken-down and chilled. They know without a shadow of a doubt that this is where they’re supposed to be, that Master is around here somewhere, that the Valet has to be with her, that this is where they’re going to find Wahya, and when that shriek comes careening out of the distance, a rumbling of matched anger leaves Lights Out’s chest.
He does not glower at Gut Song for revealing their location, nor does he return Gossamer Wing’s look or her shrug or her lighthearted words. He flexes the digits of his paws, claws dancing anxiously, and then he takes several steps forward to stand beside Gossamer Wing.
Apparently he’s not just following tonight.
[Gut Song] …the sound bubbles in the guts, roiling fierce and reaching upward, clawing to the Surface as they rush forward at the Elder Godi’s movement. The Crinos Skald skips one hand down to join plowing legs every so often but his gait never falters…
…And as the distance is chewed up by Garou feet and energy, the jaws rake open and the Gut Song; unabashed, unashamed Fury, wrapped in steel muscles, escapes the only way it is allowed. A Howl tears into the skyline, beckoning at the Gaian’s beasts.
Run. Fight. Die. Glory. Terrorize what stands before you.
[Gut Song] (Charisma + Expression. -2 Diff for Persuasion + Visage of Fenris)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 7 (Success x 1 at target 4)
[Lil Master] The gather move in on the area that the theurges know where the gathering of pets and the master area. Joss can feel them start to congregate around Lil Master now. The theurges may know the area, may know of what is about.
But this was Lil Master’s realm, she knew everything that happened in this realm. She knew they were here before they even knew what they were looking at.
And now she is all pissed off because someone ruined her whole years work. She was going to get her revenge on that one especially. She was not going to screw around anymore.
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They would follow Joss to the point where they could see Lil Master in the distance. The little girl is no longer holding onto anything anymore. She was just standing there, eyes glaring over the distance as the garou gathered. She was just on the edge og the gray stone, standing at the field edge where it seemed to end at the gathering of a large lake. Valet standing over his master, arms crossed over his chest.
3 tainted wolves and a large vulture seem to be huddling around the little woman. Waiting as they were off in the distance. Once the garou seemed to be just over 250 yards away, then she would signal her minions to attack.
(inits please. Due to Gut Song’s Howl, all PC’s get +1 to Init rolls.
Please remember any subsequent add-ons. Visage of Fernis and so on. Please remember your health levels as well as your bloody bandages and what not. As well as your soak bonuses and form bonuses. Now lets get it on)
[Warcry] [+10 THAAANK YOU HAAARV]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Lil Master] 2 Wolves [+4]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1
[Lil Master] Vulture: [5+]
[Lights Out] [+8]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Lil Master] Vulture [5+]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Hunter] [+9]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Gossamer Wing] +10 – THANK YOU HARV.
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Lil Master] Lil Master [6+]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Ylva Rattlebones] +9 (raspberries Harv)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Gut Song] (10 +…)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Lil Master] Valet [8+]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4
[Lil Master] Order
Warcry
Gut Song
Ylva
Hunter
Joss
Lil Master
Valet
Vulture
Wolves
Must cross distance of 250 yards before attacking Valet/ Lil Master. Minions are moving to the garou.
Wolves. Run at garou
Vulture fly at garou
Valet: Hold up hand, Fire blast @ Gut Song
Lil Master. Start singing.
[Lil Master] Order
Warcry
Gut Song
Ylva
Hunter
Lights Out
Joss
Lil Master
Valet
Vulture
Wolves
[Gossamer Wing] [Declare
1a. Running. Lil bitch, I’ma comin for ya!
1b. Summoning on the fly: (+1 diff, -3 for the spilt +5 for spirit drum. I’ll decide what exactly I’m summoning while ya’ll declare. ]
[Lights Out] [Action: Create Element (Fire), target: Vulture.]
[Hunter] [Declare: Run at Valet]
[Ylva Rattlebones] [running for wolf]
[Gut Song] (Split Action: Dex + dodge Fire Blast / Howling in counter point to Master’s singing + 1 diff
Maintaining run toward Wolves.)
[Hunter] [Also spending a gnosis to activate Master of Fire]
[Warcry] [1: Running (38 yards)
R1: Running (38 yards)]
[Gut Song] (Re-declare due to Error: Split Action: Dodge Fire blast / Maintain running toward Wolves)
[Lil Master] (roll create fire Lights)
[Lights Out] [-1 Gnosis.
Gnosis: FWOOM!]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Please change your action Lights Out)
[Lights Out] [Sike!
Action: Runnin’!
Rage: Runnin’ some more!]
[Lil Master] (Joss roll summon)
[Gossamer Wing] (ok – we’re at diff +2 Gafflings are diff 4+2 =6
Summoning: wits+rituals=6+5 for spirit drum =11 -3 for split =9
all that equals 9 diff 6. Come to mama, babies….
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Valet Blast on Gut Song)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Dex 5 (defensive reflexes) + dodge 3 – 2 for split. +1 diff)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 7)
[Lil Master] (Lil Master changing action to specialty charm on Water Elemental)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Lil Master] (water elemental)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 3, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Warcry] [WP -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 6, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [WP -2]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 5, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] The garou charge at the wolves and the minions. While Valet attempts to take down Gut song to no avail. Joss in turn tries to press the advantage calling on the spirits of the water before her.
But this was Lil Master’s realm after all, she will have nothing of that. And within a turn her eyes fall on the water spirit springing to life, freezing it in its path. The dark glare of the little girl seeming to fall on the spirit and then back to Joss. No longer happy to see these creature anymore.
Warcry and Light’s Out race ahead of the pack as they look to engage the enemy. And behind the Valet and Lil Master, below the spirit of the water, the lake starts to bubble and turn. Something within the deep has been awakened. Something no so happy, something…. large.
Remember Sinclair?
[7+]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Lil Master] Order
Warcry
Gut Song
Ylva
Hunter
Lights Out
Joss
Lil Master
Valet
Kraken
Vulture
Wolves
Wolves Both Attack Sinclair
Vulture Attack Lights Out
Kraken 2 arms move to protect Valet, 1 arm to protect Lil Master, 1 Arm attacks Water elemental, dispersing it
Lil Master. Specialty Charm: Eat the Soul
Valet: Blast on Gut Song Again
[Gossamer Wing] Declare: THATS NOT NICE.
1a STILL RUNNING.
1b Summoing – ROCK GOLEMS. LUMBER FORTH MAH CHILDREN – and uh, kill the bad guys, mkay?
[Lights Out] [Action: Okay, NOW Create Element (Fire), target: Kraken.]
[Hunter] [Declare: -1Gnosis to activate speed of thought, running towards Kraken]
[Ylva Rattlebones] [Summoning Fimbul Wolves]
[Gut Song] (Initial Action: Dodge fire Blast / Continuing Running toward Wolves and Vultures)
[Gut Song] (Rage 1: Hit Wolf One with Club.
Rage 2: Hit Wolf Two with Club.)
[Warcry] [1a: Bite Wolf 1
1b: Bite Wolf 1
R1: III’M RUNNIN’]
[Warcry] [1a: Bite Wolf 1. Dex + Brawl + Perun -2 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 8 at target 5) Re-rolls: 2
[Warcry] [Damage: Str + 2 + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 21 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 11 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 5, 5, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Warcry] [1b. Bite Wolf 1. Dex + Brawl + Perun -3 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 5) Re-rolls: 2
[Lil Master] (Overwhelming damage… I will rule wolf 1 dead. ST decision)
[Warcry] [Damage. Str + 2 + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 20 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 9 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 5, 5, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Ylva Rattlebones] [Summoning Fimbul Wolves : sacrifices Harv to Kahseeno!!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 10) [WP]
[Lights Out] [-1 Gnosis.
Gnosis: FWOOM!]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6) [WP]
[Lil Master] (soak kraken)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 5, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] Summoning: wits + rituals + sd = 11 -3 for split = 9
Earth Elementals – gafflings 4 +1 diff for movement = diff 5
COME ON MAH BABIES AND LUMBER FORTH! I WANNA ROCK (nroll) ALL NIIIIIIGHT!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Lil Master] (Everyone please roll temp WP, diff 6)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 6) [WP]
[Warcry] [WP -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 5, 6, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [WP -3]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 1, 2 (Botch x 2 at target 6)
[Hunter] [current wp]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (WP)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 9 (Failure at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] (WP-1=4_
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Ylva Rattlebones] [wp]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 5, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Joss, Hunter, Ylva, each loss 1 temp WP. Gut Song loses 2 temp WP. Warcry loses zero WP. Light’s Out loses all WP and is stunned for next round. Lil Master gains 4 wp.)
[Lil Master] (Valet changes action to Blast on Warcry. +1 diff)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 7)
[Lil Master] (Damage roll)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 8, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Wolf 2 attack Warcry)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Warcry] [Soak +1]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Vulture: attack charlie -2 diff for stun)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 4, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 4)
[Lil Master] (Damage on charlie)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [Soak: Stamina +3 (Crinos) +2 (soak talen).]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Initial Action: Run to Wolf/Strike Wolf 2 with Club +1 diff -3 split.)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Str 5 + 1 Club)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 9 (Failure at target 6)
[Lil Master] Rage actions. Warcry runs up to tentacle of Kraken protecting Lil Master. Gut’s attack)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 6, 6, 8, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (ignore roll)
[Gut Song] (Rage 1: Attack Wolf with Club. Dex 5 + Melee 3. Diff 5)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Gut Song] (Str 5 + 4 sux + 1 club)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Wolf 2 dead)
[Gut Song] (Attacking Vulture on Charlie: Dex 5 + Melee 3. Diff 5 + 1)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Str 5 + 1 club + 3 sux)
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 3, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] The fight is a fury of pain and anguish as the garou come to the battle lines. Warcry is the first to shed blood, ripping the tainted wolf in two, leaving the other barely on life’s edge before moving onto the reasons she is here.
Gut song comes in to finish the last of the wolves as he runs up, club ready for the kill. The vulture taking the second of his swings as he goes to town on it. Wounding it.
The Theurges add there own brand of aid. Seeming to call on their spirit friends to aid them. Joss calling up an earth elemental, as it rips from beneath their feet. Ready to do her bidding. Ylva not so lucky as she calls down all her might to try and call on the aid of the wolves of legend, unlucky.
Charlie tries to set a creature covered in water on fire and that fire flares out just as quickly as it is called, The kraken not even scorched.
Valet seems to try again to stun another garou but fails miserably. The Kraken moving to protect the pair now, as well as dispersing the spirit of water, pulling up 3 more arms to work against the garou.
And Lil Master…. SHE IS PISSED. And everyone suffers as she does what she does best, pulling on the life of the garou before her. Stunning Charlie in the process as her body swells with the new found strength.
Order
Warcry
Gut Song
Ylva
Hunter
Lights Out (Stuned this turn)
Joss
Earth Elemental (under Joss control)
Lil Master
Valet
Kraken
Vulture 2 damage
Vulture: Flee
Kraken: 4 attacks, one for each arm. Attack Warcry, Gut Song, Hunter and Earth Elemental
Valet: Charge
Lil Master: Special Charm number 2. Tap the heart.
[Lil Master] (All attacks on Valet and Lil Master are +2 diff. Until Kraken’s tentacles are removed from protecting them)
[Gossamer Wing] Joss: ATTACK.
Split first action, 1 rage.
1a: Bite Master
1b: bite master
1r: bite master
Earthy Buddy: Punch Kraken protecting the master. HARD.
[Hunter] [Declare:
1a: leap onto kraken’s back
1b: Bite Kraken
R1: Claw Kraken’s eyes – called shot
R2: Claw Kraken again]
[Ylva Rattlebones] [Second verse same as the first: summoning]
[Gut Song] (Split Action: Bite Kraken tentacle protecting / Bite Kraken Tentacle protecting Valet.
Rage 1: Club Valet.
Rage 2: Club Valet
Rage 3: Club Valet)
[Gut Song] (Protecting Valet^)
[Warcry] [1a. Bite Master
1b. Bite Master
R1. Bite Master AGAIN]
[Warcry] [1a]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 6, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 7) Re-rolls: 2
[Warcry] [Dmg]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)
[Warcry] [1b]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 7) Re-rolls: 1
[Warcry] [Dmg]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Split action: Bite Tentacle: Dex 5 + Brawl 2. – 2 for split)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 9, 9 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Gut Song] (Str 5 + 1 Bite)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 4, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Bite 2: – 3 for Split)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 2, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[Gut Song] (Str 5 + 1 Bite + 2 sux)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Ylva Rattlebones] [Summoning Fimbul Wolves!!: @++$+%@+@!!!!11!! Kahseeno!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 6, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 1 at target 10) [WP]
[Lights Out]
[Hunter] [Dex+Ath -2]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 4, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Hunter] [Changing second split to swimmin – Dex+Ath -3]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 4, 4, 5, 9, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Hunter] [That should have been diff 7 – still 2 sux]
[Lil Master] (Earth attacks)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Tentacle soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] DIE BITCH!
1a: difficulty +2 -2 for split
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 7) Re-rolls: 1
[Gossamer Wing] Damage: SRSLY DIE.
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (3 more dice cause I suck)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 6, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] 1b -3 for split, +2 diff
OH F U Lil girl!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 7, 7 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Gossamer Wing] Damage – CHOMIPTY
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak again)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)
[Lil Master] Kraken: Attack on Warcry
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 6, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Lil Master] damage on Warcry
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Warcry] [Soak + 1]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 5, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] Kraken damage on Gut Song
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (damage on Gut Song)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 6, 6, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 5, 6, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] Change action on Hunter to grapple. Resist at str+brawl/ dex+brawl your choice. doff 7 due to being in water)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4 (Botch x 2 at target 7)
[Lil Master] (Entangles its tentacles within itself…. Cannot attack Earth Elemental. Only 2 arms can be used for attack for 3 turns.)
[Lil Master] Lil Master: Tap the Heart of Warcry.
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Botch x 1 at target 9)
[Lil Master] (Warcry… your attack on Lil master is now at -2 diff)
[Lil Master] (Rage rolls. Warcry, diff from tentacle protection is negated, normal diff behind tentacle wall)
[Warcry] [Rage: Bite Master. Dex + Brawl + Perun]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 11 at target 5) Re-rolls: 5
[Warcry] [Damage. Str + 2 + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 18 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Dex 5 + Melee 3. Diff 5 + 2 for Tentacle Protection. Clubbin’ Valet)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Gut Song] (Str 5 + 1 Club + 2 sux)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 5, 5, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Rage 2: Same as last)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 10 (Failure at target 7)
[Gut Song] (Andddd the third: Grim be the hand of Gaia…)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Gut Song] (Same damage as First roll. Fuck this noise…)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Hunter] [Swimmin swimmin +1 diff cause changed action]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7 (Success x 1 at target 7)
[Hunter] [Rage attack – Claw – Dex+Brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Hunter] [diff 4, 4 sux]
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Hunter] [Str+2+3]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] CHOMITY! DIE ya lil BITCH.
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 2 at target 7)
[Gossamer Wing] RAAAAAAAAAAAAR CHOMP!
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] The battle continued on as Warcry started in on Master, but was too full of herself to get through the wall that she created around her, protecting herself from the onslaught. Valet was in the same boat as Gut Song tried at him.
The Kraken too first blood on the garou, wounding Warcry in this turn. Taking some of her off.
Hunter now stood atop the Kraken’s head. trying to claw through as the Kraken was starting to focus on the creature above it.
Order
Warcry 2A
Gut Song
Ylva
Hunter
Lights Out
Joss
Lil Master 2 damage
Valet
Kraken
[Lil Master] Kraken: 2 attacks on Hunter
Lil Master: Tap the Heart on Warcry again
Valet: Charge again
[Lil Master] Order
Warcry
Gut Song
Ylva
Hunter
Lights Out
Joss
Earth Elemental
Lil Master
Valet
Kraken
[Gossamer Wing] Oh fuck THIS noise!
Joss: split first action, 1 rage
1a Bite master
1b bite master
1 r BITE MASTER
Earth Buddy: HIT KRACKEN PROTECTING MASTER.
[Lights Out] [Split Action: Claw/Claw/Claw Master. Rage Action: Claw Her Again!]
[Hunter] [Declare:
1a: Bite Kraken
1b: Bite Kraken
R1: Claw Kraken’s eyes – called shot
R2: Claw Kraken]
[Ylva Rattlebones] Split action 1: Summoning Greater Earth Elemental
Split Action 2: bite on tentacle protecting Master
[Gut Song] (Split Action: Bite Tentacle protecting Valet / Bite tentacle protecting Valet.
Last Rage: Bite Valet (1WP)
[Warcry] [1a. Fur Gnarl on Lil Master
1b. Fur Gnarl on Lil Master
R1: BITE HER]
[Warcry] [1a. Fur Gnarl. Dex + Brawl + Perun -2 (split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Warcry] [Damage. Str + 1 + Suxx -1. For every 2 damage before soak, target loses a die from soak rolls]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 5, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Warcry] [Moar damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Warcry] [1b. Fur Gnarl. Dex + Brawl + Perun -3 (split) // +2 diff, targeting same gnarled spot]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 7) [WP] Re-rolls: 2
[Warcry] [Damage. Str + 1 + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Bite Tentacle: Dex 5 + Brawl 2 – 2 dice.)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 10 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Gut Song] (Str 6 + 1 bite)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Second split. -3 dice)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 5 (Failure at target 5)
[Ylva Rattlebones] [1a Summoning Greater Earth Elemental -2 diff split]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 7)
[Ylva Rattlebones] second split bite on tentacle. -3 split
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Ylva Rattlebones] damage
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Hunter] [First bite – Dex+Brawl -2dice -2diff]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 6 (Success x 3 at target 3)
[Hunter] [Str+1+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6 (Failure at target 6)
[Hunter] [Bite 2 – Dex+Brawl -3 diff3]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 3) Re-rolls: 1
[Hunter] [Str+1+3]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [First Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+1): Claw! -3 pool (split), +2 diff (Kraken).]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 5, 7, 9 (Failure at target 8)
[Lights Out] [Second Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+1): Claw! -4 pool (split), +2 diff (Kraken).]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 8)
[Lights Out] [Damage: Strength +1 (Bear) +4 (Crinos) +2 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [Third Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+1): Claw! -5 pool (split), +2 diff (Kraken).]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 4, 10 (Success x 1 at target 8)
[Lights Out] [Damage: Strength +1 (Bear) +4 (Crinos) +0] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] Earth Elemental on tentacle around Master
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (Failure at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] 1a: -2 for split +2 diff
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 7)
[Gossamer Wing] DAMAGE PLS!
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] 1b OH COME ON. BITE. WITH WP.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 7) [WP] Re-rolls: 2
[Gossamer Wing] AND CHOMPITY LIKE YOU MEAN IT! HAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 7, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] Lil Master. Tap the Heart of Warcry
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 1 at target 9)
[Lil Master] (Normal difficult for Warcry to attack Lil Master once again. Rage Rolls. Warcry)
[Lil Master] (Kraken was stunned this round)
[Warcry] [R1: Bite. Dex + Brawl + Perun // +2 diff (targeting)]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 8) [WP] Re-rolls: 2
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Warcry] [Damage. Str + 2 + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Rage: Bite Valet. Dex 5 + Brawl 2. Diff 7)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 10 (Success x 2 at target 7) [WP]
[Gut Song] (Str 6 + 1 Bite + 1 sux)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9 (Failure at target 6)
[Hunter] [Claw to the eyes – diff 6-2+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Hunter] [Str+2+5]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 8 (Failure at target 6)
[Hunter] [Dex+Ath]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Hunter] [Changing rage action to Clawing Master – Dex+Brawl -2 diff back attack]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 6 at target 4)
[Hunter] [Str+2+5]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 8, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+1): Claw!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [Damage: Strength +1 (Bear) +4 (Crinos) +1 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] RAAAAAAAAAAAGE! CHOMPITY THE LIL BITCH! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIL!
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 4, 5, 6, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5) Re-rolls: 2
[Gossamer Wing] Kahseeno? I will TOTALLY SACRIFICE KAI. I SWEAR IT. DAMAGE!
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)
[Lil Master] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 6, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Lil Master] The war seemed to be changing in their favor on this front now. Warcry drawing blood on Lil Master and the onslaught did not stop. As more and more damage came down on the little looking girl. She may have had control over the realm at one point, but as she started to take on damage, the realm started to shake and quiver.
Gut song was not taking on Valet well as the rest had focused on the cause of so much pain. Valet just seemed out of his reach.
But Hunter had other ideas and that was more than enough. As she went to town on Kraken, ripping up his eyes and head, the creature recoiled, pulling back to the safety of the deep, protecting himself in spite of his master, another point of control as Lil master was slipping.
And now Valet was no longer happy to see this. He had finished his charging as he called out.
“This ends now.”
His hand coming down, and the palm pointing at…. Lil Master.
“Your usefulness has ended.”
And with that, the blast is let loose, ripping through Lil Master and part of the dream realm. The blast radius firing outward as he came down on her. Vaporizing her along with part of the realm, leaving a vent into the deep umbral there.
As for Valet, he bows his head as the blast consumes them. A portal opening for him to escape as the energy explodes outward.
(Blast Damage. Everyone soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Hunter] [Soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 3, 6, 7, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Ylva Rattlebones] [Soaking?]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] (soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 5, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Warcry] [soak +1]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Gut Song] (Soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Lights Out] [Soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 3, 6, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Gossamer Wing] The Valet destroys the Master, and Joss whips her head around to face him, just as the blast blinds and roars through them all. Her lips curl into a snarl, and she charges toward the portal as he steps through and disappears…
Her roar is pure frustration as she paces in a circle, then lifts her head to survey the realm hat’s falling apart around them. Frustration BLEEDS from her as she stalks to each of them, sees if anyone is in dire need of healing, if anyone needs anything. Then it’s with a growl as she commands.
[HT] Realmside. Everyone. Now.
And with that she steps sideways.
[Warcry] Sinclair howls — no, roars — with aggravation as the Valet gets away, as he destroys the being they wasted so much of their energy on attacking. She bristles, about to lunge after him, when the Godi speaks.
With a snarl, she obeys.
[Hunter] It was a long battle. For awhile, the odds didn’t seem to be in their favor. Hunter had swum out to attack the beast in the lake, climbing onto its back and shredding through its rubbery flesh with her teeth and claws. At one point, a vicious swipe tore out its eyes, and the kraken descended back into the water, retreating. Normally, she’d have followed, but there was a more important matter to deal with, so she jumped back to dry land and lunged at the girl who’d seemed to be the cause of all this.
Her claws barely made contact, but ultimately it didn’t matter, because Gossamer Wing was there to deliver a terrible bite. And then… the girl’s guardian turned on her. His blast singed Hunter’s fur as she snarled and turned away, but did no particular damage. There wasn’t time to go after the escaping Valet. He was through the portal before any of them could get to him.
And then the Godi was commanding that they go realmside, and Hunter followed her through the gauntlet.
[Ylva Rattlebones] Rattlebones frustration echoes that of the Elder Godi. She switches her tail violently in the air and follows the orders to cross back over.
[Lil Master] As Lil Master is destroyed, the realm starts to quiver and shake. The field browning and dying. The water turning from the crystal clear blue, with spots of blood red, to the dark navy almost black.
Gray rock started to crack and crackle away. The world was falling apart. They needed to escape and soon.
[Gossamer Wing] One by one they pop over, falling from the gauntlet in exhausted heaps. The damage was low, but they are drained, tired… exhausted. Rage is low or gone, WP is low or gone, everything… is low or gone.
And he got away.
And the stone is gone too.
She sinks to a crouch as she waits for everyone to arrive in the abandoned building again. When they do, her voice is soft, though the frustration tremors underneath. “Didn’t go exactly as planned, did it? Such things rarely do. We will know better when he comes back for more.” Not if. When. “If any needs healing, see me before you go.”
A pause, brief, and then.
“Thank you all. You did well.”
[Hunter] The world was crumbling around them. Disintegrating. Melting. The being that had dreamed it into existence was no more, and so her creation was dying. Quickly, the assembled garou pushed their way back through the gauntlet, popping into the physical world back in the abandoned building.
Hunter looked around to make sure that they were all present and accounted for, then she shifted back to her breed form. The Godi’s offer of healing would not be necessary, in her case. She was tired, and drained of most of her rage, but otherwise… there was not a scratch on her. She looked over at Joss and gave a little nod of recognition.
“As did you. For all that it didn’t go… as expected.” It meant something that Hunter was saying this. She did not give compliments often, even to her superiors. “You fight like a full moon.” The tall amazon canted her head to one side and exhibited the fainted touch of a wry grin.
[Hunter] [er…*faintest*]
[Gossamer Wing] She has shaken to her human skin, her skirts flaring around bare feet, her dreads hanging low and heavy about her shoulders, down her back as she rests her forehead on her knees for a few seconds. They begin to clear out, leaving naught but Hunter and herself in the living room of the abandoned building. She lifts her hands and pushes her dreads back, lifting her face to the ceiling, closing her eyes briefly.
Then she finds something amusing, and chuckles softly after Hunter speaks. Even exhausted, her eyes are bright, blue, bottomless, and that smile always reaches the depths of them with a warmth one does not expect of a Fenrir. “Thanks. And I fight like a Fenrir. Sometimes to my detriment.”
She tips her head to the side, and then stands – not that it’ll make much difference, as Hunter towers over the 5’6″ Godi. “I’m not sure we’ve met before – my memory is a bit fuzzy right now, so if we have, I apologize.”
[Hunter] She gave a light shake of her head, reaching up to pull her dark hair back and away from her face with both hands. Smoothing it down. She might have been the taller of the two by some noticeable margin, but despite her intimidating appearance, the pure-blooded egyptian (by blood, not by culture) was not the most dangerous of the two, or the highest in rank. Appearances could be deceiving.
Not that Hunter wasn’t still a dangerous creature. She’d already exhibited as much. The lone ahroun could, at times, be difficult to get along with, but now didn’t seem to be one of those times. She was improving. And it helped when she respected the garou in question.
“No, we haven’t. My name is Hunter. Cliath Ahroun of the Silent Striders.” Only a deed name. No more. But then, she’d never given more than that to any here. It was the name she seemed to go by, and so, it was enough. “If you ever need an ahroun by your side, and I’m in town, you’re welcome to call on me.”
[Gossamer Wing] She pulls the feathers from her hair, sticking them back into the bag that hangs at her side – canvas, and filled with lumps and bumps that clank and rattle and shift oddly. There’s no telling what she has inside there – sometimes it’s better not to ask.
“It’s a pleasure to meet you, Hunter. I am Joss Lehrer, Gossamer Wing, Foster Godi of the Fenrir, Eagle and Theurge Elder for the Sept of Maelstrom.” She does much more, and she is in danger of having an introduction that is as long as a Silver Fangs.
She smiles though, and hops up to sit on the edge of a crate, her legs swinging, barefeet thumping against the side lightly. She couldn’t be older than 18, if that, and sometimes – like now with her rage and willpower lowered, with her body and soul exhausted, she seems every bit the teenage girl.
“And if you’ve need of a Godi, the same goes in return. Going after the Kracken in the water was genius. If not, I wouldn’t have hit her with that last bite as I did.” She growls briefly, frustrated. “She’s been stalking us for MONTHS and he just… ugh! I have a feeling we won’t see the last of him.”
[Hunter] It was a strange thing. Joss was younger than Hunter by some 7 or 8 years. Or at least, she looked it. Life could be hard on the lone wolves. No one but the spirits saw their deeds. No one helped them when they fell. No one sang of their victories when they won a battle.
And Hunter had probably done more than a few questionable things in her long years as a cliath. There was a fuzziness to her morality that came along with bitterness and single-minded purpose. One of these days, perhaps, she might meet someone who could soften that side of her a little.
The Godi complimented her, then expressed her frustration at the battle, and Hunter took the thought into consideration. “Likely not. I hate to leave things unfinished, myself. When an enemy lives… they inevitably return stronger.”
[Gossamer Wing] She nods in agreement, and runs her hands over her thighs, feeling the ridges of scar tissue there through the material of her skirts. She was off, tonight, that much was true, and she’s not quite sure why. Perhaps the problem with Andrew, perhaps she is tired, perhaps she is simply stretched too thin, too far.
But that by no means is to say she will slow down, either. She gives more than most, every single moment. She gives her all, all the time.
“I’ll be waiting for him when he does, too. Stronger myself, if possible.” She lifts her hands and shakes them, briefly, before clapping them together once, and tucking them between her thighs as she grins.
“So, you passing through, or going to stay a while?”
[Hunter] This moment was an oddity. Hunter, hanging around to speak with another garou for no other reason than because… she hadn’t anything else to do. There were times in her life when she had gone for over a month without speaking a single word to another living thing. Times when the days passed in silence. When the wind and earth were all the company she kept.
Was she passing through? Was she going to stay? She’d been asked this question before. She’d even asked it of herself.
“I’m always passing through,” she mused quietly. “I’ve already been here far too long, I think. My blood is howling for the road. But there is… ” No, this was not something she desired to speak of. “I’m going to be here as much as I can. I’ll go, but I’ll come back. Some of our tribe have been known to simply make circles around a particular place. I suppose… I can try having something like a home, for awhile. Somewhere to come back to.” She looked around at the decrepit building and laughed gently. “Chicago is as good a place as any.”
[Gossamer Wing] She laughs softly and nods. “It is that. It must get lonely on the road…”
It’s the obvious of course, but Joss knows that she would never be alone on the road. She might go even crazier due to constant communication with spirits instead of people, but loneliness is never a problem for the Godi.
“I’m not much of one to travel myself. I’ve been in two Septs – the one of my birth, and this one. Sometimes I think I’d like to travel – but I find it hard to stray too far from my roots.”
[Hunter] Hunter didn’t seem particularly inclined to sit down. Her restless spirit demanded movement. Alertness. Instead she paced slowly over to the wall and leaned lightly against it, looking upwards as if somehow the ceiling would give her some kind of intuition into the state of her life. It didn’t, of course.
“I don’t think I know the difference anymore, to be honest. It’s my life. It’s always been. Well… since my change, anyway.” Since before that, even. But Hunter didn’t like to talk about a time before her life as a garou. That was probably why she so rarely used her birth name anymore. Layla was a person. A flawed and haunted person. Someone with a past. Hunter was merely Hunter. Her identity was what she did. What she was. And she didn’t need to waste time thinking about other things, like loneliness.
“I think a bit of travel is good. But you’ve probably got the right way of things. A garou needs a sept. A pack. A home. You’re lucky to have that.” She nodded gently to no one in particular. Thoughtfully.
[Gossamer Wing] She laughs softly. “I’m very lucky. My upbringing is different than most – and I have had a lot of love and a sharp sense of home all my life.” She grins and admits “I even call my parents every week, like a good girl.”
She wrinkles her nose. “And they scold me still. You’d think I’d outgrow that at some point…” But it’s clear, even as she says it, that she doesn’t mind it at all. The Godi that Smiles was brought up knowing exactly what she could expect when she changed, when she joined the ranks of Garou at the Sept of the Storm Hammer. She prepared every day of her life to be exactly what she was, what she is.
“I am lucky.” She says again, and then grins brightly. “Even if they think I’m crazy. A fenrir who smiles – laughs even! Unheard of…”
[Hunter] Frankly, the idea of a Fostern of the nation being guilted into calling home on a regular basis like a freshman away at her first year of college was… practically anathema for the ahroun. It made her glance at Joss oddly, head tilting to one side as dark eyes contemplated the Godi. There was an intensely predatory nature about the strider. Often her movements resembled a wolf-born more than they did a human-born. In that moment, one could almost see the wolf peeking out from behind human flesh.
Tonight, the wolf was curious.
“You’re… an odd one.” But worthy of respect, nonetheless, and there was still respect in Hunter’s tone, blunt though the words might have seemed. “I’m not sure I understand you, but… I suppose that’s part of being a theurge. A Godi.” Again, a little wry humor crept its way into her expression.
“Would you ever consider teaching someone who was neither a pack-mate or a tribe-mate? I have to admit… I could use a higher knowledge of rituals, myself. I don’t always have the luxury of a crescent moon to assist me.”
[Gossamer Wing] “I get that a lot.” She says with a grin. Hunter is curious, and she knows well that feeling herself. It’s part of what drives her to be the best she can be, to know more rites, to know more of the spirits, to be the one the Sept turns too..
“Most of us – before we change, even if we are part of the Nation, aren’t brought up in a family unit. I was. My dad is a Godi – Adren now, and he and mama knew what I’d be the moment I was born. They decided to prepare me from the earliest moment possible. The phases of the moon were among my first words. I always knew, and they taught me everything possible that they could before my change, and then emmersed me in Umbral studies after it.” she shrugs a shoulder and grins. “I was loved.”
A beat, and then laughter. “And probably crazy. But at least I’m a fun crazy!” Well, if one considers tag with the spirits and playing in water fountains fun, that is…
The question comes, and she nods. “I’d be honored to teach you. What do you wish to know?”
[Hunter] For Gossamer Wing, the world was full of life and magic. Hunter listened to her speak, pondering the Godi’s enthusiasm as if it were something entirely foreign to her. Had they been speaking at another moment, when her rage was at its unrelenting peak and she was not calm from the exertions of a fight… or had Joss been some silly cliath just past her rite of passage… the ahroun’s reaction might have been something more prickly and bitter.
As it was, she simply took it in, contemplating. Love. Fun. Family. She didn’t understand. She couldn’t. And the ache these words caused in her was something she was not in the least comfortable with. So she shut it down quickly, going numb. Cold. Distant.
“It sounds like a good life,” she finally admitted, a bit neutrally. But then Joss was asking her what she wished to know, and this was something she could talk about more easily, so she gave the question some consideration. “Anything you could teach me, honestly. I haven’t much need for some of the more social rites, but… spirits intrigue me.” The ahroun who would be a theurge. “The rite of binding would be particularly useful. I would like to be able to cleanse as well.”
[Gossamer Wing] She senses the unease – it’s not something entirely foreign to her, as many are not quite sure what to think of the young Godi. There is something to be said of a child who gained fostern at the age of 17. Perhaps her parents, despite ridicule, had it right.
Hunter names the first rites that intrigue her, and Joss nods with a grin. “You’re in luck! I’ve been teaching the Ahroun elder how to summon, and then bind for her. It’ll be easy to add binding to the lessons, and teach you both. As for cleansing – around here? You’ll have need of that a lot. I’ll teach you that one first. It’s definitely the one I use the most since coming to Chicago.”
[Hunter] “Yes, it does seem there is a lot of need for it. I imagine I would find it very useful. Thank you, in advance. I’ll try to track you down whenever I’m in town. It’ll be good to have something useful to do besides wandering the streets looking for trouble. Not that I mind either wandering or trouble.”
No, of course she didn’t. Joss had seen the way she was in a fight. She almost relished it, the way she’d fallen upon that kraken without even a hint of fear. And the monster may very well have killed her, had things not gone as planned. But then, they both shared that trait. A Fenrir understood what it was to live for battle. Even someone as fun-loving as Joss.
“It’s been a long night. I’ll leave you be. But… I’ll find you again soon. And if there’s anything I could do to return the favor, please don’t hesitate to ask.” Striders could be could for a few things, after all. Hunter stood up from the wall and nodded her thanks once more to the Godi. Then, without further preamble, she turned and walked out into the night.
[Hunter] [er… could be *good* for a few things – late night typos galore]
[Gossamer Wing] She nods with a smile, and as Hunter makes moves to leave, she hops off the crate and locates her shoes, slipping them on. She dusts off her hands, her skirts, and then smiles at Hunter. “Of course. I look forward to meeting with you again. Have a good night, Hunter.”
And after she takes her leave, Joss checks about to make sure they haven’t left anything of their presence behind, before she too heads home. It’s time for patrols.