Paul Bode's Roleplay Game

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Rage Across the Waves - Saturday March 22nd 2016 - 9.10am - Waxing gibbous moon; Session 5 - Faith

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'Highnote' and Tristan stepped off the tugboat on to the penumbral stone bridge at the narrow end of the Verulanium park. They crossed over to the Northern path heading to the blue-green shield emitting its light before them. Across the grassy hills the ghostly expression of the roman fortification and the image of the wraith-like Watcher spirits ambling about. Heading to the bank of the lake, their shoes slipping into the mud they howled an announcement to the shield before them. A haggered figure appeared all too quickly emerging from the caern shield, black robes, hood over its head, clutching a staff for support. She/he accepted their request to stay and then further asked the purpose of their visit. Deimos, the hooded figure then explained that Hand of Bear, whom it also cynically called 'the Good Father' was away on a personal quest. 'Highnote' suggested that Deimos might be able to help them instead. When they questioned her about spirits, Deimos simply said that spirits are single minded, easy manipulated and Christian spirits were no different to all the Gaian ones. When they also asked the hooded figure about Watchers, Deimos explained that the spirits always gathered around areas of conflict. They fed on conflict. The Fianna and Silver Fang decided to stay and wait for the return of Father Wimbish, so Deimos summoned a guide for them. Lee Holden soon bounded down to the Lake all ginger hair and grin, he escorted them to a residential cottage alongside of the cathedral. Here they were given a key, so they had a room to stay in and were asked to return it when they left. They then headed to the Fighting Cocks, a hexagonal Tudor bar, close the lakeside. They sat in their selected booth, had free drinks and eventually Lee brought his keyboard out and music was provided by the talented ragabash. The Caern Leader, Jonathan Brimble came over as the evening went on, introduced himself, learned a little about the new caern from the pair and explained that, if needed, he could send Father Wimbish to their caern when he returned, though they were happy to remain and stay. 'Highnote' mentally reported back to Charlie and he then ordered them to return. Not really wanting to, 'Highnote' spoke with Tristan to see if he would support the leave and as a result, they made their excuses. Once they'd returned the key they then promptly left to return home. Tristan called his mother and asked to borrow a car. They both spirit bridged back to his family home and then took the borrowed car to the coast, where they could spirit bridge back to the island. The car was left on the grassy slope.

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Heifel made his farewells and decided to leave the caern and a few were sad to see him leave. He was asked to go to both the Sept of the Park and Sept of the Past Days to inquire about a garou to take the role of Caern Guardian and also pick up Hadya Dariz and Hek Mek, the potential Silent Strider for this caern. The First pack returned carrying 'Wordy' as his leg was still useless following his injury in battle with the Silent Strider. Wordy made no complaint and sat quietly as 'Powercut' mother touched him and brought him back to full mobility. Around this time, 'Highnote' and Tristan 'Remembers in Silence' arrived back from St Albans. Tony requested some help to bring the ordered supplies to the island. All of the orders had also arrived with the shop supplies for the start of the season, Tristan and 'Completes' offered to help him with the haul. The sea was very rough for the two garou, but Tony took it in his stride, which made them think that things must get much worse. Once they docked at the coast, they went to the warehouse and Tony was a little shocked by the 12 huge barrels and filtration system for the upgrade to the island's water supply. 'Completes helped to load the filtration system and two of the barrels to the boat and loaded the barrels with as much supplies as they could to maximize the space. After this, they made 2 other journeys across to the coast before they called it a day - and they still had another journey to make. During the night, the Rokea moved into the caern's waters and the totem went over to the eastern shore to investigate its new protectors. It peered into the dark waters and the predatory sharks peered back. In the morning, the £150,000 cleared into the island's accounts and Charlie let Tony know that he could now get his new boat. Tony took this time to notify the leader that he had some interviews planned, but was hopeful for a new kid called 'Robbo'.

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'Powercut' called a meeting in the penumbra with all the caern members, they gave the physical watch as a trial to Anne-Maria Sims and the rest of the caern was in the spiritual realm. 'Powercut' explained that he needed to know people's capabilities for the upcoming moot and he needed to know their combat ability. The best way of doing this was sparring fights. The Get-of-Fenris ragabash 'Completes' eagerly stepped forward and sparred up with Tristan. A brutal exchange of punches and the ragabash quickly gained victory as he knocked the Silver fang to the ground. 'Highnote' went next and she used some gifts to gain advantage but again 'Completes' knocked her to the ground and she tapped out before being knocked unconscious as the Fianna did not want to quit. As no one seemed to be able to beat the Get, Charlie stepped in. He hit the Fenrir a solid blow, but then the Fenrir took the advantage and after a few exchanges Charlie tried to activate 'True Fear' to cow the Fenrir, but as he prepared the gift, the Fenrir lunged forward with a big roundhouse. Charlie went flying and when he came around, people were above him tapping his face to rouse him. Even the leader had been taken down. No one had managed to defeat the Fenrir, so 'Powercut' stepped in, the Theurge was older and outranked the ragabash. Fenrir looked at Fenrir. When they lunged, blows were landed on both sides, but 'Completes' outstretched his limit with lots of small blows, while 'Powercut' went for a simple, dodge and punch aiming directly at his opponents head. After a few exchanges, 'Completes' was getting worn down and a final exchange brought the Head Theurge the victory. Like at Helsby Hill, the Get Theurge had to be able to push his point among the hot heads. 'Powercut' thanked all, saying he'd learned were people were best placed at the moot.

Two days after leaving Heifel returned bringing with him the 4 new candidates for the two roles, Highnote greeted them, showed and took them to the bird observatory in the penumbra. Charlie met Hadya, a small Somalia garou, Hek Mek, a chunky Egyptian who was head and shoulders above her, there was 'Diptheria', a Bonegnawer from Sept of the Cardboard Box looking more like a snooker player, than a homeless man and finally a red haired moody Black Fury brandishing the klaive 'Ellon Vallen' called 'Destiny'. He spoke to them each briefly and then he asked the two candidates for Caern Guardian to fight in homid. 'Destiny' asked for clarification on gifts and if she could use her klaive. He pointed out that it was a non-lethal contest, so the klaive would not be allowed. They battled each other and it was clear that 'Diptheria' was clearly the stronger of the two after the short fight. 'Destiny' quickly pointed out that she was disabled by not being able to use her klaive, and that a guardian needs to be able to organise the caern defences. Charlie acknowledged this. They were then given a tour of the island, both in the physical and the penumbra. Charlie spoke with both of them privately about what they would do to help defend the caern, listening to both their ideas. 'Destiny' was strong willed and had the potential to bring the Black Fury caern as potential allies, but her strong dislike of alpha males made her a little threatening for the leadership. Charlie decided to offer the position to the Bone Gnawer and 'Destiny' stormed off at the rejection. 'Diptheria' was joined to the caern totem and took the role of Guardian. Hadya and Het-Met stayed the night and would have the final decision in the morning. They settled them down into temporary accommodation.

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That night, the red sky of the sunset soon brought strong winds, heavy rain and forked lightning and as the Sun went down, the North Sea's strong winds buffeted the island and rushed across the land. Islanders windows were shuttered to prevent glass breaking and the settlement went into the lock-down. Foam from the ocean built up on the coast like a huge blanket and many of the native animals withdrew into cracks and crannies in preparation for the storm. Seals moving closer to the cliff face sheltering from the hurricane winds. Charlie on physical duty in the evening was getting knocked about in the wind and the foam now getting blown across the island, stacking up on structures. Unable to see the path, he slipped, fell, and snapped his leg joint. In intense pain, he shifted up to heal his wound in glabro and started to take shelter. 'Completes' offered to take the shift and went out in to the wind. The Get was elated back the hurricane and took all the winds had to offer, he even saw one of the cattle enclosures wall blow past him and despite many scrapes throughout the night, his grin never failed. In the penumbra it was worse, 'Highnote' and Dalia enjoyed the setting sun singing and playing music. The calm before the storm but then the hurricane hit. Here humanoid wraith like spirits started to fly through the site, including the shield and they pushed and shoved the two garou as the endless stream of them continued. It got so frightening that the pair had to shift into their war form. Dalia quickly lost her flute and when reached to get it, lost her grip of the rock-face and hard to resort to clinging to 'Highnotes' leg. Highnote, used her gift 'Howl of the Banshee' to try and frighten the Wyld spirits, but it was Dalia that could not keep the grip through the howl and she let go. Dalia disappeared backwards into the darkness and mist. Highnote stopped her howl and let go trying to rescue her caern mate, reaching for her wildly. Dalia luckily grabbed her when she came into view and they both took shelter on the lower ledge of a cliff face, protected from the wind. Unable to continue with the caern guard, she informed 'Powercut' who was also in the penumbra dealing with the same situation. 'Powercut' could sense the totem's distress and he made his way to its location by digging his claws in warform into the ground to prevent being dislodged and blown across the ground. He'd never experienced such a hurricane. When he got to the south-western side of the caern, he could see the poor bird - pinned to the shield about 20ft of the ground. It flapped its wings feebly in the wind and called, but could not bring itself to the ground. It's body pinned against the glowing shield, which bulged with its close proximity. Not being able to do anything to help, he found a place to hide from the storm where he could keep an eye on the totem. He settled in one of the ruined structures.

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In the early hours of the morning before sunrise, the winds dissipated and a mess was strewn across the island, most of the foam had gone leaving shattered roof tiles which had been blown down and pieces of fences scattered about. 'Highnote and Dalia had tried to find somewhere to sleep when the winds had died down around 4am and as most of the rooms were taken had fallen asleep on the sofas at Cristian. Dalia in lupus. After sunrise 'Remembers' was walking about assessing the damage and tidying up the mess, shaking his head. He went by Tony who had collected his things that had been strewn about from his damaged shack and was now checking if his boat was not badly damaged as it had banged against the pier. He still had another supply to pick up and had to check the boat was sound. Most of the caern members went about checking on the site after the storm. Charlie went to check on Anne, her dogs barked at him while Tristan was putting tiles back on to her roof. Susan was trying to tidy her battered garden and confirmed that this happened from time to time, more often in the Winter months.

The caern assembled for an update in Cristian, the Bird Observatory for an update for all that had happened. Here he also spoke with Het-Met and Hadya about their experiences. Hadya explained her turbulent Rite of Passage and her journeys with Heifel and she mentioned she'd had experiences with the Changing Breeds in the East. On Het-Met's interview his experiences had been in Egypt, mostly combat focused ones in that turbulent region and he said he'd built power and wealth which he could bring to the caern. Charlie was not impressed and decided to offer the position to Hadya as he thought she would be more amiable to their situation here. Het-Met did not take this well either, saying that was Charlie 'a stupid white boy' and clearly showing he was a creature of rage. He shouted abuse, slammed the door and stormed off. Chuckling Charlie welcomed Hadya to the caern.

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At midday on the 26th March 'Hand of Bear' howled an introduction in the penumbra and saying he was short on time, wanted to see whoever had requested to see him. 'Highnote' took Wimbish to the Cathedral and he investigated the site while 'Powercut' came over to chat with them. Wimbish realised that the caern's energies had caused the previous already potent spiritual site (the abbey) to reform in the penumbra. While many of its native spirits were being repressed by the strong Gaian energies. He explained that in the past, Christians protected Christians and although he did not know the history of the site, this was true in most places. He showed them symbols that the Christians used to let each other know they were Christians and the forms of blessings you could put on your house. He suspected that the hostility was because half of the reformed abbey was half in the shield and half out and that the Christian spirits were trying to recover their holy place. By nature they were opposed to any pagan spirits, which they traditionally battled with.When questioned about the missing bodies of the buried saints, he said that spirits wanted to be remembered and that there was several ways they could handle this.

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1. Make a shrine or statue to remember all the lost Saints of the island. This structure would need to be treated like a fetish and be suitably elaborate. Wimbish recommended building it in the physical and then allowing its essence to flow through to the Spirit World with enough time so that they can notice it. This would give the spirits a 'grave' and a spiritual anchor all of their own. The sight would also need to be made Christian friendly.

2. Making the spirits think that you were not pagan - not easy with the totem wandering around - but if you were Christian in nature then you are part of the cure - not the problem. Christians protect other Christians.

3. Ensuring the Shield never goes down or giving the illusion that it never goes down, in which case the spirits would never attack. If the shield is never down, there is never a chance to attack.

4. Hiding the caern, it would like the shield had gone down and then the spirits would be damaged by the caern shield. They would reform in time and it would drain the totem considerably but it would be a quick fix for the problem. A moot might be needed after this method.

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Charlie Robson - Honor - 4XP

Powercut - Glory - 4 XP

High Note - Honor - 3 XP

Completes-the-Task - Honor - 5XP

Tristan Remebers-in-Silence - Wisdom - 3 XP

Diptheria - Honor - 4 XP

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Rage Across the Waves - Saturday March 26th 2016 - 12.50am - Waning gibbous moon; Session 6 - The Little Things - part 1

'Highnote' was sent to the Black Fury caern to go and meet them so that the recently visiting 'Destiny' did not damage the caern's reputation after her angry send off. The leadership thought it was better that they send the likable female Fianna than any of their other members. Heading to the Isle on Man she made the journey relatively quickly, but did not know where the caern was and sadly the caern was also, on top of that, was hidden.

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When 'Highnote' did finally get to the Caern he was ushered into the 'throne room' where he had a meeting with the Elder Hepecarter. She was seated on a high chair, with bright light behind, resting against the chair was her huge klaive, her straight German features framed by her curly hair. She descended the steps, always a few steps above 'Highnote' and asked the newcomer some questions about her caern. 'Destiny' was one of the faces in the crowd that watched. She surprisingly asked about the Rokea at the caern, which took 'Highnote' by surprise, but she answered it with some subtle evasion. After the meeting was resolved, 'Highnote' was allowed her meeting with 'Monitor' and some of the other caern garou. The head theurge was a young, beautiful dark haired woman, almost hypnotic in her grace.

'Completes' and Tristan went to see Tony for a trip back to the mainland. They needed to go and collect the last order of barrels still on the mainland after the storm. They helped Tony move all the good to the different building first and the shop stores were delivered to the shop. While here, 'Completes' had his first look inside the shop. Mainly tourist items, with some neolithic 'finds' and books. An information board on the King of Bardsey took his eye and he stopped to read it for a while. Planning to kill both birds with one stone, they also decided to go and check on the poacher who had shot one of the seals. The crossing was relatively easy, as if the storm had sucked up all the wind for now. Tony pulled into the moorings just down from Aberdaron beach, a simple Welsh beach town. He roped the boat off and the two garou said they would help load the boat, and then needed to go to town for a while.

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After loading the barrels they went to an internet cafe. 'Completes' was looking for funeral services and local art studios that could make a statue for the saints of the isle. Nothing was very local, one close to Caernarfon, but it gave them some information to discuss with the others. Heading up the hill, they quite quickly found the house they needed. The town was not very large. Most of the houses were arranged in a V shape, with a spread of housing along the coast, which tended to be hotels, care homes, seasonal shops and some residential houses. It was petite, quaint, picturesque and very, very welsh. Heading up to the top of the hill, they discovered the house that Tony had photographed. As they looked about it and knocked, they noticed an elderly lady next door who peered through the window. Tristan went to speak with her and she said that the neighbor came by occasionally, not every day, and he was not a very nice person called Owain. 'Completes' checked the back to see how he could get in, and seeing the double PVC back door and that the window would take some damage to open, he decided the best entry was via the penumbra. Tristan headed back to the front of the house, eyed by the curious old lady next door until he went into the alley and stepped sideways with 'Completes'. Here, they could tell that the house was Wyrm tainted more than the area around, a black corrupting filth that affected the area and its taint had spread into the neighbors house. They went to the front door, which had not formed in the penumbra as it had been opened a day before, so they could easily walk through its ghostly outline. Checking the rooms one at a time, they found the living room, a veritable mess of used food packets and containers. No one had made an effort to clean the place. On the wall, there were some photos of the island and even a photo of Tony on his boat. One pushed his eyeball through to check the physical, where more had been taken from a boat while in the shallow waters around the island. The walls on the stairwell up in the penumbra had writing, some illegible in long, spiraling huge words, hundreds of letters long and larger writing words like 'Kill', 'No Hope' and 'Filth', with key letters replaced with symbols. The stairs creaked as they ascended in glabro. At the top, Sense Wyrm told them that two areas of strong taint, one in the bedroom and the other in the boiler cupboard were here.

They called for the First pack for backup and upon their arrival they discussed strategy with Darren, deciding on a frontal penumbral assault with minor cover in the physical. Hitting the bedroom first, they lunged in on the large tapeworm creature that had nested in a fleshy container on the wall above the bed. It mentally assaulted Darren, but it was the last thing it did as the 6 garou ripped it apart. The bed had handcuffs attached to the headboard, some blood stains but no sign of its victim. They quickly went to the second area of taint and ripped open the airing cupboard.

A similar organic sack was inside and when burst, hundreds of smaller tape worm banes fell about them. The garou went about dispatching the babies while 'Completes' checked what was in the physical they were feeding on. Inside there was a naked man, a mass of unkempt beard, hanging from handcuffs in the cupboard. Barely alive, badly beaten and his ribs showing through his skin in malnourished he hung suspended from a hook, human waste and filth at his feet. 'Completes' took him down, but he was out of it and rested him down in the bathroom. No coherent words could be got from him. They reported in to Charlie, who advised them not to leave the place for the police. When asked about this guy and how they should get him to hospital, the indecision creept in as they realised that would lead to questions. Darren, the pacifistic Child of Gaia stated that Charlie would need to order them to put the guy out of his misery, else they wouldn't do it. So Charlie ordered 'Wordy' to do the deed as currently he was busy with some Welsh singer. At night, they removed the body and dumped it in the ocean, while the first pack remained for 'Owain' to come back. The rest of the garou returned to Bardsey island for a meeting.

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While all this had gone on, Charlie and 'Powercut' at caern side had not been idle. The Welsh singer Brynn Terfell had come to visit with his two aids. Brynn had wanted to sing a song in the chapel on Bardsey and was asking for permission to do so. He wanted to bring a piano to the island to play in the chapel and said his producers could do a short documentary on the island as part of this. There may be some financial gain with this. Charlie after meeting him agreed that they were happy to do this and Brynn said his producer would be in contact. They left the singer to tour the island and visit the quaint Abbey.

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Charlie Robson - Honor - 4XP

Powercut - Wisdom - 5 XP High Note - Honor - 4 XP

Completes-the-Task - Honor - 3XP

Tristan Remembers-in-Silence - Honor - 3 XP

Diphtheria - Absent

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Rage Across the Waves - Sunday March 28th 2016 - 11.25am - Waning gibbous moon; Session 7 - Runner

Daria and 'Highnote' both shared the same bed when Daria was mentally contacted to come and join the others at Cristian. She dressed, gave a small kiss to Highnote and headed over to Ice Claw and 'Diptheria'. They discussed the meet up with the first pack to go and check the Aberdaron coast line for other Wyrm manifestations after the den was uncovered the other day, they mentally linked up with the first pack and spirit bridged to the mainland. Darren explained that they had captured Owain and killed his 2 colleagues he'd come with. They met up with them at the house. Upstairs they found the two dead formori there had been a brief scuffle and Owain was tied up and injured in the bathroom. 'Diphtheria' questioned him, but quickly grew annoyed at his lack of compliance and ripped his throat out. They called 'Highnote' over to 'baby-sit' the bodies and help clean up so that no one came in while they were away. Highnote was not keen on this idea. The first pack, 'Diphtheria' and Ice Claw left Owain's house.

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After some prodding, Daria and Wordy took the lead with the young Theurge checking for wyrm taint. The outsider Get kept back, checking the penumbral horizon and obviously assessing the pack’s performance. They found a few buildings, one of which they went into was a shared flat, around the same time that the caern noticed a missing kinfolk. Checking the ground floor in the penumbra, they saw heavier taint, but not to bane or formori levels. They found a cellar doorway under the stairs and it led to a small cellar, complete with crates and boxes. Searching them the largest had a nice padded bottom and some moderate taint. They checked upstairs and found 3 more flats, with meager accommodation and some negative emotions. It was during the day, so they did not step sideways. Ice Claw watched how Daria composed herself. Heading back down to the cellar, they peaked into the physical and could see a guard standing in the corner with a machete playing on his phone. After some discussion they suspected this was possibly a vampire and his group of humans and not wanting another blood bath, they left it for the moment since this would have to take place in the physical. Deciding to make a note of it for the future, they left the house.

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A second house revealed another 'tape worm' like bane and its breeding ground, a similar set up that was at Owain's house. They dispatched it quickly with so many garou present and rescued the poor 14 year old girl who was in the physical that was being used as the spiritual food source. As she had only basic clothing Dalia gave up her clothing to get her to the hire car that Darren had picked up. They brought her back to Owain's house. Back at the Caern of the Stormy Isle, 'Powercut' who had been informed of all of what had gone on, went to see Hadya who was in preparation to go to the Nottingham caern, 'Powercut' asked her to see if she could contact The Black Fury on the Isle of Man to see if they could send someone to pick up a girl that had been used by formori. She had never been there before but she knew that Nina Vale was affiliated with the Caern of Past Days. She would head to St Albans and speak with Nina and then contact 'Powercut'.

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Back at Owain's house 'Highnote' went to distract the nosey neighbor while they bundled the girl into the house in the physical. 'Highnote' learned about the previous and the current tenant from the elderly neighbor who warmed to the fianna girl. She spoke about her daughters and that no one came to see her now, they had tea and pink wafer biscuits. 'Powercut' got a mental link by Hadya and she informed him that the Caern of Past Days were going to send 'Zarizonia' to collect the girl. They had agreed she would come to the island, leaving a van on the mainland to drive her back.

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Earlier in the day at the caern, Charlie had Anne-Marie burst in to Cristian and said that Kirsty had gone, her traveling bag and some of her things had been taken. Charlie informed Powercut and he went to see Tony as that was the only way of the island. When Tony was questioned he confirmed that she had come to him in the early hours saying that she wanted to be on the mainland for shopping before 9. Though the weather had been rough, Tony was convinced to take her. Aware that he had done wrong, he asked if he wanted him to stop taking people altogether? 'Powercut' grew angry and rather than pursuing it, left Tony. Remembers later came by Tony's shack, still in disrepair and left a note on the door for him to come see him. Charlie collected a sock of Kirsty’s to catch her scent, then spirit bridged to the mainland to follow up on her and made his way to the bus station.

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After noting some of the message flying about, 'Completes' queried what was going on and why they weren’t including the only tracker/scout they had from the process. After some brief juggling around of duties he followed Charlie in the physical, bringing Lirsty’s sock. They used Completes 'Rite of the questing stone’ to track the direction she had gone inWhile Charlie had checked bus routes and possible train routes. A quick discussion with one of the drivers later he worked out the most likely route Colchester by catching the train at Caenarfon. Dismissing the smaller stations, they aimed for it and ran in lupus form in the penumbra. He spoke to the first pack for the next 90 minutes as they dealt with the bane search at Aberdaron. Using garou stamina, they got there after the long run they arrived outside of the seaside town. Stepping sideways they went to the railway station. Completes checked with the Rite, seeing that she must have already left. At the railway station, Charlie convinced the guard his daughter had run off and he was trying to find her. He was convincing enough that he went to check with the ticket man in the office. He said she had bought a ticket a little after 9 going to Colchester. There were several routes she could have gone, so after some discussion they decided to use sightl line spirit bridges to Bangor and see if they could intercept the train there, but due to terrain issues and other problems, they were too late. Instead of trying to follow the train directly, Charlie decided to spirit bridge directly to Colchester and wait for her in the train station. Here they quickly found a place to step sideways as Colchester was a nightmare in the penumbra. Once more back in the physical they went to Colchester railway station, a large site. They both found a place to watch the two exits of the station (the main-street and the car park) and waited for Kirsty to arrive.

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Back on Bardsey Island Suzannah came to see Tristan 'Remembers-the-Past' with a smart man in a business suit. She seemed pleased that she had achieved a goal. He introduced himself as Karl, the agent for Brynn Terfel and was looking to arrange a day or two for the filming. He had spoken with Tony and agreed on a price to get the Piano over and he just needed the days. He booked in with a 3 day margin due to the cancellations of ferries over to the island. They arranged the day of the recording would be on Friday 8th April and the Piano would come over on the 5th April. The recording would take a single day, but the documentary crew would film for the next few days. He asked if they would be able to book some rooms for the crew to stay over and the small chance that Bryn and himself might need to stay due to weather and queried the cost. Tristan with some discussion settled on £1,700 for food and board for the whole crew, even if there was some excess time for bad weather. Karl seemed happy with this and asked Tristan to get a contract drawn up for him. Tristan and Powercut were now the only Werewolves currently on the island.

Night time came and Completes and Charlie continued their stakeout. Around 9.30pm, Kirsty came out and Completes stopped her. Charlie then caught up and they went into the Red Lion opposite the station for a chat. Kirsty made it clear, she wanted to go back to her family. Charlie explained the dangers of Colchester and that the island was safer, while Kirsty emotionally explained how she hated it there and she wanted to be with her Mum. Charlie, though made excellent points was forced to use the gift 'Persuasion' on her and made her agree to come back. As it was so late, they would have to wait till morning. Completes, who had occasionally mentally linked with Charlie telling him not to be so hard on her suggested she could stay with her Mum. They took her to her house, via less used paths and Completes took a watch outside.

At night at Owain's house in Aberdaron , Darren and the First pack disposed of the 3 bodies and cleaned up as much as possible. The upstairs carpet was blood soaked, so they pulled it up and dumped it in the ocean with the weighted bodies of the three foromori. The fishes and waters would purify them. The young girl, the second victim from the new house was a little more coherent, so when she slept they took her to Tony's boat moored on the mainland ready for pick up by the Black Furies.

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'Zarizonia' howled her arrival at the Stormy Isle and was met by 'Powercut'. Some of the others had now returned, but the caern was still quieter than usual. She spoke with the Get Theurge as they had not met before. 'Powercut' explained where the girl was and before she left, 'Powercut' asked for a quiet, personal chat. He explained his issues as the head theurge and also the issues with the runaway kin. When he explained that Kirsty was unhappy and a depressed kin, she seemed to take more note as the Get was trying to help her. She offered some advice, but said she would need to speak with Kirsty to better prescribe aid. 'Powercut' was happy with this and 'Zarizonia' said she would return to meet her.

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Charlie Robson - Honor - 4XP

Powercut - Wisdom - 5 XP

High Note - Honor - 4XP

Completes-the-Task - Honor - 3XP

Tristan Remembers-in-Silence - Honor - 3 XP

Diphtheria - Glory- 4XP

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Rage Across the Waves - Sunday March 29th 2016 - 8.25am - Waning gibbous moon; Session 9 - Authority

Completes stayed outside of Kirsty's family home, a relatively quiet looking street lit with yellow street lights. He waited outside the house while he heard the two chat inside, Charlie went to go get a cheap hotel rest since he had be on his feet for two days, and told him to contact him if there were any issues.

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Night went on and things were quiet with the exception of a brief variation in the gauntlet. Completes checked the goings-on in the house but there nothing seemed to be happening in the house so he updated Charlie and kept his watch from the roof of the garage across the street.

About 4am a beat up white van arrived and a gang of 8 or 9 scruffy people jumped out, led by a charismatic guy in a suit. When it became obvious they were aiming for the house he switched into Hispo while signaling Charlie and jumped across on the van roof and warning them off, trying Infectious Laughter to defuse the situation. He noticed the suited man affecting him with a kind of gift or similar but didn’t know what it was. Interpreting this as an attack, he jumped at the suited guy but he stepped aside at the last minute and Completes landed badly. At the same time he got hit by a silver bullet from one of the other people. Completes felled the suited man, the guy with the gun and one or two others, but the amount of attacks with silver overwhelmed him while he was trying to separate them out and reposition himself. The last sending Charlie received was a distinct “Ah sh*t!”

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Charlie dashed to Kirsty's house only to find police already present and the area cordoned off. Mr Saunders caught up with him as he spotted Completes’ Thor Hammer pendant on the floor, and called him to the Caern, while charlie answered his fellow caern member's cries to what had happened. A Fianna Theurge tried summoning Completes the Task’s spirit but failed. They questioned Charlie about what had transpired and accused him of a perceived breach of the veil, and endangering the caern. Why did they not take the difficult kin back home, why had he allowed the incident to happen? Why had he left a spiritually active guard in an active Wyrm area? Charlie tried to explain that the Get had acted under his own accord but the Fianna eager to flex their muscles at the caern saw an opportunity to weaken the Shadow Lords and forced a punishment rite on Charlie. Lord Gilliat was clearly annoyed by Mr Keenan's decision, but as Guardian and it being a caern safety issue, he couldn't oppose it. Charlie Robinson was given the 'Voice of the Jackal'.

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In the meantime, two other Fianna worked over Kirsty,beating her relentlessly. Taking the difficult kin, now subdued, to the caern heart they placed her at the exact point in the physical where Grandfather Thunder resided. They called forth the full power of the Totem and used the gift 'Roll Over' on her. Her fragile mind couldn't take it as the totem filled her head and her will broke, causing her to revert mentally back to the time she was a child.

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Once he had somewhat recovered from his rite, Charlie hired a car and drove back arriving the next day with Kirsty.

 

At Bardsey, in the early hours of the morning the caern members had learned about the death of 'Completes', feeling his loss from the totem. They had all been shocked and bar a brief explanation of what had happened did not fully know the details. The First pack was called back from the mainland immediately.

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A new visitor from London, 'Guns-and-Stuff' arrived with his bodyguard 'Firepower' and was greeted by 'Diptheria'. The Bonegnawer was, as usual, not as accommodating as the other caern members and questioned the guest about why he'd come to the caern. 'Highnote' in the penumbra came to see the new visitors knowing of both of the Glasswalkers, noticing the totem staring at one of the structures when previously it had ignored them. 'Guns-and-Stuff' asked for his 48 hours and suggested that he offered his services for providing weapons. 'Diptheria' was not very keen on bringing weaver into the caern, but 'Highnote' explained that 'Guns' made all manner of fetishes and talens. When this spread, Daria was interested in a Fianna glaive but the request fell on silent ears. Guns went to the physical near Seal Beach and he returned a fetish to the Rokea. 'Highnote' was distressed by this, first that he seemed to know of their leader 'Bleeds Night' and that he was handing the fetish back to them. Guns-and-Stuff explained that he had been asked to do so while visiting and although the protest, Diptheria allowed him to return the 'Sanctuary Chime' fetish to the waters.

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Highnote and 'Diptheria' called the First pack to meeting. They spoke with Darren first, saying that they were unhappy with him not using Daria to her full effectiveness. She was a Gaian warrior too and being still young needed the training. Darren explained that he had been merely protecting his spiritual asset from combat risk and relying on his stronger ahrouns. 'Highnote' pointed out that it was causing pack tension and he should lead by example. Someone also mentioned that he had been called to task on the same issue by Ice Claw the day before. Dismissing the rest of the pack they spoke with 'Drives-like-a-Mad-Man' who found the whole thing unpleasant. They realised he could only speak through mental speech and it seemed that his twisted face, hidden by a hoodie, also made it impossible for him to talk. Trying to coerce the Metis out they spoke about his pack as family, the Metis answered briefly and said he preferred the company of the birds. 'Family' did not have any meaning to him. Feeling a little sorry for him, they let him go. 'Diptheria' leaving this meeting noted that the totem watched him, staring directly at the bonegnawer as it crossed the bawn. Previously, the totem had only looked down at the ground and was a little unsettled by this change of nature.

Tristan was showing Suzannah the Island's updated water supply, Tony who'd helped with the install was going around with them. Tristan had created two more sites for water collection, relying solely on the rain and the filter. Tripling the current collection system. Suzannah was keen to know if there would be enough water for when they came into season, not wanting to tell the visitors they couldn't bathe. Tristan said he hoped the barrels would be full...but they would need rain. A lot of it. Suzannah mentioned if he'd heard about the news that some resident had found a body wash up on the coast. Tristan hadn't and he probed for details, while Tony became nervous. Suzannah had said the Police were looking into it, not much else was known, but it could be an accident or a suicide. Local residents were quite shocked as nothing much happens here. Suzzanah, proud with what Tristan had done suggested she was going to put her out of a job! She also asked for a date tonight, to which Tristan agreed. When she left Tony spoke with Tristan, clearly stressed. He pointed out that he'd taken the First pack to dump the bodies and he was often seen on the waters. Tristan went to check his boat, which had been well scrubbed. He could tell by minor taint where the bodies had been and agreed to help give it a spiritual clean later tonight.

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'Highnote' went shopping with Tony noting he was very distracted and collected a large amount of items in Aberdaron for the upcoming 'Rite of the Departed' when 'Completes' body returned. Tony stayed on the pier on the mainland waiting for 'Highnote', a little uncomfortable by the divers he could see on the rock face. He guessed they were Police and was growing concerned for his safety. He waited a good few hours for Highnote and spent the time checking his yellow boat.

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Charlie returned to the caern, he left the car on the coast and met Tony who took them over by boat. Caern members gathered at the pier to meet them. 'Powercut' was absent. Both Tony and Charlie helped the battered Kirsty on to the land. There was plenty of questions for Charlie but everyone was morose. Kirsty was taken to the farmhouse, were a stunned Anne-Marie helped her indoors. Charlie then went to find 'Powercut'. The Head Theurge was in the penumbra and they had words when he came to see him. 'Powercut' spoke of his incompetence and why the hell did he allow the Shadow Lords to do it. Why had he not come back straight away? Charlie answered as best he could and he regretted the whole situation. It has been a series of unfortunate mistakes. 'Powercut' listened to it, but kept his anger inside, he heard the name of the garou that had broken Kirsty...and he remembered it. Lastly. 'Powercut' apologized for speaking badly of Charlie when others had been present. Then 'Powercut' went to see Kirsty. Anne-Marie spoke to him about her future now that 'Completes' had died. How would she manage the farm work and look after Kirsty? After his answers also pointed out that some of the cows had become sick, with tongue lesions. She then left him to see Kirsty, who tried to grab invisible sparkles in front of her eyes while in bed. He used Mother Touch on her to heal her bruises and black eye, which she smiled at and said 'hi'. He held her hand, realizing the old Kirsty was no longer there.

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Charlie went to meet Guns-and-Stuff to show his face and when there asked for a klaive to be fashioned. He was planning to give it to his head theurge due to all of what had happened. Guns-and-Stuff took the order happily. He also asked Guns about how the Glasswalkers dealt with the Police and public officials. This discussion then led to the fact that they had a Glasswalker currently sitting idle and unpacked. Guns went into the penumbra to call him on the mobile. Discussing it with 'Matt' he brought the young Glasswalker through to meet the caern leadership.

Matt came to meet Charlie and it rather quickly became clear that he had some baggage. Deciding that the better knew what they were dealing with, he told them he was the son of Digital Raven and he was related Space-on-Disk of the City Streets pack.

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Charlie had a mental discussion with his caern members who had a very mixed opinion of the benefits of a Glasswalker and the potential disaster that the young garou could cause. 'Powercut' was certainly not keen on the idea of giving him even the time of day. Charlie made a clause with a trial membership and made a cabinet that he would have to follow using the gift 'Scent of the Oath-breaker'. He gave him a tour of the island and yet again, passed probably too much information over to the Glasswalker, letting him become aware of the Rokea situation.

'Highnote' was preparing for the Rite of the Departed, and Daria came to speak with him. They chatted ideally for a bit, but then she mentioned that Darren had told her off after that meeting - but not to say anything to him! He'd said that he should be hearing from her about her issues, not from the caern leadership. Daria also talked about making more effort with 'Drives' and after a while, they coerced him to come sit with them, but he remained silent.

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'Powercut' and 'Diphtheria' finished the construction of the nest and were aware of the totem watching them. It stared at 'Diphtheria' and spoke in its chirps. 'The Head theurge translated it and joined in the conversation. It said, it's feet 'tingled' and that it was to strong for the monkey ghosts. It also spoke a little about 'All-Tribes' and 'All-the-Birds', now far more coherent than before. It also said they served it and it wanted a nest. 'Powercut' showed it the nest which it inspected. They then went to collect the Moonstone from Hermit's Cave and between the pair of them carried the stone back to the nest. As they arrived, the Oystercatcher had already made it its home and seemed to be adjusting its feathers while seated inside. As they got closer, they realised it had some smaller birds it was nurturing. Expecting to see Oystercatcher's, instead they were shocked to see two different breeds of what they thought were Dodo's.

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Charlie Robson - -2 Glory, -5 Honor. Failures Dagger - 3XP

Powercut - Wisdom - 5 XP

High Note - Honor - 4XP

Completes-the-Task - RIP

Tristan Remembers-in-Silence - Wisdom - 3 XP

Diphtheria - Honor- 3XP

'Matt' - none - 3XP

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Rage Across the Waves - Tuesday March 31st 2016 - 8.55am - last quarter moon; Session 10 - Authority part 2

The morning sun rose. Darren, doing a watch in the physical, called in that he had come across a huge head washed up on the beach. It's size was like that of a dinosaur’s, furry, short faced and with a dog like snout. It was missing its body and wobbled around the waves as they ebbed up the beach.

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It was not long till 'Diphtheria' was there. They were aware of the Rokea, who were on high alert both in the physical and the penumbra and assumed that it was them that had taken the rest of the things body. Charlie went to find Tristan in the islands shop where he was doing some essential work and he was called over and he checked the carcass for wyrm taint. It identified as strongly tainted (similar to a fomor), and thought he recognised it as an mythical Irish creature called the Dobhar-Chu.

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Highnote also confirmed this - it was a 'giant otter'. He tried to speak with one of the Rokea with Beast speech and got only a simple 'its dead' before it swam off. Charlie unsure of what to do with it, asked Powercut who took it through to the penumbra to dump it there away from human eyes. Powercut, was not happy with the interruption and was at the farmhouse providing support and help to Kirsty who was now up and about. She was not herself and almost childlike in her behavior.

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Matt went to see Charlie to see what the Caern leader wanted him to get on with and Charlie after a brief chat, he sent him to go and see what he could find out about the possible/suspected 'Police' investigation. Matt went to go and see Tony, who had never seen the young lad before - and queried who he was. After several questions to check who he was Tony said he had a problem with another lady who was with him, a youngish lady who had come across the waves. Tony called her 'another dog-soldier' and as he could not leave her alone, he asked the lad to go and find 'Diphtheria'. 'Diphtheria' recognised the girl but couldn't initially place her - when she spoke she begged for a home. Talking with 'Powercut' he placed her as Botulism’s outcast daughter 'SARS'.

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They took her to Cristan where they asked for her story...but as she explained that she'd been outcast due to the death of a kin, 'Diphtheria' could tell this was not the whole truth. As he pushed her, she finally said that she had gotten high on a guard shift and it has led to the death of a kin wolf, who are highly prized in garou society. This had resulted in her being kicked out from the tribe and exiled from the caern. When the truth was known, SARS showed her wrist, littered with small holes along the vein. 'Diphtheria' spoke to her about helping herself, about being better than that and that she needed to be strong. SARS pointed out that its easy to be strong when you have people's help. They agreed to give her 2 days of food and rest. They showed her some quarters and the leadership discussed what to do about it. With some debate of whether they should help or not, they agreed that Captain could be called and that SARS could potentially join his crew. 'Highnote' would see if she could call Captain again...

Later SARS met with 'Diphtheria' again, begging for help, explaining that she could get back into the world with support. She even offered 'favour' out of sheer desperation. 'Diphtheria' started to want to get rid of her.

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On the mainland, Matt made a call to his contacts to try and find out what is going on with the Police investigation, they would try and find out, but the investigation was still underway and no reports had been filed. Matt went for a walk on the beach and using his hoodie did a partial transformation of his ears to wolf and eavesdropped on the chatting divers. They were talking in acronyms and he heard something about 'if its suicide, who dumped him'. Heading back to the mainland with Tony, Matt met Tristan who was working maintenance and had a discussion about the site buildings and Tristan asked about Matt's history and who he was. Tristan could not offer much in return as he could not talk about his previous pack.

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Tristan 'Remembers-in-Silence' came across Bernie the seal who was being attacked by some of the island's crows. Using his Beast Speech he told the crows off and saved the happy go lucky (if slightly derpy <Ed>) seal. Tristan chatted with him for a bit and was thanked for his help. Bernie stated that he was starting to like the island more as of late. Tristan did a good thing, as surely this was a conflict between the secondary totem spirits seeping into the physical.

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Charlie and Highnote had a chat and went to Hermit's cave to investigate the strange site. While there there was a strange disturbance in the physical and they saw a ghostly form looking like a hermit. The spirit, though repressed by the power of the totem, seemed stronger inside the cave and it tried to speak to them. It gave its name as St Egan. Curious to what was happening 'Highnote' peeked into the penumbra... the distance was great and she saw a huge chasm, a pit to match all holes...and the distance was too far...her eyes ripped out. Screaming! Charlie called for help and Daria came to help her beloved Highnote and gave her Mother's Touch. Despite this, the eyes did not fully heal back and the gore remained and remained blind. They helped her back to her quarters to rest.

Powercut was helping Anne-Marie and Kirsty at the farm. Charlie and Matt came to speak with him about the events of the day. They helped out with farm chores and left Matt shoveling cow shit and feeding the sheep. Powercut showed Charlie the infected cows and he agreed to make a phone call to get a vet over to the island first thing. They discussed Kirsty, who had been bread baking and doing some art. 'Powercut' still showed some anger to what had happened and Charlie tried to fix that imbalance of their friendship.

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Charlie Robinson - Wisdom - 5XP

Powercut - Wisdom - 5 XP

High Note - Wisdom - 3XP

Tristan Remembers-in-Silence - Wisdom - 3 XP+3 XP RP Challenge

Diphtheria - Honor- 4XP

'Matt' - Honor - 3XP

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