[Imogen Slaughter] Late night. Not many people about.
Imogen moves along the pathways, her body silhouetted by the lamplight above as she passes through the pools of illumination, then shaded as she steps into the shadow. She moves without hesitation or discomfort of her surroundings - as a woman might under these circumstances. Late night, isolated pathways, empty, shrouded park. The kind of place that should require a quick step and furtive glances.
The kind of place that, in a horror movie would end in Imogen's certain death.
She walks through this the way she'd walk through it on a summer day: alert, but unafraid; or perhaps merely brave. It's impossible to tell anymore. There is no one left to whom she'd admit fear.
And maybe she has none anymore.
Whatever: Dark night, slender woman walking along the pathway. The Garou are at the railing over the water. She sees the blonde of Kora's hair, the darkness of Thoth's skin. Both familiar, one more than the other. She moves their way.
[Thoth Massri] Thoth raises a brow now, perhaps the first real reaction in his face since they had begun to talk, and he shook his head slowly from side to side, the look on his face was of slight ever so slight annoyance but in the end there is the slimmest of smiles that cross his face.
"Is the sky and the land not calm and quiet before twisters arrival, before destruction...death and rebirth?" He asks of her as he stands there. "Twister is many things, and capable of much, it is...a shame, that few see it for what it truly is."
Another body approached, another...woman to be precise and Thoth's gaze briefly turned to regard her, he remembered her...but from where?
[Kora] Two wolves, one kinswoman, whose breeding is so sharp it flavors the air around her. There are old stories inside Kora, dimly remembered, and then only when she is haunted by her ancestors, by the living past that too-often inhabits her body - overlaying the present, this startling sense that there is something just beyond the reach of her conscious mind that she can almost touch in the living memory that is Imogen's blood. Thoth will hear the way the Skald draws in a brief, sharp breath through her nostrils, before she lifts a hand to Imogen from a distance.
No matter the horror movie setting, the depth of the shadows, the loneliness of the path, the silence fall of Imogen's steps on the decomposed granite walkway, her blood calls across the distance, and Kora identifies her with that first winging glance. "I've never been in a tornado," the Skald replies, quiet sensibly, that half-smile still on her mouth. "So I don't have personal knowledge," she continues, with a neat, faint shrug of her narrow shoulders. "but since you follow the whirlwind rather than the land, I don't know. I'd expert more -
" - whirl, yeah?" There's a rustle in the trees, the breeze from the lake dropping lower. Low enough that the underbrush, the brambles, the vines, the dogwood and floribunda roses shiver in the beeze. Kora glances at the foliage, then looks back at Imogen. "You know the doc?"
(Everyone can roll perception + alertness!)
[Imogen Slaughter] (perception+alertness)
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Kora] Kora: Per + Alertness
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Thoth Massri] [Per+Alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] The wind is not low enough to hit the underbrush. There's a specific area that's moving, and just that area moves.
to Imogen Slaughter, Thoth Massri
[Kora] Thoth catches an animal scent in the air.
to Thoth Massri
[Kora] Imogen hears something low - from behind the underbrush. A low growl, something like it.
to Imogen Slaughter
[Imogen Slaughter] Imogen glances briefly at Thoth, answering for him. "We've met - " though her sentence was complete, the final word cuts off a little more abruptly than perhaps it should have.
The doctor's head turns toward the underbrush, a line forming between her eyebrows.
"Are either of you expecting a friend?" she enquires, her voice deceptively mild and low. "Perhaps of the animal nature?"
[Thoth Massri] "It has been sometime since we had last met." Thoth says as he watches both woman, but then his eyes turn and catch on the underbrush watching it move, listening to Imogen talk before the man shook his massive head.
"I am not." He comments as he turns towards the disturbance fully and steps towards it, his fists closing as he did so. "Kora?" He enquires with just her name, a brief look in her direction before he returns his gaze to the underbrush, his eyes narrowing as he did so.
[Kora] "Do you see that?" Kora says, quietly to Thoth. She lifts her chin, in a slow rising look toward Imogen, her dark eyes steady distance, then tips her head toward the thicket at the base of a great, spreading oak tree. This is a public park, so those little signs Thoth and Imogen pick up could simply be - part of that, movement in the park, someone walking a dog late at night. Her voice is low, controlled. She shakes her head once, sharply to Imogen' question, then holds out her index finger, her middle finger, then, after a pause, her ring finger, counting out one, two, then the pause, maybe three.
"Get ready." The Skald warns them, very, very quietly.
[ -1 WP, Resist Pain!]
[Imogen Slaughter] Imogen's mouth draws tight - it's a sharp, sudden expression that then fades merely as she nods in Kora's direction.
Her hand lifts, sliding beneath her black blazer. The snap of the gun holster's restraint is barely audible, the weapon large and improbably in her hand as she slides it out. She moves backward and away from the Garou, keeping her line of fire on the bush clear.
Her gaze flicks over their surroundings as they move, a quick appraisal for humans; for unwanted witnesses.
[Thoth Massri] "Fight us...and die." Those words were instructional it seemed, it certainly sounded like it. Thoth seemed to have no illusions as to what was about to happen, he was simply illustrating the quickest and most efficient way that this...thing could get through the next few moments.
His eyes never leave the bush, he waits there, prepared to catch or perhaps to simply annihalate that which appears...the calm before the storm indeed.
[Kora] There's a low bark, then an answering bark - deeper. The parks are doglike and meaningless to the Garou. Underneath the second bark, a low snarl that starts as a rumble of warning and turns into something rather more vicious, liquid underneath. The sound of the last half-second before a dogfight erupts, the rustling of the leaves and behind it, the snap of a leash. The sharpest ears among them might hear someone ordering, rather frantically plotz. plotz. one (?) of the dogs about to fight, but then there's a break and a crash, and a great beast of mutt leaps out from the thicket -
- with two heads, and a huge spiked collar surrounding its massive neck, a leather leash trailing behind it. The two-headed dog is shorthaired, with a mottled coat and the big, pugnacious build of a pitt bull. Except that it exceeds a pit bull's size by a good two or three hundred pounds, not quite a match for a Garou in hispo in terms of size, but close. One of the heads has the snarling snap of a rottweiler's mouth, its ears turned forward, slavor swinging from its maw as it charges toward the trio. The second head has the curl coat of a standard poddle, though its mouth is pulled back from its sharp teeth, a vicious growl rumbling in its chest.
A half-second later, the owner plunges through the thicket after the two-headed dog, lunging for the leash. His head is hidden by a black cowl, but his hands have elongated, thickened nails, with the fingers fused together in two groups of two.
Imogen sees no humans in the immediate vicinity. The closest are a good walk away at the Millennium Fountain.
[Imogen Slaughter] (+9)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Kora] in homid, Kora, +7
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1
[Thoth Massri] [in Homid +5]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4
[Kora] Cerberus, Jr. +4
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Kora] Charon! +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Kora] ze order is:
Imogen 19
Cerberus, Jr. 14
Charon 12
Thoth 9
Kora: 8
[Kora] Kora: [Rageshift to hispo!] 1a. BITE 1b. BITE; Rage 1: BITE, Rage 2: BITE. Starting with Cerberus, Jr. Moving to Charon.
[Thoth Massri] [Rageshift to Chrinos] 1a: Claw Cerb, 1b Claw Cerb, Rage 1 Claw Cerb.
[Kora] Charon: 1. Molt!
Cerberus, Jr. - Poodle: 1. BITE Thoth. Rage 1: BITE Thoth.
Pit Bull: 1. BITE Kora. Rage 1. BITE Kora.
[Imogen Slaughter] Split action:
1. 3rb Charon
2. SHOOT Charon
[Imogen Slaughter] Three round burst
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Imogen Slaughter] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Charon - soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 8)
[Imogen Slaughter] Shoot!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Imogen Slaughter] Damage!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 8)
[Kora] Imogen shoots the 'owner' of the dogs, who plunged through the underbrush chasing after the leash on which they were kept. Both rounds connect, the first going through and through his shoulder, the second hitting him in the gut. He staggers back, reeling, blood slick on his hands, his eyes glazed, stunned. His skin was already turning liquid, moving like ripples of water down a beaded line - but that is all he does, staggering backward, coughing up blood, struggling to remain concious and standing.
[Kora] Poodle! Biting Thoth
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 4, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Kora] Rottie, biting Kora!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 7, 7 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Kora] damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] Claw! [Dex+Brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage!]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Kora] Cerberus: soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Claw 2!]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Kora] Kora: 1a. BITE!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Kora] Cerberus: soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] 1b. BITE:
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Poodle: bite thoth!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Kora] Rottie: bite kora!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 7, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] Claw!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6 (Failure at target 6)
[Kora] Rage 1: Kora
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 9 (Failure at target 5)
[Kora] Rage 2: Kora!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 5) [WP]
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Cerberus +4
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4
[Thoth Massri] [Init +6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Imogen Slaughter] (+9!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Kora] Charon +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Kora] Kora: +9
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Kora] Kora: 19
Charon: 16
Thoth: 15
Imogen: 14
Cerberus: 8
[Kora] Cerberus: 1. Poodle: Bite thoth! Rage 1: Bite thoth!
2. Rottie: Firebreath! Rage 1. Bite Kora!
[Imogen Slaughter] 1. 3rb
2. Shoot!
Target: Charon
[Thoth Massri] [Declare 1a Claw, 1b Claw, 1c Claw, Rage 1 Claw [starting with cerberus moving to Charon]
[Kora] Charon: 1a. Enshadow! 1b. Run run run run run away!
[Kora] Kora: 1a. BITE. 1b. BITE. Rage 1: BITE. Cerberus, then Charon.
[Kora] 1a. BITE
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 8, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] 1b. BITE
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Kora] Charon: enshadow!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 6, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Claw]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Claw]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 5, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] Claw
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Kora] x.x
[Imogen Slaughter] I SEEEEEE YOOOOOOOOOU
(I hope)
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Imogen Slaughter] Three round burst!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 7) Re-rolls: 2
[Imogen Slaughter] Damage!
HAIL ALMIGHTY KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 2, 6 (Failure at target 8)
[Kora] x.x
[Kora] The massive, two-headed dog falls first. The beast is already wounded sorely - enough to lay out even a Garou flat on his back - but still furious, mindless, slavering, the pooble and rottweiler heads working together only because they are fused together, the two brains strengthening the massive, muscled body beneath. Sorrow tears it open; and then at last the Strider ends the thing, popping an eye and tearing the poodle's head half away from the falling corpse.
The broken man, with his fused fingers and his faintly bubbling skin, pulls shadows around him to obscure his position and then turns to run back through the brush. Imogen remembers when he started, though, and levels her weapon at the shadows, aiming through the darkness - and hears the satisfying crash of a body through the brush as he falls, the shadows peeling back from his body when he dies.
In the end, only the Fenrir is wounded, a hunk of flesh torn away from her shoulder, though she cannot feel the wound through the curtain of the gift which keeps the pain at bay.
[Imogen Slaughter] Imogen lowers her gun and turns her head to look about herself, about them, their surroundings. Her gunfire has an advantage - several, in fact, but it's one main disadvantage is noise. Gunshots in Grant Park.
Again.
She really should stop coming to the park, one of these days.
The tendon in her jaw shifts and tightens, then releases as she brings herself back to reality: that there are three very strange bodies in the middle of the park of which they need to dispose.
She holsters her gun and sets to work.
[Kora] The hispo Garou plunges through the undergrowth searching for other scents, other enemies, other ambushes. The others can hear her circling through the copse of trees as she noses through the brush, returning when she is satisfied that nothing else remains hidden amidst the leaves and trees.
When she returns - human skinned now, a young woman instead of a monster, the wound hidden by her t-shirt, the blood essentially invisible in the darkness, where it soaks the black fabric. - she wipes off her hands on the hem of her t-shirt, and joins Imogen in the bloody, unpleasant work. No smalltalk, not now - and no evidence of that injury when she moves for some time yet. Even when the pain returns, she will grit her teeth and continue, working quietly, quickly, until the grosteque work is finished.
Imogen moves along the pathways, her body silhouetted by the lamplight above as she passes through the pools of illumination, then shaded as she steps into the shadow. She moves without hesitation or discomfort of her surroundings - as a woman might under these circumstances. Late night, isolated pathways, empty, shrouded park. The kind of place that should require a quick step and furtive glances.
The kind of place that, in a horror movie would end in Imogen's certain death.
She walks through this the way she'd walk through it on a summer day: alert, but unafraid; or perhaps merely brave. It's impossible to tell anymore. There is no one left to whom she'd admit fear.
And maybe she has none anymore.
Whatever: Dark night, slender woman walking along the pathway. The Garou are at the railing over the water. She sees the blonde of Kora's hair, the darkness of Thoth's skin. Both familiar, one more than the other. She moves their way.
[Thoth Massri] Thoth raises a brow now, perhaps the first real reaction in his face since they had begun to talk, and he shook his head slowly from side to side, the look on his face was of slight ever so slight annoyance but in the end there is the slimmest of smiles that cross his face.
"Is the sky and the land not calm and quiet before twisters arrival, before destruction...death and rebirth?" He asks of her as he stands there. "Twister is many things, and capable of much, it is...a shame, that few see it for what it truly is."
Another body approached, another...woman to be precise and Thoth's gaze briefly turned to regard her, he remembered her...but from where?
[Kora] Two wolves, one kinswoman, whose breeding is so sharp it flavors the air around her. There are old stories inside Kora, dimly remembered, and then only when she is haunted by her ancestors, by the living past that too-often inhabits her body - overlaying the present, this startling sense that there is something just beyond the reach of her conscious mind that she can almost touch in the living memory that is Imogen's blood. Thoth will hear the way the Skald draws in a brief, sharp breath through her nostrils, before she lifts a hand to Imogen from a distance.
No matter the horror movie setting, the depth of the shadows, the loneliness of the path, the silence fall of Imogen's steps on the decomposed granite walkway, her blood calls across the distance, and Kora identifies her with that first winging glance. "I've never been in a tornado," the Skald replies, quiet sensibly, that half-smile still on her mouth. "So I don't have personal knowledge," she continues, with a neat, faint shrug of her narrow shoulders. "but since you follow the whirlwind rather than the land, I don't know. I'd expert more -
" - whirl, yeah?" There's a rustle in the trees, the breeze from the lake dropping lower. Low enough that the underbrush, the brambles, the vines, the dogwood and floribunda roses shiver in the beeze. Kora glances at the foliage, then looks back at Imogen. "You know the doc?"
(Everyone can roll perception + alertness!)
[Imogen Slaughter] (perception+alertness)
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Kora] Kora: Per + Alertness
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Thoth Massri] [Per+Alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] The wind is not low enough to hit the underbrush. There's a specific area that's moving, and just that area moves.
to Imogen Slaughter, Thoth Massri
[Kora] Thoth catches an animal scent in the air.
to Thoth Massri
[Kora] Imogen hears something low - from behind the underbrush. A low growl, something like it.
to Imogen Slaughter
[Imogen Slaughter] Imogen glances briefly at Thoth, answering for him. "We've met - " though her sentence was complete, the final word cuts off a little more abruptly than perhaps it should have.
The doctor's head turns toward the underbrush, a line forming between her eyebrows.
"Are either of you expecting a friend?" she enquires, her voice deceptively mild and low. "Perhaps of the animal nature?"
[Thoth Massri] "It has been sometime since we had last met." Thoth says as he watches both woman, but then his eyes turn and catch on the underbrush watching it move, listening to Imogen talk before the man shook his massive head.
"I am not." He comments as he turns towards the disturbance fully and steps towards it, his fists closing as he did so. "Kora?" He enquires with just her name, a brief look in her direction before he returns his gaze to the underbrush, his eyes narrowing as he did so.
[Kora] "Do you see that?" Kora says, quietly to Thoth. She lifts her chin, in a slow rising look toward Imogen, her dark eyes steady distance, then tips her head toward the thicket at the base of a great, spreading oak tree. This is a public park, so those little signs Thoth and Imogen pick up could simply be - part of that, movement in the park, someone walking a dog late at night. Her voice is low, controlled. She shakes her head once, sharply to Imogen' question, then holds out her index finger, her middle finger, then, after a pause, her ring finger, counting out one, two, then the pause, maybe three.
"Get ready." The Skald warns them, very, very quietly.
[ -1 WP, Resist Pain!]
[Imogen Slaughter] Imogen's mouth draws tight - it's a sharp, sudden expression that then fades merely as she nods in Kora's direction.
Her hand lifts, sliding beneath her black blazer. The snap of the gun holster's restraint is barely audible, the weapon large and improbably in her hand as she slides it out. She moves backward and away from the Garou, keeping her line of fire on the bush clear.
Her gaze flicks over their surroundings as they move, a quick appraisal for humans; for unwanted witnesses.
[Thoth Massri] "Fight us...and die." Those words were instructional it seemed, it certainly sounded like it. Thoth seemed to have no illusions as to what was about to happen, he was simply illustrating the quickest and most efficient way that this...thing could get through the next few moments.
His eyes never leave the bush, he waits there, prepared to catch or perhaps to simply annihalate that which appears...the calm before the storm indeed.
[Kora] There's a low bark, then an answering bark - deeper. The parks are doglike and meaningless to the Garou. Underneath the second bark, a low snarl that starts as a rumble of warning and turns into something rather more vicious, liquid underneath. The sound of the last half-second before a dogfight erupts, the rustling of the leaves and behind it, the snap of a leash. The sharpest ears among them might hear someone ordering, rather frantically plotz. plotz. one (?) of the dogs about to fight, but then there's a break and a crash, and a great beast of mutt leaps out from the thicket -
- with two heads, and a huge spiked collar surrounding its massive neck, a leather leash trailing behind it. The two-headed dog is shorthaired, with a mottled coat and the big, pugnacious build of a pitt bull. Except that it exceeds a pit bull's size by a good two or three hundred pounds, not quite a match for a Garou in hispo in terms of size, but close. One of the heads has the snarling snap of a rottweiler's mouth, its ears turned forward, slavor swinging from its maw as it charges toward the trio. The second head has the curl coat of a standard poddle, though its mouth is pulled back from its sharp teeth, a vicious growl rumbling in its chest.
A half-second later, the owner plunges through the thicket after the two-headed dog, lunging for the leash. His head is hidden by a black cowl, but his hands have elongated, thickened nails, with the fingers fused together in two groups of two.
Imogen sees no humans in the immediate vicinity. The closest are a good walk away at the Millennium Fountain.
[Imogen Slaughter] (+9)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Kora] in homid, Kora, +7
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1
[Thoth Massri] [in Homid +5]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4
[Kora] Cerberus, Jr. +4
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Kora] Charon! +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Kora] ze order is:
Imogen 19
Cerberus, Jr. 14
Charon 12
Thoth 9
Kora: 8
[Kora] Kora: [Rageshift to hispo!] 1a. BITE 1b. BITE; Rage 1: BITE, Rage 2: BITE. Starting with Cerberus, Jr. Moving to Charon.
[Thoth Massri] [Rageshift to Chrinos] 1a: Claw Cerb, 1b Claw Cerb, Rage 1 Claw Cerb.
[Kora] Charon: 1. Molt!
Cerberus, Jr. - Poodle: 1. BITE Thoth. Rage 1: BITE Thoth.
Pit Bull: 1. BITE Kora. Rage 1. BITE Kora.
[Imogen Slaughter] Split action:
1. 3rb Charon
2. SHOOT Charon
[Imogen Slaughter] Three round burst
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Imogen Slaughter] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Charon - soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 8)
[Imogen Slaughter] Shoot!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Imogen Slaughter] Damage!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 8)
[Kora] Imogen shoots the 'owner' of the dogs, who plunged through the underbrush chasing after the leash on which they were kept. Both rounds connect, the first going through and through his shoulder, the second hitting him in the gut. He staggers back, reeling, blood slick on his hands, his eyes glazed, stunned. His skin was already turning liquid, moving like ripples of water down a beaded line - but that is all he does, staggering backward, coughing up blood, struggling to remain concious and standing.
[Kora] Poodle! Biting Thoth
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 4, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Kora] Rottie, biting Kora!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 7, 7 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Kora] damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] Claw! [Dex+Brawl]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage!]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Kora] Cerberus: soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Claw 2!]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Kora] Kora: 1a. BITE!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Kora] Cerberus: soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] 1b. BITE:
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Poodle: bite thoth!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Kora] Rottie: bite kora!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 7, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] Claw!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6 (Failure at target 6)
[Kora] Rage 1: Kora
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 9 (Failure at target 5)
[Kora] Rage 2: Kora!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 5) [WP]
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Cerberus +4
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4
[Thoth Massri] [Init +6]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Imogen Slaughter] (+9!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Kora] Charon +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Kora] Kora: +9
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Kora] Kora: 19
Charon: 16
Thoth: 15
Imogen: 14
Cerberus: 8
[Kora] Cerberus: 1. Poodle: Bite thoth! Rage 1: Bite thoth!
2. Rottie: Firebreath! Rage 1. Bite Kora!
[Imogen Slaughter] 1. 3rb
2. Shoot!
Target: Charon
[Thoth Massri] [Declare 1a Claw, 1b Claw, 1c Claw, Rage 1 Claw [starting with cerberus moving to Charon]
[Kora] Charon: 1a. Enshadow! 1b. Run run run run run away!
[Kora] Kora: 1a. BITE. 1b. BITE. Rage 1: BITE. Cerberus, then Charon.
[Kora] 1a. BITE
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 8, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Kora] 1b. BITE
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[Kora] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Kora] Charon: enshadow!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 6, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Claw]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Damage]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] [Claw]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 5, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Thoth Massri] Claw
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 10 (Failure at target 6)
[Kora] x.x
[Imogen Slaughter] I SEEEEEE YOOOOOOOOOU
(I hope)
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
[Imogen Slaughter] Three round burst!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 7) Re-rolls: 2
[Imogen Slaughter] Damage!
HAIL ALMIGHTY KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Kora] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 2, 6 (Failure at target 8)
[Kora] x.x
[Kora] The massive, two-headed dog falls first. The beast is already wounded sorely - enough to lay out even a Garou flat on his back - but still furious, mindless, slavering, the pooble and rottweiler heads working together only because they are fused together, the two brains strengthening the massive, muscled body beneath. Sorrow tears it open; and then at last the Strider ends the thing, popping an eye and tearing the poodle's head half away from the falling corpse.
The broken man, with his fused fingers and his faintly bubbling skin, pulls shadows around him to obscure his position and then turns to run back through the brush. Imogen remembers when he started, though, and levels her weapon at the shadows, aiming through the darkness - and hears the satisfying crash of a body through the brush as he falls, the shadows peeling back from his body when he dies.
In the end, only the Fenrir is wounded, a hunk of flesh torn away from her shoulder, though she cannot feel the wound through the curtain of the gift which keeps the pain at bay.
[Imogen Slaughter] Imogen lowers her gun and turns her head to look about herself, about them, their surroundings. Her gunfire has an advantage - several, in fact, but it's one main disadvantage is noise. Gunshots in Grant Park.
Again.
She really should stop coming to the park, one of these days.
The tendon in her jaw shifts and tightens, then releases as she brings herself back to reality: that there are three very strange bodies in the middle of the park of which they need to dispose.
She holsters her gun and sets to work.
[Kora] The hispo Garou plunges through the undergrowth searching for other scents, other enemies, other ambushes. The others can hear her circling through the copse of trees as she noses through the brush, returning when she is satisfied that nothing else remains hidden amidst the leaves and trees.
When she returns - human skinned now, a young woman instead of a monster, the wound hidden by her t-shirt, the blood essentially invisible in the darkness, where it soaks the black fabric. - she wipes off her hands on the hem of her t-shirt, and joins Imogen in the bloody, unpleasant work. No smalltalk, not now - and no evidence of that injury when she moves for some time yet. Even when the pain returns, she will grit her teeth and continue, working quietly, quickly, until the grosteque work is finished.
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