[Chrysalis] "Doc," Kora says, quietly by way of greeting to Imogen when they've arrived. She stays away from the half-broken windows of the old brick building, sliding into the shadows on the other side as the other Garou come in after her. Roman gets a hip bump by way of greeting, subtle and animal, direct. " - the tunnels go all the way inside, then."
She lifts a glance back up at Imogen as Night's Reprieve asks who the man is, shaking her own head quietly. "I don't know." A direct look at the kinswoman. " - though I cannot imagine a human could survive captivity by the cursed ones with anything like sanity intact. Were either of your close enough to overhear?"
[Fate] "Well sir, I ain't had a chance to ask him who he is. It's a mite bit crowded in there, what with all them Dancer fellas dancing around."
He bumped back against Kora when she bumped him, though he was answering NR.
"Ain't heard much of what they said either, except some unflattering things I ain't gonna repeat in the presence of lady folk."
[Imogen] Does he need to be saved?
"I think it's a little late for him to be saved," she says, casting a quiet glance toward Night's Reprieve as she adjusts her jacket about herself. "Even if he's still alive if you succeed." Sorrow speaks, and Imogen returns the glance, steady, unflinching.
At the Skald's question, she shakes her head, simply, the only answer she offers.
[Fate] "I did get from some of the things they were saying, that they ain't so sure their offering is gonna be enough. Though enough for who or what, can't say. I can say they's a bunch of them inside. Four or five dancers and they got a motley looking bunch of human folk like a bunch of cattle wandering around."
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony's heart beats a little faster when he hears there's a man, trapped. His Crinos form doesn't lend itself to a great deal of expressiveness, but whatever Rage most Garou might feel at the prospect seems to be muted in him. He's just torn, just horrified, just pained at the thought of what they might have to do to him.
"...We should do something. If we can," he says. Because he has not yet fully accepted the idea that sometimes there is nothing that can be done.
[Night's Reprieve] "Assume he's done for , I'm sorry Dreams. They are both right, he won't have much of a mind left if they've been the hospitable hosts that they aim to be."
He raises a finger tip his lips, puts his thumb nail between his teeth briefly.
"Well, this way in you found. How big are the tunnels? Room for Crinos, room for Hispo?"
[Tongue Twister] She listens. she listens carefully, and even casts Fate an unreadable look that reads very much like the idea she might be shocked to find herself considered a lady. She shifts her feet, slightly, and then glances at Harmony. "If." If they can, they will, but she's already moved on.
Night's Reprieve asks the question she was about to ask - and a good sight more clearly, as well.
[Fate] "It's a train tunnel. Four humans across, sure, but you talking Hispo or Crinos and fighting room? No more than two side by side or ya gonna be hitting each other. It's possible to sneak in close, spread out before striking, if luck is with us."
[Night's Reprieve] "Hm."
He leans back against the wall of the structure, crosses his arms over his chest. When he speaks its calm, chirpy even.
"Tunnels lead to the same place? Is there different exits?"
[Fate] "Sure, sameway they came and went, right through that door over yonder."
He nodded towards the Wheelhouse.
[Fate] "I don't think they know about the tunnels cause Miss Doctor Slaughter here has been using them for bar b queing and ain't no one ate her yet."
[Bone-Grinder] Simon had trailed behind them. Literally just a couple minutes behind them all. He was surprisingly quiet in his approach... The Full Moon was also a Shadow Lord and so Stealth was just as important as speed strength and agility. He came upon them with a little grin."Heads up..."He says before simply jumping into their midst. He allowed everyone time to register that he was a friend, or at least not an enemy.
"I was told where to find you all and thought I would stop in to lend a hand."He reassures the others with a nod of his head. The full moon was dressed for stealth tonight, hoodie, and a bandanna around his neck, he carried a knife on his belt and a pair of tightly clutching boots. Relatively loose jeans made stealth a little easier as he shouldn't snag up on anything while being tight enough that he would trip. He came to join the operation prepared to do his part, it would appear.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony lets out a slow breath and listens to what the others are saying about the tunnels. He isn't really a spectacular fighter, the Philodox; he just wants to know the layout, wants to plan out where he'll have to be in order to heal someone if he needs to.
He looks over his shoulder once, at Simon, and the brown Crinos nods toward the Shadow Lord he's fought beside but never really spoken to.
And he steels himself, prepares to go inside.
[Imogen] Perception+alertness
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
to Chrysalis
[Fate] "Howdy Mister Simon. Listen, we got the wheelhouse there. We got us four or five Dancers. We got one man all beat up, strapped in for the ride and there's a bunch of humans that seem to be there for the party as either party favors or clean up crew. We got Dancers worried their sacrifice might not be enough, for what, beats me. And there's the tunnel with the old tracks. They branch out down there, all seem to come to the same room in the end. If we are really quiet, we might spread out and come in from different angles."
[Imogen] "The tunnels are a massive network," Imogen interrupts, "s'an old city -quirk, shall we say. Old train system. There are other entrances but other than the wheelhouse and th'buildin' I showed Roman, there are none near here." A beat.
"Tha' I know of."
A flick of her glance toward Fate, "All tha' means is we were never 'ere at the same time. Not that they don't know about the tunnels. Besides, when I was 'ere last, there was no chair in the wheelhouse. You're leapin' a bit far."
[Fate] He turned eyes as pale as faded denim on Imogen, removing his hat.
"Yessum. You're right, Ma'am."
One thing he had learned a long time ago, never argue with a woman who had a gun.
[Chrysalis] There is movement around the weelhouse. The flicker of a flashlight, keen against the darkness, the shadow of a pair of human-sized figures, emerging. Imogen will recognize the familiar flash and flare of a lighter in the darkness, the spark of a cigarette as someone lights it.
The second figure takes draft from the first character's cigarette, then peels away, dragging what appears to be a now-empty body bag through the weeds.
to Imogen
[Night's Reprieve] His head turns towards the new-comer, he frowns. The man isn't known to him, though that isn't surprising but you get to know faces being the Keeper. His wasn't one that had been around the Bawn lately. No matter, he's here to help.
"I don't like the idea of all of us clunking our way into those tunnels and then having a single exit to where we want to go. We've got enough people here for two forces, Simon, Dreams, Tongue Twister, Sorrow. Delayed front door. Fate, Doc and Myself take the tunnels. Fate can give the signal to Sorrow when we're in position."
There's a pause.
"Am I missing anything?"
[Bone-Grinder] He nods his head a little."Different angles is night provided we have the ability to keep a little on the quiet side. That said I'd imagine that most of us know how to be a little sneaky by now."He adds with a little tiny of a smile and a nod of his head."Surprise is the greatest weapon we have at our disposal."He says with a nod of his head.
"What are they sacrificing? The man?"He asks curiously."If so... Might do us a little better if we got him out of there or killed him before the ritual is complete if we can't manage to wriggle him free. Whatever plan they have in mind stopping it will likely be a good thing."He says with a little bit of a smile. The way he mentions killing a man who might be an innocent is surprisingly casual but then... Consider his tribe.
"Do we know anything about the pack specifically? Who is their alpha and who is their Beta? If we know these then they should be the first to fall... As the ones who will likely organize in a conflict cutting off the head of the pack before the fight usually helps dispatch the rest of the body."He was giving suggestions and doing his part. These kinds of things were important... Having a plan and knowing where you are going.
[Imogen] Abruptly, Imogen holds up her hand, making a brief sharp sibilance of sound. The same hand points concisely toward the window, indicating the out-of-doors, where a flashlight is weaving near the wheelhouse.
[Fate] "What I know is, they might of done started by now. They been in there quite some time now."
He shrugged apologetically.
[Fate] He naturally looked in the direction Imogen was pointing, hissing.
"Might of heard or seen us. Could be that there watch ya asked about."
[Bone-Grinder] His eyes shift in the direction of the flashlight and he finds his eyes narrowing a little."Could be some kinda night watchman or something? If so let him stumble in and distract them... We can use the cover to strike."He says with a slight smile forming on his lips. Always make use of your environment and oblivious humans were what a Shadow Lord would consider an environmental factor.
[Fate] per+pu
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Tongue Twister] [per+PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Perc + PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 3, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Imogen] perception+science
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [per+pu]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 5, 5, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Fate] "If it's anything, it's one of them or their's. No one patrols this area, it's why they picked it."
[Imogen] Imogen shakes her head slightly. "They're smoking and carryin' a body bag," she says, her eyes narrowed toward the dimness, "an empty one," she adds.
"I think it's merely coincidental."
A beat.
"But might I suggest tha' it would be rather embarrassing t'ha' a guard, or smoker, or anythin' realize tha' there are five Garou and one kinfolk hiding in a building debating a battle plan?
"If you want my advice, take the tunnels wi' the element o' surprise." A flick of her gaze toward Night's Reprieve, "I regret t'inform you, I'm not joinin in yer venture. I imagine you ha' Garou enough.
"I will leave when yeh've started th'attack. But pray, decide quickly and get on with it."
[Chrysalis] "The tunnels come up in the center of the wheelhouse, right?" Sorrow casts a look at Fate, briefly. "More than two of you should take the tunnels. Anyone, only one Garou at a time is getting through those doors, and squeezing a hispo through them after knocking them down would be an effort. A different sort of bottleneck, with the door in the middle. " To Simon, a quick shake of her head. "We don't have any intelligence. We stumbled on a ritual. We need to stop it."
--
Those who look now can see one human figure standing outside the wheelhouse, smoking cigarette. A second human figure is walking away from the doors, dragging a long black bag. The smoker has a flashlight, pointed down now at the ground. He shines it briefly to light the second figure's way. She's a teenaged girl, with greasy brown hair but a certain confident set to her shoulders. Then he shines it away. The guard is guarding the building in a desultory manner, after that, but he's there.
--
And then they feel it, underneath their feet - each and everyone of them, this brief - lurching shudder, as if the earth were briefly liquified, somewhere deep underground. It isn't enough to rattle glass in its pane, not yet. But they felt it, the wrongness of it, each and every one of them.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony begins to shift down to Hispo at the suggestion, glances toward the others. And waits for someone to give the word to go, for one of the Ahroun to lead the way into the corridors. He'll be quick to follow.
[Fate] That's all it took. He looked at his Alpha and nodded to the rest.
"Come on fella's, feel that? It's the welcome wagon."
And he slipped off towards the tunnels.
[Tongue Twister] She shakes her head. "Enough talk."
She steps up, and points to Simon and Sorrow. "Guard." To the others. "Tunnels."
And she turns to follow Fate toward the tunnels. Time to get this show on the road.
[Night's Reprieve] His hand dips into his leather pouch at his side while he peeks out at the flash light. Talens are removed. Discs with seams running through the middle, he cracks one in half and rubs the goopy grey paste on the back of his neck where the spiraling spear tattoo is. The second he smears on his cheeks below his eyes.
So much for plans, here we go. He follows after the rest of them into the tunnels.
[rolling for damage Talen]
[-1G Soak +3]
[-1WP Resist Pain]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 9 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Fate] When he reached near the tunnel's end, just outside the Wheelhouse where the voices came from, he shifted to Hispo and grabbed for a couple of gifts.
Resist Pain
Blur
Blur roll...man+stealth
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 (Failure at target 8)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Spending a WP on resist pain.]
[Tongue Twister] Other's grab for gifts, and Rory has a moment to remember she has meant to learn another one and hasn't yet. No matter now, it's the tunnel and the fight ahead she focuses on. On the move she shifts to hispo, taking point with Fate.
[Bone-Grinder] Simon readies himself as they head into the tunnels taking the time to prepare a few things before combat but otherwise he appears primed and ready to go as any Ahroun should be.
[-1 G soak Talen +2 Soak]
[-1 WP Resist Pain]
Once those little matters are taken care of, and seeing as how he won't likely need to restrain himself Simon opts to assume a battle form while down in the tunnels so as to better take advantage of the situation. If this is going to be a surprise attack the best bet is to hit as hard as possible as quickly as possible.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony goes immediately after Fate and Tongue Twister, staying in the middle so that he can easily reach anyone who might need to be healed in the narrow tunnel.
[Chrysalis] The evening is quiet and damp; they peel away from the shack amidst the rails, to the old control building, which looms in the darkness, taller than anything else in the yard except for the old water towers and the shadow of a crane stark against the dark orange sky. Picking their way through weeds and the rails, creeping low against the ground, darting behind a derelict diesel engine with two passenger cars behind it, the second one sheared in half by some great force.
The ground feels quiet again, still underneath. The yard is silent. If any of them shift to a more feral form, they will catch the scent of tobacco in the air from the smoking guard, the hint of blood from the preparations as they pass one of the points of the star.
This is where the gold tongue root was found.
--
Inside, they kick up dust, the musty smell of old papers, human feces and urine. The building has been a squat for the past twenty years, the control panels rusting to ruin. Down stairs into the basement, past the old canteen with its swinging doors and this vague vision, briefly, of that sickly, institutional green color that belongs in a horror movie rather than on the walls.
They go deeper, lower themselves one by one down an old access tunnel that drops first, a narrow metal ladder, then hits the ground and slopes slowly toward the old train tunnels. The darkness in here is nearly absolute. The air is cool but humid, the scent musty. There's little alive down here, just the echo of water dripping somewhere.
It is cool and tense; they're blind, led by their noses rather than their eyes. A last, somewhere up ahead, light returns. The rails run slowly uphill, emerging eventually on the center platform of the wheelhouse. From within the shadows of the tunnel, they can see the teeth of the old gears, ruined engines, the shadows of machinery used to move the platform in a circle.
The central wooden platform is raised perhaps a half-meter from the level of the main wheelhouse, and is easily the diameter of two diesel engines - nose to nose. A half-dozen figures linger on the periphery of the circle. Two of these are Garou already in warform, Crinos, ritualists the Godi thinks from the concentration, the position, they way they hold their hands out. In the center of the wooden platform, the metal dentist's chair, someone strapped into the center, and with a slight, pretty woman beside him, her hands on his temples, massaging, quiet, carefully avoiding his restraints.
[Night's Reprieve] [per+pu]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 10)
[Fate] PU+Per
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Failure at target 10)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Perc + PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 9 (Botch x 1 at target 10)
[Tongue Twister] (PU+per)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 6, 7 (Botch x 1 at target 10)
[Bone-Grinder] [Per+PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Failure at target 10)
[Chrysalis] The restraints seem to be some base metal; stainless steel or the like.
to Dreams In Summer Snow, Tongue Twister
[Chrysalis] The restraints holding the man in the dentist's chair are silver.
to Night's Reprieve
[Fate] Roman gave Twister a look and his muscles bunched and he was flying through the air, right for a Godi.
[Tongue Twister] She tips her head and looks inside, taking in everyone, and where they are. Roman gives her a look, and she's right there with him - and with a lunge, she's aiming for the massaging woman...
[Night's Reprieve] "The man in the chair is a shifter, or... will be? Maybe I'm not sure. The chains are silver, why else would they be silver." His bones pop and his spear appears in his right paw as he shifts to Crinos. The other two are just jumping on in, you can't just leave a Fenrir behind like that. He's right there with them.
[Night's Reprieve] [+7]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [+7]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Fate] +9
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Tongue Twister] Inits! +8
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Bone-Grinder] [+10]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Chrysalis] Grrrssssh +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 7
[Chrysalis] Kryssslich +8
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Chrysalis] Ritual +2
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1
[Chrysalis] Zzzzzzzzyx +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Chrysalis] Flart +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Chrysalis] June, Jody, Jennifer +4
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Chrysalis] Order:
Roman - 19
Kry - 18 (Crinos)
Rory - 17
Simon - 16
NR - 16
Flart - 16 (Crinos)
Grrrr - 13 (prisoner)
The girls - 13
Zzzzzyyyx - 11 (girl, with prisoner)
Harmony - 10
Rite - 3
[Chrysalis] Rite: 3 - [Needs another round!]
[Chrysalis] (The girl, Flart, and Krys are within immediate range. GRRRR and ZZZZZZYX require an action to get there.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] 1: Biting the woman doing the ritual.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Oops. Changing to Flart.]
[Chrysalis] Zzzzzzyyyx - 1 rage, snapshift to Crinos.
1. Finish ritual!
[Chrysalis] The girls! must make willpower roll to act.
Jennifer: 1a. draw gun. 1b. shoot harmony!
June: Run run away!
Jody! 1a Run to Zyzzzyzzyzhx! 1b. Block 1 attack on Zyzzzzyzyx!
[Chrysalis] GRRRRR - is restrained. Holding action.
[Chrysalis] Flart: 1a. Bite Rory. 1b. Bite Roman. Rage 1: Bite Harmony.
[Night's Reprieve] Reflexive: "The Ritualist! Strike him down!"
[1a - move to ZZZZZYX
1b
1c
r1 - spears, changing to Kry if dead]
[Bone-Grinder] 1a: Bite Flart
1b: Bite Flart
1R: Bite Flart
2R: Bite Flart
Switch to... Whoever when dead.
[Night's Reprieve] [strike her! she has womanly parts!]
[Tongue Twister] 2 rage, split first action:
1a: move it, Fianna!
1b: bite
1r: bite
2r: BITE DAMMIT. All on Zzzzzzyx. moving on to whoever's closest after.
[Fate] 1a rush Grrrr
1b, Rip Grrr out of chair
1r Hit Zzzzzzzyyx with Grrrr.
[Chrysalis] Kryss: 1a. Moving to defend Zzzyzzzyx. 1b. Block 1st attack on Zzzyzyx. 1c. Bite NR. Rage 1: Bite Fate. Rage 2. Bite Rory.
[Fate] 1a...bum rush to Grrrr.......
[Fate] 1b rip Grrr from seat
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 4, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 8) [WP]
[Chrysalis] The restrained man is pulled from his seat, flesh and bone tearing. The stink of silver is now in the air around them.
One of th misshapen Crinos Garou watching the ritual charges with the Gaians, moving into position to defend the ritualist.
[Tongue Twister] 1a - move y'ass, red!
1b - bite!
Dex + Brawl + Hispo = 3+4+2 = 9 -3 for split = 6 diff 5 - reroll 10s +wp!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) [WP] Re-rolls: 1
[Tongue Twister] Damage! HAIL KAHSEENO!!
Str + Hispo + Bite + (suxx-1) = 4+3+2 = 9 + 4
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zzzzzyxxxx SOAK
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Bone-Grinder] [Bite Flart! Dex+Brawl+Totem+Hispo = 10 -2 for split action = 8 diff 5]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Bone-Grinder] [Damage = Str+Totem+Hispo+2+5 = 14 Die Flart!]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 9 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Flart: SOAK!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Rage back!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 8) [WP]
[Bone-Grinder] [Bite Flart again! 7 this time!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 7, 8 (Failure at target 5)
[Night's Reprieve] [1b - dex 3 + 1 (crinos) + melee 3 + Valkyrie 3 - 4 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Kry: Block! -3 for split.
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [dmg str+4(crinos)+3(spear)+1(damage talen)]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zz Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 5, 5, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] June: WP to run away!
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 5, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jennifer: WP to draw weapon and fire!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 3, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Chrysalis] Jody: WP to throw self into the fray!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 8)
[Chrysalis] Jennifer: 1a. Draw gun! 1b. Shoot Harmony!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 4, 5, 5, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Biting Flart!]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Damage! Str 5 + hispo 1 + bite 1 + 4]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 8 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Flart: x.x
[Chrysalis] Kyr bits NR - 1c.
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 7, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [soak+3talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [1c -5 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 6, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jody: BLOCK!
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [dmg+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jody: soak?
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 4 (Failure at target 8)
[Fate] 1 R, smashing Zzzzzyyyyk with Grrrr as improvised weapon.
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8 (Success x 4 at target 8) [WP]
[Fate] damn
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Chysalis] Gah! Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] GRrrr: SOAK
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 5, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Kyyyr: Rage 1: BITE Roman
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 5, 5, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Fate] soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 6, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Rage 2: BITE Rory
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Tongue Twister] Soak: HAIL KAHSEENO!
Sta+Hispo = 4+3=7
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Tongue Twister] R1/2 - NOMNOMNOM ZZZZZZ
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dex + Brawl + Hispo = 3+4+2= 9 diff 5 - reroll 10s
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5) Re-rolls: 2
[Tongue Twister] DIIIIIIIIIIE! KAHSEENO LETIM DIIIIE!
Damage:
Str + Hispo + Bite + (suxx-1) = 4+3+2 = 9 + 5
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zzzzyx. SOAK.
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zzzzyx: -.- (incap!)
[Tongue Twister] R2/2! Switching to Kry... NOMNOMNOM!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dex + Brawl + Hispo = 3+4+2= 9 diff 5 - reroll 10s
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 9 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Tongue Twister] DIIIIIIIIE! KAHEENO LEETIMDIIIIIE!
Damage:
Str + Hispo + Bite + (suxx-1) = 4+3+2 = 9 + 4
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 (Success x 8 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Kryssy SOAK!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Bone-Grinder] [R1: Kill Jennifer! Shouldn'ta pulled your weapon and shot a Garou with a Shadow Lord around bitch!]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Bone-Grinder] [Damage! Str+Hispo+Totem+2+4 = 13]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jen: SOAK!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 4 (Failure at target 8)
[Bone-Grinder] [One more time and this time you die!]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Bone-Grinder] [Same exacy Damage roll!]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 7 (Botch x 1 at target 8)
[Chrysalis] Jennifer: x.x
[Night's Reprieve] [R1 on Krys]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [dmg+5]
Dice Rolled:[ 16 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Soak: Kry!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] RAGE BACK!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 8) [WP]
[Chrysalis] -.- incap.
[Chrysalis] The battle goes by in a great blur. Three Gaians charge for the ritualist in the center of the wheelhouse. Roman tears the bound Spiral from his silver restraints, breaking bones, searing flesh. The scent of burned skin is sharp in the air. Night's Reprieve and Tongue-Twister leap for the theurge, as first a Garou, then a kinfolk jump in from of their weapons - the Godi's spear, the Fianna's teeth. Closer to the mouth of the tunnel, Bone-Grinder takes down the misshapen Crinos Ahroun in one great bite. He rages back, blind and snarling, surging back to life - only to be taken down by the Gaian in another great bite.
--
In the aftermath, the Garou are left standing on a field littered by the dead, the incapacitated. There's a certain quiet. One Garou is dead, two are lying senseless, on the absolute edge of death. One of the three kin is dead. The other has made it to the shadows edging the building.
The third - who bravely, foolishly - threw herself between a Fenrir's spear and the theurge's hide - is unharmed as yet. She makes a strangled, shocked noise and begins hyperventilating, rooted in one spot, her huge eyes fixed on the last of the Garou -
Grrrssssh.
Restrained in the dentist's chair by silver bands, cheap restraints badly worked, effective nonetheless. The beast is wounded and woozy, still human, burns around his wrists and ankles, half-clothed, filthy, glyphs carved into his skin, and everything around them is silent, just the harsh breathing of the Spiral kin, their own rage thrumming in their ears.
And deep underground, this brief, liquid sense of movement that does not unbalance them, so much as make itself felt in the inner ear.
Grrssssh twitches and moans in Roman's hands.
--
The battle isn't over.
Not by a long shot.
[Bone-Grinder] [Later!]
She lifts a glance back up at Imogen as Night's Reprieve asks who the man is, shaking her own head quietly. "I don't know." A direct look at the kinswoman. " - though I cannot imagine a human could survive captivity by the cursed ones with anything like sanity intact. Were either of your close enough to overhear?"
[Fate] "Well sir, I ain't had a chance to ask him who he is. It's a mite bit crowded in there, what with all them Dancer fellas dancing around."
He bumped back against Kora when she bumped him, though he was answering NR.
"Ain't heard much of what they said either, except some unflattering things I ain't gonna repeat in the presence of lady folk."
[Imogen] Does he need to be saved?
"I think it's a little late for him to be saved," she says, casting a quiet glance toward Night's Reprieve as she adjusts her jacket about herself. "Even if he's still alive if you succeed." Sorrow speaks, and Imogen returns the glance, steady, unflinching.
At the Skald's question, she shakes her head, simply, the only answer she offers.
[Fate] "I did get from some of the things they were saying, that they ain't so sure their offering is gonna be enough. Though enough for who or what, can't say. I can say they's a bunch of them inside. Four or five dancers and they got a motley looking bunch of human folk like a bunch of cattle wandering around."
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony's heart beats a little faster when he hears there's a man, trapped. His Crinos form doesn't lend itself to a great deal of expressiveness, but whatever Rage most Garou might feel at the prospect seems to be muted in him. He's just torn, just horrified, just pained at the thought of what they might have to do to him.
"...We should do something. If we can," he says. Because he has not yet fully accepted the idea that sometimes there is nothing that can be done.
[Night's Reprieve] "Assume he's done for , I'm sorry Dreams. They are both right, he won't have much of a mind left if they've been the hospitable hosts that they aim to be."
He raises a finger tip his lips, puts his thumb nail between his teeth briefly.
"Well, this way in you found. How big are the tunnels? Room for Crinos, room for Hispo?"
[Tongue Twister] She listens. she listens carefully, and even casts Fate an unreadable look that reads very much like the idea she might be shocked to find herself considered a lady. She shifts her feet, slightly, and then glances at Harmony. "If." If they can, they will, but she's already moved on.
Night's Reprieve asks the question she was about to ask - and a good sight more clearly, as well.
[Fate] "It's a train tunnel. Four humans across, sure, but you talking Hispo or Crinos and fighting room? No more than two side by side or ya gonna be hitting each other. It's possible to sneak in close, spread out before striking, if luck is with us."
[Night's Reprieve] "Hm."
He leans back against the wall of the structure, crosses his arms over his chest. When he speaks its calm, chirpy even.
"Tunnels lead to the same place? Is there different exits?"
[Fate] "Sure, sameway they came and went, right through that door over yonder."
He nodded towards the Wheelhouse.
[Fate] "I don't think they know about the tunnels cause Miss Doctor Slaughter here has been using them for bar b queing and ain't no one ate her yet."
[Bone-Grinder] Simon had trailed behind them. Literally just a couple minutes behind them all. He was surprisingly quiet in his approach... The Full Moon was also a Shadow Lord and so Stealth was just as important as speed strength and agility. He came upon them with a little grin."Heads up..."He says before simply jumping into their midst. He allowed everyone time to register that he was a friend, or at least not an enemy.
"I was told where to find you all and thought I would stop in to lend a hand."He reassures the others with a nod of his head. The full moon was dressed for stealth tonight, hoodie, and a bandanna around his neck, he carried a knife on his belt and a pair of tightly clutching boots. Relatively loose jeans made stealth a little easier as he shouldn't snag up on anything while being tight enough that he would trip. He came to join the operation prepared to do his part, it would appear.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony lets out a slow breath and listens to what the others are saying about the tunnels. He isn't really a spectacular fighter, the Philodox; he just wants to know the layout, wants to plan out where he'll have to be in order to heal someone if he needs to.
He looks over his shoulder once, at Simon, and the brown Crinos nods toward the Shadow Lord he's fought beside but never really spoken to.
And he steels himself, prepares to go inside.
[Imogen] Perception+alertness
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6) Re-rolls: 1
to Chrysalis
[Fate] "Howdy Mister Simon. Listen, we got the wheelhouse there. We got us four or five Dancers. We got one man all beat up, strapped in for the ride and there's a bunch of humans that seem to be there for the party as either party favors or clean up crew. We got Dancers worried their sacrifice might not be enough, for what, beats me. And there's the tunnel with the old tracks. They branch out down there, all seem to come to the same room in the end. If we are really quiet, we might spread out and come in from different angles."
[Imogen] "The tunnels are a massive network," Imogen interrupts, "s'an old city -quirk, shall we say. Old train system. There are other entrances but other than the wheelhouse and th'buildin' I showed Roman, there are none near here." A beat.
"Tha' I know of."
A flick of her glance toward Fate, "All tha' means is we were never 'ere at the same time. Not that they don't know about the tunnels. Besides, when I was 'ere last, there was no chair in the wheelhouse. You're leapin' a bit far."
[Fate] He turned eyes as pale as faded denim on Imogen, removing his hat.
"Yessum. You're right, Ma'am."
One thing he had learned a long time ago, never argue with a woman who had a gun.
[Chrysalis] There is movement around the weelhouse. The flicker of a flashlight, keen against the darkness, the shadow of a pair of human-sized figures, emerging. Imogen will recognize the familiar flash and flare of a lighter in the darkness, the spark of a cigarette as someone lights it.
The second figure takes draft from the first character's cigarette, then peels away, dragging what appears to be a now-empty body bag through the weeds.
to Imogen
[Night's Reprieve] His head turns towards the new-comer, he frowns. The man isn't known to him, though that isn't surprising but you get to know faces being the Keeper. His wasn't one that had been around the Bawn lately. No matter, he's here to help.
"I don't like the idea of all of us clunking our way into those tunnels and then having a single exit to where we want to go. We've got enough people here for two forces, Simon, Dreams, Tongue Twister, Sorrow. Delayed front door. Fate, Doc and Myself take the tunnels. Fate can give the signal to Sorrow when we're in position."
There's a pause.
"Am I missing anything?"
[Bone-Grinder] He nods his head a little."Different angles is night provided we have the ability to keep a little on the quiet side. That said I'd imagine that most of us know how to be a little sneaky by now."He adds with a little tiny of a smile and a nod of his head."Surprise is the greatest weapon we have at our disposal."He says with a nod of his head.
"What are they sacrificing? The man?"He asks curiously."If so... Might do us a little better if we got him out of there or killed him before the ritual is complete if we can't manage to wriggle him free. Whatever plan they have in mind stopping it will likely be a good thing."He says with a little bit of a smile. The way he mentions killing a man who might be an innocent is surprisingly casual but then... Consider his tribe.
"Do we know anything about the pack specifically? Who is their alpha and who is their Beta? If we know these then they should be the first to fall... As the ones who will likely organize in a conflict cutting off the head of the pack before the fight usually helps dispatch the rest of the body."He was giving suggestions and doing his part. These kinds of things were important... Having a plan and knowing where you are going.
[Imogen] Abruptly, Imogen holds up her hand, making a brief sharp sibilance of sound. The same hand points concisely toward the window, indicating the out-of-doors, where a flashlight is weaving near the wheelhouse.
[Fate] "What I know is, they might of done started by now. They been in there quite some time now."
He shrugged apologetically.
[Fate] He naturally looked in the direction Imogen was pointing, hissing.
"Might of heard or seen us. Could be that there watch ya asked about."
[Bone-Grinder] His eyes shift in the direction of the flashlight and he finds his eyes narrowing a little."Could be some kinda night watchman or something? If so let him stumble in and distract them... We can use the cover to strike."He says with a slight smile forming on his lips. Always make use of your environment and oblivious humans were what a Shadow Lord would consider an environmental factor.
[Fate] per+pu
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Tongue Twister] [per+PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Perc + PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 3, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Imogen] perception+science
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [per+pu]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 5, 5, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Fate] "If it's anything, it's one of them or their's. No one patrols this area, it's why they picked it."
[Imogen] Imogen shakes her head slightly. "They're smoking and carryin' a body bag," she says, her eyes narrowed toward the dimness, "an empty one," she adds.
"I think it's merely coincidental."
A beat.
"But might I suggest tha' it would be rather embarrassing t'ha' a guard, or smoker, or anythin' realize tha' there are five Garou and one kinfolk hiding in a building debating a battle plan?
"If you want my advice, take the tunnels wi' the element o' surprise." A flick of her gaze toward Night's Reprieve, "I regret t'inform you, I'm not joinin in yer venture. I imagine you ha' Garou enough.
"I will leave when yeh've started th'attack. But pray, decide quickly and get on with it."
[Chrysalis] "The tunnels come up in the center of the wheelhouse, right?" Sorrow casts a look at Fate, briefly. "More than two of you should take the tunnels. Anyone, only one Garou at a time is getting through those doors, and squeezing a hispo through them after knocking them down would be an effort. A different sort of bottleneck, with the door in the middle. " To Simon, a quick shake of her head. "We don't have any intelligence. We stumbled on a ritual. We need to stop it."
--
Those who look now can see one human figure standing outside the wheelhouse, smoking cigarette. A second human figure is walking away from the doors, dragging a long black bag. The smoker has a flashlight, pointed down now at the ground. He shines it briefly to light the second figure's way. She's a teenaged girl, with greasy brown hair but a certain confident set to her shoulders. Then he shines it away. The guard is guarding the building in a desultory manner, after that, but he's there.
--
And then they feel it, underneath their feet - each and everyone of them, this brief - lurching shudder, as if the earth were briefly liquified, somewhere deep underground. It isn't enough to rattle glass in its pane, not yet. But they felt it, the wrongness of it, each and every one of them.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony begins to shift down to Hispo at the suggestion, glances toward the others. And waits for someone to give the word to go, for one of the Ahroun to lead the way into the corridors. He'll be quick to follow.
[Fate] That's all it took. He looked at his Alpha and nodded to the rest.
"Come on fella's, feel that? It's the welcome wagon."
And he slipped off towards the tunnels.
[Tongue Twister] She shakes her head. "Enough talk."
She steps up, and points to Simon and Sorrow. "Guard." To the others. "Tunnels."
And she turns to follow Fate toward the tunnels. Time to get this show on the road.
[Night's Reprieve] His hand dips into his leather pouch at his side while he peeks out at the flash light. Talens are removed. Discs with seams running through the middle, he cracks one in half and rubs the goopy grey paste on the back of his neck where the spiraling spear tattoo is. The second he smears on his cheeks below his eyes.
So much for plans, here we go. He follows after the rest of them into the tunnels.
[rolling for damage Talen]
[-1G Soak +3]
[-1WP Resist Pain]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 9 (Success x 1 at target 5)
[Fate] When he reached near the tunnel's end, just outside the Wheelhouse where the voices came from, he shifted to Hispo and grabbed for a couple of gifts.
Resist Pain
Blur
Blur roll...man+stealth
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 (Failure at target 8)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Spending a WP on resist pain.]
[Tongue Twister] Other's grab for gifts, and Rory has a moment to remember she has meant to learn another one and hasn't yet. No matter now, it's the tunnel and the fight ahead she focuses on. On the move she shifts to hispo, taking point with Fate.
[Bone-Grinder] Simon readies himself as they head into the tunnels taking the time to prepare a few things before combat but otherwise he appears primed and ready to go as any Ahroun should be.
[-1 G soak Talen +2 Soak]
[-1 WP Resist Pain]
Once those little matters are taken care of, and seeing as how he won't likely need to restrain himself Simon opts to assume a battle form while down in the tunnels so as to better take advantage of the situation. If this is going to be a surprise attack the best bet is to hit as hard as possible as quickly as possible.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] Harmony goes immediately after Fate and Tongue Twister, staying in the middle so that he can easily reach anyone who might need to be healed in the narrow tunnel.
[Chrysalis] The evening is quiet and damp; they peel away from the shack amidst the rails, to the old control building, which looms in the darkness, taller than anything else in the yard except for the old water towers and the shadow of a crane stark against the dark orange sky. Picking their way through weeds and the rails, creeping low against the ground, darting behind a derelict diesel engine with two passenger cars behind it, the second one sheared in half by some great force.
The ground feels quiet again, still underneath. The yard is silent. If any of them shift to a more feral form, they will catch the scent of tobacco in the air from the smoking guard, the hint of blood from the preparations as they pass one of the points of the star.
This is where the gold tongue root was found.
--
Inside, they kick up dust, the musty smell of old papers, human feces and urine. The building has been a squat for the past twenty years, the control panels rusting to ruin. Down stairs into the basement, past the old canteen with its swinging doors and this vague vision, briefly, of that sickly, institutional green color that belongs in a horror movie rather than on the walls.
They go deeper, lower themselves one by one down an old access tunnel that drops first, a narrow metal ladder, then hits the ground and slopes slowly toward the old train tunnels. The darkness in here is nearly absolute. The air is cool but humid, the scent musty. There's little alive down here, just the echo of water dripping somewhere.
It is cool and tense; they're blind, led by their noses rather than their eyes. A last, somewhere up ahead, light returns. The rails run slowly uphill, emerging eventually on the center platform of the wheelhouse. From within the shadows of the tunnel, they can see the teeth of the old gears, ruined engines, the shadows of machinery used to move the platform in a circle.
The central wooden platform is raised perhaps a half-meter from the level of the main wheelhouse, and is easily the diameter of two diesel engines - nose to nose. A half-dozen figures linger on the periphery of the circle. Two of these are Garou already in warform, Crinos, ritualists the Godi thinks from the concentration, the position, they way they hold their hands out. In the center of the wooden platform, the metal dentist's chair, someone strapped into the center, and with a slight, pretty woman beside him, her hands on his temples, massaging, quiet, carefully avoiding his restraints.
[Night's Reprieve] [per+pu]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 10)
[Fate] PU+Per
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Failure at target 10)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Perc + PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 9 (Botch x 1 at target 10)
[Tongue Twister] (PU+per)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 6, 7 (Botch x 1 at target 10)
[Bone-Grinder] [Per+PU]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Failure at target 10)
[Chrysalis] The restraints seem to be some base metal; stainless steel or the like.
to Dreams In Summer Snow, Tongue Twister
[Chrysalis] The restraints holding the man in the dentist's chair are silver.
to Night's Reprieve
[Fate] Roman gave Twister a look and his muscles bunched and he was flying through the air, right for a Godi.
[Tongue Twister] She tips her head and looks inside, taking in everyone, and where they are. Roman gives her a look, and she's right there with him - and with a lunge, she's aiming for the massaging woman...
[Night's Reprieve] "The man in the chair is a shifter, or... will be? Maybe I'm not sure. The chains are silver, why else would they be silver." His bones pop and his spear appears in his right paw as he shifts to Crinos. The other two are just jumping on in, you can't just leave a Fenrir behind like that. He's right there with them.
[Night's Reprieve] [+7]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [+7]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3
[Fate] +9
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Tongue Twister] Inits! +8
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Bone-Grinder] [+10]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6
[Chrysalis] Grrrssssh +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 7
[Chrysalis] Kryssslich +8
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Chrysalis] Ritual +2
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1
[Chrysalis] Zzzzzzzzyx +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5
[Chrysalis] Flart +6
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10
[Chrysalis] June, Jody, Jennifer +4
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9
[Chrysalis] Order:
Roman - 19
Kry - 18 (Crinos)
Rory - 17
Simon - 16
NR - 16
Flart - 16 (Crinos)
Grrrr - 13 (prisoner)
The girls - 13
Zzzzzyyyx - 11 (girl, with prisoner)
Harmony - 10
Rite - 3
[Chrysalis] Rite: 3 - [Needs another round!]
[Chrysalis] (The girl, Flart, and Krys are within immediate range. GRRRR and ZZZZZZYX require an action to get there.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] 1: Biting the woman doing the ritual.
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Oops. Changing to Flart.]
[Chrysalis] Zzzzzzyyyx - 1 rage, snapshift to Crinos.
1. Finish ritual!
[Chrysalis] The girls! must make willpower roll to act.
Jennifer: 1a. draw gun. 1b. shoot harmony!
June: Run run away!
Jody! 1a Run to Zyzzzyzzyzhx! 1b. Block 1 attack on Zyzzzzyzyx!
[Chrysalis] GRRRRR - is restrained. Holding action.
[Chrysalis] Flart: 1a. Bite Rory. 1b. Bite Roman. Rage 1: Bite Harmony.
[Night's Reprieve] Reflexive: "The Ritualist! Strike him down!"
[1a - move to ZZZZZYX
1b
1c
r1 - spears, changing to Kry if dead]
[Bone-Grinder] 1a: Bite Flart
1b: Bite Flart
1R: Bite Flart
2R: Bite Flart
Switch to... Whoever when dead.
[Night's Reprieve] [strike her! she has womanly parts!]
[Tongue Twister] 2 rage, split first action:
1a: move it, Fianna!
1b: bite
1r: bite
2r: BITE DAMMIT. All on Zzzzzzyx. moving on to whoever's closest after.
[Fate] 1a rush Grrrr
1b, Rip Grrr out of chair
1r Hit Zzzzzzzyyx with Grrrr.
[Chrysalis] Kryss: 1a. Moving to defend Zzzyzzzyx. 1b. Block 1st attack on Zzzyzyx. 1c. Bite NR. Rage 1: Bite Fate. Rage 2. Bite Rory.
[Fate] 1a...bum rush to Grrrr.......
[Fate] 1b rip Grrr from seat
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 4, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 8) [WP]
[Chrysalis] The restrained man is pulled from his seat, flesh and bone tearing. The stink of silver is now in the air around them.
One of th misshapen Crinos Garou watching the ritual charges with the Gaians, moving into position to defend the ritualist.
[Tongue Twister] 1a - move y'ass, red!
1b - bite!
Dex + Brawl + Hispo = 3+4+2 = 9 -3 for split = 6 diff 5 - reroll 10s +wp!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) [WP] Re-rolls: 1
[Tongue Twister] Damage! HAIL KAHSEENO!!
Str + Hispo + Bite + (suxx-1) = 4+3+2 = 9 + 4
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zzzzzyxxxx SOAK
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Bone-Grinder] [Bite Flart! Dex+Brawl+Totem+Hispo = 10 -2 for split action = 8 diff 5]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Bone-Grinder] [Damage = Str+Totem+Hispo+2+5 = 14 Die Flart!]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 9 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Flart: SOAK!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Rage back!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 8) [WP]
[Bone-Grinder] [Bite Flart again! 7 this time!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 7, 8 (Failure at target 5)
[Night's Reprieve] [1b - dex 3 + 1 (crinos) + melee 3 + Valkyrie 3 - 4 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Kry: Block! -3 for split.
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [dmg str+4(crinos)+3(spear)+1(damage talen)]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zz Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 5, 5, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] June: WP to run away!
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 5, 9, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jennifer: WP to draw weapon and fire!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 3, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 7)
[Chrysalis] Jody: WP to throw self into the fray!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 3, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 8)
[Chrysalis] Jennifer: 1a. Draw gun! 1b. Shoot Harmony!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 4, 5, 5, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 3, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Soak]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Biting Flart!]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Dreams In Summer Snow] [Damage! Str 5 + hispo 1 + bite 1 + 4]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 6, 6, 6, 9, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 8 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Flart: x.x
[Chrysalis] Kyr bits NR - 1c.
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 7, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 5)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 5 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [soak+3talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [1c -5 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 6, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jody: BLOCK!
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 6, 7, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [dmg+2]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jody: soak?
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 4 (Failure at target 8)
[Fate] 1 R, smashing Zzzzzyyyyk with Grrrr as improvised weapon.
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 8 (Success x 4 at target 8) [WP]
[Fate] damn
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 7, 7, 7, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Chysalis] Gah! Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] GRrrr: SOAK
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 5, 7 (Failure at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Kyyyr: Rage 1: BITE Roman
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 5, 5, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Fate] soak
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 6, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Rage 2: BITE Rory
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 5)
[Chrysalis] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Tongue Twister] Soak: HAIL KAHSEENO!
Sta+Hispo = 4+3=7
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Tongue Twister] R1/2 - NOMNOMNOM ZZZZZZ
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dex + Brawl + Hispo = 3+4+2= 9 diff 5 - reroll 10s
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5) Re-rolls: 2
[Tongue Twister] DIIIIIIIIIIE! KAHSEENO LETIM DIIIIE!
Damage:
Str + Hispo + Bite + (suxx-1) = 4+3+2 = 9 + 5
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zzzzyx. SOAK.
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Zzzzyx: -.- (incap!)
[Tongue Twister] R2/2! Switching to Kry... NOMNOMNOM!
HAIL KAHSEENO!
Dex + Brawl + Hispo = 3+4+2= 9 diff 5 - reroll 10s
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 9 (Success x 5 at target 5)
[Tongue Twister] DIIIIIIIIE! KAHEENO LEETIMDIIIIIE!
Damage:
Str + Hispo + Bite + (suxx-1) = 4+3+2 = 9 + 4
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 (Success x 8 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Kryssy SOAK!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Bone-Grinder] [R1: Kill Jennifer! Shouldn'ta pulled your weapon and shot a Garou with a Shadow Lord around bitch!]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Bone-Grinder] [Damage! Str+Hispo+Totem+2+4 = 13]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Jen: SOAK!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 4 (Failure at target 8)
[Bone-Grinder] [One more time and this time you die!]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5) Re-rolls: 1
[Bone-Grinder] [Same exacy Damage roll!]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 7 (Botch x 1 at target 8)
[Chrysalis] Jennifer: x.x
[Night's Reprieve] [R1 on Krys]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Night's Reprieve] [dmg+5]
Dice Rolled:[ 16 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] Soak: Kry!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 6)
[Chrysalis] RAGE BACK!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 8) [WP]
[Chrysalis] -.- incap.
[Chrysalis] The battle goes by in a great blur. Three Gaians charge for the ritualist in the center of the wheelhouse. Roman tears the bound Spiral from his silver restraints, breaking bones, searing flesh. The scent of burned skin is sharp in the air. Night's Reprieve and Tongue-Twister leap for the theurge, as first a Garou, then a kinfolk jump in from of their weapons - the Godi's spear, the Fianna's teeth. Closer to the mouth of the tunnel, Bone-Grinder takes down the misshapen Crinos Ahroun in one great bite. He rages back, blind and snarling, surging back to life - only to be taken down by the Gaian in another great bite.
--
In the aftermath, the Garou are left standing on a field littered by the dead, the incapacitated. There's a certain quiet. One Garou is dead, two are lying senseless, on the absolute edge of death. One of the three kin is dead. The other has made it to the shadows edging the building.
The third - who bravely, foolishly - threw herself between a Fenrir's spear and the theurge's hide - is unharmed as yet. She makes a strangled, shocked noise and begins hyperventilating, rooted in one spot, her huge eyes fixed on the last of the Garou -
Grrrssssh.
Restrained in the dentist's chair by silver bands, cheap restraints badly worked, effective nonetheless. The beast is wounded and woozy, still human, burns around his wrists and ankles, half-clothed, filthy, glyphs carved into his skin, and everything around them is silent, just the harsh breathing of the Spiral kin, their own rage thrumming in their ears.
And deep underground, this brief, liquid sense of movement that does not unbalance them, so much as make itself felt in the inner ear.
Grrssssh twitches and moans in Roman's hands.
--
The battle isn't over.
Not by a long shot.
[Bone-Grinder] [Later!]
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