Seeking answers. Letting the wolves do the lifting.

[nick_garou]

I helped Salem and Silvertip locate the epicenter where the recent earthquake came from. I used my cougar transformation talisman, so we all got to make the trip on four legs. It's more fun running about on four legs with others than it is by yourself. I guess that means I'd make for a shitty cat. The trip, however, proved to be fruitful and informative.

The next morning, I was out at a cafe across the street from the Queen's Tower, keeping a non-magickal eye on things (so as to lay low), when Briari decloaked in the booth next to me. Some kind of invisibility trick. Scared the shit out of me, though. Talked with her afterwards for a bit and she's been doing some recon and has some potentially useful info. I can see that the garou were about to start tripping over themselves from different directions unless someone pointed Briari towards Salem, bringing those two efforts together.

You're welcome, garou. You're welcome.

It was good chatting with Briari. The spirit night? And in looking at the tower directly the next morning? And looking at Briari's schedule of people coming and going? I can't use radiation to draw The Nothing up into the Tower to attack the bad guys on the top floor. I'm almost certain the Tower will collapse. I might be able to prevent the Tower from collapsing, but not while I'm otherwise engaged and not when there's potentially another powerful mage present.

Later on, while at the Walkers' hub, parties finally connected and started talking--including a second city spirit. Interesting that Salem seems surprised the city has enough history to yield one city spirit, much less two city spirits. Perhaps the city is not divulging all its secrets.

I later told Salem about trying to jog Kavi's memory by pulling past memories of his from the Safehouse and retransmitting them to Kavi, while he slept, as if they were lucid dreams. We'll see if that helps any, because whatever did a permanent number on Salem did a permanent number on Kavi, too.

The moon is bigger. The Suburban is packed and prepped. Time to make a trip to see Pavel down in Colorado and try to negotiate something with him to fix Salem's body. As I was packing, I realized I couldn't use the vine-juice popsicles I harvested earlier for wheeling and dealing with my mentor. They're a remote link to the caern. Damn. I'm concerned what this is going to cost, if he'll even agree to fix Salem, or God knows what a Master of Life would potential do with a garou. Time will tell.