Nick "Nicodemus" Dalton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nick_garou) wrote2016-05-23 09:06 am
nick_garou) wrote2016-05-23 09:06 am
Search your feelings. Waffles and dreams of Fight Club. A trip to link some nodes.
After my visit to the caern, I decided I needed some distance. I texted Mouse, Slug, Emma, and Salem about needing an escort to WWNP for a two-day excursion. Then I went to bed and couldn't sleep. I ended up watching some old Star Wars: Clone Wars videos. The stuff towards the end where the stories and character development get better. Where you can see Anakin starting to allow his feelings to control him. Slipping. I dozed off to that, and I woke up very aware of how, maybe, I might be doing the same. I needed to make a conscious effort of bringing my emotions under control. And that was just before Slug responded, volunteering for the escort duty.
Slug came by the cabin, I made coffee and waffles, and we talked a bit about various things. He seems concerned that I'm not going to be able to handle myself in a fight. Seemed a little surprised I was still living in my cabin. I pointed out I've given no one reason to come here or to be aware of it. I don't give my address out to just anybody, because I don't want garou just dropping by when they feel like it. Slug also suggested that I take up sparring so I could see what garou can really do. I pointed out that I'd been watching from the sidelines for about two decades and had a pretty good idea what they're capable of--but admitted I would like to learn more about the gifts and rites they use. Slug obliged by demonstrating a gift that seemed to attract trash to a designated point and mentioning that the Spirals seemed fond of a gift that disabled technology, including firearms. He showed me a flash-bang he was carrying, which reminded me I still had two of those stun gas grenades designed by that R&D company from a few years back that was experimenting on garou. Should I give those to the garou to use against the Spirals? Slug also mentioned that he and Val, using a Dreaming gift, would spar in their own minds to keep one another in practice. Interesting, but I'm actually concerned that, with Mind magick, I might potentially injure someone. That and I might scare the shit out of people.
Post-breakfast, I grabbed my hiking pack, grabbed a few other things for ritual use, sent another text to Mouse, Emma, and Salem that Slug was escorting me to the Mountain Bowl and the Lonely Boulder--in case they needed to get in touch--and off we went. It's time to link those two nodes up, like they'd been in the past, so I have easy access from afar.
Slug came by the cabin, I made coffee and waffles, and we talked a bit about various things. He seems concerned that I'm not going to be able to handle myself in a fight. Seemed a little surprised I was still living in my cabin. I pointed out I've given no one reason to come here or to be aware of it. I don't give my address out to just anybody, because I don't want garou just dropping by when they feel like it. Slug also suggested that I take up sparring so I could see what garou can really do. I pointed out that I'd been watching from the sidelines for about two decades and had a pretty good idea what they're capable of--but admitted I would like to learn more about the gifts and rites they use. Slug obliged by demonstrating a gift that seemed to attract trash to a designated point and mentioning that the Spirals seemed fond of a gift that disabled technology, including firearms. He showed me a flash-bang he was carrying, which reminded me I still had two of those stun gas grenades designed by that R&D company from a few years back that was experimenting on garou. Should I give those to the garou to use against the Spirals? Slug also mentioned that he and Val, using a Dreaming gift, would spar in their own minds to keep one another in practice. Interesting, but I'm actually concerned that, with Mind magick, I might potentially injure someone. That and I might scare the shit out of people.
Post-breakfast, I grabbed my hiking pack, grabbed a few other things for ritual use, sent another text to Mouse, Emma, and Salem that Slug was escorting me to the Mountain Bowl and the Lonely Boulder--in case they needed to get in touch--and off we went. It's time to link those two nodes up, like they'd been in the past, so I have easy access from afar.