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nick_garou) wrote2008-01-20 08:48 am
nick_garou) wrote2008-01-20 08:48 am
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A trip to the park to collect tass results in an encounter with Val, where we discuss theories about the garou, magic, places of power, and Val catches me up on recent past events surrounding the Pink Fuzz drug and the spiritual status of Harbor Park and its new renovations. New agendas: (1) See what I can do to resolve the wasp nest problem in Harbor Park's astral plane and (2) Locate the new city hideout for the garou.
I visited the fountain node at Harbor Park today to collect some tass. I ran into Val again and we talked a while about various things. She and I think a lot alike.
She mentioned that she'd been asked about me by a garou, and that some of them had their suspicions about me. I hadn't realized that word had gotten around--though Val said they didn't know for sure what I was and had bigger fish to fry. That's a little scary. It might be time to find out where their new haunts are so I can better keep tabs on them. Since their place in the city burned down, I don't know where they've gone off to. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out, but it'll take a little time. We also talked a little about the garou. I proposed that the reason that they were so reckless and brutal was a direct result of their capability for rapid healing. Val seemed to partially agree. She also heals rapidly, but she's not built like a hulking war machine in her other shapes. Genetic predisposition might therefore play a part. We also talked a little about the definition of a monster, and I confided that I consider most garou to be just that: monsters. Though a very few of them--like Salem--are humans trapped in the bodies of monsters. (I don't think Salem actually likes who/what he is.) The ones that fight it and retain their humanity: I respect those. Even if they still make me nervous as hell. The ones that go "this is me!" and revel in it and the power. They're a step away from the abyss.
Val also told me that there'd been some big changes in the harbor park node--glade, as they call it--in the astral plane/umbra. I was out of town for all the "fun", but apparently the Pink Fuzz drug that was all the temporary rage in St. Clair was derived by "milking" malicious wasp spirits for their venom. Val was very proud of having helped the garou, and blown up a small plane being used by the drug maker. The wasp spirits are gone, but the wasp nest is still in the Harbor Park astral. Val is afraid to burn it, afraid to pull it apart and go inside, and asked me for help if I can provide any. She's going to bring me a piece of the nest from the spirit word. I am SO EXCITED about this--a complex piece of spiritual material to examine. How cool is that? She also mentioned that while the wasps were gone, the hive was repairing itself. I suspect there are still wasps within the hive. Shouldn't be hard for me to find out, but I'm going to go rest up for this first.
I am trying to be less evasive around Val ever since she pointed it out to me earlier. I had to push myself to do it, but I did. She'd observed me tossing pennies into the fountain, so I explained what that was all about. How the glade was like a saturated salt solution and that the pennies were like knots in a string dangled into the solution. Over time, they collect crystals. She was worried that this was going to hurt the glade, but I explained that if I were to drain the park completely, I would not get as much as much as I'd get by skimming off the top over a couple years. And that the park has been skimmed off of for at least fourteen years that I was aware of, and likely far longer than that, and hadn't ever weakened. I also explained that the park was like the golden goose: you don't kill or injure your golden goose. Someone else might, but I certainly wasn't going to.
Val seemed to feel that it was in danger with the new spirits present. I don't think so. It might get damaged in a fight over it while it's changing hands, but it'll still be useful to me. Not so much the garou and Val, though. Still, I like the resonance it has right now and would prefer if the "flavor" didn't change. I think me sharing that might have opened her eyes a little about how the universe doesn't completely revolve around the Garou's (and her) beliefs. Though she did caution me about using too much of the alternative "flavors".
She also pieced together and asked if I was able to detect her and the garou by the magical energies within them--like there is at the glade. I really hesitated there, but told her yes. And she immediately made the "might use us like batteries" connection. I've never done that. The concept is actually.... It's kind of like cannibalism, honestly. Not with a sentient creature--even if it wasn't human.
She mentioned that she'd been asked about me by a garou, and that some of them had their suspicions about me. I hadn't realized that word had gotten around--though Val said they didn't know for sure what I was and had bigger fish to fry. That's a little scary. It might be time to find out where their new haunts are so I can better keep tabs on them. Since their place in the city burned down, I don't know where they've gone off to. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out, but it'll take a little time. We also talked a little about the garou. I proposed that the reason that they were so reckless and brutal was a direct result of their capability for rapid healing. Val seemed to partially agree. She also heals rapidly, but she's not built like a hulking war machine in her other shapes. Genetic predisposition might therefore play a part. We also talked a little about the definition of a monster, and I confided that I consider most garou to be just that: monsters. Though a very few of them--like Salem--are humans trapped in the bodies of monsters. (I don't think Salem actually likes who/what he is.) The ones that fight it and retain their humanity: I respect those. Even if they still make me nervous as hell. The ones that go "this is me!" and revel in it and the power. They're a step away from the abyss.
Val also told me that there'd been some big changes in the harbor park node--glade, as they call it--in the astral plane/umbra. I was out of town for all the "fun", but apparently the Pink Fuzz drug that was all the temporary rage in St. Clair was derived by "milking" malicious wasp spirits for their venom. Val was very proud of having helped the garou, and blown up a small plane being used by the drug maker. The wasp spirits are gone, but the wasp nest is still in the Harbor Park astral. Val is afraid to burn it, afraid to pull it apart and go inside, and asked me for help if I can provide any. She's going to bring me a piece of the nest from the spirit word. I am SO EXCITED about this--a complex piece of spiritual material to examine. How cool is that? She also mentioned that while the wasps were gone, the hive was repairing itself. I suspect there are still wasps within the hive. Shouldn't be hard for me to find out, but I'm going to go rest up for this first.
I am trying to be less evasive around Val ever since she pointed it out to me earlier. I had to push myself to do it, but I did. She'd observed me tossing pennies into the fountain, so I explained what that was all about. How the glade was like a saturated salt solution and that the pennies were like knots in a string dangled into the solution. Over time, they collect crystals. She was worried that this was going to hurt the glade, but I explained that if I were to drain the park completely, I would not get as much as much as I'd get by skimming off the top over a couple years. And that the park has been skimmed off of for at least fourteen years that I was aware of, and likely far longer than that, and hadn't ever weakened. I also explained that the park was like the golden goose: you don't kill or injure your golden goose. Someone else might, but I certainly wasn't going to.
Val seemed to feel that it was in danger with the new spirits present. I don't think so. It might get damaged in a fight over it while it's changing hands, but it'll still be useful to me. Not so much the garou and Val, though. Still, I like the resonance it has right now and would prefer if the "flavor" didn't change. I think me sharing that might have opened her eyes a little about how the universe doesn't completely revolve around the Garou's (and her) beliefs. Though she did caution me about using too much of the alternative "flavors".
She also pieced together and asked if I was able to detect her and the garou by the magical energies within them--like there is at the glade. I really hesitated there, but told her yes. And she immediately made the "might use us like batteries" connection. I've never done that. The concept is actually.... It's kind of like cannibalism, honestly. Not with a sentient creature--even if it wasn't human.