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Thursday, the moon was small enough that I figured it'd be safe to drop by the Glass Walker safehouse to bring some groceries and see it there was any news. (Yup. I noticed the human homeless guy on the corner when I came by from that direction. You know what? He might thing /I'm/ a werewolf! How funny is that?) Riley was watching the security feed. Kavi was doing some construction work. Mr. Lee showed up and mentioned a few things: one of which was that a Wendigo cub nearly got his throat ripped out because he couldn't wrap his head around why he should be angry at whitey. (Seriously? You come to a Walker safehouse and expect a bunch of self-loathing?) I suggested that if he wasn't working out as a Wendigo, and if Thomas was thinking he was going to get culled, that maybe they should consider letting him find a new tribe rather than culling him. Nope. Apparently that would be caving in to whitey, which is intolerable. (God damn, these Wendigo must really be self-righteous assholes.) I shut up at that point because I'd tried being reasonable and offering what I thought was a fairly common-sense solution. Riley, however, was having none of it. She called the Wendigo the "Tribe of Boo Hoo" and said that the cub's death would be on Jacinta's conscious and... She just opened up, both barrels, kabloom. It wasn't directed at Mr. Lee, as he's Uktena, but.... he definitely sympathizes with the Wendigo. (Part of the reason I shut the hell up when I did.) There was some back and forth between Riley and Thomas, then Thomas just blazed on up to Riley and decked her in the face. (Seriously? This is a constructive argument?) Riley took it but didn't back down from her position. I guess this is how garou reach an "agree to disagree" position. Ugh.
Kavi and Mr. Lee had a conversation afterwards, discussing how someone named "BJ" had planted a bug on "the ghoul." Then there was mention of a "baby vampire." I think they're making some progress with the two watching the tenement. Excellent.
Riley mentioned she might have pissed Val off and if I'd seen her recently. I mentioned I had seen her a couple times in the past few days--giving specific dates--and I'm glad there wasn't any probing on Riley's part. I'd have had to have lied about what we'd been doing a couple days before: arranging a meeting between Ila and Lefty so as to embed Ila within the Gnawers as Gnawer kinfolk. Be more vague in the future, Nick. Keep looking uninteresting. But apparently Riley had attempted to set Val up with a friend and she'd gotten pissy about it. I mentioned how Val'd mentioned something recently that--belatedly--made me suspect she might be seeing someone. I don't think it's serious though, because if it was.... It's Val: we'd have heard about it. And Val didn't seem peeved, so I told Riley not to worry about it: she clearly didn't piss her off that bad.
After Mr. Lee left, we talked a little more. Kavi seemed to think that Mr. Lee was uncomfortable with the cub being culled. I suggested that maybe he had come here and brought the topic up to raise awareness and maybe have someone intervene or make an offer to take the cub in. Kavi seemed a little disturbed by that suggestion, but--hey. He's a Fox. And if the garou are so damn convinced that Foxes are tricksy, then they ought to consider that as a possibility.
Jumped into the umbra near my cabin later that night. Fired up some Forces and Correspondence magic so that I could create illusions and see what they looked like from different perspectives. I watched myself, from about 20' away, turn invisible (handy trick!) several times. I also tried using illusions to disguise myself as different people. That was easy, but for specific people--I think I'd need time studying specific people to really pull that effect off. As pièce de résistance, I did an illusion of me transforming into a wolf. That could definitely use some spit and polish, though. I'll have to see about convincing someone to model for me while I study form and shape--without it coming across as a weird request. Note to self: study the shifting process as well. Could come in handy.
Kavi and Mr. Lee had a conversation afterwards, discussing how someone named "BJ" had planted a bug on "the ghoul." Then there was mention of a "baby vampire." I think they're making some progress with the two watching the tenement. Excellent.
Riley mentioned she might have pissed Val off and if I'd seen her recently. I mentioned I had seen her a couple times in the past few days--giving specific dates--and I'm glad there wasn't any probing on Riley's part. I'd have had to have lied about what we'd been doing a couple days before: arranging a meeting between Ila and Lefty so as to embed Ila within the Gnawers as Gnawer kinfolk. Be more vague in the future, Nick. Keep looking uninteresting. But apparently Riley had attempted to set Val up with a friend and she'd gotten pissy about it. I mentioned how Val'd mentioned something recently that--belatedly--made me suspect she might be seeing someone. I don't think it's serious though, because if it was.... It's Val: we'd have heard about it. And Val didn't seem peeved, so I told Riley not to worry about it: she clearly didn't piss her off that bad.
After Mr. Lee left, we talked a little more. Kavi seemed to think that Mr. Lee was uncomfortable with the cub being culled. I suggested that maybe he had come here and brought the topic up to raise awareness and maybe have someone intervene or make an offer to take the cub in. Kavi seemed a little disturbed by that suggestion, but--hey. He's a Fox. And if the garou are so damn convinced that Foxes are tricksy, then they ought to consider that as a possibility.
Jumped into the umbra near my cabin later that night. Fired up some Forces and Correspondence magic so that I could create illusions and see what they looked like from different perspectives. I watched myself, from about 20' away, turn invisible (handy trick!) several times. I also tried using illusions to disguise myself as different people. That was easy, but for specific people--I think I'd need time studying specific people to really pull that effect off. As pièce de résistance, I did an illusion of me transforming into a wolf. That could definitely use some spit and polish, though. I'll have to see about convincing someone to model for me while I study form and shape--without it coming across as a weird request. Note to self: study the shifting process as well. Could come in handy.
