Nick "Nicodemus" Dalton (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nick_garou) wrote2013-07-05 01:17 am
nick_garou) wrote2013-07-05 01:17 am
Hell? Meet handbasket.
Seattle trip went well. Mostly well, rather. Could have been better: those two guys might not have died if.... Getting ahead of myself.
Charley and I met up with Raul and Joey. It turns out there were a total of six vampires that killed iSoar, they were holing up in a house in the Houghton suburbs of Seattle, and they had two ghouls guarding them in the daytime. Charley and I scouted the place via Correspondence--Raul had done all the prior tracking of them in advance--and got familiar with the layout. The plan was for Raul and Joey to knock out the ghouls via non-lethal means, then lay waste to the vampires. Normally I'd have reservations about that sort of thing, as vampires are sentient creatures, but Raul and Joey coughed up a lot of evidence about how many people this group of vampires had killed--and those were just the ones they knew about. Still.... Charley and I were to provide cover and defense: I had Raul's back and Charley had Joey's. Raul was going in with a pair of guns. Joey with nunchucks and fists. On the dawn of the 4th, it went down. I managed to completely fuck up my attempt at magically masking Raul's approach, and the ghouls noticed him coming at them. (Granted, it's hard to miss the guy wearing a black trenchcoat, a kevlar vest over a tac-suit, and dual-wielding wielding a TEC-9 and a .45 headed with intent in your direction.) They shot first, but Raul--the Euthanatos is fucking /deadly/ with those guns--put bullets in their heads. So much for non-lethal. Ugh. Joey kicked down the door, and the whole thing was over in under half a minute. Hand-to-hand, Raul and Joey were impressive against the six vampires within. Still, I doubt they'd have walked out if they hadn't had additional magical support from me and Charley. (They later said pretty much that.) After the vampires were dead, Raul torched the place, I helped to cover their escape and prevent anyone from getting a good look at them or their escape vehicle, and then I ensured that the fire burned at a ridiculously high temperature that'd even reduce bone to nothing but ash--while preventing the next door buildings from catching on fire. Odds of identifying any DNA evidence or any other oddities from that pile of ash? Zero. In fact, I doubt anyone will be able to say what was in that house without the aid of Time magic.
Charley did well and held his own. I hope he doesn't seriously consider Raul's parting offer for him to consider joining the Euthanatos tradition. Those guys are Creepy(tm): even the "nice" ones like Raul.
On the way back to St. Clair, I got a text from Mouse to not head to the woods and to come see her immediately. I figured that the meeting she was trying to have with Jacinta and Elliot went sour, so after filling Charley in on how I was currently looking to see how receptive the sept's leadership might be to having a potential mage ally in the area, and how it looked to have slim prospects, I dropped him off and went to have a chat with Mouse. Turns out, Clarice and Charlene poked around after the storm I'd called up in the umbra around the solstice, they found the boulders I'd stacked up as an exercise in delicate manipulation of heavy objects via Forces magick, and Charlene reported it to Jacinta shortly after Mouse's relationship-straining chat with Jacinta about an anonymous mage in the area that Mouse trusted. Oh, and then Charlene mentioned I'd ask for a rock from the caern. Epic--and I mean EPIC--bad timing. It sounds like Jacinta made an educated guess from there and confronted Mouse about me.
Well, shit. That was not the way I wanted things to happen, or envisioned them happening. And I cost Mouse some credibility with Jacinta, who's the caern's Warder, so..... Not good. Not good at all. I'm kicking myself over that. I got a bit cocky--sloppy--summoning a storm up like that. What the hell was I thinking? I was thinking about pulling off the effect and expanding my knowledge of Forces, not how visible the effect might potentially be--even though I was theoretically located out in the middle of nowhere. I think I got too comfortable thinking I was far enough out in the woods that no one would notice. I wasn't. Dammit.
Fortunately Jacinta's not on the proverbial warpath. Yet. I'd asked Mouse straight-up if I needed to leave town for good.. Mouse claimed Jacinta said she has warpers in her tribe. "Angalkuq." The same word she uses for theurges. Sounds like Dreamspeakers (or maybe nature-attuned Verbena with some Spirit competence) to me. Takeaway lesson? Knowledge of the Spirit sphere might prove useful in dealing with the Garou. Of course, as with everything, that could cut both ways.... So Jacinta has told Mouse that she wants to meet me. Jacinta also gave her word that I wouldn't be harmed so long as she deemed I wasn't a threat to the caern. I wonder what falls under "threat" in Jacinta's books? So.... yeah. Mouse is arranging things there. I'm wondering if I should show up ready to defend myself if need be, or if I should just go in with nothing but good faith. I feel... unarmed... meeting with a werewolf face-to-face, and they are always armed, lethal, fast, and prone to anger and violence.
This could go quite poorly if I'm not careful.
Damage control. Mouse said Clarice wasn't interested in the umbral woods oddity (stacked rocks) they stumbled across, but Charlene did seem inquisitive. Mouse told Charlene it was nothing to be concerned about, but when I mentioned relocating temporarily to the tenement, Mouse seemed to think that might be prudent. Might be a good idea to simply not be at the cabin for a time. There's no telling who else knows about the stacked rocks or who else might investigate. Anyone who crosses over from the spirit world to the physical world will run into my cabin. I'll be gathering up the important stuff today and re-moving in to the tenement. Fifth floor with the rest of the Walkers--just in case the shit hits the fan. I need to update Val as I think she's a little freaked. Plus? She's got LOLcat. I miss my stupid cat.
Shit. Where the hell am I going to go to practice magick in the umbra now?
Charley and I met up with Raul and Joey. It turns out there were a total of six vampires that killed iSoar, they were holing up in a house in the Houghton suburbs of Seattle, and they had two ghouls guarding them in the daytime. Charley and I scouted the place via Correspondence--Raul had done all the prior tracking of them in advance--and got familiar with the layout. The plan was for Raul and Joey to knock out the ghouls via non-lethal means, then lay waste to the vampires. Normally I'd have reservations about that sort of thing, as vampires are sentient creatures, but Raul and Joey coughed up a lot of evidence about how many people this group of vampires had killed--and those were just the ones they knew about. Still.... Charley and I were to provide cover and defense: I had Raul's back and Charley had Joey's. Raul was going in with a pair of guns. Joey with nunchucks and fists. On the dawn of the 4th, it went down. I managed to completely fuck up my attempt at magically masking Raul's approach, and the ghouls noticed him coming at them. (Granted, it's hard to miss the guy wearing a black trenchcoat, a kevlar vest over a tac-suit, and dual-wielding wielding a TEC-9 and a .45 headed with intent in your direction.) They shot first, but Raul--the Euthanatos is fucking /deadly/ with those guns--put bullets in their heads. So much for non-lethal. Ugh. Joey kicked down the door, and the whole thing was over in under half a minute. Hand-to-hand, Raul and Joey were impressive against the six vampires within. Still, I doubt they'd have walked out if they hadn't had additional magical support from me and Charley. (They later said pretty much that.) After the vampires were dead, Raul torched the place, I helped to cover their escape and prevent anyone from getting a good look at them or their escape vehicle, and then I ensured that the fire burned at a ridiculously high temperature that'd even reduce bone to nothing but ash--while preventing the next door buildings from catching on fire. Odds of identifying any DNA evidence or any other oddities from that pile of ash? Zero. In fact, I doubt anyone will be able to say what was in that house without the aid of Time magic.
Charley did well and held his own. I hope he doesn't seriously consider Raul's parting offer for him to consider joining the Euthanatos tradition. Those guys are Creepy(tm): even the "nice" ones like Raul.
On the way back to St. Clair, I got a text from Mouse to not head to the woods and to come see her immediately. I figured that the meeting she was trying to have with Jacinta and Elliot went sour, so after filling Charley in on how I was currently looking to see how receptive the sept's leadership might be to having a potential mage ally in the area, and how it looked to have slim prospects, I dropped him off and went to have a chat with Mouse. Turns out, Clarice and Charlene poked around after the storm I'd called up in the umbra around the solstice, they found the boulders I'd stacked up as an exercise in delicate manipulation of heavy objects via Forces magick, and Charlene reported it to Jacinta shortly after Mouse's relationship-straining chat with Jacinta about an anonymous mage in the area that Mouse trusted. Oh, and then Charlene mentioned I'd ask for a rock from the caern. Epic--and I mean EPIC--bad timing. It sounds like Jacinta made an educated guess from there and confronted Mouse about me.
Well, shit. That was not the way I wanted things to happen, or envisioned them happening. And I cost Mouse some credibility with Jacinta, who's the caern's Warder, so..... Not good. Not good at all. I'm kicking myself over that. I got a bit cocky--sloppy--summoning a storm up like that. What the hell was I thinking? I was thinking about pulling off the effect and expanding my knowledge of Forces, not how visible the effect might potentially be--even though I was theoretically located out in the middle of nowhere. I think I got too comfortable thinking I was far enough out in the woods that no one would notice. I wasn't. Dammit.
Fortunately Jacinta's not on the proverbial warpath. Yet. I'd asked Mouse straight-up if I needed to leave town for good.. Mouse claimed Jacinta said she has warpers in her tribe. "Angalkuq." The same word she uses for theurges. Sounds like Dreamspeakers (or maybe nature-attuned Verbena with some Spirit competence) to me. Takeaway lesson? Knowledge of the Spirit sphere might prove useful in dealing with the Garou. Of course, as with everything, that could cut both ways.... So Jacinta has told Mouse that she wants to meet me. Jacinta also gave her word that I wouldn't be harmed so long as she deemed I wasn't a threat to the caern. I wonder what falls under "threat" in Jacinta's books? So.... yeah. Mouse is arranging things there. I'm wondering if I should show up ready to defend myself if need be, or if I should just go in with nothing but good faith. I feel... unarmed... meeting with a werewolf face-to-face, and they are always armed, lethal, fast, and prone to anger and violence.
This could go quite poorly if I'm not careful.
Damage control. Mouse said Clarice wasn't interested in the umbral woods oddity (stacked rocks) they stumbled across, but Charlene did seem inquisitive. Mouse told Charlene it was nothing to be concerned about, but when I mentioned relocating temporarily to the tenement, Mouse seemed to think that might be prudent. Might be a good idea to simply not be at the cabin for a time. There's no telling who else knows about the stacked rocks or who else might investigate. Anyone who crosses over from the spirit world to the physical world will run into my cabin. I'll be gathering up the important stuff today and re-moving in to the tenement. Fifth floor with the rest of the Walkers--just in case the shit hits the fan. I need to update Val as I think she's a little freaked. Plus? She's got LOLcat. I miss my stupid cat.
Shit. Where the hell am I going to go to practice magick in the umbra now?