Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 2:40:23 PM)
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Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 2:40:32 PM)
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Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 2:42:17 PM)
*A normal, rainy, humid, muggy, sweltering Louisiana afternoon - the sun was out, the sky was clear but NOT over New Orleans - no, there was heavy grey clouds all around and it was pissing down rain all over the parishes that made up the greater New Orleans area - but at least the tempurature was down to about 80... so that was something....*

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 2:46:17 PM)
(Where you starting and what you doing?)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 2:47:24 PM)
*he was loving every minute of the rain, his eyes cast skyward with a big grin on his lips, grandfather thunder had brought him favorable conditions, at least any humans would be less than pleased about the situation, and so he would head out to St. Rose, knowing now approximately where he was going he would whisper softly to one of the Chiropteran Spies, giving it orders to scout ahead of him on his path to the refinery*<2succ to activate 1 spy> (I'm using it to make sure I'm not running into any guards/roving patrols/etc on the way to a place that is a safe distance from the refinery where I can either overlook it or be inconspicuous so I can send out the others to spy on the refinery)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 2:48:07 PM)
(mortal world or umbral?)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 2:48:38 PM)
(We're gonna go Umbral first, don't want some random spirit alerting them to my presence before I get close :-D)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 2:51:48 PM)
*The umbra was healthy to the west of St Rose, where there was less city - although not a lot - and it was nearly wild south of the Mississippi with only rare pockets. The Bat flew back and forth ahead of Aarron - having a little issue with navigating in the rain - it tended to screw up echos and bats had decent sight but didn't always rely on it... the trip toward the refinery was not that bad - but there was a problem - there was no overlook - the entire refinery and the area for MILES around was within ten feet of sea level - overlook meant you had a helicopter. There simply isn't any high ground in south Louisiana. But it was not so necessary - Aarron was still a mile from the refinery when the landscape began to change... (more)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 2:55:38 PM)
*The river to the south was still the river, but the land began to take on a slightly decayed look. Vines and spanish moss became black and moldy, the concrete - where it was - was all black and crumbling and etched with mildew. The trees were scraggly and bent and twisted and barely clinging to life - everything was slowly dying. This only got worse the further west toward the refinery you went but the bat, diligent as he was, did not report any guards - nothing, until about a half mile from the refinery when it swooped down and flew back to report to Aarron* Banes, many banes, all of them nesting....

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:02:16 PM)
*and he would stop, the minute that the bat reported this and hunker down where he was, informing the bat to fly a small perimeter while keeping out of sight and inform him if anything was approaching this position, he would then take out two more Chiropteran spies* (Ok, these two, I want to use to spy on the rest of the umbral refinery and get an idea of what I'm looking at, umbrally speaking. What kind of things, growths, roughly how many banes if they can get a count, any holes or entrances into the ground that may or may not be leading to hives or something like that. And I would like to spend a wp on the activations, so I don't risk botching and blowing up my talens on me)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:03:09 PM)
(k. Rolllll em up.)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:04:05 PM)
*The first bat began his orbit, flying about - the land here was far less useful as cover, the vegetation getting sparse. The refinery was visible off to the right above the trees in some places, a great black smoke-belching thing with no place in nature - it's taint was obvious...*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:05:22 PM)
<1 succ><2 succ>

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:05:59 PM)
*and he would release the bats to go do their recon, waiting patiently and shifting to his lupus form so he could be better aware and more ready to run if the situation called for it*

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:09:15 PM)
*The two bets got their orders and flew off. Half an hour later the first came back, nervous* Lots of banes. Banes and banes and banes. ANd sick land. Very sick. Smoking black holes and buring towers. LIke the whole world is on fire below. Lots and lots of banes. Some sleeping, many crawling on each other, many more curled up in the flames and smoke. All of them watching. Some burning up in fires, scream in pain, new ones come out of smoke....

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:13:53 PM)
*he shivered at the mention of the number of banes despite himself and he nodded his head lightly as he continued to listen to their report*~ss~ Were there any Garou walking about, or was it all banes?

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:15:41 PM)
*Yes. THe little bat seemed *nervous* - the second one? It didn't come back....* I see no wolf. I see only banes. But there are many dark holes and many hidden places, too dangerous to get close. Too many banes lurking.

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:17:59 PM)
*he didn't like the fact that the second bat did not come back, his ears twisting towards the factory as he listened, wishing that he could somehow get in there for himself but knowing that with that many banes and no way to hide himself from them, it wouldn't take them long to figure out that he was there* (My kingdom for a Baneskin! lol)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:18:40 PM)
(oops.)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:19:23 PM)
*The second bat didn't come back after an hour, although the first one did, finally alighting on Aarron's shoulder* No guard. Nothing come this way. All quiet. Banes mostly stay near there blight.

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:22:59 PM)
~ss~ Keep watching. *he had decided, since nothing was coming this way immediately, he would wait a bit longer. At least until nightfall so long as nothing came this way to disturb him, that way when he went to the fleshlands and released the bats, they wouldn't look totally out of place*

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:27:17 PM)
*The day dragged on, but the umbra was quiet, still, and wet. The rain did not abate, and it was a greasy, dark mess as the afternoon dragged on, pools of oily mud forming along the sides of the road and Aarron realized that the marshes this way and the fields were all coated with a slick film of oily something-or-other. It made rainbow colored films on the water in the ditches and ran off the road in colorful if stinky streaks. The bats saw nothing more, and were nervous about going near the blight - but they would fly as he ordered....*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:29:18 PM)
*he ordered the one bat to continue watching the area around him, the other bat he would send for fly overs every hour or so, looking specifically for Garou in the area of the taint, instructing it not to get too close so that it would at least come back*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:30:05 PM)
(And basically, do that until nightfall, then I would get ready to cross over to the fleshlands)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:30:53 PM)
*The little bats didn't report any signs of garou or werewolves, they simply didn't see anyone other than the banes in there... thrashing about and fighting and sleeping and in general just... a problem.

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:31:15 PM)
*When night came the rain slackened a little, turned from a downpour to a drizzle, but it really didn't get cooler... just darker...*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:32:00 PM)
*as night fell he would dismiss the one bat he had been sending into the refinery, releasing the spirit from the talen and watching it turn to sawdust and he would peek to the other side of the Umbra* (Gauntlet?)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:33:07 PM)
(here? 6)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:34:51 PM)
*he found the gauntlet here rather resistant and so he would move further away from the refinery, bringing his one remaining bat with him and attempt to peek again from a location about a mile away from where the land had started to become corrupt* (Gauntlet there?)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:37:09 PM)
(Still 6 - the area is pretty uniformly developed and built up.)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:37:15 PM)
(ok)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:38:20 PM)
(GD one!) *and he growled softly at the fact that the gauntlet was being so stubborn around here and would move about, cautiously keeping an eye on his surroundings as he found another place* (May I spend a WP to peek?)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:39:14 PM)
(Hrm... In this case, yes.

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:40:31 PM)
<4 succ peek> (Of course now I roll with no ones. lol)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:41:14 PM)
*Well, it was evening, and amusingly he found himself almost two miles up the road near the St Rose Elementary school - the world over there was deserted and the rain was the same - a bare drizzle....*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:43:52 PM)
*and he would peer through, and seeing no people, he would dismiss the other Spy, letting it turn to sawdust before crossing over into the evening of the fleshlands on the otherside of the gauntlet*<3 succ to sidestep>*and he would begin heading back in the direction of the refinery, trying to keep out of sight as he attempted to make it back to the same position he had been at before* (and I am currently in lupus)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:45:16 PM)
(Roll me wits + survival OR int + subterfuge please.)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:46:26 PM)
<3 succ, int+subterfuge>

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:48:33 PM)
*Aarron wound up on the roalroad tracks, it wouldn't get him to the exact same spot, but there was no other approach that woudl keep him away from people without the risk of swimming in stagnant, potentially troublesome bayous. After a half hour of sneaking and walking and pretty certain no one saw, he was within eyeshot of the refinery - about a quarter mile off - on this side of the gauntlet the land scape was no where NEAR as decrepit, but still everything smelt like petroleum at this range....

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:50:02 PM)
*he would shift to his homid form now, staying low to the ground and draw out the other two spies, setting them up and looking towards the refinery with a deep breath*(Spending last 2 wp to activate the two spies, cause again, don't want these talen's exploding on me here)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:51:59 PM)
<2 succ on one>

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:53:35 PM)
*The one bat woke up and listened to Aarron's instructions - the last stubbornly refused to cooperate though, while he bretheren took to wing and went to flying over the refinery. He returned a half hour later or so and landed on Aarron's shoulder* Many pipes, many fires, many people. Lots of oil, lots of dead birds.

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:55:31 PM)
*he would spend a gnosis to activate the other bat and send it in along with the first one again* Are there guns? Guards? Guard dogs? Obvious looking fomor or Black Spiral Dancer's?

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:55:55 PM)
*No guns, no dogs. Many people. Many many people...

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:56:25 PM)
Entrances to area's under the ground?

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:56:31 PM)
(roll me int + cosmology )

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:56:37 PM)
No caves....

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 3:58:10 PM)
<1 succ>

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 3:59:47 PM)
(it's a bat - it wouldn't know a garou from a guard from a worker in the *physical* world - unless it actually saw a Dancer in Crinos - but then, it said dogs too - and it wouldn't know the difference per se between a wolf and a dog if the wolf's coloring was dog like or the dogs coloring was wolf - like...)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:00:48 PM)
(I know it wouldn't know, but if it's night, and there is a hive, they might be brave enough, or stupid enough, to poke their heads out. I could get lucky. That was the hope. lol)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:01:17 PM)
(Gotcha. Just so your aware.)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:02:38 PM)
(Yup. And I would like to use the bats, on the hour again, kind of checking large comings and goings, if there are any that are noticable by them. Keeping an eye out for anything out of the ordinary among the humans.)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:03:35 PM)
*The second bat took longer, maybe an hour all told before it was back on Aarron's shoulder. It related much the same thing as the first one had, except that it added in the detail that there were many vehicles ( steel things that roll fast...) on the refinery... and a great fire (the flare) was burning....*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:04:19 PM)
(the flare? Like a flare shot up into the sky? Or is the flare a refinery thing?)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:04:54 PM)
(Flare boom - it's a refinery thing, when they are producing and they sometimes burn off waste H2S gas.)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:05:05 PM)
(ok)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:06:14 PM)
(If nothing else happens during the course of the night that the bats would report, I would dismiss them as dawn comes and head back, keeping away from roadways and such till I was well away from the refinery)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:07:29 PM)
(Nothing unusual happens. It's a refinery in the business of making money - so there's lots of trucks and a train rumbles past late at night - but nothing untoward happens on the "flesh" side...*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:08:30 PM)
(Ok, as that is the case, I will depart with the information I have, safe and sound. Don't want to shake the honey tree and see if bees fly out)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:10:26 PM)
(Probably wise. I doubt they are expecting anyone, could be dangerous to change that notion...) *The trip home seemed uneventful, no one seemed to take any notice of Aarron at all - just a guy out in the early morning....*

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:11:31 PM)
(If only I'd had a baneskin... I woulda been in there like swimwear. Oh, and I would like to take some time to talk to you about the possibility of the Bringers of Light. I was thinking of taking this character down that path if at all possible. But we can leave that discussion for another day :) )

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:12:40 PM)
(Easily done - best bet is tag your thread or FPM me and GG so we can review and make sure there's no issue, but off the top of my head I don't see any problem.)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:13:15 PM)
(Only reason I mention it to you, is cause they typically recruit, rather than someone seeking out to join them)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:13:39 PM)
(Anywho, thanks for the Scene :-D)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:13:48 PM)
(And I am properly mortified)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:14:57 PM)
(Yeah I know - but if that's the direction you want to take the PC it still has to come through us. Like I said, lemme and GG review and make a call on it.)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:15:09 PM)
(mortified about the blight? I should hope so...)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:15:26 PM)
(okey dokey :) Thanks so much. I am mortified, not about the blight, but about the sheer NUMBER of banes in it)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:15:44 PM)
( I can't imagine it not being a hive with all those banes. And if it isn't... good Gaia)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:17:32 PM)
(Alrighty, so I'm out. Take it easy)

Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:18:15 PM)
(aight man. Hope you enjoyed. More to come. :-) )

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:18:33 PM)
(I can't wait! It's gonna be awesome. Laters)

Aarron St. James (Sep 4, 2011 4:18:40 PM)
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Evil among us (Sep 4, 2011 4:19:12 PM)
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