Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:08:35 PM)
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Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:09:12 PM)
[Sorry 'bout that, Blk's scene got moved back from yesterday, and I was finishing up with Thisbe... as well as finding out I have jury duty tomorrow. YAAAAY.]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:10:07 PM)
((Spirt Friend lvl 3....taught by Unicorn spirit....so let me guess going to go speak with that Unicorn spirit of the glade?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:10:54 PM)
[Hum. How about the grey one that haunted some of the morning mists?]
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:11:32 PM)
[She's harassed the glade protector enough for right now. :D]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:13:22 PM)
*The grey unicorn ever much more shy than the white Unicorn that is Featherfoot, isn't always a resisdent of the glade, it visits, it leaves...I take it you follow it upon it's next appearance?*
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:17:10 PM)
((If you are multi-tasking, and it's causing this slow down please don't. I don't want this to take all night. If you were just typing alot....you got my apologies))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:18:56 PM)
*Fresh from her encounter with the -incredibly- agitated wolf-like spirits and the subsequent discovery and discussion with Mouse and the Thunderbird's brood, Leafwatcher shuffles off toward the Glade. The sun's rising, mist is coming off of the leaves, and she's probably got a turmoil of thoughts running through her head. Still, upon sighting the grey unicorn, she offers a light bow and wolfish smile. Those bright blue eyes gleam a bit. Reverence is almost in her blood, by this point.*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:19:01 PM)
[The latter. :D]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:19:36 PM)
*it's moving off like usual...*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:20:41 PM)
*Leafwatcher falls into step, trotting a moment to catch up, then joining it in a walk.* -ss- May I walk with you a bit?
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:21:15 PM)
ss What do you want? *it steps back a few paces, it's clearly female*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:23:29 PM)
-ss- Your perspective. Your wisdom. Your peace. *The lupus doesn't follow the backwards step, and she's clearly keeping her Rage clamped down upon. She doesn't seem to be irritated, just... concerned. The last thing she wants to do is frighten a gentle spirit off.*
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:25:19 PM)
ss I do not understand.
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:26:25 PM)
*the young filly of a Unicorn tosses her head, her horn is white, but not near as long as Featherfoot, nor does she have the beard hair, or the longer hair near the hooves*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:27:18 PM)
-ss- How do you keep your surroundings and those you meet so calm? I would like to learn of this, and why mist-unicorn wanders.
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:27:57 PM)
ss Who are you to ask? I am of the Twilight. The mists please me.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:28:51 PM)
-ss- I am of crescent moon. Of Children of Gaia. Harmony pleases me.
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:32:14 PM)
ss You wish to be Spirit Friend? Featherfoot speaks well of you. But it is easy to be friend to those of Unicorns. Can you be friend to spirits that are not of Unicorn? Can you confront three spirits hostile to you and not only get them to listen, but to get them to accept your assistance? All without my knowledge? I do not speak of spirits of the enemy, simple those of Gaia that do not see eye to eye with you.
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:33:13 PM)
ss And the help you grant them could be a simple thing. I'd say the hardest is to get a hostile one to listen.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:33:48 PM)
-ss- Can, have. *Leafwatcher smiles a bit.* -ss- Want me to resolve fetish-questioner's concern in harmonious way?
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:34:13 PM)
ss No. That one must solve her own concerns.
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:34:49 PM)
((not a bad idea really but Akako kinda dug her own hole, it's better if she gets out of it herself through RP))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:35:40 PM)
*There's a dip of the lupus's head.* -ss- I can master Rage, help those who need.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:37:09 PM)
[Heh. My goal, as an Adren Theurge, is to soothe what she riled up, and teach her of the fetish bond. The latter is probably going to be accomplished by going to CtS and asking him to assign her to cleaning/honoring the sept's stock of unclaimed fetishes.]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:37:48 PM)
ss I hear things, do not bother me again unless you can demonstrate you are true spirit friend, even with those who do not wish your friendship.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:38:11 PM)
[She gets the "rite of fetish cleaning" whatever it's called out of it, the sept gets honest work, she learns about what it MEANS to bond with a fetish.]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:38:59 PM)
((Yeah but see thats a messy situation, one Gabbygirl is already handling. I don't need to be complicating it for her, so while I respect your IC motivations for wanting to help there, I'm not going to run anything that specifially requires you to bounce in on it. What you decide to do personally IC is your call...but I won't be mucking anything up with ST driven stuff))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:40:15 PM)
-ss- Hmm. *Leafwatcher ponders a moment, considering asking if helping the mist-runner unicorn counts as one of the hostile spirit dealings... but then dips her head.* -ss- We will speak again. Enjoy morning mist, honored one. *She gently laps at a leaf, tasting some of the dew.*
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:40:16 PM)
((soo.....how does Leafwatcher choose to approach her assignment here?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:41:54 PM)
[Well, let's see. There's probably an irritated Stormcrow somewhere near the sept. There's still a wyld spirit or several hanging about Big Momma. There's probably a bat who is hanging about forlornly.]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:43:34 PM)
((Big Mama was kidnapped by the wyrm...babies killed...and I think got destroyed. I don't touch Bats. And why would the Stormcrow be upset?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:44:15 PM)
[Lupus are notoriously direct. Going and schmoozing a bit, teasing out what they need with a bit of empathy/Gnosis, then helping 'em? For example, talking to the spirit-ignoring Shadow Lord, removing the underground cabling that's ticking off a wyld spirit, and hanging up a bat house?]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:44:54 PM)
((Aint touching or running Bats))
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:45:30 PM)
((And who is the spirit ignoring Shadow Lord?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:45:30 PM)
[How about a possum who just wants the lid to be left off the garbage can?]
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:45:44 PM)
[Theoretical. :) Just ideas for some quick tasks.]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:46:05 PM)
((LoL I got some ideas mate, I just wanted to know your IC method for running into them?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:47:32 PM)
[Ahhh. Leafwatcher is a lupus! She's direct. Going and asking directly, then finding they don't want to talk to her, then schmoozing with Charisma/Empathy/Animal Ken or teasing it out of them with a Gnosis bribe.]
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:48:42 PM)
[Finding grumpy/miserable spirits is -not- hard in the WoD. :D]
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:49:22 PM)
*Leaf watcher finds a host of wildlife spirits around the bawn and out well past it where the area is natural and mostly kept healthy by the garou. Most spirits are eh neutral, but eventually you find a hole underneath a tree root hollow, somethings in there, you smell musk*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:50:23 PM)
*The wolf knows better than to stick ANY appendage into a hole. Instead, she gently claws at a root.* -ss- Okay in there?
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:50:30 PM)
ss Piss off.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:51:18 PM)
-ss- Rather not get you wet. What are you? *The lupus is peering down into the darkness, curiously*
Windseeker (Jun 12, 2011 10:51:21 PM)
(This user is now known as Wolverine)
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:52:15 PM)
*it's head briefly appears, sort of badger shaped BUT it's far larger, coloration is darker, and the muzzle a bit longer, sharp teeth snap at you. Damn thing in there is the size of a bear cub*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:53:20 PM)
ss Piss off.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:54:23 PM)
*Fu- ...Leafwatcher considers a bit. She's heard of wolverines and sables and minks, and even the strange Tasmanian Devil, but hasn't met any of them personally.* -ss- Seems a bit small in there for you.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:55:08 PM)
ss I like. Go screw a Porquipine wolf.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:55:59 PM)
-ss- Got a mate, thanks. You got a good hunting area?
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:56:28 PM)
((how close are you to the hole?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 10:57:33 PM)
[Assuming hole is under a root, probably three feet, but standing up on another root, up-behind it, rather than in direct dive-bite direction.]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:59:09 PM)
*The spirit rushes out of the hole, all digging claws and bite...as you are safely back, you mostly get a bluff display, he IS the size of a small bear cub, but much more compact of build, with powerful digging claws, and jaws that can crack bones. His fur coloration is black going to a gold brown on the back*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:59:42 PM)
ss I big. I will bite. My den. My home. Piss off.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 10:59:52 PM)
((what any bluff display would translate as))
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:01:16 PM)
ss You are not pissing off. *it snarls indignately*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:01:26 PM)
ss What the hell do you want wolf?
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:01:42 PM)
-ss- Fair enough. You didn't get trap on tail. Scented like bear. Watch your feet. *Leafwatcher stretches a bit. It's kind of cute, at least in comparison to the horrors that are banes.*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:02:42 PM)
ss You want something? Bring me kill otherwise go to hell.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:03:08 PM)
*it snaps it's teeth, in it's eyes barely held in Rage, an Ahrouns rage, hell it's angier than most Ahroun*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:03:39 PM)
*it eyes you on top of the roots, clearly it wants a piece of you*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:04:12 PM)
-ss- Want you be safe. Be back. *Leafwatcher pads off to find a rabbit or such... and a broken trap to show the creature what to avoid.*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:04:53 PM)
[Hey, tossing it lunch would be acceptable. :)]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:06:17 PM)
*Rabbits are not hard to come by*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:08:38 PM)
*And the lupus returns, tossing the rabbit into the hole.* -ss- Enjoy, toothy. *The broken trap is set nearby, bear-scent and all.* -ss- Avoid those.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:09:30 PM)
*the spirit charges you....seeing the trap as a threat...roll init!*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:09:39 PM)
((no one said it would be rational!))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:09:53 PM)
[Yes, a freshly killed one. :P Even the lupus isn't cruel enough to toss a live one into a den.]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:11:10 PM)
11 b 5
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:11:12 PM)
[8b7. Yes, I almost BOTCHED an init.]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:11:35 PM)
*the spirit claws at you ......*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:12:07 PM)
[Totally dodging and weaving, here.]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:12:17 PM)
((4suxx to claw))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:13:08 PM)
[Want me to soak it?]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:14:06 PM)
((if you want...or take the wound...this is the only round of combat there will be this Wolvering is attack charging, but if you know anything about there behaviors at kills, they'll attack to drive something off, they seldom keep attacking....though they HAVE been known to drive off entire wolf packs))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:15:22 PM)
-ss- Stop that. Smell. Avoid that smell. *The wolf growls, shrugging off the claw swing.* -ss- Go eat your lunch.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:16:10 PM)
*Ummm...you don't just strug off a Wolverine, but as you reflexively backed away from the Rabbit, it's instincts are assauged, it dragged it down the hole* ss Me steal kill from stupid wolf.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:16:13 PM)
[Especially as she's not actually threatening its FOOD.]
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:16:50 PM)
[Well, a soak of more than it damaged is a bit of a shrug, but backing off without being torn up works too. :)]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:17:39 PM)
*the glutton is definately eating in the hole....the stink of musk and rotting meat get worse*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:18:05 PM)
-ss- You steal. No get trapped. *And Leafwatcher considers her care and feeding of a moderately crazy creature done. She can't MAKE it learn, but she can help.*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:18:39 PM)
ss Take sharp tooth metal jaws with you I no like.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:18:54 PM)
ss Stupid wolf.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:19:07 PM)
*And she carts it off.* -ss- Good boy.
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:19:53 PM)
*Well thats one spirit down, ...well you think. You learned Wolverines are certainly pissy little bastards anyhow*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:20:00 PM)
[Hoorah. The care and feeding of insane wolverines.]
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:20:46 PM)
*The trap is deposited in a dumpster somewhere, and after a good roll in the grass and dirt to get the musk scents off, Leafwatcher again goes searching.*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:22:17 PM)
*It's several days before you find another likely spirit canidate. You are closer to some campsites which are miles from the cearn bawn. Not a bad sort of place, seasonal campgrounds, tent and backpacking only. Though you do find yourself at the umbral reflection of a registration and gate house build in the 1940s. Racoon spirits seem preoocupied with something*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:23:17 PM)
-ss- Any good garbage? *The lupus peeks over toward the little pack, curiously.*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:25:46 PM)
*You see garbage cans, but so wound around with weaver webbing the spirits can't seem to get access to them....annnnd when you speak you see 20, yes 20!!! pairs of beady dark eyes staring at you. The spirits all range in size, the largest, probably could match a medium sized dog, but certainly NOT a wolf. They hiss and caterwaul at you, the smaller coon spirits being hustled into a more sheltered area.* ss Preditor, threat, danger. Me big, bad, we tear your face off. *another spirit looks nervous* Jose' you can't even tear a poodles face off. *the spirit answers* Shut up Anthony....I'm big I'm bad....
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:26:41 PM)
((showing these as "slightly" urbanized....as raccoon spirits tend to be))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:27:34 PM)
-ss- Yeah, yeah. Big, scary. Got it. Cans stuck? *Leafwatcher tilts her head a bit. Perhaps a bit of peering toward the physical side would allow her to see how they're weaverized...*
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:27:42 PM)
ss What garbage....the MAN has totally secured the cans man. *another chimes in* ss Wolf wants our garbage? *and the largest spirit tries to bluff again* ss Big bad, we tear your face off!
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:28:24 PM)
((I picture these with Hispanic accents...I don't know why))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:28:47 PM)
[OI, JOSE! Gimme 'and wit' dis can, yo!]
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:28:54 PM)
[*laughs*]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:29:16 PM)
*peeking lets you see budgie cords secured around the lids of heavy duty plastic cans*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:30:31 PM)
-ss- Better berries nearby, but cans easy to fix. 'scuse me.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:31:06 PM)
[Two questions. Wolf in the physical side draw undue attention?]
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:31:49 PM)
((campgrounds is....not to be recommended))
Wolverine (Jun 12, 2011 11:32:10 PM)
(This user is now known as Racoon)
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:32:54 PM)
*the old racoon looks at you warily* ss Yeah you eat the berries wolf. Hey Anthony....look a berry picking wolf! *Anthony looks nervous* ss Wolves eat us yo. Shut up.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:33:03 PM)
[Simple solution, then. Can I quietly take a pair of wire cutters to the place where the bungie cords connect to the cans, making them impossible to really secure?]
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:33:34 PM)
((They are budgie cords you could cut them with a knife))
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:33:49 PM)
((if you select the cloth stretchy part))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:34:17 PM)
[Yes, but cutting the cords would just enable a replacement. Cutting where they attach means the whole cans would have to be replaced, something that parks almost never do, if it 'closes well enough anyway.']
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:35:53 PM)
((leafwatcher carries a wire cutter with her?))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:36:46 PM)
-ss- Not hungry. *Leafwatcher yawns, padding into the trees for a few moments, out of sight and out of mind. Hopping up to the homid form and stepping across, she evaluates the cans.*
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:37:24 PM)
*fair large generic plastic cans with budgie cords secrured across the lids, probably because the racoons have a bad habit of raiding*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:38:06 PM)
[Glabro hand, use a claw? Heh. Or just taking the cord off and pulling the metal hook at the ends off.]
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:38:41 PM)
((that works))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:38:51 PM)
[Just a little bit of difficult-to-fix sabotage, trying to make it look like she's dropped something in the trash can and trying to retrieve it.]
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:40:24 PM)
((roll dex+stealth diff 5 to make sure your not scene, simplier diff is because it's night. And dex+melee to claw the crap out of budgie cords.....diff 7 to do "proper" damage.))
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:41:59 PM)
*A bit of sabotage later, the lupus pads back to the forest, hops back across, slides to her birth form, and returns.* -ss- Feastin' a bit better, boys? [3 on the stealth, 1 on the clawin'.]
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:45:41 PM)
*the larger racoon looks big and bad,* ss I pulled at the webs again man and they came off. I'm big I'm bad. *the smarter racoon eyes Leaf speculatively* ss You did something.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:48:00 PM)
-ss- It's what Garou do. Still. Fish and berries are more healthy, if a little more work. *She nods twice.* -ss- Tell all yer friends, boys.
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:49:18 PM)
*Anthony laughs* ss Damn health nut. Has she ever tried moldy bacon. *Jose chitters* ss ummmmm bacon.
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:51:33 PM)
*Flash forward, it takes you yet another few days to find the last spirit, it's a skunk spirit and at your approach it raises tail*
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:52:10 PM)
*Leafwatcher offers a little smile, keeping her distance.* -ss- Hi, stripes.
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:54:10 PM)
ss Steady....aiming, aimmmmmming.....
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:55:33 PM)
*step, step. Leafwatcher is keeping the distance, but sidestepping to avoid getting sprayed and to throw off the skunk's organization.* -ss- Point that somewhere else.
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:56:45 PM)
ss I got a tail and I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT!
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:57:23 PM)
ss I am one with the stink.
Leafwatcher (Jun 12, 2011 11:57:39 PM)
-ss- Cool. How's that been working out for you? *She keeps half-circling.*
Racoon (Jun 12, 2011 11:58:06 PM)
*the spirit looks confused* ss Ummm.....actually my sex life has been a bit of a downer.