Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:00:09 PM)
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Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:02:08 PM)
(last we left them grandpa was drunk we rested after the long talk of what dalton would do with what his father left him)
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:04:34 PM)
*You had retired to the estate of your Grandfather which was positively medieval. Not quite a castle, it's explained that the stone buildings were at one time a monestary, you can see the signs in the artitecture, though things like windows and the interior are certainly modern, just tastefully blended in style wise. The home has some nice land, adjacent to the actual cearn's bawn land. The home is more a retreat for the elder in slow times. Despite it being his abode, servents would readily admit Mr. Arcos was away on business ALOT*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:04:58 PM)
((this is like the next morning or a few days hence....I'm picking this up a smidge later))
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:05:28 PM)
(awesome)
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:05:45 PM)
*Your Grandfather expects you at breakfast*
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:06:36 PM)
*Dalton would move along the old monestary he would inquire from one of the servants if they had a internet connection in the place or not*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:07:00 PM)
((Granddaddys name is now Gregory Arcos, deeded Sound of Silence, Elder Galliard of the Lords of Shadowed Hills sept in Romania))
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:09:25 PM)
(i noted it again lol)
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:10:28 PM)
*The freakle faced girl grins and speaks in rough bad english* Yes. In libary. The Master has great nieses visit sometimes. Says for school.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:11:39 PM)
((While an older Lord might not fool with computers, he'd not begrudge his kinfolk family the tools to succede in the modern world now would he? LoL))
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:11:53 PM)
*as he made his way down to breakfast. He sat there dressed in hopefully clean set of clothes.. He would have previously made his way to the library durring his visit to check on his work and to have dama send him some files.. which he would then print up before deleting them from the computer*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:13:09 PM)
*Your Grandfather seems every inch just a distinqushed gentlemen, drinking coffee, calmly eating a breakfast, that includes common things like eggs, and a few local tastes, the coffee is descent. Nothing Dalton would find objectionable*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:15:01 PM)
Humm your father was an ass. *this has been said a few half dozen times, you doubt Gregory will ever forgive him for keeping knowledge of you silent*
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:17:28 PM)
*Dalton would arrive dressed in what ever they had offered him for clothing durring his stay. He had a folder with him much like one might bring a news paper to there breakfast. He sat placing the folder on his own lap as he drank the coffee.. he would also have orange juice some egg and toast.. Dalton was use to breakfast in the morning, dalton was oddly a creature of habbit almost compulsivly so. The servents would have noticed this as dalton went out of the way to clean his own room, to tend to his own chores. Things where done a certain way and he fell into a routine reguardless of where he found himself when it came to cleanliness and order*
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:17:46 PM)
*His gaze drifted to his grandfather*we are very much alike you and I..
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:19:21 PM)
Your fathers properties will go to his pack. I got a message last night they caught that bastard cousin of yours. He had an unfortunate demise when they struggled to subdue him for justice. I'm afraid he can't be dragged to the halfmoons in that case. I'd have preferred the opportunity to have judged a more creative death. Bastard got off easy. I still wanted to see the murderer of my son delt with properly. Too easy a death just dying when cornered. I'll have to teach my son's pack my displeasure at that.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:20:02 PM)
Alike you say?
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:23:37 PM)
*He nodded to his grandfather and motioned to the folder* even our estates are similar, mind you i live in america the sorts of places are not common there where i live.. I had my mate send me some photos from home and i printed them up for you.. *He offered him a smile then he looked back down at his plate of food before him..*It is strange though as my first packmates refered to me as Count Chocula, *He then added..*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:24:49 PM)
I can't say I understand the reference.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:24:55 PM)
but normaly when someone made a fool of the tribe or did some dishonorable deed, shortly after I found out the person in question always.. *Dalton then slipped his hand up snapping his fingers* dissapeared.. Thus they began to call it "Dalton's Curse"
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:25:48 PM)
Humm.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:26:12 PM)
*he looks over the pictures* You've done well by your family.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:26:33 PM)
*He looked at his grandfather..*Normaly never leave my house without a hand full of mini snickers bars, one day a kin of the tribe had been injured and the theurge said that she would need chocolate to help her blood count so i empitied my pockets of little bars of chocolate.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:27:37 PM)
And due to my living in well a castle they dubbed me count chocula.. There very creative with there little nick names, even our pack totem storm crow has a name for each of us.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:28:33 PM)
Well you take after your father in one way. The sweet tooth didn't come from me.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:31:12 PM)
*he looked at his grandfather* How did you manage to quell your rage?
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:31:22 PM)
If you need help arranging some property purchase, my secretary Mr. Smitz can help you. He was the gentlemen who called you initually if you recall.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:32:12 PM)
For starters....only servents who don't half flee from the hiring interview get hired. And the vast majority are either kinfolk, OR only deal with me by phone.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:34:25 PM)
But also just time. As you rank, more will be expected of you. Especially control. Those that fail to gain proper mastery over themselves and others in our tribe, usually do not rank up. You'll find few elders of any tribe that have not mastered there rage to some degree. Several decades of experience if not more simply leads to better self discipline.
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Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:36:49 PM)
*dalton chuckled and shook his head* No i mean how did you quell your rage.. How do you deal with people.. I mean some times I sware my son has more sence then some cliaths I have met. I have known kinfolk whom society says are brilliant yet there as thick as a red wood. Ive met ahourns in battle who leap under near by tables.. Just so many things that really deep down inside make you want to loose it. How have you managed to quell your rage with dealing with such situations over the years?
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:40:38 PM)
Forgive there limitations, find there strengths and decide best how to use them. Some claiths are fit only as front lines fodder. Some kinfolk really should just be kept pregnant and out of the way. While others are better as lawyers, doctors, or position holders in one's sept. The art is seeming to give them what they want, but when reality is you are getting what YOU want. Let the stupid claith Ahroun in the front lines have it. Speak of glory and honor. When he dies it IS what he asked for.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:41:22 PM)
When you have such goals in the back of your mind it's easier to be patient.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:47:18 PM)
*He listened to the wisdom in the words.. finishing off his coffee.. It seemed as if dalton not only understood what his grandfather was saying but appreciated the shareing of his wisdom..* That is a very good way to approach the situation, and one I play to utalize in the future. *Having finished the meal he then added* But why make waves with your son's pack? Surely if there was animosity between you and he, and he truly did speak against you behind your back. Then likely the pack was victum to your son's misplaced angery words, showing them your displeasure does nothing but stroke the fury of your sons anger alowing it to lingure even after his own death. However one could
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:48:36 PM)
approach it from another angle such as the one you just spoke of.. Allow them to think they did a good job, and use them to your own end, let there eagerness to leap in without forthought be there own undoing. Besides it merely puts them in your debt afterall is said and done yes?
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:51:00 PM)
But by showing my displeasure....and believe me this is a subtlity in matters. I will not waste adequate material afterall. By showing my displeasure they will strive to impress me in the future. Sense my son's death they are disorganized and need focusing. A simple nudge should work to get them to reorganize and focus.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:55:11 PM)
*He listened to his grandfathers reasoning.. Leaning back in his seat. *Ahh I understand your reasoning for it then.. *His gaze swept over the table then back to his grandfather.* I was wondering durring my stay here if you would honor me in possidbly training me in some things you might have to pass down..
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:56:38 PM)
((arrrgh oh just MAKE me dig out my Lord TB why don't you...))
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 10:58:08 PM)
(LOL it does not have to be lord stuff if you dont want i mean i dun even know there are alot of things dalton could use training in)
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 10:58:28 PM)
((What direction do you want him to go?))
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:01:23 PM)
(hes a lord with only 2 in intimidation he only has 1 in leadership i have plenty of ways to raise leadership also only has 2 in shadow lord lore only has 1 in brawl and 0 in dodge expression would be awesome he has 0 in that!! i really really need someone to teach him up to 4 in empathy i got plenty of reasons to raise empathy to 4 but you need a teacher to raise it to 4!!!! hell learning romanian durrnig his stay would be freaking awesome as well.. )
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:02:12 PM)
((we are flashing forward again, your granddaddy learned you fight like a girl))
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:02:18 PM)
(i mean thats to name a few things the 4 in empathy would be awesome i have the time and dedication into it i need a teacher though)
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:02:47 PM)
((OK lets flash forward to empathy....better granddaddy not realize you fight like a girl))
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:04:02 PM)
*He called a tribal meeting that evening to introduce you to the local tribe. Theres also some legit business like the report on the handling of your cousin and such, the meeting is at the sept, in that stone farmhouse where you first met your grandfather*
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:04:17 PM)
*Dalton was extremly unexperienced in hand to hand combat but he was exceptional with weapons bladed of all types and even pretty good at useing a garrot but damn he just couldnt use his claws like a garou should be able to.. to much time as a homid with no prior training in hand to hand combat but plenty of prior training in weapons... He did not dishonor himself with the use of firearms like some did how ever.*
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:06:51 PM)
*He would go with his grandfather to the moot.. Standing tall and silent a mask of emotionless visage seemed to shadow over him.. There was no show of pain or even the slightest emotional responce about his cousins demise or even his fathers death. As if neither where of any personal consequence to the lord. *
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:07:40 PM)
*As the meeting wears on the local Lords make reports, and get into other discussions. For the most part Gregory remains out of the smaller lower level squabbles, letting the halfmoon of his pack handle most of it. Theres alot of discussion on dealing with other tribes, or what pack does what. Your grandfather translates the talk, as almost all of it is in Romanian. But his translation is more than that, he points out body language ques you never even dreamed of noticing, he points out motivations for certain political manuvers, hell your grandfather points out a stain on one of there pants....and mutters that one really should change and shower before coming here. Dillances with kinfolk shouldnt be advertised. You realize the stain is well....from sex*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:09:49 PM)
*When talk stays to certain kinfolk one of the cliath gets figgity, Gregory frowns and mutters to Dalton* Damnit....look how nervous he is. Hes been courting Susanna behind her Uncles back. Challenges over it are going to be a pain in the ass. But I'm curious to see if her Uncle notices....
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:10:35 PM)
*His grandfather knew by that point that dalton was indeed a man of emotion with values and honor, though Dalton seemed to face the new lords as he once faced his grandfather. Not like family but more like some one who was there on bussiness and nothing more then that. As his grandfather points the different subtel ques in the body language he studies them.. Watching those whom his grandfather points out.. noticing the way the pupil shrinks when one is displeased or angry or lieing.. noticing the small movements twitches and yes the stain. He forces himself not to smirk at the stain as it reminds him of fog leg horn*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:11:51 PM)
*After the moot Gregory drills you on what you noticed and didn't, by now the other Lords are gone except for the pack halfmoon an older dark haired garou with a missing eye, he clearly has your grandfathers confidance, because the elder doesn't mind his presense at the "lessons"*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:13:22 PM)
*Your grandfather frowns* Where did you learn that control? You are actually hard to read.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:16:30 PM)
*He speaks to his grandfather in english*I am a follower of Storm Crow, and a member of the children of crow camp.. *his eyes move to his grandfather* One must keep control of there emotional responces in such a setting, it shows strength keeps ones adversarys unaware of what it is you are thinking and is vital to your pack, your family, and your own survival.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:18:28 PM)
*the halfmoon speaks* Howl's the Storms spawn eh? I have to admit hes smarter than his father. I'm sorry, my name is Carl -Doomhammer- Thorstein. Adren halfmoon of the Lords. I am of your grandfathers pack. Truthcatcher in the sept.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:19:08 PM)
I bring a report from the Gatekeeper.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:20:03 PM)
*He offered the man a nod of respect.. his features seemed to warm when the man said he was of his grandfathers pack as if the vasade was lifted to show the geniune responce beneith. Then his brows perked hearing that he had word from the gate keeper..*
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:22:48 PM)
We sent a messenger spirit to keep tabs on your grandson's home sept as requested. News came back today that they were indeed attacked massively. The night spirit sent said the attack was repelled with no losses.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:25:43 PM)
*Gregory frowns* I owe you a deep apology again for requesting you leave your sept at a critical time.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:25:59 PM)
*He looked at the man who gave the news.. responding..*I knew it would be coming I risked much in the mission to get them that information.. Just like I have busted my ass to keep the judges of dooms from removing there leadership and takeing it over, the relations between our tribe and the sept are allready seriously compromised..
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:28:29 PM)
*He looked at his grandfather* no one knew I was gone, besides my own packmates and my mate and child. I had held a secret shadow moot before i even left with the murmur rite taught to me by the sept whom gave me my rite of acomplishment so long ago. And had provisions made so that my mate and child would have seemed to have departed with me on a small trip. yet they never left the safety of my pack, even the other kinfolk of our tribe have no idea they where there so i was sure neither did the enemy.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:30:11 PM)
*He looked at his grandfather* with the provisions made as long as the sept did not slip up they had all the information they needed down to the very moment of the attack. And plenty of time to prepare. The enemy strolled right into a trap when they thought victory laid in there grasp.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:30:27 PM)
Humm the Gatekeepr did have a request. She'd like to know how the Uktena got the night spirit immune to all attempts to learn their secrets.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:31:10 PM)
*Gregory speaks* I'd say this sept past the test then.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:32:02 PM)
*He thought about the question*the uktena as a whole or just the one in which I personaly have decided to back as a exceptional leader?
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:32:55 PM)
The sept's Master of the Rite sent the spirit we understand.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:33:19 PM)
((Hilma....only she would send a spirit messenger to Lords so chiminaged up in payment it wouldn't say anything other than instructed))
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:35:24 PM)
*gregory asks* Is this exceptional leader their Master of the Rite?
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:39:34 PM)
*He looked at them*No though the Master of the rites is some one else. She though has many secrets and being a elder uktena I have no idea what those secrets intail. I speak of another uktena a ragabash.. Either way I have no idea what there secrets could intail, as they likely have no idea what ours could intail. All in all there rather curious bunch and I must admit I enjoy Runninfox's company and lessons..
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:40:49 PM)
*gregory shrugs* American tribes....don't get so called Pure Ones here in Romania.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:41:48 PM)
Think the pure ones are the wendigo, or is it all native american tribes.. I will tell you they are not so different then us, they have so many secrets.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:44:10 PM)
When do you plan on going back?
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:47:19 PM)
*he thought about it, frowning a bit as if not eager to return but knowing he could not stay here much longer either. Wanting to see his mate and child.. He looked at his grandfather..*I should be going I do not want to miss the birth of my second born, the nights are passing quickly.. *He looked up to see the moon* and she could be in labor any day now.. *his gaze swept over his grandfather once more..*I know your duties would likely not permitt you to travle so far, though i could not help but over hear that you do alot of travling. I would be honored if you could make your way to our home in america and meet your great grand children and my mate..
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:49:23 PM)
If I can't then bring them here. Sometime when your sept is not having such troubles.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:51:33 PM)
*he nodded to his grandfather.. There was a shadow of regret over his face at the departure.. but he straightened himself up as only dalton could do.. To a man who family ment so much to this was a awfuly far distance. The opertunity to revist would not present itself often* I will see what I can do..
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:53:39 PM)
*he hands you a card* Smidt is the kinfolk I used to contact you. He can help you arrange for property purchases and anything else you may need to do in Romania.
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:56:27 PM)
*He took the card.. and he responded* you have pictures of the family in the folder.. *He clasped a hand on his grandfathers shoulder* I do want to see you I do want you to meet the family, and meeting you was one of the greatest honors of my life. Please don't forget us..
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:57:48 PM)
No....I'm just going to pretend I didn't find your information in my son's post office box. Of COURSE we'll be in contact.
Windseeker (Jun 5, 2011 11:57:56 PM)
Did I mention my son was an ass?
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:58:22 PM)
*He smiled at him then nodded his head* yes you mentioned he was an ass.. *A chuckle..*Will see you soon then as soon as possible..
Dalton Fortman (Jun 5, 2011 11:59:10 PM)
(so the end of this yes?)