World of Darkness Chronicles: Winter Wolf
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nishatalithaI have done far too much exercise today. Skipping and rearranging my room this afternoon, and the usual mad dash for the bus at the end of gaming tonight.
This is the last three sessions.
After our evacuation from Egypt, we returned home to Germany, to study the ritual and work out what to do next. Hilda sought ways of returning to Duart and taking the Staff and Sickle of Osiris to the judges of Ma'at, but she couldn't get there, short of dying, and we can't afford to have her out of action for three months. The priests at the Temple of Isis wouldn't let her anywhere near them, seeing as she now has Set's eye in her head, and Isis and Set are immortal enemies.
Instead, Chelsea told us of a source of information, a vampire related to the ghoul-vampire we captured earlier on who Anna knew. He was in Kahakaztan, hiding out there. Since he only really wanted to kill Damien and myself, we organised a trip there (were permitted to blow things up, seeing as it's Kahakaztan) and went to meet him.
Good thing we had snipers. Well, Damien and this nice infilitration team member named Jack. This enabled us to take out the vampires attacking Anna. We tossed grenades at them, shot them and took the van off into the desert. Anna was rather pissed. The swearing lasted a while. I guess they don't want her or Hilda alive anymore.
We called Chelsea and organised an UBCS Assult Team to meet up with us, an orbital strike on the building and make a black marketeer's day, by buying rifles, bullets, grenades, rocket launchers, 5kgs of C4 and some shovels.
After waiting for the UBCS team to arrive, we planted explosives and organised ourselves for attack. The orbital strike worked well, as did the C4 and we cheerfully blew up about a block of the city. The human citizens stayed well out of reach, funnily enough. The snipers and Damien took out the Ghouls and Vampires, and Anna, Hilda and the team 2IC went down to teh cellar to fetch the Vampire.
There was a short fight, in which Anna and Hilda nearly died, but the 2IC didn't burn alive, thanks to flameproof gear. We loaded him into a body bag and took him back to HQ.
The team we'd sent to London to get the head of Nefertiti managed that nicely and the Cloak was sorted.
Also - interesting news from Pentex. A thing made of nothing walked into Delta City and took something they'd made. An item. Their Cloak. They'd made it wrong. Such a shame. Chelsea finally told us about the third power, a young Swedish gentleman by the name of Davy. She still won't let us meet him. I have to wonder what all the secrecy is about, why she just didn't tell us before.
Chelsea informed us that our Cloak was ready and we named our three items. Hilda did the sword, and she doesn't see the scenes of Set killing Osiris that the rest of us do. On the other hand, her other eye, her original one, now matches the one Set gave her. This is probably a bad thing.
We spent a lot of the next couple of weeks discussing the ritual and working on ways that we could stop it and what everything means, and so on. I took a Paradox flaw that made my eyes look like a snakes. It creeped a lot of people out, especially Damien. I'm not sure how much progress we made with the ritual, but things make a little sense.
Then Anna and I received a message over the uplink, detailing a meeting place and a time set for two days hence. We assumed it was the Chaos dudes and went to meet them, heavily armed. Jack came with us.
And Anna's the third power.
Nice of Chelsea to lie to us, but... well, at least we're not ruining a kid's life. That story was a bit odd, anyway. Makes sense as to why she didn't tell us before, though. And it was probably why that Vampire Anna knew (and killed) was after her.
Still, we went, we met up with Chaos16, who told us he'd been seconded to our group by Magus and that something important was going to happen very soon. He gave us a precise time, even.
Which is why we weren't completely dumbfounded when an airliner crashed at Heathrow and the two Powers started fighting each other. We called Umbrella, organised a helicopter to the airport and drove like maniacs to meet them. We were there in twenty minutes.
And then we started burning and itching. Blistering and bleeding, with the skin splitting open. Nothing I could do would heal it. At last, I checked on the items and as soon as I touched the Skull, it stopped. I handed them around. Hilda got the Sword, Damien chose the Gathering over the Cloak and Anna the Blood.
Shortly, the First Power Fell against the Second Power. Asheron defeated Carnby, and then a person shaped void of Nothing sent Asheron somewhere Else. It offered us three questions, to be answered truthfully, since we have the Third Power. After much discussion and the casual dissolution of a luggage handler, we asked.
1) How can we stop the ritual? The Winter Wolf Rite, a thing of sacrifice.
2)
3) What are the consequences of the something (Sorgus), the despoiler (Pentex) and the blinded wrath (us)?
Actually, I forget the answer to the third question and everything about the second, but I'll remember eventually.
Then Nil turned to ask and vanished us into the Void.
One more session and then the joint one.
This is the last three sessions.
After our evacuation from Egypt, we returned home to Germany, to study the ritual and work out what to do next. Hilda sought ways of returning to Duart and taking the Staff and Sickle of Osiris to the judges of Ma'at, but she couldn't get there, short of dying, and we can't afford to have her out of action for three months. The priests at the Temple of Isis wouldn't let her anywhere near them, seeing as she now has Set's eye in her head, and Isis and Set are immortal enemies.
Instead, Chelsea told us of a source of information, a vampire related to the ghoul-vampire we captured earlier on who Anna knew. He was in Kahakaztan, hiding out there. Since he only really wanted to kill Damien and myself, we organised a trip there (were permitted to blow things up, seeing as it's Kahakaztan) and went to meet him.
Good thing we had snipers. Well, Damien and this nice infilitration team member named Jack. This enabled us to take out the vampires attacking Anna. We tossed grenades at them, shot them and took the van off into the desert. Anna was rather pissed. The swearing lasted a while. I guess they don't want her or Hilda alive anymore.
We called Chelsea and organised an UBCS Assult Team to meet up with us, an orbital strike on the building and make a black marketeer's day, by buying rifles, bullets, grenades, rocket launchers, 5kgs of C4 and some shovels.
After waiting for the UBCS team to arrive, we planted explosives and organised ourselves for attack. The orbital strike worked well, as did the C4 and we cheerfully blew up about a block of the city. The human citizens stayed well out of reach, funnily enough. The snipers and Damien took out the Ghouls and Vampires, and Anna, Hilda and the team 2IC went down to teh cellar to fetch the Vampire.
There was a short fight, in which Anna and Hilda nearly died, but the 2IC didn't burn alive, thanks to flameproof gear. We loaded him into a body bag and took him back to HQ.
The team we'd sent to London to get the head of Nefertiti managed that nicely and the Cloak was sorted.
Also - interesting news from Pentex. A thing made of nothing walked into Delta City and took something they'd made. An item. Their Cloak. They'd made it wrong. Such a shame. Chelsea finally told us about the third power, a young Swedish gentleman by the name of Davy. She still won't let us meet him. I have to wonder what all the secrecy is about, why she just didn't tell us before.
Chelsea informed us that our Cloak was ready and we named our three items. Hilda did the sword, and she doesn't see the scenes of Set killing Osiris that the rest of us do. On the other hand, her other eye, her original one, now matches the one Set gave her. This is probably a bad thing.
We spent a lot of the next couple of weeks discussing the ritual and working on ways that we could stop it and what everything means, and so on. I took a Paradox flaw that made my eyes look like a snakes. It creeped a lot of people out, especially Damien. I'm not sure how much progress we made with the ritual, but things make a little sense.
Then Anna and I received a message over the uplink, detailing a meeting place and a time set for two days hence. We assumed it was the Chaos dudes and went to meet them, heavily armed. Jack came with us.
And Anna's the third power.
Nice of Chelsea to lie to us, but... well, at least we're not ruining a kid's life. That story was a bit odd, anyway. Makes sense as to why she didn't tell us before, though. And it was probably why that Vampire Anna knew (and killed) was after her.
Still, we went, we met up with Chaos16, who told us he'd been seconded to our group by Magus and that something important was going to happen very soon. He gave us a precise time, even.
Which is why we weren't completely dumbfounded when an airliner crashed at Heathrow and the two Powers started fighting each other. We called Umbrella, organised a helicopter to the airport and drove like maniacs to meet them. We were there in twenty minutes.
And then we started burning and itching. Blistering and bleeding, with the skin splitting open. Nothing I could do would heal it. At last, I checked on the items and as soon as I touched the Skull, it stopped. I handed them around. Hilda got the Sword, Damien chose the Gathering over the Cloak and Anna the Blood.
Shortly, the First Power Fell against the Second Power. Asheron defeated Carnby, and then a person shaped void of Nothing sent Asheron somewhere Else. It offered us three questions, to be answered truthfully, since we have the Third Power. After much discussion and the casual dissolution of a luggage handler, we asked.
1) How can we stop the ritual? The Winter Wolf Rite, a thing of sacrifice.
2)
3) What are the consequences of the something (Sorgus), the despoiler (Pentex) and the blinded wrath (us)?
Actually, I forget the answer to the third question and everything about the second, but I'll remember eventually.
Then Nil turned to ask and vanished us into the Void.
One more session and then the joint one.
