2012.09.25.Garou.in.Wonderland.1

Garou in Wonderland: Part 1
A team of Gaians enter a cave to confront an unknown enemy
IC Date	September 25, 2012
IC Time	10:00 P.M.
Players	Klem, Dani, Chance, Liam, Cory as ST
Location	Deep Woods
Prp/Tp	n/a
Spheres	Gaian

The forest is dark and quiet with the birds asleep and the nocturnal animals making little noise, whether to better stalk prey to to best avoid being eaten. This small clearing is created by redwoods that have grown tall and strong over the centuries. In the center, almost completely hidden by ferns and moss, is a small cave entrance. So small, in fact, that an adult would have an exceeding hard time squeezing inside of it. Perhaps with some elbow grease and a vat of vaseline.

Klem eyes perk up, staring into Chances "Well when we see him limping, and not acting manly in front of Dani, I bet he would love to have a pink unicorn" she provides tempting ideas. "And I just have a long stride, and a wee bit of impatience. I want to get into the guts, and yet... I think that maybe a little most trust is needed from you" she addresses Dani. (re to continue our conversation)

"I showed up for the walk." Dani says in her soft spoken tone. "You're the one who brought a bunch of other people along. It's like you didn't trust me enough to come by yourself. And that worries me."

Chance looks to Dani, then to Klem. "She and I know little of each other. You may tell her if you wish.

Liam looks over, and says "Hmms I think we might be short on bacon, might have to take the ChacoBaco off the menu for a while" Smiling over at Klem.

While no one was paying attention, as massive cat seems to have materialized itself on top of the cave entrance. It could easily be a puma, were the hair not quite so long or the mouth so oddly shaped. It's long black tail flicks back and forth like it were a clock keeping time. Huge green eyes flit from face to face and eventually settled upon Chance. "Beneath the boys and belles bellows a beligerant and boistrous burg of baneful intention, but, before me barnstormers to do battle with bane and... other." The cat seems, as cats often do, quite pleased with itself. It continues to stare at Chance, demanding response with its gaze.

Klem was just speaking up to Dani "I trust you. I worry about you, and wanted to protect you..." she growls out under her breath, "Just ain't good with words like the menfolk are" she trails off, as a feline starts to babble boisterous bouts of B words to Chance. She spins on her heel to eyeball Chance. "friend of yours?"

Chance stops and looks up the big cat. He tilts his head, watching for a few moments. He shakes his head to Klem. "None I know by sight or sense." He looks to the cat. "Good eve, dark hunter. You have business with us?"

Dani just shakes her haed, "I'm used to traveling alone. I don't tend to need protection." She comments before her eyes go to the cat assaulting them aurally with alltierative ancedoyes. "Banes in the cave..." She mutters.

Chance stops and looks up the big cat. He tilts his head, watching for a few moments. He shakes his head to Klem. "None I know by sight or sense." He looks to the cat. "Good eve, dark hunter. You have business with us?" He looks to Dani, Liam and Klem. "Is this what we came out for?" He looks back to the cave at Dani's words. He rolls his head and gives a shake of his arms, then looks to Klem "Could have told me we were heading to a fight."

Liam looks up at the cat, and sighs a bit "Oh joy." He looks around and sighs a moment. He reaches bshind his back, and under his jacket. He pulls out two medium sized meat cleavers. "Oh yea, take the black boy in the woods, and lets see what happens. Thanks Boss."

"Oh, of course," the extremely self-satisfied cat replies to Chance before a very large tongue flicks out and licks its almost human face. "Creatures conspire to create corporeal cretins without care or compassion. They copy crazed archetypes to compass chaos to all creation. Creation is your calling, no?" The cat's tail begins to swish back and forth faster and its eyes narrow upon Chance.

Klem swears as she sees Shiny slivers of silver slide softly out of her Chef's suit. "dammit Danger dances during my dalliance in the forest. For once I am determined the dangnabit dirth dies" she looks over at Chance, frowning as she steps forward, trying to protect Dani from death.

The backpack may contain all of Dani's worldly possesions, but it is quickly dropped, she can always come back for it, or get new things at a later time. The hoodie is removed as well, revealing dense, ripped muscle held back by scarred skin. This woman doesn't look like she needs defending. "Just keep it simple. The cave needs cleansing. We're the ones needing to do it. Call for help if you need to." She says keeping a even head.

Chance starts to smile, looking to the cat. "To bring the new was my first place, but I think this will call to my second talk, to clear." He looks to Klem "The one above is of my family, I feel the touch of the breaker in the cave." He looks to Dani "If you do not know of the wyrm, then run to town now, run fast. If you are of Gaia, then be ready." He seems to ripple a little, as if slipping a little in his stability.

Liam simpley turns his back to the cat, and the rest of the group. He squats a bit making himself a smaller targert, and eyes the wilderness, making sure, there is nothing coming up from behind them. Just cause the cat says the danger is below, you never know if it is true."

"Good..." is all the cat says before it becomes vaguely transparant, then more and more until it simply is no longer there. The cave mouth, small as it is, beckons the group towards it.

Klem steps forward, taking the lead unless Dani or Chance beat her there. She walks into the cave, growing into the hulk - or rather a she hulk, sexier only by little bits. "Liam, you shit, you stick close" she growls out of a mouth of teeth, trusting Chance to guard the unknown warrior of Dani.

Dani looks to Chance. "I don't run." She comments in her even tone. The woman starts to stalk after Klem, her lazy pace no more, just a long and fast stride.

Chance seems to shatter, the parts starting to spin and fall apart more. In moments the human form is gone, replaced by a swirling mass of chaos, also known as a wyldling...

Liam jumps a good foot at Chance changes, barely keeping himslf from swinging at the mass. "Damn it, warn a brother before ya do that shit." He turns, to try to catch up with Klem "Yesum Massa, Yessum. " He shakes his head a bit "This shit is why I stay in the city."

The inside of the cave is dark, but dimly lit by the green glow of some sort of luminescent fungus that grows on the damp walls. Just inside, the cave floor is littered with sticks, leaves, and animal droppings. After a few feet, however, it turns into mixed sand and rocks. Everywhere there is the sound of dripping water. Although the entrance was small, the interior of the cave is large enough to permit a man to walk so long as he bends over at the waist. Again, this changes about twenty yards in as the cave goes deeper and grows into a more respectable cavern system. Stalagtites and mites litter the area and crystal clear water pools and flows through an intricate system of channels. The cave itself provides direction as it only leads one way. The path is at times very steep, going down of course, at others almost flat, and in a few noticable areas one must clamber down the wet rocks of short cliffs.

Klem continues deeper into the cave, "I hope this odd glow stuff stays with us, I do not have a flashlight" she isn't pleased with the cramped quarters, pushing her way deeper into the cavern "As long as the creatures to get rid of aren't cockroaches, we are fine" she growls her claws running along the edges of the walls, using her gift to sharper them into dreadful tips as they walk, making a Freddy Kreuger like sound.

"Probably not. From what the cat said, there are banes, and likely fomori. It said they were creating corporeal cretins. Maybe even animal fomor" Dani says, not really struggling with anything to do with climbing or other strength related obsticles.

Chances voice sounds like several voices, speaking more or less together. "Banes... I like banes. They are, spicy." It seems to direct some attention to Dani. "I thought you were likely to be one of Gaia's, though you seem calmer then most."

Liam frowns, but runs the back of his cleaver across the wall scraping some of the glowing goo occ, and into a bandana he pulls from his back pocket. He ties it into a little bag, and and ties to a betloop. He puts the weapons away for the climbing as he slips and slides a bit on the climbing

For what seems like hours they travel down, down, down. Time does not seem to pass normally in the dim light of the cave, but instead slows to a crawl. Until, finally, something different appears before them. The cave because a cavernous chamber that rises hide and wide before them. In the light they can see three dim caves at the far side of the large cavern. As they come closer, the cat appears again. Instead of slowly fading in as it did out, it is simply suddenly there, between the group and the caves before them.

"You have come far, but further still you must go," the cat says as its glowing green eyes look upon the party. "Three paths persist, ponder the perplexing possibilites placed before the pack. Perhaps one path leads to ponderous glory and prior unheard of progeny. Perhaps two point a path to a positive pogram."

Klem stops, turning to stare at the group "I need a translation" she lisps out of a mouth full of teeth, "CAn't the fucker speak clearly?" she rants, waiting for one to point the path the group will partake in.

"The younger children were always more angry." Dani comments towards the wyldling, careful to not look at it for too long. "And irresponsible. Always think that they were right." When the cat reappears she ponders its words, as if debating a way to figure out the right path.

Chance seems to chuckle "This is clearly for those of my family. You have grown used to me. Words bind and limit, but this one is better with them then I." The spinning mass moves forward a bit, perhaps trying to feel what may be down each.

Liam sighs a bit, and says Puddy there saus one may lead to glory, and recognition, and 2 may to a positive, pogram,, which I think means riot or something So the fight we are looking for? I aint sure to be honest.

"Perplexed. I am not pleased," the cat says and it tracks Chance's movements for a bit before its tail swishes and its attention returns to the rest. "Answer my audit three I will assuage angst with answer." The cat returns to looking pleased with itself and pauses to lick itself a moment before it speaks again. "I am the beginning of the end, and the end of time and space. I am essential to creation, and I surround every place. What am I?"

Klem stares at the cat "spirit you may be, but barbecue you will become." she tantrums softly to herself, staring at the caves. "come on, someone answer and let us be on our way"

"We need to find the one that leads to the unheard of progeny." Dani says making up her mind. "We can't let an unknown threat remain." The riddle doesn't seem to sit well with her, as word games were never her strong suit.

Chance moves to be near the cat. "It is good I have started to learn to read, the answer you ask is E. Heh, I did not think reading would help with one of the first place. You are skilled to know such games."

Liam nods a bit, and starts to say the answer as well, but as Chance says it, he looks at the man "Your stidoes are doing you good m friend."

"Progress," The cat says with something resembling a smile on its too human face. The spirit flips its head and then bears large teeth before speaking. "I can trap many different things and colors, Ever changing, not boring. Look closely and you may find yourself also caught in my trap. What am I?"

Klem stomps her foot, her face plain with her impatience to get into the tunnels and take apart some creature of horror. She pushes to the middle row, flexing her hands, "Mirrors cannot trap you, nor can cameras. This is just rumors. Please end the riddles and let us solve your distress"

Chance laughs to Klem. "Then you do not know mirrors as we know mirrors."

The riddles just go over her head. Maybe if Dani had been taught more fun things instead of the stuffy things, she might be of help here. Instead she tries to get a feel for things, trying to sense the breaker's presnce.

"Patience," the cat says and green eyes narrow on the agitated werewolf. Perhaps just to aggravate Klem further, the cat proceeds to clean its paws of sand, scoot its butt around to a more comfortable posistion, and snap at a few flying troglodytes that stray near it. "Progeny or Pogram, answer. I'm a riddle in nine syllables, An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils O red fruit, Ivory, fine timber! The loaf's big with it's yeasty rising Money's new minted in this at purse. I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf. I've eaten a bag of green apples Boarded the train there's no getting off."

Liam looks at the cat, and hmms. He listens to the riddle, and says it over to himself, a couple times quietly, and then says "Pregnancy."

"Success!" The cat crows cheerfully, the inhuman smile back on its maw. The creature gets onto all fours and begins walking towards the group. "Choose the right path," it warns them, then begins to disappear. It disappears from nose to tail, except the green eyes, which blink and then are gone at the last.

Klem contemplates. "So we go far right?" she looks over to the rest "lets get moving then" she has no words for freaky cats that leave eyes floating in the room.

Dani starts in the direction of the rightmost path, "I never liked the Cheshire Cat." She admits, "Always talking nonsense." She doesn't let her guard down though as the group continues on.

Chance moves with the group. "A time since I have seen one of my family it has been."

Liam is keeping pace just a few paces behind She-Klem. He keeps his head down watching for thigns popping their heads out or what not.

The cavern continues downwards into mother earth in much the same manner as before. However, the further they progress now, the hotter it gets. At first, it is only a warm summers day. However it quickly progresses to the Cobre desert at noon, and then hotter still. With all the moisture in the rocks it is humid as well, it is almost like standing in the bathroom after just taking a shower. At last they come to a long, gentle curve in the rock. From beyond, flickering light as if from a candle comes as well as high pitched, boistrous voices.

To Be Continued...