2022.08.20: Chic Delight

Chic Delight
Killing a bane.
IC Date	2022.08.20
IC Time	ic time.
Players	Dale, Reno, Harvey
Location	city
Spheres	Gaian
Theme Song	Drop Dead Gorgeous

Dale calls up Reno, "Hey patrol buddy!" He sounds chipper. "I have a question for you."

On the Phone, "Howdy partner, what's up? Hopefully I have an answer."

Dale says, "I got up into this gig, mucho suave. And it's a bit into the seedy side of the city, totally beneath me, and the girls." He means his personas for his acts. "But Momma says you kill the Wyrm where it thrives, and I think I got a lead on something going down. But, if it's bigger than this gorgeous queen can handle, I need a partner." He pauses, "How do you feel about wearing a dress?"

On the Phone, Reno is quiet a moment or two, "Umm, that means I need to shave. But me, in a dress? That's a tall order partner. How sure are you?" He pauses, "I'll be there, where are you?"

Dale gives an address in the city, "I'm in my dressing room at this hole in the wall club named 'Chic Delight'. Don't judge. The name is un-imaginative, but the free swag is to die for. And I'm pretty sure, darlin. I just saw this other Queen coming in and out of this back prop room covered in bites. And she just went back in again carrying a roll of duc tape. It's total sus. The show is closed for the night, so if you hurry up and get here, we'll bust in. And when I mean bites, it's bigger than a love bite has any business of being."

On the Phone, Reno listens, "I'm on the way then. It's my moon, so we need to be careful." He can be heard repeating the address. "On my way."

It takes a short bit, but the sound of Reno arriving is punctuated by the sound of his spurs. He knocks on the door and then steps in. He took the time to shave though. Taking off his hat, Reno sets it down and starts to take off his duster. "Alright, have you tried to check for taint?" He asks, as quietly as possible.

Dale lets him in the back door of the club. It's quiet this hour, because the show ended an hour ago. "You need to get dusted," Dale tosses him a lime green dress that looks like it might fit him. There's pink and white diamond beading down the neckline, and in the second toss he gets a tube of red lipstick. "Put this on, and no one will think twice you look too angry to be here." He snaps his fingers. "Feel free to keep your boots on though. No one will even see it under that bonanza beauty."

Dale points to the other Queen's dressing room. Her door is marked 'Fickle Ma Pickle'. Ma being the play on the Queen name itself. The door isn't locked yet, and Dale pushes the door open.

"Not yet." Dale answers his question to sensing her stuff for wyrm taint.

There's a look at the dress. A long look. He strips off his shirt and tries to get into the dress. It may take some help. But eventually it's on. "Umm ... never used this stuff." Reno says, looking at the lipstick. He takes the top off and just stares a moment. He looks at the mirror and then tries to put some on. It goes on, but it's not pretty at all.

Dale looks him up and down, "Girl, you seriously need to consider embracing your inner woman. There's a saying about when one takes the first step. You are definitely going to have a whole new appreciation for fine silk." He means the dress.

Tonight he's still in his own dressing gown with fluffy feather like sleeves in salmon pink. But his wig is off, and he has his turban on his head, but his make-up is still on.

While the two are in the Ma Pickle's dressing room, Dale begins to snoop. He picks up a few items, sniffs, puts it back, and then pulls open a make-up drawer to begin leaning down to look for any Wyrm sign.

An old cup of coffee with lipstick on the edge of it, is picked up and sniffed. He immediately wrinkles his nose and ughs. Stirring a spoon within, he picks up something wet and droopy that looks like chicken skin.

OOC: Dale SENSE WYRM ROLL

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Dale rolls Perception(2) + Occult(1) (3 dice) vs 6 for 2 successes.
2 +9 +10
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A look to Dale about embracing his inner woman, not good. Reno just Asian Deadpans him at that. Probably not going to happen, but after a moment, Reno snorts and chuckles, "My inner woman has a five o' clock shadow." Reno points out. He starts to sniff around as well. He finds a hatcase and almost gags. He opens it, there's a wrinkled skin in there, might be a ... face?

OOC: Reno SENSE WYRM ROLL

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Reno rolls Perception + Occult vs 6 for 3 successes.
2 3 3 +6 +8 +10
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Dale keeps his voice low, "Ding ding. The wicked witch is soo dead. That isn't even," he turns to look in the hatbox. "Girl, that is beyond disgusting. Come on, let's go check out the prop room. At least now we know something is definitely scoring in the Wyrm category tonight of this night creepshow." He leads him to the prop storage room.

Dale pauses to listen, and then finds the door locked.
Dale uses open seal, and the door clicks open quietly. He motions for Reno to look in first.

Inside he will see three ladyboys sitting on the floor all duc taped together. Lots and lots of duc tape. If the door opens, they will suddenly look their way. They look frightened as if contained by duress this evening, and it doesn't appear anyone else is in the room.

Looking at Reno being uncomfortable in a dress should be amusing. Or would be if it weren't in this situation. He closes his eyes, mentally preparing himself. Once the door opens, he looks in and fronws. He squats down and pulls the hem of his dress up to get to his boot. He pulls a knife out and tries to make it to the ladies as quietly as possible. He checks them over before doing anything else.

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Reno rolls Perception + Occult vs 6 for 1 successes.
1 2 3 4 +8 9
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Reno rolls Perception + Medicine vs 6 for 3 successes.
4 4 5 +9 +9 +10
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It doesn't appear the humans have been here long enough to acquire taint. There's also no obvious bite marks, or broken skin that can be seen.

Dale sweeps in behind him, and shoves something in the door to keep it ajar slightly. He also goes about popping the lock open, so it remains unlocked for now. The ladyboys know him it seems from the earlier show, and he places a finger against his lips, for shhh. "What is this shhhh it. Seriously, we're getting you out of here. Where's the douchebag bitch that tied you up in here?"

One of the ladyboys jerks his head to another door in the back of the prop room. It looks like a utility closet, and the door is shut.

When they check out as okay, Reno looks to each of them, very seriously, "Quietly leave. Don't look back, forget everything you brought with you." Reno ackowledges the head jerk, "We've got this." He says to the lady. Once he is sure they understand, he starts to cut them loose. Hands and feet only, they can do the rest themselves. Reno looks to Dale, as he sheaths his knife again. "If I frenzy, run." He tells him, simply.

When they check out as okay, Reno looks to each of them, very seriously, "Quietly leave. Don't look back, forget everything you brought with you." Reno ackowledges the head jerk, "We've got this." He says to the lady. Once he is sure they understand, he starts to cut them loose. Hands and feet only, they can do the rest themselves. Closing the door after the ladies leave, Reno looks to Dale, as he sheaths his knife again. "If I frenzy, run." He tells him, simply.

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Reno rolls Perception + Alertness vs 7 for 2 successes.
1 3 5 +7 +9 10
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Dale doesn't spot it, but Reno will. There's a tiny red light coming from above the utility door in the ceiling. If he draws in for closer inspection, he'll find a hidden camera. Looks like Ma Pickle is filming her ladyboy captives.

Once the humans are fleeing the building, Dale knows they have limited time. "We need to hustle. We usually keep to ourselves, and don't involve the police in this line of work. But you never know what drama queen is going to have a love for a guy in uniform, if you know what I mean." He begins to move for the utility door, and it's not locked. He peers at Reno. Same scenario with a nod, he means for Reno to go first.

Gesturing, Reno says quietly, "We're being watched." Showing Dale the light. He looks down at the dress, "I hope you didn't plan on keeping this." Reno gets to the door and nods, "For Gaia." He whispers quietly. Then he opens the door.

Dale looks up and sees the camera. He punches the camera and then sticks a hand up to break it off the wall. It's a small device, so he pockets it when the wires unclip. Writing reality out to disk. Please wait... Reality saved. Thank you for your patience.

When the door opens, they will see the utility closet with a bucket, and mop stuck inside it. But there's shelves with cleaning supplies, and one big hole in the wall as if someone in the recent past took a sledgehammer to it. It's now a broken hole in the big bricks, where it runs into another hidden room in the old show building. It leads down a narrow hall, and then with crap lighting, they'll find stench.

They will also find Ma Pickle sitting in a chair at the table and using an air fryer plugged into a wall. She's humming, and over the fryer, she didn't hear them at all coming in. In one hand she holds what looks like chicken skin, crispy fried, and the fatty parts of meat. There's no meat on the table, just the fryer. And she is dolled up and dusted in a red gown, yellow sunshine wig, and pink garage doors for her eye-shadow. The poor choice of low cut gown along her backside, is what gave her away initially. She's covered in LARGE teeth marks. Not human. Something bit her a few times, and they are red and black and green in color.

Down the hall, Reno goes. His face wrinkles in disgust. "I'm going to be sick." He says to Dale. He steps into the room and sniffs, looking at Ma Pickle. He cracks his neck. "I'd stop right there." Reno says. "Where's the thing that's been biting you?" He looks around the room too.

<OOC> Reno says, "Sense Wyrm"

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Reno rolls Perception + Occult vs 6 for 1 successes.
1 4 4 5 +7 9
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Dale is right beside Reno, and once he smells the human flesh cooking in the air fryer, it makes him gag.

Ma Pickle suddenly hears Reno's voice and the Queen turns her head around like she's not even human. The neck contorts, and stretches, and it looks 90 degrees at the two of them with bulging eyes. It's horrendous. The neck keeps growing like it's supernaturally beginning to shift, arms stretching out extend, and then so do her legs in her gown.

"FUCK-a-licious! What is that!" Dale in immediate response begins to shift into his warform. His crinos is a large black furred werewolf.

There are many bonuses to being a rat. For one, you're a rat. That, in and of itself, is the only bonus you really need. But the other bonuses of that bonus is that you can fit in things where no creature would normally fit. Airvents. Airducts. Old sewage pipes. And when you are crawling around shit to find places with things worth stealing, you sometimes end up smelling things that does not smell right. Decayed and fresh flesh and skin that is not your normal restaurant smells? That would be one thing worth to explore. And so it is that the sickly black rat finds himself at the end of an old air vent, peeking out into a room where he spots two weird people talking to another weird person who .. turns out to be more than a weird person.

And there's Garou.

But there is also obvious Wyrm. Only hesitating for a few moments, the rat busts the vent open and leaps out.

The way the head is growing off of Ma Pickle, with her extended neck makes it obvious the Queen has been biting herself. Her teeth look elongated and sharp and behind her contacts the eyeballs look an off sickly green extended outside the blue lenses. Snap. Snap, go her teeth. "More sweeeeeets!" She looks delighted, to EAT THEM. And she next attempts to get up out of the chair. Clearly, there's going to be a rumble now between herself and Reno!

When the Pickle goes Sour, Reno just leaps at her, shifting midflight with a spinning kick at Ma Pickle's head. He lands next to her though, ready to go at her again.

Ma Pickle is being assaulted by three at once. Dale lunges in right after Reno does, and swipes a sharp claw right across Ma's chest. The beads from her gown go spilling all over the floor, as the silk and flesh are rendered in a gash.

As Great Balls of Fire (Harvey) bursts out of the airvent and comes careening through the air with a mightly "SQUEEEAAAAAK" of anger, at seeing the Fomori, he suddenly bursts up into a nightmare of a humanoid rat. Large, sickly and black, he sports a sawn off shotgun in his hands. As he lands on the ground, he lifts up the gun and fires off a round at the trio. Does he fire at the Fomori or the Garou? Hard to say! But the round goes blasting through the Fomori, ripping into flesh!

AS the rage boils over, Quicksilver makes a swipe at Ma Pickle! His claws dig in, but do very little hurt! This is one tough bird!

Dale attempts to move behind the disgusting Fomori Queen, and yet he isn't quite behind her yet. He swipes in his next claw in a half leap up, and then hits her, but it does absolutely nothing. It was only a scrape of the gown, and not quite making contact with the flesh. Air flow zips by in that sweep!

The large black rat monster stays far away from the two Garou, keeping himself out of the range of errant claws. It might still be a bit difficult to figure out who this black creature is trying to shoot at as it generally is poor form to shoot into a group of melee:ers, but he does! Again, the shotgun is lifted up and aimed, fired. The shot appears to hit, though, although .. there is nothing except a hole in clothing.

When Ma Pickle decides to have a little Chinese for Dinner, she lunges at Moves Like Quicksilver! But Quicksilver is having none of that! He twists and turns letting Ma Pickle bite at the air where he was just at!

Its hard to shoot at something, when you have a spinning tornado Crinos flying about the Fomori you are trying to shoot. While Great Balls of Fire (Harvey) does not really have great love for the Garou and would not cry at shooting them, it might actually be bad for him. So he tries his BEST to not hit them. This, in turn, causes him to fire at the Fomori when the Fomori is no longer where it was before.. missing entirely, chipping off paint from the wall behind everyone.

Knockout Queen, aka Dale, moves in for the heavy claws blow right after Quicksilver does his kung foo. And true to the Drag Queen's name, the Fenris Crinos gets in the killing blow. A swift swipe of rendered flesh across the giraffe Ma Pickle's neck, and the entire loose appendage is sliced off to go flying across the room. The corpse like body, now headless staggers backwards, flailing arms, like a chicken with its head cut off. It falls into the back wall where it crashes into a makeshift board hiding a cupboard space full of old VHS tapes. So retro.

The body drops dead. And Dale looks at the RAT with the shotgun. "WHO. YOU?" Low rar.

That was a very good question! Moves Like Quicksilver turns his attention to the Rat With A Gun. There's still Rage burning there and he's ready to react, should it be necassary, but he's holding for the moment. He doesn't make a move yet, but then the Rat saw him jump across the room too.

The large sickly looking rat monster watches the two Garou for a few moments, to which he slowly begins to back off from them. He lets out a few chittering, squeaking noises at them which.. might.. not possibly be something friendly? Or, it is friendly. Its hard to tell when you have a Crinos Ratkin chittering at you! And as he backs up, the large monster suddenly turns into a tiny monster! The Crinos Ratkin melts into the form of a sickly looking black rat. At this point, he is presenting minimal threat posture, brandishing no shotgun and no claws or teeth that would actually hurt anyone. He still looks mighty spiteful though!

Dale shifts back down to his human size and his dress was shredded after the initial growth to crinos. But spandex is his friend, and he has on his spandex gymsuit, all in navy blue. It's the only thing he has that doesn't draw attention, and it's rited to him. "Oh how cute! City vermin, darling. He squeaks." It's a bit of sarcasm, but also appreciation. "Your shotgun almost stole the show.' He goes over to kick the corpse body, "EAT it, pickle. You were a WHO-ho anyway. You lose and we win." He lifts his chin up and debutante's his way back over to pick up the disgusting head. "I don't suppose you have a way to dispose of this body below ground do you? We need to scrub this place of taint."

Moves Like Quicksilver sniffs towards the Rat. He shakes his head and then melts back into human form as if it were an afterthought. He looks to Knockout Queen. "It's alright." Reno says, letting the Rage melt off him. He's currently shirtless. Back to the Rat, Reno holds his hands up a bit to show his palms, "I think we can all take a moment to calm down." Coming from a Philodox on his moon, that's kind of ironic.

He watches Dale and nods, "We should just burn the place down." He says. He looks around, "The camera, we need to find the recorder and see what's on it." He starts to look around the room, in closets and cabinets. "There has to be a monitor and something in here."

Moves Like Quicksilver sniffs towards the Rat. He shakes his head and then melts back into human form as if it were an afterthought. He looks to Knockout Queen. "It's alright." Reno says, letting the Rage melt off him. He's currently shirtless. Back to the Rat, Reno holds his hands up a bit to show his palms, "I think we can all take a moment to calm down." Coming from a Philodox on his moon, that's kind of ironic.

He watches Dale and nods, "We should just burn the place down." He says. He looks around, "The camera, we need to find the recorder and see what's on it." He opens the cabinet and says, "Here we go. Let's see what's on it." He turns the equipment to play instead of record.

Still keeping an extremely defensive posture, the sickly black rat glares at the two Garou with something akin to .. well .. dislike. He does not move up closer to them though, remaining in rat form as he scurries over to the wall. Then he scurries up the wall, as if it was a flat surface, until he once more pops into the ventilation he burst through. He does not disappear, though, turning around to peer down at the two Garou suspiciously.

The video on screen plays and the three of them see Ma Pickle filming herself ripping off human flesh from a ladyboy. One who is most likely dead, as it's dated 2020. Her disgusting grotesque giraff like head moves down to mange and bite and tear, and it's horrifying to watch.

The air fryer is buzzing in the background of the video. Ma Pickle says, "It's so much better in the frier!"

Dale says, "Ok that's creepy. And definitely something we don't want the Po Po to get their hands on. A definite break in someone's reality is a no-winner. We gotta... destroy this stuff."

Oh, that gets a disgusted look from Reno. He changes the tapes a few times to make sure they're all like this. "It's grotesque. But yer right." Reno says to Dale. "We need to Cleanse and then burn this place to the ground. I don't want anything coming back to try and start over." He starts pulling tapes down and breaking them in half, tossing the pieces over onto the corpse.

A glance to the Rat, "Can ya Cleanse? Or help start a fire? We need to torch both places." Reno says, nodding back over to the hole in the wall. He looks down, "I've got a few things in my trenchcoat to cleanse with."

Dale glances to the Rat, "In better circumstances I'd introduce myself to you, dear. But now's not the time. Much better to do it over pancakes and coffee in the downtown breakfast spot." He seconds Reno's idea. "I have extra supplies too so we can get the building, and the dressing room. You start, and I'll help. And maybe Mr. Rat friend here, can start us a bonfire, Au Revoir, Chic Delight." He adds to the rat, "It was a dive hole anyway. And the stage acoustics weren't all that." He drops the head to the pile, and then goes to get his stuff to assist.

Dale returns and helps destroy the tapes in the rack.

Reno loses one Willpower

The rat watches them closely a few moments, then lets out a few squeaks. It happens just as the spandex wearing Garou mentions fire. That, for some reason, seems to get the rat really really excited! Or.. agitated. He begins to chitter loudly, eyes popping in and out, before he suddenly turns and busts tail into the ventilation. Now, he will be gone a few moments.. but he will return. Most likely towards the end of their ritual.

Reno loses one Magical Essence
Reno loses one Magical Essence

You lose one Gnosis
You lose one Gnosis

<OOC> Reno says, "2 Gnosis for 2 places"

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Reno rolls Charisma + Rituals vs 7 for 1 successes.
1 1 2 3 +7 8 8
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Sickly Black Rat rolls Intelligence + Chemistry vs 5 for 5 successes.
3 3 +6 +7 +8 +9 +9
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<OOC> Sickly Black Rat says, "Mmh. Fire."

Dale rips tapes up, even though he knows they are going to be burnt too. But he notices the rat's active energy and raises brows. He dumps the reel of vhs tape and skirts them in a pile, as he then goes about to follow Reno for the cleaning ritual. He provides assistance, and then lifts his voice up to aroo. The place is closed for the night. No one else was in here, because he checked on his way back inside with more supplies. The place is locked up tight, and so he scares the taint with his fiercest bitch face. He shifts forms to HOWL >>Go on and Git!<< Yelling at the taint some more, until it's gone.

Once all the tapes are broke and the machine smashed, Reno tosses it all on pile. He looks around the room one last time to make sure there's no other evidence, adding the air fryer to the pile. He does NOT open it either.

Taking the water and sage, Reno starts to dance around the pile. He waves the sage and sprinkles water on everything as he goes. He shifts to Crinos and starts to howl and yip to scare off the taint! Around the room, then down the hall to the dressing room, and then back again. It's a long thing, with so much ground to cover. He does this twice to make sure the taint is scared away, >>Not today Wyrm!<< he howls, >>Be gone from this place!!<<

Now, what Great Balls of Fire (Harvey) has in mind is in deed fire. And what he has planned for the fire, takes a little time. Long enough, it seems, for the two Garou to do their Cleansing ritual. But towards the end of it, when they are done? They can hear a loud squeaking sound! It comes from the ventilation shaft, and it approaches fast! Suddenly, without warning, the sickly black rat shoots out of the ventilation in a little tiny ball of excited fur! As he does, the Garou can hear him cackling out, "FIIIREEEE!" Moments later, there is a VOOOSH and a pillar of flame shoots out from the ventilation hole.

Yeahhhhhhh. Dale shifts back to human and sprints out of the room. They are going to have to flee out the back door unseen, and get lost into the night. "Holy ships that raterooo is a flamer!" He chuckles all the way to the alleyway where his car is. Time to zoom home.

On the way out, Reno grabs his stuff! No leaving the hat! He's running out the backdoor too! His bike is parked nearby!

<OOC> Reno says, "I need to amend my pose on cleansing! WE have to cleanse ourselves too, I'll burn the extra gnosis too."