2019.07.06: After Hive Cleansings
| After Hive Cleansings & Banter | |
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| After the scene where a team goes into a Hive, the team and then the kinfolk must be cleansed. | |
| IC Date | July 06, 2019 |
| IC Time | Night |
| Players | Magnus, Erin, Mora, River, Ryla, Lleutrim, Journey, Jake, Nascha |
| Location | Kinfolk House |
| Spheres |  |
Shaderunner comes out the Bridge, near the last, they had to go collect him. He's not the LAASST because he's too fucking senior to argue about the last one out nonsense. BUT he is near the end. Coming out and taking several steps. Silver, sporting deadly quills from his fur with the immense Silver Grand Klaive, the Strider Crinos looks around and sniffs a couple of times, then looks around as the Kinfolk House is ready to deal with incoming evacuees.
Twilight's Glimmer comes trotting out just before the end, waiting for the last to exit. She drops the head of the BSD, and then closes the bridge as the last make it through. Shifting back to homid, Ryla pulls something from her pocket, and suddenly this little thing becomes a bag, and she gets the head away in there - all safely kept for later. Time to tend to the kinfolk.
Erin and Kringer are probably somewhere in the middle that. She still looks a little puzzled as she looks back towards the moonbridge and then as Shaderunner comes out she perhaps seem to relax. She does blink to Ryla as she just put the head in a bag and just kinda blinks before she comments "They aren't hurt, at least physically.. Mentally is another story" she did check out the kinfolk.
Magnus isn't the last one out because he has a kinfolk riding on his back and because he's a Godi and doesn't care about that shit either. As the kinfolk who was riding him is taken off by those in the kinfolk house, Magnus grows smaller but taller as he shifts from Hispo to Homid. He calls out, "I want a guard on each of these kinfolk until the Elders can assess them for clearance. Preferably keep them all in the same room under guard." He looks to the kinfolk that were just pulled out of the pit of hell, "No offense, just kin nae be too careful around wyrm-taint. It is fer yer own protection of course. We kin heal and cleanse any and all of ye and even help reintegrate ye back into this Sept or another iffn ye need help getting back on yer feet or dealing with traumas." He rubs at his temple after that and looks to the others, "Everyone okay?" Yup, taking charge like a Get Alpha does. Sorry Journey.
Shaderunner shakes himself and turns into.. Journey. Just same old Journey. He rubs his face and looks over as Magnus starts giving out orders. He lifts a finger. All the Kinfolk helping the evacuees look to Journey. Journey nods, "Cleansing shower, clean clothes, food, and under watch, come get us if there's any problems." He nods, "We have debriefing to do later." He lowers his hand. The work continues. Journey looks at Magnus, "These are professionals. We need cleansing. Can anyone reach packmates who can Cleanse us, or are we waiting for a shower?"
Ryla tries and calls out. "I'm trying to reach my pack and see if anyone can come." She knows they all get busy some days.
Erin can finally understand people again and takes a breath as she looks to Journey "I can restore, but I don't think it's the same as cleansing" she takes a breath.
Magnus smiles a huge smile and stage-whispers, "Sorry, used to taking command..." He bows his head though as Journey highlights the order. "I kin perform te Rite of Cleansing...largely thankees to yer guidance Shaderunner-rhya." He gives the thumbs up at that and then looks to the kinfolk who are about, "Okies, who wants to help me with a Rite of Cleansing and these kinfolk that just came in?"
Ryla shakes her head, "No, you need cleansed first. I called in a packmate. He can cleanse us and then we can help cleanse more."
Journey shakes his head to Magnus, "No someone who wasn't traipsing around in a Wyrm Hive." He makes a face, "Ugh, that was quite a smell." He looks around as the Kinfolk House is processing evacuees, it seems, in full swing.
A motorcycle can be heard as it approaches the Kinfolk house and the long gravel drive that winds it's way through the trees up to it. Lleutrim stops and parks his restored Harley Davidson Knucklehead and dismounts, removing his helmet to leave it with the bike. Pale grey eyes alight upon Ryla as he starts to walk on over to where all the others are gathered.
"Good evening, Shaderunner'rhya, Magnus, Ryla." Lleu strips off his black leather gloves and stuffs them into a back pocket of his jeans. "So, I hear you need assistance with a cleansing?" His motorcycle jacket is also stripped off and tossed over the seat of his bike before he walks over to join everyone.
Magnus shakes his head, "Ah, sorry, me misunderstanding. That makes sense." He only just learned the Rite, so maybe he missed that part or was never told about it because that is one of those caveats that you kind of have to be in just this situation to learn. Magnus waits and looks up with a smile as Lleu comes in. "Battle-Singer-rhya!"
Erin finds a spot to quietly sit down with Kringer. She looks down at her hands in a thoughtful expression till Kringer set's his head on her lap to get some attention. She gives him a faint smile as finally things are starting to settle a little and maybe the horror she witness is starting to sink in just a little.
Journey looks over as Lleu approaches, "Hey Lleu, yeah Need some cleansing here, we have been in the midst of.. Well I'm sure someone will have the story all laid out soon enough, but we rescued a bunch of Kin and found a Hive to follow up on." He sighs, "Right now the Kin are in the Cleansing showers getting processed, but that'll take a while."
Ryla smiles, "Thanks for getting here Battle Singer." It has been a day, but nothing too unusual.
A grin for the Fenrir, "Bloodied-Spirit-Walker, you all look a bit tired. Been busy I see." Lleu studies Erin briefly and Kringer with her ere he turns his head to nod to Journey, "I can help with that." A thinning of his mouth and a brow is raised, "Another hive? Damn." His gaze flickers over to Ryla, "Glad if I can help. Let me grab a few things from the bike and we'll get started."
It'll only take him a moment to snag the rucksack he's brought, bungee corded behind the bike's seat. "Let’s get you gathered up a little closer together and I'll get started." From the pack Lleu begins to remove things like a carton of salt, a small canteen for water, and smudging materials to burn for the purification rite.
Journey moves into a Cleansing circle, sitting down to wait for the Rite to happen, the Kinfolk being processed in the Kinfolk House. Journey settles with a bit of a sigh, a bit tired.
Looking up at Lleu, Erin gives him a little wave. As he says they should get closer she stands up nudging Kringer to come along too cuz you know they all should be cleaned including him. They walk closer and stand closer to Journey.
Ryla joins the circle and waits as well. Ready to get this ick and taint off and gone. "Thank you, Battle Singer."
Magnus does as he is told and stands close to the others. "We are lucky Shaderunner-rhya was there. He caused te whole hive to collapse on itself and then drink te water of te lake over it. Without him we'd have been fighting our way out" He winks at that.
Jake strides into view, looking quite serious. He approaches the group, almost studying them all for a moment. "Welcome back. I'm anxious to hear the details but it looks like you all need some cleansing first." He glances at Lleu. "You got this?"
Nascha comes hurrying along, absolutely covered in blood, but does not seem hurt. In fact, she waves off a couple of people who try to make sure she's okay. She hurries up when she sees what she knows rather well as a cleansing circle and she pauses, just outside of it, wiping the back of a ... paw...? across her face. No, no, she's in human form, but she has a single gray wolf's paw, and two floppy, adorable wolf ears. She hangs back to wait to make sure all is well.
Journey shrugs lightly, "There's doubtless going to be a full story, I tink the tally is three dancers confirmed dead, and I didn't count the Kinfolk we rescused." He says looking over and waving to Nascha.
Lleutrim strips off his shirt, baring many scars over his torso as well as a few interesting tats. His boots are also removed. Once the others have gathered closer, he gets the smudging coals uncovered and lays the sweet grass against it to smolder. Salt is poured slowly in a large circle all around the core group to refresh the circle. Ryla gets a warm smile for his packmate yet he says nothing, focusing upon the Ritual. As soon as the circle of salt is closed, Lleu picks up the smuding pot and begins to waft the sweetgrass smoke over each and every one of them while stepping slowly counter clockwise around the circle. This task Lleu concentrates upon, reciting something under his breath. It sounds like Gaelic rather than garou. It takes a couple of minutes to smudge everyone with the sweet smoke ere he goes to pick up the canteen. The coals are smuffed out and rinsed, then the shell bowl is filled with the pure water from the Caern.
The Galliard shifts from human to Glabro. Each and every one of them are lightly doused with flicks of the water using a willow branch. This is where the faint mumbling gives way to howling and Lleu encourages the others to join in with him to banish the taint as each of them are annointed in turn. Together they can all raise up their voices to howl-sing and dance counter clockwise with the Galliard if they so desire, to lend the Rite more strength.
Yep, Nasha, you are distracting as hell. Lleu glances at her but makes himself stay focused on the important Rite.
Lleutrim loses one Magical Essence
Lleutrim loses one Willpower
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Lleutrim rolls Charisma + Rituals vs 7 for 3 successes.
3 3 3 4 5 6 +8 +9 +9
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Ryla will join in the rite as able, lending her strength to her pack mate. The cleansing taking them over.
Journey sits, waiting through the Rite and watching Lleu perform it. He's finally NOT the one called on to DO the Rite so he watches, placidly. Little tired.
Nascha waves off Lleutrim's look so he can concentrate. She really does not look injured and those hands probably aren't even real. (They are) She tucks her hands behind her back and those little wolf ears twitch slightly as she leans forward, watching
Erin quietly wtches with interested as the rite is taking effect, this is the first time she has had to be "cleaned" well no wait there was another time never mind but she is very quiet.
Magnus watches as the tools of the Rite are gathered and the Rite is started. He too feels the adrenaline slowly seeping out of his body now that they are being cleared and alive. He shakes his head to clear it and then, without shifting, starts to howl. By howl I mean scream in rage and fury as is the Get way.
If necessary, Jake makes himself available to help with the rite in case Lleu and Ryla need assistance. Once the cleansing seems to be complete, he double checks to make sure everyone is, indeed, clear of taint.
When Magnus screams it causes Erin to give a little jump and she blows some air. She waits till someone says they can move before she moves to take a seat somewhere.
Journey looks over as Magnus screams and waits for the final post cleansing sniff to move.
Nascha blinks, just once. Eh, Get of Fenris. They do that. They're noisy.
Ryla concentrates on the Rite, and even with Magnus screaming, she does not miss a beat. I mean, she hears Eagle, and others, not Get, but still. She is a therapist and has heard it all.
When it is all done, Lleu shifts back to homid and carefully pours the rest of the water from the Caern over the salt circle and brushes it away with a bare foot to obscure what was done here. "Should be good now." He then puts his few things back in the rucksack and grabs his shirt to pull it back on.
"Defiant Storm'rhya, good evening." Lleu looks back to the tired others, then to Nascha, looking her over top to bottom. The Galliard grins, "You seem to have sprouted wolf ears. What have you been up to?" He'd give her a hug but Nascha seems to be filthy, "Do you also need to be cleansed, Nascha?" (repose for Nascha)
Journey looks up once the Rite has completed and pulls himself up, "Okay works for me, yes." He sighs and looks over to Nascha then back to the House
Jake even double checks that there's no more taint then he glances from face to gore splattered face. "Some of you might want to use the showers inside. Or I could just hose you off here. A word to the wise...don't go home to your significant other looking like that."
"I'm fine. I don't need to be cleansed. I'm just stuck. It will pass." Like, she really doesn't seem worried about this. Her only regret is having to roll up on the scene like this.
Magnus is Get, he's loud, he doesn't apologize for the scream and just looks around happy once the taint is gone. "We're clear?" he asks for confirmation before slapping his hands, "Okay, going to go and work on a few of the kinfolk meself after I shower quickly. A little cold water will be just what te body needs to perk back up." Yeah, like he needs perking.
Erin gives Jake a little wave when they can walk away from the circle. She settles down and looks a little thoughtful.
Lleutrim gives Nascha a look, "You are /stuck/ that way? How'd you get that way in the first place?" There's a smirk, "I think it's kind of cute." The Fianna leans back and looks to see if Nascha also has a wolf's tail - please say yes! Now he knows she isn't tainted, Lleu chuckles at what Jake says and puts an arm around Nascha's shoulders to give her a half hug, "You are full of surprises."
After a second or two, Lleu adds low, "By the way, Faith and I learned the sex of the baby. We are going to have a girl." Yep, nice big sappy Daddy-to-be smile.
Journey nods to Lleu and rises, "Okay I'm going to go home and rest for a bit.
Ryla nods to Jake, although she has no one to go home to, her house will be better without that mess. "If I may ask, Nascha, who's blood is that? Or perhaps what?" She grins hearing from Lleu. "A girl! Congratulations!"
Erin smiles at Lleu "That is awesome, congrats!! " she pets the panther with her..
Jake grins at Lleu. "A girl? Well, congratulations! That's great news." He waves back to Erin and nods to Journey. "If you need anything let me know." He considers a moment. "Well, this goes without saying but I'm very pleased there were no casualties. I look forward to getting a complete run down on what happened."
Magnus was on his way into the showers, going from half naked to fully naked when he hears a few people say something about a girl and congratulations. He blinks and hangs out from the door of the bathroom...naked...notes who they are speaking with, and asks, "Did Battle-Singer-rhya say something about having a girl? Congrats to ye and yers!" He then goes and takes a shower.
"Thank you, all of you." Lleutrim says low to the several congratulations, "Not born yet. She's due around mid-October. Looking forward to it." Yep, Nascha's covered and blood, "Maybe you should go get cleaned up first and tell me later. I'd like to hear about it though."
Once all of the cleansing rite materials are repacked, Lleu shoulders the ruck and heads for his bike to secure it. Seems he's heading out, "Have a good one, all." Jacket shrugged back on, helmet, he steps astride and fires it up to head home. Or somewhere.
A large owl comes flying through the woods flaping silently onsoft feathered wings. She passes overhead once, circles and then lands away off in the woods. A few moment later after some rustling noises River walks out adjusting her sundress and backpack as her bare feets gingerly step around rocks and twigs.
Ryla is glad that the cleansing is over, and as Lleu and others leave, she grabs the bag with the BSD head in it, and then opens that moon bridge again. "Time to go pay Eagle. have a great night!" She steps across the moon bridge and on out.
Magnus comes back out of the shower, naked, and shouts, "Hey, where'd me clothes go?" One of the kinfolk notes that they were taken to go get washed and Magnus shrugs at that. He is pointed towards a pantry for clothes and grabs a pair of sweat pants that are waaaay too small for him, but it's all good. He looks back at the flury of activity as the others go back to their daily lives...but the Theurges, nope, still have work to do. He claps his hands and says, "Okay, okay, who's ready to be cleansed?" He mutters under his breath, "Shite, need me supplies."
River would do a spit take at this point if she were drinking as she gets that I want to laugh but I swallowed the laugh down look on her face as she says "Contex, Contex!" as she looks to the naked man.
Magnus blinks as River starts saying 'context' to him over and over (or one over anyway). "Oh, eh, Magnus Nilsen, Bloodied Spirit Walker, Junge Godi of te Get of Fenris, Alpha of Baldur's Blade Pack....oh right, sorry, bit Wodin-brained at te moment." He centers himself and then does one of those two hands pumped downwards at the same time to gain focus, "Right, well, there are several kinfolk that were kidnapped by a Hive of Black Spiral Dancers about 3 hours from here. We just jumped from te hive over a moon bridge...most likely will have to go back and take care of te spiritual side of that hive, but the BSD on this side of te Gauntlet were all drowned thankees to Shaderunner-rhya." He takes a deep breath after that and adds, "I have to perform te Rite of Cleansing on te kinfolk now that we all were cleansed. Looks like te others have all left and gone home though. Iffn ye aren't doing anything, I could use some help. Kin ye get me some willow branches, some pure water from te caern, and a knife or any sharp object really will do?"
Erin stands up and dust herself a little bit as she looks to Magnus "Good to properly meet you.. I'm Erin Harrison, Kin and Mate to Chuck Harrison of Mother Ananasi. I am also related to the Fae" River looks to magnus and says "Is there any way I can help? I’ve had some medical training and I am an expert at healing talens."
Magnus forgets Erin was over there and he throws a wave her way, "Oh, aye, Junge is Cliath and Godi is Theurge for ye non-Get." Yup, the Get are special and have their own special names for everything. Anyway, "The kinfolk weren't hurt physically, least nothing that hasn't already been treated for. Just need help with getting some willow brances and pure water from te caern..." but it is almost as he says it again that a kinfolk is running up to him with them. He grins at that, "What is yer name?" he asks of River. To Erin, he calls out, "What is a Fae? Think ye kin start a fire and get these willow brances smoking, but not fully on fire please?" To River he asks, "Think ye kin draw a circle for me?"
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River rolls Manipulation + Occult vs 3 for 7 successes.
+4 +4 +4 +5 +9 +10 +10
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River rolls Manipulation + Occult vs 3 for 6 successes.
2 +5 +6 +7 +9 +9 +10
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<OOC> River says, "yes it’s going to stick. Doing it as a ritual so I can get the -2 diff effect and HOLD the circle/light show untill you do your rite.:P"
River smiles and says "Im River, River Salama, Kinfolk of the Bubasti." She then closes her eyes and then waves her hands and pointes around her. The light is visible as she draws in the air an inch off the ground a circle of light, as she makes your circle AND channels the magical innate earth energies in the area into making it easyer to perform rites. Seems she left out the tital of Hedge mage.
You lose one Willpower <---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======---> Magnus rolls Perception(2) + Occult(2) (4 dice) vs 6 for 3 successes. 5 +6 +9 +10 <-------------=============++++++++++++++++++++++++=============------------->
Erin nods to Magnus "Sure" she goes to start a fire and what Magnus asked of her "Just think Fairy's" she says softly before she coninues doing what she was asked to do
Mora comes out of a shimer of light but can be seen about 30 feet away from the group "River showing off, but she is one to know I trust. Well except for the cookies I made for some reason she likes them." gives a shrug of her shoulder and a who knew look.
Magnus watches as River does her parlor trick and gives a faint line of light in a circle and raises one eyebrow like the Rock used to do. He calls over the kinfolk who are guarding the other kinfolk that were rescued saying, "Bring those who need cleansing here please." And they come. As they are brought over, Magnus holds out a hand for them to hold for a moment. He reaches out with his spiritual senses and scans the area...yup, kinfolk tainted, circle and River not. "Okay okay, please step into te circle." Magnus looks over to Erin, "Fairy? Yer gonna have to explain more." Oh, the Norse have plenty of fairies, but that isn't the world he'd use for them. He grins and looks up as Mora comes in. "Hey Mora...was just about to perform te Rite of Cleansing on these kinfolk." He waits until the willow branches are smoking to start the rite.
You lose one Willpower <---======##====================[ Dice Roll ]=====================##======---> Magnus rolls Charisma(2) + Rituals(3) (5 dice) vs 4 for 3 successes. 2 3 +5 +7 +8 <-------------=============++++++++++++++++++++++++=============------------->
Mora nods "You do the rite and I will help you preform it." She takes her place and lets him to take the lead.
Looking back as she gets the fire started liked asked. Erin looks to Magnus "Things of dreams.. Dragon,s Fairies oh my" she snickers a little bit.
Magnus nods to Mora and picks up the willow branches as they start smoking. He begins walking around the circle of kinfolk in a counter-clockwise position, speaking in Old Norse if anyone knows it and talking about great battles and glorious death and being taken to Heimhalla...basically spiritual cleansing stuff (for a Get anyway). As he speaks, the smoldering willow is waved around each inhabitant of the circle. Once done, he dips the willow branches in the purified caern water and starts sprinkling the water from the branches onto each tainted kinfolk as well. Once he's walked the circle wideershins again he says, "Scream or howl with me if ye will to get that taint all off ye." And so Magnus lets out a massive scream again. The kinfolk in the circle do too, but they are tired so it isn't as loud as Magnus would have liked...but it is still good. The Rite works. It works quite well in fact. It works so well that Magnus eyes the shining light and then River and nods. "I din know what ye did, but I felt me spiritual energies flowing more freely there than normal." He checks them again for wyrm taint before letting them go, and nods. "Do nae go far. Guardian kinfolk, please stay with them until a Philodox Elder meets with them and interviews them. Keep them in the kinfolk house please." He smiles to the rescuees, claps, and says, "Thankee for yer patience in these matters. We are as eager to get ye on yer way as ye are to yerselves. Please enjoy yer stay and feel free to ask yer guides for whatever ye need." With that done, he looks over at Erin and plops down next to her...stoking the fire a bit dreamily. "Dreams? Dragons? Oh, like te High Elves, low dwarves, and Ice Giants of te Old Norse myths? Alfar, Dvergar, and Jotnar," he states firmly with a head nod.
River lets the magic end and smiles as she says "I just aligned the energies to make things easyer, it’s a small magic, not nearly as hard as permenantly altering the flow of energy."
Erin looking thoughtful to Magnus and shrugs "Sure, we can go with that" she smiles
Mora smiles to Magnus "Good work there."
Magnus listens to River and looks impressed, "Ye kin permanently make te energies...aligned...like that? To make Ritual casting easier that is?" He looks to Mora with a head-nod. Back to Erin, "Iffn there is more, I'd be interested to hear about it at some point in time. Ye did good today by te way. We appreciate yer help, or I do at least." He looks back to River, "And same to ye with yer help just now."
Looking at Magnus and nods "Thanks.. I didn't do much though" Erin smiles "But your welcome" she sagely nods "You did really awesome kicking ass like you did. I'm just sorry we didn't get to destory the place"
River smiles and ndos "Oh yes, it’s not all that hard as I make it out to be." She grins and says "Iv been able to see the fae folk since birth, I was born with the sight."
Magnus smirks. "Oh, te fight isn't over. Journey-rhya may have killed those who were on our side of te gauntlet, but there are still most likely many banes and Wyrm broodlings that will need to be destroyed on te spiritual side. We will go back in numbers for that though. There will likely be other Black Spiral Dancers who weren't at their lair while we were there. Multiple packs versus one pack makes a difference." He closes his eyes and says a little prayer under his breath...you might hear Black Unicorn mentioned briefly if you listen closely, "Me skills are only what they are because of me pack's Totem. We were lucky to have Journey-rhya with us. I hope to get stronger like him some day." There is reverence there when Magnus speaks of Journey. He is impressed by him. To Mora he gives another nod, "Very scary...but awesome." Lastly to River, he focuses and hmms, "Perhaps ye kin come by me pack house at some point. We'd be interested in something like that iffn ye are willing to trade yer skills for some of our own...or a favor..." He smiles and then hmms..."Fae folk...would love to learn more for sure."
River smiles and walks over to Hug Mora as she says "Hey you."
River looks to mags and smiles "I dont sell magic, but I will help you out. It’s bad karma to accept payment for doing the job assigned to you by Luna."
Mora hugs River "Her items are pretty great; I have two of them and I love this one." she holds up a pendent "People dont pay much notice to me when I am in a big crowed area."
Erin nods "I knew Journey was awesome, today just over totally beyon how awesome I thought" she sagely nods then smiles at Mags "A lot of people would" she rocks on her heels a little bit
Magnus lets out a huge yawn and looks to the others, "Sorry, but I must really be going. It's been a long day." And with that, his head leans forward and he is out cold...not snoring (yet at any rate). Yup, just pretend Magnus isn't there, he's asleep.
