2019.11.12: Warehouse Surprise

Warehouse Surprise
Brooke invites Dominic to join her and Atloe to check out an old Warehouse near the Tech Haven.
IC Date	November 12th, 2019
Players	Atloe, Brooke ST, Dominic
Location	Downtown
Spheres	Gaian, Garou, Kinfolk

xxxxxThe City. A dirty place in general. The blocks around the Community Garden on Ash Street though are in a resurgence! The old theater - the classiest place in its day nearly a century ago has new ownership, and at least around the outside is beginning to change. There is a new park for the community where an old parking lot was. New businesses are coming in and cleaning up, and new energies abound. But there is still obvious signs of decay, rot, and pestilence. It is taking months and months, but things are getting better - one warehouse/building at a time.

This afternoon, Brooke has asked her mate to come with her, and asked Dominic to join them. She always wants at least one or two others with them as they check out these buildings and go about finding out what their status is. They meet up just across the street from this one.

Atloe was of course, dressed up like he does. This is an official business situation, so that suit and tie is what he's in. Most people tend to ignore him completely. Like he's not there at all. Before he'd get out of the car, he did check that gun, Just to be sure, then gets out with Brooke to wait next to her, looking about casually while waiting for this Silver Fang to show up.

Dominic dresses...well, like Dominic dresses. A hoodie that isn't worn like a bag, emblazoned with UC Prospect across the front like he might actually attend the university. But baggy enough that something fun might be underneath it. Fun as in a stabbing implement. And jeans.

A car pulls up and lets Dominic out, because Uber is a fun way to get around the city even when you're heading to what you think might end up a fight. Maybe. He'll pop out and fiddle at his phone as he walks the remaining 50 feet or so to the meeting spot. Looking up and casting gaze towards Atloe and Brooke. "So. I assume we aren't here to throw rocks at windows?"

Brooke shakes her head, "No rock throwing. It is daytime, but dusk is within a couple of hours. We need to get inside, check it out and see what needs to be done. The building is obviously in disrepair, but I'm worried about what could be lurking inside. So we go in, prepared to get eyes on it, check for taint, and make sure it is clear for the crews that will be coming in to strip it down to the bones and rebuild. So when you are ready for that, we go in."

Atloe smiles warmly to Brooke, nodding a little. He looks over to Dominic, studying him for a moment before finally speaking quietly. "So if wanted, I could mentally link us.. It helps with keeping quiet. But it'll be distracting for me.." He shakes his head slowly. "I won't do it unless you're ok with that mental connection."

"If you want to, I can. I've got a bit of a cluttered mind though, so I am sure that I will be distracting." An actual glance towards their objective happens now, Dominic staring at the threadbare building that needs far more than just a coat of paint. "I've got nothing secrety in my brain of late. So I'm fine. We're just checking for Wyrmy badness and unwanted guests. Things can go sideways pretty easy though....Its really up to you."

Brooke lets them work that out, and leads them over toward the warehouse. "I've got a key to get in, so no need to break in. But once I open the door, be prepared at least for nasty smells. We check around and see what we find." She takes a moment to unlock it, and get through the high tech security (a chain).

xxxxxThe door is loud as it opens. Creaking and whining. So much for stealth. A spider web is attached to the inside of it, and a fine mist of dust can barely be seen in the air. It is dark at first, but one can see the light from the side windows coming through - although somewhat blocked by graffiti and dirt on the single paned glass.

Atloe nods slightly, following after Brooke as she would lead on. He winces at that creak, then sighs softly, stepping back so as to not get caught by any nasty smell that might come out. Taking a moment to focus himself, Atloe would do a small hand seal, concentrating as he would reach out for Dominic and Brooke mentally, to establish that connection.

Nasty smells are par for the course for down and dirty unoccupied places. Enough homeless in the city that this place probably has or had plenty of squatters. WORSE smells if those squatters are bad juju. Dominic follows after Brooke enters, letting her look for actual attackers while he instead seeks a sense of taint of the place, eyes narrowing and mystical senses opening wide.

xxxxxOnce inside, they can feel and hear the crunch under their feet. This place is nasty and filled with garbage and debris. A rat skirts around in a corner, but otherwise the silence is foreboding. Almost like it is unreal. Every so often the breeze picks up and something creaks and groans. The Garou's noses burn, the taint of the Wyrm in here is strong and obviously coming from somewhere a bit further inside.

Brooke cautions, "Keep your eyes open. It is daytime, but who knows what could come out when the sun goes down." Which is not too long from now. She signals for them to keep their eyes peeled and together as they go inside closer. Soon they come upon a stairway, and a freight elevator. "Whatever is the center of this, it is probably in the basement. Which is unusual in itself here in California. It could lead to the sewers, which we know is tainted as well. So eyes open - senses up."

After those few minutes of trying to connect, Atloe frowns, then shakes his head, abandoning the attempt. He steps in with the others, glancing back at the door, then a look to Brooke and nods as he would keep alert as he can. That gun is quietly pulled from inside his jacket and he keeps it low key and close to his side. Considering what he has, that'd make it easy to simply not notice he's armed.

"Its rancid with Wyrm taint here." Only the barest brushes of mental contact between the group registers on Dominic, but he doesn't make mention of Atloe's success or failure in the attempt. His weapon, a fang dagger, is withdrawn from the small of his back and seems brilliant white in relation to the muck of the warehouse. "I guess we'll go find out, huh? The sewers around here are /awful/, I've gotta agree." He is right handed and the weapon is kept low as he follows Brooke along. "I trust the stairs a lot better than that elevator."

Brooke nods in agreement. "Follow me." She takes it a step at a time down the stairs. Not wanting to touch anything in here right now, having sensed the Wyrm concentration from this direction. Slowly, silently she steps. So much cleansing will be needed to be done. "Prepare yourself. Thankfully, veil should be intact."

xxxxxThe stairs go down 8 steps to a landing, and then they can see around the bend the last set of 8. While there is a faint bit of light coming down from the stairs and elevator.

At this point Brooke will activate her cybersenses so she can see infrared now. Scanning for heat signatures, she points out where there are some rats and other vermin around. Something unusually large too. Just around the corner. She keeps to just signals since she does not wish to spook it.

Atloe pauses a moment, stari ng at the elevator, then frowns. He shakes his head and hurries to catch up after the other two. His voice is low, quiet so as to not give away their position. "Elevator works. Low power. It's locked to first floor. It won't move." At Brooke's signal, he simply nods, staying a few steps up, so he can lean over the edge of that upper stairwell to get a line of sight on the lower area but with cover.

Stairs are so much better than a rickety elevator to Dom, and he is happy enough to take to the stairs. Careful steps carry him towards the stairs between Brooke and Atloe. "Well then it won't be too much help.." A few exploratory sniffs to torture himself as they stop at the stairs landing. A cautious look himself won't yield much to his unheightened senses. He waits now, silent from the hand motion.

xxxxx"Reee! Reeee! Reeeeeee!!" screeching begins. Perhaps their body heat? Perhaps the sound of them moving. Either way, the whatever it is that Brooke signaled about is like a centurion, letting whatever else is here know that they have 'guests'. This leads to the sounds of other movement, unrecognizable, but if they are looking - little dots of glowing eyes appear.

Brooke shifts herself to Hispo, her form of choice when the danger is unknown here. But it is real. And it is Wyrmy.

Hushed Blaze moves that step toward the ROUS coming toward her, that screechy one that alerted the others. Her jaws open and she RIPS into the hide, tearing into the flesh and shaking her head to just mutilate and dismember it. Guts flying, the thing squeals it's final death moan, and collapses. What is left rolls down the stairs and lands with a thud on the floor.

Atloe watches as Brooke and Dominic change into that war form. Him? He simply keeps back, keeping quiet. That gun comes up in a very standard shooting stance and he sights on the 3rd one. He's waiting for a good shot, prepared to back up the other two when he can get it.

Dominic absolutely did not go down the stairs. It is dark down there, not at all going to go down there. But now Brooke has dismantled that monstrosity...and Dom decides to get set up to charge down the stairs.

Atloe's eyes narrow in concentration. Lips thinning as that animal tried to bite at Brooke in passing, he grits his teeth and there's the moment. That silenced pistol isn't as loud as it would be, but the shot is certainly as painful as it would be, managing to tag the beast in the shoulder with the shot.

Hushed Blaze is done with this first ROUS and she leaps past the second and third one, down the stairs so she can use her senses to let them know if there is anything else here. Light is leaving for the rest of them, but she see the signs she has seen before. >> Dispose of those! They are tainted! We got worse down here! << She snarls as she sees just what she did not want to find.

Dominic meets that ROUS that is coming up the stairs midway down the steps. Meets it with a dagger that sinks deep center mass into the beastly thing! They tumble and move sideways against the concrete wall. Thankfully so that Atloe doesn't shoot him. "No! Don't eat me!" Chompy teeth get shoved back.

Hushed Blaze has obviously found something. Until you all can get down there, you wouldn't know. The roar from her shifting to Crinos is a great and reverberates through the room and up the stairs.

xxxxxThe ROUS' left are hurting something bad. The one left alive is still trying but he manages more to slobber than anything.

Atloe took a step down the step as the melee erupted in that stairwell. Watching Dom having to deal with both beasts, he reads that switch Dominic does for targets and his heavy pistol switches tot he other, snapping a shot off that tags it's chest, Atloe's shot knocks it down and it doesn't get back up. His attention returns to the last one he can see at least.

Loud noises go bang! Dom cleanly misses the next attempt to stab the monstrous ROUS trying to chomp his arm off, turning it as his skin resists the bite. Then another attempt is made to pry the thing off of him by stabbing once more!

The unseen monster Hushed Blaze has found in the basement is not having any of this disruption! It attacks and wounds her, causing her to cry out in pain! But being the tough Elder she is, Hushed Blaze rawrs back her defiance and activates the ultimate weapon here. She tosses the fetish up in the air and it flies up and begins to spin. Spinning, spinning, spinning it brightens and lights up until suddenly the bright glow of the sun is bursting throughout the room, and up the stairs even! Horrific cries are heard and the smell of burning... horrible rancid burning and smoke, and soon all that is left is a pile of ash in front of her.

Dominic flings the ROUS across the stairwell against the railing, and follows across to jam his fang dagger up into the chest of the monstrous beastie! Ichor spray, strangled cries of pain and death as the ROUS shivers. THEN BRIGHT LIGHT has Dom squinting.

xxxxxNow with the threats eliminated, it is time to clean up. While Atloe goes to get some extra equipment from the car they came in, Dominic reaches Brooke and heals her of her wounds. With help from the extra equipment, they are able to get cleansed, and together the Garou cleanse the warehouse. It is a long process, but the taint of the Wyrm is neutralized. Now, the real clean up can begin to turn this place into really something.