2023.05.23:Irsa Meets Beanie, Kaz finds a teacher

Irsa Meets Beanie, Kaz finds a teacher
Kaz meets Irsa to ask for rite teaching, Irsa makes a new rat friend.
IC Date	May 23, 2023
IC Time	Evening
Players	Jackie, Kaz, Irsa, Iris
Location	Sept of the Enduring Spirit
Spheres	Garou

5/23/2023 18:09:51 Another Crescent Moon, and the sept's theurges are either busy with various tasks or snapping people's heads off, carried away by the pull of their auspice moon. Irsa approaches the area from the Ritual Clearing, brows knit together in mingled concern and annoyance as she takes a seat near the cookfires. It's been a long day, she's tired and hungry, and a bowl of rabbit stew would go down nicely right now.

5/23/2023 18:18:22 Jackie has been pacing about the area for a while a bit aimlessly, and steers herself over towards Irsa at her appearance. "Hey there! How's it going?" She stops nearby ands gets a closer look before adding, "Wow, that bad, huh?"

5/23/2023 18:25:24 Kaz enters the chamber after patrolling the Caern grounds. He rolls his shoulders a few times, still not used to human beds and their softness. Spotting Jackie, the get kin he'd met two nights earlier, he approaches with an eagerness to his stride. He turns and obviously sizes up the large woman near her. He'd seen her the other night as well.
5/23/2023 18:25:24 "Jackie, kin of Get, I am prepared to take your ride to meet your theurge. My promise to not shit in your car still stands." He says the last with all seriousness.

5/23/2023 18:27:48 Irsa is rubbing her temples when she looks up at her packmate. "Naw, could be worse," she admits. "Just folks gettin' on every last nerve. Like, th' fuckin' moon is right there. Ya don't play th' fool and go runnin' to theurges with the stupidest questions. Like, 'Hey, I wanna trade my favorite song on I-Pod to a bear spirit in exchange for a Gift, would that be cool?' Like, motherfucker, did ya pay th' least bit of attention in Cub class?" She grumbles under her breath as she snatches up a spoon and digs into her meal just as Kaz arrives. She eyes him curiously, looking between Kaz and Jackie.

5/23/2023 18:35:07 Jackie facepalms at Kaz's words, suddenly looking guilty under Irsa's gaze. Then she turns away from Irsa to face him. "Yeah, uh... about that... Anyway, this is her right here. You might want to let her get at least a bowl down before asking her anything right now though. So let's hold off on formal introductions for just a minute..."
5/23/2023 18:35:07 She turns back around towards Irsa, nodding back at Kaz. "I'll explain after you've taken the edge off."

5/23/2023 18:42:59 Kaz grunts and nods knowing how it is to bother any Garou when they are hungry. "Very well." He glances at the bowl of rabbit stew and crosses his arms as he begins debating getting a bowl for himself or not.

5/23/2023 18:46:22 Irsa does just that, polishing off her food fairly quickly. No fine manners here, those are for humans and Silver Fangs. "I'm one of th' theurges," she remarks. She has a deep, gruff voice, but she's not unfriendly as she looks Kaz up and down. "Best get it while it's hot," she advises the pair. "And then gimme your name when you're done, and tell me why ya wanted t' meet," she adds.

5/23/2023 18:52:02 Jackie steps aside to clear the way for Kaz to top off his food tank, then fills Irsa in. "The Denfather wanted me to bring him to meet you, he's new in the sept and needs to learn some rites."

5/23/2023 18:58:45 Kaz steps forward and grabs a bowl of the stew. He downs it quickly only slowed down slightly by his inexperience with using utensils. He nods at Jackie's words and turns to Irsa. "I am Kaz, wolf born Ahroun and Cliath of the Shadowlords. The rule of George states that I need to learn two more rites. Denfather said that you could aid me with this."

5/23/2023 19:00:55 "Where'd th' Denfather ask ya t' bring him, Dead Mall? Or did he just leave that open?" Irsa asks Jackie. She listens to Kaz's introduction and nods. "Irsa Rawlins, Hammer-Tooth, two-legged Crescent Moon, Adren, Leader of the Bone Gnawer Tribe, and th' Alpha of the Mistseekers pack, chosen by Fog. Just Kaz, huh? Ya ain't got a Rite-Name? And what rites d'ya know now?"

5/23/2023 19:05:27 Jackie gives Irsa a small shrug, but a bigger apologetic smile. "It was more of a who, than a where. To be fair, he did say 'my pack's theurge', but I'm pretty sure he meant you and not Rhapsody."

5/23/2023 19:09:09 Kaz grunts and belches. "Apologies Adren-rhya. Cooked food..." he shakes his head and grunts. "I am known as Throatcrusher by Rite. I know the Rite of Talisman Dedication. To comply with George's law I must learn the Rite of Cleansing and the Rite of Contrition."

5/23/2023 19:14:44 Irsa's expression flickers between irritation and anger. "Sounds like we need t' post a list of our members, if he can't remember 'em. All good. Don't expect it'll happen again, but if it does? Dead Mall, always." She listen to Kaz and grunts. "Hammer-Tooth'rhya, if ya gotta. Irsa, if we're out among humans. Some of th' Elders here get testy 'bout names an' titles. Me or Protector-of-Hope can get ya started on those rites. She's the mystic for our pack." She looks back at Jackie. "George's law? Thought that came down direct from Journey."

5/23/2023 19:22:46 Jackie looks raises her hand in a motion of surrender towards Irsa. "I'm not really the one to ask about that, I can't even learn to do them. Either way, those are right ones, right?"

5/23/2023 19:24:29 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "Yo, Rhapsody. New Shadow Lord's in town. Not Guillermo, another one. This one wolf-born, an ahroun. He's been told ta learn a couple Rites by Bryan. Did ya know I was th' theurge of th' pack? Wild."

5/23/2023 19:32:48 Irsa is sitting near the cook-fires, with an empty stew bowl in her lap. She's talking to Jackie and Kaz, looking slightly irritated by the pull of the moon. Her dark olive-green pack is resting a few feet away from her, propped up against a log. The top flap of the thing is bulging outward, as if something is poking at it from the inside. "I can teach ya Cleansing. You'll need that sooner than Contrition, for sure," Irsa remarks to Kaz.

5/23/2023 19:33:57 Mercy comes from the direction of the catacombs, plodding slowly and yawning a nice, jaw cracking yawn into her hand. The kind that makes you stop moving because you'll definitely run into something or fall over if you don't. She shakes her head vigorously once the yawning fit passes, shoves her glasses up the bridge of her nose and flicks her dreadlocks back over her shoulder before carrying on, and altering course to head towards faces both familiar and not. "Hellooooo!" she calls towards Irsa, Kaz and Jackie.

5/23/2023 19:35:32 <Mistseekers> Rhapsody says, "OOC: I did not see anything before Jackies. My net has been so wonky lately."

5/23/2023 19:35:57 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "Yo, Rhapsody. New Shadow Lord's in town. Not Guillermo, another one. This one wolf-born, an ahroun. He's been told ta learn a couple Rites by Bryan. Did ya know I was th' theurge of th' pack? Wild."

5/23/2023 19:37:16 Kaz 's eyes flick between Jackie and Irsa as they talk before settling on the larger woman. "Very well, Hammer-Tooh'rhya. The law I have heard comes from the elder named George. I do not know Journey."
5/23/2023 19:37:16 He glances at Mercy as she comes in and bows in thanks to Irsa when she says she will teach him one of the rites. "Thank you. What is it you would want of me in return?"

5/23/2023 19:38:26 <Mistseekers> Rhapsody says, "Hey... I thought I saw a new guy coming in the other night. Technically, dear, you are a Theurge."

5/23/2023 19:38:47 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "Yeah, I just ain't THE theurge."

5/23/2023 19:41:27 <Mistseekers> Rhapsody says, "It figures thought that someone new wouldn't know that."

5/23/2023 19:43:05 Jackie lets out a small snicker at something that wasn't said, then tries to replace the grin with a more somber expression before Irsa catches it. Then she steps off to the side to let Kaz and Mercy do their introductions without being in the way, which incidentally also gets her out of Irsa's line of sight for at least a moment.

5/23/2023 19:43:35 Irsa's pack starts moving a little more vigorously as Mercy draws near. Perhaps the pack's concerned she'll trip over it, or worried about a surprise attack, or even about to launch an ambush of its own. Who knows what carrying objects even think? Irsa thinks over Kaz's words for a few moments. "Y' said you're wolf born. I need ya t' bring some game here, t' add to the cookfires. Not now, but before th' moon turns again."

5/23/2023 19:44:55 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "Man, this moon is makin' me testy today. I'm gonna try t' fix that with chocolate. Jackie, ya want some?"

5/23/2023 19:48:58 Mercy flops down beside Irsa in a not at all graceful way and leans on her. "Irsa." she says, "Your backpack's flirting with me again. I tried to let it down easily last time, I'm a married woman! How's this going to look to the rest of the sept, you know? Backpacks in mad, crazy love do mad, crazy things, rumors are gonna start, and I cant get manipulated into an affair with a piece of hiking equipment. Not again. Not after last time." She waves at Jackie with a smile, and then spreads that on over to Kaz. "Hey, buddy." she says in greeting to the new guy.

5/23/2023 19:54:46 <Mistseekers> Jackie says, "OOC: Mechanically it raises the difficulty of frenzy by 2. Thematically it gives an aura of peace over the user and those they touch. How closely does that line up with the rage issues from moon phase?"

5/23/2023 19:55:09 Kaz quirks an eyebrow at the moving pack. "It will be done," he replies confidently to Irsa. His eyebrow rises again at the odd talk coming from Mercy. After she addresses him he bows to her as well. "I am known as Kaz. Cliath Wolf born Ahroun of the Shadowlords. Named Throatcrusher by Rite." He glances at Irsa having made sure to not make the same mistake twice in introductions.

5/23/2023 19:55:19 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "OOC: Oh, derp! I forgot that was a thing. I mean, it couldn't hurt."

5/23/2023 19:59:30 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "OOC: That and chocolate? No one's frenzing today! :P"

5/23/2023 19:59:47 <Mistseekers> Jackie says, "Actually Iris, I may have something better than chocolate. Well, not in general maybe, but for this it may take a lot of the edge off. It's a gift I learned from Unicorn that may soothe you down a bit. Should I try it?"

5/23/2023 20:00:46 <Mistseekers> Irsa says, "I'll ask Iris an' see. Naw, I kid, I know who ya mean. Sure, won't hurt none."

5/23/2023 20:04:38 Jackie slips back around Kaz toward Irsa and stands to her side. She closes her eyes for a moment and places her hand over her heart, and it gets very still around her for a moment. Then she reaches out her hand and places it on Irsa's shoulder, waiting a second more before opening one eye to see if it worked as hoped.

5/23/2023 20:07:42 Irsa relaxes as Jackie touches her, the irritation from the moon melting away. "That's better, thanks," she says. She begins to shift as Mercy flops against her, just in time for the leaning woman to get a huge swipe of a dire wolf's tongue across the side of her head. All that slobber is going to terrible things to those dreads. Jackie isn't saved, either, she's also getting wolf affection. >> That is right, << she growls at Kaz, juuust as Mercy's words sink in. >> My hide thing is what? << she asks, both ears swivelling forward. Her pack is moving in a short, jilted hop towards theurges.

5/23/2023 20:07:54 Bones snap and break, elongating and warping into a new form. Irsa becomes an enormous wolf.

5/23/2023 20:10:02 "Ugh, thanks." Mercy snerks while wiping wolf slobber off her face. She helpfully doesn't elaborate on the backpack though. "Oooh, that's a very Ahroun-ish name, love it." Mercy tells Kaz, not teasing at all, she's being honest about its coolness. But then she siiiiighs and flops herself upright again, "Okay, big girl introduction, you can do it." she tells herself quietly. She takes a deep breath to fuel the crap ton of words to follow. "Hello! I'm Iris Tiganites, named by rite Mercy's Messenger, elder Theurge of the Black Furies, named by deed OH GOD NO DON'T DO IT!, priestess of the Temple of Artemis, world walking tour guide, and Captain of the Good Ship Lollypop or whatever we're calling it this week. Also! Mother of Pink Floyd Tiganites, metis Galliard cub of the Black Furies, wife of Branton Kholer, a klaive smith and fire shaman kinfolk of the Black Furies. AND THEN ALSO current leader of Pluto's Pitch Perfect Porcupines Pack in service to Meros. *Fuck me* did I get it all?" she asks the other ladies just in case there's anything completely obvious that she forgot to mention. "Any how great to meet you, Kaz, I hope you'll make a good home here and have a lotta fun murdering monsters!"

5/23/2023 20:14:09 <Mistseekers> Jackie says, "OOC: BTW, I have now type Iris instead of Irsa two more times. It's in my head!!!!!"

5/23/2023 20:20:21 Kaz stands up a little straighter at the compliment on his name. He can't keep his eyes widen at mostly honorable but sheer strangeness of her greeting keeps going on and on. He rocks back on his heels as the weight of it finally subsides and bows again to Mercy but a little deeper this time. "Your name has much to it. I hope mine gains as much honor as yours some day. I am told that the name Kaz means destroyer of peace to the slavic people."

5/23/2023 20:25:09 Jackie groans and recoils as she's victimized by the slobber monster, too slow. She yechs quietly and wipes her face, shaking drool from her fingers as Mercy does her introduction like an Energizer bunny. She even has time to wipe her hands off on her jeans before the end. With a modicum of dignity restored, she turns back to Kaz once the official business is concluded. "So, do you still need that ride into town? Or are you settling in out here?"

5/23/2023 20:27:03 Enormous Wolf's nostrils flare as she steps towards her pack. She doesn't sense anything dangerous, not a surprise since they're in the heart of the caern. ~ Come out of there!~ she growls in the Spirit's Tongue. It's not long before an odd-looking rat pokes its head out and slithers completely into view. It has a strawberry Pop-Tart clasped in its grabby paws, and chirrs as it looks up at the Bone Gnawer.

5/23/2023 20:30:02 A large, impressive rat over three feet long, with a thick coat of brown fur. A swathe of white fur framed in black is splashed around its eyes and across the top of its head. It has an enormous number of long, thin, spiny whiskers that bristle in all directions around its head. The thick fur along its spine bristles upright like a thorn hedge laced with spines. The creature's golden eyes glint with fierce intelligence.
5/23/2023 20:30:02 It's also wearing a piece of watermelon as a hat, and looks absolutely fabulous.

5/23/2023 20:30:36 "Yeah, you say that *now*," Mercy tells Kaz on the matter of names. "But once you've said everything like ten times the novelty wears off and it just becomes an inconvenient tidal wave of word salad. I'd really love to stop at 'hey what's up, I'm Iris, nice to meet you'. Traditions though, whadaya gonna do." She grins at the rat with its stolen dinner and grins, but she's not getting in the middle of THAT, no ma'am! She's game to watch how this plays out though, while listening to the exchange between Jackie and Kaz.

5/23/2023 20:38:20 Kaz lets out an unintentional low growl at the large rat but like Mercy stays out of whatever was going on between Irsa and it. He turns to Jackie and replies, "Town is where the enemy is, yes? I have come to learn and fight the enemy in it's home."

5/23/2023 20:40:57 Enormous Wolf cocks her head curiously at the rat. The creature stuffs the entire Pop-Tart into its mouth, making its cheeks bulge comically for a few moments. It doesn't take long for that to vanish, as a fine grayish dust drifts from its mouth. A spirit, without a doubt. "How you guys doin!" it pipes up in a feminine voice, with the thickest Southside Chicago accent imaginable. "Thanks for the snack, Materializin takes a lotta energy. Oh hey, you GOTTA be Mercy," the rat says to the Elder, slithering up Hammer-Tooth to perch on her back.

5/23/2023 20:46:22 "Yep! Hello, you." Mercy says, and offers a finger the same way you'd offer a hand to shake when meeting someone, "Pleased to meet you." She adds to Kaz and Jackie, "There's some safe zones in the city, a craft guild of ours in the harbor district has apartments if you want a home in town that's not surrounded by humans."

5/23/2023 20:48:30 Jackie watches the appearance of the spirit with widening eyes. Of anything she might have expected to come out of that bag, this wasn't it. She looks up to Kaz, keeping out of the spirit business for now. "Alright, I'll get you there tonight. I brought the big truck today, plenty of room. We probably want to let this play out first though."

5/23/2023 20:51:57 Kaz grunts as the spirit nature of the rat is revealed. He nods to Jackie. "Yes, let the Theurges do their work." He steps away to give them plenty of room. He nods to Mercy as he watches the interaction. I must see these safe zones and the ones that are not."

5/23/2023 20:57:12 "Oh no, the pleasure is mine!" the rat spirit pipes up, grabbing hold of Mercy's finger and shaking it enthusiastically." Hammer-Tooth stares at the pair. She wasn't expecting this when she woke up this morning. "Beanie MacPosh of Shropshire, Stilton and Cheddar," the rat sniffs importantly. It curls up on the Bone Gnawers back, pulling at her fur to bunch it up into a more comfy nest for itself. "Nice. Warm."
Enormous Wolf flicks one of her scarred ears and turns to her packmate. >> The place Flat-Thing suggested is the best place. There, he can shift as long as he does not step into the ape's den itself.<<

5/23/2023 20:58:25 Enormous Wolf flicks one of her scarred ears and turns to her packmate. >> The place Flat-Thing suggested is the best place. There, he can shift as long as he does not step into the ape's den itself.<<

5/23/2023 21:02:28 "Oooooh that sounds delicious." Mercy tells the rat spirit, "Hey if you happen to know your way around a wheel of Swiss, I could really use your help with something, if you don't mind. Later, I mean, I have some questions about cheese." She takes a second to look back and forth between Dire-Irsa and the rat, and then tells the wolf, "You're being claimed." in case she wasn't aware. A nod to what Irsa says as well, "Yeah, no lupus in the park, but it's not so bad inside! Lots of craft stuff to learn if you want, only the occasional explosion or Gremlin infestation to interrupt one's sleep, lots of interesting people to meet. Hey speaking of, there's another Shadow Lord around here somewhere, Galliard, named Memo, keep an eye out if you're interested in finding some family around."

5/23/2023 21:08:13 Kaz's head raises in interest at the mention of another Shadow Lord. "I will seek them out soon. I do not know much of human ways but I know that they do not react well to wolves near their homes." He looks down at his hands. "I must learn these ways as the enemy hides in their foul smelling cities."

5/23/2023 21:09:05 "M-O-O-N, that spells 'Moon'," Beanie pipes with an enormous rat yawn. Hammer-Tooth lets out a huff at Mercy's words and noses the spirit. Some things you just don't fight, and Rats are excellent spirit companions. >> My pack's lair is not far from there, <<, she tells Kaz. >> I will visit you with the others, and when you are settled in we will tell you all about the Wyrm and Weaver in the ape's stone den. << This is clearly wolf for 'city'.

5/23/2023 21:11:39 Jackie cocks her head to the side, it taking her a few seconds to process 'Flat-Thing'. Her ah-ha moment shows on her face as she looks at Mercy, but keeps her voice down while the spirits are talking.

5/23/2023 21:18:35 Kaz's face gets somehow even more serious as he listens to Irsa in her Dire Wolf form. He nods slowly as he says, "This is good. It seems I will end up owing you more than one meal for the Caern."

5/23/2023 21:23:15 >> You will owe me nothing, << Hammer-Tooth rumbles. >> That is knowledge all wolf-blood should have, dying stupidly is not our purpose. We have teeth, and we have claws, and the Enemy will feel both when we strike from the mist. <<

5/23/2023 21:26:23 "There's some city boys around here somewhere that might be of help. Maybe." Mercy pipes up, "Glass Walker Cliaths. Maybe not your type as a Lupus or anything, but I mean if someone's gonna know city junk, it's the Walkers and the Gnawers. Jack and Mike Frog or something like that, I forget."

5/23/2023 21:33:09 >> Level Up! and For the Win, << Hammer-Tooth adds, giving the Glasswalkers' rite names. >> My Sister can introduce you to them, << she growls, bobbing her head at Jackie. >> They may be confusing at first, but they are friendly and do not cruelly mock others, as some ape no-moons do. <<

5/23/2023 21:35:32 Jackie nods up at Kaz. "Yeah, I've got their numbers- Ah, you won't have a phone, or know how to use one. Uhhh... We'll figure something out."

5/23/2023 21:42:18 Kaz bows to Irsa in gratitude. "No wolf should fight alone. I have much to learn and will use what I learn to crush the enemy." He turns to Jackie, "Show the way and I shall follow."

5/23/2023 21:43:05 Jackie nods and waves to the others and leads Kaz out past the Warder station to the awaiting metal-cave-that-moves.