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Old May 17th, 2017, 06:08 PM
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Kren couldn't help but feel bad for the girl. He was sure she must have used some magic or else things would have gotten worse. He had hoped she had some healing magic but didn't really expect it. He had already played with the rules tonight and that meant doing so again so soon could expose him more to angelic scrutiny. He didn't know the other guy or his deal. Why was he even coming.
If you two aren't up for it no one is forcing you to go. He didn't know enough to help her even if he pulled a full surgeons kit out of a ditch. He looked Dan and wondered what was up with him. Shocked maybe? He still didn't fully understand how humans thought or worked. Her I get but what's wrong with you? Shock?
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Dan kicked out the passenger window. He screamed in unfathomable agony. After a flash of silence, he let out a guttural groan as his ligaments popped and bones snapped. Blood flowed out of his unrecognizable maw. His skin peeled away from his arms leaving mucous covered claws where his hands once were. When the last bit of Dan was no more, the wolf let out a howl of relief. Finally he was born.

The beast smelled the air as though it were his first breath. He caught an enraging breeze. In an abyssal frenzy, he ripped and destroyed every thing in his reach. The changed one busted out of the vehicle and searched for the sent which made his nostrils burn. He found it — it was Keiron.

With eyes locked on the vampire, the beast's chest heaved. The wolf's instincts pulsed throughout his body. Somehow he knew that this was not hunter against prey, but two hunters. His fangs jutted out toward Keiron as he crept forward.
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Old May 18th, 2017, 02:12 AM
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"Well, I guess that answers your question." Calliope's tone is deadpan, but her face is white and tense - although that could be as much pain and blood loss as suddenly sitting next to a giant Lupine.

"Hey, Dan was it? Listen... I need you to calm down. No one is going to hurt you here, okay? We're just going ro pull over to the side of the road and let you out for a bit, give you a chance to get your bearings. Okay? That's it... hush now... " Calliope's voice is soothing as she trailsoff into calming murmurs in an unintelligible language.

oocIf you don't mind UFO, Calliope is going to try an Emotional Urging and a Composure/empathy social roll to try and calm Dan down so that he doesn't attack anyone. However, I think that using social rolls against players and forcing their characters to react accordingly is the cardinal sin of RPGs and won't do that unless you want me to. For reference, the Social roll is 6 dice, the other one is a 4 dice praxis with a High speech Rote (so 5 dice all up)
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""What is this Childlings? What kind of vampire are you guys? Is it more Underworld, Blade, Vampire's Diary or Twilight? Is there a head honcho of vampire walking among us?""

Kieron seemed to have a contemplative look for a moment as he prepared to answer. "So... pretty sparkling vampires are not a thing. Don't ever say it's a thing or I will have to hurt you." he let out a smile. "Now with that said most of it is based on truth, daylight sucks for a vampire, and while direct sunlight does not kill us instantly I would only last about twelve seconds. More powerful vampires a little longer, but not much. There are those who have ways to protect themselves, fairy blood and what not. " he joked making a reference to some of the pop vampire culture. "There are plenty of types of vampires out there, like Anne Rice explained in her novels, the older we are the more powerful we get. You don't want to mess with an ancient.
That is the problem with these Childlings they are nothing but a bunch of newborn babes trying to overthrow their parents. The entire concept is insane."


Suddenly Kieron was interrupted with the sound of a window crashing. "What was that?" looking back at Dan. Immediately he got out of the car and made his way around. "No... no,
it can't be..."
he said in denial.

"Um one more thing about Vampires... werewolves hate them. This is very much not good." he explained as Calliope attempted to calm Dan down. "I sure hope you know what your doing. Our lives may depend on it."

OOC Like I said in OCC I will leave it up to you if you want to resist the compulsion. If you do then roll for it and roleplay your results. Otherwise consider it a success and roleplay Dan's humanity coming to the forefront and basically dehulking.

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Calliope doesn't break off her quiet litany of soothing words, but she does shoot a glare at Kieron - partly 'No duh', partly 'then stay the hell away from the disoriented werewolf'. As the spell spins into existence, she can feel the threads of it latch onto her nimbus, knotting it together with the newly changed Sleeper.

Oh.

She had wondered why a Sleeper had chosen to come with them. The fact that this one particular person was not a Sleeper, but a dreamer beginning to wake up answered that, but begged the question of why this person had been abducted. Apparently some errant spinner of Fate had decided that Daniel Walker's presence in that van was at least partially her fault, a result of her meddling over the last few weeks, and stamped her aura with a proclamation of that debt.

"Okay, Daniel, you're safe. I'm going to keep you safe."
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What? Who? I didn't do that one.
Kren was surprised. How did all these people just converge? Was there someone else trying to pull stings to stop the angels?
It took him a moment to remember facial expressions. He also noticed he had pointed the shot gun at Dan. He lowered it and decided on what he thought would be a good post-spooked look. Somewhat wary. Kren knew very little about werewolves. They weren't part of his original purpose in the first place so he never downloaded the memo. He still suspected that Dan could probably kill him. Unless he went loud. Even then. It was good that Calliope seemed to take naturally to being a dog mommy. He looked at the car he was still sitting in and was amazed that Dan hadn't hurt any of them when he ripped out. The thing was a mess.
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The moon's voice began to dissipate. The beast turned his gaze to Calliope. Dan pushed through the blackness that was once the wolf's eyes. He held his hands in front of his face. Human skin slowly blanketed the fur that covered his body. Dan fell to ground. He shook as he lay covered in dirt and sweat. All he saw were feet and ground. "What the **** is happening to me?" Dan tried to stand but fell again. He propped himself up next to the wheel of the SUV and slumped over in exhaustion.
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Calliope didn't say anything for a moment, instead she shucked her outer layer of clothing - an unbuttoned long-sleeved shirt several sizes too large for her, but still rather small for a man standing a full ten inches taller than she was - and held it out to Dan.

"I'm probably not the best person to do this for you." She says, hopping up to sit on the hood of the SUV so that her eyes were more or less level with Dan's, trying to find a way to break it gently to the newly Changed werewolf. "But I'm going to tell you a legend, but - like most stories - this one is more true than not. Hear me out, but listen with all of yourself, not just the pieces of you that are frightened." She's still caught up in the flow of her spell, and those with the senses to notice, pick up the scent of wildflowers and paper pages as she talks, her tone still the same soothing lilt.

"Before the world fell into its current shape, all the land was one and that land was brilliant and thriving with life, a vital world of cerulean and erubescent vermillion. And the goddess Luna saw this from her silver domain and was enthralled. So she stepped down from the sky and walked the earth, and learned and loved. And the one she loved most was a wolf, the greatest of his kin ever to have lived, though his name is lost to all but his own children. Luna bore this wolf nine children, and those children were of flesh like their father, and spirit like their Goddess mother, human in shape and lupine. But these children were callous and careless, and struck their father from life. Luna wept and fled the world, cursing her children, and all their children to follow. The lines of the Sanguine Argentate, through countless generations have sought to repent, to be forgiven by their mother, and have in turn been charged with the protection of her sister, Gaia, guarding her corners from those forces not of the true world. In return, the children of Luna have the burden of their curse lessened, and are allowed to sleep, dreaming of innocence until they are called to wake."

"That is the story that my teacher told me of the beginning of those people the Sleepers call werewolves. He is the heritor of a legacy that curates and collects all the stories and dreams of the world, and this particular story belongs to the dreams of your ancestors. Every person in this car has likely had a similar experience of terrifying change and Awakening, but for you, this is something that your dreaming soul has always known to be your birthright."

OOCCalliope has 4 Occult, 2 Academics with a specialty in Folklore, and a Mentor who specialises in storytelling. Also, I'm pretty sure this story is fairly innaccurate, and its definitely missing a lot of detail. So is this something okay for her to have heard? I just think that the way Calliope relates to the world means that she'd try to calm Dan down by giving him her best explanation of what he is and where he comes from by telling him a story about how werewolves came about.

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Elijah listened attentively toward the story that Kieron said. Then when he heard the last sentence, he cursed in his heart.

Sh*t. After Vampire, werewolves are real too. Are you f*ck*ng kidding me?

Elijah is totally stunned. He just realized that his life would never be the same again. He just realized that most folklore might have some bases after all. When Dan became a werewolf, he almost pissed his pants. But he could hang there, even if barely.

He is quite distracted and then listening to what Calliope's words, he realizes that werewolves may not be a monster in their own story. They might even think that they are earth protectors or something.

But then, he whispers to Kieron, not wanting attract the looked-angry werewolf : "Now what? Are we getting in or we stop during the day? Or maybe we can enter while you are sleeping?"

 
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As the proverbial dust settles Jason looks at the others and half sarcastic joke half real question asks; So....anyone else something that can lose their **** and attack everyone?
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"Well Kieron is a vampire that can eat people, so make of that what you will." Calliope says, her words dripping with sarcasm. "As for me, I manipulate the fundamental forces of Time and Fate, a dominion granted to me after my soul awakened to the true Supernal reality of the world and carved my name into the wall of the Watchtower of the Lunargent Thorn, allowing me to shape this pale shadow of existence and the dreams of those who sleep within it to my will. But no, I am not going to lose my **** and attack anyone. If I did, it would probably be hilariously pathetic. What about you, Mister 'Took on a speeding van with my bare hands and won'?"

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"I didn't take out the van, a too high center of gravity & bad driving took it out. But to answer your question, while very unlikely I can loose control, but when I do it isn't to a violent rage....... it's more like an emotionless vengeance." He looks at her wound. "So you want me to sew that up while he finishes calming down? You mentioned messing with time & fate, anything that can help me fix you up? I'm not exactly used to working on normal people.
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Dan sat dazed while he was listening to Calliope. He used the SUV to prop himself up and replied, "I'm not sure I want this. In fact I know I don't want this."
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Calliope pulls out a coin - Dan and Kren might recognise it from the van, brightly silver and slightly irregularly shaped - kisses it and flips it into the air, catching it before it lands and slapping it onto one of Jason's hands, then pocketting it again before anyone can see the outcome.

"I can't make you good, but I can make you lucky." She says with a grin. "See what you can do." She pushes her shirt away from her shoulder, revealing the ugly, half-clotted wound fo Jason to work on.

When Dan speaks again, she rurns back to him.

"Tough luck, I'm afraid." Despite her words, her expression and tone are sympathetic. "You don't get to choose what you are, just how to live with it. If you want, you can go home, sleep and pretend this never happened, but that won't change the fact that you can grow fur - probably will grow fur whenever you get too stressed, until you learn to control it better. I don't think any magic exists that can change you back, and if it did, it would be unspeakably evil and no sane person would do it for you." She shrugs. "And yeah - power is isolating. I mean, I control luck but to an extent, it also controls me. Everyone I knew before I Awakened thinks I'm dead, and every person I've met since has a significant chance of being there because they can give me something I want, or I can give them something I need - often both. I thought I was going crazy for months. But that's depressing. Focus on the things you can do instead - and you have orders of magnitude more options now than you did a few hours ago. So what do you want to do?"

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Looks over to Dan.....with a bit of a mix of sarcasm & regretful understanding; "Welcome to the club, we don't all get to be human & live a normal life. Either accept it & move on or work towards being 'normal', either way suck it up."

As he talks he works on getting the bullet out and patching her up. While his treatment is a bit rough, his stitching is actually really good.

ooc4 success, then 2 in the first two rolls, so that should be enough. If not I can keep going, but unless I dramatic fail my pool of 7 for any further rolls should be enough for us to assume she is patched.

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