worms!

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (OK!

1. 10 min per post OR LESS. Preferably less. Declare in 3 min. Roll in 2 or I'll roll for you.
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7. I will include the set-up in my post.

I'm aiming to be done in ~3 hours, so let's gogogo!)

[Joey] [Joey has the curiosity flaw]
to Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms

[Truth's Meridian] You already know Kate's. :P 1 point phobia flaw for germy germs.
to Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] It's 6:48am on the 5th. They're fresh off the Revel, wired, charged, sleep-depped, going on all cylinders. They've barely hit the pillow before they're awake again.

Sheridan and Katherine get phone calls.
Joey and Sinclair's door gets knocked on until they answer.

It's Wyrmbreaker. And it's a hunt. They pile into one or two cars; they drive out to the woods. If it's two, Lukas calls the other car mid-trip, leaves his phone on speaker, and fills them in.

"The Grand Elder's Ragabash came scouting down this way before the moot," he says. "Found an odd-looking cave, didn't go in alone. Grand Elder wants it checked out and taken care of."

Now they're standing in front of the cave, the mouth of which is vast -- twenty five feet across, at least fifteen high. It looks odd. Chicago isn't exactly known for large subterranean rock formations. And come to think of it, it doesn't really look like rock, either, or even the slow-drip stalactites and stalagmites of caves they may have seen in the past. The material is porous, uneven, organic. Like coral. Something built, created, deposited by something else. Something alive.

And it's quiet here, too. No birdsong. No rustling of small animals in the undergrowth.

Just a steady, rough, rhythm susurrus.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (rhythmIC.)

[Joey] [Curiosity: What's in there?]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Warcry] Ironically, Sinclair would be better about answering her phone than a knock on the door. She's itching to do research at the moment for tonight's challenge against Ferrowolf, but she can't do that until the start time anyway. So she's sitting on the floor, throwing a tennis ball against the wall and catching it as it bounces back to her. It doesn't matter, when it turns out to be Wyrmbreaker. It's a hunt.

She tells Joey that Joey's driving. Never let it be said she doesn't see -- and make use of -- her packmate's greater skill in certain areas. Like driving. Like running.

Now she's standing at a cave, wearing pretty much what she had on in the park the other day, only this time without the beanie. Her hair is in a ponytail. Her piercings glint in the moonlight. Her t-shirt is the red one that references Wisconsin being for (cheese)lovers. She scratches her nose while really sort of picking but only pretending to scratch

And sniffs.

[Truth's Meridian] Katherine, for one, seems unimpressed by the cave.

Or perhaps it was merely the surroundings that gave the Royalist's beautiful face the distinct impression of irritation as she swatted at a buzzing insect near her ear and waved her manicured fingers before her face. She was, as ever, immaculately (if somewhat casually in her wardrobe choice) made up. Her thick golden hair tied back in a ponytail, revealing the slope of high cheekbones and her long, swan-like neck.

She rested one hand against her thigh and stared into the mouth of the cave.

"Why is it always the dank and dirty places we find ourselves investigating?" She complained with furrowed brows.

[Sheridan] This morning had marked her first trip to The Brotherhood of Thieves. She'd heard of it, even been by it a few times, but had not gotten herself inside yet. Thus far she has been surviving on sponge baths in public restrooms, has been cleaning her body and her clothes in sinks; tonight was the first actual shower with hot running water she has had since she left Toronto, and that was where she was when Lukas called Katherine.

She looks different than she had at the Moot. Her clothes are still filthy, carrying with them the gamey aroma of travel and combat and homelessness, but her skin all but glistens with cleanliness and her hair, once a curly, ratty afro is now tame and almost straight, falling over her shoulders in drying waves.

She's actually somewhat pretty without caked-on eye makeup and dirt all over her body.

That's neither here nor there. She'd been clean for a grand total of ten minutes when she got into Wyrmbreaker's car, and now she's standing in front of a cave with her arms crossed over her flat chest in avid concentration. The Silver Fang wants to know why it's always the dank and dirty places they wind up investigating, and a broad grin splits the Gnawer's chapped lips.

"A little dirt never killed anyone," she drawls.

[Joey] Joey's just coming in from a shower, the (her) blood finally washed from her skin. Her face is perfect, not a freckle out of place after the beating she received at the hands of the Jarl. She's missed Wyrmbreaker, but hears from Sinclair that they're going on a hunt. She doesn't mind driving, in fact loves the road-eating pace she tends to take when she's driving on the freeway. She doesn't mind having her skills and talents put to good use.

They're gathered in front of the strange cave. Joey stands back from the others, her hands shoved into the sleeves of her old grey hoody. She refuses to shiver in front of the others. There's a black bat bag strapped across her back, jeans on her legs, sneakers on her feet.

The cave looks strange. She wonders what's inside, but manages to contain herself. They'll find out soon enough.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] "Besides," Lukas is crouching to drag his fingers through the wet humus at the cave's mouth, "it makes me happy to see you lose your head over a speck of dust on your fur."

He grins up at Katherine. The Shadow Lord is in a good mood. He's also pale with sleep deprivation beneath his rather tan complexion; his hair is a little awry; there are shadows under his eyes. He looks like his motto might be I'll sleep when I'm dead. Standing, he dusts his hands off and then turns to Sheridan.

"All right, Walks the Tracks. Let's see what you've got. You're leading this expedition. Word of caution, though." He holds up his palm. Beneath the dirt, beneath the leaves and twigs and other forest detritus, his hand is slicked with a layer of clear, viscous fluid. "This is no ordinary spelunking trip."

[Truth's Meridian] Kate looks as if she wanted to argue against Sheridan's point that dirt had never killed anyone. As a matter of fact, the Philodox was quite certain it had killed more than a few people, and despite the knowledge that as a Garou she was quite immune to anything lurking in the tiny grains beneath their feet -- she did not feel reassured about it. Just the idea of it was enough to make her skin crawl -- and her lips pull down in a deep frown.

Lukas' remark gains him a glare from his pack-mate, and she crosses her arms over her chest, returning defensively: "It was not just a speck of dust, it was an entire colony of germ-ridden filth."

He holds up his palm when he rises, and the Silver Fang flinches instinctively. "Revolting," she murmurs.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Note: combat will pretty much begin when we enter the cave. So if you wanna activate talens/gifts, do it now!)

[Joey] "Least it's not the sewer," Joey says with feeling. But there's a certain kind of excitement in her young face. They're exploring. There's probably some horribly disgusting pus monster, or a pack of skull pigs, maybe even a thunderwrym down that cavernous opening. But it's still undiscovered territory. The Rotagar looks like this is the only way she could imagine spending the morning after the moot.

Sheridan has been assigned point. The Storm Chasers each have a button, the symbol for earth its only decoration, pinned to their clothing.

[Joey
activate soak talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 3, 6, 7 (Success x 1 at target 7)

[Joey] [Sinclair
activate soak talen]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 7)

[Truth's Meridian] [Resist Pain is go for launch!]

[Sheridan] Lukas puts the once-stranger in charge of the group, and the tall blonde gives a nod of her head before turning to take stock. Almost all of them had engaged in some form of combat during the lengthy Cracking of the Bone at the Moot this evening; they are all reinvigorated by the Revel, yet the sun is rising and most if not all of them were thinking of sleep before the call to check out the cave had come.

They'll sleep when they're finished, or when their flames have been stamped out.

Kate continues to grumble about dust and filth and the revolting status of the cave, Joey tosses in that at least it isn't a sewer, and the Gnawer just smothers another smile and peers into the darkness.

"Alright," she says. "Face of Death, I want you scouting up front with me. Wyrmbreaker-yuf, take the rear. Get into a form you can fight in now; we don't know what's in there."

That said, the Gibbous Moon glances around the abandoned woods one last time as if to ensure that there are no human witnesses, and takes on her stringy, tawny-furred dire wolf form.

[Joey] [-1 WP for both Joey and Sinclair for Resist Pain]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Formshift: hispo.
1Gn - Luna's Armor.
1Gn - BB.
Also rolling Gn for Soak talen and Damage talen.
1WP - Resist Pain

Luna's Armor roll...)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7) [WP]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Soak talen)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 7, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 7)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Damage talen)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 3, 8, 8 (Success x 2 at target 5)

[Truth's Meridian] (Formshifting to Hispo, while we're at it.)

[Joey] [Storm Chasers are both shifting to Hispo, as well (all the cool kids are doing it)]

[Truth's Meridian] (Soak Talen)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 5, 6, 10 (Success x 1 at target 7)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage Talen)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 6, 6, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] A group of humans suddenly becomes a group of prehistoric monsters. They fall into a loose formation, the Cliath Ragabash up front, the Fostern Ahroun bringing up the rear.

The mouth of the cave yawns invitingly. The closer Joey gets, the louder the noise. It's raspy, hissing, tidal, and under it, from time to time, comes a sort of guttural, muffled grunting and snuffling. The inside of the cave seems warm. A blast of fetid air, moist and hot, blows her fur back as she steps to the very lip of the structure. The ground beneath her paws is solid, but faintly sticky.

She can see that the gelatinous goo that had covered Wyrmbreaker's hand is everywhere here.

[Joey] [perception + alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] She doesn't particularly want to set foot inside that cave.

The fact that she cannot see what she is stepping on is, for the most part, a blessing but she can hear the sounds the ground makes as they all trudge forward into the cave and it causes the Hispo-formed creature to emit a noise something akin to that of a tormented puppy. It's a near-whine of displeasure made guttural by the monster's throat.

Of course, then she does see what she's treading on, and it makes everything worse. Her breath issues in a snuff of disgust.

[Sheridan] The cave seems almost alive. Despite the frigid October morning temperature outside, the inside of the structure is hot and moving; Sheridan moves with Joey, staying beside and slightly behind her, eyes on their surroundings rather than on the ground or the sub-Cliath Fenrir she's got sniffing out the environs.

As they make their way into the cave, the Gnawer does not pause to investigate what it is that's sticking to her paws. Maybe she's just used to being in situations that are disgusting to the average person's sensibilities, or she doesn't feel it, or she's more concerned with figuring out what put the goo there than she is with the goo itself.

She doesn't spare a glance for the disgusted Fang at her back. Then again, she doesn't know just how deep this particular Philodox's distaste for dirt runs, that it goes beyond distaste and into phobia.

[Warcry] A little dirt doesn't even bother Sinclair, who frequently comes back from the challenge circle or battle drenched in drying blood all over her chin and throat. She's keeping her tongue quiet for now, a new development in her personality since the solstice equinox when she first met so many of the sept's Garou. Until she shifts to hispo, she's looking vaguely suspicious, not just of the cave but of this whole ordeal, frowning as she tries to figure out why two Fosterns born under swollen moons and a Philodox with the Rage of a goddamn Ahroun decided they wanted Sinclair and Joey to come along for the ride.

She doesn't ask, though. She moves into a form made up of hulking shoulders, thick fur, and she stays where she can see her packmate clearly. Her enormous paws are quiet solely because she's a deft, swiftfooted creature, and not because she has any particular skill in sneaking around.

Her tail wags slightly, despite the goo seeping between her toes.

[Joey] Joey takes the lead as ordered. This is a hunt, and so the Cliath, lower in rank even than her sister, follows the pecking order. She becomes a hulking mass of iron grey fur, and leads the way into the cave, tail twitching. She gets to lead the way, find, discover first.

The Rotagar moves slowly, carefully lifting and dropping heavy paws. She feels like she's walking through a cheap movie theater, her feet sticking to the floor of the cave thanks to the sticky substance. It's not burning away at the pads of her paws, however, or doing anything more than be unpleasant, so she pays it no mind.

A blast of air hits her, and she stops, leans her body back slightly with eyes closed and ears flat against her skull. Whatever it was that they were looking for, it's straight ahead of them. She peers over the ledge.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] It's cavernous inside... but not endless. In fact, it's all one very large room, perhaps as much as a hundred feet in diameter, forty feet high. The height doesn't come from a soaring ceiling, but from the ground dropping sharply away.

There's goo everywhere. In fact, it's hard to tell where goo ends and cave wall begins. In fact, Joey's got an inkling that maybe the goo, dried and solidified, is the cave wall.

Also she won't miss the sole occupant of the cave. No one will miss that.
to Joey

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] One by one, willing or otherwise, the Garou go to the edge of the cave and look in.

It's cavernous inside... but not endless. In fact, it's all one very large room, perhaps as much as a hundred feet in diameter, forty feet high. The height doesn't come from a soaring ceiling, but from the ground dropping sharply away.

At the center of the cave is the master of the demesne: a single, enormous, pallid creature, wormlike, about the size of a double-bus. Its body is segmented, the skin stretched taut, moist, fragile, translucent. Tremors seize and quiver down its sides from time to time.

The blind head lifts when the Garou look in on it. It weaves back and forth, inquisitive. Abruptly the proximal end of the worm flares open, five flaps of flesh open like petals, peel back, reveal rows and rows of concentric translucent needle teeth disappearing down the thing's gullet.

It shrieks -- an obscene, demented noise that stabs at the eardrums. There are no words, but the meaning is instantly in their minds -- an intrusion into their very thoughts:

MY LAND. MINE. MY. MINE. INTRUDERS. SUSTENANCE FOR THE YOUNG. MY YOUNG. MY PREY. MINE!

(one reaction post each if you want. roll init. also, if your char would pay attention, roll percep/alert to get a closer look at the worm.)

[Joey] [percept + alert]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 5, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Per + Alert!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 7)

[Sheridan] [Alertness+Perception]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Warcry] [+10]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10

[Truth's Meridian] [+8]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9

[Joey] [+10]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9

[Sheridan] [+8]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Weird. That worm's skin is rippling.
to Sheridan

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Sometimes the ripples down the worm's sides seem ... unconcerted.
to Joey

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Sometimes the worm's skin shivers. And sometimes, something inside the worm moves against its skin.
to Truth's Meridian

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Worm init +5)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Lukas init +19)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 2 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Init order:
Lukas
Warcry
Joey
Truth
Hrrgnlk
Sheridan

Declare in reverse!

[Sheridan] [Reflexive: "Try to flank or get behind it! Watch out for its teeth!"
Split Action: Slide down ledge/Bite Hrrgnlk. Rage 1: Bite. Rage 2: Bite.]

[Sheridan] [Just got rules. Switch Split Action to straight-up moving.]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Clarification on distances: 50 feet to the worm's head. And the worm is about 35 feet long, if you're running around to the tail. Getting 15 feet along will qualify as a flanking maneuver. It's also an action's worth of climbing if you wanna get on top of it.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Also: a hispo moves 20 + (Dex * 3) yards a turn. So that's 60 + (Dex*9) FEET a turn. If you split, divide accordingly.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Hrrgnlk:
Spit goo at everyone running toward it
Rage 1 Roll sideways: damage to everyone on one flank
2 Roll to the OTHER side: damage to everyone on the other flank
3 Headslam: damage to everyone in front)

[Truth's Meridian] [Reflexive: "There's something within the skin! It moves against it!"

Action: Slide (ugh) down ledge/Dodge gooball
Rage 1: Bite the gross slimy thing
Rage 2: Rinse and Repeat]

[Joey] [regular: run to rear attack position
R1: Bite
R2: Bite
R3: Bite!]

[Joey] [subtract two of those rage actions]

[Warcry] [1: Get behind Hrrgnlk
R1: Bite
R2: Bite]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas:
2R to actions
1a. run to flank
b. spur claws!
R1. jump on top
R2. chomp

1a. runrunrun
b. spur clawing! -3 dice. dex+2+brawl+3-3 vs diff 6.
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6) Re-rolls: 3

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 16 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Dodging! -3 Split)
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Hrrgnlk: spur clawed.
Warcry and Joey: moving.
Truth: moving and dodging. Roll dodge against this...

Hrrgnlk: spitting! dex+ath vs diff 6+2 = 8. Hrrgnlk spends WP.)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 8) [WP]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (gooblob! This is bashing damage. HOWEVER, for every damage after soak, you lose 1 die from all actions until you take a full action (cannot be split) cleaning up.

Also, Kate, your phobia is coming into effect. Roll WP vs diff 6.)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Lukas soaks)
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 7, 7, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Joey] [soak +1 (talen)]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 5, 8, 8, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (WP: OH GOD IT'S SLIMY AND TOUCHING MEEEE)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 6, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Soak: Stamina +3 (Hispo).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 5, 7, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soak + 1]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Warcry loses 1 die.
Sheridan loses 1 die.
Joey and Truth and OK.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (ARE okay. I KAN TIPE.)

[Truth's Meridian] (Soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 3, 9 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (AGH! Losing mind! Correction:
Warcry loses 2 dice.
Sheridan loses 2 dice.
Joey is OK.
Truth loses 4 dice.

It takes 1 full action to clean up! You may change your next action to cleaning up if you want. No roll required.

Sheridan changes action to running all the way behind Hrrg.

Lukas, Rage 1: climbing on top.
Warcry, Rage!)

[Warcry] [R1: Dex + Brawl + 2Hispo + 1Totem -2Goo // -2 diff (back attack)]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 10 at target 3) Re-rolls: 2

[Warcry] [Damage Part 1: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 6, 6, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Damage Part 2: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 3, 4, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soak vs 10 agg.)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Forgot Soak Talen :-/)
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Okay, Truth only loses 2 dice.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] The Garou race down the slope, claws scrabbling for purchase. They stream around the worm, Wyrmbreaker leaving his claws buried in its side as he claws his way onto its back.

Warcry lands the first solid blow of the night. She tears the thing open.

Two pale, squirming creatures plop out of the quivering, oozing gash, slathered in ectoplasm and mucus, wriggling blindly.

(Rolling inits for babiez 1 and 2. +6)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (New init order:
Lukas 21
Warcry 20
Joey 19
Truth 17
Babies A 16
Hrrgnlk 15
Sheridan 11

No rage action for babies this round. They will take their action: Bite after Truth's Rage action.)

[Joey] [bite: dex + brawl -2 diff (rear attack)]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Failure at target 3)

[Truth's Meridian] (Rage 1 Bite! Dex + Brawl + 2Hispo + 3Totem -2 Goo)
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Hrrgnlk soaks!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Two more immature worms tumble, wriggle, squirm their way out of Hrrgnlk.

(Truth: roll WP, diff 7.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (babies 3 and 4. +6)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (WP: oh god it's so disguuuusting, it just gets WORSE)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 7)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4 (Failure at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies A: both biting Sinclair! LEAVE MOMMY ALOONE! one attack roll.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 6, 7, 7 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage for 1)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (and 2)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 4, 5, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soak +1: THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 8, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soak +1: OR FRIENDS]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Hrrg changes action: Tail Slam! +1 diff, +2 diff.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 6, 6, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 1 at target 9)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (everyone behind Hrrg, roll soak against this. bashing damage.)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 6, 8 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas rolls dex+ath diff 7 to keep footing.
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 9 (Failure at target 7)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies B, both biting Truth's Meridian.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 10 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas is now at worm's right flank.

Sheridan, rage 1, go!

[Sheridan] [First Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite! -2 pool (goo), -2 diff (from behind).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 4, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 3)

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +2 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 2, 5, 5, 7, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Hrrg soaks!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 6, 6, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas, rage 2: fuck this noise, I bite!
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 6 at target 4)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 15 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 3, 6, 6, 6, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Warcry] [R2: Dex + Brawl +2Hispo + 1Totem -2Goo // -2 diff (back attack): ALL I WANNA DO IS CHOMP CHOMP YA MOMMY]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 5, 5, 6, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 6 at target 3) Re-rolls: 1

[Warcry] [Damage the First: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Damage the Second: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 5, 6, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Second Rage Bite! -2 Goo)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 5, 6, 6, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] ...two more worms drip out of the widening, bloodless gashes in the worm's body.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Babies group C, inits!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 2 (Failure at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soak!
Truth, WP vs diff 8.)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 10 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] ...and two more. Juvenile worms are literally thrashing their way out of the great worm's body now, like rats fleeing a rapidly sinking ship.

(Inits, group D!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (WP: oh dear.)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 5, 5, 10 (Failure at target 8)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Truth: spend 2 actions cleaning yourself obsessively!)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies A -- already took action.
Hrrgnlk, Rage 2: ROLL! +2 diff.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 7 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies B: already went.
Babies D: attack Meridian! STOP BITING MOMMY!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 8, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage 1
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 9 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage 2
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 2, 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Second Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite! -2 pool (goo), -2 diff (from behind).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 3)

[Sheridan] [What the fuck: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +2 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] ...another two worms splat out of Hrrgnlk, one skittering off the Galliard's withers as it tumbles.

(inits, group E!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1 (Botch x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Hrrg head-crushes!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 1 at target 8)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage! Everyone in front (Kate?) soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 5, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 7 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies C: bite Warcry!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 1, 4 (Botch x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Other one!
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 4, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies, group E: bite Sheridan!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 5, 6, 6, 7 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 5 (Botch x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Other one!
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soak +1: I AM NEVER HAVING KIDS.]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 8 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Roll 2 soaks each, Warcry and Sheridan. Recap coming!)

[Warcry] [WHY DID I ROLL THAT?]

[Warcry] [Soak +1: OR SEX]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (fuuuu, forgot Soak talen AGAIN.)
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Soak again!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] The Garou swarm the enormous worm, tearing at it with claws and teeth. The worm has the consistency of loose jelly -- though it offers almost no resistance beneath their teeth, the skin itself is tough and fibrous, allowing the flesh beneath to simply squeeze out of the way.

From time to time, they can feel things inside the worm squirming and wriggling in their teeth. And they're spilling out the gashes: pale, blind things, miniature versions of Hrrgnlk herself, wriggling and thrashing their way into an immature birth.

Hrrgnlk is badly injured at the end of the first wave of attacks. Her enormous body is slashed with innumerable bloodless gashes, the torn flesh twitching and shuddering as nerve-nets are severed and muscles, clumsy and poorly evolved to begin with, lose tone and coherence. But she's not alone anymore. Clustering around her, writhing and seething, is a rapidly growing army of juvenile worms.

Their first attacks are clumsy, reflexive, largely ineffective. But they're literally growing before the Garou's very eyes -- gaining strength, gaining speed, gaining something like intelligence.

And Hrrgnlk, thrashing under the onslaught, rears back and looses another headsplitting shriek.

BREAK! BREAK THEM ALL!


Sumup:
Kate: 2B, -2 dice
Warcry: 2B, -2 dice
Joey: OK
Sheridan: 2B, -2 dice
Wyrmbreaker: OK

Hrrg: -25 health, looking kinda worse for the wear
Babies: 10 of 'em. Looking a little stronger.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (init order -- relettering babies for convenience:

Lukas 21 - right flank
Warcry 20 - behind
Joey 19 - behind
Truth 17 - head
Babies A 16 - behind
Hrrgnlk 15 - JUST SITTIN THERE
Babies B 14 - head
Babies C 12 - behind
Sheridan 11 - behind
Babies D 8 - behind
Babies E 7 - head)

[Sheridan] [Split Action: Bite/Bite Babies E, spending WP on second split. Rage 1: Bite Hrrgnlk. Rage 2: Bite Again! Rage 3: MOAR BITING.]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Declares:
Babies E: beginning to swarm with Babies B, biting Kate. Four damage rolls, but damage is cumulative (soaks will also be cumulative)
D: swarming with babies A, biting Sinclair. same rules as above.)

[Truth's Meridian] [Action 1: Cleaning herself: anyone have any soap?
Action 2: ...anyone? Bueller?

Rage 1: Bite Babies B and E
Rage 2: And again]

[Joey] [split: bite/bite babies A, WP on second bite]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Truth, it's gonna have to be:
1. cleaning
R1. cleaning
R2. biting.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (hold on guys, i need to dec for bad guys)

[Truth's Meridian] (Oh fine, BE THAT WAY.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Babies D and B: swarming.
Hrrg: 3 rage.
1. Power: Mindbreak.
R1. Roll
R2. Tail Slam
R3. Tail Slam
Babies A: Attacking Sheridan, swarming with themselves.

Truth and Joey can redeclare at no penalty if they want. Otherwise, Warcry, declare!

[Warcry] [1a: Fuck cleaning. Bite Mommy.
1b: Bite mommy again.
R1: Bite one of Babies A]

[Warcry] [Switch that to Babies D]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas:
1a. move to kate's position
b. bite one of Kate's swarm
R1. bite another
R2. and another!

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] a. moving!
b. chomp, -3!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 11 at target 5) Re-rolls: 4

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage part 1)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (part 2)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 8 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (and 1 more!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 7 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Kate's swarm +1: cannot soak that much! dead.)

[Warcry] [1a: Dex + Brawl +2Hispo +1Totem -2Goo -2Split // -2 diff (back attack)]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 9 (Success x 4 at target 3)

[Warcry] [Damage: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Warcry] [1b: Dex + Brawl +2Hispo +1Totem -2Goo -3Split // -2 diff (back attack)]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 6, 7, 7 (Success x 6 at target 3) [WP]

[Warcry] [Damage the First: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Warcry's swarm +1: eek, soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Damage the Second: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 5, 6, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (sorry. she was biting mommy. +5 soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (soaking again!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 5, 5, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Joey] [1st split bite babies A: dex + brawl -2 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 5, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (BTW guys: indicate what you're attacking cuz I R LOSING TRACK *LOL*)

[Joey] [damage +5suxx]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Joey] [that was against Sinclair's swarm]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (sinclair's swarm, worm 1, soaking!)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Rage Bite on remaining Babies attacking her! (her swarm!) )
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 5)

[Joey] [2nd split: biting Sinclair's swarm again!: dex + brawl -3 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 6, 10, 10 (Success x 2 at target 5)

[Joey] [damage +1]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (owie)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 3 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (worm tally:
MOM -29
Kate's swarm: 1 worm down, 3 up
Sher's: 2 up
Sin's: 1 down, 3 up.

Hrrg: Mind Break. Everyone roll WP to resist this roll.)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 6, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6) [WP]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [WP]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 4, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (WP)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 5, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Warcry] [WP -2 EEE]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 1, 1, 6 (Failure at target 6)

[Joey] [WP]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 4, 5, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Kate: take 1unsoakable agg.
Warcry: take 4unsoakable agg. Additionally, damage > current WP, stunned, lose 1 action.
Sheridan: take 1unsoakable agg.
Wyrmbreaker: take 2unsoakable agg.
Joey: take 2unsoakable agg.)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Sheridan's swarm: biting!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (concerted damage: (2+1)x2

Roll soakx2!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 5, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Soak: Stamina x2.]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [First Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Sheridan's Swarm. -4 pool (goo/split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 5, 9 (Success x 2 at target 5)

[Sheridan] [What the cock, man: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +1 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 4, 4, 5, 6, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (worm 1 ... can't soak that much, is dead!)

[Sheridan] [Second Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Sheridan's Swarm. -5 pool (goo/split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 4, 6, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5) [WP]

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +3 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (eek! soak)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 2 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Kate's swarm, attacking Kate -- 3 remaining)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (concerted damage x3)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 5, 7, 7 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Warcry's swarm, attacking Warcry -- 3 remaining)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (that is not the fear of dice.)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Soak Stamina + Talen x3)
Dice Rolled:[ 18 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soooak, you stupid WPless bitch!]
Dice Rolled:[ 19 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 12 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas, rage 1: bite another of Kate's swarm!
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (+3 succ for diff 5. reroll on 10.)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5 (Success x 1 at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 19 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (kate's swarm: 2 worms left
warcry: loses 1 rage action.
joey, go!)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Truth, cleaning self still.
Hrrg: changing action to head slam!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 (Success x 1 at target 8)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (everyone @ head, soak vs this!)
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (lukas soaks)
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [First Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Hrrgnlk! -2 pool (goo), -2 diff (from behind).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 3) Re-rolls: 1

[Truth's Meridian] (Soaking!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 4, 6, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +3 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 7, 7, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (hrrg soaks!)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 5, 6, 9 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (2 more worms! Initting...)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 8 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas, Rage 2: chomp another lil one!
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage)
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7, 8, 9 (Failure at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage from Rage bite earlier!)
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Hrrg: rage 2, Tail slam!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 5, 6, 7, 10 (Success x 1 at target 8)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 3, 5, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Joey] [soak +1]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Second Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Hrrgnlk! -2 pool (goo), -2 diff (from behind).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 4, 5, 5, 5, 7, 7, 10 (Success x 6 at target 3) Re-rolls: 1

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +5 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 8 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soak +1]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 8, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Hrrg: nooo I want to liiiive!
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6 (Failure at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Third Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Sheridan's BB. -2 pool (goo).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 5, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 7 at target 5)

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +6 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] The worm's shriek tears through the very fabric of their sanity. For a second or so, nothing.

Then everyone but Joey feels the slow warm trickle of blood from their nostrils, their ears. And Warcry is driven down by the force of the noise itself, dazed for a few precious seconds.

Everyone else continues to battle. They're splitting their attacks between Hrrgnlk and her spawnlings, now. Wyrmbreaker snaps two of the wriggling young in half. Sheridan takes down another; Joey a third. More tumble out of Hrrgnlk as blow after blow lands.

The great worm thrashes, slams, rolls, bellows. It rears its tail up to slam on the Garou again --

and Sheridan puts an end to that nonsense. She sinks her teeth, tears the posterior end of the worm clear away, whips it away and to the side. A smear of ectoplasm splashes across the Garou. More oozes, dribbles, pours out of the sundered worm.

Hrrgnlk begins to deflate like a balloon. Under her leathery hide, three, four, five, six more of her young wriggle their way out.

And swarm. And attack.

Enemy Tally:
Hrgg: dead
Total young remaining: 12.
Head: One swarm, 2 worms remaining, one almost dead. Stronger and faster.
Tail swarm: 10 worms total. One almost dead.
Swarm A: 1 remaining, almost dead. Stronger and faster.
Swarm B: 3 remaining. Stronger and faster.
Swarm C: 6 fresh worms!

Garou Tally:
Kate: 2B, 1A
Warcry: 2B, 4A, -2 dice
Joey: OK
Sheridan: 2B, 1A, -2 dice
Wyrmbreaker: 2A

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (rolling init for Tail-C)
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 1 (Botch x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Init order:
Lukas 21
Warcry 20
Joey 19
Truth 17
Tail-B 16
Tail-A 12
Sheridan 11
Head 8
Tail-C 7

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Okay -- regeneration should reduce damage to:
Kate: 1A
Warcry: 4A, -2 dice
Joey: OK
Sheridan: 1A, -2 dice
Wyrmbreaker: 2A)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Tail-C: swarming and raging!
1. chomp Sheridan
R1. chomp Joey
R2. chomp Warcry

Head: 1. swarm and chomp lukas!
R1. chomp lukas!
R2. chomp kate!

[Sheridan] [First Split Action: Bite/Bite Swarm C. Rage Action: Bite Swarm!]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Tail-A: 1. chomp Sheridan!
R1. chomp Sheridan!
R2. chomp joey!

Tail-B: 1. chomp Joey!
R1. chomp Sinclair!
R2. chomp Sinclair!

[Truth's Meridian] [Declare:

Split: Bite remaining babies in Kate's Swarm!/Bite again!
R1: Bite again!]

[Joey] [1a: bite swarm A
1b: bite swarm B]

[Warcry] [1a: Gaia's Breath activation (-1G)
1b: Bite Sinclair's Special Swarm of Specialness]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas:
1a. chomp the unhurt baby in head swarm.
b. chomp the other one
R1. advance to the rear!

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] chomp 1.
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 9, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] damage
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] slightly stronger soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 2 (Botch x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] chomp 2.5
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 3, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 4 at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (er, ignore the 5. damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Warcry] [1a: HAEL PLZ!]
[1b: Biting Her Swarm: Dex + Brawl +2Hispo +1Totem -2Goo -3Split]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 5) [WP]

[Warcry] [Damage: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 6, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 1, 6 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (another of sin's swarm is down! 2/4 remaining)

[Joey] [first split: chomp A: dex + brawl -2 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)

[Joey] [damage +4]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 6, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] ack, soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 4, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (that's the last one for swarm A! ded.)

[Joey] [second split: chomp B: dex + brawl -3 (split)]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 7, 7 (Success x 1 at target 5)

[Joey] [damage +0]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (Truth: 1a. running.
b. roll, jacqui!)

[Truth's Meridian] (Second Split Bite: Brawl + Dex + 3Totem +Hispo -3 split)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 4 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Tail B!
1. chomping joey a little harder!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 7, 7, 9, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] damage! x2
soak x2 on this.
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Joey] [soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 7, 7, 7, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [First Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Swarm C! -4 pool (goo/split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 7, 9 (Success x 1 at target 5)

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +NOTHING] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 8 d10 ] 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms]
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 5 (Failure at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Second Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite Swarm C! -5 pool (goo/split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 3, 5, 7, 10 (Success x 4 at target 5) [WP]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (1 down from C!)

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +3 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (can't soak that... 2 down!)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] C, swarming!
1. chomp Sheridan, x4.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 4, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage, x4)
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Soak x4!]

[Sheridan] [Part One!]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 9 at target 6)

[Sheridan] [Part Two!]
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 10 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas, Rage 1: running.
Warcry, Rage 1, go!

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] eh heh. joey, rage, if any!

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] no rage. truth, go!

[Truth's Meridian] (Rage Bite on whoever is still alive! Swarm C?)
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 4 at target 5)

[Truth's Meridian] (Damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 6, 8, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (can't soak that! another C worm down!)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] B, R1, chomp sinclair!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage x2)
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 9 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (YOU'LL GET YOURS, ......we don't know her last name, do we? is sinclair her last name?)

[Sheridan] [Rage Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite! -2 pool (goo).]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 1, 6, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 5)

[Sheridan] [Damage: Strength +3 (Hispo) +2 (bite) +2 (suxx).] [A]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms]
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 4, 10 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (1 worm left in B; 3 in C!
C: chomps Joey!)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 2, 4, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage x3!
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 2, 2, 3, 4, 6, 6, 7, 9, 9, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 8 at target 6)

[Joey] [soak the first]
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Joey] [soak the second]
Dice Rolled:[ 11 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 6, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas, R2: chomps a C-worm
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 4, 4, 5, 5, 8, 8, 8, 9, 10, 10, 10, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Damage
Dice Rolled:[ 16 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] C worm: i can haz soak?
Dice Rolled:[ 1 d10 ] 6 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Tail B: 1 worm left, chomps sinclair!
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 10 (Failure at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] B: ooo wait, it has 2 more dice.
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 3, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 3, 5, 9 (Success x 1 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] C: also chomping warcry.
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 3, 6, 7, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Warcry] [Soak +1: STOP GUMMING ME, YOU LITTLE SHIT. I AIN'T YO MAMA AND I AIN'T LACTATIN']
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damagex3)
Dice Rolled:[ 15 d10 ] 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Warcry] [(Soak x 3) +1: STOPPPPP IIIIT]
Dice Rolled:[ 19 d10 ] 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 10, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] They're not hard to kill. They're almost laughably weak. Clamp your teeth shut and they shred like balloons, like eels, like the worms they are. Their attacks are all but negligible...

but there are so many of them.

The Garou snap this way and that. It's infuriating. It's disgusting. Pus and liquids everywhere. Bits of worm between their teeth, slipping under their paws. The little fuckers squeal when they bite, squeal when they die. They gnaw at the Garou ceaselessly, tenaciously, gradually wearing them down.

Joey's hits the ground. Her pack sister's pretty bad off. There are four worms left, one of them barely moving.

The other four --

stronger.


(Enemy Tally:
B-group: 1 left. 3rd level!
C-group: 3 left, one badly injured, 2nd level!

Garou Tally:
Kate 1A
Warcry 5A
Joey 7A
Sheridan 1A
Wyrmbreaker 2A

Kate, roll WP vs diff 9. It's really really gross in here.)

[Truth's Meridian] (WP: *lower lip quiver*)
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 6, 7, 7 (Failure at target 9)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Kate suddenly can't bear it anymore. She can't stand to bite another one of those squirming, disgusting, filthy things. God knows what they have on them. They crawled out of a worm. A dead, wyrmridden, bacteria-infested worm.

(roll temp or permanent rage, whichever is higher, vs. diff 4. this is a fox frenzy if she gets 4 succ. if she doesn't, she still goes running... just somewhat more sanely.)

[Truth's Meridian] (Rage check)
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 7, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 4)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas 21
Warcry 20
Joey 19
Tail-B 16
Sheridan 11
Tail-C 7

Tail-C:
1. Go after Joey. WE SMELL BLOOD.
R1. Go after Lukas!
R2. And Sheridan!

Tail-B:
1. Bite Sinclair! WE SMELL BLOOD TOO.
R1. Joey!
R2. Lukas!

[Sheridan] [Split Action: Bite/Bite Swarm C.]

[Warcry] [1a: Bite Swarm B (-1WP)
1b: Gaia's Breath activation on Joey (-1G)]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas:
1a. 1Gn - BB on Joey... oh fine then, on Warcry!
b. Bite C

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] 1a. Warcry gains 3 hp!
b. chomp, -3!
Dice Rolled:[ 10 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 7, 7, 8, 8, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 15 d10 ] 1, 1, 3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (can't soak that much... 2 left in C)

[Warcry] [1a: Biting Swarm B // Dex + Brawl +2Hispo +1Totem -2Goo -2Split]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 8, 9 (Success x 4 at target 5) [WP]

[Warcry] [Damage: Str + 3Hispo + 1Totem + 2HispoBite + Suxx -1]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 3, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (level 3 soak!)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 6, 8, 10 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Joey] [1st split: bite B: dex + brawl -2]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 5 at target 5)

[Joey] [damage +4]
Dice Rolled:[ 12 d10 ] 3, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 6 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (nooo, i want to liiiive!)
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 3, 8, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Joey] [2nd split: bite C: dex + brawl -3 +WP]
Dice Rolled:[ 6 d10 ] 3, 5, 7, 8, 8, 10 (Success x 6 at target 5) [WP]

[Joey] [damage +5]
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 5, 5, 6, 7, 7, 7, 8, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (eek. *C worm dead*)

[Sheridan] [First Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite C! -4 pool (goo/split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 5 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 4, 8 (Failure at target 5)

[Sheridan] [Second Split Action: Brawl+Dexterity (+2): Bite C! -5 pool (goo/split).]
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 6 (Failure at target 5)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] C: bite joey!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 4, 4, 6, 6, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (damage!)
Dice Rolled:[ 4 d10 ] 4, 6, 7, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Joey] [Soak!]
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9, 9 (Success x 3 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] C: chomp lukas!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 4, 5, 6, 7, 7, 9, 9 (Success x 5 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] damage!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 2, 2, 4, 5, 5, 7, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] soak!
Dice Rolled:[ 9 d10 ] 2, 3, 3, 4, 4, 6, 7, 7, 9 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] C: chomp sheridan!
Dice Rolled:[ 7 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 9 (Failure at target 6)

[Sheridan] *stomp!*

[Warcry] And Sinclair bites the last motherfucking worm's head off because she's the fastest person here. Tadah!

[Warcry] [DLP, I'm gonna write for realz. *L*]

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Final damage tally:
Hrrgnlk: 40 health
Worms x 16: 4 each.

Garou:
Kate 1A
Warcry 2A, gooey
Joey 5A
Sheridan 1A, gooey
Wyrmbreaker 2A

[Warcry] She is covered in slime. She is covered in whatever passes for blood from these creatures' bodies. She is covered in her own blood. She is dusty from the shattering of a healing talen shattered on her sister's back to bring her back from the brink of death. She is tingling slightly still from the bloody bandage slapped against her side out of nowhere. And she is trembling from both adrenaline and delight when she lunges forward one last time and tears the head off the last thing she sees that's wriggling on the ground.

Sinclair spits it out and immediately lifts her head back, emitting a howl of undulating, guttural triumph. It is not a delicate sound, and it reverbates off the interior of the cave, throwing her voice back into their ears. It echoes out enough that Kate can hear it, and her instincts likely shudder with the knowledge of what that howl means.

The worm and its spawn are dead.

The Garou are alive.

And this is as it should be.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] In a few more bites, the last few worms are reduced to ribbons of pale flesh. The cave is a slaughterhouse. The sort that would earn F's on all government inspections. Some of the piles of rended flesh are still spasming now and then from errant nerve impulses. The Garou are covered in slime and goo and bits of worm.

"Disgusting," Wyrmbreaker states the obvious. Then he plants his paws and shakes out his fur, splattering wyrm detritus every which way.

[Truth's Meridian] When they emerge from the cave, covered head to foot in pieces of wyrm gore, layers of goo in their hair, bloodied and beaten they will find, seated on a large boulder with her arms wrapped around her body and knees drawn up off the ground, trembling, Truth's Meridian.

She has her face hidden beneath her crossed arms, gently rocking back and forth. Her limbs bear the evidence of both battle and her frantic attempts to scrub the remains of the filthy creatures from her clothing. The sleeves of her shirt are torn by claw marks and there are pieces of wyrm meat clinging to her hair where it had fallen loose during the fight.

The Philodox does not raise her face, but rather emits a feeble little sob, crying out in muffled tones: "I hate the woods!"

[Joey] The downside of having a gift that numbs the body's ability to feel pain is that it doesn't give one much warning as to when they reach their limit. Just because Joey can't fee the bites all over her doesn't mean her body doesn't react to the loss of blood. When her body does finally give out, the Rotagar feels nothing except an extreme sense of intense disappointment.

A moment later, her packsister uses a talen to heal Joey, closing some of the wounds, stopping some of the bleeding. Laughs in the Face of Death is on her feet in an instant, and tears through the worms with far more passion than she'd felt before.

When the last of the worms have fallen to the fangs of the Garou, Joey takes a moment to look around, assess the damage. They're all alive. They're all filthy, the worm is dead, destroyed, broken. Her eyes dance, and despite the wounds covering her body, she leaps, twisting her body, and yips.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] At the tail end of Sinclair's howl, the Shadow Lord tips his head back and joins: a briefer, rougher, lower sound, discordant.

When he finishes he snaps his jaws once or twice, licks his chops. They've won the day under the Galliard Gnawer's plan. That doesn't mean the test is over. To Sheridan: "How do you propose we clean the mess?"

[Sheridan] In the wake of battle, they are all covered in slime and blood and ichor, bits of worm stuck in their claws and teeth, hair matted down and the deflated carcasses of mother and babies strewn around them. The Storm Chasers are jubilant, the Unbroken are disgusted, and the stranger, the Bone Gnawer who had not stood up tonight to lead or claim Kin, stands catching her breath for a moment before chuffing to clear her sinuses and furiously shaking to get the creatures' fluids out of her hide.

A moment to celebrate, and then there's the question: how do they propose to clean the mess.

Sheridan cants her head to one side in thought, then abandons her dire wolf form in favor of returning to her human skin. Her hair is sticky, her face, neck and shoulders covered in gunk, and the predacious burn of her Rage has been completely eliminated; she could walk through a crowd of humans and not send them scattering, were she not filthy.

"Perform a cleansing on the carcasses," she says. "Take them as trophies. If any of you can summon a spirit to help, do it; if not, the next hard rain should take care of the rest of the mess for us."

[Warcry] After relinquishing her hold on the sustained last note of her howl, Sinclair drops to the floor of the cave and starts to wriggle and roll and rub her fur against the rock and dirt, cleaning herself as best she can without actually licking any of the slime off of her coat. She remains in hispo, matting her fur and making quite a mess of herself, but it does get the goo off in the end. Rolling her savage, monstrous body back over, she rises once more to her feet and looks around, tongue lolling out.

"Laughs in the Face of Death cleanse," she whuffs, tail wagging again.

[Joey] [Cleansing!]
Dice Rolled:[ 3 d10 ] 4, 6, 8 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Agreement is a blink of his pale eyes.

"If you need me," the hispo chuffs, turning on his haunches, "I am outside."

He climbs the sheer drop easily enough, though with more brute strength than finesse. His claws dig in for purchase, and the churning of raw muscle under his coat brings his mass up, up, and over the top. He's out of sight in seconds.

--

Outside, the direwolf grows to crinos form. He walks directly toward Truth's Meridian, ignoring her weeping, ignoring her trembling, ignoring the rocking.

He goes to her and, without a word of warning, backhands her with his handpaw. All his strength is behind it. He sends the Philodox sprawling.

"Shame, Truth's Meridian." His snarl is soft as a whisper. "Is it not enough that your courage broke, your madness overcame, and you ran from battle? Do you have to add petulance to your sins? Do you want your future packmates to see you sobbing like a child?"

Packmates. In plural. Though that may or may not register.

"Get up."

[Joey] As soon as cleansing is mentioned, Joey is dragging carcasses, gathering them into a more centralized pile. When she's done (with or without the help of the others), she shifts into her birth form, unclasps the bat bag from across her torso, and pulls out her cleansing gear.

When she's finished, and the final howl has died down, she gathers her things once more and puts them all away.

"Hey, Sin!" She tosses her keys at her alpha. Almost before they reach the Glass Walkers hands, Joey is shifting into her lupus form to heal. She doesn't care that there's goo in her fur, that she's covered in blood and gore and ichor.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (lukas is beating on gurlz!)
Dice Rolled:[ 13 d10 ] 1, 2, 2, 4, 5, 8, 8, 8, 8, 9, 9, 9, 10 (Success x 7 at target 6)

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] (wham!)
Dice Rolled:[ 14 d10 ] 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 9, 10 (Success x 4 at target 6)

[Truth's Meridian] (Soak?)
Dice Rolled:[ 2 d10 ] 9, 10 (Success x 2 at target 6)

[Joey] [Ignore that last paragraph!]

[Warcry] Whether or not Joey will perform the cleansing is not a question. She is apparently the only one of them who knows how to do it, and her Alpha just basically informed them that she'd do it. It needs to be done. And so it's done, Sinclair standing a bit to the side glancing at Sheridan occasionally and trying not to wonder what's going on with the two members of the Unbroken outside the cave. She yawns once, slapping her jaws together a few times, and shakes a bit more dust and ichor off her fur, then moves forward to pick up a few wormling heads in her jaws. They're small. She can have a few.

Before she does, however, she looks at Sheridan. This is stating the obvious, in a way, but it is also a verbal submission, even done in whuffs and snarls:

"Flesh of big one is yours. You ended it."

[Truth's Meridian] She does not raise her face when Lukas emerges.

He has seen these fits of hers before, they are nothing new to him. He has seen Katherine in her piques of derangement, proclaiming to him that she was chosen with a maniacal gleam in her pale eyes. Nothing could dissuade the girl from this belief when she was affected by her bloodline's insanity.

But this was different.

This was not a curse of her moon, or her tribe: this was a fear born of natural causes, a bone deep horror of the unclean things that existed in the world. As a child she had lot her wits and fallen, grinding her teeth and kicking out with her legs should even a speck of dirt sully her beautiful gowns. Her father had once carried her into her bedroom and held her in his arms until she calmed.

Her Uncle had backhanded her, and thrown her into a room, pocketing the key and refusing to let the child out until she calmed.

Rosalie had been tormented to return hours later to find her eldest daughter laying on the floor, her arms scratched raw where the dirt had been, her expensive silk wardrobe in tatters around her.

Shame, Katherine! she had admonished.

Shame, Truth's Meridian, Lukas snarls and does not hesitate to backhand the young woman. She topples from her perch without a sound and remains where she falls, an awkward mess of limbs with a smarting red mark on one cheek. Her eyes are tightly closed, and she gives a quiet moan, not from the blow but of a deeper wound -- one that scarred her mind, not her body.

"It is not a sin!" She exclaims with a sudden passion, opening her tear-stained eyes wide and struggling to her knees, first, as if in prayer. "I cannot help it, Lukas! I cannot -- I cannot -- stop --" Her breath wheezes from her throat as she closes off on finishing her sentence, staring up at his unforgiving eyes. She pulls herself to her feet slowly.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Silent as death, the Shadow Lord looms, pitch black in a brightening day.

Birds are finally beginning to sing here now. Leaves stir in the new wind. As Joey Cleanses the great worm's den, freshness enters this part of the forest that was not there before.

Wyrmbreaker says nothing, nothing at all, until Katherine falls silent as well. Until she gets to her feet.

"No," he agrees then, "you're right. You cannot help loathing filth. That is a weakness you will have to live with, perhaps forever. But you can hold your head high and dry your eyes. You can choose to not succumb to your fear utterly. You can certainly keep yourself from whining like a child."

[Joey] The blonde Fenrir shifts, transforming from average, athletic young woman to huge, stocky dire wolf. She moves without being told to help carry out trophies, bodies, whatever she can fit in her jaws and carry up the slope and out. Sinclair told Walks the Tracks that the mother worm was hers. Together Joey and the Fostern rip some of the teeth from the thing's maw, trophies for the Wyrmpole.

She comes out into the open, into the fresh air once more, and sees the Lord and the Fang, and she...ignores them. At least for now. Not her pack, not her business what they discuss or how they discuss it. Instead she continues on to her car. The fangs are dropped and the Rotagar resumes her human form. Keys are fished from her pocket, and what trophies will fit are stowed in the trunk. There's not a lot of space. Cassius is a Camaro, after all.

[Truth's Meridian] Several hours ago now, Truth's Meridian had been bested in a challenge against another Silver Fang who accused her of being weak before the entire Sept. She had lost the Eldership of her tribe -- the fact that it had been handed back to her almost instantly was beside the point -- she had lost. She had been proven to be lacking, to herself, to her tribe and now as she stands before her Alpha with wet eyes and a bruising cheek -- toward Gaia herself.

She had failed.

She was unworthy of her titles.

A great shudder races over the pale-eyed woman's body, head to toe. It is rare to see the great and mighty Katherine Bellamonte belittled, defeated. But defeated she is in this, her shoulders slump and indeed it is as if her entire person wilts before the anger of her pack-mate.

What sort of spineless wretch was she, after all?

None that the House of Bellamonte would call their own. "Yes, you are right." She agrees softly. "I am foolish and weak, I shall make reparations for my failure."

[Warcry] Sinclair is not interested in Hrrgnlk's teeth or flesh, apparently. She picks up the wormling heads she was carrying before and starts climbing up the slope with them dangling from her maw, cloudy eyes bulging and mouths open, teeth drenched in Garou blood. Sinclair looks delighted. When she hauls herself up the slope it's as fast as wind, as though her feet are barely even touching the rock.

There is a reason why Twister took so quickly, so kindly, to these two. There is a reason why Sinclair is so particularly lethal under her stormy, hungry totem. She trots out of the cave with Joey, a furry mess of filth. Her joy, in this form, would be terrifying to a human being, to a wolf, to anything not monstrous itself. To other Garou, she just looks pleased with herself. With all of them, really.

She glances at Lukas and Katherine, seeing the latter curled up round-shouldered and face still wet from weeping on the ground. Sinclair pauses for a moment, but continues on to the Camaro. She shifts to lupus when the heads are dropped in the trunk, begrudgingly shifts to homid so she and Sheridan can pile into the car with Joey.

Sinclair insists on cranking the radio and keeping the windows down to air out some of the stink. She sings along all the back to the Brotherhood.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] "Truth's Meridian, look at me."

He waits until she does.

"You have a weakness. You have many. But you are not weak unless you allow yourself to be. Do you understand?"

[Truth's Meridian] "Oui." She retreats behind her mother's language at first, and then with a struggle, stops herself. "Yes," she translates slowly, picking through her scattered thoughts, they were like a flock of birds, wheeling and turning never to settle.

Her eyes, usually so pale and cool, are full of conflicting emotions -- there is anger, certainly, at her own folly, but also some degree of fear. Of her own mind, of the blood in her veins. Of her decent into madness. "I do try, Lukas." As if she craved the words to be so because she spoke them to him.

"I do try to be strong, and without fear. I am not a coward," she lifts her chin an inch, a flicker of anger at White Oak's remembered slights. "No matter what some will say."

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] "I know." His response is almost mild. It doesn't need to be anything more than that. "If I truly thought you weak and cowardly, you would not be my packmate. And I would have never followed you as Alpha."

A moment later Wyrmbreaker shakes his head, sheds his form and slips down into his birth shape. Homid again, he nods her toward his car.

"What do you think of them?" It's a new topic. He nods in the vague direction the other three females had left in. "I'm considering asking Sinclair and her packmate to join us under Perun."

[Truth's Meridian] They walk together now as the trees begin to fill with bird-life, as the mucus and sludge from the battle dries and hardens on their skin beneath the bright morning sun, shining down through the gaps in the tree-cover as if to remind them that the world had not paused for their battle.

They might have died inside that cave and the sun would still have been shining, the birds would not have ceased singing, nothing would have stilled but their hearts. It is a cruel thing to know, and yet somehow it makes all that they fight more more important, somehow. Neither of them speak again on what has just passed between them; the blow, the tears or the quiet words after. Instead they move on to the Garou who had just fought beside them, and it is here that Katherine's prowess asserts itself, here that she feels secure, and strong.

Here she is nothing but a Philodox, thoughtfully turning over a question and its best possible answer. "They are strong warriors, fast and accurate in a battle. Alone I would question the wisdom of them joining our ranks, but as a pair I think they will be a boon to us."

She muses on. "I even find myself enjoying the Bone Gnawer." She raises her eyes toward the sky. "Perhaps it is the end of days, after all."

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Lukas laughs under his breath. "The Bone Gnawer proved her worth pretty solidly during the moot. She's a good galliard, that much is obvious. And the way she took charge of her moon, I wouldn't be surprised to see her going for Eldership next moot.

"In fact," wry, "if she stays with us -- and I hope she does -- I wouldn't be terribly surprised if she tries to take charge here, too."

He doesn't say it like a bad thing. Lukas believes in competition.

"The other two, I'm a little more uncertain of. They're amazing in battle, and Sinclair brought down half of the Loop for her tribal challenge. But Sinclair also got wyrmtainted along the way, and Joey ... well, I'm not sure what she's doing with her life. I'm not sure what either of them are doing. That's part of why I want them on board, actually. Maybe we can give them some direction."

A moment's pause.

"If we still have a direction of our own."

[Truth's Meridian] She says little as Lukas speaks but adds in her thoughts at points by way of soft hmming beneath her breath. When he mentions that the Bone Gnawer Fostern will most probably challenge him for leadership, when he speaks of his concerns regarding Sinclair and Joey and again when he mentions giving them direction -- it is when he questions the pack's direction that she does more than give back sound effects, she stops his progress with a hand on his arm, a troubled expression wrinkling her brow.

"You doubt the pack's direction? It is true enough we are greatly changed since we first came here. Both the pack as a whole, and ourselves. We have fluctuated," she says slowly, her azure gaze searching his face as she speaks. "We have lost many of our own, to death and to ... other things." Her lips tighten a fraction. "But I do not doubt us, Lukas. We are here for a purpose, a purpose that Gaia has given us herself. She has blessed us with courage and strength. We are here because it is meant to be."

A gentle nod, and Katherine releases his arm and resumes her slow step.

"Besides, what ship does not buckle beneath the storm, Oui? We shall see calmer waters soon enough Wyrmbreaker, I have no doubt."

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] Wyrmbreaker stops when Truth's Meridian takes his arm.

He's in what she's heard him call, jokingly, his 'work uniform'. His killing clothes is a better term. Dedicated gear, head to toe: simple, utilitarian, comfortable, loose. Drawstring pants. A pullover sweatshirt. Cotton socks, sneakers. Nothing extraneous, nothing unnecessary. His shirt has some give beneath her hand; his flesh does not.

"I don't doubt us," he says, slowly. "I don't doubt our cohesion or our unity or even that we have a direction. But I don't know what that direction is."

The words come easier now -- tumbling unfiltered from mind to mouth. He's not so much speaking as he's giving her a glimpse of his thoughts, a stream of consciousness that replaces the quiet, wordless eloquence of the totemic bond they once had.

"We came here idealistic and naive, Katherine. We came to make Maelstrom an example of what is possible. To ... make it a city on a hill. We had ideas of honor and glory and leadership in mind. But is that still us? What are we fighting for now? I know I'm fighting for something, I can feel it driving me, but -- what?

"Victory?" He seems to light on the idea. Tastes it. "At all costs?" Looks at her. "Is that it?"

[Truth's Meridian] Victory at all costs, he asks her.

"Yes," she confesses, then elaborates with an expressive shrug and flick of her fingers outward. "No, maybe.

It would be a falsehood to say that there is not a part of us that craves victory. To crush beneath us our enemies, those weaker than us. We came here the Unbroken Circle, that stood for something to us. It gave us purpose, direction. Filled us with hope." She watches a pair of birds land on the scrub-trail before them, flitter out of their way when they approached.

"Perhaps the goal isn't why we fight, Lukas but merely that we do." She looks at him, her brow rising.

[Wyrmbreaker ... and Wyrms] "To fight for victory, then." Word by word, testing the idea. "At all cost. To remember that everything else -- power, titles, all the squabbling bullshit of the Sept -- is secondary to that."

A moment's thought.

"And to remind others of that if we can. Not by telling them, but by demonstrating it in everything we do."