North for the Summer: Hard Rain- Entaris

[Entaris]

Okay, now that I remember how to roll dice XD

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(8d10)[8][1][7][7][3][1][4][1](32)

[Acanous]

(wow your dice.)
The Umbra is unusually impermiable at the moment. You can't remember the last time that happened. The material world must be at some kind of apex.

Luckily, nobody was around to see your troubles.

[Entaris]

Valan sighs and kneads the bridge of his nose, one of many homid body gestures he'd picked up while training under his Lord brothers. He then decides it might just be a good idea to go home and calls down for his other Beta to meet him with the car out front.

[Acanous]

Your beta is rather punctual, and you've got a car waiting for you by the time you get out the front door. Traffic is light, and with the bridges re-opened you could go practically anywhere...

[Entaris]

As much as he would have liked to cruise the city right this moment, Valan decides he has to find something out first, so directs his Beta to take him home.

[Acanous]

The drive home is mostly uneventful, but when you get back, you notice there's a gouge mark on the door post. The lights are all out, which isn't itself unusual, but the brief whiff of sulfur that your heightened senses detect puts you on edge.

[Entaris]

Valan snarls and shifts to Glabro to get a better read on the scent of the gouge and the sulfur , dropping low in posture to remain silent.

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(5d10)[6][5][8][7][6](32) Dex + Stealth
(4d10)[6][6][5][1](18) Intelligence +Investigation

[Acanous]

Well, you're being fairly stealthy.
Inside the home, there's an overturned table, and broken glass litters the floor. You avoid crunching on it. The place looks like someone went over it briefly, and evidence of a fight, in which at least one Garou was involved, is readily apparent.
A few blood spatters mar the counter and sink, and a bloody handprint on the refrigerator door promises a garish surprise.

[Entaris]

Valan takes a sniff at the blood on the fridge to identify it, then slowly opens the door, other claw at the ready.

[Acanous]

Smells like one of your neighbors. Inside the fridge is an assortment of beer, old pizza, some stuff for a salad, and a human head on a plate. Guy isn't anyone you know offhand. Probably a human contact of one of your packmates.
That, or someone who just got really, really unlucky.

[Entaris]

Valan grunts softly at the sight of the head and decides to do a cursoury sweep of the house in case anything ELSE was left behind...or taken.

[Acanous]

why yes, in fact. You notice the totem from above the door is missing from it's traditional mount. It would seem someone or something decided to go muss up your den, possibly injure or kill your guards, and left. It Reeks of the Worm. Taking any precautions aside from stealth?

[Entaris]

Valan clenches his jaw and snorts in annoyance, shifting back to Homid for a moment to remove his suit and shoes and punch a message into his phone,

Spoiler: Message to Beta, Lords, Talons and any local Kin.

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Den attacked. Wyrm-sign everywhere. The White hunts.

He then slipped his phone carefully into his suit pocket, hung it in the closet and swelled into his favored Hispo form, the white of his scar spreading from his milk-white eye to encompass his head and chest and back in snow-white fur, only the "boots" of his legs being the signature night-black of the Shadow Lords.

Spoiler: Shift roll: Hispo Diff 7

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(8d10)[7][4][9][6][10][7][4][9](56)

The large wolf raising its head to the room and drew in a breath, letting the nose it was born with and Gaia's will show him the path to his Enemy.

Spoiler: Sensing: Diff -1 for Hispo

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(6d10)[1][10][7][4][1][5](28)

[Acanous]

Your phone vibrates with acknowledgements and fury. Seems help is on the way.
The shift to Hispo is easily done, your natural form flowing out from your body like an exhaled breath.
Once you've opened your eyes properly, the scent of the Wyrm coalesces- you know there are three enemies upstairs, unnatural things, corrupted spirits. There was something stronger here, but it is gone now.

[Entaris]

Snarling to himself, Valan creeps slowly up the stairs, large Dire Wolf paws making his steps as sure as they were silent as he crept up towards his prey, shifting into the Umbra as he neared.

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(8d10)[4][6][9][3][4][6][1][8](41)

[Acanous]

Inside the Umbra, the once pristine and sacred den is splotched with pulsating, corrupted darkness. The red, glowing eye in the sky seems to be watching you as you ascend.
Three figures who were once human await you- people from the reserve, one of them a nun. You recognize their scents as your presence in the umbra forces the corruption to recoil. They have not noticed you, though they are marked by roiling shadows with glowing red eyes- they would likely see you if you were not so stealthy.

[Entaris]

{{If they're in the Umbra, don't have me jump out of the Umbra}}

They invaded his home. Tainted his den. Killed his Kinfolk. Valan the White let the Rage build inside him a long moment before springing into action, lunging out of the Umbra to rake the nearest across the chest and neck with a great claw before sinking his fangs into the next in distance.


Lunging Rake manuever

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(9d10)[4][6][7][9][9][8][8][3][6](60)
Damage (5d10)[4][2][5][3][8](22)

Spend Rage

Bite

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(9d10)[8][7][4][10][3][10][3][7][8](60)
Damage (7d10)[1][9][8][3][6][1][6](34)

{{Roll die from extra successes for me plz}}

[Acanous]

(7d10)[6][3][10][10][7][10][6](52)
(8d10)[2][2][6][4][7][1][2][10](34)
You lunge from the safety of shadow and tear into one of these twisted home invaders. your claws tear easily into it's roiling black form, which spurts ichor onto the once pristine floor of your den.
Unsatisfied with one kill, you tear into the second of the three with savage hate.
The *Taste* of these things is wrong, and you can't help but wonder if biting into them may be a mistake...

Initiative: (1d10+6)[9]

[Entaris]

Here's hopin

Spoiler: Initiiative

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(1d0+8)[9]

[Acanous]

(huh. You all act at the same time. What...bad rolls, really.)
Enemy actions:
Shade one goes for a grapple.
(6d10)[2][5][4][7][1][6](25)

Shade two burns darker, like it's pulling on some reserve of dark energy. Aside from that, it does nothing.

[Entaris]

Valan nimbly dodges the grappler and lunges out toward the darkening spirit, jaws outspread for vengeance.


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(9d10)[6][1][7][8][2][1][4][10][10](49)


Damage
(7d10)[7][4][1][10][4][8][3](37)

Extra successes as apply
(7d10)[7][10][3][6][5][7][10](48)

[Acanous]

As your jaws close on the darkening spirit, it seems to melt into you. The taste is vile and full of corruption- and then it erupts into black flame inside your mouth.
The remainder of it's body explodes, the corpse shrapnel pelting at your body.

(3d10)[2][2][7](11) fire damage and one point of aggravated.

The last remaining thing attempts to grapple you once again.
(6d10)[7][4][9][7][8][10](45)

[Entaris]

Valan winces from the explosion inside his face, but nonetheless is able to turn and face down the last one as it tries to grab his hulking wolf form.


Soak
(6d10)[3][9][4][4][3][5](28)

Grapple Resist
(9d10)[5][3][3][3][3][2][1][3][5](28)

[Acanous]

Oddly enough, the creature manages to wrap it's elastic-like shade arms around you, and has you ensconced in cloying darkness. Now, it begins to melt on to you, darkening like it's packmate did.
(6d10)[7][2][7][3][10][1](30)

[Entaris]

Valan growls and snaps at the encroaching darkness, raking his claws against it to find purchase to get out.

(9d10)[7][2][8][9][3][5][5][8][9](56)

[Acanous]

You break free of the darkness, though your mouth is still burning. (Two more rounds of burning, but it's just 1 damage. This sure would suck for a Vampire.)
The tainted creature lunges for you, self-preservation gone the way of the rest of it's rational instincts.
(6d10)[7][6][9][8][7][10](47)

[Entaris]

Valan decides against ripping the thing in half with ihs teeth due to the burning still reminding him of the nature of these malignant spirits. Instead, he raises one great paw and brings it crashing down onto the head ofthe monstrosity as it careens toward him.

(7d10)[3][10][8][10][10][3][4](48)

DAM
[rollv]5d10[rollv]

Extras as needed
[rollv]7d10[rollv]

[Entaris]

DAM
(5d10)[3][4][10][10][6](33)

Extras as needed
(7d10)[7][6][6][10][5][8][10](52)

[Acanous]

you easily rend the last spirit's head from it's torso.
The pressure of this vile taint seems to recede a little. From the umbra, the room looks like a photograph of it's usual self. The bed is made and unmade depending on how you look at it, with the lights being on or off with no real difference from your perspective. The attached bedroom is much the same, and you've yet to inspect the bathroom down the hall, but your acute senses don't detect any more hostile creatures.

What these three things were doing in your den, though, is concerning.

[Entaris]

The immediate threat negated, Valan shifts back to his natural Lupus state, a state he'd been foriegn to for too long lately. Shaking the gore from his snowy coat, he shifted back out of the Umbra and began to take stock of his home while waiting for the others to come.

(4d10)[9][5][8][3](25) Investigation -2 diff for Lupus form