Post by jadedarkstar on Sept 21, 2016 3:10:00 GMT
This was epic and deserves to be saved as a personal story
[18:32] * %Pepper looks to Aine to start
[18:34] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> "As well ye know you opened us a moon bridge ta the Sept of Moonlight Winter...We arrived there safe an' sound...all of us ready too begin a journey to which we could nae forsee the end... They told us our forst clue had moved ta Saltire Risin', that's Edinburgh's Sept.... There we spoke with the Alpha and Talesinger who told us our clue was in the possession of a
[18:34] <+SarahH> Silver Fang by the name of Brendon MacTavish (more)
[18:35] * Liam he would listen to every word as each of the kids sat still smiling and enjoying the story as they had grown up to respect story time for stories were not just entertainment but most offten became lessons to learn.
[18:38] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> "We found his residence ta be not far from the Sept of Lion's Gate in the Highlands and so we traveled there...Sadly we came upon a group of four Ghouls, that's Vampiric servents, attacking the place...Pepper shot 'em with one o' her pearls...Fellin' our foe in but one move. We entered the house ta find MAcTavish had gone ta Gaia and were met there by a group of
[18:38] <+SarahH> folk from the local Sept...The Wyrmfoe ta be precise...One Robert Strachan, former keeper of the Strachan Boga, Robert Strachan, Stag's Champion, Bearer of Macool's Burden, Stonethrower, KegSmasher and Ale Slayer, Elder Ahroun of the Fianna." pauses there for effect but there IS more...Liam can tell
[18:39] <+SarahH> ((ignore the second Robert Strachan))
[18:39] <+SarahH> ((gah log weeding))
[18:40] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> *grins*
[18:40] * Liam addy scooted closer to acel who put an arm around her shoulder. When the vampires servent were spoken of she looked scared. acel said "don't worry sister mine, I won't let them hurt you ot anina" he smiled to the two kiddos. Liam smiled listening to the tale that aine told.
[18:41] <Liam> "go on" he smiled to her
[18:43] <+Eliana> Hannah settles back down and listens to the story
[18:43] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> We found there the first third of a Roman cypher...That promised us the tale of how Lion fell...Written by the ancestors of my people...It seems it was divided durin' a raid on Lindisfarne and the second piece was in Fenrir hands...So we travelled thence to Isensol." she steps back, allowing Ethan to pick up the tell
[18:44] * Liam he looked from her to Ethan.
[18:44] * Silence`` listened.. watching these tails
[18:46] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> &steps forward* "We were greeted at Isensol by Jokul Firehelm, Jarl of that sept, and King of the Fenrir, (he's also my Mate's uncle) *he grins* "In consultation with the Talesinger and Ritesmistress of the Sept, we consulted The Shimmering Wall, an ancient umbra artifact a wall of silvered glass...that can see into the Umbra, and beyond...in the very Lands of the
[18:46] <+Ethan`> DEAD....."
[18:47] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles hearing the name of her Uncle
[18:47] * +Nora sits with the kids and listens closely to Ethan as he recites his story, staring at Ethan too long and too closely.
[18:48] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "we sought out our ancestors, from the Silent Striders, the Get of Fenris and the Fianna. My ancestor, Bjorn Ironsides, pointed us and North to above the Arctic circle, where the family of our dear Kenzie Rose holds power."
[18:48] * Liam angel smiled remember the king who gave her the bow
[18:49] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles more to Ethan, twirling the ring he gave her softly
[18:49] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> does look very surprised
[18:51] * Liam smiled as he looked to ethan then to pepper wondering if the story teller had changed.
[18:51] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "It was at Harrowing sky I learned a secret, unveiled to me by the Fenrir Elders. Unknown to me, I have carried the blood of the Fenrir in mu veins since my birth, the Talesinger Sigrid, The ICe Queen's Howl, is my cousin, her mother's mother and my mother's mother being sisters. We found the Second Cipher, which revealed the identity of the messenger, and his
[18:51] <+Ethan`> destination.....a Silent Strider, known only by his surname Sjotet, The Darkhaired"
[18:51] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> *steps back and smiles to pepper*
[18:52] <+SarahH> ((more...player derp))
[18:52] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "les I forget....the kidnapping of our own Talesinger.....Harrowing sky...is a remote outpost"
[18:52] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> blushes and looks down, knowing Sean will flip
[18:53] * Liam he would look back to Ethan with a nod to him "very interesting" then to pepper.
[18:53] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "so the male kinfolk were very pleased to see two exotic beauties such our own Talesinger and Keeper amongst them. Two of the Kinfolk, took their...appreciation too far, and assault Aine, kidnapping her to a lair far form teh Sept.....
[18:53] <+Ethan`> <Sean> *growls a bit, his fists clenching*
[18:53] * Liam growled him self shaking his head "that is not good"
[18:54] <Liam> "were they punished?"
[18:54] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> lets Ethan answer as it is his section
[18:55] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "Jalr Reinhardt made the decision, and it was this: "They will be put into the position that they tried to force this female into holding! They will be gelded. They will be put into dresses and from henceforth, Tom and Dick will be known as Teresa and Diana...and they will service the bachelors of this community in any way those garou bachelors see fit!
[18:55] * %Pepper stays quiet..this is Ethan's part. The part of treachery and punishment.
[18:56] * %Pepper watches some of the guys actually wince and cross their legs..kinfolk and perhaps garou alike.
[18:56] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "The two kin were tied to posts, and in front of the sept, had their penises and balls cut form their bodies and casts into the fire....gelded for their crimes against Aine, and the laws of hospitality"
[18:57] * Liam Liam could not help it He laughed boy did he laugh and a knee slapper as well. "serves them right." Addy covered her ears and acel laughed when uncle ethan explained excatly what happened.
[18:57] <Liam> "that had to hurt" acel said
[18:58] * %Pepper nods and waits.
[18:58] * +Nora tilts her head slowly to the side as she listens to the gruesome tale.
[18:59] * %Pepper waits for Ethan to finish.
[18:59] <Liam> "Can I uncover my ears now uncle ethan" addy nearly screamed
[19:00] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "yes you can....from there...we had to journey to the very heart of darkness on Earth. a Place of horror, of pain, of atrocity....but also one fo strength, heroism and hope"
[19:00] * Liam she uncovered dher ears and listened tot he rest
[19:00] <Draka> <New Jersey? o.o>
[19:01] <+Nora>
[19:02] <+Eliana> ((no, he said "but also noe of strength, heroism, and hope... NJ has no hope))
[19:02] * %Pepper nods and rises. "Indeed. That night I made a call to the sept at Dachauchim...The Alpha's name was Aleric, and he was more than welcoming over the phone. He told us to come ahead, and I made sure he knew who all was coming. Aine, Ethan and I, along with our titles, etc. Well...we get there the next day, and Aleric and his Wyrmfoe meet us. We presented our host gifts and Aleric
[19:02] * %Pepper started going off about how he was disappointed in me because I brought "outsiders" to his sept.
[19:04] * +Nora turns her attention to Pepper, her bare feet wiggling a bit in the plush grass.
[19:04] <%Pepper> I reminded him that he'd agreed...three times...to hosting us and mentioned that Ethan and I were cousins. He accepted Ethan but then he tried to put Ethan and I in an urdu and tried to force Aine to sleep in a tent! He was faithless and not a man of his word! He asked Eleanora if he was drunk at the time and she said he'd only sobered up that morning of our arrival. Little
[19:04] <%Pepper> did we know he was on his downhill slide to madness.\
[19:05] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles to Ethan, pride in her eyes
[19:05] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> *wraps his arms around Astrid*
[19:05] * Liam listened "Oh my"
[19:07] <%Pepper> She got us a place to sleep...a 4 person urdu with no running water and we were left alone there. Soon enough we were visited by the sept Theurge. She wanted to see the picture that Ethan carried of his grandfather and mine. Unnoticed by any of us, there was a third person in the picture. A kin who fought at Dachau with our ancestors to free it. A brave kin named Munroe who
[19:07] <%Pepper> had earned the deedname Mad Mike. An Ancestor of our beloved Talesinger, Aine. We find that we three are tied together, if not in blood then in chivalric and brave camaraderie during WW2 in the freeing of the Jews from Dauchau from the internment camps!
[19:08] <%Pepper> Then we spoke to the Talesinger of that camp, and we learned that the third part of the cypher was taken by an ancient Garou named Sjotet to the mountains of Romania. Sjotet, in Hungarian, means One of DarkHair...a unexpected relative!
[19:09] * Liam smiled "well that is interesting that your family were tied together as are you ina way. Go on" he smiled to pepper.
[19:11] * Silence`` looks over to Hannah and nods
[19:11] <%Pepper> The next day we toured Dachau, and there we were triply blessed in the veil thinning...we got to actually speak with our ancestors, Thomas, Nathan, and MadMike. The meeting ended when they were called back to duty. The next day we learned of Aleric's unfortunate death overnight. Apparently, he'd been quite mad for a while and the night before, he went into an uncontrollable frenzy,
[19:11] <%Pepper> a danger to all. They had to stop him with silver to the brain. Thus endeth the long life of one who started honorable and slid into madness. BUT...there was a new Alpha. Mihaela. We had not had one morsel of food the whole time we were there, and she made sure we ate and drank and then we moon bridge to Romania.
[19:13] <%Pepper> In Romania, we found what we sought. The Alpha...another DarkHair, or Sjotet, met us there and imagined my surprise when I found that VandalHeart has a brother in arms....Vandal's Arm! He is wielded by that Alpha, Marco. Anyway, we spoke to Brighid there...another elder Sjotet and she told us the tale that our Talesinger will now tell to you, and she will tell you our ending.
[19:13] <%Pepper> Aine?
[19:14] * %Pepper steps back, her chin held high, her order Badge upon her chest.
[19:15] * Liam smiled "very good job and so much history and family you have found and brought back, tales of congratulations all of you in finding more family ties is a very hard thing to do. I should know" he smiled to his kids before looking back to Aine. The sadness in his eyes there a split second when he looked at the kids but gone just as quick
[19:16] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> steps forward again. "That Talesinger sent us ta Silver Tara so that the tale we found along our way could be entered into the silver Record...I will tell that tale in a moment...but not afore telling ye that the Elder forgot ta send a spirit in advance, and we caught Tara unawares...This displeased the Great Fianna of that Sept until we explained our mission and
[19:16] <+SarahH> told our tale...They made us welcome and sent us home on the wings of the following tale...
[19:17] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> pauses letting everyone still and goes silent her eyes flitting to each person there one by one
[19:17] * %Pepper stands tall and proud.
[19:18] * Liam smiled and made sure the kids were quiet then looked to her "go on Talesinger the floor is yours"
[19:18] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> Around 122 of the common era the White Howlers and Kin annihilated 9th Legion, sacrificing all survivors in dark rites. Leading the Romans to build Hadrian's Wall on their Northern British frontier in an unsuccessful effort to hold back the Caledonians. Until The White Howlers fall to the Wyrm in 200, or so Stag's children say...
[19:18] * ekko smiles as she nibbles and listens...Anina is content to listen next to Addy
[19:18] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ...The Fenrir also fought against the corrupted White Howlers, blaming the Fianna for the fall of their cousins. Seeing that they had become weak, the Fenrir launched invasions against Ireland to test their brethren's defenses and take their Caern's from them if they proved weak. Only after several hundred years was a truce called, seeing that the energies spendt
[19:18] <+SarahH> on fighting each other should rather be directed at the enemy. The Fenrir continued to travel with their Kin, even reaching as far south as Constantinople in their wake. During these days, the other tribes began to call the Fenrir the "get" of Fenris, originally to shame them. Most younger Fenrir, however, gladly adopted the name, pointing to the heroic of Beowulf and stating that
[19:18] <+SarahH> it was better to be a mere "get" of Fenris than to be a part of any of the other weakling tribes...
[19:19] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ...The Tribes of Glory, so the Spiders say, are the greatest warriors of the Nation and include the Get of Fenris, the Fianna, and the Wendigo, with the former White Howlers as the lost part of them. Since you seek their fall I will answer the why but not the how...as that knowledge died with the last of their Galliards...along with many songs long silenced and
[19:19] <+SarahH> tales untold..." She stops there, allowing the pain and horror of lost knowledge fall around her, affecting each as it will.
[19:22] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ...They fell due to their own pride...They took their fight with wyrm to it's darkest and worst places...and they fought alone...Seeking aid from no other Gaian tribe...In their haste and desire, they lost sight of the Nation, Litany, and their own falling from it...It was not long before they were consumed by their hate and turned into the very things they had set
[19:22] <+SarahH> out to destroy...Their totem, Lion, passed into a deep slumber becoming a part of other totems.Chimera and Sphinx in specific. There he sleeps unnoticed and unrecognised but for the wisest eyes...Awaiting his renewal perhaps...or perhaps there as a reminder of the errors of our past and our hopes for the future." She lets that knowledge strike home...hitting like a perfectly aimed
[19:22] <+SarahH> shot from the bow she now carries on her back.
[19:23] * %Pepper looks around to see who caught the right words in that last bit.
[19:23] * Silence`` looked up and took another hand full meat cubes to eat as he listened
[19:23] * Liam smiled listening to the full tale.
[19:25] * +Nora watches Aine intently as she talks as if every word she says is deeply important to the petite girl. Her fingers flex and spread a bit in her lap, and she fidgets with the fabric of her skirts. It doesn't seem quite like she is anxious or bored, but more like there is some nervous energy built up by the tale that simply will not be held in her little frame.
[19:25] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> "Thus did I speak to the Silver Record and thus do I speak now...to you, Liam Rhya. Over six countries have our feet touched to bring ye this tale...not of the fall of Lion but that Lion only slumbers. We have fought, found family, and found answeres unplanned...Have we succeeded in yer mission?"
[19:25] * %Pepper steps up beside Aine and nods for Ethan to do the same. Three together, equal in their search for knowledge.
[19:26] * +Ethan` puts his arms over Aine and pepper, the three freaking musketeers
[19:27] <+Eliana> Hannah has listened to the story. Her eyes looking at each that spoke. She's kin that didn't grow up with the knowledge of all things garou, though. It doesn't hit her as it might some others.
[19:27] * ekko nods a bit
[19:30] * Silence`` looks up as they all talk of Loin and frowns
[19:31] * %Pepper nods to Silence to assure him...it's true.
[19:32] * +Nora looks to Silence intently and mutely for a long moment.
[19:32] * Liam he stood once it was finished and would clap for his three. "You have done this tale well and not only found it but saved it to the silver record. This is a job well done." he would shift his vocal cords and Howl out to the whole sept <Howl>Let this be known my brotheren,Pepper DarkHair, Mother's Fury the Vandalhearted by deed, Fostern Galliard of the children of Owl, Member of the Order of Aurelius, packed with theSleepless Sentinels, Keeper of the Land for the Sept of the Twilight Dawn, mate to Nathan Wolfe, US Marshall and kin to the Shadowlords., Aine Strachan-Kennedy, born of woman under the talesinger's moon to Stag's brood; chosen of Brigid; bearer of the Strachan Boga; member of the Songkeepers and the Callin' Shadows; deeded Caoin-cha-mother, and Airgeadòran; Fostern of the Nation; Talesinger to the Sept o' the Twilight Dawn and mated to Sean Kennedy kin ta Stag, and Ethan, Steel's Song, Speaker for the Fallen, Wielder of Stick, Beta of the Calling Shadows, Master of Challenges for the Sept of the Twilight dawn, Mate to Astrid Brynnasdawn and Member of the Fangs of Garm have all successfully compleated the challenge I Emres Ulliam 'Liam'"Brings the beer" Trevelyn, Adren, Fianna, Galliard, Wolf Knight of the the Fiona house, ambassador between them and our Sept, and, Eldest of the Fianna tribe and Galliards, residential brew-master of the sept, of the River Caern, The Sept of the Twilight Dawn & of the Sheridan Clan. Do at this moment announce their rise in rank among the nation, our tribes, their packs, and this sept. Welcome, Gaia three more Adren's into your ranks. May Gaia bless you always. "
[19:33] <+Eliana> Hannah looks at Silence curiously
[19:33] * Silence`` looks around in thought relaxing slowly
[19:34] * Liam Acel repeated the howl for Addy who was only still learning the howl language seeing she would take after her mother, while acel would take after his father.
19:34] * +Ethan` takes up the howl
[19:34] * %Pepper tears form and fall of happiness as she too takes up the howl!!
[19:35] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> takes up the howl
[19:35] * +Nora turns her attention back to Liam and listens close to his words. She does not howl for them. She is only kin.
[19:36] * ekko applaudes
[19:36] * Silence`` ... dont howl. yanno. err cat and no noise
[19:36] * Liam any who didnt understand some one will do the wookie rule as always have this time it was a little seven in half year old boy who looekd the spittign image of his father at that age.
[19:37] * Liam he will smile and look to them each "well I better get my rank soon or I cant be called the elder any more can I" he joked but reached over giving each of them a hug and ethan a elbow shake and slap on the back.
[19:38] * %Pepper hugs Liam, smiling from ear to ear, tears on her face from joy
[19:41] * Liam he smiled and puleld back "I have one more thing"
[19:43] <Liam> "from this day forward you will be known as Aine "Retagaired Cridhe" Strachan-Kennedy, born of woman under the talesinger's moon to Stag's brood; chosen of Brigid; bearer of the Strachan Boga; member of the Songkeepers and the Callin' Shadows; deeded Caoin-cha-motha, and Airgeadòran; Adren of the Nation; Talesinger to the Sept o' the Twilight Dawn and mated to Sean Kennedy kin ta Stag." he says first to Aine.
19:45] * Liam turning to Ethan he smiled "and you shall be known as Ethan, "Rekyndaed Dygð" Steel's Song, Speaker for the Fallen, Wielder of Stick, Beta of the Calling Shadows, Master of Challenges for the Sept of the Twilist dawn, Mate to Astrid Brynnasdawn and Member of the Fangs of Garm, meaning Rekindled Fidelity"
[19:46] <Liam> "and you my Pepper, shall be known as Pepper DarkHair, "Méreg's Szív"Mother's Fury the Vandalhearted by deed, Adren Galliard of the children of Owl, Member of the Order of Aurelius, packed with theSleepless Sentinels, Keeper of the Land for the Sept of the Twilight Dawn, mate to Nathan Wolfe, US Marshall and kin to the Shadowlords."
[19:46] * %Pepper bows but doesn't know what that means...
[19:47] <Liam> "that is your name in Hungarian" he would add
[19:48] <%Pepper> And..in english? I'm sorry...I don't speak Hungarian...
[19:48] * %Pepper looks shamefaced that she even has to ask what her new deed name is in English.
[19:48] <Liam> (oh i goffed give me a secound)
[19:48] <+Ethan`> "Venom's Heart"
[19:49] * +Ethan` grins
[19:49] <Liam> "That means Venom's Heart, in Hungarian" he smiled to her
[19:49] * %Pepper grins. "I like it...thank you. all because of a little dragon's "pearl"...wow." She bows again.
[19:51] <Liam> "you have all earned them, now please for those who can not drink I have made some very nice juice spitzers with no problems for the babes" he smield to those who were pregent who knew how he knew but he knew. then he looked to the rest of those there "and of course drink up and be merry for this is a celbration."
[19:52] <+Eliana> Hannah gives Silence a hug then stands "Congratulations to the three of you" *She smiles and heads up the tunnel*
[19:53] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles and takes a non booy drink, looking at Sean
[19:53] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ^
[19:53] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> takes one too but looks at EThan
[19:53] <Liam> (i would give the three who were in the mission 5xp for the telling and 2xp to those who listened if oked by the ops)
[18:32] * %Pepper looks to Aine to start
[18:34] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> "As well ye know you opened us a moon bridge ta the Sept of Moonlight Winter...We arrived there safe an' sound...all of us ready too begin a journey to which we could nae forsee the end... They told us our forst clue had moved ta Saltire Risin', that's Edinburgh's Sept.... There we spoke with the Alpha and Talesinger who told us our clue was in the possession of a
[18:34] <+SarahH> Silver Fang by the name of Brendon MacTavish (more)
[18:35] * Liam he would listen to every word as each of the kids sat still smiling and enjoying the story as they had grown up to respect story time for stories were not just entertainment but most offten became lessons to learn.
[18:38] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> "We found his residence ta be not far from the Sept of Lion's Gate in the Highlands and so we traveled there...Sadly we came upon a group of four Ghouls, that's Vampiric servents, attacking the place...Pepper shot 'em with one o' her pearls...Fellin' our foe in but one move. We entered the house ta find MAcTavish had gone ta Gaia and were met there by a group of
[18:38] <+SarahH> folk from the local Sept...The Wyrmfoe ta be precise...One Robert Strachan, former keeper of the Strachan Boga, Robert Strachan, Stag's Champion, Bearer of Macool's Burden, Stonethrower, KegSmasher and Ale Slayer, Elder Ahroun of the Fianna." pauses there for effect but there IS more...Liam can tell
[18:39] <+SarahH> ((ignore the second Robert Strachan))
[18:39] <+SarahH> ((gah log weeding))
[18:40] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> *grins*
[18:40] * Liam addy scooted closer to acel who put an arm around her shoulder. When the vampires servent were spoken of she looked scared. acel said "don't worry sister mine, I won't let them hurt you ot anina" he smiled to the two kiddos. Liam smiled listening to the tale that aine told.
[18:41] <Liam> "go on" he smiled to her
[18:43] <+Eliana> Hannah settles back down and listens to the story
[18:43] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> We found there the first third of a Roman cypher...That promised us the tale of how Lion fell...Written by the ancestors of my people...It seems it was divided durin' a raid on Lindisfarne and the second piece was in Fenrir hands...So we travelled thence to Isensol." she steps back, allowing Ethan to pick up the tell
[18:44] * Liam he looked from her to Ethan.
[18:44] * Silence`` listened.. watching these tails
[18:46] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> &steps forward* "We were greeted at Isensol by Jokul Firehelm, Jarl of that sept, and King of the Fenrir, (he's also my Mate's uncle) *he grins* "In consultation with the Talesinger and Ritesmistress of the Sept, we consulted The Shimmering Wall, an ancient umbra artifact a wall of silvered glass...that can see into the Umbra, and beyond...in the very Lands of the
[18:46] <+Ethan`> DEAD....."
[18:47] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles hearing the name of her Uncle
[18:47] * +Nora sits with the kids and listens closely to Ethan as he recites his story, staring at Ethan too long and too closely.
[18:48] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "we sought out our ancestors, from the Silent Striders, the Get of Fenris and the Fianna. My ancestor, Bjorn Ironsides, pointed us and North to above the Arctic circle, where the family of our dear Kenzie Rose holds power."
[18:48] * Liam angel smiled remember the king who gave her the bow
[18:49] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles more to Ethan, twirling the ring he gave her softly
[18:49] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> does look very surprised
[18:51] * Liam smiled as he looked to ethan then to pepper wondering if the story teller had changed.
[18:51] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "It was at Harrowing sky I learned a secret, unveiled to me by the Fenrir Elders. Unknown to me, I have carried the blood of the Fenrir in mu veins since my birth, the Talesinger Sigrid, The ICe Queen's Howl, is my cousin, her mother's mother and my mother's mother being sisters. We found the Second Cipher, which revealed the identity of the messenger, and his
[18:51] <+Ethan`> destination.....a Silent Strider, known only by his surname Sjotet, The Darkhaired"
[18:51] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> *steps back and smiles to pepper*
[18:52] <+SarahH> ((more...player derp))
[18:52] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "les I forget....the kidnapping of our own Talesinger.....Harrowing sky...is a remote outpost"
[18:52] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> blushes and looks down, knowing Sean will flip
[18:53] * Liam he would look back to Ethan with a nod to him "very interesting" then to pepper.
[18:53] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "so the male kinfolk were very pleased to see two exotic beauties such our own Talesinger and Keeper amongst them. Two of the Kinfolk, took their...appreciation too far, and assault Aine, kidnapping her to a lair far form teh Sept.....
[18:53] <+Ethan`> <Sean> *growls a bit, his fists clenching*
[18:53] * Liam growled him self shaking his head "that is not good"
[18:54] <Liam> "were they punished?"
[18:54] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> lets Ethan answer as it is his section
[18:55] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "Jalr Reinhardt made the decision, and it was this: "They will be put into the position that they tried to force this female into holding! They will be gelded. They will be put into dresses and from henceforth, Tom and Dick will be known as Teresa and Diana...and they will service the bachelors of this community in any way those garou bachelors see fit!
[18:55] * %Pepper stays quiet..this is Ethan's part. The part of treachery and punishment.
[18:56] * %Pepper watches some of the guys actually wince and cross their legs..kinfolk and perhaps garou alike.
[18:56] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "The two kin were tied to posts, and in front of the sept, had their penises and balls cut form their bodies and casts into the fire....gelded for their crimes against Aine, and the laws of hospitality"
[18:57] * Liam Liam could not help it He laughed boy did he laugh and a knee slapper as well. "serves them right." Addy covered her ears and acel laughed when uncle ethan explained excatly what happened.
[18:57] <Liam> "that had to hurt" acel said
[18:58] * %Pepper nods and waits.
[18:58] * +Nora tilts her head slowly to the side as she listens to the gruesome tale.
[18:59] * %Pepper waits for Ethan to finish.
[18:59] <Liam> "Can I uncover my ears now uncle ethan" addy nearly screamed
[19:00] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> "yes you can....from there...we had to journey to the very heart of darkness on Earth. a Place of horror, of pain, of atrocity....but also one fo strength, heroism and hope"
[19:00] * Liam she uncovered dher ears and listened tot he rest
[19:00] <Draka> <New Jersey? o.o>
[19:01] <+Nora>
[19:02] <+Eliana> ((no, he said "but also noe of strength, heroism, and hope... NJ has no hope))
[19:02] * %Pepper nods and rises. "Indeed. That night I made a call to the sept at Dachauchim...The Alpha's name was Aleric, and he was more than welcoming over the phone. He told us to come ahead, and I made sure he knew who all was coming. Aine, Ethan and I, along with our titles, etc. Well...we get there the next day, and Aleric and his Wyrmfoe meet us. We presented our host gifts and Aleric
[19:02] * %Pepper started going off about how he was disappointed in me because I brought "outsiders" to his sept.
[19:04] * +Nora turns her attention to Pepper, her bare feet wiggling a bit in the plush grass.
[19:04] <%Pepper> I reminded him that he'd agreed...three times...to hosting us and mentioned that Ethan and I were cousins. He accepted Ethan but then he tried to put Ethan and I in an urdu and tried to force Aine to sleep in a tent! He was faithless and not a man of his word! He asked Eleanora if he was drunk at the time and she said he'd only sobered up that morning of our arrival. Little
[19:04] <%Pepper> did we know he was on his downhill slide to madness.\
[19:05] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles to Ethan, pride in her eyes
[19:05] <+Ethan`> <Ethan> *wraps his arms around Astrid*
[19:05] * Liam listened "Oh my"
[19:07] <%Pepper> She got us a place to sleep...a 4 person urdu with no running water and we were left alone there. Soon enough we were visited by the sept Theurge. She wanted to see the picture that Ethan carried of his grandfather and mine. Unnoticed by any of us, there was a third person in the picture. A kin who fought at Dachau with our ancestors to free it. A brave kin named Munroe who
[19:07] <%Pepper> had earned the deedname Mad Mike. An Ancestor of our beloved Talesinger, Aine. We find that we three are tied together, if not in blood then in chivalric and brave camaraderie during WW2 in the freeing of the Jews from Dauchau from the internment camps!
[19:08] <%Pepper> Then we spoke to the Talesinger of that camp, and we learned that the third part of the cypher was taken by an ancient Garou named Sjotet to the mountains of Romania. Sjotet, in Hungarian, means One of DarkHair...a unexpected relative!
[19:09] * Liam smiled "well that is interesting that your family were tied together as are you ina way. Go on" he smiled to pepper.
[19:11] * Silence`` looks over to Hannah and nods
[19:11] <%Pepper> The next day we toured Dachau, and there we were triply blessed in the veil thinning...we got to actually speak with our ancestors, Thomas, Nathan, and MadMike. The meeting ended when they were called back to duty. The next day we learned of Aleric's unfortunate death overnight. Apparently, he'd been quite mad for a while and the night before, he went into an uncontrollable frenzy,
[19:11] <%Pepper> a danger to all. They had to stop him with silver to the brain. Thus endeth the long life of one who started honorable and slid into madness. BUT...there was a new Alpha. Mihaela. We had not had one morsel of food the whole time we were there, and she made sure we ate and drank and then we moon bridge to Romania.
[19:13] <%Pepper> In Romania, we found what we sought. The Alpha...another DarkHair, or Sjotet, met us there and imagined my surprise when I found that VandalHeart has a brother in arms....Vandal's Arm! He is wielded by that Alpha, Marco. Anyway, we spoke to Brighid there...another elder Sjotet and she told us the tale that our Talesinger will now tell to you, and she will tell you our ending.
[19:13] <%Pepper> Aine?
[19:14] * %Pepper steps back, her chin held high, her order Badge upon her chest.
[19:15] * Liam smiled "very good job and so much history and family you have found and brought back, tales of congratulations all of you in finding more family ties is a very hard thing to do. I should know" he smiled to his kids before looking back to Aine. The sadness in his eyes there a split second when he looked at the kids but gone just as quick
[19:16] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> steps forward again. "That Talesinger sent us ta Silver Tara so that the tale we found along our way could be entered into the silver Record...I will tell that tale in a moment...but not afore telling ye that the Elder forgot ta send a spirit in advance, and we caught Tara unawares...This displeased the Great Fianna of that Sept until we explained our mission and
[19:16] <+SarahH> told our tale...They made us welcome and sent us home on the wings of the following tale...
[19:17] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> pauses letting everyone still and goes silent her eyes flitting to each person there one by one
[19:17] * %Pepper stands tall and proud.
[19:18] * Liam smiled and made sure the kids were quiet then looked to her "go on Talesinger the floor is yours"
[19:18] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> Around 122 of the common era the White Howlers and Kin annihilated 9th Legion, sacrificing all survivors in dark rites. Leading the Romans to build Hadrian's Wall on their Northern British frontier in an unsuccessful effort to hold back the Caledonians. Until The White Howlers fall to the Wyrm in 200, or so Stag's children say...
[19:18] * ekko smiles as she nibbles and listens...Anina is content to listen next to Addy
[19:18] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ...The Fenrir also fought against the corrupted White Howlers, blaming the Fianna for the fall of their cousins. Seeing that they had become weak, the Fenrir launched invasions against Ireland to test their brethren's defenses and take their Caern's from them if they proved weak. Only after several hundred years was a truce called, seeing that the energies spendt
[19:18] <+SarahH> on fighting each other should rather be directed at the enemy. The Fenrir continued to travel with their Kin, even reaching as far south as Constantinople in their wake. During these days, the other tribes began to call the Fenrir the "get" of Fenris, originally to shame them. Most younger Fenrir, however, gladly adopted the name, pointing to the heroic of Beowulf and stating that
[19:18] <+SarahH> it was better to be a mere "get" of Fenris than to be a part of any of the other weakling tribes...
[19:19] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ...The Tribes of Glory, so the Spiders say, are the greatest warriors of the Nation and include the Get of Fenris, the Fianna, and the Wendigo, with the former White Howlers as the lost part of them. Since you seek their fall I will answer the why but not the how...as that knowledge died with the last of their Galliards...along with many songs long silenced and
[19:19] <+SarahH> tales untold..." She stops there, allowing the pain and horror of lost knowledge fall around her, affecting each as it will.
[19:22] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ...They fell due to their own pride...They took their fight with wyrm to it's darkest and worst places...and they fought alone...Seeking aid from no other Gaian tribe...In their haste and desire, they lost sight of the Nation, Litany, and their own falling from it...It was not long before they were consumed by their hate and turned into the very things they had set
[19:22] <+SarahH> out to destroy...Their totem, Lion, passed into a deep slumber becoming a part of other totems.Chimera and Sphinx in specific. There he sleeps unnoticed and unrecognised but for the wisest eyes...Awaiting his renewal perhaps...or perhaps there as a reminder of the errors of our past and our hopes for the future." She lets that knowledge strike home...hitting like a perfectly aimed
[19:22] <+SarahH> shot from the bow she now carries on her back.
[19:23] * %Pepper looks around to see who caught the right words in that last bit.
[19:23] * Silence`` looked up and took another hand full meat cubes to eat as he listened
[19:23] * Liam smiled listening to the full tale.
[19:25] * +Nora watches Aine intently as she talks as if every word she says is deeply important to the petite girl. Her fingers flex and spread a bit in her lap, and she fidgets with the fabric of her skirts. It doesn't seem quite like she is anxious or bored, but more like there is some nervous energy built up by the tale that simply will not be held in her little frame.
[19:25] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> "Thus did I speak to the Silver Record and thus do I speak now...to you, Liam Rhya. Over six countries have our feet touched to bring ye this tale...not of the fall of Lion but that Lion only slumbers. We have fought, found family, and found answeres unplanned...Have we succeeded in yer mission?"
[19:25] * %Pepper steps up beside Aine and nods for Ethan to do the same. Three together, equal in their search for knowledge.
[19:26] * +Ethan` puts his arms over Aine and pepper, the three freaking musketeers
[19:27] <+Eliana> Hannah has listened to the story. Her eyes looking at each that spoke. She's kin that didn't grow up with the knowledge of all things garou, though. It doesn't hit her as it might some others.
[19:27] * ekko nods a bit
[19:30] * Silence`` looks up as they all talk of Loin and frowns
[19:31] * %Pepper nods to Silence to assure him...it's true.
[19:32] * +Nora looks to Silence intently and mutely for a long moment.
[19:32] * Liam he stood once it was finished and would clap for his three. "You have done this tale well and not only found it but saved it to the silver record. This is a job well done." he would shift his vocal cords and Howl out to the whole sept <Howl>Let this be known my brotheren,Pepper DarkHair, Mother's Fury the Vandalhearted by deed, Fostern Galliard of the children of Owl, Member of the Order of Aurelius, packed with theSleepless Sentinels, Keeper of the Land for the Sept of the Twilight Dawn, mate to Nathan Wolfe, US Marshall and kin to the Shadowlords., Aine Strachan-Kennedy, born of woman under the talesinger's moon to Stag's brood; chosen of Brigid; bearer of the Strachan Boga; member of the Songkeepers and the Callin' Shadows; deeded Caoin-cha-mother, and Airgeadòran; Fostern of the Nation; Talesinger to the Sept o' the Twilight Dawn and mated to Sean Kennedy kin ta Stag, and Ethan, Steel's Song, Speaker for the Fallen, Wielder of Stick, Beta of the Calling Shadows, Master of Challenges for the Sept of the Twilight dawn, Mate to Astrid Brynnasdawn and Member of the Fangs of Garm have all successfully compleated the challenge I Emres Ulliam 'Liam'"Brings the beer" Trevelyn, Adren, Fianna, Galliard, Wolf Knight of the the Fiona house, ambassador between them and our Sept, and, Eldest of the Fianna tribe and Galliards, residential brew-master of the sept, of the River Caern, The Sept of the Twilight Dawn & of the Sheridan Clan. Do at this moment announce their rise in rank among the nation, our tribes, their packs, and this sept. Welcome, Gaia three more Adren's into your ranks. May Gaia bless you always. "
[19:33] <+Eliana> Hannah looks at Silence curiously
[19:33] * Silence`` looks around in thought relaxing slowly
[19:34] * Liam Acel repeated the howl for Addy who was only still learning the howl language seeing she would take after her mother, while acel would take after his father.
19:34] * +Ethan` takes up the howl
[19:34] * %Pepper tears form and fall of happiness as she too takes up the howl!!
[19:35] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> takes up the howl
[19:35] * +Nora turns her attention back to Liam and listens close to his words. She does not howl for them. She is only kin.
[19:36] * ekko applaudes
[19:36] * Silence`` ... dont howl. yanno. err cat and no noise
[19:36] * Liam any who didnt understand some one will do the wookie rule as always have this time it was a little seven in half year old boy who looekd the spittign image of his father at that age.
[19:37] * Liam he will smile and look to them each "well I better get my rank soon or I cant be called the elder any more can I" he joked but reached over giving each of them a hug and ethan a elbow shake and slap on the back.
[19:38] * %Pepper hugs Liam, smiling from ear to ear, tears on her face from joy
[19:41] * Liam he smiled and puleld back "I have one more thing"
[19:43] <Liam> "from this day forward you will be known as Aine "Retagaired Cridhe" Strachan-Kennedy, born of woman under the talesinger's moon to Stag's brood; chosen of Brigid; bearer of the Strachan Boga; member of the Songkeepers and the Callin' Shadows; deeded Caoin-cha-motha, and Airgeadòran; Adren of the Nation; Talesinger to the Sept o' the Twilight Dawn and mated to Sean Kennedy kin ta Stag." he says first to Aine.
19:45] * Liam turning to Ethan he smiled "and you shall be known as Ethan, "Rekyndaed Dygð" Steel's Song, Speaker for the Fallen, Wielder of Stick, Beta of the Calling Shadows, Master of Challenges for the Sept of the Twilist dawn, Mate to Astrid Brynnasdawn and Member of the Fangs of Garm, meaning Rekindled Fidelity"
[19:46] <Liam> "and you my Pepper, shall be known as Pepper DarkHair, "Méreg's Szív"Mother's Fury the Vandalhearted by deed, Adren Galliard of the children of Owl, Member of the Order of Aurelius, packed with theSleepless Sentinels, Keeper of the Land for the Sept of the Twilight Dawn, mate to Nathan Wolfe, US Marshall and kin to the Shadowlords."
[19:46] * %Pepper bows but doesn't know what that means...
[19:47] <Liam> "that is your name in Hungarian" he would add
[19:48] <%Pepper> And..in english? I'm sorry...I don't speak Hungarian...
[19:48] * %Pepper looks shamefaced that she even has to ask what her new deed name is in English.
[19:48] <Liam> (oh i goffed give me a secound)
[19:48] <+Ethan`> "Venom's Heart"
[19:49] * +Ethan` grins
[19:49] <Liam> "That means Venom's Heart, in Hungarian" he smiled to her
[19:49] * %Pepper grins. "I like it...thank you. all because of a little dragon's "pearl"...wow." She bows again.
[19:51] <Liam> "you have all earned them, now please for those who can not drink I have made some very nice juice spitzers with no problems for the babes" he smield to those who were pregent who knew how he knew but he knew. then he looked to the rest of those there "and of course drink up and be merry for this is a celbration."
[19:52] <+Eliana> Hannah gives Silence a hug then stands "Congratulations to the three of you" *She smiles and heads up the tunnel*
[19:53] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> smiles and takes a non booy drink, looking at Sean
[19:53] <+SarahH> <Aine[Fi5]> ^
[19:53] <+SarahH> <Astrid[GoF5]> takes one too but looks at EThan
[19:53] <Liam> (i would give the three who were in the mission 5xp for the telling and 2xp to those who listened if oked by the ops)