The wolfs awake to find that Diego is gone and they don't know where. They run into Brother VD who informs them of the nature of the substance they threw up. Davey provides him samples of the weed through which they find the Lunghugger Bane particles. He informs the pack that they will be accompanied by Brother Gingerfang and drive out to the sentries posted around a distribution facility. They are met at a safe distance away from the facility by Westerhoss and Matsuo. They are told of a security panel in back which contains the surviellance equipment as well as information on their foe, Bartelby Melville AKA Starbuck known for his pretentiousness. They wait for dark. Davey and Nick take out the cameras and signal Dennis and Ron to enter in the front. They use persuasion to gain confidnece and entry asking to see Starbuck for a deal gone wrong. They are told he is expecting them. They go to the third floor where they meet the secretary who tells them to wait. Ron excuses himself to the bathroom ans sees a glowing computer screen in the next office empty office room which has a memo that says "Stay out of the basement." Ron goes back to the secretary and says he left something downstairs and goes to the elevator, but when he gets in, sees no discernable button for the elevator. Dennis convinces the secretary to smoke pot with him, but realizes she wants to smoke tainted pot.

Narrative so far

In a arid landscape lit by the red glow of Antihelios, our characters find themselves full Crinos attack a thunderwyrm. The heroes slash it to submission an in their glory, wake to the ringing of the period exchange bell. As the other students file out of the physics classroom, Jake, Diego, and Marcin sit dazedly shaking off the forgotten wisps of slumberland and simultaneously recall that the day of torment is ended and that they are all walking to Urbana to pick up from Marcin's dude. The trip is short as the fast freshman friends pick their way east from the engineering quad over to High street. Jake and Diego are surprised to see Katy, a fellow student, open the door and all are invited in to smoke. Katy lights up a fat blunt and passes it to Marcin who accepts it gingerly. The acrid taste of foul skunk weed fills his lungs with revulsion and for the first time in his life, takes only one hit before passing it to Deigo. Similarly affected, Diego hurriedly passes the cherried dutch to an unsuspecting and fiending Jake.

Jake's hungry lungs are punished as his body violently rejects the weed. He throws up a black oily discharge and instantly boils up into Crinos form. Before Diego and Marcin can react, Katy's blood paints the room alla Pollack. The enraged werewolf in front of them falls to Katy's corpse and begins to tear it apart as the two others run into her bedroom. There they find a gunsafe and a dresser filled with drawers of drugs including weed and heroin. Marcin positions himself in front of the gunsafe to have the Raging Jake break it in his fury but rolls out of the way before things get too serious. Diego throws him a large bag of Heroin which he dunks into Jake's howling maw. It is too much for the Crinos Jake to burn through and he succumbs to sleep as his body melts back into a homid. Jake wakes just as Marcin and Diego notice commandos entering in through the windows. At the slightest provocation they both frenzy and turn to alternate groups of commandos while Jake recovers an assault rifle and takes pot shots from the center of the room. After they dispense with the commandos, Jake grabs a handful of the bad weed when suddenly Diego's contact on campus and friend of the family, Dr. Freddie Treves enters the building with an urgent look and with a familiar tone in unfamiliar language, he says to escape through "stepping sideways" and by "using the mirror."

One by one the new werewolves use their gnosis to penetrate the Gauntlet as police get closer. All are in the umbra when the police/banes arrive. Treves instructs the heroes on how to shift into the war form and they engage in battle. The banes in the form of red smoke with the suggestion of human upper body and faces are quickly handled by all. Treves instructs them to take the Hispo form as they trek from Katy's umbral home to a safer location. Along the way they see another werewolf with a human in tow who is currently on hands and knees throwing up a black oily discharge (new player Nick). Treves and the other garou exchange brief words and all continue on together to the caern. Upon arrival, the heroes recognize the caern to be Alpha Delta Phi, a fraternity they were bid to but ultimately not accepted to their first semester. Apparently things have changed. A candle ceremony greets them but is quickly interrupted when Jake and Nick again throw up oily black bile in the middle of the lobby. Brother Brennan is equally quick to accuse the new initiates of bringing wyrm poison into their midsts. When left speechless, he digs into Jake's pockets and finds the weed he grabbed earlier. All black out due to effects of weed. As Jake and Diego are falling under they hear the brothers discussing what this portends.

They wake to Brother VD who Marcin asks for his colonapin, to which is replied "no drugs during initiation." Brother J and offers them fresh Gaia Herb that has been grown for centuries in this location. It cleanses their lungs of the lasting effects from the tainted weed. They are given the location of a drug drop point. Marcin tries to call his contacts at UIUC but they are either out or unfamiliar with what he's talking about. That night they have an umbral ceremony where they are asked to sacrifice of themselves to the spirit of the house. Brother VD represents the Glass Walkers and ask of Jake and Marcin to sacrifice technology to the house or past ties to human contacts; Jake volunteered his phone and Marcin his phone list. Brother Woj asked on behalf of the Silver Fangs a blood oath of the purest blood from Nick. Diego is given a fifth of finest Irish whiskey to chug by Fianna recruiter Brother Ginger. His sacrifice of the liver is what he thinks he sacrifices but really, when he awakes his hangover will reveal far more missing. The house spirit, a warrior with a Spartan shield and spear appears and accepts their offerings. All gain access to their gifts.

First two sessions

I still seem to be learning the system of storytelling much to the loss of my players attention. The first session had too little player choice and cliche aggressors. The second session had too little player choice and I spent too much time dominating their session with talking and setting things up. Next session I plan on having us jump straight into the action with the use of storyteller updates in which I email out downtime reading instructions that the characters will have to accomplish out of game to familiarize themselves with Garou society and action options. This will have them prepped at the beginning of a session and ready to play.

This next session I plan on having them raid and destroy a fomori drug depot that also works as the face of a Marijuana Protest Group. I will have them break into two groups. Instead of hiding information I will give them as much of it as possible.

There is a full video surviellance system at the 3 story building that one group will have to disable while another disables the alarm system.

There never seem to be more than 10 people in the building at one time, but often people exit the building that didn't enter or people who enter and don't leave.

Believe there to be vital information stored on computer harddrives.

If I give them all the info, then they won't think I'm handing out surprises just twists.