Silence of Time update
Fletcher, Reese and Gordon went to visit Gilelli in his corner office with lots of windows. Fletcher used Two-World Eyes and saw Gilelli as a shell stuffed with crows, and was suitable creeped out. The werewolves pretty much dispensed with pretense, and questioned Gilelli about what he was and what had happened. He gave them a very condensed version of the events of Eyes, and told them that he would continue doing his new "job" as a DEA agent until he got bored or found out. He mentioned that he'd already had one person (a secretary) discover what he was when she saw behind his glasses, but he never specified what he did with her (the pack figured it out, though).
There were a few threats thrown back and forth; Gilelli revealed that he still had access to a cache of silver bullets, while the werewolves mentioned that if word got out that a previously-unknown Host was in a position of power in the mortal world, Gilelli could at least expect his cover to get blown. With that nice stalemate in mind, they pretty much agreed to stay out of each other's way. Gilelli did mention that, since Reese had been wandering around beating up drug dealers, he'd had to form a task force to deal with the "vigilante," but he'd stocked it with stupid and useless agents that Reese was welcome to kill if they ever found him. He also told the pack about a house in south Philly that was being used to sell crack, but apparently had something else going on - an agent who had gone in undercover had come out irretrievably insane, and chewed his own wrist open later.
The pack made a note to look into it, but that night they were going into the subways to find one of these strange "wards" that Don had mentioned. On the subway, they noticed a man staring at them, but could find no evidence of supernatural stuff about him, so just figured he was a weirdo. Getting off the train, the packs (players' and Don's) found an disused tunnel with odd markings carved into the walls nearby. Scylla used Echo Dream and saw the man from the subway train and two other people working at it. One of them held a stone disc that shot fire when the monster in the tunnel popped out of the ground to attack them. Meanwhile, Reese threw a rock into the tunnel, and a creature that looked part trapdoor-spider, part mollusk erupted from the ground, but stopped at the mouth of the tunnel.
After some debate, Zeke and Betsy entered the tunnel (after the critter had retreated into its hole, of course), to see if there was anything else there. Don's feeling (his turf, remember) was that if that thing was the only monster in the tunnel, they'd just kill it, but if there were dozens, he'd leave the ward standing and not worry about it for now. Zeke and Betsy found no other spider-things, but when Zeke looked up, he saw gigantic bat-like creatures. They woke and flew toward the Uratha; the Uratha bolted. Betsy, in Urhan form, zipped right out of the tunnel. Zeke, in Urshul, crashed into it as though it was a stone wall. He managed to get to Urhan and slip through before any of the bats reached him. Gordon shot one of the bats and the spider-thing popped up and grabbed the corpse, so all was more or less well.
Now thoroughly flummoxed about the people making the wards (since the carvings didn't seem to resemble any language Fletcher had ever seen), the pack went home while Don's pack continued to patrol the tunnels. Fletcher found a strange card in his pocket - blank white on one side, black with a white skull on the other. So far, investigation has turned up nothing.
There were a few threats thrown back and forth; Gilelli revealed that he still had access to a cache of silver bullets, while the werewolves mentioned that if word got out that a previously-unknown Host was in a position of power in the mortal world, Gilelli could at least expect his cover to get blown. With that nice stalemate in mind, they pretty much agreed to stay out of each other's way. Gilelli did mention that, since Reese had been wandering around beating up drug dealers, he'd had to form a task force to deal with the "vigilante," but he'd stocked it with stupid and useless agents that Reese was welcome to kill if they ever found him. He also told the pack about a house in south Philly that was being used to sell crack, but apparently had something else going on - an agent who had gone in undercover had come out irretrievably insane, and chewed his own wrist open later.
The pack made a note to look into it, but that night they were going into the subways to find one of these strange "wards" that Don had mentioned. On the subway, they noticed a man staring at them, but could find no evidence of supernatural stuff about him, so just figured he was a weirdo. Getting off the train, the packs (players' and Don's) found an disused tunnel with odd markings carved into the walls nearby. Scylla used Echo Dream and saw the man from the subway train and two other people working at it. One of them held a stone disc that shot fire when the monster in the tunnel popped out of the ground to attack them. Meanwhile, Reese threw a rock into the tunnel, and a creature that looked part trapdoor-spider, part mollusk erupted from the ground, but stopped at the mouth of the tunnel.
After some debate, Zeke and Betsy entered the tunnel (after the critter had retreated into its hole, of course), to see if there was anything else there. Don's feeling (his turf, remember) was that if that thing was the only monster in the tunnel, they'd just kill it, but if there were dozens, he'd leave the ward standing and not worry about it for now. Zeke and Betsy found no other spider-things, but when Zeke looked up, he saw gigantic bat-like creatures. They woke and flew toward the Uratha; the Uratha bolted. Betsy, in Urhan form, zipped right out of the tunnel. Zeke, in Urshul, crashed into it as though it was a stone wall. He managed to get to Urhan and slip through before any of the bats reached him. Gordon shot one of the bats and the spider-thing popped up and grabbed the corpse, so all was more or less well.
Now thoroughly flummoxed about the people making the wards (since the carvings didn't seem to resemble any language Fletcher had ever seen), the pack went home while Don's pack continued to patrol the tunnels. Fletcher found a strange card in his pocket - blank white on one side, black with a white skull on the other. So far, investigation has turned up nothing.