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Horus says "Has, my good fellow."

Cutter climbs into Horus' lap and asks for a bedtime story.

Guest-of-Weasel says "Cutter is telling us about his new application, once you 
finish giving him his bedtime story."

Horus says "Once upon a time there were a group of borderline psychopathic 
werewolves calling themselves 'Untouchables'..."

You say "Ooo!"

Cutter notes that 'borderline psychopathic' and 'werewolves' is redundant.

Guest-of-Weasel touches Cutter.

Cutter's protective forcefield deflects the naughty finger.

Guest-of-Weasel says "There's the near border, and then there's the far border."

Mike Cooper grins at Cutter. Well, there's different depths to that border, you 
know...

Horus says "And they thought that the best way to make their pack even *more* 
distasteful was to try to recruit the most annoying werewolf still alive in the 
city..."

You say "Ooooo. Perlo?"

Horus says "I said still alive. Perlo must be dead by now."

You say "Arjun?"

Horus says "Likewise."

You say "Porthos!"

Horus says "Stayed in the woods."

Cutter frowns thoughtfully. "Hum," he says.

You say "Dillan's already /in/ the pack..."

You say "Uncle Chugs!"

Horus snorts. "So as a kind of 'getting to know you' evening, they all decided 
to go out and kill some kids and old people."

You say "Sounds lame. Who thought up /that/ idea?"

Amy is enjoying this story so far, and settles down with a mug of tea to listen.

Horus says "The outing was suggested by a Glass Walker kin with connections 
both to Untouchables and the annoying werewolf, whose storied promiscuity had 
long since laid psychological time bombs that would inevitably prove 
destructive to this happy assembly. But that's really peripheral to this 
particular story."

Cutter quiets down and listens, then.

Mike Cooper didn't know Sally was GW kin. ;)

Amy says "She's kin to more than she suspects."

Horus says "Most psychotic but also best-dressed of the three werewolves on 
this outing was the Shadow Lord, who had a reasonably calm demeanour and a 
suave way about him, but who was actually very nearly around the bend. Trailing 
him on the curve was the Get, a gruff and violent fellow with a predilection 
for eating people who disagreed with him. The third was the Bone Gnawer, short, 
old, ill-tempered, rather bright in his own opinion but prone to provoking 
others for no really good reason."

[Idle Chatter culled, as it deserves]

Cutter shushes the rest of you. We're getting to the good bit.

Mike Cooper grins and shuts up. Want to hear how it happened at the !T end, 
since I know how it went at the Cavall end.

Amy settles down quietly, with mini marshmellows melting in her mug of tea.

Horus says "Well, as it turned out, the first person they ran into on their 
spree was not one of the wee tasty ones, but a befuddled old fart who claimed 
to be the father of one of the children. But you can't trust those old farts, 
so the three werewolves merrily knocked him down and terrorized him a bit, just 
to make sure he was on the level."

You say "Was he handsome and well-dressed and psychotic? Was he not sensitive, 
clever, well-mannered, considerate, passionate, charm--ooooo!"

You say "Administer the beat down!"

Horus says "So. After a little beating and terrorizing they figure out that the 
old fart really doesn't know much, but he's in the house where they have to 
wait for the wee ones, and his infantile blubbering is getting annoying. You 
know, 'Don't kill me, don't kill me, I didn't do anything.' That kind of 
garbage. Besides, he got a look at the Get, which was really too bad. So the 
Get threw him down, and the well-dressed Shadow Lord popped him one in the back 
of the head. But the gun was silenced, so that was all well and good."

Mike Cooper hmmms and wonders again who the badguys are supposed to be?

You say "If only Rina had thought of that, she could have made it a theme of 
the evening's RP."

Horus says "Note the ironic tone."

You say "Get to the good part!"

Horus says "Patience, little one."

Cutter pouts, but is quiet.

Horus says "In any event, they all stand around the corpse for a little while, 
talking shop, as borderline psychopaths will. Then the Shadow Lord suggests 
that they might do well to move the body, maybe put it in bed, which the Bone 
Gnawer thinks is hypocritical and creepy but which the Shadow Lord figures 
might be a 'nice gesture'. Now, remember that the Bone Gnawer is prone to 
provocation. So he gets snotty, and the Lord gets angry, and he gets *really* 
snotty, and the Lord gets really angry and comes after him, knocking him upside 
the head."

You say "Yay!"

You say "Bang! Zoom! To the moon, Alice!"

Douglas almost finds himself hating the Garou... all the better to play as 
them too. :)

Guest-of-Bear has arrived.

Douglas waves to the Bear-Guest.

Amy says "Howdy, Guest. Welcome to storytime."

Guest-of-Bear has disconnected.

You say "No stories for Bear."

Amy says "Guess not."

Horus says "Naturally the Bone Gnawer doesn't take this well, and the Lord, 
being a borderline psychopath, isn't content with just a whack upside the head. 
So they're pretty much good to go, and since the Lord is Fostern the Bone 
Gnawer is pretty much good to get himself killed, but for some reason having 
vaguely to do with professionalism the Get intervenes."

Horus says "So they all grumble a bit and settle down, and eventually the wee 
one comes home with his two buddies. Now these werewolves went out to kill 
three kids, and here they had three kids, so you might think that things would 
be simple. Kill some kids and go home. But no. As it turns out they aren't the 
*right* three kids. Two of them are, and the third is a poor little sap who 
just happened to go home with the wrong people."

Horus says "Can you hear the moral recriminations multiplying, audience?"

Douglas can see 'em.

Amy sets up an audience of Garou from the Impergium.

Horus says "Now the Lord is still kind of annoyed about the Bone Gnawer being 
snotty before, and he's probably a little cheesed that he didn't get to bash in 
his head, too. So the Lord decides, just to be mean, really, that he'll leave 
it up to the Bone Gnawer what happens to these unfortunates. Technically the 
Get should be making these decisions, but he's not your decision-making type."

Horus says "So there's more of that, 'Please, I'm innocent' blather, and a lot 
of shouting back and forth among the merry werewolves, and eventually the noble 
Bone Gnawer decides that despite his treacherous capture of the moral 
high-ground a half-hour ago, he might as well wade back down into the slough 
and have all three of the lads offed. So there's some shooting-- they don't get 
the little innocent one the first time around-- and eventually they're all 
dead. Go, team."

Cutter murmurs sleepily.

Horus says "All in all it adds up to about one innocent for every actual 
target, which isn't good math, even for psychopathic werewolves. So they all go 
home and loathe themselves to varying degrees. No happy ending. The end."

Douglas nods. No happy ending... the typical Garou ending that everyone 
believes there is SUPPOSED to be in the World of Darkness.

Cutter is curled up in Horus' lap, thumb in his mouth, blanky clutched tightly 
in hand, sleeping, as they say, the sleep of the innocent.

Mike Cooper hmmmms....that leaves one unscathed, though.

You say "Not for long. Cutter lurked at the apartment for two days, and Angelo 
actually used Questing Stone successfully."

[Author's note: Rite of the Questing Stone has a MUSHwide history of dismal
results, as it tends to rip the entrails out of many plotlines.]

Mike Cooper says "Ah. That reduces the chance of long-term vengeance."

Horus says "Well. When you consider the number of innocents who got offed that 
night between both parties, it doesn't reduce it by much."

Horus says "Why, we laid the groundwork for a whole *new* cycle of destruction!"

You say "And I haven't seen any postings in the news about the 'Night of the Slaughter'. Which makes me nervous."

Mike Cooper nods. True.
---- Recall end ----

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