[Mature]Werewolf: The Forsaken PbP - Blood in, Blood out

[Shalimar]

Faith sighs contentedly and then smiles up at Drake and the others. "Alright, I am an Elodoth of the Blood Talon Tribe..." she says trailing off to refocus on what she was saying instead of the lust essence filling her up. "Its the job of the Elodoth to deal with spirits, to negotiate on behalf of the pack, the spirits know that so they hate us less then they hate the rest of you." the pink haired girl says with am impudent grin.

"I can use my gifts to know the right things to say to get people to listen, and I can speak with any animal in its own language." Faith says smiling as she enumerates her gifts, it seems like drawing from the locus was the perfect way to counteract rage and anger.

"Drake, the locus is in our territory and it is a powerful one, claiming territory is what it means to be Uratha, claiming it and holding it. If we don't claim this locus and defend it from spirits then another pack will take it from us, a Locus is a very valuable thing for a werewolf to have, it grants its holder the power to bargain with spirits by granting them essence as an incentive. We need this Locus, and its powerful enough for all of us to drink our fill for tonight. A locus gives off a bunch of essence every day and just pools up the essence that isn't used. We haven't been coming here for the last month and no other werewolves have, so we should at least drink our fill now lest it go to waste if some spirits find the locus."

"The spirit that lives here, the lust one...we will have to come to an agreement with it, thats all. We let it drink from the locus and the people who come here, and we help it defend its territory here from other spirits that might want to encroach, and in return it guards the essence for us. Its not going to leave no matter what since this is its food, so we have to reach a compromise with it, and thats my job as an Elodoth. Hope it speaks english though, I'm not fully fluent in the first tongue yet, I'm learning it but Candace is teaching me how to fight and getting me into shape right now." Faith looks at Camera when he speaks about the spirit being there, and she nods and looks around at the her packmates.

"Is everyone ok with that deal? The spirit can protect the locus from other spirits in exchange for some essence and our aid if it is attacked? The only other options would be to give up the locus or to try and chase it away though chasing it away could weaken the locus if its strengthening the lust of the people that come here to feed the locus."

 

[DrZombie]

Drake nods as he hears Faith explaining; "yeah, I was told 'bout locus and the rest. But assuming some of us don't know will prob'ly be best the first weeks. I can translate for you, if you need help. And i can teach you the spirit tongue, if you want. "
He thinks. "What do you mean, saying the right thing to get people to listen?"

 

[Shalimar]

"Its a gift called The Right Words, it lets me know what the right thing to say would probably be, its not telepathy or anything, but I get a general sense of how I should go about talking to someone if I use it." she answers. "Even without it I'm still probably the most sociable person here, and it is my role as Elodoth to be the negotiator and speaker for the pack...and the keeper of Harmony within it." she says, breaking into a grin, and objectively speaking she is probably one of the most social people the pack has met, between the force of her personality and her social skills the girl is definitely telling the truth.

OOC: This is just describing her Presence and Manipulation 3 and her high social skills, some people radiate bad ass, Faith radiates force of personality and attractiveness. She is as attractive as a person can be in NWOD.

 

[Graf]

Camera's eye shifts back to normal.
He continues to distractedly stare at the gazebo.

Idly he digs one of his sketch books out of his bag and starts to sketch.
The gazebo figures prominiently in the hastily drawn work, but it seems to be on a misty plane. An ambiguously gendered figure lurks in the forground.

 

[Graf]

After Faith finishes speaking Camera sets down his book.
"Actually....
Spirits also feed on acts
That reflect their influence"

"That was what was happening earlier.
I think."

"If we can offer the spirit a steady supply
then it will not miss the essence
that we take."

Camera pauses for a moment.

"I'm going to see if the spirit is still there.
If it isn't then that may explain why the People haven't seen it before.
It only comes out during...."
Camera makes a vague gesture with an oversized hand.

Camera is going to use Two World Eyes again. I looked at the book last night and it says the gift isn't affected by the presence of a locus. So I think I'm supposed to have 8 dice.

 

[Shayuri]

Ari scratches her nose. "I don't think we'll have to worry about the spirit drying up or the locus running out of essence anytime soon. Boring neighborhood like this, lots of kids, secluded spot... I think a lust spirit will do juuuuust fine. And I'm sure as hell not gonna feed it personally."

 

[Shalimar]

"Spirits get more powerful by sucking up essence. I don't think we should begrudge a spirit now and then, but being werewolfs we are gonna be doing a lot of fighting, and when we need essence we are really going to need it. If we keep a hold on the essence then we can use it to bargain with other spirits if we need to to get them to teach us gifts, or any of a dozen things that we really don't know about yet. We can be free with handing it off if we decide to do it that way, but if we don't have a grip on it we can't make use of it when we need it." Faith replies.

 

[Shayuri]

Ari gives Faith a puzzled frown. "I never said we shouldn't control the essence. I just said that I figure the spirit will get plenty of 'food' without us needing to do much. That's all."

She shrugs.

"Anyway, I guess this is as good a time as any. Lets say we all suck up some essence, then get down to business, sound good?"

(I will do that thing Faith did too! Me toooooooo! )

 

[DrZombie]

"Ari, Camera. What did the spirits teach you?" Drake asks.

 

[Graf]

Camera continue to try to focus on activating his gift.

Destractedly he says
"Flop-over-top taught me to know the names of humans I meet.
Once-flown-over showed me what I'm trying to do now, to see the Hisil."