Session 13 Recap

The Recap of Session 13 of the chronicle Detroit by Night.

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Recap
The team leaves Detroit with Shaun and his car heading to Huron Forest National Park. On the way, they stop at a 24h Open Wallmart and buy a couple of envelops in which they stuff the items they stole from the Detroit Public Library. As they begin to arrive at their destination a breeze brings in a rolling mist over the area. They call ahead and reach Chaska to tell them that they are comming with the Deed to Belle Isle. As they arrive at Alcona Park Camping, they spot a group of people in the mist hanging out by a fire in the Cabin Village. Saira investigates and finds the group of young adults they met when they were last here. Raven and another black girl have joined them, and they are drinking and having a good time. They notice Saira and call for her to come over, which she does. Raven is happy to see her and Saira can see that she's pretty tipsy. The others introduce themselves as Ryan (Asian, App 4) Kelly (Black, App 4), Todd (White, App 2), and Jared (Black, App 2), and say that they're freshly hired interns here as a Kickoff and bonding. It quickly becomes clear that Raven is heavily fawning over Ryan and he invites the team to join them at the fire. Saira and Caleb decides to go talk with the Norwood family first, and leaves Shaun to keep an eye on the situation.

Saira and Caleb head to the Norwood residence, and again the Wind Chimes play from the breeze as they enter the veranda. As Chaska let them in, Saira tell him that Raven has snuck out and are hanging out drinking with they boys over by the Cabins. Chaska gets angry and ushers Saira and Caleb into a reading room with a fireplace and bookshelves. Chilali sits on a couch knitting and Chaska motion for her to leave the room. The old Werewolf sits in one of the reading chairs carving a wooden figureen, but puts the carving knife down beside him and stand up to face the vampires. They give him the envelop with the Deed to Belle Isle, but the Werewolf gets agitated and demands to know where the rest of it is. Caleb swears that this was all they found at the library, and he seem to believe him begrudgingly. On the topic of their reward, the Werewolf asks what they would ask for in return for finding the Blood Contract. Wealth? Power? Knowledge? Caleb answers that they don't know what to ask for, and say that they simply might asks for a future favor or even nothing at all. The Werewolf seems almost incredulous at this, but then adresses the point of the reward for the task they did perform. He asks for a token connected to Makayla Khan such as an item which belonged to her, or a photograph. Caleb tries to find a good picture from any official missing person's report or from the facebook group Missing People, but seem unable to find anything. Instead he brings up the online version of the newspaper article they found earlier which have an older picture and gives the Werewolf his phone. The old man tells them that he will use the Deed and the Image to Scry for what they're looking for, and that he'll send for them in a couple of hours. Chaska escorts them outside and gives them a key to one of the cabins where they can spend the day if they need to.

As they leave the house, they notice Raven being dragged by the arm by her mother. Chilali scolds her but Raven resists and shouts back that they never let her do anything fun. When they return to the campfire, the gang seem pretty bummed-out that Raven left but offer Saira and Caleb to sit down and have some beer. Both accept with Caleb drinking but Saira only pretending to. As Saira try to talk with Shaun he acts very dismissive towards her and aims all his attention talking to Kelly. Ryan and Todd whisper to eachother, and suddenly Todd gets up to go to the bathroom and disappears out into the mist. Kelly says she's going for a smoke, and asks if Caleb want to join her with a wink and a smile. Caleb goes with her and they talk for a bit over by the lake. Kelly says she recognize Caleb from somewhere but can't quite place him, wondering if perhaps he's an "Intern" too. He asks where her internship is at, and Kelly answers at Harold-Fisher Manufactoring and Extraction. Caleb remembers Maitland telling him that this company is one of the worst companies in the state for how routhlessly they exploit natural resrouces. Caleb denies having any association with them, which causes Kelly to put her hand on his shoulder and entrance him. This causes Caleb to feel like he has fell head over heels in love with Kelly.

While they're gone, Saira talks abit with Ryan and ask what they've been up to around here for so long. He simply say they've done almost everything that's around here, everything from Forest Excursions to driving Quad-Bikes along the famous trail that runs through here. The only thing they haven't done is seen the Sulfur Springs to the west of Alcona Lake, since you really need a guide to get there.

Shortly after Caleb and Kelly return, Todd returns from his "toilet break" as well and whispers something to Ryan. Ryan then suggest they all go for a walk around the lake and everyone agrees. But first they make a pitstop over at  the Norwood Residence, where Ryan throw some pebbles at Raven's bedroom window. Raven rejoins the group again by climbing out the window and down across the Veranda roof, a feat which seems quite easy for her and that she's probably done more than one time before. She hugs Ryan and he convinces her to guide them to the Sulfur Springs. She seems hesitant at first, but Ryans charm and good looks quickly melts away any forethough she might have.

As they're about to leave, Saira says she need to go to the bathroom and change her shoes. She'll catch up with them further down the trail, and the others doesn't seem to notice anything odd. Once they've left, Saira instead knock on the door of the Noorwood's house to try and warn them but no one answers. Remembering how Raven did it, Saira uses to Veranda roof to climb up to the second floor and enter through an open window only to find that no one's home. She writes a note apologizing for breaking in, but also warning the family that the young adults are clearly supernatural and have kidnapped Raven and they're following them. She leaves it on the floor by the door and head back out.

Saira catch up with the group in Obfuscate roughly as they've reached the opposite side of the lake. There, the group leaves the trail and keep heading up the sloping terrain to the west, lead by Raven who's encouraged by Ryan. They walk in almost an escort pattern, with Ryan and Raven at the front, flanked and seemingly protected by Todd and Jared keeping watch on either side. Behind walks Kelly, keeping Shaun and Caleb very close to her almost as human shields. Saira gets in close and uses Quietus 1 to block out any sound originating in her and the group's immediet surroundings. This causes the young adults to stop and go on high alert. Saira manages to throw a couple of stones at them from alternating directions, getting Caleb to understand that something's wrong and even scoring a hit on Ryan right in the head so that he starts to bleed. Caleb, however, in his entranced state chooses to stay and protect Kelly but Raven is getting increasingly spooked and worried about everything. Throwing a heavy rock into the low vegetation off to the side, finally triggers Todd to transform into a disgusting Toad-like monster with a huge, fanged maw, a long spiked tongue, but short and stubby extremeties. Raven screams as she witnesses him leaping into the undergrowth to try and catch the attacker, and this even rattles Caleb enough to understand that these guys aren't what they seem. When the others are occupied with Raven, Caleb manages to slip out of Kelly's grasp on him without her noticing and disappear into Obfuscate.

The group finally seem to decide that they're sitting ducks out here, so Jared transforms as well into a scaly, cobra-like creature with a wide elongated head and two huge fangs. Ryan grabs hold of Raven and they all start running forwards. They don't get far however, as Raven try to physically resist this. Her fear for her life seem to trigger her First Change, and her body swells and rips out of her clothes into a huge Werewolf with thick reddish hide and razer-sharp claws. She try to attack Ryan, but he uses some kind of Mind Powers to subdue her. At this point Caleb drops out of Obfuscate behind him with a gun pointed at him and fire. The bullet pierces his shoulder and the shock causes him to loose focus and Raven is free. The blood seeping out from his wound smells oddly chemically floral. Seeing the transformed Raven causes Shaun to enter into some kind of Delerium where he runs off and shuts everything out despite Kelly's best attempt to keep him close. Saira uses the opportunity to drop out of Obfuscate behind her and grapples her only to bite into her neck. Her blood tastes very odd and gross, like if the taste of blood had been chemically replicated in a lab. Kelly tries to resist but isen't strong enough to resist the kiss. A fight breaks out and Raven both tears out Ryan's guts and rips out Todd's disgusting spiked tongue. Jared tries to free Kelly from Saira's grapple but is unsuccessful. Seeing that things are quickly going south, Jared runs and Saira chase after him. She attemps to stop him but is unsuccessful and he gets away.

Raven shrinks back into young teenage girl, naked and frightfully shaking from the ordeal. Caleb drapes her with his coat, which she first flinches at but then wraps tightly arund herself. Saira return and with Caleb interrogate the captured Kelly. Despite being injured and severely lacking in blood, she seem much more preoccupied with getting her Make-Up. The team taunts and intimidates her as she begs for her life, answering their questions to the best of her ability. Kelly Dixon is a Fashion & Make-Up Blogger (Retconned) whom about six months ago won the prize of recieving High-Quality Make-Up in a Facebook contest. Using it made her feel increadible, sexy, and like the version of herself that got all the attention she deserved. She got hooked on the Make-Up and payed ridiculous sums of money to get more and noticed how she started to develop psychic abilities. Once she couldn't afford buying more, she was contacted by Ryan Kim who brought her in and gave her training to go on a this mission to kill the "Old Mutt" and take hold of some important place. The team choose to spare her life for now, and pocket some of the make-up.

The rest of her family come running down from the slope from the direction in which the group were heading. They see Raven and the players and for a moment seem to think the worst, but then notice the other bodies littering their surroundings and demand to know what's going on. Saira and Caleb explain the situation while Chilali goes to embrace and take Raven with her. The old man seem somehow both proud but also dismayed at learning that Raven had her First Change, saying that a life consumed of battling the Enemy awaits her and that a part of him wished she could have been spared it. But then he shifts into his own Werewolf form and howls up at the Gibbous Moon that one of his family now is of the blood. The team notice that his clothes stay on him and somehow is absorbed into his furr or his body when he shifts.

The old man thanks them for what they did to help Raven, and even gives them his full Deed-Name: Waits-to-Strike. The team asks him about the young adults and about Kelly, and he explains that they probably are as much evil servants of the Enemy as they are it's victims. The Enemy has corrupted them and uses them as Soldiers in its war versus the Garou. Kelly he specifically call an "Enticer", and then ends her life with a Coup-de-Grace. He also explains that besides monsterous soldiers, the Enemy also employes evil corporations to ravage and exploit nature both to weaken the Garou and for their long term goal to destroy Gaia (The planet?). Harold-Fisher is only one local tool of the Enemy, one small cog in the global machine that seeks to corrupt and destroy everything.

Waits-to-Strike also informs them that he finished his Scrying, and managed to track down the location of both the Blood Contract and Makayla Khan. Chaska takes out two maps of Detroit from his sachel, each with a circle drawn around an area. The map for Makayla Khan shows a location in Hamtramck where an area of roughly a block has been circled. The map for the Blood Contract shows a location in the neighbourhood known as Indian Village, located on the East Side close to Jefferson's Corridor, where a circle encompassing a couple or larger manors have been drawn. Caleb asks Waits-to-Strike if their reward for getting the Blood Contract could be that they would be permanently welcome to visit the Huron Forest, simply as an escape from the City and a retreat. Waits-to-Strike hesitates for a moment but then agrees, with certain conditions.

The conditions are (Retconned): - They must always inform him or a member of Nottawaseppi-Huron each time they visit the Forest.

- They may never enter any home in the Forest without being invited.

- They may never hurt an innocent while in the Forest.

- They may never carry objects of Silver on them in the Forest.

Waits-to-Strike make it clear that while he considers all Vampires evil creatures, hes considering seeing Saira and Caleb as at least honorable evil creatures.

Once they all return to Alcona Park Camping, Raven seems to have collected herself and goes over to talk with them. She thanks them saying that things could have gone very badly if they haden't helped. Raven also informs them that her First Change means that she'll be leaving Huron Forest and that her grandfather will be sending her to their Tribe. This means that maybe they'll never meet again, and even if they do it might get very dangerous for both of parties. It would be dangerous for her to be seen talking to Vampires, and if other Werewolves know about them then they'll slay them. Caleb say that they aren't especially good at being Vampires, and if being friends with her is dangerous then he thinks it might be worth the danger. Saira say that they think she's a really cool girl, which leaves Raven a bit embaressed. But she responds with saying she thinks they're okay, for being Vampires. Caleb say that they're just trying to find something worth living for anymore and that helping people might be it, and if she ever needs their help just call. He offers Raven his business card, and she takes it covertly while going in for a hug. As a gift of goodbye, Raven sings them a song. Its words are like the rustling of the leaves in the wind, and its melody is like the calling of the songbirds. Afterwards she says that Unicorn will watch over them and wishes them good luck, before finally leaving with her family.