The following is a work of fiction. A product of a live-action role-playing group playing a game Minds Eye Theater: Werewolf the Apocalypse. Any references to real world people or places is coincidental.
Tom approaches the Sept Leadership:
*cough* *cough* Here is my accounting of the most recent venture. I will do my best to tell the story to the best of my abilities. (Tom has a zero rating in Performance)
The intrepid and experienced pack returned to the caern just after my meeting with all of you. I had arrived at this place of utmost import because a ghost and my jaggling fox spirit companion told me I should seek it out. First member of the pack I greeted was a lynx by shaking her paw. We gave informal introductions. One of them says 'Are you related to Huckelberry'
'nope'.
Everyone gives formal introductions Joe (sept leader, Japanese kitsune) and master of rite mention Little Rose. We were to investigate and deduce how to cleanse.
Jimmy drives avoiding Stratford toward Little Rose going through Marshfield stopping at Thad Chicken in Arpin. The lynx offers a treat to me. It's cat food. 'Uh, no.' Jimmy reaches over while driving grabbing a handful. While driving through Marshfield the pack doesn't detect anything out of place... The day has become night by the time we leave Marshfield. Between during Marshfield and Little Rose, we see a sole house which has a white picket fence on both sides of the house. In fact, the white picket fence is perpendicular to the street and exists on both sides of the road too. No lights. No one outside. The lynx asks Tom, yes I am speaking of myself in the third person and will continue to do so henceforth, what he thinks.
'Not as experienced as you all so I leave it you?'
Jimmy continues driving.
We reach a crossroads in Little Rose.
Abandoned Building lit up with sign ' misspelled Academy Orphanage'. Across street field and forest. Across other street is a gas station. 'Just like Spotted Cow' neon purple inside widow of 2 story building. Across is abandoned lot. *Tom's faces scrunches up in recollection* I had seen three separate groups of ghosts by the abandoned orphanage.
'there is a lot of dead people there'
jimmy ' you see dead people?'
'Maybe... there's 4 or 5 kids, 4 or 5 teenagers, and an old hag'.
Around this time I recollected who the members of the pack are:
Brad the black fury cliath galliard is a loremaster
Jimmy fostern theurge.
Jenny the lynx is adren.
Then there is Sean Moore.
Upon learning none of them can see the ghosts themselves, Tom mentions a tincture with which group can see ghosts.
Jimmy and Tom go speak with the ghosts. Kids front yard. Teenagers 2nd floor thru windows. Old hag atop roof glowers at me. Speak to the kids in English. No response until they speak to Tom. He doesn't understand. The appearance of the kids little boy slacks, dress shoes, combed over slick black hair. Formal dress code.
Jimmy '60s or sooner'.
2 girls wear long dresses with long straight hair. Black and brown hair.
Jimmy 'hmm 40s to 60s'.
Old hag chiselled nun face. All their clothes are in tatters. 5 kids are happy. Jimmy recalls there was a fire based on research and dilapidated look. Tom sees flashes how it used to look
Mouths moving. Can't hear words but laughing. We do charades eventually learning can't enter because of the kids. Can't hear the hag due to kids.
I mention at this point that the Tincture requires consecrated grave dirt. Brad mentions cemetary with abandoned catholic cemetary on hwy 153 between Little Rose and Stratford. We ride there. We maintain there graves. Jimmy the horticulturalist identifies weeds which we rip up and toss onto road. Clean plants off graves. Acquire consecrated grave dirt after hour and a half. Need rosemary and ashen bark (which we get from charring bark from an ash tree).
Tom performs the special Kitsune rite. Create 6 vials of drinkable tincture.
Everyone else drinks.
Jimmy doesn't take 1 point of damage from the toxic properties due to his tendency to drink moonshine, i.e. bone gnawer. Everyone heals the damage. Got extra vial. Jenny hacking as we arrive.
They see dead people.
Jenny 'she is as mean looking as you claim'.
Jimmy, Jenny, and Sean with Airt Perception see a haunted castle on path. Don't see kids nor teenagers. Resemble Wicked Witch of West. Skin rotting away. She is holding a book with a cross on it. All 3 of them notices a cross switches direction. Skin darkens grows purple when spin downward. A lightning storm causes flips. Jimmy relays what they saw within the Umbra.
Sean the Get 'I want to take on the guy with the big knife!' Upon hearing Silent Hill references.
Jenny 'we need to stop her'. But then realizes the ghost children are the problem.
Tom guesses words phonetically and enters into Google translate. Italian. Eureka we deduce they are Italian immigrants.
The translation is 'What a bunch of idiots maybe we should kill them,
Tom 'uh oh,'
Translation 'and consume their souls'
Tom's face grows pale.
Jimmy Google 'fire kills ghosts'
We realize we must destroy their bones!
Jimmy 'should we scout around and see if any graves around?'
Tom digs where lone boy whose acting less than others are. With jenny's aid, dig a foot. The boy retaliates by draining a willpower from Tom. A white energy goes to him and become more solid. Jenny shifts into crinos to defend tom. Jimmy succeeds in using his gift activate major owl spirit. Gracie uses cane to hurl sorcerous fire at the ghost boy, burning the ghost. Sean and brad stand there. Brad tug of wyld to speak with owl spirit. Tom back away from hole while google translate a phrase in Italian. Boy moved toward Tom. The ghost boy repeats his attack on and Tom fails.
Our rage increases.
Jenny 'hey!' Withering Gaze boy. Jimmy commands the owl spirit 'go find the bones for the kid'. Pecks at spot Tom was digging. Moves by boy and owl spirit next to hole. Gracie blasts to the ghost almost to the point of nothingness!
Sean heads to gas station to get gas... no pumps. Shifts to Crinos. Tears it off. 6' down pool of gas. Investigates for a siphon and finds a 10' hose and bucket.
Brad shifts to crinos moves by hole and digs. 3' deep. Tom hops in and haplessly moves dirt.
Our rage increase...
Crinos Brad burn rage to dig faster hits rock. Digs a foot. Jimmy rage digs 6". Jenny hops in digging. Down a foot. Gracie fire blasts and dissipates the ghost. White orb returns to Tom regaining willpower. Jimmy digs and tells owl spirit to keep watch. Removes final 6". Covered in dust. Brad huffs puffs and blows dust away. Blows dust away but slips and breaks one the bones in his left leg bone! Spurting blood all over. Sean brings gas bucket over to whole. Sighs. Tom sort dust and can't find the bones because of Brad's blood.
Our rage increases...
Jimmy asks Gracie to eat Brad's rage. Jenny searches for bones. Jimmy searches for, finds, and digs out the bone! Gracie eats Brad's rage with Calm the Heart. Consume 2 rage from Brad. Sean grabs bone from Jimmy, sets the bone inside bucket, and sets ghost's bone ablaze.
Ghost boy doesn't return and those with Airt Perception notices the castle and storm gone. Kids smile and depart. Witch becomes normal. Book becomes bible.
Jimmy offers gnosis chiminage to the owl spirit.
The experienced pack discovers the Orphanage land is for sale. Jenny buys property intent to set up a pet therapy for troubled kids nonprofit.
I hope you find my tale to your liking and serve as a record of the deeds of this esteemed pack. Much thanks for I have much to learn from them.
*End tale and in-character.
I felt my first LARP session in a couple years was perfect Halloween tale even for Werewolf: The Apocalypse as it had all the trappings of an excellent ghost story. This time I decided to strip out the game mechanics although I might include them next time.
Halloween is four days away!
Happy Gaming and next time!
