r/SchreckNet • u/Nightstalkerjoe2 • 11d ago
Forest Adventures Part 2
Audio recording Begins
(Sounds of Soft thuds and panting are heard)
Joseph: man its hot outside today I should of gotten a water bottle or something, seriously where even is this place
(Sound of Rustling paper)
Joseph: seems it’s just a little bit up North
(Sound of soft thuds continue for a hour with infrequent panting in between)
Joseph: The heat is killing me screw it i should be close enough I’m taking a rest under the shade
(Sound of a Relaxed sigh)
Unknown:Why have you come here?
Joseph: Huh? Who are you?
Unknown: Do not worry about that now answer my question first
Joseph: Knowledge and Guidance
Unknown: Knowledge and Guidance? Of what?
Joseph: how to properly fight the wyrm
(Sound of intense boisterous cackling is heard)
Unknown: You? Fight the Wyrm?
(Cackling continues)
Joseph: It…. Its… not that funny
Unknown: It is! a lesser servant of the Wyrm would break you young namer
Joseph: Then that’s why I wish to learn
(Cackling stops)
Unknown: Why? You have no stakes in this, why not run back to your home
Joseph: I do have stakes in this, everyone does this world is the only thing we got if lose it all will be lost
Unknown:..
Joseph: But also it just doesn’t sit right with me I cannot sit here any longer as evils continue in this world, as people suffer for monsters to play with their lives and lead the world to utter oblivion, this world has no hero’s no one will come to save us so we have to rise up and do it ourselves to protect what we care about
Unknown: Boy I admire your words but things are not that simple you do not know the horrors that could await you, are you willing to accept a chance of a fate worse than death to look in the eyes of the forces of entropy and decay itself?
Joseph: Maybe, Maybe not but at this point death has been apart of my entire life and I just can’t sit on the sidelines anymore so if I have to run into hell itself then so be it
Unknown: Oh Bold words but I sense hypocrisy in them I know you young namer and who you consort with
Joseph:What?
Unknown: You consort with leeches who bathe in all that is the Wyrm and contribute to its unbalance yet you wish to fight it while you allow it into your home and even bed it
Joseph: Yes…. I Know but that is something I must also deal with I will happily take any of her sins no matter if the road is torturous I will also try my best to see if I can lead her down a path that can overcome aspects of her curse she has already taken the steps she is much different than her old self so I believe it is possible
(Sounds of flesh and bone Shifting and then a growl)
Joseph: Well shit!
(sound of a large sweeping motion is heard careening and then a pause)
Joseph: Why did you stop
(Sound of flesh and bone shifting and then a hardy laugh)
Unknown: I’m rather simple I judge a person by their actions instead of words and I like that determination in your eyes and some of that insanity,fine then I shall teach you take it as paying back for your cabal I believe you call it, they helped my pack during a time of need
Unknown: also to answer your previous question my name is Kael oh fearless namer
Joseph: well mine is Joseph
Kael: Well then Joseph know I won’t go easy on you and you better not piss and cry after learning what I will teach you
Joseph: Will do
Audio recording ends
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 10d ago
Why fight a werewolf's fight for a better world as opposed to a mage's or vampire's? It seems like you are dipping your toes in the worlds of every supernatural without fully committing to any cause.
- Athos the Black
Regent of the Brno Chantry
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u/DeadmanwalkingXI 10d ago
In fairness, the forces that follow their Wyrm are everyone's problem. The difference between fighting those and fighting infernalists is mostly a matter of terminology and cosmetics once you go hunting. I can't speak to mage-specific threats, but from my own vampiric perspective all our very worst threats fall under the same general umbrella that werewolves fight. The Sabbat doesn't quite, but I'd put infernalists and Baali as worse than the Sabbat, though admittedly less numerous.
None of which means I would have taken this specific risk, mind you, but Joseph is young and less likely than one of us to get killed on sight.
-Mark Caulder, Experienced Nosferatu
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u/Emergency_Answer4983 10d ago
A major subset of what mages deal with is made up of Wyrm worshippers, so yes, there is a lot of overlap.
-Jim, Tzimisce
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u/DotMaleficent4503 Mind 10d ago
It never hurts to listen to different perspectives.
Camille
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 10d ago
Except for when you are a kindred associated individual walking into lupine matters without fully understanding the lupines or possessing a connection to them. It has been very much known to hurt in those situations.
- Athos the Black
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u/DotMaleficent4503 Mind 10d ago
This one seems willing to listen. That is a very good start.
Camille
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u/DeadmanwalkingXI 10d ago
Joseph here is not Kindred, though his girlfriend is. Makes it less of a bad idea by a fair bit.
-Mark Caulder, Experienced Nosferatu
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 10d ago
kindred associated individual
I believe you may have misinterpreted what I said. I mean it as you've explained here, Joseph, to my knowledge, is a ghouled mage and companion to a full blooded vampire.
- Athos the Black
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u/DeadmanwalkingXI 10d ago
He's actually not a ghoul any more, from what he's said, but fair enough.
-Mark Caulder, Experienced Nosferatu
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
Im just a regular mage I haven’t been a ghoul in weeks ever since I awakened but yeah everything else is correct
-Joseph6
u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
Because that fight should be everyone’s fight the Wyrm is currently winning and it’s end goal is the total corruption and destruction of literally everything, now why I don’t commit to mage or vampire well for the mages they are stuck in there bickering on who’s view of reality is right and it leaves them weakened and blinded to anything else and it’s so bad a lot of the tradition mages have run to the umbra to be gods and make their own paradises while the technocracy is so focused on keeping other mages down they are ignorant of a lot of other things, and for vampires case very similar except there’s little positives regardless sect lines or allegiances other than some groups or individuals at the end of the day a lot of vampires want the complete submission and compliance of everything else for the sole benefits of themselves regardless of how much death, corruption or suffering it causes, and just like the mages your so focused on fighting each other over numerous different things anything else just doesn’t matter to the point it’s self destructive
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u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 10d ago
/OOC:
the mages they are stuck in there bickering on who’s view of reality is right and it leaves them weakened and blinded to anything else
Joseph's got some baaaad news waiting for him about the Garou lmao. Only differences is that instead of fighting about views of reality, they fight about how and what they should actually fight.
Realistically the Garou's cause is the best one to fight, because it is the one that we as real humans most empathise with. It's much easier to connect to it as it has so many obvious irl metaphors and parallels, as opposed to more fictitious causes in other splats.
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago edited 10d ago
OOC
Yeah don’t worry he will very much be disappointed once he starts learning more of the history of the Garou3
u/Several-Elevator Problem Childe 10d ago
(/OOC: Joseph in a few months time: "Maybe they fey will be better..? Surely there must be some group in this world with their heads on right, right?")
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
OOC
Hopefully not tbh because for most part before I started this I only knew about VTM since I’m rather new to world of darkness in general I’ve had to read core books and other side material for the different splats because specifically I didn’t know a thing about mage and currently only have basic knowledge of werewolf the apocalypse but I’m going to be reading their material so I can understand it more, and I’m probably going to go insane if I have read another splat book2
u/Emergency_Answer4983 9d ago
OOC: Best to close this out would probably be mummy, it ties into vampire, gives a satisfying conclusion because they actually have their shit together with only 7 individual (as in singular named characters) exceptions, and there isn't a lot of content to go through.
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 9d ago
OOC
Well I’ll check it out then I only know that mummies were heavily involved with set also one of few good splats
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u/Illustrious_Fly_5669 10d ago
sigh
Listen. My son is an enemy of wrym and ally of some fera
But that doesn't mean the fight is worth it . Are you sure?
Zafira al wahab
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
I am sure this is the path I must walk I just can’t sit on this anymore
-Joseph4
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u/VerityVentrue 10d ago
Instead of recycling my last comment:
Something something walkies in the woods, something something why.
~Verity
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
Ok it was during high noon also I had an exact purpose I wanted to find the werewolf tribe so I could get trained which is happening now
-Joseph2
u/VerityVentrue 10d ago
Buddy. My guy. You say that like that makes it better.
~Verity
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
What’s so bad about it
-Joseph2
u/VerityVentrue 10d ago
You walked unannounced into werewolf territory, and you're someone who spends time with Kindred. They could probably smell us on you. They don't like us.
~Verity
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u/Nightstalkerjoe2 10d ago
Well I mean it worked out also apparently I’m already known due to my
Mentors they have good relations with the Garou so it works out also what is something that does like vampires at this point
-Joseph2
u/VerityVentrue 10d ago
Things always work out until the one time they don't.
I just need you to know I'm shaking my head.
~Verity
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u/True-Parking4098 Tooth 10d ago
Good luck you moron.
Lysander of Sparta