Door Session #5: Quiet Werewolf Chat

Nikita and Gustaf ... together (platonically)
at last!

Sometimes you can have a gathering with very little pre-established conflict and it all goes up in smoke and fire.  Other times you can have a gathering fraught with internal tension and yet it all moves so very peaceably.  Gustaf Freya'barn yearned to bring back his lost werewolf friend, Nikita, who had died in New York shortly after he had freed her from her blood bonds.  After his time in the Cassandra session where he had believed her still alive, and himself a nomad who travelled with her pack, he became consumed by a need to re-create that world and wanted to draw across that sliver of reality.  In short, he'd hoped it had been a true but alternative dimension he could pull her from and in his torpid sleep he couldn't help but try.  Unfortunately when he awoke he was within a version of Elysium crafted from cold grey stone in the giant cavernous reaches of the Underworld with an even stranger creature sitting on the couch across from them.

Present were the following:

• FatherMother (Gangrel Crone)
• Gustaf Freya'barn (Gangrel Crone)
• Luke Garibaldi (Werewolf from a pack he can no longer reach)
• Jeremy Dartmoor (Urban pack member  Pack Gustaf used to run with)
• Sariah Dartmoor (Urban pack member Gustaf used to run with)
• Fangs Like Knives (Adelaide Hills pack member Luke used to run with)
• Old "One Eye" (Adelaide Hills pack member Luke used to run with)
• Nikita (only appeared in a ghostly form when Gustaf mentioned her by name)
• The Unknowable (strange entity who explained the basic circumstances)

The Dartmoors wanted to convince Luke to defect to their pack as they needed more members, he had invaded their territory on many occasions to reach the Port Adelaide Precinct where he worked, and he had been cut off from the Rural Pack anyways over the past year.  Naturally the Adelaide Hills pack still wanted him to hold on and pointed out that they'd given him Alpha while the others would let him be Omega at best.

Although typically vampires wouldn't be involved in such discussions, the secretive magic of the dissolved stone ensured that Gustaf's opinions remained front and centre.  He offered to assist Luke Garibaldi, first suggesting that he temporarily run with the Dartmoors and then when that turned out to be culturally impossible he suggested he wait for a few more months (while secretly planning to discuss the matter further with Luke when his pack-mates weren't around).

FatherMother also convinced the werewolves that she didn't throw her vitae around liberally when pressed on the matter by Old One Eye who worried for Luke's safety.  She stated that she only ever Embraced one girl who was otherwise going to die (true) but naturally didn't mention all of the blood bonds and ghouls she had strewn about the place, Crone beliefs regarding the sacred value of vitae, or the need to use it for Cruac rituals.

After a very diplomatic encounter, Gustaf then had to discuss with Nikita whether she would rather be alive yet human (wolf-blooded) or dead as a werewolf.  Nikita chose to live, but in the end she told Gustaf he would need to choose for her.  In the end, he chose to resurrect her as she could always still support the remnants of her old pack and even produce children of her own who might end up full werewolves able to run with a pack of their own.

It was a touching scene, and in the end no blood was drawn between the two packs, and Gustaf was allowed to dissolve their place in the realm to reappear in their individual beds.  All but for Nikita who reappeared by Gustaf's side, alive.