Tainted Barnyard: Val's Report

4/8/2005

07:23 PM
Logfile from GarouMUSH.

Currently the moon is in the waning New Moon phase (2% full).
Currently in Saint Claire, it is mostly sunny today. The temperature is 57 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius). The wind is currently coming in from the north at 10 mph. The barometric pressure reading is 29.73 and rising, and the relative humidity is 35 percent. The dewpoint is 30 degrees Fahrenheit (-1 degrees Celsius.)
It is currently 19:00 Pacific Time on Fri Apr 8 2005.

[Somewhere atop a roof on East Bridge Street]

Atop one of the tenements overlooking Second Street and Bridge, the Gnawer ragabash leans against the small roofshack that holds the staircase leading down. Over the west edge, the fire escape ladder is a bit rusty, but good enough to hold an escaping person or so dodging the rent. Yi looks to be scanning the skies intently for once, and at her feet twinkling in the setting afternoon sun is a sheet of aluminum foil wrapped around some kind of boxy object.

Yi's efforts are finally rewarded when a large black bird lands on the roof and croaks at the Gnawer, head tilted to one side.

Yi peels herself off the wall when the raven lands, and the ragabash lifts her hand up in a wave. "Hello. I was hoping to find you some how, Val, and I was not sure how. So, I kind of used the way I used to get my friend's attention back home." She gestures towards the aluminum covered, now about half-shoebox sized box. "The box has things inside, if you wish to have a look. They are yours now, in thanks for answering my call." The ragabash keeps her distance from the box and bird, and the perceptive eye notes an intangible tension slid over the Gnawer's otherwise calm aura. "I heard you scouted out some Wyrm tainted place, right? I have been told that scouts are needed to find out more about the place, but it was dangerous. I thought I would best ask you first what you had seen."

Finds-Stories waddles over to the box and takes a look, poking about at the contents before croaking her approval. Hoping of the box, she moves a short distance away. Ravens really are not all that graceful on the ground. There, the bird turns into a woman. "Hey, thanks. Really nice of you. Far better then the 'Hey BIRD!' I got last time."

Yi lifts her brows at the latter part. "I'm afraid last moot did not result in much more than your name being announced. I hope you haven't been harmed in any way?" she asks in concern. The box holds a small 8-ball keychain, coupons for free pizza at Garcia's, and other knick knacks that honestly aren't worth too much, but shiny all the same. "The Sunset Garou aren't very wise when it comes to dealing with others outside their kind, it seems."

Val smiles a bit, clearly pleased with herself. "No-no. was in the middle of a feild, so I would have had no problem getting away. Big Get fellow, named Brom. Also said something along the lines of killing me if I didn't continue to be useful. Told him he should go to charm school, to help with his manners a touch."

Yi ahs in a manner such that the very mention of Brom triggers an understanding of the situation deeper than words could describe. "He is the kind who is best dealing with his own kind, I think," Yi says with a nod. "Do you think you could describe to me what was seen or what happened?"

Val sighs softly and sits down on the cement roof. "Well, you know, I have told everyone what happened before. Are you certain that you need to hear it again?"

Reaching down beside her, Yi draws out a notebook from the familiar black shoulder bag she had had before in previous meetings. In it, a pen stuck in the spiral binding is drawn out and she flips it open to a blank lined page. "If it would not be too much trouble. I would prefer more specifics than just a general idea. Like, if you were able to count numbers of things, or could guess how big of an area we are talking about. Doors, windows. Perhaps if you saw any people or cars in the area? All I have heard is that there are poisonous birds and jumping cows, and the buildings are located on very flat land with no cover for a good run's distance."

Val runs a hand over her face. "Well, no, not really. Got a decent look of how the place is laid out and all that. Drew a map for Auggie. He should still have that. As for animals, I only saw the cow, that could have been a bull, and the dozen or so birds that chased me off. Territorial and all that."

Yi writes down some things in a rapid scribble of words in the notebook, before looking back to the Corax. "Was this in the daytime, or at night?" A pause. "Do you think you ... would be willing to go back there?"

Val leans back, resting some of her weight on her hands. "It was night-time when I actually got that far. Had been scouting all day. Actually, was downright odd that the ravens and crows were not sleeping at night. I have made other passes and stuff, high enough not to attract the locals attention." The small woman frowns faintly. "I have agreed to take a peek at the Shadow-side. Actually, was going to ask how good you are on that side. Little back up is never a bad thing. As for going back on this side... Eh." The small woman shrugs her shoulders. "Not as a scout. I was lucky to get away alive and still payed for it last time."

Yi wets her lips, scratching at the notebook again some with her pen and then caps the writing utensil. "I am... decent on the other side of the Wall. I am no theurge, but I think I have done my fair share of scouting and fighting in the Umbra," she notes thoughtfully. "If you need backup, I would also suggest perhaps bringing Olga, or my packmate Alicia possibly as well. Birdseye, the pack under Magpie, I was going to ask to accompany me on the scouting mission to the house." The ragabash rubs her chin in thought. "That distance though. It is rather far. If we can even get close to the house and look inside..." Strategizing out loud, the Gnawer abruptly glances back to the Corax. "What do you suggest?"

Val shakes her head. "You'd never get that close. The area is littered with dead animals, all killed by those tainted birds. Barn lacks windows and the greenhouse is painted black. No way to peek into it."

Yi considers the birdwoman, eyes narrowed with thought. "It would be good to know who was living there. I will try to ask Jeremy if he can find out that information." The Gnawer taps her pen against her notebook. "What if we tried to pierce through from the Umbra? Assuming that there is clear ground there, which I doubt."

Val wrinkles up her rather impressive nose. "Well, that may give you a moment or two before the birds come after you, but there must be other animals aside from the cow I saw."

Yi sighs out with frustration, and mutters, "What I would give to simply burn it down. But it is too close for comfort to the farmhouse for such rash thoughts." The ragabash slides off her cap and bandanna, scrubbing the meager regrowing fuzz of hair on her head. "If there was some way to mask our approach. But, you said these were animals that attacked you? Maybe they do not attack human looking things."

Val rubs at the back of her neck. "Eh. Kind of doubt that, what with the stories of rats and the like. From what I was told, they were attacking people in human form."
"Really?" Yi echoes, looking back at the woman. "You mean that other humans have already gone to investigate the house before?"

Val shakes her head. "Oh, nono. Thats not what I ment at all. I heard something about rats in the city attacking people, with green foam at the mouths. Same foam that these animals have. Brom is the one that told me. Said there had been som attacks in the forest as well. Didn't say by what types of animals, though. Being in the city, the rats would have most likely attacked people... Don't see why the animals at the farm would be any different."

Yi nods again, and leans back against the roofshack, uttering a small foreign curse that sounds in tone like 'damn'. "Then, either the source is that house, or the source is somewhere in the city and the house is a warehouse. I think we can watch the road you say that is leading to the house for a few days, and see if there is no one going to and from. If Jeremy knows who is living there, perhaps something can be done after as well."

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