-East of Eden: The characters have all found out that they are werewolves, and must undergo their Rite of Passage. In this case, they must free a werewolf from jail. This they do in their typical style, that is, getting the lawyer in to speak with him, then starting to shoot up the waiting room as a diversion. The guards all go off to there, the captured werewolf rips the camera out of the wall, and the Galliard pops out of the Umbra, grabs the guy, and goes back in. The guards are slaughtered, and they make good their escape. Next morning, they are summoned to the Caern by another Garou. Then, they see a Silent Strider, who informed them that he just got back from a nearby Caern that was turned into a hellhole. He than died in a greusome manner. The whole sept storms off, slaughters the 'BSDs,' and rejoice. At least, they rejoice until a use of 'Sense Wyrm' reveals that they killed their brethren. They then go back to the Caern, where a letter is waiting from a 3rd generation vampire, who had manipulated them into killing the other sept. Then, many, many ghouls peer over the lip of the caern an open fire with 00 silver buckshot. One of the Elders opened a moon bridge, and they go through to another caern, on the other side of the continent. They are the only survivors from the attack.
-A Light Beyond the Forest: After going through the Moon Bridge across the continent, the characters are made Ronin "until they have redeemed themselves." They then leave the Caern, and go out on a quest to find redemtion. They go to the Sept of the Growing Rose(the massacred sept), and use the Rite of Cleansing to clean it of Wyrm-taint. They then purify their old Caern, and contact their pack totem, who tells them that they must slay the one responsible for the sept's actions. They know that the perpetrator was an Antediluvian, so they look through old news reports and such, until they find two cities(New York and Vancouver) with extremely high rates of unexplained dissappearances. They go to New York, and find the "Antediluvian" after getting mauled by other critters. Said "Antediluvian" tells them that the vampire responsible signed the note in his name. After that, they all go slay the other "3rd gen," and the characters are reaccepted into their new sept. Unbeknownst to them, they did NOT slay an antediluvian at all, for reasons you will find out later.
-For El-ah-Hrairah to Cry: After they slew the "antediluvian," another Garou enters the sept, and, having already completed his Rite of Passage, enters the pack. After seven months, a rather large BSD force attacks the Caern, in spite of the previous seven months being the most peaceful that the sept has know for a very long time. The BSDs are driven off, and the characters are sent to find out where they came from. They follow the trail a very long way, and in the middle of southern Canada, they see a very big building in a clearing. After that, they follow the BSD trail to their old Caern. There are many BSDs in and surrounding it. One of the characters (a sniper type) picks off two of the BSDs, and then they all flee. The BSDs follow, and the characters, after having 'throw off' the pursuit, decide to spent the night in the Lawyer's old house. Around midnight, the Black Spirals attack the house, and one of the characters takes two balefire hits and goes incapacitated. The Black Spirals are driven off, and the characters carry their fallen comrade into the Umbra, and return to the caern, where their packmate is healed. During the night after this, one of the characters sneaks off, and goes to the building that they spotted earlier. The rest follow him, and find that the Wyrm is tempting him. He resists, and with his packmates, breaks out of the building.
-Vengence and Redemtion: The Caern decides that something must be done about the real Wyrmhole. They summon several septs in the area, and amass two hundred Garou, who then proceed to kill the BSDs, defeat the Wrym-spirits that they summoned, and recolonize the Caern after expelling the Wyrm-totem. The characters are among the first colonists.
-A complete change of tone. This started out with a bunch of mortal PCs driving down to a funeral outside of Vancouver. They're car breaks down, forcing them to take shelter inside a nearby abandoned mansion.
-This starts with the mortals going to the funeral of their friend's father. They go there, and are introduced to one Seth Peterson, who was the dead man's brother.
Beginning of the End
-This story starts simply: the characters are staying up late by their caern. They notice quickly that there is a new star in the sky. It is brilliant red, and changes a Garou glyph in the heavens, from normally meaning 'life and prosperity,' to 'the Apocalypse.' They consult an elder, but he doesn't help them much. In fact, he suggests that they find out what it means. They moon Bridge to another caern, and talk to them about it...and they hear that a wandering Garou had mentioned something about it. They say he went to Yellowstone. The characters go to yellowstone, and find out that there is, indeed a caern there. The Garou whom they seek had already left, for the Middle East. They go there(via Moon Bridge). There, they find that he left for Germany. However, since they're in the Middle East, they decide to do some shopping. They get in contact with an Arms broker, who sells them 4 AK-47s, and Ammo. Then they go to Germany, planning on selling the guns. They go to Germany, and proceed to find an a gang willing to trade grenades for guns. The characters trade two AKs+2000 rounds of ammo for 2 flashabangs, and 4 Incendiary grenades. Then the gang members place them under arrest. The characters kill them easily. They go to the caern, and find the Garou they seek, who says that he got his information from a Garou with Silver Fur. They find him, in the same caern, and ask him about what he knows. He said he was trying to kill a Vampire with his pack, and on the way out of his haven, he saw a warning about a red star in a book on a pedastal. He draws them a rough map. Then, being the crazy people they are, they rent a minivan. And a car engine. They then decide that Elena and Boris should go in, while Alex stays out with the van. They carry a rope in through the window they're using, which is tied to the van. When they get to the book, they see the Vampire studying it: Iranas's rival, clearly not as dead as they thought. They grab the book, throw the car engine and a Boris Bomb at the guy, and run like hell...only to find that it's night outside. They went in at midday. They get back to Vancouver without further incident, where they study the book. The page says that the Star signals the end of the world, and will appear 4-6 years before the Apocalypse. It is called Wormwood, and when the end comes, it will fall.
You Should Have Seen the One that Got Away
Here, the characters are looking for Seth, who is gone far too long on his rite of passage. They know he was infiltrating his old workplace, a Pentex facility in Vancouver. They get in without incident, as the place is now abandoned, and encounter a materialized Bane in the ventwork. It gets beaten into the floor, and the characters search the place to the ground looking for clues. Eventually, they find a button under a desk, which they push. It opens a secret door in the wall, to a spiral staircase. They get about halfway down, and hear a Whiporwill call. The freak out at this, and scrample up the stairs. Hector mocks it, though. The sound stops. Then, they go down again. The call begins again, only this time, they notice a small speaker hooked up to one of the steps. The step had a pressure sensor on it, so when they stepped on it, they'd hear a whiporwill call. They get down the stairs, and see the Rival, with a gun to Seth's head. He tells them that all he wants is peace with them, and he will let Seth go. Alex begins to set up his rifle, only to get noticed by the Vampire. Two red slits open beneath Alex's eyes. Not deep, but painful. He never saw the vampire move. In reality, this was Cauldron of Blood in use, but they thought he moved faster than sight. They accept his offer, and leave the facility with Seth.
Strange, to Wander in the Mist!
The characters are getting bored. So, naturally, they spend a night partying. They go out to 'the Golden Shamrock,' and spent the night drinking and singing with the local Irish population. the next morning, the Caern is hosting a moot, and, as a gesture of reconcilliation, they have invited the Sept of the Growing Rose as well. Everyone attends, but at the end, when they're all bloodied from the revel, Alex decides to wash off in the caern pool. He jumps, hits...and everything goes black for him and everyone. Everyone get's different visions. Alex and Boris see and endless field, with a black sky and bloodred moon. As they watch, the Red Star falls. Elena and Jack see a Silvery orb with a brilliant red counter sounting down...3...2...1...BOOM. Hector sees a misty field, surrounded by trees, and a shadowy figure beckoning, reaching out to him. Then they all wake up. Everyone in the caern had similar visions. They all go to sleep, troubled by the nights events. Early the next morning, they all feel some sense of...danger. They wake up simultaneuosly. They look around, looking for the source, and find a silver Bomb in the caern reflecting pool. Boris shoots off the timer, and Alex and he throw it over the trees, where it detonates. The question then becomes: who, and why. Eventually, they ask spirits, and, using that information, they deduce that the culprite must be Garou. Meanwhile, Jack follows the newcomers to their caern, and sees a latecomer, who says he was attacked by formori. Jack goes back and gets his Pack, and they convict him and he is sentenced to the Rite of the Shattered Soul. He did it as revenge for the earlier Sept of the Growing Rose.
Approaching Thunder
At this point, the characters are in Limbo, with no way of tracking their rival down. And their pissed. So they aren't suprised when a sniper bullet pings off the wall next to them. The Sniper misses again, and the characters begin to run. They run for his position, and he flees. They chase him for a ways, and then his scent suddenly disappears. Without a trace. So, with no leads again, they go back to the caern. At the location he was sniping from, they find a cell phone. It has four numbers in it. Then, they use Whitepages.com to look up the corresponding addresses for each number. Two are for a Gun Store, but different extensions. One is for a Grocery store. The last is a residential address. They go to the house, and find out that he is, in fact, a happily married man with an 8-year old daughter. They wait until everyone has left on a weekday. Then, they break into his house, and find out that he's meeting someone soon. In a Graveyard. So, naturally, they try to find where. This they do successfully, after taking his gun(an Arctic Warfare Magnum Sniper Rifle) and his extra ammo. They lie in wait at the graveyard, and the people appear. One of them, a more important one, melts out of the ground. The Sniper arrives later. They characters wait until they've finished talking, then open up. The Sniper takes a Dragonov shot to the stomach, and goes unconscious. The higher-up(a ghoul) takes a bullet to the back of the head, and finds his facial structure mostly destroyed. By the Sniper's gun, conveniently appropriated from his house. However, the Ghoul had a note in his back pocket.
The Thunder Breaks
A lot of this adventure was spent decoding the two layers of encoding on the message. The first was a 3-digit code assigned to each letter. The second was that the message was purposely designed to be hard to understand. Eventually, though, they work out that they're supposed to be going to Cathedral Park, to meet their rival. Once they discover this, they figure it's a trap(it is) because it was so easy to obtain and decode the note. And that Vampires don't have much respect for their underlings, usually. Consequently, they decide to get properly 'armed up.' They take most of the guns at their disposal which total: 2 AK-47s, + ammo, 1 Arctic Warfare Magnum + ammo, 1 Dragonov + ammo, 1 Ithaca M37 + ammo, and 2 Colt Anacondas + ammo. As well as 4 incendiary grenades, and 2 flashbangs. As well as a supply of Boris Bombs. It's snowing when they arrive in Cathedral Park. There, they overhear Iranas telling his childe that the characters must pay for their ancestor's crimes against him. Now, when the childe responds, they realize that Iranas's 'Rival' is actually his childe. At this point, Boris greets them, and they summon their ghouls. At this point, Boris throws a Boris Bomb at the two vampires, who proceed to attack. Iranas claws Boris's face open, killing him instantly, and spilling his blood onto the snow blanketed ground. Then, Alex throws an Incendiary grenade at them, and their fear of ire overcomes them, and the vampires both flee like hell. The ghouls by themselves are weak, and easily slain. The characters proceed to carry their fallen comrade back to the caern. His funeral is scheduled for the next day.
The Sky Suspended
This begins with Boris's funeral. True to his style, rather than serve out any sissy 'grape juice,' they have ceremonial Vodka. Elena and Alex gave eulogies, as they had done most the prep work for the funeral in the first place. After this event, they decided where Iranas's haven must be, in the Cathedral. Alex, Hector, Elena, and Jack set their hearts on revenge and began planning. In its final form, this called for shaped charges, and incendiary rounds for everything they owned. To scrounge money for this, they got donations from other members of their caern. Once they had their money, they Moon Bridged to the middle East, and restocked on weaponry, this time without getting ambushed by the cops. The Pack then goes to the haven at midday, and begins unloading their cargo of explosives. Once they're all inside for good, they realize that the sky is a lot darker than when they came in...it's now night outside, and Iranas has them trapped. Ghouls arise from the balconies where the choir would sit, and Iranas and his Childe stand rise from a walkway in front of a stained-glass window. Now, the battle is joined. The shaped charges are all ready and rigged, but undetonated. Unfortunately, the Vampires forgot one critical order: We're fighting werewolves, so silver loads. The guns didn't stop Alex from grenading the vampires once. Then, Iranas came down to kick ass. He wears a golden circlet, a golden ring, and a silver ring. He picks up part of the wall, only to take a gunshot to the chin, which throws him across the room, knocking off his circlet. The ghouls open fire on the sandbag wall, mostly destroying is in one round. Elena and Hector threw incendiary grenades, decimating the ghouls. A few soconds later, Iranas grabs and donns his circlet. Jack shoots his rifle for the second time ever, and kills the childe instantly, throwing him backwards out the window. The Ghouls shoot a little, but with their reduced numbers, they are unable to do any serious damage to the Garou. Alex, Elena, and Hector mow down most of the remaining ghouls, and then Alex blows the shaped charges, dropping them into the crypt where Iranas spent the day. The ghouls fire a little into the darkness, but to no avail. Iranas drops down, and slashes Hector, knocking him out cold, and sending him spinning across the room. At this point, Alex, Jakc, and Elena close in and bite. Elena and Jack take one hand each, Alex takes the head. They all succeed, and Iranas's body disingrates into dust before their eyes. They head back to the caern, after exacting revenge, and honoring their comrade.
Dona Nobis Requiem
Three months later, they realize that the Apocalypse is imminent. On March 2nd, they start preparing for the inevitable by setting traps around their caern, and preparing many means of killing many Wyrm-creatures at once. Then, a horribly wounded Garou stumbles into their caern. He tells them that he's from Yellowstone, and that his caern was just overcome by the wyrm. He screamed, and fainted. When he awoke, he explained that he had a vision: all else is lost. This is now the only caern left. He joins them in preparation for the final strike. The next day, March 3rd, the sun never rose. The sky was black as night, and they saw the red star fall. And it's the last day of the world. Early in the morning, they see a massive tide of creatures who kill plants in passing, who warp reality, who are twisted beyond imagining. This flows over the landscape towards the caern, and towards a gas truck conveniently positioned and filled with napalm, dynamite, and white phosphorus. When it is completely surrounded, it detonates, ripping a huge hole in the Wyrm's forces. The swarm keeps coming, and eventually kills and tears apart every Garou in the caern, bypassing their defenses and massacering them. All save four. Alex, Elena, Jack, and Hector all stand entrenched about Boris's tomb, laying waste with their AK-47s loaded with incendiaries. They fired until they ran out of ammo. Then they switched to normal ammunition. From normal ammo, they changed to rolling car bombs down the hill. When they ran out of ammunition for any gun, they shifted into Crinos, and, empowered by the spirits of Boris, Gaia, and every other Garou on Earth, they slew 500 great Wyrmspawn before Jack, then Alex, then Elena, and finally Hector died in combat. Even as they died, they realized that the star had fallen. The glyph was back to what it had meant. In the end, the Red Shadow destroyed 3 thousands and 5 hundreds of Wyrmspawn.
Finis, 'Like rain on the Mountains'