12-10-2013, 08:45 PM
Tamsin reaches for the bone next. Tamsin doesn't speak up in moots all that often -- not outside the stories and tales portion and maybe during the revel. She can get pretty rambunctious during the revel, as relief with the stories and tales part floods her with adrenaline. But tonight, this moot, Tamsin reaches for the bone. The uncharitable and those who know her well might suspect that part of the reason she does is to make the cracking take longer. Maybe if it takes long enough, there won't be a stories and tales portion of the moot!
Once she has the bone, she takes a second to gather her thoughts and her nerve. Tamsin doesn't like speaking in front of crowds, though fuck if most people know it. The feel of the bone in her (cold) hands sooths her though, and once the second to gather her thoughts and control the wary lash of Rage, ever-ready to leap up on Full Moon nights is past, she says:
"Okay, um. A few things."
"About the Pit.
"I don't know if this has been tried yet, but maybe it'd be worth doing. Have any of the theurges asked one of the spirits -- one of the braver spirits, obviously, and probably one of the more cunning ones -- to go into the pit and see what it can see then come back? Obviously, we can't just go jumping into it. But the spirits are our allies, and the Pit seems to be something of another other-world, so maybe they can help us here. Or maybe they wouldn't come back. Or maybe they'd come back, but changed. And maybe we'd learn something from that. Hopefully, they'd come back and we'd just know a little more. Understand more about whatever's beyond.
"Siren of Persephone-rhya says that the Cold Crescent Pit has been around for ages and is probably a natural phenomenon, right? Well maybe there are other pits like it somewhere in the world. Or maybe there were. I know that a number of us are closely connected to our ancestors and sometimes those ancestors speak-up, help-out, lend a skill or some scrap of knowledge. I'm not one of them, but maybe those who have that connection can try to use it to remember a story about something like the Pit.
"Anything that old and that strange has to have attracted stories, and stories are only lost forever if we let that happen. Along that same, uh, um, that same topic, it's a strange ol' Pit. There have to be tales about something similar, even if the tales are old. I guess what I'm suggesting is a couple of Garou going out to other Septs, other Caerns, and spreading word that we're looking for tales about, spreading our own stories deliberately to catch something useful.
"Also, they'd know what was going on. The Pit shouldn't be a secret to our allies. Fog loves secrets and mischief, but Fog only hides things from its enemies. Unfortunately, the enemies already know what's up, so it's probably not a good idea to keep our allies in the dark."
"I also think that a City Sept is a good idea. Maybe a great idea. Maybe other Garou were cowards when they tried to form one up. Maybe they got lost in the idea and dishonored what they were in order to do what they thought needed to be done. But it's still a good idea."
"And, this is the last point for now I promise, but and... Look, defense is awesome, but we know that those heart-eating shit-holes want the Pit, right? Let's defend the fuck out of it. But maybe... We could also start to look more into turning the place into a trap? I guess the traps can be part of the defenses, but knowing what your foe wants is a good way to lure the foe into meeting its doom."
"It seems like we're always the ones who get surprised first. It'd be nice to change that."
Then she blushes: "That's all."
Cannot hand the bone back to the Truth-catcher hastily enough and go back to huddling-up with her pack.
Once she has the bone, she takes a second to gather her thoughts and her nerve. Tamsin doesn't like speaking in front of crowds, though fuck if most people know it. The feel of the bone in her (cold) hands sooths her though, and once the second to gather her thoughts and control the wary lash of Rage, ever-ready to leap up on Full Moon nights is past, she says:
"Okay, um. A few things."
"About the Pit.
"I don't know if this has been tried yet, but maybe it'd be worth doing. Have any of the theurges asked one of the spirits -- one of the braver spirits, obviously, and probably one of the more cunning ones -- to go into the pit and see what it can see then come back? Obviously, we can't just go jumping into it. But the spirits are our allies, and the Pit seems to be something of another other-world, so maybe they can help us here. Or maybe they wouldn't come back. Or maybe they'd come back, but changed. And maybe we'd learn something from that. Hopefully, they'd come back and we'd just know a little more. Understand more about whatever's beyond.
"Siren of Persephone-rhya says that the Cold Crescent Pit has been around for ages and is probably a natural phenomenon, right? Well maybe there are other pits like it somewhere in the world. Or maybe there were. I know that a number of us are closely connected to our ancestors and sometimes those ancestors speak-up, help-out, lend a skill or some scrap of knowledge. I'm not one of them, but maybe those who have that connection can try to use it to remember a story about something like the Pit.
"Anything that old and that strange has to have attracted stories, and stories are only lost forever if we let that happen. Along that same, uh, um, that same topic, it's a strange ol' Pit. There have to be tales about something similar, even if the tales are old. I guess what I'm suggesting is a couple of Garou going out to other Septs, other Caerns, and spreading word that we're looking for tales about, spreading our own stories deliberately to catch something useful.
"Also, they'd know what was going on. The Pit shouldn't be a secret to our allies. Fog loves secrets and mischief, but Fog only hides things from its enemies. Unfortunately, the enemies already know what's up, so it's probably not a good idea to keep our allies in the dark."
"I also think that a City Sept is a good idea. Maybe a great idea. Maybe other Garou were cowards when they tried to form one up. Maybe they got lost in the idea and dishonored what they were in order to do what they thought needed to be done. But it's still a good idea."
"And, this is the last point for now I promise, but and... Look, defense is awesome, but we know that those heart-eating shit-holes want the Pit, right? Let's defend the fuck out of it. But maybe... We could also start to look more into turning the place into a trap? I guess the traps can be part of the defenses, but knowing what your foe wants is a good way to lure the foe into meeting its doom."
"It seems like we're always the ones who get surprised first. It'd be nice to change that."
Then she blushes: "That's all."
Cannot hand the bone back to the Truth-catcher hastily enough and go back to huddling-up with her pack.