S2E2 Talking with the Pack

Transcript from Friendship Unbreakable Part 2 when Seline casts speak with dead and Talia speaks with her Pack

## Transcript

> **Talia Grey**The firepit should be somewhere over there.[Seline takes Talia's hand again. Before finding the pit in the middle of the town. She sets up the ritual for speak with dead including taking out her spirit board.]**Seline Argent**What was your father's name?**Talia Grey**Roe.**Seline Argent**Roe Grey.[Seline casts speak with dead]**DM Molly**You cast the spell, laying out the ritual and you lay out the spirit board in front of you. There's kind of a stirring of the trees as the air moves, the wind picking up a little bit and it dies down and you can feel something.**Seline Argent**I am trying to reach Roe Grey, is he with us?[Seline puts her hands on the planchette but there's no reply. But something else is here.]**Spirit of the Pack**Whatcha doing?**Talia Grey**Who said that?**DM Molly**You see a girl, can't be older than 7, is wearing a simple brown dress, dark hair and a similar skin color to you, Talia sitting on a bit of stone foundation, kind of kicking her legs and looking over at you curiously.[Seline uses Eyes of the Grave which tell her she is not human, not anything also not showing her as undead, but Talia sort of recognizes her.]**Talia Grey**Who are you?**Spirit of the Pack**Who are you?**Seline Argent**My name is Seline Argent.**Talia Grey**Talia. And you are?**Spirit of the Pack**Whatcha doing?[To Talia, the girl smells like her father, her mother, her aunt, her cousin, her friend down the street, not specifically just like a lycan but rather of all those individuals.]**Seline Argent**Do you have a name?**Spirit of the Pack**We are the pack.**Talia Grey**How?[The girl hops down from the foundation coming toward our adventurers]**Spirit of the Pack**It's not a matter of how silly, it's a matter of why.**Talia Grey** *(takes a step back unnerved)*Then, why?**Spirit of the Pack**Because you need answers.**Seline Argent**You are the memories of all the people here?**Spirit of the Pack**That's a way to put it.**Seline Argent**We are trying to bring justice for the people that was slaughtered here, for the pack.**Spirit of the Pack**No.**Seline Argent**No?**Spirit of the Pack**No, you want revenge**Talia Grey**Damn right, I do!**Spirit of the Pack**Why?**Talia Grey**You can look around and ask me why? What's still going on, how long did we know other packs were disappearing? How long did we know that we were the last ones?[Seline takes Talia's hand again. Talia pulls away, Seline puts her hand on Talia shoulder.]**Spirit of the Pack**The last what? The last... People? The last creatures? The last lycans?**Seline Argent**The last children of the Wolf**Spirit of the Pack**Children of the Wolf... I suppose we were. That is the last of one thing among so many other things. Why?**Talia Grey** *(angered)*Why, what?**Spirit of the Pack**Why, revenge?**Talia Grey** *(voice breaking with the emotion)*I lost everyone, everything! Someone's got to pay!**Spirit of the Pack**So, what is for you?**Talia Grey**Those three who came here that night those are for me. The organization they belong to, that's for everybody else including my son and anybody else they hurt.**Spirit of the Pack**Do it for the living then. Do it to protect what you have now not out of anger over what was lost. People die, Talia. Everyone has their time.**Talia Grey** *(crying in anger)*We were being wiped out! How long did you know? How long did we hide here knowing that we were being wiped out?**Spirit of the Pack**At first we did not know. We did not keep regular contact with the other packs but eventually a werebear named Bruckhum came and told us what he had found left all day pack down south. People became worried for a while but in the end what could they do? They knew not who when how. So we did what we must, we thought that thinking that are action and solitude would spare us the faith that had befallen our brothers and sisters. We were wrong.**Talia Grey**And there's nothing you could do that could help?**Spirit of the Pack**I could show you it won't be pleasant.**Talia Grey**No worse off than my nightmares.**Spirit of the Pack**No, but you might see something that can help.**Talia Grey**Then I'll see it.**Spirit of the Pack** *(reaching out to Talia)*Before I show you, remember do this not for those who have found rest, but to protect those that can still be harmed.[Talia reaches out and squeezes Seline's other hand before reaching out to the girl.]**DM Molly**You take her hand and she leads you back behind one of the houses that still standing. As you approach the back of it you smell burning, blood, fire as you come around the other side, you see the community as it was that night. People running back and forth. You see three figures. You see Brown you see a tall man and a shorter woman. The three of them running from building to building. The larger man running after a woman and tackling her to the ground, holding a gun up to her chest and pulling the trigger. You see the woman with a rifle to her shoulder track the young man with her eyes. She quickly raises the rifle up, with a clean shot takes him down. You see some of the people trying to rush back in and protect those that are fleeing. You see one of your cousins in their half-shifted form come running out of one of the burning houses trying to claw at the woman but she manages to dodge out of the way, knocking him out with a quick blow from the butt of her gun. You see one of your aunts coming out in her full-shifted form leaping over the ground towards Brown. Without blinking, he holds up a gun and takes her right in the head. In the middle of all this, you hear a roar that turns into a howl as your father in full shifted form come leaping out of one of the burning buildings and takes the big man to the ground, his claws slashing across his face drawing blood. There's a cry from the woman as she shouts out Jim and you see her put a couple shots into your father but he still on top slashing down. You see blood flying but in the flurry of slashes and blows you see the man raise a gun, a pistol shoving it right into your father's open mouth and pulling the trigger. You stand there and watch finding yourself unable to move. And the rest of the scene plays out in front of you. The large man getting up, stumbling around. You see the other two hunting down the other members of your pack. You see yourself eventually leaving one of the buildings making a run for the woods and in your haste, running into the taller man who in his wounded confusion drops his gun.**Talia Grey**That's the part where I pick it up and try to shoot and it jams.**DM Molly**Yeah. It jams caked in the blood of your father. The vision fades. As the vision fades you find yourself walking around the other side of the building, back to Seline, alone.[Seline saw none of this. When Seline sees Talia she rushes up to her who's kind of dazed from what she just witnessed.]**Seline Argent**What happened?**Talia Grey**I got another name. Jim. My father attacked him. He's the one who dropped Retribution but I didn't get a last name**Seline Argent** *(wipes Talia’s tears away)*We will find him.**Talia Grey** *(doesn't see the little girl about.)*It's probably been 10 minutes so the Spell's done.**Seline Argent**Would you like me to cast it again?**Talia Grey**No.[Seline stands on her tiptoes and pulls Talia into a hug Talia eventually Loosely hugs her back. Seline observes that it's mid-afternoon. Seline squeezes Talia before letting go. By the fire pit Seline leaves two candles one of Cortez's feathers and she sprinkled some of the bone dust from her previous divinations.]**Seline Argent** *(praying)*Undertaker, please bless this ground.**Seline Argent** *(to Talia)*Do you want to go back?**Talia Grey**Yeah might as well**Seline Argent** *(taking Talia's hand)*is there anything I can do?**Talia Grey**I don't think so. We got a name at least. It's one more than we had it's probably a mistake though.**Seline Argent**What was?**Talia Grey**Coming here in the first place.**Seline Argent**Why?**Talia Grey**I don't know[Seline leads Talia away. Talia looks around and sees the spot where her father fell. It's a small clearing in the grass where are some bones are. Talia stops when she spots couple of ribs sticking up among the grass. Also present are some claws his arm bones and his skull as they would have been when he was shifted.]**Talia Grey**Seline Argent, Roe Grey.**Seline Argent**Nice to meet you, wish it could have been under more pleasant circumstances. Do you want to take it?**Talia Grey**I don't know. I don't know what I'd do with it. Other than just be reminded.**Seline Argent**I have an idea.**Talia Grey**Yeah?[Seline carefully removes one of the claws.]**Seline Argent**A sign of the power that you came from, the strength, and the drive to protect what you love. As far as the rest of him, well he does not need to come with us but you should have a part of him to come with you.**Talia Grey**Yeah alright, this works.**Seline Argent**It was the middle one.**Talia Grey** *(laughing)*Thank you, I appreciate it.

## Characters

### Players

* Seline Argent-Grey
* Talia Argent-Grey