Session 13

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Nyx ascends spacetime, Sam has regrets, and lesbian werewolves are reunited.

## Characters

* the party
* Tressa Gillespie
* Jamie Nejem
* Fillan Bailey
* Nate
* Benjamin Richards
* Arlo Briar
* Arlo's Crew

## Summary

### **The Present is so Six Seconds Ago**

Continuing the fight against the werewolves, Kuno manages to sprint to the elevator, where he collapses. Nyx, cornered and running out of options, takes the rainy-day pill Zacharie gave her, which supercharges her oracle abilities.

Her view of time expands, and she sees several flashes of ever-expanding visions in a split second: riots on the streets, a gunshot at the winter gala, an expanse of crackling and oozing blue liquid, a white-haired man sleeping in a bedroom, a man asking a question in a computer control room full of screens and switches, and an unending void, with the sense it used to be the universe but also that the universe distinctly gone.

Back in linear time, Asa puts a bullet through a wolf's brain, leaving two wolves left. Sam misses one stab, which results in him getting pinned against the wall by a very injured, feral wolf determined to take Sam down with him. Sam reaches for his fight response to give him some edge, and without consciously deciding to buries the knife in the wolf's throat, leaving him covered in werewolf blood while the wolf bleeds out slowly and painfully. Nyx, still buzzed from the drugs, has a vision of the scientist in the other room, nervously watching the fight through the security cameras. Kuno tries to use the laser pointer function of his flashlight to blind the wolf on Colby, which doesn't go well, luring the wolf in the direction of the elevator. Sam throws his knife across the room and hits the one harassing Asa, causing them to turn and approach Sam, who is now unarmed. Nyx shoots the wolf that had been on Colby before it reaches the elevator, leaving one wolf left.

### **Werewolves to the Rescue**

The scientist shoots the last wolf with a tranquilizer gun, and then starts dragging bodies to the meat grinder room. She recruits Asa and Colby to help her, and gets Sam to take the tranquilized wolf into the med bay. She tries to patch up Kuno's arm, but the best she can manage is a tourniquet so he doesn't die of blood loss. Everyone gathers in the elevator to leave, but when Asa asks the scientist about her ankle bracelet she sighs and takes him back to the med bay and offers him a bone saw after giving herself a local anesthetic. Asa cuts off her foot above the ankle, and she bandages it, then grabs a pair of crutches and a beer can before the two head back to the elevator. In the elevator, she gets a phone call, in which someone talks for a while before she hangs up. The news is evidently good, but she doesn't share.

Outside the building, two figures are waiting with guns, which the party recognizes as Aurora's werewolf friends Jamie and Fillan. The people who had been in the vehicle waiting outside are zip-tied on the ground, which is obviously Jamie and Fillan's handiwork. The two wolves are wary, until they see the scientist, at which point Jamie scoops her up and they have a heartfelt reunion. Fillan talks to the party, explaining that they weren't supposed to do this, but that Morena also shouldn't have put "Tress" in the basement, and that Jamie was ready to burn the whole place down before he talked her out of it. He gives the party his phone number, in case they ever need to get in contact.

### **Colby's Boyfriend Gives us a Hand**

After the wolves have left, Sam starts walking back towards the party's bit of the City, and the others follow. Colby calls Nate, who is a bit confused but willing to patch people up. Colby leads Kuno and Asa to Nate's apartment, while Sam (still bleeding heavily, and barely responsive) leads Nyx back to her apartment to make sure she gets home safely, before collapsing in a chair at Ben's apartment.

Nate does as much bandaging people as he can, while asking Colby what happened. Colby explains that the party had stuck their nose somewhere they shouldn't have, and found some trouble there, which Nate is willing to accept. Nate tells Colby he's going to go get some experimental muscle reconstructants from a place he doesn't work for but has access to, and heads out.

##### **Wednesday, December 2nd, 542:**

The three of them get some rest, and are fully healed when they wake up, though Kuno's arm is still stiff and not as functional as it was before getting almost clawed off. Kuno gives Nate whatever cash he has on him, which is a fair amount, as does Asa--though his contribution is significantly less.

Sam gets patched up by Ben the next morning, and blearily asks if there's been any news from the university. There hasn't been, and Ben notes that as a bit of an odd question to ask, but lets it slide. Sam takes the next few days to rest and heal.

### **I Can't Hold all this Plot**

Asa visits the anti-supernatural organization he joined, and asks if Arlo has heard anything about the upyr blood drugs. He explains the basics of the situation after Arlo says he hasn't heard anything, and Arlo says the organization is happy to provide information and resources once Asa is initiated, and that they're putting together an initiation job for him and should have it by the end of the week. Arlo also invites Asa to dinner the next evening with his friend group/squad within the organization, which Asa accepts.

Sometime in the afternoon, Kuno checks on Nyx, who has been frantically scribbling down everything she remembers from her drug-induced visions. She tells Kuno that the universe is going to end soon, and tries to outline the rest of her visions. Kuno, convinced that Nyx is doing as well as she tends to, leaves after talking to her for a bit. Nyx goes looking for Zacharie, but doesn't see him at any of his usual haunts, and texts him, saying she has some information for him.

##### **Thursday, December 3rd, 542:**

The next evening, Asa goes to dinner with Arlo's Crew, at Sin City Burgers. They're a colorful group, full of in-jokes, but not overtly opposed to Asa joining them (both for dinner and on missions in the future). Asa earns some points within the group by being willing to go toe-to-toe with Zola, and accepting his immediate defeat without too much shattered pride.

##### **Saturday, December 5th, 542:**

Once he is back on his feet, Sam goes to visit Jean Bryant, one of the people he knows from his church. He finds that her apartment has been sold, and has a new resident now.

## Quotes

**Abby:** "We're gonna take some drugs and see what happens."

**Kellen:** "Your third eye is wide open and all it sees is smooth jazz."

**Nate:** "Don't you, like, need this for things?" | **Kuno:** I'm retired."

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