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"Hey dad, so... everything good?"

Maira picked up the phone as they walked into Alex mini-car.

The car battery was dangerously low, but they could keep going for a day or two.

"What do you mean with you can't help us?!" Maira was fuming "we know he is involved, we cannot let it slide!"

"I don't care that we don't have the permission from the preccint to protest in front of his house! Damn!" she throwed the phone on the dashboard. "Shit, my dad can't help us"

"Someone is following us" Alex was turning for the fourth time around the block and the black Skoda Fabia kept tailing them.

"This isn't good." said Maira, looking into the mirror.

"I can shake them off. Watch me" Alex pressed the gas pedal, turning a sharp left in a small alley. The Skoda was behind them, but the next alley they entered next was too narrow for a real car.

"Wait!" Maira was fuming "go around the corner. I want to know who this fucker is"

WIthout decelerating, Alex took three sharp turns. The black car was in front of the narrow alley, stopped.

With palpable Rage, Maira jumped out of the car slamming the door. Alex wasn't out of the car yet and she was already thumping on the window of the stranger.

"Open this window, idiot! What do you want from us?!"

A slim figure, with a sparse beard, in his late twenties was reconsidering everything that led him to this moment inside the car.

"He-hey! You will break this!" he said, slowly rolling down the window.

"What do you want? Why you kept following us?"

"No, I... Listen, girl, what you are doing is very dangerous and illegal and..."

"You don't want to know how much dangerous and illegal I can get"

A shiver ran down the back of the man. Something about this girl was very off.

"Who the fuck are you?" said Maira.

"I... fuck, I work for the mayor, you are on his list and he hired me to keep an eye on you"

"A private investigator?! Are you kidding me?" she rolled her eyes, then with all her strenght she dragged the man through the window

"You will get some time off, at least until after tomorrow, are we clear?"

"Y-yes" this girl scared him, he didn't know why, but he was terrified.

"Are. We. Clear??"

"Yes, ma'am, i was going home anyways"

"You can't keep doing like this" said Alex once they both entered in the car.

"What? He is on the mayor payroll, he deserve to be a little scared. Wait, my house is on the left"

"I know, we need to get into the woods first. I need to talk with Longpaw."

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Ottolini didn't just stayed idle while our pack was deciding what to do next, and sent a PI to follow Maira, daughter of one of his political enemies. He's Vincenzo Conti and this won't be the last time our gang will meet him.

Now they are going to search for Longpaw in the forest, a wolf saved by Alex, living in his former burrow. He will surely need to be informed of the news.

This was the half of the first session, i can't believe how much stuff we did while we drowned in chips and sugary drinks!

Btw, this is the previous part!

Throat says hello <3

#world of darkness #werewolf #actual play #oc #short story #ttrpg #werewolf: the apocalypse #varese

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"Fuck them!"

Alex walked furiosly in the halls of the University of Varese. The eyes from the posters plastered over every wall were following him.

"That stupid fucker had inside info, i'm sure of it!" he kept mumbling. He was nervously scratching his head, messing up his blond hair, while he photographed the neon colors of the poster, spelling them slowly.

Crazy Horse.

The font was tacky and the colors were all off. Sabrina would have killed him if he showed him a graphic like that.

Alex opened his Telegram, and started writing in The Inner Circle chat.

He left them on read, opening another chat.

"Yeah, sure, you couldn't..." he mumbled while he walked towards the cafeteria.

"Alex! Come here! Did you see this?", Maira manic panic purple hair made her stick out in the sea of coffee-chugging customers.

She was waving one of the posters made by Crazy Horse and was inviting Alex to her table.

"Of course I did, they are fucking everywhere!"

Maira ignored the tone: "We have to go! Y'know they are building the warehouse right were you..."

"Yes, but the path is all wrong! We know who's behind this, and that idiot is keeping his sorry ass away from him!" interrupted Alex.

"Don't worry", calmly replied Maira, "I will call my dad, he will surely help us get the authorization to protest in front of the city hall... what the fuck, we'll move protest in front of the fucking mayor house!"

"Fuck Marino Ottolini" replied Alex.

"Fuck Ottolini"

"Watcha doing guys?" a smiling face surrounded by blond hair, with thick red glasses perching on a small nose popped between Alex and Maira

"Giulia! We're getting ready for tonight protest against the warehouse! You'll be there, right?"

Uh-oh. Alex freezed. Giulia Salimbene was Maira best friend, but she wasn't... well she was a good ally in the library, not so much during a protest.

"What? Oh, those posters... I dunno Maira. You know, with how many people lost their job after the pandemic, this could be a good opportunity for the city. Yeah, it's sad they have to cut all that trees but, c'mon, how could they do elsewhere?"

That's it. She said it.

"What the FUCK, Giulia! Are you an idiot? All those book you're reading should make you smarter, not dumber! They will fuck up an entire national reserve!"

Giulia shrinked in her seat "I - I don't know M. Yo-you think it's important?"

"Of course! You know how everything in this city is shit, this is the moment when you can do something good!"

"I suppose I'll be there tonight..." replied an entirely unconvinced Giulia.

"Aargh, whatever, my dad is calling, bye Giulia!" said Maira, storming outside the cafeteria, followed silently by Alex.

They walked slowly towards Alex mini-car, while Maira screamed at the phone... and a third mysterious figure followed them at a distance.

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Throat grew up, adopted the name Alexandar to pass as an human, and started studying photography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Varese. He bonded with Maira after she helped her with his First Change and they usually meet at the cafeteria between the Academy and the University building where Maira studies psychology.

Crazy Horse is a TikToker, much more popular than Alex (or forest-fyre as he is known on TikTok) and sort of a rival that Alex never saw irl.

Giulia is one of Maira Touchstones. Maira loves her a lot, but they have completely different personalities and they clash often (like today :D )

We also introduced our beloved ~fucking Ottolini~, the mayor of Varese, a sleazy mf that we *know* is corrupted, just we don't know how to prove it yet.

This is the first half of our first real session of the Chronicle, we are starting brewing a story that will change the life of Maira and Alex forever <3

Oh, here's the link to the previous short story!

Continues here!

#world of darkness #werewolf #actual play #oc #short story #ttrpg #werewolf: the apocalypse #varese

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Continues here!

"Throat, be a good wolf

don't go near the humans and run into the forest as fast as you can..." These were the last words my mother told me, right before the man with the guns jumped on us, with their glass blocks flashing lights on the corpse of my brothers and sisters. It was a long time ago, a time when i didn't know what a smartphone was, when I didn't know who I was.

Now I live with The Crazy Woman, as the kids passing near the yard where I sleep keep repeating. The Crazy Woman is kind, a kindness that is surrounded by an uneasy feeling, but I feel more at home than I ever felt. The people in the black SUV are friend with The Crazy Woman, I don't like them, especially the female. She scolds The Crazy Woman, but she didn't do anything wrong. I don't know how I feel about The Girl. She is the only small human that is not afraid of me, that doesn't say bad things to me.

That day the kids were overexcited. School was over, or so I will have learned when school meant something for me. They had rocks and glass and they were laughing at the wolf kept on a leash like a dog. They had fire, and brimstone. I felt the evil in them. Because they were evil. Of that i was sure. Everything was fast. The chain wasn't strong enough. I wasn't strong enough. They ran. But they weren't fast. I felt the power in me, the strenght. I would have killed all of them. When the huge figure stood in front of me, baring her teeth and claws, I would have killed her too. I tried, too, but she was strong, and in every claw that tore her flesh, in every bite that left me with fur in my mouth, I felt that The Girl didn't want to hurt me. The Girl was trying to help me.

"Maira!" screamed the male of the SUV, with his bones snapping and the spine curving in an unnatural position, but the female put a hand on his chest. "She's handling that well, my love". There were blood everywere, The Girl was back to the gentle face that gave me a steak the night before. "She's an Ahroun like us after all"

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Soooo, my girlfriend and me are playing a chronicle of Werewolf 5th Edition with a friend and it FUCKING slaps. I wanted to share it with y'all and put my writing skills to test.

I'm Throat / Alexandar Vazzini, a born lupus Garou that was adopted by The Crazy Woman and my girlfriend plays Maira Uberti, a human born Garou whose parents are both werewolves. All of this happened on the background in session zero, but I thought could help framing the story better.

This was the First Change for Throat and the first time he has a fight with Maira, but it won't be the last!

We had some others sessions after that, so i'll probably keep adding other writeups. Hope you like it! <3

#world of darkness #werewolf #actual play #first post #oc #short story #ttrpg #werewolf: the apocalypse