Session 2: The Tree, The Anvil And The House

General Summary

The game starts with Andrie at the tree with Maria, Enzo, Rakesh and Satam. They will discover the passageway that leads to under the tree with the huge meteorite infused with magick/gnosis. Only Maria and Andrei discover the passageway and decide not to tell Rakesh about it.   Andrei, Maria and Rakesh perform a rite of concealment to hide the tree from any prying eyes with a total of nine success on the ritual (Andrei 5, Maria 2 and Rakesh 2 successes). They head back to the van to meet up with Satam and Enzo.   Skip ahead a year and a half and the house is built with the courtyard for the tree. The forge is setup. Enzo has brought in people to help build up the forge area and along with Andrie's help they've built the forge's area.   Trace, the leader of the Juarez house in the US is coming to see the house. Trace is given a personal tour by Andrei and shown the forge. Trace also gives Andrei a Black Spiral fetish that he wants Andrei to study and possibly destroy in order to use the materials to build another fetish. Afterwards, they meet up with the rest of the group for a little conversation before dinner. They exchange gifts with one another between Trace's group of Cat, Spencer and Trace and then with Maria, Ana, Andrei and Enzo. Cat tells Andrei of the visions he has and tells them of the three serpents, the Love family and the "unseen" ones in his vision that he has trouble with. Maria is upset with the necklace that Trace gives her and feels it is a slight against her. Ana is happy with the moonbridge emerald she receives and thankful for it. Enzo is ecstatic with the jeweler's tools he was gifted that allow him to see the spirits of trinkets/fetishes and the ability to work with them. The Silver Fang's forge hammer that is given to Andrei is the highlight and Trace tells him that he can do what he pleases with it. Trace also gives them a list of the local garou that the house is friendly with. Jon Harrow is mentioned by name in conversation.   They show Trace and his group to their rooms and Andrei and Maria go for a walk through the house and talk about the day's events and what is going to happen tomorrow. Andrei is to lead the "Greet the Sun" ritual first thing in the morning and Maria is to lead the Nala Run shortly after right before breakfast. Then they're to have a feats of strength tournament before lunch. After lunch there will be ritual combat for competitors which Andrei earlier asked Trace if he was going to participate and Trace said he would. After that there would be dinner and then feats of stamina tests before wrapping up with a revel.   Andrei and Maria talked some more before heading off to bed.