The Door in Reality, Session 8

General Summary

Discussing the Wolves

At House Gardenia, the group (Those Who Will Open The Door) discusses killing the captured Wolves of the Maelstrom. There are disagreements - primarily Matthew Lutey doesn’t believe that killing them would be right when they tried to protect children, but Styg thinks they are tainted by The Warp.
Astiniltlish "Pell" Pelligri asks Petunia about her prior contact with the Wolves - there wasn’t any. Petunia takes to healing people, with Matthew’s help. They succeed incredibly well with Styg - some of his machinery is repaired and his jaw starts to regrow (he takes this as a miracle). Reginald Fulton’s healing goes a bit awry, but is fine. Two of the Wolves disappear from their bonds while the group are focused elsewhere.
Reginald mentions historical teleportation - Styg reads him to discover it’s the truth.
Storm Gardenia helps Petunia heal Matthew via emotional support.
(read someone complete success, help someone complete success, healing touch complete success, help someone miss, read someone complete success, help someone partial success, healing touch complete success)

Talking to the Wolves Again

Storm asks where the other Wolves went. It responds with “gone home”, but it struggles to describe where home is.
Errol Mustang is scouting in the air and sees two groups of five figures heading towards House Gardenia. One of them teleports on top of Barry Manilow. Errol tries to shake the person off, but they hold fast. He lands Barry, bringing this person with him. It is a Wolf that then begins walking towards the house.
Styg runs to attack. The Wolf is very slightly injured and Styg absorbs the Wolf’s blast. Storm and the Gardenia Overseers attack the Wolf but it’s basically another stalemate - except Visage is quite badly injured. Styg attacks again (poorly) - which leads to another stalemate as the Wolf teleports to Petunia and Pell. Pell stands against the Wolf, claiming he’s protecting the children.
(read a situation miss, act under fire partial success, do battle partial success, do battle miss, do battle miss, help someone partial success, confront someone partial success, confront someone miss)

A New Watcher

The Wolf agrees to let Pell protect the children, but on the condition that it watches from nearby. Pell understands that this one wasn’t involved in the attack on the evacuees.
Storm drags the injured Visage indoors. A few of the group help Petunia heal him, though it’s messy.
Styg tries to get involved with the Wolf, but it insists that he can’t be allowed near the children. Matthew does a deep brain scan on the Wolf - it is telling the truth about calling the others off, it will take the children away if a threat appears and it would stop pursuing the children if it was no longer its duty.
Storm tries to understand what the father of the Wolves is - she has visions of a giant, chaotic dress, that seems like home to the Wolves.
(read someone partial success, field medic miss (boosted), help someone miss, help someone partial success, help someone miss, read someone miss, deep brain scan complete success, open brain partial success)

Showing Off the Orchid / More Wolf Stuff

Storm shows her Orchid to Matthew, Styg, Reginald and Errol. Styg scans it and really wants to plant it.
The group realises that the Father of the Wolves is The World's Psychic Maelstrom. The allied Wolves turn the other incoming Wolves away from the house.
(orchid partial success)

Planning a Trip

The group get ready to leave for The Door. Errol and Styg take Barry to scout ahead while the others (plus a large-ish group of Storm's Children under the command of Reginald and Storm) head for The Door via Matthew Lutey's Vault.

At the Vault

Styg and Errol arrive at the vault first and poke around. The large group arrives and Matthew prepares to perform augury. There is a long exposure to the Maelstrom with many questions and much discussion.
The window into the Maelstrom is deep and sustained for a while but bleeds instability, pulling the whole group into the experience. Many of them are granted information about the nature of the Maelstrom and they share in each other's experiences.
The Wolves would back off Petunia and Prune if they were allowed to take Prune away from the group. Otherwise, they will continue to stand by and observe until they no longer feel the group can defend the children. Matthew couldn’t agree to this deal.
Styg wondered about Petunia being an Imperial Saint, in very specific Imperium of Man terms - the Maelstrom couldn’t directly respond to this because it was too focused on unfamiliar concepts, but it gave the impression that Styg’s assessment was “close enough”.
Pell received insight into how the Wolves operate. They exist consistently in both the Maelstrom and the real world, which is incredibly unusual. They harbour no malice for people in the real world - they simply come to take those who have the potential to be a Wolf, so that they can bring them “home”. Their home is perhaps like perfect existence and they don’t really like being in the real world.
(help someone partial partial success, interrupt someone partial success, interrupt someone partial success, augury partial success, augury complete success)

Related Adventure

Adventure: The Door in Reality

Report Date

16 Feb 2021

Primary Location

House Gardenia

Secondary Location

Matthew Lutey's Vault