MEET · Once In a Lifetime, The Suffering of Fools

*Jinx* · September 30, 2013, 07:51 PM

bon dye pack meeting 1: september 30/13

Hey guys, welcome to Bon Dye's first pack meeting! This meeting is meant to be the typical meet-and-greet type of meeting, but is also sort of an information session where Jinx will address the Loa and what they represent, why it's important to serve them, the penalties for leaving the pack without word and the requirement of a blood oath for new joiners from this date onward, meaning BD will be moving to IC joining, and possibly a planning session for which pack to raid first. With the upcoming coyote invasion plot, the other packs will be preoccupied, so this would be an ideal time for Bon Dye to start causing some mayhem around Glacier National Park!

Since all of you currently have a Loa for your character (all of you have the co-rank equivalent), you may either play as if you wolf already knows of the Loa and is aware of their co-rank equivalent, or you may play as if they will choose their Loa and their responsibilities at this meeting; the decision is yours!

This meeting will be three or four rounds and the first round will end on October 5th! Failure to attend likely won't result in anything at this time, since most people are still Sigmas, however attendance to any meeting is weighted heavily in terms of IC contribution and will affect the ranks in the future.

At precisely 6:27am, on the 16th day of Cantlos, Jinx Kesuk shuffled her way out the entrance of her narrow den, situated beneath the roots of a 537-year-old whitebark pine, and stretched. The pine characteristically housed several Clark's nutcrackers, small cloud-grey birds with stark black-and-white plumage that often harvested the cones hanging in the needles of the tree. She took a moment to watch them frolicking amongst one another, wincing slightly at the grating, disruptive cawing they emitted, then moved on from her position, losing interest quickly in the irritating birds.

Blackfoot Forest was home to many such species of bird: northern goshawks and Cooper's, Swainson's, Ferruginous, red-shouldered, and red-tailed hawks, all uncommon sights; prairie falcons and their much rarer Peregrine cousins; golden and bald eagles often; merlins, a rare treat; blue and spruce grouse abundant along the forest's edges; rock and mourning doves; all species of owl, each rare and mysterious; black swifts and Vaux's swifts on occasion; and easily dozens upon dozens of others, many of them unknown to Jinx but for the sound of their cries echoing through the trees. This was the chorus she was greeted with this morning, as she took in the sights and the crisp air of her pack's new home.

But Jinx had not risen so early to listen to the birds as they went about their daily routines in the fog-laden boughs. She stepped gingerly over tangled roots and skirted around shrubs of impressive size with a purpose, and at precisely 7:36am, draped herself lazily over the fallen log she had stood upon when she first loosed her proclamation of Bon Dye's independence. She lay there for a time, reflecting on her decisions thus far and dreaming far into the future, where her pack would claim glory for itself. There was a long way to go, and many things to accomplish, before that could happen. Jinx knew this most of all; hard work was the only way to achievement.

That decided, the girl lifted her breast from over her forearms and sat up, with forepaws splayed in front of her to hold her weight against the log's natural decline, and threw her head to the sky once more. It was not a minute past 8:00am when her voice rang out over the misty woods, summoning her wolves to her: the fiery Ogoun, the sweet Agwe'en, the wily Bade'un, and the steadfast Loco'en. She herself had come to recognise her Loa in the form of the eagle of the winds: Bade, Second of Sos, and Primary Loa to which Jinx's devoted sacrifices, offerings, and prayers would be directed. Each of Bon Dye's nine remaining wolves would either have been visited by their Loa by now, or would decide their course and their chosen spirit shortly.