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him. It paused for a moment, then bit him in the same
place the creature had. Jack passed out.
Many years later, Jack had attended and dropped
out of college and worked his way through a disastrous
and depressing string of failed jobs and relationships. His
life was spiraling out of control and possibly taking his
sanity with it, and one night he just snapped. He doesn’t
remember (or won’t admit) the circumstances that led to
it or what he did when his Rage finally boiled over, but
he woke up in his bed the next morning, with his father
standing over him. His father explained Jack’s heritage,
and that he hadn’t thought that Jack was also a werewolf
like him; he’d expected the Change to occur earlier in
Jack’s life (just as it had when he, himself, had been
younger). After that, Jack’s life was different. He tried to
go back to school and balance it against his father’s harsh
training, but he eventually dropped out again. Something
had to give, and his father (who’d taken the rite name of
Bearskull) was more convincing than any college advisor.
After his Rite of Initiation, Jack surprised his father
by agreeing to join the multi-tribe New Hope pack rather
than join his father’s pack as Bearskull had hoped. Jack
painted it as a chance to show the other tribes the old
ways that only the Bone Shadows kept. His father suspects
that the real reason was to avoid him, but he’s kept bitterly
quiet. He even presented his son with a short fetish
spear upon finishing his Rite of Initiation.
Now, Jack tries to balance the worlds he walks between.
His pack looks to him for leadership, not just because of his
auspice, but because he’s a natural leader. He isn’t the wisest
(Arden), the smartest (Nikki), the strongest (Gears) or the
fastest (Amy), but he can see how to best use the strengths of
the pack and create something more powerful than the sum
of its parts. Of all of the pack, he’s the most “humanized, ”
having had a relatively sedate suburban upbringing. He even
manages to find time to take a class or two a semester, trying
to finish his psychology degree. He knows he’ll never be able
to attend medical school or practice, but he wants to finish
it. He hates leaving things unfinished.
Jack is in his early 30s, though he looks older. He
dresses in dark colors and has a beloved leather jacket
that’s survived his werewolf experiences so far. He has
premature gray hair at his temples and piercing blue eyes.
He tends to look around a lot, always keeping track of his
surroundings and especially his packmates. In wolf form,
his fur is a rich white.
Jack is a planner and a thinker. He certainly has the
passion and fire that all Uratha do, but he tempers it with
will and wits. The others listen to him because he can take
their disparate talents and put them together in new and
surprising ways. While any one of them is a formidable opponent,
Jack can turn them into something more. Though
his pack holds him in high esteem, Jack is often harder on
himself than anyone else would be. As the pack’s alpha, he
takes each defeat as a personal stain, though he conversely
sees all of the pack’s victories as a group effort. He hopes
to someday be sure of himself enough to stand out of his
father’s shadow and show everyone who he really is.
THE RED KNIVES
The Red Knives are in many ways the ideal example
of a werewolf pack — not by their adherence to lofty goals,
but by their concern with territory, the hunt, and the here
and now. The Knives and their kin live on the land, growing
their own food and hunting for game, yet on nights
when the moon shines brightly, the Red Knives slip away
and hunt a different sort of prey. Whether it’s a rogue spirit
riding a bear or a group of campers who didn’t hold to the
“take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints”
rule, the Red Knives stalk intruders with great zeal.
The Red Knives have a pact with the Echoes of
Thunder. The Knives have agreed to come to the Echoes’
aid if requested, and in return, the Echoes provide them
access to equipment the Knives can’t get on their own.
The pack does have to pay for this hardware, using money
and credit cards taken from any human prey they have to
bring down or performing favors at the Echoes’ discretion.
Occasionally, the Red Knives have worked for other
packs, acting as temporary guardians if said packs have to
travel out of their territory. They don’t enjoy using their
talents for something so base as money, so they can usually
be found out of their territory only when their coffers
are running low or they need a special piece of hardware.
Aside from their alpha, who calls himself only
Honcho, the all-Blood Talon Red Knives pack consists of
Grunt (Rahu), Phantom (Irraka), Ranger (Irraka) and
Snap (Cahalith). Their pack totem is Stalking Wolf, and
they operate out of a small, easily overlooked compound
near the Colorado-Wyoming border.
HONCHO
Auspice: Cahalith
Tribe: Blood Talon
Mental Attributes: Intelligence 2, Wits 3, Resolve 4
Physical Attributes: Strength 3 (4/6/5/3), Dexterity 4
(4/5/6/6), Stamina 4 (5/6/6/5)
Social Attributes: Presence 3, Manipulation 3 (2/3/0/3),
Composure 3
Mental Skills: Academics 1, Crafts (Vehicles) 3, Investigation
(Body Language) 1, Medicine 1, Occult 1, Science 1
Physical Skills: Athletics (Throwing) 3, Brawl (Dirty Tricks) 3,
Drive (Off Road) 1, Firearms (Rifles) 4, Larceny 2, Stealth
(Camouflage) 2, Survival (Navigation) 3, Weaponry
(Knives) 2
Social Skills: Intimidation 3, Persuasion 2, Subterfuge 2
Merits: Contacts (Survivalists, Military Veterans) 2, Language
(First Tongue, Russian, Spanish) 3, Resources 2,
Totem 2
Primal Urge: 3
Willpower: 7
Harmony: 5
Max Essence/Per Turn: 12/1
Virtue: Fortitude