2022-06-05 Niall teaching cleansing
Still Alive
Participants: Niall Juanita Elena
Location: Lion's Den
Date and Time: June 05, late in the evening
Summary: Niall teaches Juanita the rite of cleansing.
---<Niall>---------------
Everyone got cleaned up! Some took longer than others. Eventually Niall comes out of his room with Elena. He's back in clean clothes. It's definitely drink time! Pouring for everyone, Niall seems to wait for everyone to regroup. He's got a proud smile on his face.
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita comes back into the lion's den, all cleaned up now. She looks over to Niall. "Everything seemed to work out pretty well, didn't it? I think Joan was lacking a bit of confidence too but she seems to feel better after the fight."
---<Elena>---------------
Elena waits until the Garou have picked up their glasses before taking hers, giving a soft smile to the group. "I imagine even for you guys it can be a bit scary sometimes, can't it?"
---<Niall>---------------
Niall nods, "She just needed to get her claws dirty." Niall points out. A look to Elena. "That's part of the secret." He says. "It's always scary. It's what you do with that fear that matters most."
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita nods, "Yeah, I think she will be good now." She nods to Elena. "There are a lot of scary things in the world, though it is important to face them head on."
---<Elena>---------------
Elena looks between them and ends up smiling softly. "Thank you. For what you do." Her fingers cradling the glass between both hands. "I'm glad to see everyone home safe and sound, and thank you for the fight. It's for all of us, and I there are those that will never know it happened. So, for them too, I say thank you."
---<Niall>---------------
Niall holds up his glass in a toast. "To victory." Comes the words, "To those that will nae ever know that we do what we do."
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita grabs a glass and holds it up for the toast. "To many more victories in the future as well." She smiles and takes a sip.
---<Elena>---------------
Elena flushes a little bit, looking terribly happy as she lifts her glass as well. "To victory." She intones softly. "I expect you all are very hungry now that your sense of smell isn't being assaulted. Would you like me to hunt something up?" She looks between them.
---<Niall>---------------
Niall leans into Elena just a bit. "I coukd eat." He says. "While you do that, gives me time to teach Juanita a wee bit."
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita nods to Elena, "Sure, that sound good." She looks back over to Niall. "Yeah, I do want to learn the ritual of cleansing. Seems useful since so many of the creatures around here are like the one we fought."
---<Elena>---------------
Elena smiles and nods, moving off a little as she pulls out her phone to start typing on the screen. "Any requests?" She inquires quietly, looking to them before entering that and watching curiously.
---<Niall>---------------
Niall gives Elena a little kiss. "I'll trust whatever you order." He says. He then moves around to get his little ritual pack. "Cleansing should be in every wolf's head." He tells her. "Even if you're nae good at it, still being able to do it means you can keep the Wyrm at bay."
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita nods her head as she listens to Niall. "I do know a couple of rituals, so I have some experiencing doing them. So I shouldn't be too bad at doing it, it is a ritual common for philodox as well."
---<Elena>---------------
Elena smiles into the kiss and nods quickly, getting to the ordering. There's a light nibble at the corner of her mouth as she digs through the options, working at finding something suitable for the triumphant Pack's return.
---<Niall>---------------
Opening his kit, Niall pulls out a bottle. He also pulls out some sage and a lighter. "It's a simple rite." Niall begins saying. He walks over to the coffee table. "Let us say this table." He gestures to such. "Is tainted. First you will sprinkle it with purified water. It must be purified. I run it through the still, or if I can get to the mountains, I collect snow and put it in a bottle." Niall starts the instruction. He does act like he's sprinkling water on the table.
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita nods her head as she watches Niall closely, and listens to the details of the ritual. So far it seemed simple enough.
---<Elena>---------------
Elena is quiet, glancing over from time to time to watch. She spends more than a couple minutes figuring dinner out, then sits to watch.
---<Niall>---------------
Niall lights the sage and starts to dance around the table. "Dance around your subject, howl and call for the taint to vanish. To scare away the spirits of the Wyrm." He says. "Usually you want to be in crinos to do this." He tells her. But he does a fair impression of hooting and howling as he dances around the table, waving the sage as he does so.
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita continues to pay attention to the details, so she can remember to do it in the right order. Though it doesn't seem too complex, at least the order of things.
---<Niall>---------------
Dances around several times, hooting and hollaring for the taint to go away! Trying to scare off the wyrm. He stops and and blows out the Sage. He looks to Juanita. "You can do one or two things, or a larger area, but at some point, you have to invest Gnosis to ensure the rite is powerful enough to cover what you want it to cover." He tells her.
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita nods as she listens as she considers if it is better to do the ritual multiples time or use gnosis to cover a larger area. "That makes sense. I think I get the idea of it."
---<Niall>---------------
Niall smiles, "Practice makes perfect." He says. He also adds, "If it's possible to do the rite at dawn, it has a better chance of succeeding too."
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita nods her head, "I will practice it at dawn then, and try to do it during that time of the day. Though rarely there seems to be fights during that time of the day."
---<Elena>---------------
Elena chimes up from her phone. "Even Evil doesn't like getting up early?" A little grin given before she pipes back down and finishes up the order.
---<Niall>---------------
Niall packs his kit back up. He sets it back in the closet, returning to the living room. He takes his drink again. "No, but it stays up that late at times." Niall says. He finishes his drink and gets another, refilling everyone's glass!! He moves to sit in his chair.
---<Juanita>---------------
Juanita smiles as she nods, "It does kind of fit, if you spend the entire night fighting, then return back home just as the sun is raising. Though it is probably just the wyrm are scared of the sun a little."
---<Elena>---------------
Elena puts her phone aside, the waiting game beginning. Her hands fold in her lap and she goes back to listening, her attention on the ritual talk now.
---<Niall>---------------
Niall nods, "The dawn is a time of new beginning, when the dew and the world is fresh." He says. It sounds poetic. "Only good things came come of such a beginning." His phone chirps and he looks at it. His head tilts a bit and he seems to contemplate something. A little shake of his head though and he goes back to the conversation. "The Rite is simple enough. Just donnae oversimplify it. You'll find the way that works best for you. It donnae have to be exactly the same as I do mine."
