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'''Part 4 of the [[Chthon Arc]].'''
 
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{{PlotInfo2
 
| title    = House of Wolves
 
| title    = House of Wolves
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| image  = House of wolves.jpg
 
| date =  [[August 2009| August 14-18, 2009]]
 
| date =  [[August 2009| August 14-18, 2009]]
| pr = [[Indiana J]]
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| pr = [[Jen]]
| taglink = [http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/tag/house+of+wolves House of Wolves]
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| taglink = [https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/p:+chthon+arc:+house+of+wolves House of Wolves]
 
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''"Agatha is difficult at the best of times and these at not the best of them." ''
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''"Agatha is difficult at the best of times and these are not the best of them." ''
  
 
An attack on Wanda's mentor leads to a lot of questions and very few answers.  
 
An attack on Wanda's mentor leads to a lot of questions and very few answers.  
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==Cast==
 
==Cast==
  
[[Wanda Maximoff]], [[Jake Gavin]], [[Mark Sheppard]], [[Illyana Rasputin]]
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[[Wanda Maximoff - Phase 1 | Wanda Maximoff]], [[Jake Gavin]], [[Mark Sheppard]], [[Illyana Rasputin - Phase 1 | Illyana Rasputin]]
  
[[Agatha Harkness]], [[Dr. Victor Shade]], [[Terrance Ward]], [[Ian McNee]], Hanzi  
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[[Agatha Harkness]], [[Dr. Victor Shade]], [[Terrance Ward]], [[Ian McNee]], [[Maximoff Clan| Hanzi]]
  
  
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==Plot Summary==
 
==Plot Summary==
  
Wanda decides that a few days in London with some of the Snow Valley crew
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What was supposed to be a few days vacation in London for Wanda, Jake, Mark and Illyana turned into something more when a day or two before they're scheduled to go back, Wanda received a call.  It seemed that the museum that Agatha Harkness is in charge of had been attacked.  Agatha was in critical condition, as was Hanzi, Wanda's cousin who worked guard shifts, while three other security guards had been found eviscerated and torn apart.  From all appearances, the police suspected that it had been an interrupted breaking and entering.
would be a good way to relax - she ends up taking Jake, Illyana and Mark to
 
London (she takes Jake, who thinks taking Illyana is a great idea, who
 
somehow manages to convince Mark because she refuses to go alone with those
 
two weirdos).  It's simply supposed to be a few days of vacation, sight
 
seeing and drinking for those that drink.
 
 
 
 
 
A day or two before they're scheduled to go back, Wanda gets a call - the  
 
museum that Agatha Harkness is in charge of has been attacked.  Agatha's in  
 
critical condition, as is a guard (Wanda's cousin, actually) while three  
 
other security guards have been found eviscerated and torn apart and it
 
looks like someone was attempting to steal from the museum but didn't have a
 
chance before getting interrupted.
 
 
 
 
 
As Agatha has no living relatives, and Wanda is one of her emergency
 
contacts, and she's related to one of the guards she's asked to come up to
 
Cambridge.  Seeing the fact that something big happened, the others tag
 
along with her.
 
When they arrive, Agatha is awake but refuses, point blank, to give them any
 
potentially helpful information.  At a loss, and completely shocked by
 
Agatha's refusal, Wanda plans takes the others to the museum to see if they
 
can anything out - surveillance cameras, talk to the staff, that sort of
 
thing.
 
 
 
 
 
She does, however, get some information out of her cousin.  From what Hanzi
 
can tell her, someone managed to get beyond the security and interrupted a
 
pretty fierce 'story telling' to pass the time.  He's in shock and keeps
 
muttering about how the old tales are true and that something is stalking
 
the museum at night.
 
 
 
 
 
Wanda chalks it up to being smacked around and loss of blood, though the
 
fact that several guards were ripped apart is telling that something
 
happened last night.  
 
 
 
  
With Agatha refusing to help and being pretty stubborn about letting them
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When the group arrived at the hospital, Agatha flatly refused to offer any information as to what had happened.  Hurt and at a loss, Wanda nevertheless managed to get information from Hanzi. From what her cousin could remember someone had managed to get beyond the security and interrupted a
help, Wanda calls in a favor and contacts Dr. Shade, the professor she had  
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pretty fierce 'story telling' in the guard room as they passed the time.  In shock, he broke down, muttering about how the old tales were true and that something was stalking the museum at night.
been involved with years and years ago.  With him as the head of the
 
Department of Social Anthropology now and as someone with some say in
 
Agatha's museum, he agrees to let her take a look and he uses his clout to
 
convince the local police to allow them to help.  
 
  
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Determined to investigate, Wanda contacted Dr. Shade, an old professor and lover, in an attempt to circumvent Agatha's wishes.  Managing to convince him to use his stature as the head of the
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Department of Social Anthropology, and someone with a say in the museum, he used his clout to bring them in as outside help.
  
After the police are done, the group enters the place on the second night -
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Once the police are done, the group has the run of the building.  While Jake and Mark go to check out the security feeds, Wanda and Illyana search for what might have triggered the intrusion and subsequent attacksMuch to the older woman's shock, they soon discovered that hidden among the regular artifacts are objects of [[Magic|magical]] and ancient powerWhile a majority of them were under lock  
half go to view copies of the surveillance tapes and the other half to go
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and key, some of the lesser known, lesser powered ones were on display; labeled as more mundane things, Agatha had been keeping an entire trove of magical artifacts under her watch.  Another secret that rocked Wanda in terms of her mentor.
searching for what might have been the cause of the break inWhat Wanda
 
finds completely floors her - Agatha had been secretly hiding a large number
 
of mystical artifacts for safe keepingA majority of them are under lock  
 
and key but some of the lesser known, lesser powered ones are on display.
 
The entire place is acting as a bank vault for numerous things of power -
 
another secret Agatha was keeping from Wanda.  
 
  
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Meanwhile, Mark and Jake are forced to give Wanda and Illyana a heads up as something made an appearance.  Ironically enough, Ian McNee almost fell into her lap in his attempt to get away from whatever had been in the shadows behind him.
  
Those checking out the tapes ping Wanda on her cell phone - someone's in the
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Wanda had attempted to get some information out of McNee but was interrupted by the creature - a large, shadowed wolf-like thing - and they were all forced to beat a hasty retreatSoon enough, they were rejoined by Mark and Jake and a running fight (in which McNee made good his escape) took them down into the basement for a final stand.
buildingShe manages to catch up to an obviously fleeing, and bleeding
 
McNee who keeps trying to escape.  Not just from her but from the creature,
 
a giant 'shadow' wolf, that appears almost out of nowhere.  
 
  
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After a brutal and short attack from the group, the creature appeared to have been beaten.  Stabbed, hexed, beaten and bloodied, it almost went down when the very fabric of the creature rippled and changed from the large wolf to a naked young man sporting only a broken pendant.
  
Assuming that it's magical, Wanda and the others alternately attack and are
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Immediately, everyone experienced a vision of their worst nightmare but as horrible as it had been for them, it seemed to have been their saving graceOverloaded from their nightmares, as they all had had plenty to share, their attacker passed out.
chased through the museum as a whole until the small crystal around it's
 
neck is shattered.  With it broken, the concentration is broken and everyone  
 
is stunned when the creature disappears and leaves a young man on the
 
floor.  As McNee makes his escape, they're left to try and put down the
 
confused Ward - his powers are latching onto everyone but without McNee's
 
influence via the crystal, he's unable to keep hold of any one fear for
 
longIn short order, they manage to overpower his powers, despite the
 
incredible creepiness of the entire thing.  
 
  
In the mean time, McNee has made his escape (again) and the tapes show that
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Only the questions wouldn't get answered that night.  The young man turned out to be Terrance Ward, a recently escaped, mentally ill patient of [[Moira MacTaggart - Phase 1]]'s, after he had killed his watcher when his powers and mental illness overcame him.  With the ability to transform into people's nightmares, he had obviously been under someone's commandHe would later be transferred into a high security mental institution, with the prognoses that he would not be able to be cured.
he, indeed, had been carrying somethingWith the museum now torn apart, on
 
top of purposeful spotty record keeping by Agatha, the only way for them to
 
figure out what was stolen was to let Agatha, once she heals, to go through
 
inventory.  
 
  
The one piece of information they do take back with them is the meaning,  
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The only clue Wanda would get, and the only information that Agatha would give her, would be that the symbol found roughly carved into Ward's back, which matched several others they had found, was what the new [[Chthon]] cult had started using in the last few years.
finally, behind the weird symbol found in the sewers and again in Africa.
 
It had been hastily carved into the shoulder of their attacker, which  
 
allowed for more magical influence.  
 
  
Wanda is staggered when Agatha hands over research - the symbol means chaos
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One that had grown in strength...
and there are rumors of a new, stronger [[Chthon]] cult who use it.
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==Related Links==
 
==Related Links==
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==External Links==
 
==External Links==
  
[http://community.livejournal.com/x_logs/tag/house+of+wolves House of Wolves]
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[https://xp-logs.dreamwidth.org/tag/p:+chthon+arc:+house+of+wolves House of Wolves]
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[https://xp-communication.dreamwidth.org/tag/p:+chthon+arc:+house+of+wolves xp_communication posts]
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[https://x-snowvalley.dreamwidth.org/tag/p:+house+of+wolves x_snowvalley posts]
  
 
==Trivia and Meta==
 
==Trivia and Meta==
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===Trivia===
 
===Trivia===
  
Wanda and Jake slept together as part of the aftermath of the event and began a romantic relationship despite the two of them both having issues with committment.
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Wanda and Jake slept together as part of the aftermath of the event and began a romantic relationship despite the two of them both having issues with commitment.
  
 
===Meta===
 
===Meta===
  
'''Plotrunner:''' [[Indiana J]]
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'''Plotrunner:''' [[Jen]]
  
  
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The events of this plot still occurred in Phase 2, but specifics, such as which characters were involved, remain fuzzy for the purposes of not breaking the world. ;)
  
  
[[Category: Plots]]
 
 
[[Category: 2009]]
 
[[Category: 2009]]
 
[[Category: Plot Themes - Mystic Forces]]
 
[[Category: Plot Themes - Mystic Forces]]
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[[Category: Plots - Phase 1]]

Latest revision as of 14:48, 26 January 2019

Part 4 of the Chthon Arc.

PHASE 2
PHASE 1


House of Wolves
House of wolves.jpg
Dates run: August 14-18, 2009
Run By: Jen
Read the logs: House of Wolves


"Agatha is difficult at the best of times and these are not the best of them."

An attack on Wanda's mentor leads to a lot of questions and very few answers.

Cast

Wanda Maximoff, Jake Gavin, Mark Sheppard, Illyana Rasputin

Agatha Harkness, Dr. Victor Shade, Terrance Ward, Ian McNee, Hanzi


Timing

August 14-18, 2009


Plot Summary

What was supposed to be a few days vacation in London for Wanda, Jake, Mark and Illyana turned into something more when a day or two before they're scheduled to go back, Wanda received a call. It seemed that the museum that Agatha Harkness is in charge of had been attacked. Agatha was in critical condition, as was Hanzi, Wanda's cousin who worked guard shifts, while three other security guards had been found eviscerated and torn apart. From all appearances, the police suspected that it had been an interrupted breaking and entering.

When the group arrived at the hospital, Agatha flatly refused to offer any information as to what had happened. Hurt and at a loss, Wanda nevertheless managed to get information from Hanzi. From what her cousin could remember someone had managed to get beyond the security and interrupted a pretty fierce 'story telling' in the guard room as they passed the time. In shock, he broke down, muttering about how the old tales were true and that something was stalking the museum at night.

Determined to investigate, Wanda contacted Dr. Shade, an old professor and lover, in an attempt to circumvent Agatha's wishes. Managing to convince him to use his stature as the head of the Department of Social Anthropology, and someone with a say in the museum, he used his clout to bring them in as outside help.

Once the police are done, the group has the run of the building. While Jake and Mark go to check out the security feeds, Wanda and Illyana search for what might have triggered the intrusion and subsequent attacks. Much to the older woman's shock, they soon discovered that hidden among the regular artifacts are objects of magical and ancient power. While a majority of them were under lock and key, some of the lesser known, lesser powered ones were on display; labeled as more mundane things, Agatha had been keeping an entire trove of magical artifacts under her watch. Another secret that rocked Wanda in terms of her mentor.

Meanwhile, Mark and Jake are forced to give Wanda and Illyana a heads up as something made an appearance. Ironically enough, Ian McNee almost fell into her lap in his attempt to get away from whatever had been in the shadows behind him.

Wanda had attempted to get some information out of McNee but was interrupted by the creature - a large, shadowed wolf-like thing - and they were all forced to beat a hasty retreat. Soon enough, they were rejoined by Mark and Jake and a running fight (in which McNee made good his escape) took them down into the basement for a final stand.

After a brutal and short attack from the group, the creature appeared to have been beaten. Stabbed, hexed, beaten and bloodied, it almost went down when the very fabric of the creature rippled and changed from the large wolf to a naked young man sporting only a broken pendant.

Immediately, everyone experienced a vision of their worst nightmare but as horrible as it had been for them, it seemed to have been their saving grace. Overloaded from their nightmares, as they all had had plenty to share, their attacker passed out.

Only the questions wouldn't get answered that night. The young man turned out to be Terrance Ward, a recently escaped, mentally ill patient of Moira MacTaggart - Phase 1's, after he had killed his watcher when his powers and mental illness overcame him. With the ability to transform into people's nightmares, he had obviously been under someone's command. He would later be transferred into a high security mental institution, with the prognoses that he would not be able to be cured.

The only clue Wanda would get, and the only information that Agatha would give her, would be that the symbol found roughly carved into Ward's back, which matched several others they had found, was what the new Chthon cult had started using in the last few years.

One that had grown in strength...


Related Links

Head Like A Hole

These Earthly Things

Operation: Anansesem

External Links

House of Wolves

xp_communication posts

x_snowvalley posts

Trivia and Meta

Trivia

Wanda and Jake slept together as part of the aftermath of the event and began a romantic relationship despite the two of them both having issues with commitment.

Meta

Plotrunner: Jen


The events of this plot still occurred in Phase 2, but specifics, such as which characters were involved, remain fuzzy for the purposes of not breaking the world. ;)