Today, I played Werewolf.

Opening like something out of a movie, where Seeker tries to follow the Black Spiral Dancer he is hunting into the Umbra, using a window as a reflective surface. He fails the roll to sidestep, though, and goes head-first through the window, seriously scaring a poor college student and leaping back out again. My character, Bianca, arrived on the scene two seconds later, mobile phone in hand, to say: "What the fuck?"

Two days later, they meet again, summoned by the local Sept. Getting into the cairn takes a little while for starters, involving Bianca busting a magical clock (she's an impatient girl) and meeting up with Nikolai, the albino Metis. We all go off in search of a Grand Klaive (a great big fuck-off silver knife).

In the first encounter with the man who has it, Bianca intimidates him severely while Seeker growls at him in wolf form (in the process, A botches his form-shifting roll so badly he is stuck in wolf for three hours). Some Get of Fenris heavies show up, and we run for it.

Second attempt, the Klaive has been moved to a museum. We go in through the Umbra, and materialise in the guy's office. Niki locks the door, Bianca's first move is to whack a hand over the guy's mouth, while Seeker grabs the Klaive, finding out in the process that it does weird things to your rage; makes you angrier, and more likely to frenzy, or go berserk.

The guy triggers an alarm, and we decide to get the hell out, picking up the P's character on the way. The corridor blocked by Get heavies again, the window seems the best option, and this is where we find out just how cool being a werewolf is. Niki makes the leap across the alley to the fire escape on the building opposite. Bianca throws the P's character across, but he misses the top landing, and botches the catch attempt on the next floor so badly that he falls to the alleyway below. Four storeys. Meanwhile, Bianca tries to jump, and misses to plummet five floors down.

Three minutes later, Bianca is fine again.

Meanwhile, one of the Get heavies throws himself out the window in a swan dive, semi-automatic in each hand. Through a beautiful roll of the dice, both guns jammed and he hit the ground. Hard. He was dispatched through a combined effort of Seeker and Niki.

Meanwhile, the other five heavies hit the street, and show up in the head of the alley. At this point, we are supposed to bolt. Somehow, we don't. Somehow, we end up taking them on. This was not the plan. They are five (to our four) and they are all higher level than we are.

Niki sets one's head on fire. Seeker tears them to shreds, crippling one and injuring two more. Four of them frenzy, one running away. One down, four to go.

Bianca grabs the Grand Klaive, going into a frenzy in the process. Everyone gets the fuck out of her way, and in the process manage to do a little damage to other folk. Meanwhile, their frenzies are meaning they are hacking at each other as often as us. The P's character shoots one, knocking him unconscious, and then killing him. Niki and Bianca together take down a couple. Four down, one with not much health at all to go.

And then I remembered the tutor's meeting, and had to run. I left Bianca still in full frenzy, one injury away from unconsciousness, and armed with the Klaive. They needed to take her down before she finished up the enemy and started in on her friends. And they needed to do it without killing her.

I hope they managed it. The poor girl's in a lot of trouble anyway. But she does have a mobile phone dedicated into a tattoo on her palm, and that's gotta be worth something.