Ouroboros
After Crossing's demise, Patrick and Andrea stayed together to form the nucleus of a new pack. This pack, however, followed a different and darker purpose. Certainly Jade holds her pack to a higher standard than Mask ever did, and the colorful flying serpent child of Uktena always keeps a line of cool distance between herself and the pack that serves her. As Cassandra said early in the pack's history, "I dearly love Jade, but sometimes she makes The Silence of the Lambs look like Happy Hour."
The members of Ouroboros--once six, then four, now five again--also deal with the prejudice of some of the more traditional Garou. Uktena is seen as a powerful patron, but not a favored one. Here are some of their stories.
- Jade gives her gifts
Uktena grants her pack gifts for their devotion, but the pack totem gets to chose the gifts--and the giving.
- The Atrocity Realm
Not somewhere you want to go for your summer vacation, but an adren challenge can take you anywhere. Quiet and her pack end up in the Atrocity Realm and find some answers.
- The Anchorhead
Parts of four packs gather for the Deep Umbra quest, starting with the trip to the anchorhead, to step outside what the Garou commonly know and into the deeps.
- Andrea gets the book
Merin, Andrea and two mages meet on the beach of Ouroboros territory to get a demon-possessed book to the Uktena pack that can negate it...somehow.
- Andrea and Cassandra go to speak with a kin
Andrea and Cassandra go to speak with Dana, a kinfolk of Andrea's tribe...and also one of the mages that retreived the demon book.
- Breaking a book
Mages and Garou don't often come together for a ritual, but demon-infested books can cause the oddest happenstances. An interesting twist on Andrea's standard unbinding ritual.
- Stealing away a cub
Pack Ouroboros answers the call of a unicorn gaffling and kidnaps Lawrence, a Gaian cub on the brink of First Change.
- Andrea Meets Jeremy
Andrea meets the kinfolk that got her packmate pregnant.
- Christmas Trip Home
Cassandra and Andrea go first to Andrea's old pack, then to Andrea's mother's house for Christmas. Later, the two get some bad news while they're there.
- Hayes Returns to the Fold
Hayes returns to Ouroboros, after leaving the pack. Still, such a reunion isn't easy. Ourboros attempts to deal with its various feelings of betrayal.
- Teaching, gifting, and returning
Andrea ends Touch Deer's lesson on Rite of Contrition, Patrick receives his annual gift from Jade, and Hayes rejoins the pack.
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Consumer of Stone
- Andrea confronts Soren
After Soren storms out of a negotiation with mages, Andrea takes the first opportunity to corner him privately.
- Vision of the Past
The members of Ouroboros find themselves in a dream of the past, which give a couple of hints about the fetish's background.
- Investigating the Dig
A rather large mission pack backtracks the fetish's orgins and investigates the dig site.
- Investigating the Source
Scott, Andrea and Cassandra investigate the source of the dig's money, but to no avail.
- Andrea Admits Fear to her Pack
After Consumer-of-Stone is freed from the fetish, Ouroboros has a conversation on the island. Andrea admits her fear, and Patrick does his job as a no-moon.
- More Pack Conversations
The pack continues to try to puzzle out the pieces of the puzzle.
- Andrea Explains to Dana
Dana has some questions about what she saw on Ouroboros' island.
- Talk with Jade
Ouroboros tries to puzzle out the second fetish and their next move.
- Conversation with Joseph
Andrea and Joseph discuss some visions he's had, concerning Consumer-of-Stone and its fetishes.
- Another Planning Session
What Andrea wouldn't give for a galliard.
- Planning Session for Consumer-of-Stone
Working with the city tribes. Well, stranger things have happened. Desperate times make for strange bedfellows.
- Cassandra's Death
Some missions have too high a cost. J.J. Malone's fatal maiming, and Cassandra's death.
- Cassandra's Gathering for the Departed
Saying goodbye to a packmate always hurts. Gathering for the Departed Rite for Cassandra Mark-of-Thorns.
- The Copper Snake
On the way back from Pangea, Jade sends her pack on another side-mission. Patrick shares a startling secret.
- Another Year of Gifts
Jade is not a fluffy, cuddly totem. At all. A poisoned bite sends Quiet into a trance.
