Caern Great Kills

Great Kills Park used to be a Wyrm's Pit before the arrival of the Upheaval, the usual name the werewolves gives to North Star arrival to Staten Island. A Radioactive Landfill used by the Wyrm as a cover up for multiple common graves where they sowed many lost soul. The place was boiling with Fomori and was ruled by a solitary Ronnin that had danced the Spiral a long time ago, a very muscular werewolf born under the Moon of the Ahroun, kicked out from the Black Furies because of two very logical reasons: being a male and also metis.

In the Center of the Pit was the old relic of the Incinerator used to carbonize radioactive material like medical waste and other hazardous stuff PENTEX sent this way for almost a century. In the Umbra side of it was the Bane Keeping these premises a burning hydra with seven heads each with a dragon like breath of different toxic flues to summon other toxic spirits to torture and dispose of unwanted guests.


It was Omi Ori in person, the Ancestor African Uktena who came down with Blast the Umbra the Get of Fenrir Athro Theurge to lead the raid against the Pit. Their incursion attack both side with swift and merciless rage, annihilating almost every Bane in the first two minutes with the use of the Uktena's powerful Spirit Nuclear like bombs he calls Blast Skulls, leaving in the Umbra only the remaining of obliterated Banes, many wounded Jagglinos running away in terror from the purified form of Bale Fire flaming in purple and burning them to ashes; and of course the Keeper.

In the Middle Kingdom the second raid attacked the facilities where the Fomori were keeping guard, unaware of the threat that was to come, with synchronized tactics and flawless performance the werewolves went over the terrified legion of until only the kinfolks of the Black Spiral Dancers and the Tyrant of the Pit were standing.

The fight continued in the two sides with the elder Theurges using their Gifts to diminish the Keeper's power, undermining his capabilities and leaving it rendered for the War Packs to strike it down. Meanwhile, in the Middle Kingdom a duel was taking place between Strong Arm of Fianna and the purulent Metis of the Dancers who died without being named. Clash of claws and flesh poured blood sheds around the concrete ceiling of the main building with Selene beholding the contest between light and darkness showing her Philodox phase.

When the Metis was spitting his guts trying to stand up to continue the fight the Burning Hydra was falling into the Darkness of the Pit. Strong Arm looked from above the pitiful visage of the defeated Metis and waited... He wanted to see the Black Spiral Dancer's face when Omi Ori used his Maw of Oblivion in the Heart of the Pit; and when it happened the Metis' eyes went wide and the screams of the Wyrm leaving the place turned his hate and rage into madness, insanity beyond measure and just then Strong Arm sliced his foe's throat with a swipe of his Claw.

The entrails of the Pit were a labyrinth where all notions of position where misplaced purposely to confuse any and all new comers. The absolutely disgusting decoration of carcasses and bizarre forms were at the same time mesmerizing and terrifying for the Garou walking the Middle Realm side for the first time after the attack.

The Umbra side was even more unsettling, echoing sounds of lost souls transcended from the Shadow Lands as mourns and wails of despair and eternal pain. Several windows to the land of the dead, usually known as Blights, allowed the Garou to witness some of the most morbid scenes they had set their eyes upon, feeling the lingering sensation of abandonment that those puny ghots had to endure, repeating their very last moments over and over again...

The Heart of the Pit was there around it the shade of the Keeper still remained as it's presence faded away from the Near Umbra, the Wyrm presence was also gone from the now broken fume that once stood tall and proud expelling toxic gas and poison into the air. Omi Ori had the Maw of Oblivion in both hands a twin Grand Klaive still dripping some of the bane essence into the ground, the bald African Theurge was hardly slim his athletic body was like tattered leather strong and well defined.


He was covered in toxic slim, infused with radioactive flues and torched with bale fire but despite his crumbling body he did not made a sound, neither his visage showed contempt or pain. Blast the Umbra saw with his own eyes how the Hydra final declaration spitted all it's hate over the black man hoping to destroy him but he still remained, half alive and half not, turned his only working eye toward the Athro Get of Fenris and said.
"Erebus taught me many lessons... each with burning, stabbing or slashing mentors... and also taught me how to forgive."

Said that a sudden burst of spiritual energy exploded from him regenerating his whole body, leaving him good as new making the Feral Thrust a Warpack of prominent warriors to take a step back in awe of the Theurge's power and then howling in his honor.

Then he, Omi Ori started a powerful ritual moving his hands and praying to vengeful gods among the spirits of the Middle Umbra to Manifest then pointing at the floor where a pool of liquid silver started to flow, it was very much like plasma, fast moving, rapidly expanding upwards, all over and around the Uktena without causing him any harm; and before the cloud reached the other werewolves present it swirled and turned into itself to move in the direction of the Heart burning it to it's core, leaving no trace of it, dissolving the Blights and silencing the disturbing echoes of the dead.

After a few minutes it was cleansed and over its ruins a new Caern was born, bound to the The Great Trash Heap to bring other and purpose to the Landfill where this Caern was. Honoring this spirit of the Bone Gnawers served two purposes: to bring peace with the Werewolves that already were in Staten Island before the Upheaval arrived and to Transmute this place, removing the taint of radioactivity from Gaia's visage; a fight this honorable and often overlooked Tribe had been fighting even without Caern or help from those in The City.

North Star in person entitled the Adren Bone Gnawer known as Rack Track as Warder of the Sept to Mother Larissa's contempt and opposition.


Now this place is being transformed into a recycling center, looking forward to remedy all the toxic wasted dumped for generations in this place. The work has just began but the cause is more alive than ever.

This compound has basically two major zones: to the West many tourist and visitors go to the marina and nearby beaches to enjoy the summer from time to time, also many fishermen come to these premises looking for some salty water species allowed to be picked by locals; the East side is a forbidden zone, crowded with radioactive signs advising and prohibiting anyone from entering beyond the wire fence that was build around the old structures of the incinerator.

The abandoned Incinerator building is four level tall, mostly warehouse like, except for a concrete office building attached to the incineration operations room housing in it's basement thousands of steel barrels with radioactive toxic waste recovered from the furnace. It stands in front of a large landfill that covers over sixty percent of the Great Kill Park, this immense space is covered with thousands of metric tons of garbage, hundreds of ravens, doves, seabirds and millions of cockroaches and rats crawling underneath.


The perimeter fence is now far from the original and now abandoned compound, hidden from the view of all visitors, closer another building was constructed to keep the appearances, a very clean and exemplary building that keeps every sanitary rule in the book while continuing the landfill operations trying to throw some dirt on the Great Kill filthy past. Most of it's operatives were killed during the Garou operation to overthrow PENTEX operation but administratively it still belongs to one of it's subsidiaries. The legal affair hasn't been settled yet so it's almost certain that the Garou Nation hasn't either heard the last of PENTEX regarding this asset.

The personnel still in charge of the operations hasn't presented yet to work since the attack about a month ago, instead kinfolk joining the Upheaval and other sympathizers portraying as Ecology Activists occupied the facilities protesting against the ecocide being done with the State of New York consent. Hence, the Glasswalkers and the Bone Gnawers are already sharping their fangs and claws for that legal fray.

Meanwhile, the Caern perimeter is being established and protected by it's Warden with all the support from the recently arrived Garou and their gadgets. No trespassing has being detected but certainly is expected by each and everyone there as a reprisal from the Wyrm forces to reclaim their Domain.

At this point a new Sept was declared to keep the Caern safe under the Protectorate usually name The Upheaval. Rack Track, the Warden brought his Pack with him to occupy some of the Leadership Positions within the Sept and the Caern, others were recommended by North Star and all swore to keep and protect this domain:

Position	Name	Tribe	Rank	Auspice	Breed	Roleplay Tips
Warden	Rack Track	Bone Gnawer	Athro Rank 4	Ahroun	Homid	Ecoterrorist
Truthcatcher	Damsel 'Vertigo' Johns	Glasswalker	Adren Rank 3	Philodox	Homid	Law Savy Eco-enforcer
Master of the Rite	Ritae From Scrap	Bone Gnawer	Adren Rank 3	Theurge	Metis	New Age ritualist
Gatekeeper	Dance with the Dead	Fianna	Adren Rank 3	Theurge	Lupus	Mysterious and quiet gothic
Wyrm Foe	Torque	Bone Gnawer	Adren Rank 3	Ragabash	Metis	Stealth Assasin

Packs of the Sept

• War Pack (Alpha Pack) Gaia's Whip (Totem: The Great Trash Heap) Three Members
  
• War Pack (Guardians) Wyrm Slayers (Totem: Boar) Four Members
  
• War Pack (Guardians) Skull Crushers (Totem: Fenrir) Five Members
  
• Investigation Pack (No position) Key Masters (Totem: Cockroach) Six Members
  
• Mystical Pack (Acolytes of the Master of Ritae) Eyes of the Undertaker (Totem: Rat) Three Members
  

Garou permanently at the Caern: 21 werewolves.
Level of the Caern: Level two
Caern Type: Urban
Caern Totem: The Great Trash Heap
Kinfolk and sympathizers permanently at the Caern: 30 Kinfolk and 40 Eco-activists.

CAERN UMBRA SIDE

The Great Kill umbra was a mess, not only the scars of the Pit still lingered in its corridors but also the strange chaotic shapes remained to remind all spirits this used to be a Wyrm's lair. The stormy dark cloud that used to hover over the location was gone and the light of Selene now shined through its hallways but not everywhere...

This Caern has two levels:

The surface or shallow level has the ruins of the recycling compound covered with dark and ashy cobweb. Most the pattern spiders that remained got deformed by the Wyrm's influence, becoming poisonous and often aggressive to the point of becoming a plague. Other and larger pattern spiders came to the Caern to cleanse, their process was slow but relentless, eating the tainted spiders as they go and replacing the corrupted cobwebs with slow and patient netting.


The second level had many stores down underground, it's corridors were a true maze that eventually lead to the Heart of the Caern that replaced the old Incinerator that caused all the defilement of Gaia for years. After Omi Ori's powerful ritual he condensed the remaining essences of Erebus during the Caern Creation Ritual to build a huge chunk of Silver shaped like a prism of more than two stores high, glittering and shining with it's purifying influence everything around it.

Three quarters of the Garou stayed in the Umbra peeking through the Gauntlet when the need happened, they Upheaval Glasswalkers that came with North Star had already installed their Umbrae Sensors: Parallax Gauger (to Sense Weaver), Filtzer Gauger (to Sense the Wyrm) and Urge Gauger (to sense the Wyld) all wired using cobwebs of their own to the UPF Visualization room where the information was displayed on a Caern Map of each level.

The Warden and some of the Guardians of the Bone Gnawers and the Glasswalkers were entrusted with a portable version of the UPF that had a pair of googles to give the wearer some sort of enhance reality showing the nearby manifestations of these three primordial forces while giving feedback to the main room to have more accurate detection.


Over this month many powerful totem spirits were summoned as well, many Boars and two Fenrir Jagglins were walking around keeping an eye on everything, also a Great Trash Heap was all around the Silver Spike slowly showing some pieces of gold and gemstones as the purifying energy of the Heart did it's share. The face of the Spiritual Guardian of the Caern was made of rubble and scraps of trash most metal that shined back at the Heart's glitter making it seem more valuable.

Many wisdows spirits were starting to show around as well and day by day Gaia's children seemed to be coming back to this premises to fill it with light.