City Locations
Neutral Locations
The Timberline Bar
The Timberline Hotel's primary bar on the first floor of the complex that houses the bawn. This space has a modern, alpine lodge aesthetic, with wood and stone. Lit by sunlight during the day with an unobstructed view of the mountain slopes and an easily accessible outdoor terrace along one wall; By night the bar is lit dimly with warm lighting with more than a few nook tables and out of the way booths to converse at.
The bar is open to the paying public with delicious drinks and a casual, relaxed atmosphere. Being just outside the bawn also has advantages, with spirits of calm and relaxation inhabiting the umbra here that act to tamp down rage so garou can effectively interact with the public and conduct business without their curse getting in the way.
(Rage is effectively -3 in this space)
Selene Brew Café
A well liked cafe along Bridge Street in the village proper that backs up against Gore Creek. It is owned and operated by a Glasswalker kinfolk and also usually staffed by at least one Warder in the back. It boasts great wi-fi and has several hidden doors (including those that access said creek) with a very oversized basement for its street footprint.
Combat teams and newcomers to the sept are typically routed and processed here first before being sent up to the hotel. It has a glyph in the main sign that indicates its status as a waystation or stopover point: garou hobo code. It is well stocked with essentials, talens, and changes of clothes with a couple of cots in the basement just in case too.
West Vail -Employee Housing Area
On the north side of highway 70 in West Vail is where the resorts stuff the employee housing, over a 30 minute walk in the dead of winter to the area with the lifts and commerce. Some are decently sized, rent controlled apartments that are handed out by lottery as a pleasant facade for the news, with a nearby Safeway, gas station, and cheap Chinese place. But in this WoD, more are flophouses or sometimes other buildings long past prime where several roommates pool to live in cramped, close quarters. Working in Vail for relatively low pay and more for the love of the snow and opportunity to ski or board in their precious off hours.
Spirits here are an odd mix, typical domestic sprits abound along with minor spirits of both pessimism and hope, satisfaction and despair: lots of little contradictions that add up whenever you have many people living atop one another. One dumpster here also hosts a node/pile of the Great (all seeing, all knowing) Trash Heap.
Weaver-Attuned Locations
Timberline Lodge Upper Floors
The sept’s city base occupies the hotel’s upper floors. Fed by separate trunk infrastructure, the space is accessible only by a restricted and private elevator spine. Security is discreet but airtight with the top floors acoustically separated from the rest of the building and smart windows that can counter even Israeli surveillance among other measures.
The spirits here are not those typically found near a traditional caern, being much more modern and Weaver-aligned. The Wyld energy that flows down from the mountain caern has tinted them over the decades, but the location remains far more Weaver-leaning due to its focus on structure, order, and optimization.
Vail Village Streets
The shopping in Vail caters to the luxury market and the wealthy who figure themselves outdoorsmen. Overpriced outdoor and ski equipment, along with designer brands, high end jewelry stores, art galleries, and many expensive restaurants and bars are available here; though typically outside of the reach of the general consumer these days. In the umbra minor spirits of consumption and vice weave in and out of the calcifying webs of the street. There are not many practical goods to be found in the main shopping areas of the town but they are a good spot to people watch or kill time window shopping; assuming garou rage doesn't trigger some sort of incident.
Wyld-Attuned Locations
Gore Creek / Ford Park
The ordinance protected natural corridor threads it’s way through the length of town at the bottom of the valley like a leyline, passing through Ford Park with a sculpture garden and amphitheater at one end. In the Umbra, the space is amplified into a lush mini-forest of tall pines and alpine plants, in defiance of the weavers webs and corporatism around it. In the winter it is home to spirits of mountain animals, quiet observation, and spirits of stillness and snow; giving way to minor spirits of renewal in the spring and summer, following the rhythm of the mountain.
The Gondola/Lift Area
The favorite haunt of the local warder pack dubbed ‘Ski Patrol’, the area around the primary gondola lift for the village sits at the original interface of the mountain and the town. Though covered in snow and tourists during the winter, Wildflowers bloom constantly here like a colorful blanket in the short summers, untamed. In the umbra the area is always snow covered year round, with major spirits of winter, snow, and cold consistently active in this local area, even at the height of summer. The lift itself can act as a conduit for various energies to run up and down the mountain as well, like a lighting rod or antenna.
Wyrm-Attuned Location
Eagle Mine
Despite being far south outside of town, the now abandoned Eagle Mine is a joint responsibility with other septs in the area. The mine, which dates back to the 1880s, was initially founded during the Colorado silver boom and was abandoned over 40 years ago now ostensibly because of the EPA and toxic pollutants from the mine, but that is not the entire story. Though very few know exactly what happened in '84 anymore, the now flooded mine attracts banes and other creatures regularly; and the data shows increasingly in frequency now as well.
"The mountain remembers. The spirits watch. The Wyrm hungers."
— Elder Stormclaw