# Kat Dorje 2026 02 24

# Story Brainstorm — Mine Arc
## IRC Log

**10:44** {blue}dorje{/blue} like, really, wtf is the story? what are they all coming into right now?

**10:45** {red}shatteredrose{/red} Id like to know that too

**10:46** {red}shatteredrose{/red} so I like the idea of exploring how we are living in a world where we dont have much choice but doing a balancing act between the weaver and the wyld

**10:47** {red}shatteredrose{/red} how we keep ourselves relevant in the modern era without becoming complete fossils

**10:47** {red}shatteredrose{/red} ((kinda like most of the players here lol))

**10:47** {blue}dorje{/blue} I think it's a clear theme

**10:48** {blue}dorje{/blue} Maybe another way to put it, what happened before the players got here?

**10:49** {red}shatteredrose{/red} struggling to keep out the ever expanding world from creeping into the caern

**10:49** {red}shatteredrose{/red} like we are having trouble with people moving ever so closer

**10:50** {red}shatteredrose{/red} maybe someone is trying to buy / reopen the mines

**10:50** {red}shatteredrose{/red} maybe not necessarily to mine

**10:50** {red}shatteredrose{/red} but as an attraction of sorts

**10:50** {red}shatteredrose{/red} which leads to more people about but also the possibility of the wyrm leaking out

**10:51** {blue}dorje{/blue} yeah, but werewolves kill things. what are a bunch of higher level npcs doing here at this sept? how did they get to this level? are they new here, because if not, they had to kill a lot of shit to get where they are

**10:51** {blue}dorje{/blue} Remember that the premise is that the red star is on the rise and the world is troubled. It isn't a time for peace

**10:52** {blue}dorje{/blue} The whole setting in the books is that these are turbulent times

**10:53** {red}shatteredrose{/red} I mean I can easily say the strider followed owl and hold on someone is knocking at my door

**10:57** {red}shatteredrose{/red} so you know the beta is playing around with enbued plants so she could be here because this has the best soil for it, and its in an effort to give the best advantage to the warriors. She is a teacher first after all, if shes high ranking

**10:58** {red}shatteredrose{/red} you know though

**10:58** {red}shatteredrose{/red} I just had a thought

**10:58** {blue}dorje{/blue} I feel like we're having a disconnect

**10:58** {red}shatteredrose{/red} the wyrm in the silver mine

**10:58** {blue}dorje{/blue} Garou are violent

**10:58** {red}shatteredrose{/red} yes let me get back to your question

**10:58** {red}shatteredrose{/red} uktena often trap rather than kill

**10:59** {red}shatteredrose{/red} which means someone has to watch over it, this one happens to be powerful, which is why the caern here was formed

**10:59** {red}shatteredrose{/red} but because its powerful it attracts other such baddies

**10:59** {red}shatteredrose{/red} in a never ending circle of violence and maintenance

**11:00** {red}shatteredrose{/red} and this is me brainstorming ideas until something works :P

**11:00** {blue}dorje{/blue} Yes, that is how caerns go

**11:00** {blue}dorje{/blue} they're all like that

**11:00** {red}shatteredrose{/red} well what is YOUR idea

**11:00** {red}shatteredrose{/red} i didnt pick this setting lol

**11:02** {blue}dorje{/blue} All nodes are contested. Every supernatural splat needs nodes. Every pack wants to control a node. BSD wants to control nodes. They're magnets for trouble and thus for stories

**11:03** {blue}dorje{/blue} I'm trying to ask what was the last act of violence in defense of the sept. Was it isolated, the start of something new, the end of some other cycle? If it's isolated or new, what was the thing before it

**11:03** {red}shatteredrose{/red} Oh okay

**11:03** {red}shatteredrose{/red} Hmm

**11:03** {blue}dorje{/blue} Everyone is low level, so it makes sense to me that we start off with more simple stuff, banes of the corrupted local wildlife. That's an easy one

**11:04** {blue}dorje{/blue} I think we should have the npcs talking about the things that happened before or still cleaning up things

**11:04** {red}shatteredrose{/red} but that can go back to what I was saying about the mines being bought to be 'opened' and that kind of stirred up the wyrm which starts the infections

**11:05** {blue}dorje{/blue} I'd suggest that there was some sort of loss or drama in the relatively near past to have a mystery to uncover. Those here now won't tell the full story, why, I don't know

**11:05** {red}shatteredrose{/red} 'they went in to inspect the mines a few weeks back, ever since then we have had an uptick in twisted spirits'

**11:05** {red}shatteredrose{/red} Oo

**11:05** {red}shatteredrose{/red} I like that too

**11:05** {red}shatteredrose{/red} 4 went in for the inspection only 3 came back out?

**11:05** {red}shatteredrose{/red} they were townies

**11:06** {red}shatteredrose{/red} or people were out hiking and they came back with these crazy stories but one didnt come back and now their friends are under suspicion of foul play

**11:07** {blue}dorje{/blue} I'm trying to avoid a start for these players where everything was peaceful and now it isn't. That's not how I interpret the werewolf setting at all and I think it lends itself to furries

**11:08** {blue}dorje{/blue} Those are good too, but I was specifically talking about garou. Like maybe there's a reason there are vacant positions. Maybe there was a leadership misstep. Maybe the mistress of rites is the *new* beta

**11:08** {red}shatteredrose{/red} Inola could be reading the story on her tablet

**11:08** {red}shatteredrose{/red} Hmm, like they tried to go into the mines before the humans got there but things went bad

**11:10** {red}shatteredrose{/red} the ritual was 'successful' in keeping the big bad locked away for now but the cost was her getting caught in the trap as well

**11:11** {blue}dorje{/blue} haha, you're such a mary sue ;)

**11:12** {red}shatteredrose{/red} ugh its what MoR do, RITES

**11:12** {red}shatteredrose{/red} ass

**11:12** {red}shatteredrose{/red} whatever :P

**11:12** {blue}dorje{/blue} lol

**11:12** {blue}dorje{/blue} Not the rites

**11:13** {blue}dorje{/blue} give me a sec to respin the same idea

**11:14** {blue}dorje{/blue} did we change the alpha from a wendigo to a uktena?

**11:15** {red}shatteredrose{/red} hes always been a uktena

**11:15** {blue}dorje{/blue} ok

**11:17** {blue}dorje{/blue} The mines were built on land that was sacred to X natives, not like a burial ground, but one of their story anchors. Despite being closed, the land wasn't returned and it remained private property. The local X tribe has unsuccessfully tried to sue for egress rights, since getting the land back just isn't happening, but the old corporate owners refuse due to creating complications with selling

**11:18** {blue}dorje{/blue} So when the new company bought and started inspecting the mines, the alpha wanted to wait and see what comes of it. Whatever wyrm-thing inside, he was confident the sept could deal with it. If lots of people had to die, specifically the mine operators, that's sort of a bonus

**11:20** {blue}dorje{/blue} The old beta, maybe a coggie if the angle is less death, or a gof that was eager for a fight, disobeyed and brought a group into the mine. They fought and grievously wounded whatever was inside, which allowed a rite to be performed to seal things off... for now

**11:21** {blue}dorje{/blue} The fight was costly without the power of the alpha and full sept. The beta fell, along with several other higher ranking sept members. The rites mistress, who is now beta, performed the rite which was actually the right call

**11:21** {blue}dorje{/blue} That has tension between the alpha and the beta. The disobedience is tolerated because it was right in the end. The uktena recognizes this, but it's a thing

**11:23** {blue}dorje{/blue} The mining company, during inspections and trying to reopen, have experienced a series of mishaps that have led to several deaths and regulatory oversight. That's delayed things significantly, so the mines aren't active, but can be "soon"

**11:25** {red}shatteredrose{/red} so the caern is doing its best to keep the mines from reopening at all, now? which is the beginning story?

**11:28** {blue}dorje{/blue} It could be, but I'd suggest it as a larger arc altogether

**11:28** {red}shatteredrose{/red} thats what I meant. Chapter 1 story

**11:29** {blue}dorje{/blue} I mean, that can be a constant thing across multiple chapters. The price of metals is only going up and mining is more profitable

**11:30** {blue}dorje{/blue} I don't think they're going to quit

**11:30** {red}shatteredrose{/red} thats fair

**11:30** {blue}dorje{/blue} Chapter 1 story can be about the local corrupted wildlife and maybe a particular official or something

**11:31** {blue}dorje{/blue} maybe a mine inspector or manager or something became corrupted by a bigger bane and is worthy of the first chapter BBEG

**11:33** {red}shatteredrose{/red} keeping them from polluting the spring water nearby that feeds our caern heart tree, perhaps

**11:33** {red}shatteredrose{/red} should we present this in staff?

**11:38** {blue}dorje{/blue} no

**11:38** {red}shatteredrose{/red} we need to wait to see whats going on with tanith and atta?

**11:38** {blue}dorje{/blue} we don't know, rn, if our staff channel has two players in it