Okay, so I said I'd post the first step tomorrow, but I have some free time and I want to get as much of this down while it is still somewhat fresh in my mind.
I'd like to point out I'm using the oWod rules, I like the new mechanics, but am not a fan of the new setting. I know they really needed to clean everything up, but it's not a direction I would have gone in.
Brad's Story
Brad created a young werewolf using my variant of the White Wolf character creation method. 15 Attribute points, 27 Ability points, 20 Freebie points. He picked his breed and auspice gift upon creation. That's pretty much what a Rank 1 werewolf gets, but where I wasn't sure that everyone solo adventures would get them all on the same level, I informed everyone that during their individual gaming they wouldn't get XP but rather renown. Anyway, I digress. Brad's werewolf is Homid born, a Philodox, and he indicates that he wants to be a Shadow Lord. For his attributes he spreads them out fairly evenly, although his social and mental stats are both slightly better than his physical stats, good for a Philodox in my mind. Likewise, he spreads his Abilities out, although he centres on Empathy, Intimidation, Leadership and Investigation. I don't allow new characters to have any Abilities above 3 dots without good reason, mind you. His character is supposed to be a young teen who is the "Mayors Son" and as such receives good schooling, because of his skill set and his place in society, he chooses to play as the schoolyard bully, leading a small group of mean kids. I like this backstory, I think it will be fun to play. With his Advantages, he picks Ancestory and Pure Breed at 3 each. He picks Persuasion and Truth of Gaia as his beginning gifts, and finally spends points to make his Rage and Gnosis even at 4, and buys up his willpower to 5. Overall he has a well balanced starting character, with good dice pools for the skills he will be called upon often during his rite of passage.
I do notice he has absolutely no Primal Urge. I gleefully scheme inside.
I start with him dreaming. I figure that's probably the best way to start him off, to get him wondering. I throw imagery of storms, great trees, serpents, wolves and a great big moon. I know Brad, he isn't used to the metaphysical although he patiently listens, taking notes and trying to figure it all out. Over the course of the next few days this boy who is usually the bully of the school finds himself stalked by mysterious wolves in the woods, he hears them fighting just at the edge of his vision. This bully boy is scared. He dreams of a tree in the woods, and a little girl inside the tree. Bravely, or foolishly, he seeks out this tree, despite the fear of the wolves.
I should note here that Brad is under the impression that the wolves are "His People" just waiting for him to change. They are in fact, His People, fighting off a harrying pack of Black Spirals.
Brad is insistent that he will find something in the woods, some tree. I am sure I did not indicate to him that the tree is in the woods next to his house, but I figure I should give it to him. He finds a great oak tree that stands out from the rest, in a little grove. He surprises me, instead of knocking on the tree, or calling out or demanding some spirit come see him, he chooses to take in the beauty of the place, and sleeps under the tree.
Awe, look at him being all spiritual. So I decide that he should go through his first change somewhere around here. He wakes up in the glade, but it looks so much more alive and vibrant, he heard the laughter of a child and he plays a little hide and seek with the spirit living in the tree. Wordlessly, she guides him on a spirit trail, so a hidden lake where se sees a beautiful woman stroking a great stormcrow resting on her arm. She disappears, and the Stormcrow flies towards Brad, and gifts him with a sharp fang. Where the woman was, now resides a growing white tree. I tell Brad he sees something dark, a shadow in the lake, racing for the tree. He jumps in, and attacks what he finds out later was a nightmare bane. Lucky roller too, he one shotted it. I tell him when he climbs out of the lake, he notices that his hands are now huge, furred and have great talons on the tips of his fingers. He has changed.
Will continue this at a later time....
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