(7:58:47 PM) ***Naze leads Alyah though the light snow northerly towards the edge of the bawn. She moves eerily silent the snow and grass underfoot making a bare whisper. Their destination as is roves into view seems to be a fallen log in the lee of an overhang of rock; an unassuming and  hidden, out of the way area. She moves in comfortable silence with the ninja.
(8:01:48 PM) ***Alyah moved with ease and silence behind the Ragabash, her footfalls muffled and quiet by her graceful movements. Her eyes roaming simply for only a moment or two before returning to Naze afterwards, following nearly in perfect step behind her
(8:10:11 PM) ***Naze stops a little bit before the shrine and looks back to Alyah she pulls out a vial and considers it a moment before giving it a shake and looking at the liquid inside it as she infuses it with a bit of her gnosis. It bubbles and luminescences blue a moment <G> "This is a little old uktena knowhow, Because you have gnosis, Im hoping this will work, if not, then try to avoid talking to anything that's not someone you know for the next 4 hours, because you'll be hallucinating badly." she says as she hands the vial to her
(8:18:37 PM) ***Alyah would glance at the vial for a moment as it was shaken, studying the simple glow and bubbling appearance it took on. But she nodded simply in turn as the vial was offered over. "I shall abide then, Naze." She again nodded, holding the vial in her hand a moment, then looking back to the Ragabash. "Do I drink this, or merely hold it?" She as
(8:18:38 PM) ***Alyah ked, waiting for confirmation before acting without full knowledge.
(8:21:54 PM) Naze: <G> "You drink it.." she nods <G> "The active ingredient is peyote, if I read between the lines it should let you glimpse parts of the umbra and you will need it to gain Chameleons favour.."
(8:26:00 PM) Alyah: Again, the Shinobi would nod in turn. Looking to the vial a moment or two, she would remove the cork to the vial. "Ikkinomi." She said simply, a small touch of humor to the situation. She then drank the vial as she did with nightshade, relaxing her mind, her body, opening herself to its effects.
(8:26:09 PM) Alyah: (Ikkinomi=bottoms up)
(8:32:59 PM) ***Naze nods once the Kin drinks it and  gestures for her to have a seat or kneel on the ground in front of the the shrine, with her at first there doesn't seem to be any effect, but slowly the world becomes fuzzy at the edges like she's drake too much, the Shinobi can guess that its somewhat working though as a hazy, ghostly shade of a jellyfish gently floats across her vision to come to rest on Naze's shoulder. <G> "How do you feel?" asks the ragabash with a faint tinny echo
(8:33:18 PM) Naze: *drank
(8:39:17 PM) Alyah: Breathing slowly she would take a kneeling stance in front of the shrine, her eyes slowly fluttering in a simple manner. She was unused to these effects, but she didn't let it bother her too badly. Her training, her inner peace, relaxing her body to the full effects. Though her eyes lazily tracked the jellyfish as it came to sit on the Ragabash's s
(8:39:17 PM) Alyah: houlder, looking back up towards Naze. "Fuzzy. But, I can see the faint outline of Ark. Your voice, echos in my ears."
(8:43:08 PM) ***Naze nods <G> "Good, Then look to the shrine and seek chameleon there. He will be difficult to spot but when you do, move forward and offer him your gnosis.
(8:43:28 PM) Naze: ((roll perp+alert DC 8
(8:48:49 PM) ***Alyah nodded slowly in turn, leaning herself over towards the shrine to stare into the waters, slowly and carefully scanning over it, searching for the spirit. Though the haziness of her state made her concentration, difficult.
(8:57:15 PM) Naze: It takes a long while and a lot of patience, but eventually she can spot the faintest of movement.  With more patience watching that point intently, even as the cold of the winter bites at her attachment site of her arm while she sits in in the Tellurian.  Something about the movement clicks and she realises that its is one of Chameleons roving eyes, watching the pair of humans curiously from a knot on the fallen tree.
(9:02:27 PM) Alyah: She almost wasn't sure of it at first. Blinking slightly to herself to focus on the slightest movements. In time, she knew it was he. The small little horned reptile. Slow and steady motions she extended her hand out towards the spirit, offering her limited gnosis out to him. Slow, sluggish, as if wading through molasses.
(9:10:09 PM) Naze: The reptile seems to tenses a moment as the hand reaches out, as Naze watches the knot too. The mote of gnosis flares in her hand, glowing brightly in her altered vision, not simply the normal mote of blue light, but a shining silver light in her hand. The crafty lizard reguards it a moment slowly opening his mouth before the spirit's long tongue shoots out to catch the mote of gnosis on his tongue and slurp it back in quickly, eating
(9:10:10 PM) Naze: it.
(9:14:59 PM) Naze: The jelly fish makes some kind of noise, saying something, but the sounds are as if underwater and far away; indistinct even in spirit tongue.one eye moves to watch it as the other remains fixed on the kin. Naze moves slowly to offer gnosis too, hers a shifting multi hued light to Alyah, and it too is slurped up quickly with a lash of the tongue before she spirit moves crawling to perch at the edge of a long branch.
(9:15:40 PM) Alyah: A side of things she wished she could see more regularly. The swirl of silver energy in her hand was mildly surprising, but she did not move, even as the long tongue shot out of it's mouth to snatch the sphere of energy away. No flinch, no movement. Calm, and steady, eyes upon him. Unique for certain. And as it crawled further into view on the bran
(9:15:41 PM) Alyah: ch she listened to Naze for what to do next, if anything; eyes transfixed upon Chameleon.
(9:20:23 PM) Naze: Chameleon suddenly takes on a more solid quality, a small green riot of color on the log. Its long tail curls quickly with the cold "You have called and I have answered, Unseen moon. It is too cold, be quick what would you have of me?" it says in English to Naze with the same tinny echo Naze has, but it keeps one eye fixed on Alyah.
(9:21:26 PM) ***Naze gestures quickly to Alyah to plead her case to the Spirit, as it bobs trying to stay warm
(9:26:27 PM) ***Alyah would watch him a moment more as he began to bob in place. Speaking calm, and collected. "I come to you wishing to learn from you. Garou, I am not. But my clan has learned from you over the many generations. I wish to follow in the steps of my clan, to learn from you, the gift of moving unseen. To be but a blur in the eyes of my enemies."
(9:35:01 PM) Naze: "Which clans is this? Silver fang, certainly, but I do not know you. Why would you want this gift daughter of falcon?" he asks moving and turning his head slowly, but one of his eyes always remains fixes on Alyah.
(9:39:29 PM) Alyah: "The Iga-ryū Shinobi of the Iga Province of Japan. Founded by Hattori Hanzo of the Mikawa Province. I wish to learn this gift so that I might better serve my sept, protect my family, and my mate." She replied flatly in her normal fashion, calm passive eyes lingering on him.
(9:48:00 PM) Naze: "Admirable reasons, but I do not know who you are daughter of falcon, I see little reason to give you this gift. I have no guarantee's that you would hold to my chimminage.." he casts his other eye to Naze who remains silent. "You would really intercede for this nameless Kunoichi?" he asks
(9:54:00 PM) Alyah: Inclining her head slightly in apology for her rudeness, Alyah would wait a moment before speaking again. "I ask your forgiveness for my rudeness. My name, is Alyah Tsuki No Hanabira, Warm heart of stone. Kin of the Silver Fangs, daughter of house Blood Red Crest, chunin of the IIga-ryū Shinobi clan. Honored mate of Strength of the Ancestors."
(10:05:09 PM) Naze: The Spirit looks at her a long moment and finally bobs up and down. "You are know to us Warm Heart of Stone, daughter of house Blood Red Crest. For *you* I would give my gift in return for the warmth of your heart in those cold days. If you promise you will bring me a stone warmed from the heat of your camp's fire in hand directly to me here, for the rest of the winter you while you are still reside on the bawn.  I will teach you the
(10:05:10 PM) Naze: gift you desire.."
(10:15:27 PM) Alyah: "I agree to your terms kind spirit. I will do this for you as you ask." She said flatly, offering the little reptile an inclining of her head keeping her eyes to him without breaking her gaze upon him. Lucky for her, she had a heat resistant metal hand. "I thank you."
(10:17:56 PM) Naze: The spirit bobbed up and down again "Then open your mouth Warm Heart of Stone." Naze adopts an knowing and amused expression.
(10:19:45 PM) Alyah: There was a brief second of confusion in this. But she sat up again complying with the spirit's request. Unaware of Naze's expression she opened her mouth as requested.
(10:20:10 PM) Naze: The small lizards is suddenly gone from its perch and there is a weight on her tongue "You may eat me now." it intones from inside her mouth
(10:21:02 PM) Alyah: ((He's serious isn't he?
(10:21:55 PM) Naze: ((As a heart attack :P
(10:22:11 PM) Alyah: ((Spirits man. Weird as fuck sometimes.
(10:23:42 PM) Naze: ((heheheh, Consuming animals to gain their strengths or properties is a common trait in animism, had to come from somewhere in WoD ;)
(10:25:12 PM) Alyah: Now of course, this came as a surprise as he vanished, the hairs on the back of her neck rising to end as suddenly he appeared as weight on her tongue. And while at first there was some level of pause, she remembered her training, her focus. Her calm. Closing her eyes she would close her mouth, tilting her head back slightly to swallow keeping as s
(10:25:12 PM) Alyah: tone faced much as she could.
(10:25:29 PM) Alyah: ((Sounds more like the zerg to me. Heh
(10:32:53 PM) Naze: The fielding is weird and almost indescribable as someone her size shouldn't be able to swallow a lizard whole: but she somehow manages, even despite his wriggling a bit on the way down. After a moment an odd feeling of empowerment suffuses throughout her. Naze and the ghostly image of Ark move before the natural shrine as she offers thanks in spirit speech and and more gnosis to the shrine.
(10:33:08 PM) Naze: *The feeling
(10:44:07 PM) Alyah: She resists the urge to cough, to gag, to grimace even as the feeling slithered down her throat. The wiggling didn't help much, but she managed regardless. Though her eyes snapped open as the energy wafted through her, again, the hair on her neck standing to end as her fingers flexed shortly. Blinking, rapidly, she cleared her eyes glancing over at
(10:44:07 PM) Alyah:  Naze for a moment. Somewhat speechless.
(10:45:48 PM) ***Naze simply looks over and nods after a moment and stands <G> "Shall we? You have a chimminage to keep, though I would let the potion pass first." she smiles to the ninja. (Roll Percp+alert again, DC7
(10:49:16 PM) Alyah: (3) "Of course." The Shinobi would offer a small little smile in turn, nodding afterwards as she slowly stood up from her kneeling stance, be it slightly shaky from the slight dizziness in her head.
(10:52:35 PM) Naze: Alyah can see though the potion's effects the glyph of Chameleon in subtle relief carved into the wood and stone behind it visible from a limited perspective almost only from where Naze kneels a moment. Other glyphs seem to float off the wood, likes those of hiding and protection to her drug addled vision.. She sees the hazy form and still form of chameleon back in the umbra as well, watching them leave..
(10:55:51 PM) Naze: ((give me a straight stam roll too :P
(10:56:12 PM) Alyah: ((Dif 6?
(10:56:21 PM) Naze: ((yep
(10:56:45 PM) Alyah: ((A perfect roll. 2
(10:57:43 PM) Naze: That works! you resist some of the more major hallucinatory effects for the next little while
(11:02:07 PM) Alyah: There was a reason she did not use such things, but she did not complain, for she had received what she needed to better herself and her sept. And despite the floating glyphs around her, the hazy shifting forms. Strange, that they seemed to follow her as she began to move towards the inner bawn with the Ragabash. "I will have to grow used to this i
(11:02:08 PM) Alyah: n time." She said simply, making her steps slow to remain steady.
(11:07:37 PM) Naze: <G> "The effect of the potion should fade in a few hours, its a uktena creation meant to help propel the native shamans on vision quests and the like, I figured it would loosen your spirit just enough to partially perceive the umbra, but it's not terribly convenient, some users experience vivid hallucination with no basis on anything.."
(11:08:52 PM) Naze: ((Almost disappointed you didn't see him wearing a tiny top hat and Ark in a bow tie for instance
(11:11:29 PM) Alyah: "I only wish in time I could learn how to visit the umbra on my own." She nodded softly to Naze as she moved with her. "Regardless, thank you. I am grateful for you aid tonight, Naze. The Potion worked well."
(11:13:59 PM) Naze: <G> "Perhaps you will in time." she nods <G> "Glad I could be of help."
(11:14:54 PM) Alyah: ((I know it's getting late for you, so from here I assume she'll return to the camp to gather a stone from the firepit to bring to Chameleon?
(11:20:20 PM) Naze: ((Sounds like a plan! yeah, Chimminage is a matter between the spirit and the holder. So every day she'll have to get a stone, heat it up in the fire and transport it to the shrine for chameleon to have a warm rock to bask on
(11:21:04 PM) Naze: (( She'll find he likes flat ones best ;P
(11:21:26 PM) Alyah: ((Noted. Lucky for her she has a metal hand.
(11:21:42 PM) Alyah: ((Anyway, thank you for this, brother. I appreciate this.
(11:26:52 PM) Naze: np!
(11:35:50 PM) Alyah: ((Also, when you can, ask Drake what the costs for Mosquito as a totem was. I was kinda curious.