Debased Evolution Ferals

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Rejected and hunted by Gaia's deadliest, Debased yet survive, even prosper. Beneath a

facade of animalistic simplicity, ferals are cunning and resourceful creatures, geared for survival

while others throw their lives away in ceaseless conflicts. These dogblooded are more prolific

and widespread than anyone suspects. But as they increase, so do violations of the !eil. "eople

are only so blind, after all, and a growing number are stumbling onto something close to the truth.

#nd while some cower in fear, others act . #nd yet, some dogblooded ta$e the burden of respon

sibility onto their shoulders, helping the world in small ways here and there.

A Werewolf: the Apocalypse supplement by Steven Markley



# %hort &istoryThe origins of the Garou and other Changing Breeds are

shrouded in the mists of prehistory, and their histories take the formof epics passed down through generations. There are few points ofagreement between the tales of one tribe or Breed and the next, andwhile each group is quietly certain its own version is the right one,

nothing can be known for certain. urther, the wisest among Gaia!schildren reali"e nothing needs to be known# the glorification of factis a human conceit, and myth can be far more powerful.

The $ebased are unusual in these regards, as in many oth%

ers. Their history is a short one, as no one can trace the existence of$ebased beyond the midpoint of the Twentieth Century. &hile allChangers bear legacies of ancient sins real or imagined, theshameful origins of the dog%blooded aren!t epic or meaningful in

any way. 'utts have no racial pride or oral histories, and entertainno notions of importance or Gaia!s favor. This quiet modesty might

be a refreshing change from the others! self%inflating tales if it wereintentional, but there!s no indication feral mongrels even care.

'ltimat (rigins

(ittle can be verified about the ultimate origins of thedog%blooded, and so perhaps in this they!re like their Garou progen%

itors. )o one knows who spawned the first crippled dog%blooded*the werewolves in question have never stepped forward +understan%

dably, while the spirits don!t whisper their names or deeds. -omeattribute this fell act to the Bone Gnawers, while others are certainthe Black -piral $ancers are responsible. couple of Garou insist

)uwisha or other malefactors must have been involved somehow,

but have never been able to put forth a satisfactory explanation howor why. nd no one knows who the first children of the /ite of d%aptation were. 'any grant Gray this 0honor1, but different tales putforth other names. To be fair, not much effort has been made to un%

cover the truth of these matters. The mutts themselves don!t care,while the Garou are reluctant to explore that shame. 2erhaps theanswers are still out there for any brave enough to seek them.

)arly &istory

The first reported $ebased encounter happened in 3456 in

ri"ona. -acrament Cactus was passing through an oasis townoutside 2rescott when she saw a large wolf%dog mix rooting around

in a dumpster behind a restaurant. 7n a hunch, the 8ktena -coutapproached it and addressed in in Garou. 9t bolted. &hen -acra%

ment Cactus pursued, the creature turned and bit her before takingoff into the scrub. -he didn!t pursue, but instead continued on herway to the -ept of the /oadrunner, reflecting on the event. The bitewound was painful and took a day to heal* the bite of a normal dog

would have healed quickly once she shifted to another form, yet a bite delivered by even a weak Garou would have been more severe.&hen the 2hilodox arrived at the /oadrunner Caern, she told them

what had happened. fter some discussion, the consensus was thatit was probably a canine fomor. 9t was a minor incident, and sooneveryone forgot about it. )o one mentioned it to anyone else.

There were a handful more dog%blooded sightings and en%counters in the -outhwestern 8.-. over the next decade. 9n the !:;s,

the frequency of such episodes slightly increased in the -outhwest,while a few mongrels popped up in 'exico and other parts of the8.-. &erewolves stumbled across a few $ebased, and +of coursekilled some of them. But when these encounters were reported to

septs %% and often they weren!t %% the creatures were believed to be

rogue Bone Gnawers, -pirals, metis or the sort of unexplainable

anomalies that crop up every so often in the Tellurian. Garou aren!tvery good about sharing information with one another, and whenthey do, they typically relate things of importance# &yrm activities,who has fallen in battle, who!s gained rank, traded threats and the

like. 'inor incidents with things that might have been dogs oftenweren!t important enough to come up.

-o no bigger picture of the $ebased formed for decades.'eanwhile, beneath the notice of those that would probably have

been able to stop them had they only acted then, the degenerate sub%Breed grew and spread.

The first time any Garou figured out what dog%bloodedwere, and +unintentionally gave them the name 0the $ebased1, was

in 34:<. The Children of Gaia =une 'orning and >en Tucker of'ontana!s Buffalo ?ead -ept happened upon a small $ebased packin -an $iego +see pg. 3; of The Debased for =une!s narration ofthis event, and they took interest in them. =une tracked down more

mutts and learned what she could, and talked to several Garou thathad encountered them. -he drew some surprisingly astute conclu%

sions about the nature of the dog%blooded. =une 'orning!s theory

caused a scandal at Buffalo ?ead, as did her insistence that theselost kin should be rounded up by septs and indoctrinated into were%wolf culture* however, not everyone yet believed that such things as

$ebased were even possible. The Child of Gaia approached other&estern 8.-. septs, and was received with mixed disbelief, skepti%cism and alarm. @ven those that took =une seriously didn!t believe$ebased were anything more than a minor problem, and the mutts

were overlooked in the face of the crises Garou continually face.nd werewolves missed another opportunity to avoid the

feral plague to come.

Th "opulation )*plosion

The $ebased weren!t always so prolific. t first, therewere only the dog%blooded sired by Garou using the /ite of dapta%

tion. 9t didn!t take long for the first $ebased to produce the nextgeneration, but population growth was still very gradual, and themutts were exclusive to the -outhwestern 8.-. for a more than adecade. To their credit, early $ebased were responsible parents,

passing on what they knew of werewolf culture, language and other

knowledge. This practice remains alive today +see Teaching undereral -ociety, below.

By the time the Garou )ation finally recogni"ed the exis%tence of $ebased in the !<;s, it might not have been too late to do

anything about them, had they acted. But they didn!t.The dog%blooded weren!t a problem when it was Aust a

few of them knocking up a few dogs, creating a few >infolk dogsand even fewer $ebased. But with no external controls, $ebasedmigrated to other areas and reproduced with local dogs. Before346;, there might have been at the most twenty dog%blooded* by the

time !<; rolled around, there were already a hundred. Between thenand !4 the $ebased population doubled, and doubled again by theturn of the millennium. The mongrel population now stands at rightover one thousand +as of ;;:, and they!ve spread over the globe.

There are concerted efforts to thin the mutts! numbers and the an%guard is pressing many into its service, but the vast maAority of dog%

blooded are ferals and there!s no indication their growth is slowing.8sing previous growth trends as a base, conservative proAections

indicate $ebased will outnumber Garou by ;; unless somethingsignificantly curbs their reproduction +like, say, the pocalypse.



Common sense tells us that after the very first $ebasedwere born, the Garou that sired or bore them would have reali"ed

their mistake and stopped making more of them. ?owever, clearlythis isn!t what happened. Close to a do"en 0first generation1 dog%

blooded were produced by the Garou that first employed the /iteof daptation.

/esponsible Garou would!ve indoctrinated their miscege%nated children into the Garou )ation and accepted the consequen%

ces for their actions* smart Garou would!ve covered their asses bykilling their misbegotten spawn and erasing the evidence. But

instead, these werewolves took the time to teach their young theGarou language and basic aspects of their culture and beliefs... andthen deserted them and left the mutts to find their own way in theworld. 7ne can only speculate on the motivations of these dead%

beat parents, but it!s safe to say that whatever it is they tried to do,they failed. 9t!s hard to imagine any sane Garou purposely engin%

eering the $ebased near%crisis.@ven more curiously, whomever pioneered the /ite of

daptation made a point to teach it to many others. +7ne mightthink this would be a good way to trace the rite back to first were%

wolves to use it, but no such luck* someone always learned it fromsome other Garou, who in turn learned it from someone else. 9n allcases, once you go back far enough, the rite!s originators are all

dead D which is perhaps suspicious... or perhaps not, consideringhow long ago that was and the mortality rate of Garou. -everalleads refer to a nameless black%furred werewolf with blue eyes anda piecing, cold ga"e. &hy someone would pass on such a flawedrite is another mystery. &as someone trying to sabotage the Garou

)ation from withinE $id the teachers hope the errors in the /ite ofdaptation would shake outE $id they feel populating the world

with warriors before an imminent pocalypse was worth the costEnd despite all the bad that!s come from it, werewolves

still learn and use the /ite of daptation. This practice has beenon the wane in the last twenty years, however* it!s clear there areenough mongrels running around as it is. 'any of these Garou arestill around to talk to, so it!s easier to get inside their heads than

those of the rite!s originators.

0ou understand what 9 have done, but not why. Thereare so few Garou left. &e do not have enough sept members to

maintain this caern properly, and not only is 'other /at offended because of this, we do not have the numbers to repel a determined

attack by -pirals. -o yes, 9 learned the /ite of daptation, though9 will not tell you from whom. 9 fathered three strong children, of

whom 9 am proud, and who 9 intend to raise in our traditions andways. 9 understand you intend to declare me /onin me for this,

and 9 will bring my daughters and son with me. 9 accept my pun%ishment, but 9 offer no apologies, for 9 did nothing wrong. 9 didwhat 9 did for Gaia.1

– Dario Sanchez, homid Bone Gnawer Philodox, declared Ronin

0-ure, $ebased are weak. But it!s easier to make themthan more of us, and they!re willing to die for our ather. @very

one that dies means a true $ancer lives. @very wound they inflictmakes it that much easier for us to destroy our foes. (et the dog%

blooded overrun the world, 9 don!t care. 9!m glad 9!m part of the!problem!* 9!ve produced no less than four of the bastards myself.1

– “Scab” Pickering, homid Black Spiral Dancer hro!n

+ ral %oci ty

0eral society1 is a somewhat oxymoronic term, becauseferals are defined by their lack of organi"ation and unity. 9t!s oftenevery mutt for himself, and sociali"ing for its own sake is some%thing they don!t have time for. The lucky have packs, but packs

only watch out for their own. erals recogni"e no great society oftheir kind, and even if one were to form many would reAect it, forthey prefer independence and freedom to whatever safety or influ%ence that unity might offer. erals share precious few laws, tradi%

tions or cultural axioms. $ebased that meet are as likely to fight or

ignore each other as cooperate, and today!s uneasy allies are tomor%row!s rivals and next week!s packmates.

This isn!t to say ferals have no contact with one another ortraditions at all. erals are social animals, after all, and even a far%

flung collection of rogues and competing packs feel some kinshipwith each other and recogni"e their common needs. There are three

practices that most ferals honor# feral lore, teaching and forming packs. few eschew these traditions and maintain no contact with

other ferals, but most such radical iconoclasts are strays, and eventhose that aren!t rarely last long* ferals don!t maintain the traditionsfor their own sake, but because they!re essential for survival.

+ ral ,or

loose information network has formed among ferals. lone $ebased encounters a small pack, and mentions something he

heard from some other mutt he crossed paths with last week* inturn, the pack shares any news they may have with him. The pack

and independent go their separate ways, but tell other $ebased whatthey heard, and thus word is passed along. This is how informationand rumors spread through a region!s feral population# areas safefrom Garou, hiding places and safe routes, territorial claims, an%

guard activities, names of spirits that might be persuaded to teachGifts, and a wealth of other knowledge. avors are often tradedthrough feral lore, and many packs started from distant members0meeting1 through the rumor mill.

erals clearly benefit from this tradition. 9t costs a feralnothing to share what he knows, and in turn the other mutt may tell



him something helpful. erals that don!t participate in this interac%

tion don!t gain from others! experiences, and in turn can!t offer oth%ers the benefit of theirs. -ome mutts earn respect for how muchthey know or how quickly they can relay information to othermutts. 7thers have become famous +or infamous among ferals for

notable accomplishments or dire fates, their stories told again andagain until their names are known to everyone %% for example, thisis how Gray became so famous. This is a very basic form of statusand renown, with lore and rumor being the medium of exchange.

But this is about as complex as feral politics get.-omething this loose and informal is very open to abuse

and manipulation, but actually that doesn!t happen much. irst, theminds of most canis process and relay information very literally.

This makes feral lore pretty accurate and reliable, compared this tothe way humans and homids communicate, who tend to add subAec%

tivity and bias even without meaning to. >eeping feral lore freefrom disinformation is a matter of practicality D and of survival.erals everywhere rely on their network, and stake their very liveson what they!re told. )eedless to say, they take it very seriously.

(iars, and those that attempt to manipulate feral lore for their owngain, quickly gain a reputation for being untrustworthy and becomeostraci"ed* some mutts have been attacked for this. There!s a lot tolose for lying, and little to gain# there!s no Glory for claiming kills

you didn!t make, no political power among your kind to sei"e, andno respect to garner among spirits. 9n short, you!re only as good asyour word.

-till, feral lore isn!t always that reliable. irst, it!s not the

9nternet, and there!s no guarantee any given dog%blooded will hearsomething. $ebased can only pass on info to those they meet, andsince feral affiliations are loose and encounters infrequent, there arehuge gaps in the flow of information. This word of mouth as slow

as one might expect* it can take weeks for a rumor to make its wayacross the county, and months for mutts in other states to hear it.

7ften, a particular bit of info that might have prevented a fight orsaved a pack arrives months too late. erals endeavor be true to

what they!re told, but some distortion inevitably takes place*someone misunderstands something here, while a detail is left out

there. This is why things are kept short and simple D less for mutts

to remember, and there!s less room for distortion.

+ ral "ac$s

9t!s not surprising that ferals often form packs. )ot onlyis there strength in numbers, packs fulfill an essential need in thecanine psyche. But feral groups are associations of convenience,and not the unions enAoyed by Garou and anguard. eral $ebased

lack spiritual sophistication and don!t enAoy the patronage of totems.&ith no capacity to bond on a fundamental level, feral packs func%tion as aggregates of individuals instead of unified groups +there%fore, feral packs can!t employ the pack tactics detailed in 3%3H

of Werewolf and :4%<3 of Players Guide to Garou, nor can a feral pack!s members opt to act on the same initiative.

?owever, there are advantages to such loose associations.

&erewolf packs are stable entities +at least in the ideal, and mem% ber turnover and pack disbandments are relatively rare. 'eanwhile,they!re the rule in feral society. 2acks form as the need arises, and

last no longer than is convenient for their members* useless or un% popular pack members may be unceremoniously kicked out. erals

freely dissolve their packs and form new ones, while a few even runwith multiple groups. 2acks sometimes merge when there!s a need

to do so +such as when they must face strong opposition like Garouor strays, but such large groups are unwieldy and rarely last long.There!s no social pressure to Aoin packs, and lone $ebased aren!tregarded as unusual D they!re as common as those that run with

packs.

7f course, this pure chaos. &ith no rank or formal means

of establishing who!s in charge, fights for dominance are common.&hen a new pack forms, its members feud until it!s clear who!s thestrongest and should lead. -ince packs so frequently form and re%form, battles are almost constant. @ven when a pack alpha is estab%

lished, it!s rarely worth it# most feral packs are undisciplined mobsthat can!t be effectively steered by anyone. ll this fighting is nosmall deal among creatures as deadly as $ebased* deaths are rare,

but they happen, and nasty scars from dominance contests adorn

many mongrels. $ebased instincts being broken as they are, somevictors don!t recogni"e submission and will tear the throats from

whomever they defeat. These vicious creatures quickly find them%selves without packs.

&hile packs are useful, clearly they!re sometimes moretrouble than they!re worth, and there are good reasons for a mutt to

go at it alone. irst, it!s always nice being able to call one!s ownshots and not have to take orders from an alpha, or having to con%tinually enforce your will on unruly underlings. lso, packs attractattention* lone dog%blooded can often go unnoticed where groups

can!t. 'any $ebased get the best of both worlds by forming packswhen they see the need, but do the lone wolf thing the rest of thetime. This adaptability and fluidity is unique to ferals, and is some%thing the pack%oriented Garou and anguard don!t have.

-onD bas d and + ral "ac$s

'ost feral packs are composed of one or more feralsand their canine relatives. >infolk dogs are plentiful and obedientto their $ebased betters, and are typically stronger and smarterthan normal dogs. They fear more than love their dog%blooded

masters, but instinct compels them to form packs and cleave to themonsters! will. >infolk dogs are in for hard lives, prone to beingkilled +by both ferals and their myriad enemies, stolen away inchallenges, traded for favors, and bred with at the whim of who%

ever claims them at the time. 9t!s probably best their dog brainscan!t comprehend how much things suck for them.

@very blue moon, a /onin will hook up with a feral pack. These Garou are always in charge of their packs, as they!re

stronger than mongrels and command Gifts and other advantages.$ebased hold werewolves in much the same esteem and dreadthat >infolk dogs hold $ebased, and are compelled by the same

pack instincts to stick around. 'any dog%blooded mistrust and

fear Garou, at least initially, but packs clearly benefit from havingsuch powerhouses with them. &hether genuine trust and mutualrespect ever form depends on the group in question.

&eirder associations have happened. 7ne feral pack

hosted a Gangrel vampire for a short time, who used the mutts asersat" bodyguards while it traveled. The dog%blooded were a little

freaked that the wolf they ran with smelled dead, but its unusual powers proved valuable to the pack during the trip. @ven better, it

didn!t overstay its welcome, only remaining with the group forabout two weeks.

T aching

erals faithfully seek out newly changed $ebased andteach them what they are. 'ost dog%blooded adopt and instructnew mutts they come across themselves, though some pass them

onto someone better able to shoulder that responsibility. The newlyChanged are almost never left to Aust fend for themselves, as theseconfused and ignorant $ebased are doomed to become strays andcreate big problems later. The bond between mentor and student is

a strong one, even among shapeshifting dogs, and they often remainstrong allies for life. feral can be adopted by an individual or a

pack, though the latter is ideal# babysitting and teaching duties can



be distributed between pack members and the new mongrel gains

the benefit of multiple instructors. pup is taught the basics she needs to survive# how to

shapeshift, -tep -ideways, hunt, hide and fight. -he!s also taughtwhat her mentor knows of human and Garou tongues* language is

useful in its own right, and it!s also vital for establishing abstractthought and making the new feral something more than a cunning

beast. The importance of lore, packmates and instructing new cubslike herself are imparted. This instruction is rounded out with

anything else the mentor knows and feels will be useful to his stu%dent# minor Gifts and rites, spirit lore, fragments of werewolf and

human culture, how to use human devices, and so forth.These instructional periods don!t last very long, as ferals

maintain no volumes of tribal lore, (itany or spirit protocols to passon. s is the case with lupus Garou, canis learn at an astounding

rate during the period right after their irst Changes, and within ahalf year most have learned everything their teachers can offer andmust start walking on their own. There are no /ites of 2assage orformalities observed for this hallmark* the only test the new feral

must pass is survival. -ome former students remain with theirmentors for a time as packmates, while others go off on their own,depending on the preference and needs of the mutts in question.

&omid + ralslmost all ferals are canis, and this chapter is written with

that assumption. ?owever, there are a handful of homid ferals outthere, and their peculiarities bear some discussion.

erals typically don!t watch their human >infolk asclosely as they do canine lines +often because they!re not evenaware of them, and so homid irst Changes go unnoticed as oftenas not. This means many end up as something like strays, at least

possessed of reason but entirely on their own and having no ideawhat they are or that anything out there is like them. 'adness,

fren"y, suicide and worse are the fates of some, though others main%tain control and look for answers. 9f they!re lucky, they find other

dog%blooded or are discovered by them, and are clued in. +9t!s a bitof a culture shock for someone that grew up with a human pers%

pective to be taught by dogs that turn into people, but homid mutts

are about out of their minds by that point anyway and simply acceptthis bit of weirdness along with the rest.

7nce initiated, homids are usually accepted by ferals asone of them* dog%born $ebased aren!t snobs. ?omids! expertise in

human matters is often useful to their canis allies, and are encour%aged to Aoin packs. They!re also valued teachers for new $ebased,as they have a wealth of information to impart. ?omids generallytry to maintain human lives, keeping their Aobs and whatever family

they had before if possible, but the Curse of /age and the strange%ness of their new existences usually prevents this.

+ rals and (th rs

$ebased don!t live in a vacuum. They!re drawn to humancommunities, where they!re unwelcome guests and often troublema%

kers. nd despite how big the world is and the rarity of supernatur%als in it, ferals manage to brush shoulders with them more than any%one would like, resulting in shoving, massive death and other rude

behavior. &hile it!s no secret that feral $ebased have few friends

in the &orld of $arkness, the particulars deserve some exploration.The feral situation is more complex than 0F sees $ebased, F att%acks $ebased1, after all.

.ortals

erals come into contact with people more than withanything else, even their own kind. 'uch of this contact is inciden%tal and brief, as mutts usually stay away from people as much asthey can. The natural habitat of ferals, such as it is, are the outskirts

of mortal communities, where the mutts have access to civili"ation!samenities without having to actually live among people. 7nly themost resourceful and smartest live in the thick of humanity.

erals aren!t well%received by people, no matter what

shape they wear. irst, the Curse of /age is a problem, though lessso for ferals with low /age. But /age or no, few people care tohave big, dangerous%looking stray dogs Aust wandering around, andonly the kindest or loneliest +or cra"iest people will feed or 0adopt1

them. ar more often, Canis%form dog%blooded are chased away orhounded by animal control. &hile mutts are usually smart enough

to escape capture, they quickly learn to stick to the shadows andavoid scrutiny. But these dogs do learn new tricks. or example,

people are more inclined to overlook dogs wearing collars, and somany ferals wear one when ranging into populated areas. Collars

interfere with shapeshifting, but most ferals are smart enough not todo that around people anyway.

9n their ?omid forms, ferals come across as unwashed,socially retarded bums +which is what they are, really, possibly

with mental illnesses or substance abuse problems. 9lliteracy and a poor grasp of technology doesn!t help matters. erals are often tar%geted for harassment by police and 0concerned citi"ens1. Thatthese apparent vagrants are often deformed or sickly further puts

people off +though it sometimes earns them pity as well.

9f mortal%mutt interactions remained at this +admittedlydysfunctional level, there would be no maAor problems. 7f course,mutts are rarely so lucky. 'any ferals have a morbidly poor under%

standing of human culture and behavior, and have trouble withconcepts like hygiene, where to pee, personal property and consent.nd some that do understand Aust don!t care. 'any mongrels thinknothing of stealing food, clothes or anything else, and take the man%

shape to gain access to the things they want. dd in the behavioralquirks that plague the $ebased +pacing, staring, chewing on things,

growling, etc., and you often end up with ostraci"ed freaks thatfrequently land themselves in legal trouble. @ven well%sociali"ed

ferals +like former pets seem a little o"" , and find some aspects of



humans interaction challenging. There are rare exceptions to the

rule that find human interaction fascinating and participate when%ever they can, but few can be described as smooth or well%adAusted.

The misadventures of dogs pretending to be people mightsound pretty funny* certainly there!s a sitcom in that. &hat!s not so

funny is when things go really wrong. Because a hungry feral thatdoesn!t understand people and being treated poorly isn!t laughing*he!s confused, afraid and probably pissed off. nd those are all theingredients you need for for fren"y. car horn, a local tough look%

ing to fuck with somebody, even being refused desperately neededfood... that!s all that!s necessary to set off some mutt already on a

hair trigger +fren"y%prone mutts and other problem ferals are dis%cussed under The eral @pidemic.

'any ferals find the complexities of mortal culture daun%ting, and would Aust as soon not subAect themselves to undue stress.

They avoid humans and deal with them only when necessary. 7b%viously, this doesn!t help them develop the interpersonal skills theyneed +any more than staying away from water helps one learn toswim, and so they remain socially stunted.

Garou

8nfortunately, the maAority of discourse between feralsand werewolves involves claws and teeth. 'ost Garou see ferals as

problems, and feel getting rid of them is the most direct and perm%anent solution. erals that kept low profiles could expect to remainunmolested by Garou, or at least some of them, at least until rec%ently. -ince the anguard of -irius scandal, however, more Garouare actively hunting $ebased. 9t!s only fair to point out that many

werewolves don!t hate mutts, not do they actually enAoy killingthem. They see the deed as necessary, but harbor secret doubts andguilt over their actions. +7f course, a mutt probably doesn!t carewhy he!s being attacked or how the Garou might feel about it later.

But even in these tense times, not all werewolves engagetheir claw%claw%bite routines when they encounter ferals. -ome Austwant to understand the $ebased and keep an eye on them. Thosethat try talking with them rarely receive warm receptions, as ferals

often assume a trap or are too scared of Garou to hang around whenthey show up. Trust is earned on a case%by%case basis, though par%

ticularly friendly or helpful Garou will become known as 0safe1through feral lore. 7ne example is the -ilent -trider &alks%the%

orlorn, who discovered mutts plied with food and favors are quitehappy to share what they know. &alks! knowledge of safe routes

and hiding places through the @astern 8.-. has improved greatly,and in exchange he helps ferals dodge Garou on the hunt.

inally, Garou aren!t always the aggressors. 'any feralshate and fear werewolves +a sentiment often cultivated by persecu%

tion, and would rather kill them before they!re killed. -uch muttsare opportunists# they don!t actively hunt Garou, but they happilytear into any lone wolves or scouts they come across, especially ifthey have the advantage of surprise or numbers. This often pro%

vokes reciprocation by werewolves.

Th !anguard of %irius9f ferals have any allies in the &orld of $arkness, it!s the

anguard of -irius. /elations between the new tribe and individual

ferals are friendly, assuming the mutts aren!t doing anything theyshouldn!t. This isn!t surprising, since much of the tribe were onceferals. 9n fact, in the minds of most anguard converts and ferals,there!s no strict demarcation between them* they recogni"e each

other as being of like kind. This doesn!t keep anguard convertsfrom fighting ferals when they have to, or the latter from fighting

back. But the -irius are more more likely than Garou to relate toand understand feral dog%blooded. This makes the anguard better

" t .onst rs

-ome ferals were pets before their irst Changes. -omeare born to pets, while others are adopted when people find them

or they wander into back yards. 'ost are outside dogs, too bigand full of energy for most people to want in their houses. Thesedog%blooded grow up used to people, and are better able to adaptto human society later in life than their wild cousins.

ew make the transition from pet dogs to pet $ebased.

@ven if the events surrounding the irst Change don!t impact thehumans in a dog%blooded!s life and he keeps his true nature secret,the relationship between he and his owners always changes. 'ost

people are frightened and confused by the strange new behaviorsand /age their dog exhibits. ew $ebased, once possessing fullsentience and their miraculous new abilities, are content with tablescraps and pats on the head* even fewer tolerate 0bad dogI1,

rolled%up newspapers or other disciplinary measures meted out byweak humans. 'ost mutts leave soon after the irst Change, andthe rest are run off. couple of ex%pets occasionally return to for%mer owners to be fed or to check up on them, or allow themselves

to be 0adopted1 by other humans in exchange for food and com% panionship, but such relationships are always fleeting.

handful of ferals grow up as fighting dogs or are ab%used by human owners. They never turn out well. Their irst

Changes are triggered by violence, and every living thing and theeil are left in bloody tatters as the monster flees into the wilds.

These mongrels tend to fear and hate humans, and are likelier thanothers to become maneaters. ?igh /age and cruel pre%Changeexperiences make them unpredictable and deadly foes.

able to combat them, but it also wins the tribe converts. 'ore ferals

are entering the tribe!s service, especially since feral lore has been bu""ing about a anguard cure for debasements...

Th + ra

or a while after it 0discovered1 the dog%blooded, the

Garou )ation kept that dirty little secret to itself* the $ebased werean embarrassment, and frankly were no one else!s business. nd

for a long time they did a good Aob, though the era themselves un%wittingly assisted in the cover%up# they often disregarded ferals as

isolated freaks +sound familiarE, and many -hifters are individual%ists even worse than Garou about sharing what they know. )one%theless, a growing number of era have pieced together disturbinglyaccurate pictures of the truth, even if incomplete and lacking det%

ails. 9t!s worth mentioning that many era aren!t familiar with thespecifics of werewolf reproduction, and assume that Garou havealways bred with canines.

That Garou are willing to breed with common dogs have

caused many era to think even less of them than before. -omefind the very idea hilarious, and some openly mock werewolves orinsult their heritage... though only the foolish or very confident areso brave. -ome era mistake ferals for Garou scouts or occupiers,

and lash out at all perceived invaders. 7ne notable conflict eruptedin irginia, in which a 2umonca bitterly harried both ferals and theGarou pack that came to stop them. 'any -hifters don!t understandwhy Garou and $ebased fight, and don!t care. They either back off

and let the dogs tear into each other, or help things along D howeverit shakes out, there are a few less around.

$og%blooded that find themselves in territories claimed by era are rarely greeted with tolerance. -ome mutts receive a

firm warning, many others only a quick death that comes out ofnowhere.



%pirits

-pirits and feral dog%blooded have as little to do with one

another as possible. $ebased rarely enter the 8mbra, and don!t staythere long* they see the spirit world primarily as a means to dodgehumans. &hile there, mutts do their best to avoid spirits. -piritsdon!t recogni"e $ebased as being Garou, and either punish them for

their temerity or +more often simply disregard them. $ebased arein much the same boat as /onin are, though inspire even less res%

pect. But with a great deal of effort, a spirit%savvy feral can win therespect of a specific spirit, and learn minor Gifts or beseech other

favors. These ferals are rare, though. )eedless to say, ferals don!t form pacts with totems.

There have only ever been two confirmed exceptions to this rule# amutt that Aoined a -kin $ancer pack was adopted by 'inotaur, and

the mysterious pack known as the ?eads of $eath. Beyond this, noother ferals have ever been known to receive spirit patronage.

Th & ads of D ath

8nique among ferals, this pack of three has been adop%ted by a mysterious spirit known as Cerberus. They wield strange

and potent Gifts, allowing them to control ghosts and manifestwings of shadow. &hether this Cerberus is related to the guardian

spirit of @rebus is unclear. ?owever, its attributes and the boonsit grants its children, as well as the subtle &yrm%taint they evince,

suggest the spirit might be connected in some way to the $ark8mbra.

Th + ral )pid mic'utts that attract the attention of Garou and other super%

natural agencies are weeded out quickly, but smart ferals keep low

profiles and often pass under enemy radar. The only oppositionmany ferals face are mortals. $ebased hold the clear advantage in

direct confrontations, but the brightest avoid conflict if they can.-ome use the 8mbra to avoid hunting parties or make surprise

attacks. Through superior physical power, supernatural advantagesand cunning, a small group of ferals +or even Aust one can dominate

isolated areas. &hile certainly not a common event, it does happen.The eil hasn!t come crashing down... yet. 9n some

places it frays badly as people gather bits and pieces of the awfultruth* in others, it simply doesn!t exist anymore and monsters walk

openly among men. 9t!s only a matter of time before irreparableharm is done to the eil D if indeed that hasn!t already happened.

/hy %o .any + rals0

By most estimates, the /ite of daptation has only beenaround since the 345;s. &hile more fecund than Garou and mostother -hifters, only about 3HJ of young sired by a dog%blooded +ordaptation%0enhanced1 Garou result in $ebased offspring. 7f the

ferals that breed true, nearly two thirds die before the irst Changefrom starvation, predation and other dangers. 7nly about 6;J sur%vive the first year after they change, and only half that number livefive years or longer* the ranks of adult $ebased are thinned by the

same factors as their young, with rival ferals, Garou, hunters andother threats taking the role of predators. $ebasements stack the

deck against ferals even more.ll this considered, it might seem strange that an imper%

iled line of crippled -hifters that have been around less than a cen%tury can become an epidemic, yet they are. @ven with recent surg%

es in culls and anguard recruitment, there are more than a thous%and ferals out there.

/ampant breeding is why. $ebased have countless breed%ers from which to choose. The pheromones of male dog%blooded

trigger estrus in female dogs* after a few days of Aust being around amale mongrel, a bitch goes into heat and is ready to mate* pregnant

dogs spontaneously miscarry, and within a few days are ready tomate. nd like humans, female mongrels remain fertile year%round.

-o dog%blooded bloodlines persist through neighborhoodstrays, backyard pets and rural wild dogs* future shapeshifters are

born under Aunkyard cars and culverts, in puppy mills and doghou%ses. )ot only do -hifter young result from these unions, but numer%ous dog >infolk that carry and perpetuate $ebased 0genes1. @venwith their grim mortality rates, enough ferals survive for their num%

bers to steadily grow. The huge feral population might not be anissue if people spayed and neutered their pets, but too many don!t. huge population of stray dogs is a legacy of that carelessness, andferal $ebased are their terrible progeny. The sober truth is that

until everyone takes proactive steps to correct the stray pet epide%mic, ferals will always be a big part of a much bigger problem.

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There are a lot of reasons $ebased are hunted as they are,ranging from the practical to the esoteric. But one fear keeps com%ing up, a fell practice that disgusts and horrifies almost everyone#eating humans. To starving or truly degenerate dog%blooded,

people start looking like viable food sources. This is what makesferals so hated, and the primary reason they!re a danger to the eil.

'ost $ebased that eat people do so for lack of other op%tions, and honestly would rather eat anything else. 9t!s hard to over%

state the psychological impact starvation can have on a $ebased. mutt that would have never entertained the notion of eating long

pork before isn!t so picky once he!s gone a week without food.@ating people is usually a spontaneous act, rather than one of pre%



meditation %% the feral becomes overwhelmed by hunger and simply

acts. nd all too often the decision is taken from the feral* hecomes out of a hunger%induced fren"y only to reali"e he!s gnawingon a human arm. @ither way, the feral is sloppy and leaves one bigmess behind. -ome have the presence of mind to try and clean up

after themselves +usually poorly, while others panic and flee thescene. -uch circumstantial maneaters are usually easy to find.&erewolves, hunters and others that track and eliminate maneaters

perform a necessary service, but the ones they usually catch pose

the least actual danger to people. 'ost mutts lucky enough to getaway with isolated incidents of maneating never develop a taste for

it, and endeavor to find alternate sources of food.ar worse are serial maneat%

ers. 8nlike those forced to eat man orstarve, these $ebased cultivate a diet

of human for years, and prefer it toother fare. -ome even enAoy hunting

people more than the meal itself. common hunting pattern has devel%

oped independently among maneaters.The $ebased moves into an area andspends a few days its learning hiding

places and escape routes. ?e also

finds out which members of the hu%man herd are least like to be missed Dtransients, isolated minority groupsand other outcasts are usually safe

victims. +The ?omid form is ideal forthis sort of reconnaissance, assumingthe $ebased in question is adept athuman interaction. Then the maneat%

er begins the hunt, restricting his pre%dation to target groups. Bodies are

disposed of in previously secured hid%ing places. fter a month or so, the

feral moves to another area and rep%eats the grisly process.

9ndividual cannibals have developed a variety of hunting

strategies. 7ne maneater speciali"ed in truck stops, flashing cash tolure 0lot li"ards1 away before a couple of other ferals caught ontowhat he was doing and killed him. nother that went by 0'eemie1

was taken into a small charity mission for abused and homeless wo%men* she killed the two other residents and the woman that ran thecenter, devouring them at her leisure. 'eemie is still at large.

The horrid specifics vary, but a hard line stance against

maneaters is pretty universal. &herever they go, mongrels founddining on human are killed. mong their most ardent hunters areother ferals, who +on top of personal issues they might have witheating humans definitely don!t appreciate these monsters bringing

foes down on all of them.

Black -piral $ancers don!t respond to maneating withthe revulsion sane creatures do, but they do respect and maintain

the eil. They!re no more tolerant of stupid $ebased that can!t bother cleaning up after themselves than other Garou. ?owever, amutt intelligent enough to maintain a human diet for years and notget caught... well, that!s a creature to be admired. 'aybe evenrecruited.

%trays

erals and the anguard of -irius alike carefully monitor>infolk dog populations, and indoctrinate dog%blooded fresh fromthe irst Change. These groups do an admirable Aob, all told, but

they can!t be everywhere at once or keep $ebased%strain dogs from

wandering off and creating new lines. nd so a growing number ofnewly Changed mutts fall through the cracks and become strays.

&hat makes strays so dangerous is they don!t have the in%tellect and self%control that other ferals do. Because the window for

them to learn language, reasoning and other higher mental functionshas passed them by, strays are mentally little more than the dogsthey were, yet they possess the killing power and /age of a full-hifter. -trays live violent and short lives, but can cause enormous

harm during that time. They see all creatures are prey animals,which means most strays are maneaters. 8nrestrained, strays! /age

grows, leading to more frequent fren"ies and increased deadliness.The only option for dealing

with strays is putting them down. Thisis easier said than done, especially for

other ferals, but even they spare notrouble to kill strays, who attract thesort of attention that brings ruin on ev%ery mutt for miles around. +7f course,

smart ferals simply tip off local an%guard or Garou and make the straytheir problem.

"robl m #r as $ebased exist everywhere in

)orth merica and in all environ%ments. erals are rarely a problem in

cities or large towns, however. Thereare far too many people for even largemutt packs to manage, and their resi%dents can present a strong defense

against $ebased that get uppity. ndurban areas often contain vampires,

mages and other groups that are morethan able to repel incursions of dog%

blooded* while few of these secret defenders are benevolent, theymaintain the status quo for their own reasons and won!t tolerate

anything that threatens it. This isn!t to say mutts don!t live in cities D many do, in subdivisions, slums and wherever they can between.But they only survive by laying low and not causing problems./ural areas with strong Garou or era presences are even safer than

cities, as Gaia!s defenders understand what they face and can bettercounter their tactics.

The places most vulnerable to feral predation are isolatedrural communities that pass beneath others! notice. 9t might seem

the Garou )ation, Camarilla, Technocracy and other such agenciesare omnipresent in the &orld of $arkness, but this isn!t the case.-upernatural entities are rare, and either cluster together on groupsor spread out thinly. They can!t be everywhere in force, and many

places don!t support any such presence... at least until something+like feral $ebased fills the vacuum. erals, singly and in packs,move into remote backwaters all over )orth merica where their

activities escape notice of those that can stop them.erals were once exclusively a 8.-. phenomena, but now

'exico hosts a large number of ferals. nd a growing number of

$ebased infest Canada, -outh merica, &estern @urope, 9ndia,-outheast sia and the 'iddle @ast, untouched by the recent pog%

roms initiated by Garou in the mericas. &hile these new terri%tories have their own hidden defenders, they!re as thinly spread as

supernaturals elsewhere and are often D but not always D poorly prepared to deal with an entirely new threat. &hile China!s hengey%okai have apparently exterminated all the mongrels in their nation,@uropean Garou are Aust now catching on that things called dog%

blooded exist and that they might be a problem.



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9n the absence of other forces ar%

riving to save them +such as the spontane%ously imbued hunters or enraged ghosts thatsometimes pop up when people start dying,

communities harried by ferals have little re%course but to either fight the monsters, pla%cate them or flee. Those who choose thefirst course have a tough fight, but mortals

are far from helpless. &hile dog%bloodedare supernaturally resistant to inAury, they!renot invincible. well%placed shot on a tar%get in breed +Canis form is often all it takes

to bring that mutt down. But the window ofopportunity is small# if the shooter misses or

Aust wounds the beast, it!s likely to shift to adeadlier form and inflict untold damage to

everything and everyone around. Traps and poison bait are far less effective, and the

discomfort they cause Aust make dog% blooded angry +assuming they fall for thetrick at all.

>illing the ferals isn!t always nec%essary. strong resistance is often enoughto discourage many mongrels from causing

problems. /emember, ferals are all about survival, and if they don!tfind easy pickings in an area they!ll often move on. This isn!t a

given, however* mongrels aren!t mere animals, and it!s not unheardof for them to attack out of revenge, spite, outrage or other reasons.'utts driven by complex motivations are typically harder to route,and often killing them is the only way to be rid of them.

9n many ancient cultures +and some modern ones, peoplegave offerings to dark gods, demons and angry ghosts in the hopesthey!d be spared their wicked attentions. -ome modern people takethe same approach to $ebased, and turn a blind eye to their depre%

dations or even sustain them in exchange for survival. 9t may betempting to dismiss such people as fools or cowards, but not every%

one has the Garou inclination to fight to the death. &hat fateawaits a man!s wife and child if he dies in a bla"e of bloody gloryE

?ow does it profit one to make a daring run for the next town ifshe!s torn apart for her temerityE -eeing dog%blooded shrug off

bullets and tear through people like tissue is enough to convincemany witnesses that they!re unstoppable, and so they don!t try to

fight anymore. The $elirium assists in this, because it!s difficult formortals to fight things their rational minds simply can!t compre%

hend. or lack of sane options, sometimes it!s easier to keep quietand keep the dog%monsters happy. 9n turn, unless they!re Aust de%

praved, mutts have little desire to torment people as long as theirneeds are provided for D namely, food and safety. 7f course, the

situation is prone to change dramatically when the mortals! bargain%ing chips run out...

&hen a purge of canine predators takes place, the big%gest and wildest%looking specimens are the first to go. &hile go%

ing after the things that actually look like threats is understand%able, it!s often a mistake. $ebased don!t always look woolly andmean, and smart ones will reali"e something is up and book whenthe local dogs start dying by the truckload. lso, debasements can

work in mutts! favor# hunters will often pass up the poor three%legged doggy or twitchy runt, confident the gimp can!t be what!s

been killing things. -o lots of unfortunate dogs die and the prob%lem often remains.

Th +inal %olution

&iping out dog%blooded is enough of a challenge, whe%

ther it!s a Get of enris pack or a farmer with a gun taking them on.But killing the mutts only part of the solution, and by itself it!s ofteninsufficient to eliminate the mongrel menace. erals are eliminatedin an area only for more to crop up years later, often savage strays

more dangerous than their predecessors. The problem is the persis%tence of $ebased genes. &here there are $ebased there are oftendog >infolk +especially if they!re been in the area for some time,and thus the potential exists for mutts to be born generations later.

nd it!s not like >infolk wear collars identifying them as such* the

wolfish%looking curs by the abandoned gas station are likely candi%dates, but what about the devoted family pet that wandered into theyard last yearE

-o the logical thing to do after purging an area!s $ebased,then, is to eliminate all the dogs in the area that don!t predate theirarrival, including pets $ebased may have come into contact with+such as dogs kept outside. This measure may seem excessive and

cruel, especially since all those poor dogs aren!t really doing any%thing wrong, but it!s the one sure%fire way to makes sure that little

surprises don!t pop up later. nd lately, some Garou and mortalshave been doing Aust that. &erewolves understand enough about

how mutts propagate to take precautions, while people terrified ofanimal attacks are prone to paranoid excesses +and are likely to des%

troy much of the local wildlife while wiping out the dogs. &hilescouring an area of dogs doesn!t prevent other $ebased from wan%

dering in, a lack of local breeders will prevent their bloodlines fromgetting a foothold. urther, ferals have a marked tendency to stay

away from areas where they!ve heard reports of dog genocide. far more merciful solution would be to round up all the local dogsand spay and neuter them. This approach would be expensive and alot of trouble, however, and sadly no one is known to have explored

this option.7f course, if people don!t take steps to prevent new stray

dog populations from forming, even a clean sweep of an area!s can%ines might not do much good in the long run.



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&hen it comes to detecting and eliminating problemferals, no one does it better than the anguard of -irius. This may

seem ironic, but it actually makes a lot of sense.irst, many anguard were once ferals. They know how

ferals think, the places they go, and how they!re likely to react to agiven situation. 2lus, they often know enough about a region!s

ferals to get needed information, by threat or force if necessary.

The tribe!s converts can often predict what a feral quarry will doand effectively counter them. anguard pack can often accomp%lish in a week what might take others a month +or forever, and do

so without attracting much attention.&hy would -irius converts turn on their own people like

thisE irst, anguard don!t hassle ferals not causing real problems*they don!t really care if a mongrel is a public nuisance or eats a few

cows. The tribe wants converts, remember, and they won!t gainmany by killing all their potential recruits. ?owever, when feralsare a clear danger to people or they threaten the eil, the -iriuscomes down on them hard . They don!t play around when it comes

to maneaters or other careless $ebased.

fter taking down problem ferals, anguard packs eitherleave a single survivor or inform nearby ferals. fter that, word of

the deed spreads through the loose information network feralsmaintain. &hile this alienates some, it provides ferals a very clearobAect lesson on what to no# do if they don!t want the same thing tohappen to them. &hether this has any substantial effect on general

feral behavior remains to be seen, but it certainly makes a differ%

ence in territories the tribe patrols.nother -irius obAective is recruitment. )ot all mistakes

are worth death sentences, and sometimes a clear, firm explanation

from a pack about what she did wrong is all it takes for a feral tostraighten up. 'utts treated fairly often end up Aoining the an%guard, and those that don!t remain friends of the tribe. inally, theanguard often adopts canine >infolk ferals leave behind. They

watch them carefully, even going so far as attach allied ferals or>in%etches to promising lines. $ebased born from these dogs arequickly inducted into the tribe.

-o the anguard corrects serious problems and grows in

the bargain, making policing of ferals a win%win policy.

'nsung & ro s9t!s unfair to characteri"e all ferals as stupid malefactors

that make a bad world worse. Granted, many fit that description.

But most simply try to survive as best they can. They!re careful toavoid the attention of hostile people and more malevolent beings,and neither hurt the world nor contribute to it. erals turn theirawesome potential toward survival and fulfilling their immediate

needs, and do little more. This may sound la"y and irresponsible, but you can replace every instance of 0feral1 with 0people1 so far inthis paragraph and the statement would be as true. nd if all feraldog%blooded took the low profile, low%impact approach, then they

wouldn!t be a problem. But it!s perhaps unfair to ask responsibilityfrom creatures spawned by the most blatant act of Garou hubris

since killing the Bunyip. et some ferals do contribute in smallways, here and there. 9t!s not in their power to do much, but every

little bit helps. nd it gives lie to the stereotype of good%for%no%thing dogs. @ven the mangiest mongrel has a Garou soul, after all,

and sometimes it shines through.Garou )ation werewolves and anguard alike pat them%

selves on the back and congratulate each other whenever they put astop to $ebased malefactors. )o doubt hunters and others also feel

good about the mutts they put down. But unseen and unsung, braveferals reAect the path of apathy and inaction. These mutts bitterlyfight a tide of maneaters, eil violators and mad dogs. 7thers stakeout human communities and valiantly protect them from all threats.

These sacrifices aren!t celebrated beyond feral word%of%mouth D andwhen no one survives to tell tales, martyrs disappear without even awhisper of their deeds. But they fight anyway, because they must.

?ere are some surprising numbers for you. bout half ofall ferals put down for bad behavior D eating people, shapeshiftingin public, and such D are killed by other ferals. They!re more likelyto witness such violations, and to hear about it after the fact throughferal lore. single $ebased can sometimes take down an offender,

but ferals aren!t in it for the glory and prefer to have numbers on

their side. -ome feral packs convene to hunt down a mutt causing problems, after which point its members go their separate ways.

or this reason ferals are actually more effective at detecting prob%lems than even anguard, as individuals spread themselves over awide area and attract less attention than a pack traveling together.nd when it comes to strays, ferals catch more of them than anyone

else. These near%mindless creatures are always met by a unifiedforce, often a convergence of $ebased from miles around.

'ad dogs are another problem, one not so easily coun%tered. &yrm%corrupt $ebased D including those adopted by Black

-piral $ancers D tend to pass unmolested among ferals... until theyslip up. &yrm%taint isn!t a passive force, and it takes its toll as it

seeps into the minds, bodies and spirits of those it afflicts. -ooneror later, signs of corruption manifest# the mutt acts on her depravity,

or her fur goes a sickly color, or she smells sour D no small problemamong scent%based creatures. $og%blooded subAected to the Black

-piral skip the gradual decent into madness and go full bore intomad dog mode, however, which at least makes them easier to spot.

nd the 0slips1 mad dogs make aren!t harmless "a!x pas or excusa% ble gaffs, but the sort of things even the most laid back mutts get

upset over# maneating, homicidal episodes, spreading disease, rape,forcing other ferals to dance the Black -piral, and depravities ofthat nature. subtle minion of corruption encounter little resist%ance from ferals, but those that make their degeneration evident can

expect ostracism, attack and even death.9t!s rare that ferals tangle with 0real1 -pirals, fomori, mur%

derous leeches, or the myriad other threats slowly killing the world.

But some do. These ferals detect these cancers without the benefitof -ense &yrm or an in%depth understanding of cosmology D theyhave the sense to know wrong when they see it. They spring intoaction, acting on a primal motivation they don!t fully understand butare strongly compelled to act on. -uch fights rarely go well for the

crippled -hifters, but they fight +and die bravely.



Christ's Grace, Montana

This tiny, isolated agrarian settlement was established in

344< by radical Christian 9dentity separatists. 2rompted by /uby/idge and &aco, they left 0-atan!s miscegenated Babylon1 andreturned to a traditional way of life. They awaited =esus! return,which they believed was imminent. Grace!s residents lived off the

land and off the grid, and grew and raised their own food. Theydisavowed all modern conveniences they believed were controlled

by Kionist interests, which was pretty much everything# electricity,running water, banks, and even telephones.

Three $ebased and their nine >infolk picked off a cowand her calf that strayed from the small herd Christ!s Grace kept.Two armed men went looking for the missing cattle, and found the

pack chewing on what was left of the animals. &hile shotguns did

little to the $ebased, two of their kin were killed before they couldtake down the mortals. @nraged beyond reason, the vengeful dog%

blooded laid siege to Christ!s Grace, killing anyone that attemptedto leave their houses D they weren!t even allowed access to the

communal well or their gardens, but hunger and thirst drove manyto try anyway. The people were convinced that rmageddon had

arrived and demons had come for them, and prayed fervently fordeliverance that never came. The citi"ens of Christ!s Grace had

plenty of guns +one modern convenience they were willing to in%

dulge, and they killed three more >infolk and one of the $ebased before the last of them fell.

The remnants of the pack have settled in the town in themonths since. )o one!s the wiser, as Christ!s Grace always dis%couraged visitors and is more than an hour from the nearest town.

The ferals have done a remarkable Aob of feeding and maintainingthe cattle they inherited, and so have a steady supply of food Dwhich is all they really wanted in the first place.

Cedar Grove, South Dakota

9n a widely publici"ed case, Cedar Grove 2olice arrested@ric and =eremy Carter last month for killing twenty%six dogs. llof them were shot in the head. 'ost were stray dogs, but three of

the slain were pets the brothers stole from their owners. The Car%ters apparently intended to kill all the dogs in Cedar Grove to prev%

ent 0killer demons1 from possessing the animals. The two men arecurrently being held in Brown County =ail and will be tried and

sentenced pending psychiatric evaluations.The chicken%rustling $ebased that provoked this purge

isn!t among the dead, having fled after being shot by @ric Carter.But she intends to avoid shifting in front of humans from now on.

Meadleton, Alabaa

)ot rightly even a community, 'eadleton is comprisedof an moco, a garage, the tiny 'ount Kion Baptist Church, and afew trailers and houses. 9t!s Aust off a lonely stretch of 9nterstate65, and there!s nothing but road and woods for miles in all direc%

tions. Two $ebased and their >infolk quietly took over 'eadletonabout a year ago. 9ts sixteen residents keep their heads down andtheir mouths shut. Calling people only got that poor highway pat%

rolman torn apart* his bullets didn!t even slow the monsters down.Besides him, two natives have paid the ultimate price for notabiding by the new law. But as long as they cooperate, feed theferals and don!t try to leave, everything is fine.

@very once in a while, a hitchhiker or transient stops in'eadleton, passing through or trying to find work... and he Aust

disappears. 9t!s a bitter toll, but one 'eadleton must pay for itscontinued existence.

San !iallo, Me"ico

bout a year ago, some strangers started passing throughthe tiny town of -an iallo, and locals came down with a mysteri%

ous sickness. 2eople called it el $ebilidad +the &eakness, for itmade people pale and too tired to get of bed. The sickness spread,

sometimes affecting entire families* five people died, includingtwo children. The town!s doctor said something about sudden on%set anemia, but he couldn!t figure out what the problem was or howit was spread. The best anyone could figure was that el $ebilidad

had something to do with all these outsiders coming and going.Then a dead white dog with pink eyes came into town, a

big and dangerous%looking thing that only moved around at night.2eople tried chasing the dog away, but the albino still hung around

and begged for food. Curiously, new cases of el $ebilidad taperedoff around the time the animal arrived. -trange sounds came from

the desert some nights, as if the white cur fought coyotes, dogs orother animals... though one would swear it sometimes sounded like

people screaming. The dog bore nasty wounds after these nights

and would sleep all day in the shade, eating whatever some kindlysoul gave it.

nd oddly enough, about a month after the white dogshowed up, cases of el $ebilidad stopped altogether. nd sincehe!s been there it hasn!t come back.

The dog, who!s been named Blanquecino, has been adop%ted by the people of -an iallo. -ome folks believe Blanquecinowas sent by God to drive away their sickness, and treat the dog asif he were some sort of canine saint* others consider the dog good

luck, and will let him lick their dice or playing cards before theygamble. nd everyone stops to pet the dog, especially the town!schildren. Blanquecino seems to enAoy the attention, and has gottenfat from all the scraps he!s been fed. ?e!s scary%looking, sure, but

he!s as good and content as a dog can be.

Whitehead, Washin#ton&hitehead is a rustic fishing town in the northwestern

corner of &ashington -tate. 9t has a population of less than <;;,and employs a single peace officer that rarely even carries his ser%

vice pistol, and has never had the need to use it. The sleepy townisn!t prepared to repel incursions of supernatural predators. This is

why, when the partially eaten corpses of two &hitehead residentswere found, Constable Bradley ?arris didn!t strap on his sidearm

and go avenge his friends! deaths. 9nstead, he immediately calledthe &hatcom County -heriff!s $epartment, the B9, wildlife man%agement agencies and anyone else that would listen to him. /an%gers from nearby Birch Bay 2ark and &hatcom County deputies

combed the area until a pair of park rangers found the culprit, amangy feral that had developed a taste for people. 7ne ranger!s legwas mangled +forcing him to retire from active service, but a clean

head shot from his partner took down the beast.Bradly ?arris! common sense and lack of action movie

bravado doubtlessly saved lives, but epics aren!t told of such actsof modest heroism.



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Polluted Blood:

-2 to Social die pools with Garou

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Maneuver

BiteBodyTackleClawGrappleKickPunch

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Dex + BrawlDex + BrawlDex + BrawlDex + BrawlDex + BrawlDex + Brawl

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Homid Glabro Crinos Hispo Canis

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