Lost in the Ute Park Fire | Werewolf: the Apocalypse

About the adventure

Humankind is well acquainted with fire. It is, after all, one of our oldest allies, keeping us warm on the coldest nights millennia before we had mastered walls or mechanics and providing light on our blackest nights. We have harnessed fire as a tool, using it to create the technologies that shape life as we know it, to power and move our vehicles across the globe, and, eventually, to carry us toward the stars. And in the World of Darkness, fire is one of the few forces in the world that every clever supernatural being knows to fear. Fire is the great equalizer between the world’s tyrants and its oppressed; the torch, after all, famously comes with the pitchfork, and is indiscriminate with whom it burns. But we do not own fire. We have claimed it - used it to shape our planet and ourselves - but it is older than us, and too easily we forget just how fleeting our control is over the forces of nature. One measly spark can grow into an inferno that swallows forests and cities whole, and the say we have in the matter is smaller than one might believe without seeing the destruction with their own eyes. One should not think of fire’s warmth without fearing its heat. This is a story about fire. It is also a story about stories, the people who tell them, and - most of all - about loss. Fire burns everything equally, from people to tales, and nothing is so sacred that it cannot be lost. It is, in some sense, why our protagonists fight their war. We are humans, but they are Garou, fighting tooth and claw against the living forces of entropy that would see the material and umbral realms unmade. And for the Garou of Grandmother’s Hollow Sept, on the evening of the 31st of May, a wildfire - fire in its most purely destructive form, wielded by their enemies - burned their world to ash. On that dark summer’s eve, it swept across their territory, consuming everything in its path. In the inferno’s wake, a pack of Black Spiral Dancers sprung a trap, their leader singing a cackling dirge mocking the sacred site while its protectors scrambled to mount a doomed defense. It's the morning after now. You're burned, beaten, and tired. Only you and a few others from your Sept survived the attack. You want revenge. You need to run. ["Lost in the Ute Park Fire" is a mini-campaign (expected to be roughly 2-5 sessions, depending on the players’ pace) written by me and based on the module "Lost in the Fire" written by Søren Aske Hjorth. It takes place in Colfax County, NM, during the real-world 2018 Ute Park Fire that ravaged 36,740 acres (149 square km) of Philmont Scout Ranch and the surrounding area. This is an area I love deeply and that I'm so excited to tell this story in. All experience levels are welcome, and everything you need will be covered in Session Zero. I hope to see you there!]