Bart suggests that The Claws of Wisdom should go and see Carla at the
central Gett Sept, 'Definace to the Wyrm', which is located in the
Flinders Ranges. The pack thank Bart for his advice and get back into
the car and begin the loooooong, even more boring drive to the Flinders
Ranges. On the way they stop off in Broken Hill for the night and end up
getting into a Brawl at one of the pubs. They leave very quickly the
next morning - sporting a few black eyes and bruises. After hours and
hours of driving they finally arrive at the Flinders Ranges. They have
to pull over and walk the rest of the way to get to the sept. They leave
the car at Willamena pound, an exclusive health resort and begin walking
towards the Caern. After a while they step into the Umbra so they can do
the 'Hello' howl. It goes okaaaay, not brilliantly but not so bad. They
sit around in the umbra and wait for a reply. The area is all short and
scrubby in the umbra and the mountains are more intesnse than in the
realm. After a few minutes the howl is returned and a bunch of garou
come barrelling up the gorge. When they get closer they all change to
Crinos, except for the one in front who changes to Homid. He comes a bit
closer and challenges the Claws of Wisdom, saying they're trespassing.
They're quite hostile and Freya tries to explain the situation without
provoking them futher. The unnamed pack ask Freya if Carla knows
they're coming, Freya replies that she doesn't. The pack tell the Claws
of Wisdom to stay put and not to move or they'll be killed and most of
them run off up the gorge, leaving a few of the Crinos to guard the
pack. Everyone sits down and waits. The guards arn't overly hostile.
Luckily someoine had the forethought to make Cole wait in the car. After
about 30 minutes someone else shows up. Kreig knows him vaguely. It's
Geoffery the Caern Warden, Freya introduces the pack and tells the tale.
Geoffery listens and then tells the pack to follow him. He leads them
into the gorge and tells us to wait by some rocks. He wanders off and
after a few minutes Carla turns up and invites the pack to sit down. She
asks what she can help with. Freya explains the situation and mentions
that Bart thought that she might be able to help. Carla nods and says
that she would like to help but is not in a position to let the Claws of
Wisdom into the Caern as it also belongs to the Red Talons. She goes on
to say however, that if the matter of the Caern ownership was resolved..
she might be able to help them visit the Caern spirit. The Claws of
Wisdom look rather taken aback by this and express their suprise at
being asked to help in this rather delicate and ongoing matter. 
Carla says that the pack could act as mediators in discussions between
the Red Talons and the Gett. Freya is hesitatnt and asks if they
couldn't get one pack from each tribe to take ovef the Caern. Carla says
that this in unlikely based on passed attempts at reconsiliation. Abby
asks why the Caern is in dispute in the first place. Carla explanes that
the Red Talons caputred it from the Bunyip, but was in the Gett's
territory first. After some border shuffling it was changed to Red
Talon territory and the Gett haven't taken it back (XXX_ i;m suuure this
is wrong!). Carla goes on to say that she thinks the pack will be okay
for the job as they have a good hold with the Bunyip. She also says that
if the results were favorable then the pack would have access to the
Caern and she might also be able to help them out on the Jindabyne
council. The pack make bemused noises over the link at the obvious
bribery. Carla then says that the pack will first have to demonstrate
their competency by fulfuiling a short test. She wants to know why Hiros
of the Grinding stone sept killed Hans Dieter. She explains that Hans
was killed earlier this year and that the matter is causing some dissent
amongst the Gett. She wishes the pack luck and gets someone to open a
moonbridge so they don't have to drive all the way back to Victoria. The
pack give her strict instructions to look after the Car as it doesn't
really belong to them. She assures them it will be safe. The Rite master
opens a moonbridge and the pack are beamed down to Grinding stone. They
decide that the best place to start their line of questioning would be
with the Blood Claw pack as they owe the Claws of Wisdom a favor for
getting them out of the Gauntlet. 

They arrive at Grinding stone and are face to face with Anistasia,
Malajimbarra and Hiros. Freya greets them and says that theyre here to
see Blood Claw.  They're pointed in the direction of the pack. As
they're wandering off they notice that Anastasia seems very distant from
the other two sept elders and when invited to hang out with them
declines and walks off on her own. The pack walk up the hill to find
Blood Claw sitting on the top. They ask what The Claws of Wisdom want,
Abby reminds them of the favor that they happen to owe the pack. Blood
Claw look skeptical.. yessss? Abby explains that they need some
sensitive information. Blood Claw are impatient and tell the pack to get
to the point. Abby takes over and tells them that they want to know why
Hiros killed Hans. Blood Claw decline to answer so Freya challenges
them. They choose unarmed combat, two against two. Kreig and Freya stand
forward to fight. They're fighting Mark and Giovanni, they decide to be
in Glabro form but are not allowed to use any gifts. After lots of
missing and pissing about Giovanni falls over knocked out cold by Freya.
Kreig and Mark are still sparing and eventually Mark also gets knocked
out. Blood Claw conceed and Freya asks the question again. Blood Claw
say that the can't really give the reasons.. well sort of. They explain
that at the end of March Hans was killed, there was no witnesses but it
was known that Hans was a traitor trying to undermine the sept. Truth of
gaia said that the information got from Hiros was correct, he was trying
to undermine the sept. Blood claw go on to say that Gaia's rage fucked
off and don't talk to anyone from the Sept anymore. Penny also got the
hard word from the pack leader of The Heralds of War (xxx-
significance?!) The sept elders didn't challenege Hiros, they did demand
answers but he didn't tell them anything and they haven't really
followed it up. They also say that Anastasia has backed off a bit from
all the sept duties and only does what she really as to do. The Claws of
Wisdom decide to go and talk to Malajimbarra as he has helped them in
the past. They thank Blood claw and wander back down the hill.

They find Malajimbarra and ask if they can talk to him, he's a bit
heistant so Freya explains the whole story. Malajimbarra takes the pack
for a walk into the picnic ground and asks them what Mark said. Freya
tells him. Malajimbarra explains that the sept elders decided not to
push Hiros at the time but it has been going on for 6 months and some
packs have hardly been seen since it happened. Hans wasn't well liked
and they decided not to challenege Hirros as it would have split the
sept along party lines. Abby asks if they have talked to the spirits in 
the area which may have seen something. Malajimbarra says he hasn't but
maybe the best spirit to ask would be a memory spirit.. however
they always demand a high price for information. He thinks for a minute
and then says the Wattle bird totem might know something as there are a
lot of wattle birds in the area (XXX- right?!) He leads the pack to a
path near the creek and begins a summoning ritual. 

After a couple of
hours a very unremarkable wattlebird rocks up. Mallajimbarra asks it if
it knows anything. The bird says it will ask and over the next couple of
minutes the area is swarmed with wattlebirds. They're eveywhere.. taking
up every branch of every tree, making a whole lot of noise. Cole is
covering his head, worried baout being shat on. After a while the totem
tells the pack that last autum one came from Anarkie (nearby town) and
one from the sept, the one from Anarkie killed the one from the sept.
The bird aslo says that the spirit that was tied to it left (XXX - crap
explanation!) Malajimbarra and the Claws of Wisdom thank the birds for
the information and the birds leave. The Claws of wisdom decide to find
the pack Gaia's rage so that they can see Penny. They're wandering
through the Caern for a while howling to see if they can find them.
There is a return howl and after a bit Athena comes to meet them. Freya
asks if they can talk and explains whats going on . She asks if she can
speak to Penny. Athena says its an internal Gett matter (XXX- messy
writing, i have no idea what heppened here, someting about Sveta
challenging Hirros).