awooooooo werewolves of milton

[friendsfordinner]

Who: open to all, with a special focus on #TeamMoonTouched
What: let's all get together and be a proper pack
When: forward dated slightly to late January/early February
Where: Milton, in and around the church to start with.
Content Warnings: n/a, will edit as needed

The day after the storm clears out, Hickey tacks up a note on the community hall message board. Ever since Raylan mentioned the idea of all those wolf-changed getting together to form a pack, to take down a deer or a moose in a communal hunt, it hasn't left Hickey's mind. There's at least four of them here, probably more. That's enough. They could absolutely take down a moose. They just need to get to know each other, figure each other out, and become more in-touch as a pack. Easy enough, yeah?

So he puts up his notice. And the evening of the meeting, Hickey gets his little soiree set up. He does have food: rabbit jerky, a few jars of pickled vegetables, bottles of water and a bottle of pine wine, all set out on a table he dragged out and placed near the pews. (He's a good host, dammit). The set-up is very informal: it's a place where everybody can chit-chat and get to know each other at the start. Gotta make sure everyone is comfortable before he makes his proposal, after all.

( ooc: feel free to use this as a mingle post! Make your own starters and tag around. While the note on the message board is specifically tailored to the Moon Touched folks, anyone is welcome to crash the party. )

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[tinstar]

Raylan scoffs a little and shakes his head.

"I've always hated public speakin'. Not very good at it, myself but your points ain't wrong. Lean into the needs of the community and people's doubts will lose out to those basic needs and how much easier they are to get when we do it all together."

He might not Do™ public speaking, but he knew the psychology of how to sway people.

"Many hands make light work an' all, right? Gotta say, I'm impressed at your spread too. Snacks and drink and all."

[friendsfordinner]

"Most of this are things I already had," Hickey muses, as he looks out towards his spread. There's a small pause before he continues. It feels like admitting a weakness, but there's so many of them here. It wouldn't surprise Hickey if almost everyone knows their story. Raylan probably knows already.

"I was hungry once. The sort of hungry that's in your bones, where you know that even if there was something rotting placed in front of you, you'd eat it anyway. I'm never going to let that happen to me again."

[tinstar]

"I don't blame ya." The reply is easy and without hesitation. Raylan knew what it was like to be hungry too, but nothing that reached the soul scraping depths of real starvation. That was something he imagined general poor hardship couldn't level with.

"Which only makes more of a point on your sharin' what you've got." It would pay dividens, at least from Raylan. Generosity, a care for the people around you, even if they were just 'your' people, was something that the world needed more of.

"Anyway, I look forward to your.. openin? Speech? Whatever you plan on sayin' up there. Are there any folk you're hopin' that'll show up that haven't yet?" He asks but he already knows that the people collected here didn't represent all of the Moon Touched. He still feels they should know who is who. Get a sense and scent of them.

[friendsfordinner]

"I don't know them as people but I've caught their scent as wolves," Hickey explains, with a little frown. He knows there's more Moon Touched out there than just the handful of them. He knows that they should absolutely come to his dang meeting. But he's not going to act annoyed or aggravated about all this. What happens, happens. He can keep his cool.

"But honestly? We've got a good crowd as is. We can work with this."

[tinstar]

"I think we can. Don't go too crazy up there and you'll have my support. Even more so if it means goin' out on paws to test how a pack moves together." That's what he was more interested in.

"If we wanna survive at our best, workin' together now is gonna get us a long way."

[friendsfordinner]

"We're taking down small prey before working on bigger things," Hickey points out, with a little chuckle. "I'm ambitious, not dim. I'm well aware we won't be able to get a moose or a deer anytime soon, not until we know how well we work."