(1903) Dirt Nap and Wilhelm Schroder.

[Dirt Nap]

Side discussion to avoid cluttering up the main thread, this is NOT private from others.

[Dirt Nap]

Dirt Nap smiles, "I would be glad to help, Mister Schorder." he says. He pauses in motionless thought for a long moment and then says, "Well first off, I can probably help you best by telling you up front that I am not the best one to talk politics." he says. "It's not my Study." he says.

"Whatever I can tell you will be the truth as best I know it, but my perspective on things tends to be kind of like seeing things from the bottom of a well, I sometimes think." Dirt Nap 'explains'.

"Anyway, thank you for choosing 'Mister Nap', I'm partial to it as names go." Dirt Nap says, "I am in the Gangrel, myself, and also a Supplicant of Terror." he says.

"Have you met Sheriff Moretti? She is also Grand Wyrm. The Order seems to be on pretty good terms here." Dirt Nap observes.

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Dirt Nap nods, "Kind of you to say, Mister Schroder." he says. "It suits me pretty well."

"I have found I learn more when I'm clear about what I don't know." Dirt Nap observes.

He nods again, "That's...interesting." he says, when Wilhelm Schroder declares his area of accomplishment,"Really interesting."

"I'd be glad to introduce you." Dirt Nap says. "Is that something you want to do now?" he asks.

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Dirt Nap smiles and sits."Well, first off, that's her over there." he says, gesturing subtly with his chin towards Lina Moretti. "She's already spoken with another of the Order who was introduced to her tonight, and has me showing him the Chapter House later, so it would be handy to get you introduced sometime to night, and maybe she'll have us head over there together." he explains.

"But you're right, Mister Schroder, there's no need to rush anything, 'specially when there's interesting talk available." Dirt Nap says, agreeably.

"As to the Coils, well yours isn't one that I am aiming for myself, but there's others in our Order, here, that are, so that is interesting." he says. "I have been preparing myself for a change, from Terror to Blood, myself. Preparing for a while, and close to ready, I think. My personal Plan though has been learning the disciplines of my Clan in my preparation for Change. You may be familiar, the Gangrel ways include learning to physically change. That has been...good preparation, I found." he explains.

"I thank you kindly, Mister Schroder, for your offer. I am interested in all learning, so it might be sometime, I would ask for your instruction on something. I am always interested in finding teachers. It's taking the time to work through applying the learning proper like that I aim to do right. No rushing that. Not at all." Dirt Nap intones with respect bordering on reverence.

"As to money. My needs are humble. I earn a living training horses, which helps with my Study at the same time. And being a Gangrel, I can go to ground near anywhere, so I don't really need a roof over my head."

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Dirt Nap smiles slightly. "That's a generous offer, Mister Shroder, and if it's line with what the Sheriff and Grand Wyrm Moretti has in mind, I would take you up on it." he says.

In response to Wilhelm Schroder's reaction about money and lacking it for Study, Dirt Nap goes still and silent. Then, after a long moment, he says, "Mister Schroder, I have only been in a few places where our Order is particularly active, so I guess my experience is a bit limited. What I have learned, pretty much, is that a commitment to Change works out better, the better I understand the nature I am committing to making changes to." he says. "It's seemed pretty personalized, you might say."

"So, for example, it would seem natural and expected that what Clan we are might give a nudge towards what kind of methods work best in our Studying." he says.

"For me, being a Gangrel, I suppose, a lot of things that are helpful for you work out more like limitations for me. I don't have the knack for having a lot of things without having to spend a lot of time and thinking on getting them, and keeping them and planning out the best use of them." he says.

"For me, the adaptability and resourcefulness of turning a situation into my Study without owning or totally controlling it works out the best efficient-like for learning and accomplishing as much as I can in the shortest time." he 'explains'.

"If you don't mind, I'll give you an example." Dirt Nap pauses, going completely, unnaturally still. He doesn't breathe for a full minute.

Then he says, "I said I train horses. And I said I am aiming for a Coil of Blood." Dirt Nap says. "Well, I have been training my beast for a while now to feed only on animals, horses, that is." he says. "I work cheap, and get the hard, odd jobs. A divorce' with a daughter who's pa who's never around gave her a wild pony bought at auction for twenty-five dollars," he says, "for example."

"I charge fifty bucks for the whole deal. I have a legit reason to be at the stables, all hours, and a good rapport with the horse, so it doesn't spook. No one questions me doing an odd bit of training like that at night. No one questions my methods. I feed on it when it's convenient, and I can spend the odd day as part of the dirt in it's stall when I please." he says. "Training the horses teaches me a lot about training my beast." he says. "You might be surprised at the similarities between working with a thousand pound prey animal that can panic and kick your head in, and working on my beast."

Dirt Nap pauses. "Now, for me, I spend a lot more time free to build on my Study and aim proper for my Change than if I owned a stable and a bunch of horses, and a big house to sleep in that was plain for everyone to notice was mine, even if it had a great library." he concludes.