Editing Robert Grimm Journal (section)

==Weirdness==
Tonight was supposed to consist of several hours at the poker table followed by a few more hours of pleasant drinking before I hit the sack. As you are probably aware if you’re reading this, things did not go as planned. Several different events have conspired to make this probably the second most enlightening night of my life – the first being the night I actually met my goddess.

Things sort of started when I entered the Lucky Stars Casino. The bouncer that night, a man I later learned to be named Xander Shadoweyes, “smelt” funny to me. My sense of smell is somewhat different than it used to be. I didn’t quite know how to interpret the sensation at the time, so I settled for keeping a wary eye on him. I would later learn that it wasn’t really him I needed to look out for. I sat at one of the poker tables and greeted the dealer, Hank, who had dealt for me many times. Next to me sat Jonny Wu – though I didn’t know it at the time. He was just some asian kid. We played normally for a while until the dealer was switched. The new dealer’s name was “Mal”. This was apparently short for Malevolant Fate. I still don’t know exactly who he was, but he was essentially the person that brought me into the understanding the Wu and several others in the casino that night were more than simply human.

Ah, the others in the casino – there’s another important point. There are seven of us in all. The Garou elders call us Shining Ones. Five seem to be blessed by the sun, whom the elders name Helios. I, as I have said, am blessed by Luna – the moon. Wu seems to instead have been Chosen by the wind. I don’t think any of us yet really understand the extent of our power, or really why we have been given such fantastic power. We are starting to understand what we need to do with it, though. More on that later.