Conspicuous Consumption' is a fiction novel for Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
Summary[]
From the Back Cover:
- The Lost Pups
- Only yesterday they were playing the roles of normal American teenagers. But today, an unexpected threat has forced them out of hiding.
- The caretakers of the local caern, the Garou parents who found and awakened the "lost pups," must now call on them for help. For an ancient and formidable enemy has come to the sleepy midwestern town of Little River-The Wyrm.
- And it is up to the "lost pups" to save the greatest of the Garou champions, who has been forced by the Wyrm into Harano, the realm of gloom from which there may be no escape..."
Contents[]
- Earlier...
- Conversation
- Ashes
- Conversation
- Feeding Frenzy
- Conversation
- Little River
- Conversation
- The Moot
- Conversation
- Flood
- Conversation
- Big River
- Conversation
- Reap and Sow
- Conversation
- Gameday
- Conversation
- Endgame
- Unique Card Offer
Background Information & Trivia[]
- The author's photo was taken by Gretchen Wieck.
- The book lists Netherworld (6/95) and Such Pain (4/95) on the inside of the front cover.
- The cover art by John Cobb comes from the Werewolf: The Apocalypse Rulebook (Pg. 198) and is also used for a Rage Card Promo: Sower-of-Thunder. The Promo was offered through this novel.
- Some of the characters in the novel, like Passer, Guides-to-Truth and the Kachina twins, come from the Rage CCG and have completely different backstories in Rage: Warriors of the Apocalypse.
- A description of Little Rock/Little River mentions "one called Stone Mountain that stood far to the south". One of White Wolf's former locations.
- The back of the book uses the Rage CCG Logo.
Memorable Quotes[]
"I am an elemental force," he said to the fated Garou. "None may stop the power of nature. None may stop me."... The other did not. "I am Sower of Thunder," it claimed. - Pg. 149-150
Characters[]
- Sept of Little Rock:
- Alexander "Guides-to-Truth"
- Sarah "Rainsky" Stein - Female Galliard Stargazer Elder, knows Kailindo
- Oliver "Nightsky" Stein - Philodox Stargazer Elder, knows Kailindo
- The Phoenix Pack:
- Simon "Passer"
- Tucker Statton - Homid Philodox Silver Fang Pack Leader
- Allison Kachina
- Thomas Kachina
- Verse - Lupus Galliard Children of Gaia, Master of the Howl
- Outsider:
- Sower-of-Thunder - AKA "He-Who-Serves-His-Master" - Wyrm-Beast
- Others:
- Walter - Human, Fireman
- Denim - Human, Fireman
- Monica McClure - Human, Little River High Student
- Darryl
- Sam/Samuel Harper - Human, Owns Mr. Italy's Pizza
- Susan - Human, Waitress for Mr. Italy's Pizza
- Rhonda - Human, Waitress for Mr. Italy's Pizza
- Emily - Human, Waitress for Mr. Italy's Pizza
- Melissa Frankel - Human, Little River High Student
- Bobby Gunther - Human, "Bob," Football Player
- Sharon Turner - Human
- Lenny - Human, Sold Lenny's, Left
- Todd Wellington - Human
- Frank - Human, Farmboy
- Jesse Turner - Human, Lineman
- Janice Severnson - Wrote Wandering the Northern Midwest book, doesn't exist
- Hendericksons - Family
- Oitcliffs - Family
- Frank Putnam - Human, runs Barbershop
- Patty Yeager - Human, Owns Patty's Grocery Store
- John - Human, Patty's Ex-Husband
- Willford Stems - Human, Football Coach
- Brad Stems - Human, Football Player
- Ms. McMurtry - Human, Librarian
- George Stipes - Human, Newspaperman
- Clifford - Human, County Trashman
- Ralph Cleveland - Human, Little River High Student
- Greg Frederickson - Human, Football Player
- Coach Conroy - Human, Football Coach
- Matt Thurman - Human, Football Player
- Harold Grotter - Human, Football Player
- Chuck Pearson - Human, Football Player
- Marty Weathers - Human, Football Player
- Tim Matheson - Human, Football Player
- Nathan Faulker - Human, Football Player
- Gerald Jones - Human, Football Player
Terminology[]
Africa, Ahroun, Ancestors, Apes, Apocalypse, Arizona, Auspice, Battle Scar, Black Spiral Dancers, Blight, Books in Print (Book), Caern, Caern at Little Rock, California, Canada, Celestine, Chicago, Children of Gaia, Chimera (Caern Totem), Crinos, Daley Farm, Delirium, Drayton, Drayton Ducks (Football Team), Elders, Elementals (Spirits: Fire, Water and Wind), Ferals, Fetish, First Change, Fomori, Frenzy, Gaia, Galliard, Garou, Get of Fenris, Gift, Glabro, Glory, HandyMan (Store), Harano, Headway (Loc.), Headway High, Headway Hornets (Football Team), Hispo, Homid (Form), Honor, Howl of Summons, Ideal Home (Store), Illinois, Jaggling, Kailindo, Kinfolk, Lake Waganta, Lenny's (Store), Litany, Little River, Little River High, Little River Huskies (Football Team), Little River Package Store, Lost Cubs, Luna, Lupus (Breed), Lupus (Form), Master of the Howl, Metis, Milwaukee, Moonbridges, Moot, Moot Rite, Mr. Italy's Pizza (Loc.), Mule, New York, Pack, Patty's (Store), Philodox, Phoenix (Pack Totem), Phoenix Pack, Pup, QuickTrip Shopping, Ragabash, Rage, Realm, Red Talons, Revel, -rhya, Rite, Rite of Passage, Rite of Purification, Ritual of Dedication, Ronin, Scabs, Sept, Sept Leader, Sept of Little Rock, Silent Striders, Silver, Silver Fang, Silver Pack, Soul, Stargazers, Spirit, Stone Mountain, Tellurian, Theurge, Totem, Triat, Tribe, Umbra/Umbral/Umbrascape, United States, Vampires, Waganta Brook, Wandering the Northern Midwest by Janice Severson (Book), Weaver, Wendigo, Werewolf/Werewolves, Whelps, Wolverine, Wyld, Wyrm,
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