Today's Watch is the Lassale Lupine Lament
Description: 'More than meets the eye' is the phrase that best describes this watch. What at first glance appears to be a simple timepiece with admittedly nice features and a low-key profile is actually a failsafe device that protects the Unawakened from the darkness that dwells within.
Featuring a faux leather strap (harvested from the extremely rare Blue Faux Lizard of eastern Mongolia), sharp gold frame, eggshell face and smartly-designed thin metal hands, the Lupine Lament is a classy watch with excessive style.
History: London, England - the 1820s. The sky is dark with the smog of the industrial revolution. Towering smokestacks reach into the greasy-black night sky. Uneven cobblestone streets are smoothed over by the filthy shoes of the working class. And among it all stalks the Werewolf, a beast of unimaginable ferocity whose taste for blood knows no bounds.
Enter the Lassale Lupine Lament. This watch is a product of necessity - a savior in a time of darkness. Hundreds of werewolves skulked the streets of London by night, and there was no way to cull the population - in fact, there were more of the beasts being created every evening.
Lassale - that is, the man, not the manufacturer - was then a well-known oddity hunter (vampires, werewolves, and mothers-in-law being his most common marks). In the breadth of but a single, moonless night he created the Lupine Lament - a watch imbued with the power to repress the werewolf gene (Lassale was a bit of a progressive - most folks at the time simply believed lycanthropy to be a choice, not a genetic feature). Wearers of this watch will not turn when the full moon rises.
Dan's Story: In his much younger days, Dan was an aspiring monster hunter of some note in the southern US. It is well known that the voodoo is common in the southeastern US, but werewolves and wererats are also rather common in those states in the late 70's and early 80's. Dan Porter once teamed up with famed monster hunter Van Helsing (who of course had mastered time travel by this point in his life) to hunt down and eradicate a particularly nasty coven of vampires outside of New Orleans.
Before busting down the proverbial door (this particular coven having settled in a crumbling castle ruin [as you well know, the moors of southern Louisiana are littered with ancient keeps and castles]), Van Helsing gifted to Dan this watch to protect him from the bite of a werewolf (again, it's well known but worth stating that vampires often employ whole litters of werewolves to protect their domains - it wasn't until 2005 that werewolves and vampires started hating each other).
The clearing was a somber success, Van Helsing having been immediately devoured by Rhinobats (just picture it) during the battle against the vampires. Dan vanquished the beasts and kept the watch as a reminder of his time and in remembrance of the late Van Helsing.
Dan's Story: In his much younger days, Dan was an aspiring monster hunter of some note in the southern US. It is well known that the voodoo is common in the southeastern US, but werewolves and wererats are also rather common in those states in the late 70's and early 80's. Dan Porter once teamed up with famed monster hunter Van Helsing (who of course had mastered time travel by this point in his life) to hunt down and eradicate a particularly nasty coven of vampires outside of New Orleans.
Before busting down the proverbial door (this particular coven having settled in a crumbling castle ruin [as you well know, the moors of southern Louisiana are littered with ancient keeps and castles]), Van Helsing gifted to Dan this watch to protect him from the bite of a werewolf (again, it's well known but worth stating that vampires often employ whole litters of werewolves to protect their domains - it wasn't until 2005 that werewolves and vampires started hating each other).
The clearing was a somber success, Van Helsing having been immediately devoured by Rhinobats (just picture it) during the battle against the vampires. Dan vanquished the beasts and kept the watch as a reminder of his time and in remembrance of the late Van Helsing.
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