u/Significant_Owl8089

The Samsa are a mockery breed born from cockroach stock, created through failed experiments meant to recreate the lost insect Fera. Unlike the Ananasi, who remain as the last true spider-Fera, the Samsa are broken things: artificial, unstable, and deeply traumatized.

They possess only two forms: Homid and Ungeziefer, a monstrous war-form similar to Crinos. Their most disturbing gift is a form of resurrection. When destroyed, a Samsa may split into a swarm of cockroaches. One survivor escapes, feeds, multiplies, and slowly rebuilds the original body. The process is agonizing, and the psychological damage is immense. Each rebirth risks madness.

The Samsa fear darkness, not because they are weak, but because something whispers to them from within it. Sometimes the voice belongs to Cockroach(the totem spirit of the Glasswalkers). More often, it is the Wyrm, gnawing at their minds. Pentex has imprisoned and experimented on many of them, while the few who remain free live in constant paranoia, haunted by trauma and the terror of being remade again or worse NDL(pentex filial) fiding them .

I my first game of Mage as an arrogant-ass Etherite mecha engineer. I followed the druid Dreamspeaker, who was trying to contact a local spirit, while she attempted to explain to me that big guns are not the solution to every problem.

The Storyteller was happy, because we entered Garou territory. They attacked us first because my character smells like a Weaver-controlled. The druid tried to stop the fight, because she knew what they were capable of doing to me even in Glabro form. I, however, did not know about Crinos form.

So I called my car and transformed into my mecha.

Then the warriors of Gaia took their Crinos forms.

That changed nothing in my head.

They took me four versus one, while the druid did not intervene. Then, at the last second, after the Garou had calmed down from putting me in the Yamcha pose, she explained the situation to them.

They agreed to let us stay in their territory, on the condition that the Glass Walker got to keep whatever was left of my mecha.

Also, I was hospitalized for four months.

I learned the most important lesson in World of Darkness:

There is always a bigger fish.