The Cat in the Hat
By Alex Rudnick (alexrudnick@juno.com)
Totem of Wisdom
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Description
The Cat in the Hat is a totem that has popped up in recent history and is mostly followed only by Glass Walkers, Bone Gnawers, Nuwisha, Lotoris, Ragabash, and the occasional Bastet. The Cat in the Hat is a totem of Wisdom because he teaches his children about all of the interesting and wonderful things that they can do with their lives. His Gafflings appear as Little Cats (with their relative power displayed as a letter on their hat, with A being the strongest) and his Jagglings appear as Things 1 and 2. The Cat himself appears as, well, a six foot tall, upright standing greyish cat with a white belly, a long tail, a red bow tie and a red and white striped top hat. As soon as the totem is bound to someone, her Banality (oh boy, will they become a changeling magnet now!) drops by 2 and she gains Banality at 1/2 the normal rate. Also, she gets the Lupus gift Tail of the Monkey and Enigmas 2. Also, Weird Stuff seems to happen to her at an alarming frequency, but it will all seem perfectly normal to her. The Storyteller gets to decide just what this means. (It's kinda like she has the disadvantage Weirdness Magnet and the advantage Unfazable for all you GURPS players...)Most Garou see followers of the Cat as at least rather eccentric, but most often as very, very odd. For this reason, they lose 1/2 of the honor that they get whenever they get honor renown.
Ban
The Cat in the Hat asks that his followers wear odd (preferably Cat-in-the-Hat) hats and have fun at all times regardless of what the Authority Figure has to say about it. ("You should not be in while our mother is out!") However, followers of the Cat must always clean up their messes and fix any harm that they might cause in their fun. This does not apply to harm caused to Wyrm stuff, so feel free to slay Wyrmspawn and blow up Pentex buildings. In addition to all this stuff here, followers of the Cat regain willpower and gnosis whenever they speak in rhymes for a full hour.