Looking mostly for something to do, but partially for food, the pack wanders over to Ruth’s Diner. A waitress by the name of Shellie Sullivan starts off the small talk by informing the group that there’s a new gang in the neighborhood, putting up their marks all over the area. The description made it clear to the group that they were the ‘gang’.

A regular by the name of Dave dave comes in, visibly stressed. The pack, after ordering, overhears that his warehouse is overrun with spiders, everything’s ruined. Stark breaks the ice by tossing the man a flask of scotch, but continues to listen from the booth while the others approach and ask the questions.

Through the banter, the pack learns the location of his warehouse, off ridgeland avenue, and that the city has been called in to see whether or not it needs to be demolished. Kovak asks what he stores, and avoids the question, saying he’d rather not say. At that, stark begins to read his surface thoughts and catches that he stores fertalizer and other chemicals and he is worried about how to meet his quotas.

As the conversation continued, Kat recieved a phone call from Bearhugger. “It’s time you met the neighborhood,” he said, likely prompted by the recent scuffles with the packs on the eastern and western edges of the newly defined territory. He informed her that he set up a meeting with the neighboring packs at 11:30, on the golf course. As the phone call ended, Kat spotted a parts truck on its way to her shop, making a delivery. Choosing to leave that for later, she stays and eats with the pack.

Towards the end of the meal, Stark gets a call from his associate Jim “Jimmy” Tucker. It seems he’s gotten himself into some trouble and needs to get off the street. Stark makes a couple quick phone calls and finds a place to rent for $150 a week, an apartment near the Holy Sepulcher graveyard managed by a man named Dick. Stark says he’ll take it immediately and will be by to sign the paperwork shortly, claiming his name is Jack Black. Stark called Jimmy back and told him to wait at Ruth’s while while he secured a place to lay low.

Kat then proceeded to make calls for a hotel, since her house would be a crime scene for at least a couple nights, and finds one nearby for $100-200 a night. On their our way out, Kevin walks in, a guy that works with Kovak. Kovak makes some small talk with him and he mentions some kids in a cemetary who’ve been leaving burnt candles and opened up squirrels.

Stark leaves to sign the paperwork while Kat goes to see what the parts guy from napa has to say, “you hear about the spiders at dave’s place?” Apparently it is a larger, and more widespread problem than it seemed. Dave’s is the third warehouse in the last month, all adjacent. Exterminators have been spraying every day, and the napa man claimed to hear some are the size of a football. Kat suggests someone must’ve been drinking on the job and got spooked.

Rigel sits in the office with his computer and tries to find Valume online, believing there must be some magical properties or perhaps a vampire conspiracy involved in its production. His searches yield a high school kid selling valume and he sets up a meet to buy some.

Kat departs to investigate the warehouses, and finds that dave’s stores fertilizer, while the other three store ammunition, clothes, and paint. The four warehouses are the largest buildings in the area. Kat creeps around the alleys between the four buildings, listening for noise and hears stuff moving around inside and comes across holes the size of cars in some of the buildings… after that they leave to return to ruth’s.

Stark returned from his new appartment to find Jim downing a coffee, shaking like it was his 100th for the day. As Stark approached, Shelly said to Stark, “I don’t want to know what’s up, you should get him some rest.” Stark tells Jimmy to pay the bill and follow him. On the way out Jimmy mentions that he had to steal his car. Near the appartment, Stark has Jimmy ditch the stolen car and walk the rest of the way on foot. Inside, Jimmy brings Stark up to date on his situation. “I… helped move some stuff last week. And I guess the guy I was moving it for didn’t tell me how hot it was.” Stark then asked, “Okay, what was it?” “Um… uh… uh… some drugs. I was desperate for the money, dude, I’m sorry.” Stark, didn’t really have a reason to be receiving apologies, so started reading his thoughts to find out more… Apparently, Jimmy was holding on to a 7’x3’x3’ crate, stolen, with a coffin inside. Stark confronted Jimmy, claiming his story was crap, mentioning something about drug deaths being no higher than normal. In Jimmy’s mind, stark sees walter kelvin was who handed the coffin off. Jimmy hesitantly tells the whole truth. Stark hands Jimmy a throw away phone and makes him call Kelvin, “Uh… the contents are missing.” After some more words, he hangs up and says he’s got to get the contents back or Kelvin will kill him. Stark decides to call Kat and get her take on the situation, she fails to pick up the phone as they all decided to try out the hotel’s swimming pool. Stark then calls walter with the same throw away phone, who seems much more lenient now that he’s aware that Stark has an interest in Jimmy’s well being. Walter says to wait for a call, shortly afterward Stark gets a call from Thomas on the throw away phone and sets up a meeting for jim to talk with Walter and the 12 hour time limit postponed. Stark tells Jimmy, who is severely relieved. Stark then leaves for the hotel to talk to Kat.

Stark approaches as they are finishing cleaning up from the swimming. Kat fills Stark in on what was discovered at the warehouse and the pack then leaves on motorcycle for the warehouses. Stark uses a spell to sense for spiders and finds that there are lots of spiders in the area. “I mean, LOTS of spiders, guys…” And so, the group leaves to collect the flame throwers from their hiding spot…

Kevin’s, Kovak’s associate, is at the shop getting a lift kit when the pack arrives. While Kat and Kovak make some small talk with Kevin, Stark wanders off to grab the the flame throwers. Stark opens up the secret compartment, dons a flamethrower, casts a quick spell to make himself less noticable, and walks right out through the shop, past the cop, and into the parking lot. The rest of the pack find blunt instruments to use as weapons and they all head back to the warehouses.

Peeking into one of the large holes, the warehouse is pitch black inside. The alleys are clear, there are some dead spiders in a dumpster outside dave’s warehouse. Some cables are noticable running between the buildings. Kat decides that it would be best to investigate from across the Gauntlet, so they leave for the nearest loci – the golf course. Kat takes Stark through and the rest cross on their own. They then head to the warehouses in the spirit world. They head to the roof of the warehouse with a giant hole, the inside looks empty, stuff scatterred all over, and a hint of a haziness inside. Rigel realizes that the haze must be the echo of recently spun webbing.

Kovak and the others looks across to see material world, sees that what was blocking light was a lot of webbing. They also see see the dog sized spiders, pallets still boxed up, and spot the loci, a the turned over fork lift, has been weakened significantly. They then move to check dave’s building, less haze, no loci. Kovak sees a spirit, humanoid with extra appendages, extra legs…

The pack proceeds to run to the golf course to cross over and ride back to the warehouses. They cautionsly enter and suddenly the door slams! A large humanoid torso with the lower body of a spider lands between the pack and the door. Stark spins around and opens fire, missing wildly. Kovak shifts forms and takes a bite out of the spirit, Kat and Rigel join in immediately afterward.