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Post by Skylos on Oct 7, 2021 20:11:59 GMT -6
Th-thank you. for not eating me. the cat bows to the dragon. Kepauvoc heaves a cavernous sigh before turning around and walking back into the darker regions of xer cave. He goes to his dogs, but one has a piece of paper under their ear... and its in common writing.
'Gonna scram before Coins-for-brains gets tired of me but I forgot on how to tell you how to use the stones. You need to speak of the location you want to go back to. The set of cyan and pink stones will take you and two animals back to the city and to Eterra. Far as I know, there is no 'limit' on how often that you can travel. If you say 'new pethia', it'll take you back to the stone that's linked back in the city. However, you can also buy more stones from the shady human man who runs a cart stall in the market. I wouldn't, he's mostdefinitelynotsomesortofblackmarketcontact. Nope. Hope we meet again, don't die. ~S' Somehow this human can sound smarmy even without being there. That's writing from the heart there. While he reads, the two dogs are scoping out the cave, no longer in such danger that the draconic would swoop in (how could it, this is a cave) and eat them alive. The cave itself is some sort of reddish rock that Skylos swears he'd seen before, letting the note drift to the floor of the cave. The ohou's nose is to the ground, sniffing after the trail of cold of the dragon though.
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Post by Skylos on Oct 7, 2021 20:43:30 GMT -6
No no no, come back over here. The cat calls out to his dog. a long pause, before the ohou comes back to his side. Good boy... we dont' want to anger the giant dragon thing. the ohou makes a strange deeper noise of disappointment. He wanted to go smelling after the big monster. Looking to the worginu, he instead puts his nose in her ear. She freezes up briefly with a yip and stands up fast. She really is about a head taller then he is. Big girl... The male dog wags his tail and bounces up to nose her ears again before she just snorts in his face and tilts upward so he can't reach.
It surprises Skylos to see the dogs acting so natural after a scare like that. Maybe thats the result of being 'grown up animals'? Or for being pack animals. Packs look after each other. He just observes their behavior for a few minutes.
This was unreasonable. The draconic grumbles to xemself, adding the few gold coins to the pile. The human had an unreasonable request. Harbor a beastfolk? What sort of trial would be even a good idea. Xer gaze wanders to the reflective stone lodged in the back of the cave's crevices near the ceiling. It had a distorted view of behind, of three figures. The green eyed human called this odd stone a 'mirror'. Shows the reflections of behind. Good for finding someone behind you apparently. He's the paranoid one, not xem. Right?
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Post by Skylos on Oct 7, 2021 21:03:56 GMT -6
The two muddled views of the lab-addled dog beasts, much more meat on them then the starving canyon dogs who steal fowl and sheep off the ledges. Occasionally the wet season washed a body or two of some stupid animal that fell to their death and that fed those scavengers. Maybe the trial should involve those beasts. The cat seems very attached to them... Thats an idea. If he wants to stay here, prove his gold's worth.
"I have decided on your first task, beastfolk." Kepauvoc speaks as xie turns around to come back into the semi-light. Catching the cat's attention as he pats the two dogs. They turn to face the dragon too, growling a bit, but pose nothing to xem. "You seem to be quite attached to those addled beasts. But what can they do." Xey watch the cat open and close his little split mouth for a few minutes before shaking his head no. "You have them do nothing for you?"
They...were just puppies earlier. The cat mumbles softly, looking at his toes. The dragon does notice he's all fur and nothing else. Hmph. P-puppies dont' learn much.
"Then teach them something, and bring something back to prove it. Until then, get out of my sight, you addled beastfolk." the dragon snaps at him, and turns to disappear again. The deeper parts of the cave is dark and he can't see further. Perhaps plagued by something deeper. At his feet are the two broken off pink stones. The two pups nearby him, he puts the rocks together again, and says 'New Pethia'.
Poof.
Level 8 Skylos
lv 15 Kouta
-end for now
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Post by Skylos on Nov 18, 2021 4:36:06 GMT -6
In the half light of his kennel, Skylos sits, observing his meager collection of things he's collected since beginning his life away from being a literal alley cat. The most prized possession he owns is the rolled up parchment of Kouta's certification, other then that its his kennel papers and city card, proving he exists on paper. Beside that, the faintly glowing crystals the green eyed man had given him to move between the canyon and here with or without animals. Opinionatedly, he wants to wait and demonstrate the ohou's prowess of why he got certified, but he's...presently indisposed with a new lady friend. So he's alone with his thoughts. Except for some fruit and occasionally some meat, all his new animals had been fed, so his 'chores' were done.
'Why am I waiting around, I don't need an escort constantly.' he tells himself, and picks up the blue crystal. E-eterra. POOF
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That would certainly take the cat a lifetime to prove himself, Kepauvoc tells themself, until theres a POOF, and there is cat again.
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Post by Skylos on Nov 18, 2021 4:43:39 GMT -6
He has a rolled up scroll in his paw, once he stands up and dusts himself off. Looks a bit less like a stray now that he's wearing ill fitting human clothes. They aren't made for his size or his shape, xie notes with a distasteful eye.
\I brought back proof of teaching my ohou something.\ he tells the dragonfolk creature, seeking to look more confident then he feels. Presenting the scroll. Xer head inclines at the object with... less then enthusiasm. Did xey believe he would fail?
"I am not nearly as versed in reading as the rest of my kind who waste their time bonding with humankind. Open it, and read it to me." xey almost sound childish, angling xer head upwards with a sniff of the air. The cat has to shake himself to avoid freaking out about that. A dragon who can't read?
\The KID representative of the Black Bones presents KOUTA the ohou with the certification certificate of TREASURED for a passable job of training a list of tricks and demonstrating them for an audience.\ he reads like a tourist does; certain words don't quite make sense but he tries.
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Post by Skylos on Nov 18, 2021 4:50:44 GMT -6
Kepauvoc doesn't look too impressed. What were xey expecting.
"Fine, you pass the first test." an upwards sigh of distaste, but he had passed xer initial trial. "And before the cold sleep sets in" Xey lean forward a bit and poke at the paper a bit with a clawed fingertoe. "I took you for a cowardly beast who would run and ignore my demand. Maybe... maybe you are a bit dependable." xey muse quietly, and get up from lounging about in the near darkness. Xey like it that way. The only time the cave has any light is if someone brought it in themselves. The crystal that fell from his paw when the cat arrives is a sad excuse of a light source. "Wait there."
The cat man rolls up his certification and puts it inside his shirt pocket where it won't get torn. The last thing he wants is for it to be torn.
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Post by Skylos on Nov 18, 2021 4:57:28 GMT -6
 When the dragon comes back, xey spit something out at his feet. Not acid, not lava, not spit even. It clatters. When xey don't reach for it again, he picks it up. A ...bronze coppery key. And from the feel of it, somewhat used under his paw pad fingers. He looks up at the dragon, seeking explanation. "Take that key with you and find that which is false in your home. You may discover something worthwhile." xey muse, and lay down in the semidark again. "What. Its your reward. Animals like rewards, yes?" \I... have never been given a reward that wasn't money or praise or a bit of food. It is... new.\ he fumbles a bit for words. \Th-thank you. \ The reptilian eyes sweep over him with amusement as he fumbles to put the key away. Frankly xey don't know what the key goes to, but that it smells like it had value. Humans like value too. Probably so did cats. |
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Post by Skylos on Nov 18, 2021 5:06:27 GMT -6
Skylos feels mildly jipped at this dismissal with simply a key in hand. What was he, a simple human treasure hunter? He musters himself.
\The g-green eyed man mentioned it would be worth both our whiles to be ...accomplices.\ Its a bit of a wrong choice of word, but he's not exactly a clean paws cat man. \I will let you keep the bulk of my money here, but I...I want to be able to take from it whenever I need it. H-humans are very expensive to live around.\ And darn if his nervousness of coming along wasn't prompting a darn stutter!
"I never said your trials are over..." Kepauvoc hisses without turning about. "Do a significant task. And dont' take magic rocks to get back here each time." Xey hear him picking up his blue magic crystal stone. "Now leave."
He's reached the end of the draconic's patience level, so a quiet N-new Pethia and he poofs away for now.
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