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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 12:56:33 GMT -6
He's feeling bad for the poor cat at this rate, and considers calling Kouta off the scent trail which he's trying to keep on. Occasionally veering off like the cat was running in a serpentine pattern to avoid being detected. Frankly getting up off the ground and staying there would've been his preferred method of being undetected. Kouta sniffs and smells, running about to check bush and tree trunk, but he seems to be dropping off the trail by now. Perhaps the cat finally managed to escape. Skylos stops under a moderately sized oak, sturdy and slowly turning slightly brownish green in leaf color, that is if it was more light out here. Something shifts above his head, and ...drips. Drips onto his ear. Reaching up, his fingers brush the dampened ear in question, and come back red. Red? Skylos looks up, and sees the cat, shakily holding onto a higher up branch. Bark bark bark bark! Kouta comes screaming up, wild and barking. He smells blood! He smells cat! Looking upwards, he goes literally bonkers until SKylos shoves him bodily aside again. Slightly uncoordinated, the ohou tumbles sideways with an interrupted cry. {You found the cat, good boy Kouta.} tracking 4 tbb 14 tgDiEWBl tracking game: resource, branch ·
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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 13:04:49 GMT -6
Kouta's confused. He's been praised for finding his quarry, but he can't reach it! Come down here cat! Let me catch you! He gets up, and runs in a circle, barking. A drawn out hiss of fearful anger from the bat earred cat as it clings to the branch, slowly but steadily bleeding from its wounded hip. What he needs is a distraction. Palming a few berries from his pocket, the cat rubs a bit of the blood on his paw on them, also rubbing the fur on them. They won't be hunting this cat anymore but it'll distract long enough for the animal to get down and get away again, possibly. Drawing Kouta's nose to his treat, he tosses it in a random direction. {Go track it down} he tells the ohou. A cautious look upwards, a drawn out whine... he doesn't want to leave his cat quarry. {It'll be fine, go track down your treat.} the cat tells him. Skylos may not be the tallest or slimmest cat in the city boundaries, but he can throw something rather far. Finally Kouta goes running after the treat, seeking berry smell, blood smell, and cat smell. Cautiously, Skylos waits, then looks up at the cat. {Come down if you wish. I won't let Kouta hurt you.} he nods to the retreating dog figure. Those yellow eyes stare with fear into his own... and Skylos believes the cat is going to run. The branch breaks though, maybe because the cat is actually larger then he imagined, and suddenly he's got a scrambling armful of panicked cat, spreading loose hair and blood on him. While the dog is distracted, Skylos uses his weight and his jacket to bundle up the cat and scream it into a corner of the space, so the dog wouldn't catch it. lv 1 mosca, caught and out of picture tracking 5 tbb 15 EcgwWKqy tracking game: resource, branch ·
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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 13:12:34 GMT -6
While Kouta's distracted, Skylos really hates to do this to himself, but has to get the blood smell off somehow, and he's not eased on licking it off. So he plants his paws in the soft muddy soil around the tree's trunk, coating his paws throughly enough that he'll be picking mud clumps out from under his claws later on once he takes his grooming time. His jacket has the most amount of cat fur and the drips of blood on it, and he had to coat his ear in mud too. Ugh, and he just got CLEAN too. But the cat is no longer in the picture of Kouta's tracking it down. Likely there were birds and rabbits and other sorts of animals running loose out here too. Though hopefully nothing as big as the jackalope that is as big as a deer. Bit large for his thoughts. Kouta's finally grabbed the treat, gobbling it up with relish. Tasty treat. But where was his cat friend? Sniff the air... sniff the ground... he'll track down his cat friend. tracking 6 tbb 16 qqJIq3P6 tracking game: kills an owl·
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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 13:24:09 GMT -6
Well, now he's going to keep track of where his jacket is bundled up, but get away from it so Kouta doesn't start harassing it. As he moves away from the tree and bushes, a few snags of his own looser hair gets caught with removing himself from the bushes. That's fine. With Skylos' winter coat starting to grow in, he'll have to be more vigilant on brushing himself out. Does hurt if the fur is attached though. Carefully, he walks away from further mud puddles, occasionally leaving pawprints in the softer muddier dirt if he doesn't see it being different. City cats. Seriously. The ohou isn't very sure on the specific direction of his cat friend, as the air has cat smell, GRASS SMELL, rock smell, dirt smell... ooh, why does this tree smell funny. Briefly he smells it... a tang that he doesn't recognize. Ok, this is his tree now. Rubbing against the bark, his scent around his tail is left and the ohou sniffs around some more until he finds... a footprint. tracking 7 tbb 17 Je6YRdOw tracking game: resource, eggshell ·
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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 13:35:20 GMT -6
The ohou sniffs at it, its a footprint, but he's not sure if its his cat friend's footprint. Pulling his own paws back from the soft muddy dirt, his own paw is much thicker looking then this pawprint. Footprint. Whichever. The scent is getting old... this isn't his cat friend. Cat friend footprints would be fresher. Did he leave Kouta behind? No no. No way. He sniffs again, looks again... and see something dusting the air off a bush. Its white, unlike the dark fur he'd found earlier. Darker t hen his own smooth coat. Sniffing it, he finds cat friend scent! Back on the trail! The autumn air is cold to his skin, even with a thick coat of fur. The clothes he wears tamps down the fur though, and makes Skylos feel colder. Once he found Kouta again, they'd go back inside. He'd have a hot bath and if their capture wouldn't resist, would be able to treat their leg. tracking 8 tbb 18 eYvGWJqA
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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 13:50:23 GMT -6
Eventually, Skylos finds his pumpkin that's in the middle of the field where they'd originally been working. Or at least where the pumpkin had been. There's no pumpkin now, since he's taken it home. However, there's a number of Deeper looking holes in the ground, like someone's walking stick had been driven a bit deeper then intended. The morning grasses are much softer from absorbing the night water. This place hadn't rained... or had it. Looking up, Skylos can see patches of cloud obscuring the slowly lightening sky. He should invest in a watch or some sort of time keeper, like humans have. But what has made those deeper holes in the ground... had there been another pumpkin picker? With his cat friend's scent now fresh in his head, the ohou sniffs along the ground, bypassing the footprint he'd found earlier until he comes across a larger set of footprints. He sniffs these... cat friend! Must have gone... this way! tracking 9 tbb 19 |ha7QNol
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Post by Skylos on Nov 7, 2021 14:00:29 GMT -6
Its rather chilly to just stand here, Skylos shifting foot to foot while he waits for hearing the sound of his ohou coming his way. Occasionally the snap of a twig of the call of a wakening bird is all he hears. Off colored eyes scanning the landscape of grays of light of not quite dawn. Kouta must have better scent vision then his regular vision. The far-ish off bay of a dog. Were there wild dogs here? The problem with running flat out in a direction is losing the scent quickly. Kouta has to go back at least once to recatch his scent from the pawprints before the way forward is finally there. Like the dusting of cat friend's furry tail on the ground, he finds the smell and follows it. Several minutes pass of walking and sniffing. He's focused so if theres anythign watching him theres no sight of notice. Finally, after what feels like forever, Skylos hears the joyous barks of his ohou as Kouta bowls him over, licking his face and burrowing his face in his fur. Found! Found! {Good boy Kouta, you found me.} he praises the dog. That wasn't an easy task, this field is huge after all. tracking 10 tbb 20 lv 25 Kouta lv 17 Skylos SpUUF3MG
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Post by Yang on Nov 7, 2021 20:23:54 GMT -6
They aren't the only ones making use of the space! A skittering motion here, a pause & silence...then more skittering. A gentle echoed clicking from a beast with echolocative capabilities, moves rather easily amongst the trees & downed-leaves, stilt legs masterfully balanced on as the seemingly hollow-eyed head bobs, and jaws click and clack. Certainly a curious fellow coming around the bend, wouldn't you say..?
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