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[truth_is_cold]

[Spam | Deck]

[A massive, nearly 900 pound big cat sidles his way onto the deck (easier to get to than the CES and feels more open somehow. He has a very faint fluff of fur where a mane should be, and spots on his forehead, and the dimmed stripes of a tiger that only came half-way through. Gaheris can talk, to either humans or animals. He's just basically not feeling particularly inclined to.

In fact, he feels more inclined to pace around for a bit, intending to lay down, until he finds a head of lettuce that's been left out near the greenhouse. He goes over to it, sniffs it, flicks the dark tufted tip of his faintly striped tail to and fro.

That's an unusual urge that he's feeling.

A moment later there's that same massive 900 lb cat rolling around on his back, and then hopping back up to pounce at the head of lettuce. Batting it, and then going after it as if it might get away.]



OOC: Rhade is a Liger. He mostly will be friendly- he's a big social kitty. Be warned, he might clean you. And his head is this big.

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[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan comes up the stairs on stands on the deck, head held high. He sees Rhade and recognizes him by smell even a hundred yards away. Run run run run run run. Tongue hanging out happily.]

Gaheris!

[The dog in him is making him even more exuberant than usual.]

This is great!

Uh...so long as its temporary like the other floods.

[And not likely to lead to him killing Gaheris.]

[truth_is_cold]

[Dylan is going to wear him out, he can already tell.] It could be a lot worse. [That means Rhade loves this flood when it happens. Loves it. He reluctantly abandons his head of lettuce to go trotting over to Dylan, posture pleased as far as lions go.]

It's temporary. This happened to me before.

[And he tries to reach out a paw to drag Dylan closer, but he's a very happy, hyper dog.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan bounds back and forth, playing Dodge The Giant Paw. Then lets himself be dragged closer and promptly licks Rhade's spotted face.]

Then I'll enjoy the little vacation.

[truth_is_cold]

[He makes a much less human and much more big-cattish noise at the frustration from the dodging (though not real frustration), but once he has him dragged closer he gives him a lick that ends in ruffling Dylan's fur and leaves a streak of it poking in the wrong direction and his ear flapped inside out.]

Good. Now the dilemma is... I can't get into the CES. [And his rounded ears droop a little.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

[If Dylan notices that one ear is inside out, he doesn't care. He'll continue on with absurd lop-sided ears. He looks towards the door of the CES, eyes bright with interest.]

What we need here are some opposable thumbs. Or maybe some ingenuity. Maybe if I held a stick in my mouth...?

[Although if he finds a stick, focusing on pushing buttons with it and not tossing it in the air and chasing it might be hard.]

[truth_is_cold]

I also didn't have pockets to carry around my hologram controls. [His warden item. He looks towards the CES, before going that way anyway. Maybe if they scratch at the door someone will let them in? That sounds perfectly logical.]

[hunt4commonwealth]

You've got a point, there. Although I suppose we could go back and fetch...[He's momentarily distracted by the word "fetch." Looks around as if something to fetch might be *right here*.]...one of our items. It'd take time, though.

[So he follows Rhade to the door. And when Rhade scratches, Dylan will throw in a few barks and whines as well. Surely *that* will make someone open the barrier.]

[yeahscience]

[Jesse's been running around playing helper monkey -- albeit without actually turning into a monkey -- all day, but mostly happily so. After all, it's meant he's gotten to play with dogs, otters, rabbits, whatever the hell Ariadne is... So hearing scratches on the door, he's already used to that lingo, and he dutifully goes over to open it.

But because he's also seen some of the bigger, badder animals, he only cracks it open at first, and blinks nervously when he sees Rhade.] Whoa.

[hunt4commonwealth]

[Dylan spins in a happy circle when the door begins to open, barks, and jumps up to lick Jesse. Person! Door open!]

[truth_is_cold]

[The liger watches Jesse, without the exuberant display that Dylan is having. Thankfully, this isn't ending in licking, but he does paw the door again with massive feet and flick his tail. And chuffles a bit, which is a happy noise but so few people are safely around happy big cats that it's hard to tell. He definitely wants in, though.]

[yeahscience]

[Dylan's weight on the door is unexpected; Jesse stumbles back under it and lets the door go so it swings open to admit the pair, distracted from his nerves by the licking. He lets out a startled laugh, a hand coming up to scruff at the dog's ears.

It's when he catches the door on its backswing that he spots Rhade again and hesitates.] H...ey. You, uh, you want in?