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    You have entered the temple of Inari, in her capacity as the Goddess of Foxes.

    You walk down an elegant white gravel pathway between full-grown pines. Stone lanterns provide a pure white light to the path, while casting elegant shadows among the trees.

    At the end of the pathway, a bright red gate stands. A large fox carved from white alabaster gleams at each side of the gate. As you pass between the foxes and through the gate, you feel the presence of the goddess. Gentle and caring, but mischievous and lighthearted, you are never quite certain what will happen.

    Past the exquisite formal gardens, you finally step into the pagoda itself. There, at the end of chamber is a raised dais. There rests a statue of a beautiful vulpine woman, flanked by two snow-white celestial foxes. Offerings of rice and incense stand before the statue.

    In a niche off to the right side of the door sits a Fox-Cola vending machine. Next to the coin slot, the sign reads "10 cp".

    To the left side of the door is a magic mirror. This mirror is actually a portal to Trog's Tavern.

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    Alignment Chaotic Good
    Primary Domains Good, Plant, Chaos, Healing
    Secondary Domains Magic, Sun, Animal, Trickery, Knowledge, Water
    Forbidden Domains Evil, Law, War, Death, Destruction
    Priest Granted Powers
    Rice Paddy Once per day. As <i>Entangle</i>, but the ground changes to knee-deep mud, and instead of creepers, mature rice plants twist and writhe to grapple anything in the area.
    Sushi Bar Once per day. You create rice, fish, and sake. You can create enough to feed one medium sized creature for each two caster levels.
    Summon Celestial Fox Special. You summon an image of Myobi (if you are a priestess) or Myobu (if you are a priest). The fox has HD equal to your level plus your wisdom bonus. In combat, the fox fights the same as a normal fox, but with appropriate bonuses for HD.

    Inari is the goddess of rice: The plant itself. The cultivation of it. The products made from it. She has countless billions of worshipers spread across the various planes of existence. Foxes are her children. Inari created foxes to watch over the grain and eat the birds and rodents that would destroy the sacred plant. Kitsune are her especial messengers: sacred foxes endowed with the ability to take on human or elvish form. Inari is an agricultural and racial goddess. She is concerned predominantly with nurturing and growth. She is good, but it is the quiet good of the countryside rather than the formalized good of high society. We don't go on crusades. We don't try to win converts or convince people to change their beliefs. We don't really feel a conflict with "evil" beings at all, unless they threaten us directly. Finally, since rice is a critical component in many economies across the multiverse, she is revered as a goddess of wealth and prosperity as well.

    The worship of Inari is mostly personal. The sanctuary is open for prayer and meditation as you feel led. There is a small ceremony at dawn every day, where the main sacred fires are lit. There is a celebration at the full of the moon each month, and a quiet time of prayer at the dark of the moon. There are major ceremonies and holidays at the times of rice planting, transplanting, and harvest. The fox festival is held at the time when the wild cousins give birth. We feed them a special treat made with rice wrapped in fried bean curds. Otherwise, the temple does not hold regular formal services.

    Inari is not overly fond of ceremony: for it is not ceremony that will lead you to enlightenment.

    All things have a spirit, and the spirit is in all things. But this perception is dulled by the impurities of physical life, and you fail to reach your true potential due to this. It is therefore in your best interest that you seek for purity in your emotions and your mind; for through that purity, your spirit may shine through. Ceremony is of limited value because the quest for purity begins and ends with your inner self. This is why the main altar generally houses a mirror, not a statue, on the altar.

    The state of purity is difficult to explain, because it does not mean the same thing to everyone. Only by meditating on your spiritual state can you learn what things hinder you personally. An earnest, honest, open heart is needed for this. The goddess, who can read your very being, can help with this: but it is a private matter between you and her. Therefore we provide a quiet setting: a peaceful sanctuary free from distracting clutter, a quiet garden where you can relax your mind, a serene place where it is easier to distance your true self from your physical self and focus on what needs to be. One more thing: purity is not merely a matter of eliminating that which is "bad". It is also a task of strengthening which is "good". Your task may be to grow in an area of yourself that you have neglected, or imperfectly developed. Regardless of the details, when you know what needs to be done we provide the support, council, and assistance to help you do it.


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    Alignment Chaotic Good
    Primary Domains Good, Plant, Chaos, Healing, Darkness
    Secondary Domains Magic, Sun, Animal, Trickery, Knowledge, Water
    Forbidden Domains Evil, Law, War, Death, Destruction
    Priest Granted Powers
    Darkness Once per day.
    Speak with Shadows You can speak with creatures from the Plane of Shadows
    Sushi Bar Once per day. You create rice, fish, and sake. You can create enough to feed one medium sized creature for each two caster levels.
    Summon Celestial Fox Special. You summon an image of one of the Ninetails. The fox has HD equal to your level plus your wisdom bonus. In combat, the fox fights the same as a normal fox, but with appropriate bonuses for HD.

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    Everything but the Sanctuary and Garden has Dimensional Lock. The entire facility is Hallowed as per the spell with the Bless effect. A permanent Flame Quench (the reversed form of the 2nd edition Fire Storm spell) is on in a quiescent form on all the buildings. It can be triggered by any full priest.

    - Sanctuary: the main sanctuary has the altar. This is where you must pray to speak to the goddess directly. There is a general magic circle in the center of the room.

    - Meditation Gardens: accessed through a door at the far end of the sanctuary. This is a standard zen garden with raked gravle, shady nooks, picturesque pines, stone lanterns, and small intricate bridges. An artifical stream hosts large koi, and a grand cherry tree resides on a picturesque island in the middle of a good sized pond.

    - Priest's Quarters: accessed by going down the stairs "halfway down the sanctuary, to the right"

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    [Hospital]

    "But... I haven't been discharged yet..." Jinkei responds, though if things change she'll happily go back with Zack to his home (which she's considering moving into).

    "Let's go and look for the doctor!" She'll worry about Riel and what her dad might have heard later.‎

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    Like a copy. Feel free to be unnerved.
    "Hope to see you there sometime."
    [Full Moon Party]

    "Wait a moment" he says to the copy person. "I got something else that bugs my mind."
    "Why do you need to look like me? That makes you appear kind of suspiciouse. Or have we met befor? What was your name again?"
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    [Full Moon Party]

    Felina is trying so very hard to keep a straight face as Arlem plays his little game.



    [Hospital]

    Zack nods

    Yeah. Or the reception desk: I'm sure they can clear things up.

    Out into the hall, now empty of miscellaneous critters (except maybe Todd... but Squee has gone home). And who should appear coming down the hall but Caroline and Nie'Riel

    There she is: and looking quite a bit happier now.

    Hello, Katharina.

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    [Full Moon Party]

    "I don't think we've met before. My name is Arlem."
    Arlem stops and turns back to the guest.
    "I don't need to look like you. You don't need to look like you either, do you?"
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    [Hospital]

    Todd, of course, will go home with Squee, especially seeing as Katharina's mood seems to have improved. He won't feel bad leaving her with her more capable mate.

    Jinkei smiles at Caroline, and her inability to bring herself to look directly at Nie'Riel might make it momentarily seem as if she's being ignored. "I am forever in your debt, Caroline. It was a relapse of behavior I quit a long time ago, and I promise it won't happen again."

    She glances at Zack. "To that end, I have decided to stay faithful to this wonderful man, even have babies with him. It may mean my promiscuity will end, and the start of my job as the Allfather's Paragon will come sooner, but it's well worth it if I get to spend my life with him."‎

    Then finally, she turns to the other elf, or at least in her direction, seeing as she's looking down. She looks ashamed. "I owe you an apology, too. I just wanted a physical relationship, I'm sorry if you thought it was something more." Nie'Riel did say something about the 'love of three', after all, but Jinkei realizes she doesn't want to share Zack.‎

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    [A Priestess, a Magician, and a Gardener - An Eye for an Eye]

    Compassion. Morgana was prepared for anything but a show of compassion. Rage, fear, and retribution - these are the degenerate children of hostility, not pity or concern. Caroline's reaction is all that Morgana had hoped for and, in the same shallow breath, all that Morgana had feared.

    Orange light, faint and distorted, as if in the throes of death, shines for but a second more before it vanishes behind a veil of tears.

    Inwardly, the weeping mage resentfully scorns herself. This is not becoming of her. This is an exhibition of weakness, an exercise in futility. She, a mage without equal in her homeland, a spear of light piercing the heart of darkness, brought to her knees with a string of kind words. In a word, she's pathetic.

    Try as she might, Morgana cannot force herself to meet their gaze. At last, her facade lies shattered at their feet, her repressed feelings laid bare for all to see.

    In the tiniest of voices, she speaks, fighting to regain her composure between mournful sniffles.

    "I'm at the Temple of Inari in the city of Inside. That's all that I know, but right now, that is enough."

    "I - I fled from my homeland, as you already guessed. The lord I had faithfully served for years was beheaded after a prolonged siege when the townsfolk tunneled under our outer walls like rats to let the invaders in. In the dead of the night, infiltrators slit our soldiers' throats and seized the outer gatehouse. The invader's army charged into our city, slaughtering most of our men before they were able to regroup at the inner wall. The cowards knew that we would resist them to the bitter end, so they denied our men an honorable death, dragging unarmed soldiers out into the middle of the streets, tormenting their wives and children in front of them as they expired in excruciating pain."

    "And I was powerless to stop them. Standing atop the inner wall, the smoke of burning wood stinging my throat as I watched good men and women I'd known since I was a child being hacked apart by cretins, I - I wanted to kill every single one of them. Not just the - the soldiers, their loved ones, their neighbors, everyone they had ever come into contact with and the traitors who had sold us out for pouches of gold. This hatred granted me power unlike any source I had tapped before and unlike any source I have tapped since."

    "Their offensive that night was enough to break our defenses, but not our spirit. We fought like demons, cutting down anyone who approached the inner walls. Most of our men had lost everything; they had nothing left to live for but the hot blood of the invaders trickling down the flats of their cold swords, and we made that very clear to them. I rained fire upon them from afar, roasting the invaders alive in their own suits of armor. We sent kill squads out into the city, to make any example of any invaders or traitors they could find. We repelled every assault they made on our walls, and every one of our men that died dragged four of the enemy down to hell with him."

    "But we were doomed. We all knew it. Come morning, the invaders would surround us and kill every last one of us. We didn't care. We said we'd make a contest out of it - that whoever could rack up the highest kill count would get a beer from every other contestant in the afterlife. Everyone else made the best of what would be the last day of their lives: feasting on all of the food left in our stores, drinking themselves sick, gambling all of their money away, crying in secluded corners of the castle, praying to every god and goddess that ever existed, and so on."

    "But my liege had something else in store for me and the handful of his most trusted soldiers who still had the will to live. We were given the task of escorting his pregnant wife and children to safety while he and the others acted as a diversion. We hid in the ruins of the city until the inner walls had fallen and the invaders were celebrating before slipping out of their reach while they celebrated our defeat."

    "We succeeded in our mission, and then, we parted ways, but I - I couldn't let it go. I couldn't forgive what they had done to us - to me. I couldn't let them go home to their wives and children and forget all of the atrocities they had committed, our blood on their hands, the lives they had destroyed, all we had lost."


    Violently, she trembles, her voice a crack of thunder, loud and foreboding.

    "I made them suffer, as many of them as I could. I studied them, sliced them apart to learn what made them tick. I found a weakness, and I exploited it, just like they did to us. I used my power to force their most infectious diseases to evolve, and then, I left."

    "Now, my friends can rest and I can live again, but I fear the scars I bear will heal slowly and painfully."


    By the end of this tale, Morgana appears to be emotionally drained. She has successfully regained her composure, but she's also slumped against the nearest rigid object looking very, very sad.

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    "I don't think we've met before. My name is Arlem."
    Arlem stops and turns back to the guest.
    "I don't need to look like you. You don't need to look like you either, do you?"
    [Full Moon Party]

    I guess Arlem also has the missing Iris in his lleft eye? I know I didn't mention it, I was a bit lazy.

    "Yeah, I can't remember that name."
    he says. His view wanders to the priestress, but he can't really get what she is about.
    "If you don't need it, drop it. And your right, I don't need to look like this, but I prefer it."
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    [Full Moon Party]

    Felina chuckles

    Come now, Arlem dearest: don't upset the guests. How about something more exotic?

    Keiko, who is an inveterate eavesdropper, looks over

    Ooh! Oooh! Do you know what a Marsh Dragon looks like? Somebody suggested that a little while back, and I've been curious.


    [Hospital]

    Caroline nods

    I thought it must be something along those lines. The doctor cleared you, with a note that you should still go to counselling about vengeful impulses. Let me know if there is anything else I can do too help.

    Nie'Riel looks crushed... and runs from the building.


    [A Priestess, a Magician, and a Gardener]

    Katrina and Caroline blink

    Dang... that sucks.

    Oh, my... that is terrible. I am so sorry... so...

    She sniffles a bit as the thought of all those poor people being killed sinks in, and she has to struggle a bit to not wrap the poor woman in a big hug

    I am glad to hear you rescued some... but that... oh my... could I introduce you to someone?
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    [Full Moon Party]

    There's two kinds of people: those who get really annoyed when you turn into a copy of them, missing iris in your left eye and all. And those who have a sense of humor (in his estimation).

    "As you like. I do prefer to be symmetrical."
    Arlem's features blur and change, and soon he looks nothing like the guest.
    "Marsh dragon?"
    And swiftly becomes a slick amphibian creature, much like a giant salamander with a frill of spikes around his face and a good number of stubby, fin-like wings.
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    [Hospital]

    Jinkei frowns. "Rochelle needs to die, and that's all I have to say on-- Nie'Riel, wait!" Her snappy retort turns into a cry of surprise as she gathers up her gown-skirt and runs after the fleeing elf. If she's stopped, she'll slow down her running, a sad look on her face.

    "I deserve it. I just wanted in her pants, and I didn't think she'd thought of something more."

    If not, then she'll try and light-jump in front of her in such a way that Nie'Riel will find herself running into her outstretched arms.‎

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    [A Priestess, a Magician, and a Gardener]

    Quietly, Morgana answers, dragging herself halfway out of a mire of grief and self-loathing as she forces herself to stand upright once more.

    "You have nothing to be sorry about. You did not have a hand in that bloody affair."

    Morgana brushes herself off and dabs her eyes with an unadorned handkerchief. Sad as she is, she reminds herself of the reason why she chose to visit the temple in the first place.

    "I will not allow mere memories, however unpleasant, to ruin this day. I am here to meet new people, so lead on."

    And with that, they're presumably off to meet new people! Hopefully, that encounter won't end in tears like this one did!

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    [Full Moon Party]

    Keiko giggles

    Awesome, Arlem!

    then she winks with a saucy grin

    You're a lucky girl, Felina.


    [Hospital]

    Nie'Riel is rather surprised to somehow run into Jinkei. She is busy crying and hasn't even looked up, so there was no preparation and no slowing down - just a flat-out collision!

    Oof!


    [A Priestess, a Magician, and a Gardener]

    Caroline shakes her head

    We do not need to move.

    then she bows her head

    Holy Tamamo, Lady of Twilight...

    Katrina looks over at the priestess

    I guess that's one option... Head's up, Morgana: these divine folks tend to show up kinda abruptly - just hold tight: nobody's gonna hurt you.
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    [Hospital]

    Luckily for them both, Jinkei braced for impact and managed (albeit just barely) to keep them both on their feet. Her hands close around Nie'Riel's back and she speaks in soft tones, trying to calm her down.

    "Shh... don't cry, Riel. It's my fault for not explaining before. I'm so sorry." She herself has started to cry.‎

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    [A Priestess, a Magician, a Gardener, and a Goddess]

    Caroline devoutly petitions Tamamo; Katrina reassuringly warns Morgana about divine jumpscares.

    Lady Morgana puts two and two together and promptly swoons.

    Caroline is summoning a goddess. A goddess. Who in their right mind wouldn't be scared out of their wits by the very real prospect of coming face-to-face with a goddess? That goes double for Morgana, a mage with enough blood on her hands to paint the temple red twice.

    Whether or not she is caught before she hits the ground (she doesn't have that far to fall anyway), a wide-eyed Morgana will regain consciousness three to five seconds later, considerably calmer and much more confused about life in general than she was prior to her episode.

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    [Full Moon Party]

    The man nods. In any case, he wouldn't know why people would find it funny. It is kind of stealing. He is upset, but he doesn't need to tell that.

    "None is ever symmetrical by itself. We just don't see it." the man adds befor he turns to a table to taste the food he gathered.
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    [Hospital]

    Nie'Riel does calm down, but she sniffles... and sniffles...

    I tink by node id bleeding.

    Her nose is indeed bleeding. Fairly significantly, actually.


    [A Priestess, a Magician, a Gardener, and a Goddess, and a Messenger]

    It wasn't a bad plan: call someone who would relate to Morgana. Caroline was too upset to notice the part where the unfortunate vixen had already picked herself up and declared to be moving on.
    In point of fact, the sheltered little noble has only ever heard of such things in the dusty distant past of history lessons: where everything is sanitized and factual. A live, raw account of the horrors of war is really quite a shock if you aren't ready for it. And the peaceful leader of a Temple dedicated to rice and foxes is anything but ready...

    So, it's actually rather a good thing that Morgana passed out and was caught and lowered gently to the ground by Katrina.

    Because suddenly there is a brilliant purple flash, from which the blazing white-furred Myobi steps out. Her deadly sai are drawn and she looks around fiercely. Simultaneously, dark charcoal gray Tamamo steps out from Caroline's shadow, a naginata burning with shadowy flames held at the ready.

    Who's attacking, Caroline? I've never heard you that upset before.

    I ... don't sense any threats, Myobi.

    For her part, Caroline runs to her mother and buries the confused Messenger in an emotional hug. Tamamo dismisses her weapon and turns to look at Katrina and Morgana.

    Would you mind explaining, Miss Fitzgerald?

    Katrina swallows and does so, relating the story over again. Presumably somewhere along this, Morgana will wake up.

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    [Hospital]

    Jinkei wipes her eyes and pulls back to inspect Nie'Riel's nose. "Oh, I'm sorry. I can fix this much..." And she bestows her warm healing energy on the elf's nose, mending it back to its former state and stopping the bleeding.‎

    She then looks Nie'Riel in the eyes. "I can't bear to see you this way, dear Riel. I wanted Zack to myself, but..." She pauses, looks around a bit and then sighs. "I can share him with you... on the condition that the relationship is limited to us three alone."

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    [Hospital]

    Nie'Riel shudders slightly, then sneezes a couple of times.

    Thank you.

    she looks down

    I really didn't mean to cause so much trouble... I ... I'm so sorry. I don't want to disrupt your happiness...

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    [Full Moon Party]

    Arlem thinks differently; one doesn't own their shape, and is imitation not the sincerest form of flattery?
    The marsh dragon winks at the water dragon, and then turns himself back into a fox-person, finally.

    "Not that everyone wants a marsh dragon, Holy Keiko. Actually, while you're here..."
    He strolls over, inner eye wandering over Keiko's thoughts for ideas, as far as it's able to see.
    "Have you worked out a holy symbol yet? A color scheme? Organization of the clergy?"
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    [Hospital]

    "What worth is happiness if it can't be shared?" Jinkei replies, hugging Nie'Riel again. "We both love him, we can learn to love each other, too. Besides, it wouldn't feel right being happy at the expense of your sadness, especially knowing your sadness is my fault."

    She pulls back and cups her chin with her hand. "Please, Riel. Let us make you happy, too."

    Then her breathing shallows and she immediately steps back. "S-seriously, let's just go, please."‎

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    Arlem will first have to wade past Keiko imagining various and sundry ... combinations ... to try out with Cleo once Cleo's Mask is fixed and Keiko isn't stuck as an Inland Sea Dragon anymore. (To be fair, Felina is not that far behind the imaginative demigoddess...)

    Moving on...

    As it turns out, Keiko is rather fond of her current coloration

    Colors are easy: black and shades of purple and silver! And there's a little girl in the church who came up with a cute design I'm thinking of using.

    Arlem sees this: http://www.fenric.com/images/KeikoSymbol.jpg

    She looks a little embarrassed

    And I've been letting Matthew work up a plan for the priests... that's really not my strong point. He's not done yet, so I haven't seen it.


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    Nie'Riel laughs softly

    Allright, I'm in. And it's ok, Katharina... don't worry. Let's go!
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    "Oh, thank the allfather!" Jinkei exhales and basically pulls Nie'Riel by the arm in Zack's direction.‎

    "Zack, she's with us now. I'll explain later, let's go home and consummate our love-of-three!" She sounds a bit too eager to get a move on. "Dear Caroline, I'll see you later."

    Yep, she's definitely in a hurry.‎

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    Don't worry, Keiko. Your thoughts are far from the worst thing he's happened to see. It's not even an unusual train of thought for incarnated gods.

    Arlem nods, and his outfit's colors change to what he thinks is appropriate: a light Keikoy purple through and through. Actually, Keiko might have a whole color palette popping into her head, looking for a reaction.

    "It looks pretty good, but maybe the colors are backwards? I'd put a purplish dragon over black tails. And maybe make the tails be layered in a spiral. Easier for people to draw and remember that way. Really is cute though. And she'll certainly appreciate it if it is used."

    He ponders.

    "I'll have to go see this Matthew, hopefully after he figures it out."
    Hopefully that won't go as badly as last time.
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    Keiko giggles delightedly at the color pallet

    That's great, Arlem! I love it. Yes, yes: we'll have to go with that.

    She listens to the design suggestions

    Yeah, purple over black would show up better, wouldn't it? But I kinda liked the flower-petal arrangement, and Tamamo uses a spiral of nine black tails for her symbol already. I'll poke around at it, though.

    she nods at the last bit

    You should! He's really neat, and smart too!


    [Hospital]

    And so the trio are gathered up and rush off to the faculty apartments excitedly, leaving Caroline abruptly alone. Confused and a little bothered with the amount of time it took to have nothing change at all, she shakes her head.

    Elves... yes... Keiko does keep trying to warn me.

    She looks at Jinkei's paperwork:heavily crossed out, altered, redacted, and finally drawn through with a big red "X" and the doctor's discharge instructions of "just go home already" scribbled in barely-legible common... or is it surprisingly legible sand-elf script... eh, who cares? Caroline folds the thing up and deposits it in a trash-bin near the door.

    I wonder if Stephen will go to the club with me tonight... I need a drink.

    and away she goes...
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    "Excellent. I'm sure you'll come up with something good for the symbol itself."

    Arlem grins and heads off with a little wave, to spend the rest of the party helping Felina out.
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    On getting to Zack's room, Jinkei flops on the bed and gestures suggestively for them both to join her. "From here on out, it's just us three in this relationship."

    She glances at Nie'Riel. "Care to explain the ritual?"‎

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    Point of view I guess. Some people just don't like to share their shape.

    The man remains in his place, even after he finished the meal. His mood is down, not only due to the doppelganger. He sights.
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    And now the man is greeted by a short creature with sand-brown fur, beady black eyes, and really huge ears dressed in brown overalls.

    Hi! I'm Kitnick!


    [Zack's Room]

    Nie'Riel nods

    I think maybe some explanation, first.

    We live a very long time: twice as long as a Vulpan, on average, or nearly fourteen hundred years.


    Zack's eyes go wide

    And our gender ratio at birth is just over two to one in favor of girls. This combined with the usual problems of war, disease, and mischance means that it can be quite difficult to find a husband. Not everyone is content in same-gender relationships, or inclined to be with someone of another species...

    She grins bashfully

    Not that I have that problem, myself... Anyway, because of that it is not uncommon for a family to have two or even three sister-wives.

    Zack looks thoughtful

    That does make sense...
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    At the sound he looks up and immeadtly turns to the newcomer.

    "Hello Kid Nick. How can i help you?"
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