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Post by sansa on Nov 11, 2014 16:56:05 GMT
Sat upon the Tire, her legs and tail dangling off the edge, Nym ground a dried aloe leaf with a focused expression glued on her face. Her paw worked the pestle easily, the mortar snug between her knees. She pushed her mane back with her free paw, though it fell ever more stubbornly in front of her eyes. She really should have tied it back before she'd started. Oh, well. The dried leaf was turning to powder quickly, at least. Hopefully she'd be able to figure out what to do with it when she was done.
As soon as she'd gotten into a rhythm, she let her mismatched gaze wander from the mortar and focus on what was happening in the Junkyard. It was a crisp early morning, most were still tucked in their warm dens, she supposed. A few mice skittered around in the junk piles, and every so often Nym caught a swish of a tail or the soft 'thump' of paw pads across the ground. The lightest of breezes tickled at her fur, and she blocked the mortar with her free paw so none of the aloe would blow away.
After a few more minutes of grinding and gazing, Nym peered appreciatively at the powder in the bowl. Her fingers brushed the excess off the pestle deftly, and she rubbed at them lightly to appreciate the texture of the aloe. Fine and soft, softer than silk. It would dissolve easily in water, she was sure. But how to utilize it?
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 12, 2014 18:28:06 GMT
the curvaceous scarlet queen flowed out of her den and gave an eye popping stretch. she slipped down to the ground and moved through the stacks her tail merrily flipping to her own rhythm and into the center. she was happy to have a den that overlooked the center, when the place was busy it reminded her of the stage at her old home, the hustle the bustle.
then she spied Nymeria sitting up on the tire working at something in her paws.
nimbly she crossed the distance and leaned against the tire looking up at the younger queen her green gold eyes bright her nose delicately twitching at the scent of ground Aloe.
"hello Nymeria, anything that I can help you with?" Bombalurina asked.
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Post by sansa on Nov 12, 2014 23:32:38 GMT
Nym's thoughts flashed to the stake strapped against her thigh, and the dagger against her forearm, at the scent of another cat approaching. She confirmed quickly that it was only a Jellicle, though, and set the pestle in the mortar with a nod toward Bomba. "Morning." She cringed inwardly at the use of her full name, but didn't bother correcting her.
"I plan to infuse this with water, obviously, but I'm not sure how to... utilize it, I guess, in a new way," the chimera cat continued. "I was actually gonna head over to the Cages to test some things, but if you've got any ideas..." She didn't particularly like to spend much time thinking, preferring to test things out until something worked. But she wasn't one to say no if another cat wanted to help.
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 13, 2014 0:03:26 GMT
the scarlet queen laughed "the only thing that I can think of is to paint the Hunters fur with it, kinda like the human dancers where I used to live would paint themselves up dig? only instead of decoration it's there if one of the Vamps tries to take a bite out of you!" then Bomba gave a self derisive "but then that's just me. so the cages huh? I don't have kitten sitting till this afternoon, so if you'd like some company I wouldn't mind heading that way." she said in friendly tone.
Bomba's whiskers perked just a bit and her ears rose even though she half expected the pretty chimera to turn down her offer, Nym was one of the tribemembers that Bomba had not yet had much interaction with.
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Post by sansa on Nov 13, 2014 0:18:57 GMT
Nym smirked at the thought, but her mind was running over the pros and cons of the suggestion despite the silliness. "Nah, I don't think anybody would like that much, hunting with watered down fur, eh?" She liked to drink aloe-infused water before a Hunt anyway, so that if a Vampire ever did get close enough to drink, her blood would burn them. But being untouchable, that would be an interesting benefit. "Maybe something on the weapons, that would slow them down more..."
With a nod, she hopped off the Tire and started making her way toward the Cages, gesturing for Bomba to follow. "I think I want to try coating arrows or something, definitely at least the stake. And actually, I've been working on a sort of... thing that shoots at 'em, not sure what to call it. Maybe I could fit it in there."
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 13, 2014 1:13:01 GMT
the scarlet queen fellinto step her tail swaying as she stolled along, "you mean like the bottles that the dancers used to scent themselves with?" she asked her ears perking "I think that I know where some are here in the yard," Bomba added.
then she laughed "I sound like a ninny don't I? but then I'm still getting used to not having Humans around constantly you know?"
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Post by sansa on Nov 13, 2014 1:32:37 GMT
"Right, you used to live around humans, didn't you?" Nym asked. She couldn't imagine spending so much time around humans. What if there was an attack? Humans didn't know anything about feline life, she assumed, so they wouldn't have taken any preventative measures. And so many of them were so... touchy-feely. But she supposed she could understand the draw. Humans could be interesting, for those who liked to observe.
"But no, I don't think you sound like a ninny." Her raspy voice had a hint of laughter in it. "Always nice to have someone who wants to help, y'know?"
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 13, 2014 3:08:46 GMT
the scarlet queen's lovely face took on a far away look , "oh yes Hun, I grew up in one of those human gathering places where the toms gather to drink, eat a little and watch the queens dance, almost every night was a crowd and being back stage amongst it all was...exiting dig? they fed me treated me nice and after hours I kept the mice and rats under control.
then another bunch of humans who dressed in blue, they were kind of like our protectors hey? they got all upset and the place got closed." then she gave a fluid shrug and another bright smile "thanks Hun, I'm just grateful you know?"
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Post by sansa on Nov 13, 2014 3:44:45 GMT
The chimera blushed. Sexual dancing, she had to assume. Humans and their habits. "Wait, why'd they get upset?" She nodded at Bomba's gratitude, even if she didn't fully understand it. Of course she appreciated her help, why wouldn't she? "Grateful?" Nym asked as she approached the weapon shed. She pulled the heavy door open and stepped inside, her mismatched gaze scanning the weapons.
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 13, 2014 7:31:25 GMT
the scarlet queen gave another fluid shrug, "whoknows? all I heard was a lot of shouting and comotion and the Blue humans left with the ones who ran the place and they never came back." Bomba said as they arrived.
"grateful? you bet! I mean most tribes would have turned me away with those THINGS stalking Me!" Bomba continued with a shiver. "but you all took me in, treated me nice, and hey I'll admit it I do so much better with others around. I don't do so well with just Me, too many echos in my head I suppose." she said then Bomba peered curiously as Nym opened the door.
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Post by sansa on Nov 14, 2014 3:40:40 GMT
"Huh, that's weird." Nym grabbed a few stakes, a bow and arrow, and her own personal project, and tossed them on the ground outside of the shed. She'd done all the thinking she needed to do while she was grinding the aloe, now it was time to tinker. The thought brought a smile to her starkly divided face. "Oh, right, duh." She laughed. "Well, uh, the Jellicles- we aren't really in the habit of turning cats away, I think. As long as they're willing and able to help."
She sat on the ground, with the weapons scattered around her and the ground aloe between her criss-crossed legs. Her paw skimmed over the stakes with familiarity, almost reverence, before she grabbed her own project and pulled it into her lap. "I'm working on something kind of like a bow here, except... faster, I guess, sort of automatic. I want to be able to just press a button and shoot off something, y'know? And maybe I could utilize aloe somehow. I don't know. What do you think?" She fidgeted with her project as she spoke, her fingers dancing over the wood like the caress of a lover.((She's making a crossbow.  Just so you know.))
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 14, 2014 12:05:07 GMT
the scarlet queen fluidly sat down wrapping her tail around herself momentarily remembering the ball, the music and the danceing had made her feel so at home and had reminded her of the best things about the Club where she had lived. then Bomba tilted her head to one side as she regarded the pile then picked up one of the stakes and ran a slender foretoe along int. "we could groove them and work the aloe into it,"
she suggested, "it wouldn't be much or the stake might break on the way in, but some is better than none right?"
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Post by sansa on Nov 15, 2014 1:53:43 GMT
Nym picked up a stake for herself and began working at it with her claws, digging grooves as Bombalurina had said. They never wanted for stakes, so it wouldn't be the end of the world if she ruined one with her experimentation. "That might work... could weaken the stake, though, or it might not stay on." Her brow furrowed. Had she ever done anything like this before? And how could she test it? There certainly wasn't a line of Vampires waiting to sacrifice themselves, unfortunately. "I wish there was a way to just- just infuse any of the material with aloe, y'know?"
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Post by dodd4 on Nov 15, 2014 12:06:38 GMT
the scarlet queen nodded frowning prettily in concentration the tip of her tail flipping, "sorta like those garlic flavored toothpicks, and I wonder if you painted it on to the fur would the aloe stay when it dried?" Bomba said as she tried to work the aloe mixture onto the grooves on her stake with a claw.
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Post by sansa on Nov 16, 2014 22:23:07 GMT
"Garlic flavored toothpicks? Yuck." Nym stroked her stake absently in thought. "But actually, yeah, I wonder how they make those. That's exactly what we need." She tossed the stake back and forth in her paws and looked at Bomba. "So, you said it was what they scented themselves with? The bottles, I mean. Was it a lot of liquid, or what?"
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Just so you know.))