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>>160672She turns her head back, again with the awkward smile.
“It
was rather fun sometimes.”
Silver may recall how he returned home two nights ago to see Mala’s mane styled in a feminine manner.
She looks down, then back up again
“But yes, I would rather be a housewife.”
>>160673"What
do you think you could do with my mane, anyway? Think you could style it to be as fancy as Mala's was?"
>>160674“Well…”
She looks down again, and smiles. But this smile is unlike any she has made earlier in the night, and indeed, unlike any smile Silver has ever seen on this particular Kirin. It’s a playful smile.
“Well… you
could[ trim the back a little, so that it falls down your side in a natural pattern.” She leans forward, and makes a movement with her hoof that implies she would touch his mane, if only there were no table separating them.
“And you could cut your mane in front a little shorter, to keep it out of your eyes…”
>>160675Silver leans over the table slightly, to provide easier access to his mane.
"Previously it was just myself cutting my own mane, and I will admit I am not nearly as good as you are. I do like what you did with Mala, so maybe there is way you could dress my mane?"
>>160676Now the smile is more embarrassed.
“I styled the gnoll’s mane like a mare…”
>>160677"Still, I thought it looked good on him."
He sits back in his seat.
"But still, if there was way you could dress my mane as you would do it..."
>>160678“Well…”
She places a hoof to her chin, and squints her
perhaps naturally squinted eyes a little, looking at Silver’s mane.
“I have not styled that many stallion’s manes outside of simple cuts for foals, farmers, and soldiers. I do not know much. I could try though….” She says
>>160679He smiles.
"I think you could do great job, making something more fancy for stallion like me." The unicorn taps a hoof against his chin. "You know, Clip has rather mare-like mane. I am not sure if he wants it styled, but I bet you could do wonders with him."
>>160680She’s silent for a moment, but then answers.
“That’s the older of the three colts, right? Who is he, exactly?”
>>160681"Yes, he is oldest of three. He was colt on sacrificial altar there at end of Hoebuck, and he got there by trying to flee persecusion in New Mareland and got tricked by traffickers."
>>160682She opens her mouth and eyes wide.
“So he was the pony on the altar… that’s terrible. I think it is good you are giving him a place to stay.”
>>160683Silver nods and smiles at her.
"I got him potion to help accelerate his healing and strengthen him. It seems to have done great work already, and I will still help with his needs until he recovers."
Silver takes a mental note to change Clip's bandages and, if he requires help with it, give him a bath.
>>160684She nods.
“I see. You’ve done this to quite a few creatures. Do you think you will do this more in the future?”
>>160685"If I have means to. And if you approve."
>>160686She nods, but seems unsure
“I see…”
>>160688Now this definitely has her eyes wide. She pulls her lips back.
“Heh…”
>>160689Silver closes his eyes and smiles warmly to his kirin. He chuckles a bit before opening his eyes once more.
"You know you will be matriarch of household, and you will have say in what happens. Just because I will be provider and you housewife does not mean we do not work together for betterment of household."
>>160690She moves her head down, and her ears down, smiling widely with teeth, and blushing.
“Are you
sure…”
>>160691"Never been more sure in my life."
He goes to grab her hoof.
"I do not know if you think it is too early for marriage yet, but I do know at very least I would like you to officially be my marefriend, Khoi."
>>160692Her ears are down, she is blushing, and she has that wide, toothy smile that shows off her small fangs. But she looks directly into Silver’s eyes, and lets him hold into her hoof. She does not say anything, sitting there in silence.
The unicorn waitress comes, and places the snowflake cake next to their crossed-hooves.
The fur on her hoof is rather fine, and soft as well.
>>160693Silver quickly thanks the waitress, and returns to looking lovingly into his kirin's eyes. Her red ones meet his blue, and in their minds they make a purple aura that surrounds the pair. He holds and feels the softness of her hoof, and she in turn can feel the soft frog on the bottom of his own.
>>160694“I…” she looks down, then back up.
“I have a couple reservations, to be honest.” She says
>>160695There is a certain determination to Silver's voice as he speaks.
"Tell me."
>>160696“Well…” she looks away.
“You are a bit… old.” She says
>>160697"Oof, you wound me, love." While the tone in his voice that of him kidding and joking, internally he is a little hurt by the idea of him being
that old. "I still have many years of strength in me yet, I feel it in my heart. I will not leave you widow while you are still young. I also still feel it within me that I still have strong life and energy in me to give out to my foals. I remain quite fertile
and virile."
>>160699"Nopony knows exactly how many years they have left, but in my heart I can feel more than enough to see our foals become adults, and for us to enjoy life together after."
>>160700“Are you sure you have more than twenty years?” She asks skeptically
>>160701Silver nods, again with determination. Internally, his mind is racing, considering how many years he does actually have and what, if anything, could be done about it. He is an adventurer after all, and he has already done more than anypony else could imagine. Surely there is
something out there...
>>160702“And about the wounding. Your work is so dangerous… you are not likely to live to old age…”
>>160703"Even those in very safe careers may not live to see old age. It is dangerous, but I am also not stupid. I have experience to know how to survive, and it has helped to keep me alive for this long already."
>>160704“And another thing.” She says. “Before we left, I saw you with Jubilosa.”
>>160706“And I know that you and her have been”
She tries to complete this sentence with hoof gestures, but it isn’t clear what, if anything, she is or is trying to communicate.
>>160707Silver gets the general idea.
"Relations?"
>>160708“Yes.” She says, placing both legs down on the table
>>160709"What you and Jubilosa want are not same thing. You want to be wife and mother, to be housewife and honor your parents, but Jubilosa is what you would call 'liberal female'. She does not want committed relationship yet, nor does she want to be mother. She already found her life partner once before, but he was Resistance fighter in Sicameon and fell to New Mareland's invasion of her homeland. She wants to, in her own words, experience life while she is young, see exotic places like Aquileia. She also just wants attention and finer things in life, and we both think that ponies and griffons are too different biologically to have children together naturally."
>>160710“So you will stop having relations with her as I become your marefriend?”
>>160711Silver purses his lips together at the topic they are currently discussing on their date.
"She poses no threat to you as potential wife, nor is there threat that she becomes pregnant with my foals. You both seem to like each other, and you both like me. Perhaps there is other option, like...I suppose 'concubine' would be right term for it."
>>160712She blinks, and scrunches
“Would you like it if I were having sexual relations with another creature?” She says
>>160713"Uh...I suppose as long as I knew that it was happening, who it was, we were friends, and that you still loved me."
>>160714She does not reply in words
>>160715"Are concubines not thing in Ngua Nam?"
If there's a roll Silver needs to make or not...
>>160716“Well, for some of the wealthy, yes.”
Silver may want a persuasion roll
>>160718Not terrible.
The cake is still on the table, untouched
>>160717>>160718He smiles at his kirin, and kisses her hoof.
"Even with Jubilosa still there, I would still and do still love you. I would still be your husband, I would still be father to your foals, I would still be there for you for many years, and you would still be able to live happy, comfortable life as noblemare housewife."
>>160719"Now, come on, my love. We have some cake to try together."
>>160720She simply looks at him uncomfortably.
>>160721Well, at least Silver tries the cake.
>>160722A nice layer of sugar over the cake.
Khoi speaks.
“There was this soldier in the medical ward whom I helped. He would compliment me in much the same way you do now. I would smile, but did not do anything with him. Suppose when he was well enough, I met him in a room, and let him take me, but did not see him again. How would that make you feel to know that?
There was this bag winged pony who I talked with. He taught me some of the Ponish I know. Suppose if he had some of the feelings for me that I had for him. That we had had relations… would that change your opinion of me? Would that matter to you?”
>>160723Silver turns his attention away from the cake back towards his date.
"I do not suppose it would. You are far, far more than who you have had relations with. What matters is what you have inside of you, and inside of you is golden compassion and keen, intelligent mind."
>>160724“Then what is the point in my having passed that up. In being a virgin, if it is all the same to you?”
>>160725Silver tilts his head at her, not fully understanding her line of logic, or how the hell they got here in this point in the conversation.
>>160725>>160726Silver shakes his head at the conversation after a second of thought.
"I think I made mess of something I said earlier. It does matter to me, that you saved yourself up to this point. It shows committment, strength of will, and it is just in general extraordinarily special thing to be considered for someone's first time."
>>160727She closes her mouth, looking at least somewhat less uncomfortable.
>>160728"Speaking and conversation have never been strengths of mine. What has upset you here, I want you to tell me, to give me chance to at least try to explain myself and smooth out mistakes I have said."
>>160729“Since I was little, I have tried to follow the eight-fold path. Right belief, right speech, snd right action. Abstain from sexual immorality, abstain from killing, and abstain from stealing. Not everyone followed the path. I have made peace with that. You do not follow the path. I have known that since I met you. I have made peace with that. But I do. I try to, at least.” She looks away. “But I don’t think you understand it. Or respect it. Or respect that I try to follow it.” She says.
>>160730Silver's expression morphs into one of bewilderment.
"I do, though, or at least I do try to. And I do respect that you follow this path. What makes you think I do not?"
>>160731“You would not care if I did not follow the path.”
She says
>>160732"What makes you think I would not? It is honestly something I respect in you, and it is just one aspect of how strong your morality and character is."
Silver seems to still be genuinely confused.
>>160733“You have stated you would not care if I had sexual relations with another stallion.” She scrunches. “A stallion does not care if a prostitute has relations with another stallion. He cares very much if the mother of his alleged foals does.”
>>160734"What? Of course I would care if you had sex with another stallion. What are you talking about? When you asked me how I would feel if you were having sexual relations with another creature? When you were talking about bat pony you met during war?"
The unicorn seems distraut that a misunderstanding has occured, saying something that was interpreted as something else.
>>160736"For first, I thought you were describing something like male concubine. If you just went out and fucked another stallion I would be very angry, sad, and upset. As for second I did not mean my opinion of you would wholy remain static. I would not have that respect I have for you from following this path of yours, but it would not make me
hate you or make me not see good in you."
Silver looks desperate for Khoi to understand him, to save this date from being soured by this misunderstanding.
>>160737Khoi’s lips are tight, and her face is scrunches up. Though she is not the equal of Silver, nor even the equal of Mala, there is a not insignificant amount of floof on her chest that is fluffed up and stands out.
But after a moment, she breathes out, and eases her lips.
“Alright…”
>>160738In an instant, all the desperation turns to relief. Silver remains fluffy, but it seems to relax from having been almost on end during that whole ordeal.
"Thank you so much, Khoi. I am so sorry about all of that."
He smiles weakly at his date.
"We
do still have some delicious-looking snowflake cake to try..."
>>160739She eases up, though she still seems somewhat uneasy. She looks down at the snowflake cake, and breaks off a section, which she places in her mouth.
>>160740Silver uses utensils instead, if available, to take a bite of the cake.
>>160741They are. The cake has flavorings of coconut, vanilla, almond milk, and sugar.
>>160742"Mmmm...that is
very good cake."
Silver continues to take careful bites out of his cake so he can enjoy the flavor just a bit longer.
>>160743Khoi take another couple bites, although she isn’t eating as much or as quickly. In general, she is perfectly silent as she eats. The cake is sweat in flavor, with standard texture.
>>160744Silver's floof seems to dance happily as he continues to enjoy, and eventually finish, his cake.
>>160745Khoi does her best to not think about the implications of prehensile, or possibly sentient floof. Rather she sits there upright in her chair in silence, chewing on snowflake cake. She takes a couple pieces, using magic to rip off sections.
>>160746Silver smiles at your date.
"So...what do you think of it?"
>>160747>>160748takes ur waifu“It’s pretty good. Sweat, and soft texture.” She answers
>>160749takes waifu backSilver nods in agreement.
"What kind of desserts did you have in Ngua Nam? Were any like this?"
>>160750“I think I had something like this at a wedding once. We had cakes, pudding, and fruit.”
>>160751"That sounds like wedding food. I think. I have not personally been to one, but it sounds like that would be served at one."
>>160752She sits silently, and looks directly at Silver, tilting her head.
“You’ve never been to a wedding?”
>>160753Silver nods.
"Not even when I married Storm Warning. My father was all way in Severyana, her parents were long since dead, and we did not know anypony else. So, we just applied for marriage license and had small ceremony just for us in Whitetail Woods."
>>160754>Whitetail WoodsConfirming Unicorn Stereotypes
She looks at Silver for a bit longer.
“I see…”
>>160755To sooth Khoi's worries about a similar situation happening to her, Silver continues.
"Things have changed, since then. I have made enough friends to invite to at least small wedding, and you will have your parents once they immigrate. Together, it will be first wedding I will have ever gone to."
>>160756Khoi moves her hooves closer to her and together, and then
squee“Hehehe”
She closes her eyes, makes a high pitched giggling noise and a few other high pitched noises, and her chair moves, evidently from the back and forth movement of her tail
>>160757Damn, that is one powerful tail. He smiles at his adorable kirin.
"I get feeling you will be planning wedding soon, if you have not been planning it already for years."
>>160758“Hehe” her eyes are big and bright.
“I wasn’t planning one… but if I can now…”
>>160759Silver nods to her.
"You would be safe to do so."
>>160760Her tail has escaped its confines in the chair and is now moving freely. Frankly it’s a good thing this conversation isn’t taking place in the living room, as her tail would be a menace to any items placed on the coffee table of the end tables.
“Seriously?”
>>160761Silver nods yet again, and gives her a smile. He is grateful for the fact that they are here, and away from most breakables.
"I do not know when, but I want to and I will make you Mrs. Khoi Lua."
>>160534The deed is only half done.
Going up through the door and into the display-room ante chamber, Amber moves past a small statue of a broad-bellied monkey creature, and another of a siren-like sea creature. Helm directs the statue to be placed on a chest cleared and used as a make shift table. The distortion effect lessens once Amber leaves the room beneath, though it hasn't entirely disappeared. Mason and Helm immediately pick up a set of wood, and start to create a box around the "greater" statue.
The eye of the "lesser" statue almost seems to be looking toward Amber. Almost.
>>160762She calms down slightly, sitting in her seat with her legs on the table and both hooves together. She has a fairy wide smile.
>>160765"No expense spared, not for you, my darling Khoi."
He smiles at his kirin. If the two have finished their cake, he calls over the unicorn waitress for the bill.
>>160767She smiles widely, but is calm and does not immediately respond. The cake is finished, or nearly so.
The unicorn comes up, and gives them their bill. It’s around 35 bits. The lack of alcohol purchased makes a difference.
>>160768Not bad at all. Silver leaves a 15 Bit tip to make it an even 50. He gets up out of his seat, and offers a foreleg for Khoi to hold onto.
"Whenever you are ready, my dear."
>>160770The unicorn smiles and nods.
Khoi takes Silver's hoof, and stands up
>>160772Before they set off, Silver says to the unicorn, "Thank you for excellent service. Be sure to also give my compliments to chef, our dinner tonight was simply superb."
With that, Silver leads Khoi out of the establishment by the hoof. He looks down warmly at the small kirin by his side.
"I have other plans for our date if you wish. Would you like to come with me to see movie?"
>>160773She walks with him, by Silver's side
"A movie?" She asks
"I don't think I've ever seen one."
>>160774"Then it will be both of our first. I wonder if it anything like TV we have, just bigger."
>>160763The "lesser" statue is also upstairs now? They just got finished with the "greater" statue. Or is Amber back downstairs?
>>160775She walks alongside him with closed lips.
"TV?" She asks, and looks up towards him with her magenta eyes
>>160778Silver looks down at his kirin, and meets her magenta eyes with his own sky blue ones.
"That new appliance I bought for household not too long ago, sitting in living room. It is like radio, but it broadcasts pictures as well as sounds."
>>160777To explain the area:
The basement is dominated by a wine cellar as you enter down the stairs from the first floor of the house. Then in a connected room is a large number of shelves, with no door but only an open archway separating the storage area from the wine cellar. In a small adjacent room to the storage area is a rectangular room that is used to store several items, including the lesser art piece. This room is sectioned off from the main storage room by a door. This room is something like an antechamber to another, which is seperated by a stairway and a doorway to some room even further underground. This room holds the greater art piece.
The greater art piece has been transported up the stairs to the antechamber/small storage room. While it isn't that great of a distance, it is one of the two stairways it must be hauled up, and more importantly, it is being boxed in this room.
>>160779"Oh..." She says.
"I uh, I was wondering what that was. I saw a small portion of a motion picture back in Ngua Nam but... never an entire one."
>>160780"I am excited to see one for first time. Doubly so to see one with you, my dear."
>>160781She gives a uncertain smile, which quickly recedes.
"Sure... something new."
>>160782Presumably by this time they reach the car, where Silver helps Khoi into the passenger seat and closes the door for her like a gentlestallion, and then gets in the driver's seat himself. He pulls out of the lot to go for their next location: a movie theater.
>>160783The two walk the several blocks to the parking lot. Khoi looks at Silver, and then hops into the car seat. She comments "all of this is new to me..." shortly after entering the car.
The two drive some number of blocks along Westside, before coming to the tan-walled building with a red metal sign, a ring of lights, and the names of movies displayed in black letters on a white background: the cinema.
>>160784Silver parks the car in an acceptable spot, and once again gets out first to help his date out of the car. Once out, he offers his hoof to walk her to the cinema.
>>160785A space by the roadway is available, albeit on the other side of the street. She gives Silver a quick smile as he helps her out of the car, and then presumably across the street. The two walk up to near the ticket booth.
>>160786Silver looks at the movies that are close to starting, reading them off to Khoi for her benefit.
>>160788Silver looks down at his date after reading them off to her.
"Do you have preference? Did any sound like good choice?"
>>160790Trickey's eyes go wide, and she moves her head back. Sorrel, lovingly holding the other (still at least half full) bottle, takes notice and looks over at Dark Night, and walks a little closer. The Whiskey is smooth, but biting.
>>160791He quickly drinks half and then continues
>>160792Her mouth starts to come open. Soon, Dark Night has an audience of both, wide eyed ponies, who stand and watch in amazement as the
small earth pony drinks.
>>160793He pumps one of his hooves in the air as he finishes it off
>>160794Tricky's mouth hangs open, and she blinks
"All of that..."
Sorrel looks at the spectacle, but then lowers her muzzle down towards the remaining open box, and starts to nuzzle the waffle.
>>160795He sits the bottle down and Laughs
>>160796Tricky scrunches
"You'll regret that in the morning." She says
Sorrel, standing up and with her muzzle in the box that lies on the floor, bites into the waffle.
>>160797'Maybe so.'
He Laughs.
He stands up
"I'm Going to go get some water."
>>160798"You'll need it. If you don''t want to get hung over." She says. She whips her tail up, and has her eyes somewhat narrowed.
>>160799He reaches into his bag and sits down a bottle of whiskey next to tricky.
He then walks downstairs
>>160800She is scrunching... until she sees the bottle of whiskey. She sits down, clops her hooves together in a quick clap, and makes a "hehe" as her eyes widen. She moves over, bops Sorrel in the nose, causing the latter to pull away with a loud "squeak" sound, and pulls the waffle closer to herself.
Dark Night leaves the room, and manages to go downstairs
>>160801He holds on to the railing as he makes it down the stairs
>>160802Dark Star was wise to eat the hayburger, lest he become too drunk too quickly. He makes it out of the room, down the stairs, and presumably, into the bar
>>160803Yes
He walks over to mr glass
>>160804Mr. Glass takes a moment, but then sees him
"Hello again."
>>160805"I'm gonna need some water."
He laughs
>>160806"I figured" He says. "Let me get you a tall glass." He pours a tall glass with water, though only after adding a few ice cubes.
"Here you go."
He gives Dark Night a sly smile.
>>160807"Have you ever seen anypony drink an entire bottle of whiskey in one go?"
>>160808He stops for a moment. Them he places a foreknee on the counter, puts a leg up to his chin, and looks up towards the left and the ceiling.
"You know... I'm not sure I have."
>>160809He Grins at him.
"You're looking at somepony who did just that not even 5 minutes ago."
>>160810Glistenning Glass has his mouth open.
"Are you okay?
>>160811I look down at myself then pat my sides
"I Feel ok."
>>160812"Heh. Good luck. I hope you ate something. Now drink some water." He says. "And keep having fun."
>>160813"I ate a hayburger before i came back. and i'm still not doing what you think i am."
He drinks the water fast
>>160814His grin becomes even wider
"Right. Of course you aren't." He winks
>>160815"I am not."
He finishes off his water
"So how much water should i have?"
>>160816"Eh, at least the one glass." He says
>>160817"Get me one more. oh and I'm not going to die from that am i?"
>>160818"Probably not. Nah." He says, smiling. He refills Dark Night's glass
>>160819"Good. Not Ready to yet anyway."
He sips the water/
>>160820"I wouldn't be either, with those two mares in my bed." He says
>>160821He shakes his head
"Neither of them are in the bed."
>>160822Glass smiles, and shakes his head.
"Well, I didn't think they'd be tired."
>>160823"What are you getting at?"
>>160824"Oh, nothing. I'll let you get at it." He says
>>160825He raises his eyebrows at him
as he drinks the rest of his water.
>>160826Glistening Glass still has a wide grin.
"Good luck protecting the honor of those two young gals. They're pretty fine if you ask me."
>>160827"They are ponies so their honor should be protected. what do you mean fine?"
>>160828He looks away, still clearly smirking.
"They'll be just fine your protection" He says, stifling a laugh
>>160788>>160789"I am partial to Pambi or White Swan, they sound interesting. But Casa Blank Flanks sounds like it is appropriate for date. Do you like romance?"
>>160831"I am not familiar much with any of this." She answers. "You chose one."
>>160833Silver thinks to himself for a moment, before asking for two tickets to "The White Swan".
>>160834The red earth pony colt takes the total - 4 bits - and gives Silver two tickets to White Swan.
>>160835Silver leads his date by the hoof into the cinema.
>>160836Khoi's grip is fairly weak on Silver, but she does not hesitate to let Silver hold her hoof. They move inside the pink carpeted building with its dim lights, concession stand, and its many posters of black and white stallions in fedoras and trench coats carefully holding hidden revolvers, or of a mare terrified at a green eyed Abyssinian standing tall in a dark doorway. Silver may not chose to purchase concessions if desired.
>>160838Silver looks around with wide, excited eyes. He looks at the posters for various movies, oooing at the gangsters and aaaahing at the Abyssinian. He also at least checks out the concession stand to see what they have.
>>160839As in
>>78287 →Popcorn, pretzels, peanuts, haydogs... various sodas. No sugar based candies
>>160840Silver looks to his date.
"Do you want anything? I want to get some popcorn and soda. Have full cinema experience."
>>160841She looks up at Silver, and blinks. “What is popcorn?” She blinks again. “And what is soda?”
>>160842Silver blinks in turn.
"Oh. Uh, popcorn is what you get when you heat kernals of corn, they explode out from their shells and turn into fluffy white pieces of foodstuff, then you cover them in butter and salt. Soda is sweetened, carbonated, caffinated beverage. I think there used to be type of soda that had cocaine instead of caffine, but they stopped that."
>>160844"So, so you want any snacks? They also have pretzels, peanuts, haydogs..."
>>160846"Well, what do you want, love?"
>>160847"I want an Aryan man to cum inside my horse pussy to save the white race," she sheepishly exclaims.
She punctuates her statement, "I suppose a Polish sausage will do nicely!"
>>160780Ah, so only halfway there.
Amber grumbles, "And these two statues are part of a set?"
>>160849As Mason raises the last board on the box, and starts to hammer it in, Helm turns back to Amber and smiles.
"Yes and no. No, these are not part of a proper set. The beauty that is being boxed up now is over a thousand years old and belongs to an unknown artist from an indigenous Hertzland culture. This-" He places a claw on the back of the statue of the hound, and for a moment, amber may be afraid that the thing will turn and bite him, so realistic does it look. "Was sculpted by the artist Georgi Genovicci in a straight, almost sleepless three week period, after he awoke in a cold sweat one morning, saying he saw the thing in a dream. No, they do not share the same origin, nor subject matter, nor even material. They are not what we would normally think of as a 'set'."
Mason finishes the hammering, and sets the hammer down. He looks upwards towards the ceiling in bewilderment. All in the room can hear the sound of banging, but Mason is the only to notice that he has stopped hammering.
"But yes, they are a set, as both are going to the same new owner in New Manehattan. And that is why we are moving these here."
>>160848I was with you until you said "Polish." Hitler would not approve.
>>160847If what she wants is for Silver to inseminate her to start a new race of half-breeds, she does not announce so right here.
"I don't really know what those are..." She answers.
>>160850"So
this one has a definite history. Good to know at least, but I have no idea why a sculptor would recreate his nightmare…I wonder if the other had a similar origin, and is just older and by a different griffon.."
>>160851"I meant to say "German" instead of "Polish," she abruptly cried, blushing lightly.
"It's just that I get excited at the thought of European nationalism and that, despite it, they might want to cum in my pony pussy," she quickly blurts out, slightly retreating as she does so, bashfully mock-folding one foreleg over the other.
"Maybe I could just go for a nice pretzel?"
Hey I saw that
>>160852Helm looks down on the hound with a loving glance, as if it were his own beloved hunting dog, and gently rubs his claw against its "back."
"Oh I can see why. He had a vision of something older. More primal. Unmitigated. And what a fine job of turning that vision into reality. As for the other... We can only speculate. Perhaps it came in a vision or dream. Perhaps he saw it with his own eyes."
Mason turns around.
"Ready."
>>160855Amber looks at him touching the horrid statue with barely veiled revulsion.
"Let's get this done with."
>>160857“Which fo you want to move first?” He asks. “This’ll go to a car outside.”
>>160859The statue of the Griffin, while seemingly containing a core of metal, is otherwise comprised of bone or ivory or some similar lightweight substance, and as it is largely hollow and adorned in amber, it isn’t very heavy. The hound is larger and is composed of solid stone. It is much heavier.
The hound may be grabbed by the creature’s barrel, or at its base.
“Careful not to grab onto the wings, lest they break.”
>>160860Amber grabs onto the base. How would such an ancient artifact be made hollow? Knowledge of ancient technology and magic is clearly lacking.
>>160851Silver smiles at his kirin.
"Pretzels are baked bread snacks covered in salt, usually made into twists. Peanuts are type of nut, like name suggests. Haydogs are like hayburgers, but hay patties are long and shaped like dog's body."
>>160861The hound, for all of its malign glory, does not have an energy, or stigma emanating from it. Not like the other. Thankfully even that has declined significantly since the other was boxed and incased in wood.
It’s level ground through the door, across the storage room, to the base of the stairs.
[1d20 = 7][1d20 = 8]>>160862She tilts her head.
“Um… maybe a pretzel.” She answers. “And… maybe peanuts?” She holds her teeth down, looks up, and extends her right foreleg, hoof angled down in a questioning pose.
>>160863Silver orders a thing of popcorn, a pretzel, a thing of peanuts, and gets both himself and his date a pair of sodas.
>>160865It's heavy, but they make it all the same through the threshold and across the floor. When they come to the stairs, Amber is placed on the side walking back up the stairs, while Helm and Mason are both on the bottom side, holding the statue up. It's awkward and heavy to lead up the stairs, but it occurs all the same. On the way up, Mason looks around, like a dog in the night, who sits up to attention at an unheard provocation. They make it to the threshold to the first floor.
>>160867The statue is temporarily set down in the hallway, just outside the door.
Roll wisdom, or rather, listen.
>>160869Amber can hear sounds down the hallway, past a bend and to the entry foyer where new creatures enter and speak. She can hear talking in the library (the room she was in previously) that consists of simply direct questions and orders.
>>160870"Shhh. I hear creatures down there, sounds like intruders. They're not guests."
>>160871Amber knows what she doesn’t hear, and she doesn’t hear laughter or jovial speech.
Helm whispers:
“Could the police be here?”
Mason backs into the threshold of the basement, and from under his coat draws a pistol, albeit an odd pistol that is very long, big, and has the magazine in front of the handle.
>>160872"It's not revelers," Amber remarks grimly. "Should we make an exit?"
>>160873Helm:
“No no. Let me go talk to them. They must be local. I can talk them down.”
Helm starts to walk towards the library. Mason stays back, holding his gun tightly.
>>160874Wishing not to be seen just yet, Amber stays with Mason. "Careful with that thing." Are there any visible exits around?
>>160875Yes and no. No, there are no exits to the house that are visible from Amber's position. Yes, there are alternative points of movement away from the locations where the police are suspected (the library and the entry foyer). Going left on the hallway will lead to the library, the entry foyer, the staircase and a few other rooms. Going right in the hallway that Amber is currently at will take her somewhere else.
Mason glares back at Amber, holding the pistol upright. It appears he has his own assessment of the situation independent of both Helm and Amber. Helm is already moving towards the library.
>>160876Amber moves right, away from the entry foyer and, more importantly, away from the agitated griffon with a gun.
>>160877Helm moves away, into the library. There is the sound of talking, then yelling. Mason moves ahead, slowly moving down the hallway.
Amber moves down the hallway to see a rear door, and a doorway that peels off into a kitchen, and then to a different room in the back.
>>160878Is Mason moving toward the Entry Foyer? Amber goes into the kitchen.
>>160879He is slowly moving towards the library, it seems.
[1d20 = 20][1d20 = 2]It's a rather large kitchen, albeit of some sort of older design. It includes a pantry, large cupboards, an island, and slots for wine bottles near the ceiling. There is a window to the outside.
>>160879>>160880Moving in, Amber sees that she is not the only one there - two other griffins have taken up refuge there as well. They crouch down along the floor in the back.