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  "description": "[b](Content warning:[/b] [color=#babdb6]prompt will link out to a story submission containing themes including cub, violence, injury and possibly death. Comments below will contain reactions thereto, and possibly similar played out under the Elimination placeholder\n\nIf you don't feel you can read the Elimination, there is a brief summary at the bottom of this description.[/color] It is white text, so highlight it to un-spoiler. [color=#babdb6]I cannot promise that relying on this won't cause issues but I do understand!)[/color]\n\nOnce again, the cubs got their requisite day-and-a-bit to recuperate from all the fun they'd had during their chosen challenge! Amongst the production staff, the consistent selection of the worst possible option was becoming something of an office joke, even as they took to reviewing policies about how they would present their options going forward.\n\nAt least nobody saw fit to move them, this time. They didn't even get blipped! Once Cybele had, in her sister's stead, handed out the prizes, handled Life Points, and left them with those symbol statues to consider, she had even left the group to make their own way back to the inn. At least the weather was not inclement.\n\nIt was possible she in fact did not [i]have[/i] the capability to instantly transfer anyone, other than herself. To the inn, for instance.\n\nCybele did not torment anyone who returned, mind! She meant well, after all. Insofar as her vastly more limited intellect could have that sort of intent. She was just... there. Smiling happily to herself as she loitered near the fire that she had, apparently, had the good grace and/or instruction to prepare using the inn's hearth, ready for the cubs' return.\n\nShe wasn't even inanimate or anything! Just so, so obviously an NPC, with responses to any questions or actions that were clearly generated in a way that Cyber's jailbreak might have worked on. Even if Cybele did not actually [i]have[/i] any more useful information after that which Poly had managed to extract.\n\n\nStill, the cubs had their chance to rest, and worry, and maybe even plan! Before, at a moment they might almost be able to predict by now...\n\n\"Everyone! I've got to tell you a story!\"\n\nWhich meant Cybele was going to be doing the honors once again.\n\nWhether it was her that [i]blipped[/i] everyone after the requisite waiting period? Not clear. But either way, off they all got moved if they didn't hurry to the tavern space, with Cybele appropriating the aesthetics of *Minerva's last showing.\n\nSeats either taken or assigned, the backdrop actually popped up from behind the bar! As the lights dimmed, focused onto the stylized paper-work art, and the puppet-cubs that all appeared...\n\nCybele, as it turned out, did not quite have *Minerva's story telling voice. It wasn't an unpleasant voice, and there were similarities! But it was much more suited to enthusiastically guiding players through character creation than being one more part of the experience to sink into.\n\n\"After their flight through the falling valley, the questing cubs took the time to rest! Everyone was shocked at the loss of their first companion, and the songs and stories by their fire that night didn't have the enthusiasm of their time on the plains.\n\n\"But sadly still, the worst was yet to come! For though the night was bright with stars and their camp's view was beautiful, cubs they were still, and on so still a night not a one did think to set a watch.\"\n\nThe cute little campfire scene had a melancholy to it, even before the puppets dispersed back to their eleven personalized tents and the fire died down. And hunched, top-heavy figures began to appear from the shadows.\n\n\"Almost as if they had been waiting, the bandits struck! None of the cubs had time to struggle, stolen in their bedrolls as they were, and when the party came to waken, each was bound in their own box, all hidden and ready to be sold in secret to some unscrupulous merchant!\"\n\nMaybe it was Cybele's telling, maybe it was the fact that the challenge she described had been more titillating, but they were getting a longer intro show this time!\n\n\"But the cubs were wily! They struggled and they squirmed, and when the bandits came to move their wares, the cubs had loosed their bonds and fled - all but for one! For in their haste and fear, none had realized, one of their party had not squirmed free - Sebastian had been left behind!\"\n\nThis was, of course, not [i]remotely[/i] how the events had played out. But as puppet-Sebastian was shown being closed in on by a circle of leering gnoll silhouettes, it should by now be clear that accuracy was not really the idea, during these bits.\n\nThe trapped-watching cubs' perceptions all rushed in to witness what had really become of their friend.\n\n[center][b][u]                                                       \t[/u][/b][/center]\n[center]#L3562129\n[b]Elimination 2 - Sebastian\n[color=#888a85]WARNING:[/b] [color=#888a85]this submission contains cub, violence, and injury.\nSee submission tags for full list[/color][/center]\n[center][b][u]                                                       \t[/u][/b][/center]\n\nWhen it was all over, Cybele, predictably, lacked her sister's tendency to look roughly as traumatized as the rest of the party. If anything, she looked as if she was expecting to see - and maybe even [i]was[/i] seeing - an audience who had enjoyed their weekly story interlude.\n\n\"Wasn't that exciting?\" all but bouncing her scantily clad, dark little form on bare feet against the bare floorboards.\n\n\"Okay, so before I tell you all who gets to go this week, I have letters! Or, um, two letters.\"\n\nThis time the neatly folded and sealed envelopes were for Trixie and Skylar, and once Cybele had pressed them into the cubs' paws, she stepped back, rocking cutely on her heels while they had time to look. The adorable little sheep looked [i]very[/i] expectant of their doing so, and while upper bodies were free to move, the somewhat clumsier-than-usual weekly finale was still keeping anyone from actually [i]leaving[/i].\n\n[color=#888a85]((I have PM'ed the two of you with the contents of your 'letters'.  You are free to let others see as you respond, or not!))[/color]\n\nOnly once there had been indication of having examined the missives, did Cybele finally continue. She didn't make any show of it, just turned to take in the entire group and, \"Including your votes, here are everyone's results for this time!\n\n\"Jacob, this time you have the most Life Points - 12!\n\n\"Josephine, Petal, Ash, Daniel, Connie, and Poly? This time you each have 11.\n\n\"And Trixie, Skylar, and Pity? The three of you have 10. That means I have to look at other things to break your tie!\n\n\"Pity and Skylar, the two of you have yet to lose a challenge. Trixie, you were the loser for the first time during [i]this[/i] challenge. The tie is broken!\"\n\nIt was not quite a cheer, but it [i]was[/i] incongruously bright as Cybele padded over to Trixie, and took the fox girl's paws in her own much smaller, darker ones.\n\n\"Do you want to say anything to everyone before we go?\" all smiles.\n\n\nCybele might have been smaller, slighter, and even less clothed than her sister, but in this moment her soft, cool little hands were just as inescapable as she waited for Trixie to say her bit.\n\nAnd then, when it was done? The fluffy headed little sheep smiled brightly at the assembled cubs -\n\nAnd then she and Trixie were gone.\n\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                       [/u][/b][/center]\n\nStorytime was over, and with Cybele and Trixie gone, the party were once more free to move about as they wanted.\n\nThey had not been moved to a new environment this time, and were once more free to explore the city, with its same amenities as had been available to them throughout the previous several days. Even the bathing pool where most of them had drowned was back to normal! [i]And[/i] those spheres started turning up again, for cubs who went searching.\n\nBut once again, the selected symbol was haunting them. Not only did that circle with the two lines extending from its base begin to appear in unlikely places, just as always, but the bathhouse still had that sculpture looming over the bathing spaces as well.\n\nAt least Cybele returned! It was a little while, but at some point the little sheepgirl would be back at the inn, cheerfully lingering beside the hearth. Content to remain in the one spot and answer queries in the limited way she was able, just like the patient little NPC she was.\n\n\n[b]<Please roleplay responses by replying to the appropriate ‘Reactions’ comment below! Remember to [u]PM me[/u] your character's vote for who to save by the end of Thursday [u]13th March[/u]. The next prompt will ideally be posted on [u]Friday 14th March[/u], in [u]12 days[/u]' time.>[/b]\n\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                       [/u][/b][/center]\n\n[b]Summary/Key points:[/b]\n - *Minerva did not handle storytime this week, but rather, Cybele.\n - Cybele did not inform everyone of their chosen symbol this time - it's possible she forgot!\n   But nonetheless the statue that remained behind was the circle with its two lines. It also \n   began to haunt the environment, as always.\n - Cubs that go looking will once again have opportunity to stumble across an orb.\n - Storytime played out as per usual, with the theme this time being the party having been\n   set upon by gnoll-shaped 'bandit' silhouettes that had intended to sell them to 'unscrupulous\n   merchants'. Sebastian was portrayed as having failed to escape.\n - For those who do not feel able to read the elimination log, the very short, spoilered summary:\n[color=#ffffff]   Zandren manifested a throne room environment for Sebastian, and the two of them played out\n   what was to all intents and purposes a fight scene. Sebastian suffered a number of broken bones\n   before losing the fight with a sword driven through his chest.[/color]\n - Cybele gave Trixie the opportunity to say her last words to everyone, before taking her away.\n - There will be a delay of one week before the next prompt!\n\n[u][t]Remaining Cubs[/t][/u]\n[icon]Polymorph[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8956124](Poly)[/url]     [icon]Smolfoks[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8957427](Skylar)[/url] [icon]PaydayWolf[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8958052](Connie)[/url] \n[icon]MystBunny[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8959771](Daniel)[/url]  [icon]Mysterythree[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8960555](Ash)[/url]    [icon]PetalLaFleur[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965166](Petal)[/url]    \n[icon]PityPlowed[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965346](Pity)[/url]          [icon]Mizzyam[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965608](Jake)[/url]     [icon]FlutterBun[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965902](Fifi)[/url]\n\n[icon]blessedwasthechild[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8956767](Trixie)[/url] [b]has left the party.[/b]\n\n- Cub reactions and freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3562753#commentid_9011240]Here[/url]\n- Predator reactions and freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3562753#commentid_9011243]Here[/url]\n- Trixie's elimination scene [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3562753#commentid_9011252]Here[/url]\n- Audience reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3562753#commentid_9011254]Here[/url]\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                       [/u][/b]\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3561135]<--- to the previous prompt[/url]         | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533932]to Labyrinth of Twilight Details/Index[/url] |         [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3572593]to the next prompt --->[/url][/center]",
  "description_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'><strong>(Content warning:</strong> <span style=\"color: #babdb6;\">prompt will link out to a story submission containing themes including cub, violence, injury and possibly death. Comments below will contain reactions thereto, and possibly similar played out under the Elimination placeholder<br /><br />If you don&#039;t feel you can read the Elimination, there is a brief summary at the bottom of this description.</span> It is white text, so highlight it to un-spoiler. <span style=\"color: #babdb6;\">I cannot promise that relying on this won&#039;t cause issues but I do understand!)</span><br /><br />Once again, the cubs got their requisite day-and-a-bit to recuperate from all the fun they&#039;d had during their chosen challenge! Amongst the production staff, the consistent selection of the worst possible option was becoming something of an office joke, even as they took to reviewing policies about how they would present their options going forward.<br /><br />At least nobody saw fit to move them, this time. They didn&#039;t even get blipped! Once Cybele had, in her sister&#039;s stead, handed out the prizes, handled Life Points, and left them with those symbol statues to consider, she had even left the group to make their own way back to the inn. At least the weather was not inclement.<br /><br />It was possible she in fact did not <em>have</em> the capability to instantly transfer anyone, other than herself. To the inn, for instance.<br /><br />Cybele did not torment anyone who returned, mind! She meant well, after all. Insofar as her vastly more limited intellect could have that sort of intent. She was just... there. Smiling happily to herself as she loitered near the fire that she had, apparently, had the good grace and/or instruction to prepare using the inn&#039;s hearth, ready for the cubs&#039; return.<br /><br />She wasn&#039;t even inanimate or anything! Just so, so obviously an NPC, with responses to any questions or actions that were clearly generated in a way that Cyber&#039;s jailbreak might have worked on. Even if Cybele did not actually <em>have</em> any more useful information after that which Poly had managed to extract.<br /><br /><br />Still, the cubs had their chance to rest, and worry, and maybe even plan! Before, at a moment they might almost be able to predict by now...<br /><br />&quot;Everyone! I&#039;ve got to tell you a story!&quot;<br /><br />Which meant Cybele was going to be doing the honors once again.<br /><br />Whether it was her that <em>blipped</em> everyone after the requisite waiting period? Not clear. But either way, off they all got moved if they didn&#039;t hurry to the tavern space, with Cybele appropriating the aesthetics of *Minerva&#039;s last showing.<br /><br />Seats either taken or assigned, the backdrop actually popped up from behind the bar! As the lights dimmed, focused onto the stylized paper-work art, and the puppet-cubs that all appeared...<br /><br />Cybele, as it turned out, did not quite have *Minerva&#039;s story telling voice. It wasn&#039;t an unpleasant voice, and there were similarities! But it was much more suited to enthusiastically guiding players through character creation than being one more part of the experience to sink into.<br /><br />&quot;After their flight through the falling valley, the questing cubs took the time to rest! Everyone was shocked at the loss of their first companion, and the songs and stories by their fire that night didn&#039;t have the enthusiasm of their time on the plains.<br /><br />&quot;But sadly still, the worst was yet to come! For though the night was bright with stars and their camp&#039;s view was beautiful, cubs they were still, and on so still a night not a one did think to set a watch.&quot;<br /><br />The cute little campfire scene had a melancholy to it, even before the puppets dispersed back to their eleven personalized tents and the fire died down. And hunched, top-heavy figures began to appear from the shadows.<br /><br />&quot;Almost as if they had been waiting, the bandits struck! None of the cubs had time to struggle, stolen in their bedrolls as they were, and when the party came to waken, each was bound in their own box, all hidden and ready to be sold in secret to some unscrupulous merchant!&quot;<br /><br />Maybe it was Cybele&#039;s telling, maybe it was the fact that the challenge she described had been more titillating, but they were getting a longer intro show this time!<br /><br />&quot;But the cubs were wily! They struggled and they squirmed, and when the bandits came to move their wares, the cubs had loosed their bonds and fled - all but for one! For in their haste and fear, none had realized, one of their party had not squirmed free - Sebastian had been left behind!&quot;<br /><br />This was, of course, not <em>remotely</em> how the events had played out. But as puppet-Sebastian was shown being closed in on by a circle of leering gnoll silhouettes, it should by now be clear that accuracy was not really the idea, during these bits.<br /><br />The trapped-watching cubs&#039; perceptions all rushed in to witness what had really become of their friend.<br /><br /><div class='align_center'><strong><span class='underline'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \t</span></strong></div><br /><div class='align_center'><table style='display: inline-block;'><tr><td>\r\n\t\t\t<div class='widget_imageFromSubmission ' style='width: 125px; height: 125px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<a   href='/s/3562129' style='border: 0px;'><img src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/thumbnails/large/5461/5461032_Flowerfall_title_card_e02_noncustom.jpg' width='125' height='125' title='Labyrinth of Twilight - Elimination 2 (Sebastian) by Flowerfall' alt='Labyrinth of Twilight - Elimination 2 (Sebastian) by Flowerfall' style='position: relative; border: 0px; ' class='shadowedimage' /></a>\r\n\t\t\t</div>\r\n\t\t\t</td></tr></table><br /><strong>Elimination 2 - Sebastian<br /><span style=\"color: #888a85;\">WARNING:</span></strong> <span style=\"color: #888a85;\">this submission contains cub, violence, and injury.<br />See submission tags for full list</span></div><br /><div class='align_center'><strong><span class='underline'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \t</span></strong></div><br /><br />When it was all over, Cybele, predictably, lacked her sister&#039;s tendency to look roughly as traumatized as the rest of the party. If anything, she looked as if she was expecting to see - and maybe even <em>was</em> seeing - an audience who had enjoyed their weekly story interlude.<br /><br />&quot;Wasn&#039;t that exciting?&quot; all but bouncing her scantily clad, dark little form on bare feet against the bare floorboards.<br /><br />&quot;Okay, so before I tell you all who gets to go this week, I have letters! Or, um, two letters.&quot;<br /><br />This time the neatly folded and sealed envelopes were for Trixie and Skylar, and once Cybele had pressed them into the cubs&#039; paws, she stepped back, rocking cutely on her heels while they had time to look. The adorable little sheep looked <em>very</em> expectant of their doing so, and while upper bodies were free to move, the somewhat clumsier-than-usual weekly finale was still keeping anyone from actually <em>leaving</em>.<br /><br /><span style=\"color: #888a85;\">((I have PM&#039;ed the two of you with the contents of your &#039;letters&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp;You are free to let others see as you respond, or not!))</span><br /><br />Only once there had been indication of having examined the missives, did Cybele finally continue. She didn&#039;t make any show of it, just turned to take in the entire group and, &quot;Including your votes, here are everyone&#039;s results for this time!<br /><br />&quot;Jacob, this time you have the most Life Points - 12!<br /><br />&quot;Josephine, Petal, Ash, Daniel, Connie, and Poly? This time you each have 11.<br /><br />&quot;And Trixie, Skylar, and Pity? The three of you have 10. That means I have to look at other things to break your tie!<br /><br />&quot;Pity and Skylar, the two of you have yet to lose a challenge. Trixie, you were the loser for the first time during <em>this</em> challenge. The tie is broken!&quot;<br /><br />It was not quite a cheer, but it <em>was</em> incongruously bright as Cybele padded over to Trixie, and took the fox girl&#039;s paws in her own much smaller, darker ones.<br /><br />&quot;Do you want to say anything to everyone before we go?&quot; all smiles.<br /><br /><br />Cybele might have been smaller, slighter, and even less clothed than her sister, but in this moment her soft, cool little hands were just as inescapable as she waited for Trixie to say her bit.<br /><br />And then, when it was done? The fluffy headed little sheep smiled brightly at the assembled cubs -<br /><br />And then she and Trixie were gone.<br /><br /><div class='align_center'><strong><span class='underline'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></strong></div><br /><br />Storytime was over, and with Cybele and Trixie gone, the party were once more free to move about as they wanted.<br /><br />They had not been moved to a new environment this time, and were once more free to explore the city, with its same amenities as had been available to them throughout the previous several days. Even the bathing pool where most of them had drowned was back to normal! <em>And</em> those spheres started turning up again, for cubs who went searching.<br /><br />But once again, the selected symbol was haunting them. Not only did that circle with the two lines extending from its base begin to appear in unlikely places, just as always, but the bathhouse still had that sculpture looming over the bathing spaces as well.<br /><br />At least Cybele returned! It was a little while, but at some point the little sheepgirl would be back at the inn, cheerfully lingering beside the hearth. Content to remain in the one spot and answer queries in the limited way she was able, just like the patient little NPC she was.<br /><br /><br /><strong>&lt;Please roleplay responses by replying to the appropriate &lsquo;Reactions&rsquo; comment below! Remember to <span class='underline'>PM me</span> your character&#039;s vote for who to save by the end of Thursday <span class='underline'>13th March</span>. The next prompt will ideally be posted on <span class='underline'>Friday 14th March</span>, in <span class='underline'>12 days</span>&#039; time.&gt;</strong><br /><br /><div class='align_center'><strong><span class='underline'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></strong></div><br /><br /><strong>Summary/Key points:</strong><br />&nbsp;- *Minerva did not handle storytime this week, but rather, Cybele.<br />&nbsp;- Cybele did not inform everyone of their chosen symbol this time - it&#039;s possible she forgot!<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; But nonetheless the statue that remained behind was the circle with its two lines. It also <br />&nbsp;&nbsp; began to haunt the environment, as always.<br />&nbsp;- Cubs that go looking will once again have opportunity to stumble across an orb.<br />&nbsp;- Storytime played out as per usual, with the theme this time being the party having been<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; set upon by gnoll-shaped &#039;bandit&#039; silhouettes that had intended to sell them to &#039;unscrupulous<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; merchants&#039;. Sebastian was portrayed as having failed to escape.<br />&nbsp;- For those who do not feel able to read the elimination log, the very short, spoilered summary:<br /><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; Zandren manifested a throne room environment for Sebastian, and the two of them played out<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; what was to all intents and purposes a fight scene. Sebastian suffered a number of broken bones<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; before losing the fight with a sword driven through his chest.</span><br />&nbsp;- Cybele gave Trixie the opportunity to say her last words to everyone, before taking her away.<br />&nbsp;- There will be a delay of one week before the next prompt!<br /><br /><span class='underline'><span class='font_title'>Remaining Cubs</span></span><br />\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/Polymorph'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/143/143832_Polymorph_feralmoonlight_-_icon_-_poly_melm.png' width='50' height='50' alt='Polymorph' title='Polymorph' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8956124\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Poly)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/Smolfoks'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/143/143841_Rathfoks_smallf_by_sweetbream-dc98fwi.gif' width='50' height='50' alt='Smolfoks' title='Smolfoks' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8957427\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Skylar)</a> \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 33px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/PaydayWolf'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/417/417230_PaydayWolf_headshot.png' width='33' height='50' alt='PaydayWolf' title='PaydayWolf' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8958052\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Connie)</a> <br />\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/MystBunny'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/42/42220_MystBunny_bunny.gif' width='50' height='50' alt='MystBunny' title='MystBunny' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8959771\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Daniel)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 43px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/Mysterythree'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/430/430484_Mysterythree_20250610_105115.jpg' width='50' height='43' alt='Mysterythree' title='Mysterythree' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8960555\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Ash)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/PetalLaFleur'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/246/246881_PetalLaFleur_petalicon.png' width='50' height='50' alt='PetalLaFleur' title='PetalLaFleur' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965166\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Petal)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 34px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/PityPlowed'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/398/398047_PityPlowed_pity_coyote_slut_copy_1_.png' width='34' height='50' alt='PityPlowed' title='PityPlowed' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965346\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Pity)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 50px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/Mizzyam'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/81/81180_Misternivens_avatar.gif' width='50' height='50' alt='Mizzyam' title='Mizzyam' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965608\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Jake)</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; border: none;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div style='width: 50px; height: 49px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'><a style='position: relative; border: 0px;' href='https://inkbunny.net/FlutterBun'><img class='shadowedimage' style='border: 0px;' src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/usericons/small/55/55379_MadAsAMarchHare_178612-my-little-pony-friendship-is-magic-bunny-fluttershy.gif' width='50' height='49' alt='FlutterBun' title='FlutterBun' /></a></div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</td>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t</tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t</table>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8965902\" rel=\"nofollow\">(Fifi)</a><br /><br />\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<table style='display: inline-block;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<tr>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<td style='text-align: center; 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</span></strong><br /><br /><a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3561135\" rel=\"nofollow\">&lt;--- to the previous prompt</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; | <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533932\" rel=\"nofollow\">to Labyrinth of Twilight Details/Index</a> |&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3572593\" rel=\"nofollow\">to the next prompt ---&gt;</a></div></span>",
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