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Comments below will contain reactions thereto, and possibly much worse 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\n\nOnce again, the cubs got a couple of days to recover from the challenge, although on this occasion it had been far less of an ordeal. For most of the party, at any rate. Most had had their insecurities preyed on to some extent, and Pity had additionally gotten to enjoy being trapped in that space with all of its teasing [i]and[/i] whilst knowing how poorly she had performed well before rejoining the others.\n\nThen it had been back out into their camp, the summaries of who had scored what, the life points taken and given, Poly's little smoke-bomb surprise was supposedly going help her next time... and Ash's clue as to the nature of those two symbols that *Minerva swapped in to replace the rectangle had turned out [i]not[/i] to be a guillotine.\n\nTwo nights to contemplate the 'bowling pin between curves' and the four, bent lines with their split ends.\n\n\nThen, like clockwork, in the run-up to dinnertime on the second day after the challenge of the mirror room, so-followed *Minerva's inevitable, \"Everyone? Please join me by the fire.\"\n\nFollowed by the requisite, polite period of waiting before anyone got [i]blipped[/i] to join her around the campfire.\n\n\"I imagine you all understand I will have a story to tell you shortly,\" *Minerva explained, while her oblivious little sister performed her cutesy heel-rocking animation aside and behind. Apparently she was still required to maintain the 'storytime' pretense, but nonetheless, the little fox goddess continued to test the limits of the role.\n\n\"But, before that, there are once again messages for Cybele to relay.\"\n\nDiscomfort again, presumably for having to announce her little non-sentient sister once again getting used as a mouthpiece for mean-spirited viewers. Nonetheless, looking as if this were some important role to be proud of, Cybele stepped forward!\n\nFrom her sleeve, though not nearly so large as *Minerva's, Cybele produced a scroll. And while small, it still did not look as if it could have fit in there alongside her arm. Still, using one paw to hold the top and the other to pull down the lower section, Cybele began to read from the translucent, luminous, scrolling text thereon!\n\n\"This first message is intended for Jake,\" smiling at the little hare boy before beginning to read in her violently ill-fitting voice:\n[q]\"CubHunter69: WTF is this shit?!\nCubHunter69: Im totally happy to see that slut suffer twice, but I can't jerk it to some zombie bitch!\nCubHunter69: Plug her back in for an encore, why not?! She got way too domestic with that fox anyways.\nCubHunter69: Cubs should fight and scream, not just suck cock for clothes and toys!\"[/q]\nSmall look of puzzlement on Cybele's part, much as she had when she had read the abusive message for Pity the last time. Albeit this time she did not query, just moved on with, \"And, this one I'm supposed to read to Daniel...\"\n[q]\"Holy shit--! I just freaking joined and—when the hell did Chains of Serenity let runts THIS young play? Little dork can barely use his big-boy words and keeps hiding under a damn sheet every elimination, what is this shit? Stop letting them hide from their fate! hashtag-nomoresheets!\"[/q]\n\"And this last one is for Connie!\" at whom Cybele smiled, because Connie was [i]always[/i] fun to interact with, to such a blunt extent that even her little dull intelligence had apparently made a note.\n[q]\"Starting to see why folks seem to like this lil cheetah so much. Bitch has got like... zero survival instinct. Easiest fuck on the planet. Even a goddamn 5-year-old can get some action outta that slut. Honestly, she's givin' us chee's a bad name. Way too soft for a predator. And that little stunt with the bunny?\n\nListen bitch, there's only one thing you should ever be wrapping around a little shrimp like that. I'll make it fucking clear since you're the densest creature I've ever laid eyes on. Your jaws, around his neck. That's it. Spreading your LEGS for that little shit? Not unless you're snapping his neck between your thighs. That's PREY you're looking at. PREY you're letting fuck your dumbass cunt.\n\nFor the love of God, if you can't KILL the little snot, make him submit to YOU. Force yourself on him, push him down and ride him or something, but just stop makin' all us cheetahs look bad, goddamn!\"[/q]\nAll through, Cybele continued to show no sign of understanding what she was reading. At least that meant she wasn't doing the voices. Still she looked to *Minerva as if to ensure she had got it right, got a little smile for her trouble, and then stepped backward to let her big sister continue.\n\n\"In addition I... also have some small gifts to hand out, which the creators have kindly allowed me to pass on to three of you.\"\n\n*Minerva stepped forward, bare paws on dull crystal ground as she first approached Poly.\n\n[icon]Polymorph[/icon]\"Poly, for you I have things with which you can write,\" as she handed over... well, they couldn't break theme. Whatever world's intention, the items that Poly received had changed just a little. Wooden clipboard (quite neat work for something so simple!) with a terribly strong clamp at the top, and a stick of charcoal encased in a wooden sleeve, like a primitive, refillable pencil. Perhaps most awkward, that legal notebook World had picked out had become a loose sheaf of papers, but at least there were still plenty of them! And that metal clamp was more than enough to keep them from escaping.\n\n[icon]PityPlowed[/icon]\"Pity, you have been sent something to wear. I have been asked to tell you to be especially grateful, now that you have acquired clothes on [i]two[/i] occasions.\" Even as *Minerva once again did her level best to look as if she were sorry to say something mean. *Minerva held out her arms, and a little stack of clothes appeared atop them for Pity to take. These had been interfered with a little less! Just as World had selected, there were the t-shirt, spiderweb-patterned stockings, the blood-red thong with black trim, a lacy black bra, fingerless black gloves, a studded leather bracelet, a skull hair-clip, and a pair of knee-high black leather combat boots. The only item that had changed was the metal album's cover art on the shirt, replaced with a hard-contrasting and decidedly malefic-looking, but more thematically appropriate symbol.\n\nThe whole stack looked a teeny bit too large for *Minerva to be holding like that, but she seemed fine nonetheless!\n\nAnd finally, *Minerva approached [icon]Mizzyam[/icon] Jake. Into his paws she transferred a doll, the one World had lovingly sculpted into a what-if of had Trixie been a bunny girl instead of a fox. No comment was made about the realistic orifices that World had neglected to remove. \"And Jacob, this is for you.\n\n\"All of these items were gifts from Trixie's predator.\"\n\nAs if they didn't all already know. But, apparently, she had been told to ensure that [i]he[/i] was the one credited.\n\n\nThe gifts handed out, *Minerva looked over those she had had deliveries for... and then Ash, giving her an apologetic little look as well, in-case the little goat was feeling left out as everyone else got some form of teasing or abusive mail.\n\n\"Now...\" and a little pause, recognition they all knew what was coming after all. \"Everyone, please make yourselves comfortable.\"\n\n*Minerva made a little gesture at the seating arrangements around the campfire, waiting the usual little for everyone to decide one way or another if they would cooperate before people were moved appropriately and rendered unable to leave. After that, the same trick with dust blown from her paw, the flames leaping colorfully, and, as their paper-puppet selves began once more to take positions on the pretend stage...\n\n\"The cubs escaped from the city, and finally the clutches of the evil men who had turned the mayor against their quest. It was a shame that they had not been able to resupply, but they were used to finding their own means on the road,\" as the group were depicted foraging, and even hunting - was that Skylar with a bow and taking out a deer? The story did not care enormously much for the reality it seemed.\n\n\"They finally came upon a tunnel, but as the party dared to venture deeper, a trap! An enormous boulder chased the seven of them ever deeper into the Earth, and while Pity deftly rescued their youngest warrior, the two of them could only watch as pursued their friends! All escaped, bar one - for poor Skylar tripped, and Pity and Daniel had to discover the body of their friend after the boulder had left her behind.\"\n\nOnce again, the theme or portraying the victim of the challenge to be the eliminated cub. And, also once again, the image of Skylar rendered somehow even [i]more[/i] two dimension might have been quite funny, if it weren't for the immediate rush inward to join Skylar wherever *Minerva had taken her...\n\n\n[center][b][u] \t[/u][/b][/center]\n[center]#L3579662\n[b]Elimination 4(Part 1) - Skylar\n[color=#888a85]WARNING:[/b] [color=#888a85]this submission contains cub, peril, and violence.\nSee submission tags for full list[/color][/center]\n[center][b][u] \t[/u][/b][/center]\n\nThe quiet was a little different, this time. After all, as scary and exciting as the incomplete elimination had been, it had ended on a very different note to the others.\n\n\"The creators felt that you all would enjoy some suspense,\" *Minerva explained, glancing down apologetically. \"We will find out what became of Skylar in good time.\"\n\nWhile neither *Minerva nor Cybele seemed to pay it any mind, the party might have one more reason to stay quiet a little longer: they had been moved.\n\nThey still had their camp! Even their seats were unchanged, and a scatter of fine, crystal sand gave the impression of their having come from somewhere else besides.\n\nBut just beyond the periphery of their camp? There was... grass? But strange, dense, red grass and... *Minerva was not done with them.\n\n\"Now...\"\n\nAnd *Minerva got to her feet, clearly preparing to deliver the dire news for the week.\n\n\"Taking into account where each of you chose to place your votes, the current Life Point scores are as follows,\" she began, casting her pink gaze across each cub in turn.\n\n\"Connie, Daniel, Pity, and Petal? The four of you have ten Life Points each.\n\n\"Poly, you have nine Life Points, and Jacob, you have eight.\"\n\nWhereupon *Minerva approached Ash, crouched to be on the little goat girl's level, and took her paws in her own. \"Ash, you have seven Life Points. There is no tie to break this week. Is there anything you would like to say to everyone, before you leave?\"\n\nAnd, just as ever, soft, warm, gentle paws with an inescapable hold. And those big pink eyes gazing up into Ash's similar, sad, sorry, and quiet. After all, *Minerva hardly had the right to cry when it was Ash being taken to her fate, did she?\n\nAsh got as long as she needed to say her parting words... and then she and *Minerva were gone, and the party were once more free to move.\n\n\nThey were also free to explore, too! It would only take a moment to realize that, while scales had not changed particularly, the nature of their environment was wildly different. The red grass with its stalks the size of a cub's paw? It would only take glancing up to realize that it was [i]carpet[/i].\n\nThe air had gone from cool and clear, to just a little bit stale. A white wall just beside their camp-site only took an upward glance to realize that it was a skirting board, with floral wallpaper in rich reds and browns rising far, far above to a stucco-white ceiling. There were even gas lights burning softly up above in sconces attached to the walls!\n\nIt was, in fact, a hallway. Just so vastly large compared to the six remaining children as to be almost mind-bending. Plenty to explore, of course! But the distances involved would be a little onerous, even if they could see across the field of red carpet to a bright, tiled space was almost certainly a kitchen, or crane their necks to see up the towering flight or stairs to floors above.\n\nDistantly, a low chiming sounded, like an old, tall grandfather clock striking the time but with such scale as to send its sound resonating through their [i]feet[/i].\n\nAnd Trixie's tent was gone.\n\n\n[center]#L3578168[/center]\n\n[b][/b]\n\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b][/center]\n\n[b]Summary/Key points:[/b]\n - *Minerva had messages again! Two audience submitted messages read by Cybele\n and directed primarily at Daniel and Connie, and then the three gifts from Trixie for\n Poly, Pity, and Jacob.\n - The pre-show narrative played again, before moving on to Skylar's (incomplete) elimination\n (spoilered in White, highlight to view)\n[color=#ffffff] - Skylar was deposited on a battlefield, and found herself in the company of a fellow\n cub! A tiger boy who introduced himself as 'Haze', a fellow victim from another game!\n - The pair fought off a gnoll, and then worked together to infiltrate a castle, which\n Haze said he had been promised would lead to his freedom!\n - The two of them fought down a regally dressed adult Jackal, their would-be predator!\n Skylar was particularly enthusiastic in making sure he was dead.\n - As Haze went to search the body for something he called the 'system key'\n - Everything abruptly went black, and a deranged laughter surrounded Skylar before\n the cubs found themselves back around the campfire.[/color]\n - *Minerva told everyone their Life Points, taking votes into consideration. Ash's LP\n were the lowest, at 7, and she was given the opportunity to say her goodbyes before\n being taken away.\n - During the viewing of Skylar's (to be continued!) elimination, the cubs and their camp\n were moved! The party went from an underground crystal forest... to a house. Specifically,\n a very fine old house, that happens to be hundreds of times outside their scale. The carpet,\n for instance, is like wading through knee-high grass! For those of middling height, anyway.\n - The four-curved-lines symbol was locked in to be your next challenge.\n\n[u][t]Remaining Cubs[/t][/u]\n[icon]Polymorph[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8956124](Poly)[/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]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]\n\n[icon]Mysterythree[/icon] [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533964#commentid_8960555](Ash)[/url] [b]has left the party.[/b]\n\n- Cub reactions and freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3579649#commentid_9041814]Here[/url]\n- Predator reactions and freeplay [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3579649#commentid_9041816]Here[/url]\n- Ash's elimination scene [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3579649#commentid_9041827]Here[/url]\n- Audience reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3579649#commentid_9041829]Here[/url]\n[center][b][u] [/u][/b]\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3578101]<--- to the previous prompt[/url] | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533932]to Labyrinth of Twilight Details/Index[/url] | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3589246]to the next prompt --->[/url][/center]", "description_bbcode_parsed": "(Content warning: prompt will link out to a story submission containing themes including cub, peril, and violence. Comments below will contain reactions thereto, and possibly much worse played out under the Elimination placeholder.

If you don't feel you can read the Elimination, there is a brief summary at the bottom of this description. It is white text, so highlight it to un-spoiler. I cannot promise that relying on this won't cause issues but I do understand!)


Once again, the cubs got a couple of days to recover from the challenge, although on this occasion it had been far less of an ordeal. For most of the party, at any rate. Most had had their insecurities preyed on to some extent, and Pity had additionally gotten to enjoy being trapped in that space with all of its teasing and whilst knowing how poorly she had performed well before rejoining the others.

Then it had been back out into their camp, the summaries of who had scored what, the life points taken and given, Poly's little smoke-bomb surprise was supposedly going help her next time... and Ash's clue as to the nature of those two symbols that *Minerva swapped in to replace the rectangle had turned out not to be a guillotine.

Two nights to contemplate the 'bowling pin between curves' and the four, bent lines with their split ends.


Then, like clockwork, in the run-up to dinnertime on the second day after the challenge of the mirror room, so-followed *Minerva's inevitable, "Everyone? Please join me by the fire."

Followed by the requisite, polite period of waiting before anyone got blipped to join her around the campfire.

"I imagine you all understand I will have a story to tell you shortly," *Minerva explained, while her oblivious little sister performed her cutesy heel-rocking animation aside and behind. Apparently she was still required to maintain the 'storytime' pretense, but nonetheless, the little fox goddess continued to test the limits of the role.

"But, before that, there are once again messages for Cybele to relay."

Discomfort again, presumably for having to announce her little non-sentient sister once again getting used as a mouthpiece for mean-spirited viewers. Nonetheless, looking as if this were some important role to be proud of, Cybele stepped forward!

From her sleeve, though not nearly so large as *Minerva's, Cybele produced a scroll. And while small, it still did not look as if it could have fit in there alongside her arm.  Still, using one paw to hold the top and the other to pull down the lower section, Cybele began to read from the translucent, luminous, scrolling text thereon!

"This first message is intended for Jake," smiling at the little hare boy before beginning to read in her violently ill-fitting voice:
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"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t"CubHunter69: WTF is this shit?!
CubHunter69: Im totally happy to see that slut suffer twice, but I can't jerk it to some zombie bitch!
CubHunter69: Plug her back in for an encore, why not?!  She got way too domestic with that fox anyways.
CubHunter69: Cubs should fight and scream, not just suck cock for clothes and toys!"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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Small look of puzzlement on Cybele's part, much as she had when she had read the abusive message for Pity the last time. Albeit this time she did not query, just moved on with, "And, this one I'm supposed to read to Daniel..."
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"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t"Holy shit--! I just freaking joined and—when the hell did Chains of Serenity let runts THIS young play? Little dork can barely use his big-boy words and keeps hiding under a damn sheet every elimination, what is this shit? Stop letting them hide from their fate! hashtag-nomoresheets!"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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"And this last one is for Connie!" at whom Cybele smiled, because Connie was always fun to interact with, to such a blunt extent that even her little dull intelligence had apparently made a note.
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"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t"Starting to see why folks seem to like this lil cheetah so much. Bitch has got like... zero survival instinct. Easiest fuck on the planet. Even a goddamn 5-year-old can get some action outta that slut. Honestly, she's givin' us chee's a bad name. Way too soft for a predator. And that little stunt with the bunny?

Listen bitch, there's only one thing you should ever be wrapping around a little shrimp like that. I'll make it fucking clear since you're the densest creature I've ever laid eyes on. Your jaws, around his neck. That's it. Spreading your LEGS for that little shit? Not unless you're snapping his neck between your thighs. That's PREY you're looking at. PREY you're letting fuck your dumbass cunt.

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All through, Cybele continued to show no sign of understanding what she was reading. At least that meant she wasn't doing the voices. Still she looked to *Minerva as if to ensure she had got it right, got a little smile for her trouble, and then stepped backward to let her big sister continue.

"In addition I... also have some small gifts to hand out, which the creators have kindly allowed me to pass on to three of you."

*Minerva stepped forward, bare paws on dull crystal ground as she first approached Poly.

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\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t"Pity, you have been sent something to wear. I have been asked to tell you to be especially grateful, now that you have acquired clothes on two occasions." Even as *Minerva once again did her level best to look as if she were sorry to say something mean. *Minerva held out her arms, and a little stack of clothes appeared atop them for Pity to take. These had been interfered with a little less! Just as World had selected, there were the t-shirt, spiderweb-patterned stockings, the blood-red thong with black trim, a lacy black bra, fingerless black gloves, a studded leather bracelet, a skull hair-clip, and a pair of knee-high black leather combat boots. The only item that had changed was the metal album's cover art on the shirt, replaced with a hard-contrasting and decidedly malefic-looking, but more thematically appropriate symbol.

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"All of these items were gifts from Trixie's predator."

As if they didn't all already know. But, apparently, she had been told to ensure that he was the one credited.


The gifts handed out, *Minerva looked over those she had had deliveries for... and then Ash, giving her an apologetic little look as well, in-case the little goat was feeling left out as everyone else got some form of teasing or abusive mail.

"Now..." and a little pause, recognition they all knew what was coming after all. "Everyone, please make yourselves comfortable."

*Minerva made a little gesture at the seating arrangements around the campfire, waiting the usual little for everyone to decide one way or another if they would cooperate before people were moved appropriately and rendered unable to leave. After that, the same trick with dust blown from her paw, the flames leaping colorfully, and, as their paper-puppet selves began once more to take positions on the pretend stage...

"The cubs escaped from the city, and finally the clutches of the evil men who had turned the mayor against their quest. It was a shame that they had not been able to resupply, but they were used to finding their own means on the road," as the group were depicted foraging, and even hunting - was that Skylar with a bow and taking out a deer? The story did not care enormously much for the reality it seemed.

"They finally came upon a tunnel, but as the party dared to venture deeper, a trap! An enormous boulder chased the seven of them ever deeper into the Earth, and while Pity deftly rescued their youngest warrior, the two of them could only watch as pursued their friends! All escaped, bar one - for poor Skylar tripped, and Pity and Daniel had to discover the body of their friend after the boulder had left her behind."

Once again, the theme or portraying the victim of the challenge to be the eliminated cub. And, also once again, the image of Skylar rendered somehow even more two dimension might have been quite funny, if it weren't for the immediate rush inward to join Skylar wherever *Minerva had taken her...


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Elimination 4(Part 1) - Skylar
WARNING: this submission contains cub, peril, and violence.
See submission tags for full list

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The quiet was a little different, this time. After all, as scary and exciting as the incomplete elimination had been, it had ended on a very different note to the others.

"The creators felt that you all would enjoy some suspense," *Minerva explained, glancing down apologetically. "We will find out what became of Skylar in good time."

While neither *Minerva nor Cybele seemed to pay it any mind, the party might have one more reason to stay quiet a little longer: they had been moved.

They still had their camp! Even their seats were unchanged, and a scatter of fine, crystal sand gave the impression of their having come from somewhere else besides.

But just beyond the periphery of their camp? There was... grass? But strange, dense, red grass and... *Minerva was not done with them.

"Now..."

And *Minerva got to her feet, clearly preparing to deliver the dire news for the week.

"Taking into account where each of you chose to place your votes, the current Life Point scores are as follows," she began, casting her pink gaze across each cub in turn.

"Connie, Daniel, Pity, and Petal? The four of you have ten Life Points each.

"Poly, you have nine Life Points, and Jacob, you have eight."

Whereupon *Minerva approached Ash, crouched to be on the little goat girl's level, and took her paws in her own. "Ash, you have seven Life Points. There is no tie to break this week. Is there anything you would like to say to everyone, before you leave?"

And, just as ever, soft, warm, gentle paws with an inescapable hold. And those big pink eyes gazing up into Ash's similar, sad, sorry, and quiet. After all, *Minerva hardly had the right to cry when it was Ash being taken to her fate, did she?

Ash got as long as she needed to say her parting words... and then she and *Minerva were gone, and the party were once more free to move.


They were also free to explore, too!  It would only take a moment to realize that, while scales had not changed particularly, the nature of their environment was wildly different. The red grass with its stalks the size of a cub's paw? It would only take glancing up to realize that it was carpet.

The air had gone from cool and clear, to just a little bit stale. A white wall just beside their camp-site only took an upward glance to realize that it was a skirting board, with floral wallpaper in rich reds and browns rising far, far above to a stucco-white ceiling. There were even gas lights burning softly up above in sconces attached to the walls!

It was, in fact, a hallway. Just so vastly large compared to the six remaining children as to be almost mind-bending. Plenty to explore, of course! But the distances involved would be a little onerous, even if they could see across the field of red carpet to a bright, tiled space was almost certainly a kitchen, or crane their necks to see up the towering flight or stairs to floors above.

Distantly, a low chiming sounded, like an old, tall grandfather clock striking the time but with such scale as to send its sound resonating through their feet.

And Trixie's tent was gone.


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Summary/Key points:
 - *Minerva had messages again! Two audience submitted messages read by Cybele
   and directed primarily at Daniel and Connie, and then the three gifts from Trixie for
   Poly, Pity, and Jacob.
 - The pre-show narrative played again, before moving on to Skylar's (incomplete) elimination
   (spoilered in White, highlight to view)
      - Skylar was deposited on a battlefield, and found herself in the company of a fellow
      cub! A tiger boy who introduced himself as 'Haze', a fellow victim from another game!
      - The pair fought off a gnoll, and then worked together to infiltrate a castle, which
      Haze said he had been promised would lead to his freedom!
      - The two of them fought down a regally dressed adult Jackal, their would-be predator!
      Skylar was particularly enthusiastic in making sure he was dead.
      - As Haze went to search the body for something he called the 'system key'
      - Everything abruptly went black, and a deranged laughter surrounded Skylar before
      the cubs found themselves back around the campfire.
 - *Minerva told everyone their Life Points, taking votes into consideration. Ash's LP
   were the lowest, at 7, and she was given the opportunity to say her goodbyes before
   being taken away.
 - During the viewing of Skylar's (to be continued!) elimination, the cubs and their camp
   were moved! The party went from an underground crystal forest... to a house. Specifically,
   a very fine old house, that happens to be hundreds of times outside their scale. The carpet,
   for instance, is like wading through knee-high grass! For those of middling height, anyway.
 - The four-curved-lines symbol was locked in to be your next challenge.

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PaydayWolf
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MystBunny
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PityPlowed
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Mizzyam
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Mysterythree
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- Cub reactions and freeplay Here
- Predator reactions and freeplay Here
- Ash's elimination scene Here
- Audience reactions Here
                                                                                                                                                      

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