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Not that there was terribly much for her to do after she had shown what became of Skylar.\n\nNot until the time came, and the inevitable, \"Everyone!\" sounded for everyone as if she were right there beside them. \"It's time for you all to face your next challenge!\"\n\nIndelicate and enthusiastic as ever as she borrowed her sister's right to call each of the cubs, no matter where they were or what they were doing.\n\n\nThe meeting place was, as usual, the camp fire in the center of their diminishing little ring of tents. Those who didn't come of their own accord nor in a timely fashion faced the inevitable [i]blip[/i], and there was the little sheepgirl!\n\nAnd a grown-up.\n\nA tall, dark furred, grey-tipped wolf wearing the sharply contrasting, techno-fantasy touched white suit of a... scientist? Or perhaps a technician was the better guess, given the context. Either way, blue eyes intent on the gathered cubs even as Cybele began the explanations.\n\n\"This time, it will be me who gives you your challenge! I don't know where big sister is, but her instructions have been forwarded to me so she must be busy with something really important!\" after that, the little sheep deity gestured frandly to the wolf and, \"And this, is Mister Nikolai! He's been kind enough to come and help, because [i]this[/i] challenge is going to be a tiny bit different!\"\n\nCybele did not seem about to let anyone get a word in, but even if anyone tried to speak up... someone had seen to it that the cubs were once again unable to vocalize more than a whisper against the explanation.\n\n\"It's hide and seek!\" with a big, expansive gesture of her bare arms that made her grey-white hagoromo ripple about her shoulders for a moment. \"You all get three minutes to find a place to hide, and then you're all going to be stuck where you are until Mister Nikolai finds you! I bet you know how it goes, but still! First to be found is the loser, last to be found is the winner.\"\n\nTiny pause, grin.\n\n\"Good luck!\"\n\nAnd [i]blip[/i].\n\n\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                \t[/u][/b][/center]\n[color=#888a85][center][t]The Eighth Challenge[/t][/center][/color]\n\nIt might be confusing, just for a moment, because the blip did not initially seem to have taken the cubs anywhere. Only upon realizing that their tents were gone, and the exact details of the surrounding gardens changed, might the cubs guess that they had been scattered about the gardens at random.\n\nFortunately none of them dithered; Cybele [i]had[/i] only promised them three minutes to find their hiding places after all. Scattered as they once again were, there was not even time to argue strategy! Just everyone taking their best shot at finding places to hide.\n\nPetal and Connie were the first to select their hiding places: for Connie, it was up inside the topiary! Somehow, despite that fat behind, the 'chee actually did an adequate job of fully concealing herself inside a the cube of privet! While Petal fair hurled herself behind the garden's hedge-line, secreting herself in the narrow space behind foliage and a wall dividing one section of garden from another.\n\nDaniel was the next to find himself a spot to hide, one more cub taking advantage of the privet. In his case however, the choice of hiding place was below: smallest member of the group had the advantage of being able to hide beneath even one of the lowest hedges; the knee-height ones squared off along the path sides.\n\nPoly meanwhile chose a similar course to Connie, although her choice of topiary was somewhat larger. Still pruned by some unseen gardener into a cube, though! Just a cube more on the scale of a tree, rather than a precarious potted plant that somehow kept ahold of young cheetahs like the most enthusiastic kidnapper.\n\nThe last to find a place to hide was Pity. Perhaps she'd thought herself in circles, discounting one hiding spot after another as too obvious, only to pick somewhere particularly stand-out: a little round potting shed with stone walls and a tile roof. But at least she had the foresight to clamber up and squash-cling to the rafters! Even if curves did make that just a little challenging. Wasn't she lucky, therefore, when the seeker's count ended and froze her up there?\n\n\nAfter that, it was merely a waiting game; one that 'Nikolai' did not seem terribly worried about drawing out as he strolled through the beautiful surroundings, taking in the environment before he halted beside one of the smaller pieces of cubic foliage, considered...\n\nAnd then a paw closed around Connie's tail.\n\nWhether she had merely lost track of it, let it slip in the last moment before the freeze, or Nikolai had merely narrowed her down first of the group, that was all it took before the [i]blip[/i] and Connie was back to wait at the camp fire!\n\nPerhaps it was because she had had a similar idea, but Poly was the next to go! Although in her case, the larger tree-scaled topiary into which she had clambered meant that Nikolai had to practically peer up and inside before he could see the little fox girl, grin -\n\nAnd Poly was back at the fire, with Connie and Cybele.\n\nPity was the next unfortunate, the door of the little structure she had chosen opening with a slow, drawn-out [i]creek[/i] and the long shadow of the adult wolf spreading across the floor by way of the square of light from the door. In her stepped, looked slowly around, seemed to be about to leave - and then looked up at Pity, and smiled at her as she was spirited away to wait back at camp.\n\nWhich just left Petal, and Daniel. Both had every reason to be scared, but for some reason? For some reason Petal was [i]especially[/i] so; nerves raw and anxious even as Nikolai stood so, [i]so[/i] close to Daniel's hiding place... and then he sniffed, smiled.\n\nHad that anxiety given her away? It was a common adage, wolves being able to smell things like fear, after all. Either way, his big, dark paw snapped into the hedge, clamped around Petal's arm, and [i]yanked[/i] her out onto the gravel path.\n\nDaniel had chance to get one, good look at his nemesis' capture before, as the last cub standing, he too was whisked away to the camp fire.\n\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                    [/u][/b][/center]\n\n\"And that's the end of the game!\" Cybele's bright, enthusiastic voice as she addressed the four cubs that had joined her by the fire. \"Daniel was the last to be found, so he wins, and that's plus one Life Point!\"\n\nThe white [b]+1[/b] was already drifting up in front of Daniel's nose, as Cybele turned and smiled at Connie, so -\n\n\"And Connie got caught first, which means she [i]loses[/i] one Life Point.\"\n\nJust like Daniel, but the black [b]-1[/b] was drifting away before Connie's nose.\n\n\"Now, since you all had plenty of time around the garden, you all get a chance for a treasure! But the ones who found something to open aaaare -\" after drawing out the word, Cybele gave a [i]clap[/i], and in front of Poly and Connie appeared orbs in their respective colors! One in pale gold, another in mottled golden brown. If at all possible, both would drop into their winner's paws before Cybele spoke again.\n\n\"Let's see if you can open them while Petal's away playing with Master Nikolai!\"\n\nEvidently Cybele did not have any compunctions about Nikolai's preferred form of address!\n\n[color=#888a85](Please see [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109117]Here below[/url] for your questions and opportunity to answer!)[/color]\n\nOn that ominous note, Cybele had her questions for the two cubs, and then, with a little pout, \"... Well I guess Petal can just see the choice when she's finished. Here are your symbols to choose before we find out who has to leave next, everyone!\"\n\nOne more grand gesture from the scantily dressed lamb, and this time the statuary nearby the tents had changed into a depiction of that cage, or pagoda from before, and a somewhat less easy to interpret group of squiggly lines with one more overhead and horizontal.\n\n[center]#H3594951 #H3615590[/center]\n\n[b]<Please roleplay responses by replying to the appropriate ‘Reactions’ comment below! As things remain turbulent, I hope you'll all forgive me if I'm flexible about when the next prompt will be. My [i]goal[/i] will be this this Sunday, however depending on how everyone feels/stands it might be necessary to delay it a bit.>[/b]\n\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                    [/u][/b][/center]\n\n[b](Summary/Key points:[/b]\n - Hide and seek this week! With special guest predator [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8967108]Nikolai[/url].\n - The order in which cubs were found went: Connie, Poly, Pity, Petal, and Daniel was left\n   as the winner. First to be caught was the loser, winner was the last cub hiding.\n - Last to be caught - Petal - gets to stay behind for Nikolai to play with a bit in some remote part\n   of the garden! This is [i]not[/i] an elimination, nor should you consider him to have [i]long[/i].\n   Still, that's the penalty for being alone with a predator with nobody else to hunt down!\n - Poly and Connie found an orb, this time! Questions to open them are below, as usual.\n - Please tell me the symbol you want to pick for next challenge!\n\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]\n\n- Cub reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109091]Here[/url]\n- Predator reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109094]Here[/url]\n- Placeholder for Petal and Nikolai [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109102]Here[/url]\n- Orb questions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109117]Here[/url]\n- Audience reactions [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109118]Here[/url]\n[center][b][u]                                                                                                                                                       [/u][/b]\n\n[url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3601682]<--- to the previous prompt[/url]         | [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3533932]to Labyrinth of Twilight Details/Index[/url] |        [url=https://inkbunny.net/s/3627430]to the next prompt --->[/url][/center]",
  "description_bbcode_parsed": "<span style='word-wrap: break-word;'>The garden <em>was</em> lovely. Warm days and nights under clear skies, and the peace and beauty of the place could have fooled anyone, but for the utter absence of civilization. And the persistent knowledge of what was coming, as ever reminded by the indiscreetly changed statue nearby the camp and the intermittent appearances of their chosen symbol anywhere it might conceivably appear.<br /><br />Meanwhile, there had been no sign of *Minerva since she had taken Jake away. Cybele remained however! Ready to fill the role of her big sister wherever she might be needed with the same ignorant cheerfulness hammered home her lack of genuine intelligence. Not that there was terribly much for her to do after she had shown what became of Skylar.<br /><br />Not until the time came, and the inevitable, &quot;Everyone!&quot; sounded for everyone as if she were right there beside them. &quot;It&#039;s time for you all to face your next challenge!&quot;<br /><br />Indelicate and enthusiastic as ever as she borrowed her sister&#039;s right to call each of the cubs, no matter where they were or what they were doing.<br /><br /><br />The meeting place was, as usual, the camp fire in the center of their diminishing little ring of tents. Those who didn&#039;t come of their own accord nor in a timely fashion faced the inevitable <em>blip</em>, and there was the little sheepgirl!<br /><br />And a grown-up.<br /><br />A tall, dark furred, grey-tipped wolf wearing the sharply contrasting, techno-fantasy touched white suit of a... scientist? Or perhaps a technician was the better guess, given the context. Either way, blue eyes intent on the gathered cubs even as Cybele began the explanations.<br /><br />&quot;This time, it will be me who gives you your challenge! I don&#039;t know where big sister is, but her instructions have been forwarded to me so she must be busy with something really important!&quot; after that, the little sheep deity gestured frandly to the wolf and, &quot;And this, is Mister Nikolai! He&#039;s been kind enough to come and help, because <em>this</em> challenge is going to be a tiny bit different!&quot;<br /><br />Cybele did not seem about to let anyone get a word in, but even if anyone tried to speak up... someone had seen to it that the cubs were once again unable to vocalize more than a whisper against the explanation.<br /><br />&quot;It&#039;s hide and seek!&quot; with a big, expansive gesture of her bare arms that made her grey-white hagoromo ripple about her shoulders for a moment. &quot;You all get three minutes to find a place to hide, and then you&#039;re all going to be stuck where you are until Mister Nikolai finds you! I bet you know how it goes, but still! First to be found is the loser, last to be found is the winner.&quot;<br /><br />Tiny pause, grin.<br /><br />&quot;Good luck!&quot;<br /><br />And <em>blip</em>.<br /><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;\t</span></strong></div><br /><span style=\"color: #888a85;\"><div class='align_center'><span class='font_title'>The Eighth Challenge</span></div></span><br /><br />It might be confusing, just for a moment, because the blip did not initially seem to have taken the cubs anywhere. Only upon realizing that their tents were gone, and the exact details of the surrounding gardens changed, might the cubs guess that they had been scattered about the gardens at random.<br /><br />Fortunately none of them dithered; Cybele <em>had</em> only promised them three minutes to find their hiding places after all. Scattered as they once again were, there was not even time to argue strategy! Just everyone taking their best shot at finding places to hide.<br /><br />Petal and Connie were the first to select their hiding places: for Connie, it was up inside the topiary! Somehow, despite that fat behind, the &#039;chee actually did an adequate job of fully concealing herself inside a the cube of privet! While Petal fair hurled herself behind the garden&#039;s hedge-line, secreting herself in the narrow space behind foliage and a wall dividing one section of garden from another.<br /><br />Daniel was the next to find himself a spot to hide, one more cub taking advantage of the privet. In his case however, the choice of hiding place was below: smallest member of the group had the advantage of being able to hide beneath even one of the lowest hedges; the knee-height ones squared off along the path sides.<br /><br />Poly meanwhile chose a similar course to Connie, although her choice of topiary was somewhat larger. Still pruned by some unseen gardener into a cube, though! Just a cube more on the scale of a tree, rather than a precarious potted plant that somehow kept ahold of young cheetahs like the most enthusiastic kidnapper.<br /><br />The last to find a place to hide was Pity. Perhaps she&#039;d thought herself in circles, discounting one hiding spot after another as too obvious, only to pick somewhere particularly stand-out: a little round potting shed with stone walls and a tile roof. But at least she had the foresight to clamber up and squash-cling to the rafters! Even if curves did make that just a little challenging. Wasn&#039;t she lucky, therefore, when the seeker&#039;s count ended and froze her up there?<br /><br /><br />After that, it was merely a waiting game; one that &#039;Nikolai&#039; did not seem terribly worried about drawing out as he strolled through the beautiful surroundings, taking in the environment before he halted beside one of the smaller pieces of cubic foliage, considered...<br /><br />And then a paw closed around Connie&#039;s tail.<br /><br />Whether she had merely lost track of it, let it slip in the last moment before the freeze, or Nikolai had merely narrowed her down first of the group, that was all it took before the <em>blip</em> and Connie was back to wait at the camp fire!<br /><br />Perhaps it was because she had had a similar idea, but Poly was the next to go! Although in her case, the larger tree-scaled topiary into which she had clambered meant that Nikolai had to practically peer up and inside before he could see the little fox girl, grin -<br /><br />And Poly was back at the fire, with Connie and Cybele.<br /><br />Pity was the next unfortunate, the door of the little structure she had chosen opening with a slow, drawn-out <em>creek</em> and the long shadow of the adult wolf spreading across the floor by way of the square of light from the door. In her stepped, looked slowly around, seemed to be about to leave - and then looked up at Pity, and smiled at her as she was spirited away to wait back at camp.<br /><br />Which just left Petal, and Daniel. Both had every reason to be scared, but for some reason? For some reason Petal was <em>especially</em> so; nerves raw and anxious even as Nikolai stood so, <em>so</em> close to Daniel&#039;s hiding place... and then he sniffed, smiled.<br /><br />Had that anxiety given her away? It was a common adage, wolves being able to smell things like fear, after all. Either way, his big, dark paw snapped into the hedge, clamped around Petal&#039;s arm, and <em>yanked</em> her out onto the gravel path.<br /><br />Daniel had chance to get one, good look at his nemesis&#039; capture before, as the last cub standing, he too was whisked away to the camp fire.<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;</span></strong></div><br /><br />&quot;And that&#039;s the end of the game!&quot; Cybele&#039;s bright, enthusiastic voice as she addressed the four cubs that had joined her by the fire. &quot;Daniel was the last to be found, so he wins, and that&#039;s plus one Life Point!&quot;<br /><br />The white <strong>+1</strong> was already drifting up in front of Daniel&#039;s nose, as Cybele turned and smiled at Connie, so -<br /><br />&quot;And Connie got caught first, which means she <em>loses</em> one Life Point.&quot;<br /><br />Just like Daniel, but the black <strong>-1</strong> was drifting away before Connie&#039;s nose.<br /><br />&quot;Now, since you all had plenty of time around the garden, you all get a chance for a treasure! But the ones who found something to open aaaare -&quot; after drawing out the word, Cybele gave a <em>clap</em>, and in front of Poly and Connie appeared orbs in their respective colors! One in pale gold, another in mottled golden brown. If at all possible, both would drop into their winner&#039;s paws before Cybele spoke again.<br /><br />&quot;Let&#039;s see if you can open them while Petal&#039;s away playing with Master Nikolai!&quot;<br /><br />Evidently Cybele did not have any compunctions about Nikolai&#039;s preferred form of address!<br /><br /><span style=\"color: #888a85;\">(Please see <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109117\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here below</a> for your questions and opportunity to answer!)</span><br /><br />On that ominous note, Cybele had her questions for the two cubs, and then, with a little pout, &quot;... Well I guess Petal can just see the choice when she&#039;s finished. Here are your symbols to choose before we find out who has to leave next, everyone!&quot;<br /><br />One more grand gesture from the scantily dressed lamb, and this time the statuary nearby the tents had changed into a depiction of that cage, or pagoda from before, and a somewhat less easy to interpret group of squiggly lines with one more overhead and horizontal.<br /><br /><div class='align_center'><table style='display: inline-block;'><tr><td>\r\n\t\t\t<div class='widget_imageFromSubmission ' style='width: 187.5px; height: 187.5px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<a   href='/s/3594951' style='border: 0px;'><img src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/5522/5522760_Flowerfall_icon07.jpg' width='187.5' height='187.5' title='Icon 07 by Flowerfall' alt='Icon 07 by Flowerfall' style='position: relative; border: 0px; ' class='shadowedimage' /></a>\r\n\t\t\t</div>\r\n\t\t\t</td></tr></table> <table style='display: inline-block;'><tr><td>\r\n\t\t\t<div class='widget_imageFromSubmission ' style='width: 187.5px; height: 187.5px; position: relative; margin: 0px auto;'>\r\n\t\t\t\t<a   href='/s/3615590' style='border: 0px;'><img src='https://nl1.ib.metapix.net/files/preview/5559/5559370_Flowerfall_icon08.jpg' width='187.5' height='187.5' title='Icon 08 by Flowerfall' alt='Icon 08 by Flowerfall' style='position: relative; border: 0px; ' class='shadowedimage' /></a>\r\n\t\t\t</div>\r\n\t\t\t</td></tr></table></div><br /><br /><strong>&lt;Please roleplay responses by replying to the appropriate &lsquo;Reactions&rsquo; comment below! As things remain turbulent, I hope you&#039;ll all forgive me if I&#039;m flexible about when the next prompt will be. My <em>goal</em> will be this this Sunday, however depending on how everyone feels/stands it might be necessary to delay it a bit.&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;</span></strong></div><br /><br /><strong>(Summary/Key points:</strong><br />&nbsp;- Hide and seek this week! With special guest predator <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3533991#commentid_8967108\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nikolai</a>.<br />&nbsp;- The order in which cubs were found went: Connie, Poly, Pity, Petal, and Daniel was left<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; as the winner. First to be caught was the loser, winner was the last cub hiding.<br />&nbsp;- Last to be caught - Petal - gets to stay behind for Nikolai to play with a bit in some remote part<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; of the garden! This is <em>not</em> an elimination, nor should you consider him to have <em>long</em>.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp; Still, that&#039;s the penalty for being alone with a predator with nobody else to hunt down!<br />&nbsp;- Poly and Connie found an orb, this time! Questions to open them are below, as usual.<br />&nbsp;- Please tell me the symbol you want to pick for next challenge!<br /><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: 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: 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><br /><br />- Cub reactions <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109091\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here</a><br />- Predator reactions <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109094\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here</a><br />- Placeholder for Petal and Nikolai <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109102\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here</a><br />- Orb questions <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109117\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here</a><br />- Audience reactions <a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3615572#commentid_9109118\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here</a><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><br /><br /><a href=\"https://inkbunny.net/s/3601682\" 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/3627430\" rel=\"nofollow\">to the next prompt ---&gt;</a></div></span>",
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