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Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831866 Mon 30/11/15 16:58 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden Somehow Dizzy had found the boy, but too late. The child was dead. Jayden went down on both knees. He reached out and lightly stroked the cat behind its ears. "We were too late, huh, Dizzy?" he murmured as he looked more closely at the child's corpse, trying to determine the cause of his death. Briefly he glanced from the boy's body to the other cat and then back to DC before returning his attention to the dead boy. "Is this one a friend of yours, Dizzy?" Last edited by Exeter; Mon 30/11/15 22:36 UTC.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831885 Mon 30/11/15 22:08 UTC
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OP Pandemonium Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,023 Likes: 10	[OOC: Sure, why not? Shadow is meowing at him. :)]

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831887 Mon 30/11/15 22:34 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	[OOC: I just thought Shadow was communicating with 'the spirit' and wasn't sure about Jayden... I'll edit the post above and will delete this one as soon as someone else posts.] Last edited by Exeter; Mon 30/11/15 22:37 UTC.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831901 Tue 01/12/15 02:33 UTC
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AJ Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 27,611	Shadow He did not spare the burden the slightest bit of notice, and made sure that that was plain to see in the arch of his posture. It was not something he considered Mine, nor a threat, thus it was not his problem. The spirit was another matter. He purred at it, "Authority ultimately grows from the point of a claw: I've battled more dangerous spirits than you. I do not threaten the burden, I have no reason to and would not stand to gain from it. But you deny me respect for my territory and its inviolability: To let that pass unchallenged is to lose ground. Who are you, that you would claim this one, and to what purpose do you intend to use him?"

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831904 Tue 01/12/15 05:09 UTC
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OP Pandemonium Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,023 Likes: 10	The spirit laughed. " He is my progeny. He called and I came." The boy is cold like that of a night in the forest. He has been dead some time.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831919 Tue 01/12/15 13:36 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	[OOC Not sure if she can see Jayden's spirit? Or hear Shadow's conversation?] Tiger-Lily/Dizzy She watches as her burden looks at the little burden. She is satisfied now that someone knows he is there. But she is also concerned about Jezzabella. She needs her burden to pay the old cat some attention, so she wanders over to her and rubs herself against the torso.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831931 Tue 01/12/15 15:40 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden There was obviously nothing he could do for the child, but he did not want to leave the body unattended and at the mercy of forest prowlers. Jayden reached to pick the child up, but caught Dizzy's movement peripherally and moved to join her at the prone cat's side. "What do you want me to do, Dizzy?" he asked and reached out to touch his cat and then to stroke the fur of the older, unconscious feline.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831982 Wed 02/12/15 12:45 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	Tiger-Lily/Dizzy Good. She seems to have his attention. Now how to get him to take Jezzabella out of here. She crouches down, tail and butt high in the air and pushes Jezzabella with her delicate nose as if she is trying to move her. Then she looks up at her burden to see if he understands.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #831989 Wed 02/12/15 17:46 UTC
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OP Pandemonium Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,023 Likes: 10	[OOC Cats have enough of the magical gift, that unless the spirit is doing something that would cloud her sight, she can see it. In this instance she is aware of it all. Sorry I wasn't clearer.]

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832021 Wed 02/12/15 23:15 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden Kneeling between the unconscious cat and the child's corpse, Jayden tried to make sense of the little cat's - his little cat's - actions. I was almost as if she was trying to tell him something. Something about the unconscious cat? Surely the dead boy was more important than a cat, he thought. But maybe not more important to another cat. Cats weren't like dogs, though, who were... pack animals, he supposed you would call it. Cats always seemed more solitary... more aloof. "What is it you want, Dizzy?"

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832047 Thu 03/12/15 12:08 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	Tiger-Lily/Dizzy Is he really this dense? Doesn't he understand that he needs to save Jezzabella? And why does he keep making those noises that she doesn't understand? She sits there beside the old cat staring at her burden. She is aware of the spirit hovering close to him. Where had that come from? She talks to Shadow. Of course to Jayden this is just meowing. "Where did you find the spirit?"

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832052 Thu 03/12/15 13:13 UTC
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AJ Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 27,611	Shadow Off-pawedly, he replied, "It came with the burden prior to passing through My territory, claims to be the progenitor and protector of it, called by it. What happened here?"

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832078 Thu 03/12/15 23:43 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden She obviously seemed more concerned with the unconscious, older looking cat than with the boy. He supposed it made sense from her point of view... "Stupid cat," he muttered. Jayden shook his head briefly, eyes closed, not at all accustomed to thinking of cats having points of view. "And I called it Stupid." Finally, he reached both hands underneath the cat and lifted it carefully. He duck-walked with it over to the child's body, lay it upon the boy's stomach and carefully lifted both, grunting as his knees popped with the movement. "Let's get back to the car and just hope the cops don't charge me for messing up a crime scene or something similar." Jayden headed back toward the place he'd parked his car.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832099 Fri 04/12/15 12:16 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	Tiger-Lily/Dizzy Finally he gets the message and lifts Jezzabella gently. She rubs against his legs giving her approval and then talks to Shadow whilst he goes over to the boy. "He called a spirit?" She is more than surprised. "It wasn't around earlier. I think we are going to go back to town in the metal thing. Do you want a lift? It isn't too bad, especially if you lie down." Then she turns her attention to the spirit. "How did he call you? And are you here to protect him?"

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832102 Fri 04/12/15 13:05 UTC
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AJ Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 27,611	Shadow He looked contemptuously at the Burden-container, then back at the neophyte cat. He grumbled, "I will trust to my paws. Now, what happened here?"

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832108 Fri 04/12/15 14:00 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden Reaching the car, Jayden placed the two bodies - on deceased, one apparently comatose - on the ground, unlocked the doors with the button on his key fob and opened the back door. After a few moments of lifting and tugging, he was able to get the boy's corpse spread out on the back seat and the cat sort of curled up on the rear floorboard. Then he opened the front door and turned to the other two cats, frowning a little that the other cat he didn't know was still with them. "You ready, Dizzy?" he said, gesturing toward the door.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832278 Mon 07/12/15 20:56 UTC
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OP Pandemonium Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,023 Likes: 10	The spirit stayed attached and hovering near the burden. The unconscious Jezzabella is now lying on the floorboard of the car.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832330 Tue 08/12/15 12:06 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	[OOC Did the spirit ignore her questions? Thanks! ]

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832389 Wed 09/12/15 05:47 UTC
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OP Pandemonium Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,023 Likes: 10	[OOC: No the GM did. Oops.] The spirit answered "I protect him," but didn't seem to address the calling question.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832408 Wed 09/12/15 12:38 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	Tiger-Lily/Dizzy Well not all spirits are bad.. or so she was lead to believe.. and if true well extra help is very welcome. "I'll see you back in town Shadow. Not sure exactly where we are going." With that she jumps into the metal thing and settles herself down on the seat, claws ready to grab on if needed. She needs her burden to do something to help Jezzabella but what she doesn't know - even if she could communicate it!

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832472 Thu 10/12/15 02:52 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden Jayden closed the door behind Dizzy, got inside himself and started the car, pausing to think a moment before pulling off. The police station... that had to be his first stop. But if he did go to the police station with the corpse, they would raise hell at him... why had he moved the body, messed up the crime scene - if crime it had been - instead of just calling the cops? Suddenly it occurred to Jayden that he had not been thinking clearly... not in a long time, it seemed. He pulled his cell phone out. No signal... Police station or the hospital? The hospital now seemed to make more sense to him. Jayden pulled away and headed toward the hospital and toward the emergency room entrance.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832490 Thu 10/12/15 13:44 UTC
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Gypsy Wizop Administrator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 76,499 Likes: 57	Tiger-Lily/Dizzy Despite her own anxiety - the strange arrival of the spirit, the state of Jezzabella, the worry over the woods and what might be coming - she can also sense that her burden is not his usual relaxed happy self either. But the metal thing wakes up and starts taking them towards town. Nothing she can do now but wait.. or talk to the spirit. "What can you do to protect him?" The more she can find out the better.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832500 Thu 10/12/15 18:30 UTC
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AJ Moderator Joined: May 2000 Posts: 27,611	Shadow He began his return path. Jezzabella potentially out of contention meant there may well be a power vacuum: For an ambitious cat, several naps' worth of foreknowledge before the information spread could be as delicious as the scent of catnip. It was time to shore up his position, see if he could make a jump for the highest point...

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832515 Thu 10/12/15 20:04 UTC
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OP Pandemonium Chaotic Obfuscator Moderator Joined: May 2009 Posts: 15,023 Likes: 10	Shadow would know that Jezzabella had been grooming the cat Sable for her position. So potentially there isn't a vacuum, but there could be contention. His return to his territory is uneventful. Jayden travels to the hospital, turning into the Emergency Room entrance.

Re: OHAE: Who is training whom? Pandemonium #832529 Thu 10/12/15 23:48 UTC
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Exeter Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 46,267	Jayden He put the car into park, got out and advised the emergency room attendants that he'd found the body of the missing boy and that it was in his car.