#dreaming

Lovecraft, ever the dignified feline, ignores the obvious pun.

Brown Dog gives the Pole BIG eyes

Sighing, Ryszard pulls out a sausage (Nothing dirty, you pooka satyr minded deviants) and offers up the wurst to the pooch. It actually smells good to cats too

Hmmm, while dignity is important, proper tithing is, too. She sniffs the sausage. Is the Pole on the silver, or standing off to one side?

On it. And this smells ..safe? as well as delicious

She takes a bite before Brown Dog can slaver over all of it

Though, an eye on the Pole lest he try to take familiarity and stroke her

That's what the DOG is for.

He does reach down, but Brown Dog snatches what's left, bumps against him, and off the two animals go. Good, she didn't even have to remove a digit

And that sausage was delicious.

She does give him a brush against one leg. After all, no one is here to see.

ANd the mists will protect

They move on, now fed, and looking for their quest's goal

Lovecraft finds her paws quickening along the path.

"Psssst Psst Psstt" comes a call off the trod

She doesn't spare a glance. Perhaps it's feline intuition, but she feels as though she must hurry.

Also.. Psst Psst? really, how rude...

Even Brown Dog snorts at the obvious play, and he is not the sharpest canine tool in the dog shed

Then there are the doors... one of them tells the truth, one of them always lies

Brown dog hikes a leg on the second door "Oh gross, Oh he's gonna pee on me"

"He's not, and it's not gross at all" says the first door

Lovecraft considers this, and faces the Truth door. "Which of you leads to that which we seek?"

The truth door sighs "Keep going behind me, just.. don't let the dog pee on me"

Lovecraft gives a wicked grin and pushes the door open. She does not instruct Brown Dog in either way, as long as she's out of the 'splash zone'.

She is... and a moment later "DAMN IT... my hinges will rust" And a much relieved Brown Dog walks up

Lovecraft brushes against one of his forelegs as they walk, the equivalent of a fist bump.

Lovecraft suddenly pauses, looking down a tributary of the silver path that leads towards a land of chocolate hearts. "Go, go." She mutters, and races on, before any Cupids from the Land of Valentines might spy her. That never happened. She tells herself.

Chocolate is bad for dogs! Brown Dog goes!

They keep going and ... they hear something. A heart beat, a cat's heart beat... Lovecraft knows the sound. It flutters weakly, yet thunders on the path

Brown Dog whines. He does not like that sound

Lovecraft starts running, ears back.

The Candy Cane gate is sealed off. They are SO close.

Lovecraft gives the gate a tentative lick

So ..sweet

A voice calls out "Leave it be, Come back at New Years"

Brown Dog barks

"BUSY HERE" A voice calls out. It's a bit high pitched "Yule is less than a month"

Lovecraft is a cat, and they are just as liquid as sluagh. Can she squirm through the bars of the gate?

As a matter of fact... she can TRY

Try she does~

(Normally I'd say Dex plus Athletics to mimic sluagh squirm... but throw some dice on the screen as suits)

/roll 5

And in she goes... past the gate. She does notice from this side, there IS a gate keeping lever. She COULD let the idiot dog in too by putting her weight on it now that she's on the inside. Or she could mock the pup for his canine inferiority

She considers both, then settles on... both. First she swishes her tail teasingly out of reach... THEN deigns to let him in.

He gets frantic at the teasing, going back and forth. When he starts to BARK again, well, that's a bit noisey, and she releases the lever on HER terms.

"FORGET IT" the voice says again

But Brown Dog shoots in

Lovecraft darts alongside him, almost, but just quite out of being underfoot. It would not do to be stepped on.

And they see an angry elf (no, not the one in the Elf movie) heading towards their way. He has not seen them ...yet. They are in a field and they see silver snow flakes have laid everywhere. NO wonder this place is safe... every flake falling has the protection of a trod. There are workshops and cottages and a gym for Reindeer games