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[dismemberthename]

[Whatever circumstances put you into this situation must have really sucked, because right now? You're basically in the middle of nowhere, with heavy snowfall verging on a blizzard, with no reliable way out of this mess. There's no sign of shelter anywhere, and you're in the mountains for fuck's sake. Maybe you can find some trees to hang out under...?

...Are those wolves howling? Seriously, why are even wolves out in this weather?]

((or you know whatever you wanna play follow your dreams))

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[bitethehandthatfeeds]

[ oh, no. whatever will he do. ... okay, even if this isn't unlife-threatening, it is enough of a pain to warrant some concern.

currently human-shaped—mostly because he doesn't want to borrow trouble by bothering that wolf pack—but he's rapidly starting to rethink that decision, even as he starts working on digging out a hollow in the snow with his hands. he doesn't really have any body heat left to try to conserve, but at least if he gets deep enough he'll stop getting snowflakes in his eyes. ]

[dismemberthename]

[the howls are getting closer, then silencing. soon there's the faint sound of paws on new snow, so so very soft, as the pack draws near. They're... curious, maybe? Chris definitely can only feel the presence of wolves, but there's a flash of red in the flurrying snow, a dark shape topped with that vivid color, taller than the wolves that come in and out of view through the gusts of snow, and it disappears almost long enough for Chris to think he hadn't seen anything of the sort. Then a person bounds up, wearing a TRULY MASSIVE wolf pelt and otherwise kind of underdressed for the weather. At least they'd deigned to actually wear their top properly given the snow, so it's not just bundled around their waist with their arms and shoulders exposed.] You're not from around here! Need shelter? [the wolves are creeping closer, shapes becoming clearer as they near, though there's no sense of hostility. ...Actually, there's still no sense of there being a person here at all. Even the redhead feels like a beast.]

[bitethehandthatfeeds]

[ hhhuh. sniffs a bit, masking it as a sniffle ] If your friends wouldn't mind the intrusion, sure. Digging a hole for yourself is more fun when the snow's already settled.

[steadyblade]

[ so as it turns out there are far more benefits to this metal body than previously thought. in his youth, perhaps the circumstances surrounding the situation he was currently in would be troublesome. but that time had long since passed, and with it so too did many of the frailties of the natural human body.

he will miss the ramen though. it is not quite the same anymore.

he inclines his head towards the sound of the wolves, listening, the glow of his visor flickering with every bit of snow flurry raining down over his head.

it isn't more than a second longer before he begins making his way towards the noise, footsteps silent even as he steps over the thick, heavy snow underfoot. ]

[dismemberthename]

[Genji finds himself approaching a cliff face as the howling dies out, replaced with much quieter whuffs and growls and yips. He can get pretty close in this weather, with the wind in his favor and the active snow muffling his strange scent. He is a ninja, after all. ...Wolves appear to be play-fighting in the snow just outside a cave mouth. Not only that, but there's a person flopped in the pile of playful wolves, laughing clear and bright, wearing a massive wolf pelt and somehow clearly treated as one of their own. If he comes too close, though, one of the wolves will notice and tense, putting the whole pack on alert.]

[steadyblade]

[ his first thought is that the person is being hunted, and not played with, and he can feel his body tense to react, winding tight like a spring. it would not be difficult to close the distance between him and them, and his hand rests on the hilt of his blade in preparation to attack.

but then he doesn't. because there is no blood, there is joy, and laughter, and he thinks perhaps the situation is not what it appears to be.

his footsteps take him closer to the wolf-pile regardless, and when one of the creatures looks up, only then does he pause - but with his attention fixed solely on the only human here. ]

[queentessential]

[ how RUDE she was IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING. she's in clothing rather unfitting for this weather, a cocktail dress with a light fur jacket, and though she's inhuman the cold still affects her, slows her down. she shudders, tugging her jacket closer in to herself and debating just furring herself more thoroughly as she begins to walk. ]

[dismemberthename]

[the howls are getting closer, then silencing. soon there's the faint sound of paws on new snow, so so very soft, as the pack draws near. They're... curious, maybe? She definitely can only feel the presence of wolves, but there's a flash of red in the flurrying snow, a dark shape topped with that vivid color, taller than the wolves that come in and out of view through the gusts of snow, and it disappears almost long enough for her to think she hadn't seen anything of the sort. Then a person bounds up, wearing a TRULY MASSIVE wolf pelt and otherwise kind of underdressed for the weather. At least they'd deigned to actually wear their top properly given the snow, so it's not just bundled around their waist with their arms and shoulders exposed.] You're not from around here! Need shelter? [the wolves are creeping closer, shapes becoming clearer as they near, though there's no sense of hostility. ...Actually, there's still no sense of there being a person here at all. Even the redhead feels like a beast.]

[queentessential]

[ oh a meal.

is what her first thought is but she doesn't quite say that, that would be rude. instead she gasps, relieved at the sight of a person in this weather, though her gaze does flicker "nervously" to the wolves around them. ]

Y -- yes, that would be ... great.

[was_no_mononoke]

[ SADLY, BEING A FOREST GOD DOES NOT MAKE YOU IMMUNE TO SNOW, particularly when you've still got more than one foot in being mortal. at least he's wearing a hell of a lot of flannel, but he's still sneezing crankily a couple of times and making a beeline for the nearest trees he can feel ]

[dismemberthename]

[the howling grows louder as he approaches the trees, then cuts off, replaced with playful huffs and growls and yips once he gets close enough. if he keeps drawing closer, he may find a pile of wolves play-fighting among the trees, accompanied by... a red-headed woman wearing a wolf pelt? she's right in the thick of it, too, rolling with them and laughing, pinning one of her companions with great effort.]

[was_no_mononoke]

[ ...oh, hey. momentarily forgetting the cold to watch; there are no wolves in his forests (yet), so running into a pack like this is something of a novelty.

waiting until a distraction wouldn't throw the wrestling match one way or another before barking once, the sort of greeting a packmate would make to another rather than a noise of warning. as far as he's concerned, they may as well be siblings rather than strangers. ]

[wolfitdown]

[ He was hoping to avoid anyone else's territory out here. Oh well, fat chance of that ever happening, even in this weather.

Lifts his head and howls into the wind. It's only polite, after all. Just passing through. ]

[dismemberthename]

[There's an answering howl that doesn't sound quite right. Really, Sudoh does his best, but he's still not actually a wolf. One of his packmates picks up the slack, warning of the severity of the coming blizzard. Jules should find shelter.]

[wolfitdown]

[ ... a newly turned were, maybe. why are they giving a newbie allowance to answer a howl?? also why are they outside in this, what.

Already on it, though, he's searching out whatever recessed area he can that's mostly shielded from the wind, so he can curl up and tuck his nose into his tail. ]

[fromallfours]

[ ha ha are you kidding, he's probably encouraging the storm

pricking his ears up at the sound of howling, and after a moment of chasing his own tail in excited indecision he sits himself down, tilts his head back, and lets out an echoing wail in response. hi, hello, he's here, he exists ]

[dismemberthename]

[That catches the pack's collective attention pretty quickly, and they move in fast, eager to check out this visitor.

Sudoh is right in the thick of them as they emerge from the curtain of snow, all bright red hair and massive wolf pelt.]

[sufferme]

[Well this is a really bad situation to be in when nearly naked! She holds the skull in her hands tight to her chest, looking around. It's cold, she can hardly see in front of herself.

Oh but at least someone's around if there's howling, surely the wolves are friendly. They should be friendly to a princess, that's how it works, animals recognise royalty. Except...]

Oh no, I don't speak wolf.

[dismemberthename]

[there's a distant voice calling out! in fact, it could be at the same distance as the wolves? the same direction, certainly.]

Is there someone out there?

[maryhadalilgun]

[ shit shit shit. She was not ready for this. She'd known hunting demons in the wilderness would be different from hunting in the city, but she'd underestimated the mountain. Now here she was, lost in the snow with a useless arsenal. Can't very well start a fire with a gun, can you? She puts her back to the biggest tree she can find and rubs at her face. ]

What a pitiful way to die...

HEY GMAIL PLS REFRESH EVER SO I CAN JUMP ON THESE THINGS WITH THE PROPER SPEED

[dismemberthename]

[the howling is getting closer! in fact, Lady can see doggy shapes vaguely through the snow, circling her, veering closer then further again.

then-- a person's voice from the white?]

Hello?

[dismemberthename]

[there's wolf trouble out by Falcon's nest. the beasts are stealing supplies, clever enough to avoid traps and almost seeming to strategize. that's problem enough, but rumor is a person has been seen running with them like a beast themselves.

and so young knight aymeric is saddled with the investigation. which is why he's out and about when the blizzard hits.]

[peacetalks]

[young knight aymeric only meant to make a preliminary investigation, but the flash blizzard threw that plan out the window entirely. separated from his squadron, aymeric is forced to seek out temporary shelter. the winds are so strong and visibility so bad that he ends up blindly leading his poor chocobo on foot. he knows this part of the coerthan highlands well from before the calamity, however, and even if ishgardian climate has changed drastically in the past few years, there's a mountain base nearby that should shield them from the worst of the storm.

and so it is that a young knight of ishgard comes across a cave hidden in the mountain pass with his mount, unaware of what else might be lurking there]

[dismemberthename]

[sudoh travels a lot. it's a habit born in another time and place, such flightiness, but he just can't get comfortable putting down roots. he normally wouldn't go for such a high end hotel, but there weren't really vacancies anywhere else, and he guesses he deserves pampering from time to time.

but this hotel rubs him the wrong way. he keeps catching flashes of unreality in the corners of his eyes. it has his hackles up. whiiiich is a bad place to be, emotionally, with his background. which is how a single wrong move leads to Sudoh pinning another customer to the floor, a pair of chopsticks just a hair from their eyeball.]

[selfidentitytheft]

[most of the hotel's clints fall on the inhuman side, fae and youkai and monsters and all, but there have always been a few rooms set aside for humans. they're good customers in Kei's opinion. they pay well and they pay in real money, they're the best numbers for online reservations, they don't do spooky shit to the hall lighting, and while they don't have the instinctive aversion to crossing the rules of hospitality, well! A badly-timed charge for that stolen towel works just as good as a curse.

and they don't usually threaten to stab people?? which is why there's no security to go rushing to peel Sudoh off the poor, now wisely fainted customer. instead it's the concierge that suddenly appears at Sudoh's side]

—Hey! Hey hey hey, excuse me!?