<span style="font-style: italic">Mmm... Delicious!</span>Sherani licks her lips, savoring the lingering taste of her first course.<span style="font-style: italic">Now for seconds...</span>The shifter's muscles tense in preparation for a mighty lunge at Nera...<br/><br/>... and then comes that damned bolt.<br/><br/><blockquote class="uncited"><div>Sherani feels a brief tickle of something sharp passing right beside her cheek, leaving a tiny, thin trail of blood in it's wake. The tell-tale *Thwwwsssh!* of an arrow or bolt hinting at just what, exactly, it had been.</div></blockquote><br/>"<span style="font-weight: bold">Dammit!</span>" Sherani whirls to face the street behind her, casting about for an enemy marksman. Instead, she finds Ureck, loading his crossbow for another shot, hopefully one that doesn't cut so close.<br/><br/>"Be careful with that thing, will ya?" she shouts. "You almost-'<br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Nera wrote:</cite>"Rrrr..."</div></blockquote><br/>A growl from behind draw's Sherani's attention back to Nera- apparently the little alleycat doesn't appreciate being ignored. Well, in a few seconds she'll have something new to snarl about. Sherani turns back to the upstart kitten...<br/><br/>Who's looking decidedly<span style="font-weight: bold">un-</span>kittenish, all of a sudden.<br/><br/><blockquote><div><cite>Nera wrote:</cite>RRAAAAAAHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!!</div></blockquote><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Level check to resist Intimidate: 1d20 (6) + 12 (spending an action point for +5) = 18, fail</div></div></div><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Don't freak out,</span>Sherani orders herself.<span style="font-style: italic">There's nothing to be scared of here; you're a big vicous tiger and she's just a little alley cat. Just a cat... just a cat...</span>The shifter keeps telling hersself that, hoping one of these times it'll sink in... but whatever courage she's managed to dredge up evaporates the instant Nera lunges, screaming bloody murder.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Okay, okay, she's a vicious scary <span style="font-weight: bold">psycho</span> kitty! And she's comin' right at me! Dammit, what am I gonna do?</span><br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Attack of Opportunity: 1d20 (2) + 4 = 6, miss<br/>Grapple resist: 1d20 (2) + 8 = 10, fail<br/>Vore resist: 1d20 (4) + 18 = 12, fail<br/><br/>I don't think EvilDM likes me very much T_T</div></div></div><br/>Too startled to raise a proper defense, Sherani takes a wild swing at Nera as she approaches. With a bit of luck, it might delay her attacker for a second. But it seems the tigress's luck has decided to take a vacation- Nera breezes past the feeble punch and gives her a ruby necklace for her efforts. Sherani winces as claws sting her flesh, but it's a small concern compared to the other hand clamped viselike around her thigh. A berserker wouldn't pass up the chance to inflict bodily harm unless she had something even nastier in mind, which can only mean one thing...<br/><br/>As if on cue, Nera's jaws open wide, giving Sherani a blast of meaty pred-breath and a perfect view of her sandpapery feline tongue.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">No way! No fuckin' way am I going in there!</span>Sherani struggles frantically against Nera's grip, trying every escape trick she can remember on her crazed captor. A knee to the groin? Nera catches the shot expertly between her thighs. A shoulder to Ureck's bolt wound? She takes it without so so much as flinching. A desperate head-thrash, just in case the catgirl has a glass jaw? No such luck- Nera's jaws might as well be made of adamantine. And worse, it puts her exactly where she doesn't want to be...<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">No, no, no, no, no...</span>Sherani isn't even sure if her mantra is spoken or simply in her head as Nera's jaws descend over her face. In a moment, it doesn't even matter- anything she might have said is swallowed up along with the speaker as the catgirl claims her prey, turning Sherani's world hot and humid and blindingly pink. Teeth like needles close on her neck, just shy of breaking skin, while a cascade of saliva douses her fiery red locks against her scalp. The worst part, though, is Nera's tongue: curling around her neck, rasping against her skin, tasting the fresh blood trickling from her cheek. A steady rumble fills Sherani's ears, and she realizes Nera is purring- that cat-bitch is<span style="font-style: italic">enjoying</span>her humiliation!<br/><br/><br/><div style="padding: 3px; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 1px solid #d8d8d8; font-size: 1em;"><div style="text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom: 1px solid #CCCCCC; margin-bottom: 3px; font-size: 0.8em; font-weight: bold; display: block;"><span onclick="if (this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display != '') {  this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = ''; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;hide&lt;/a&gt;'; } else { this.parentNode.parentNode.getElementsByTagName('div')[1].getElementsByTagName('div')[0].style.display = 'none'; this.innerHTML = '&lt;b&gt;Spoiler: &lt;/b&gt;&lt;a href=\'#\' onClick=\'return false;\'&gt;show&lt;/a&gt;'; }"><b>Spoiler: </b><a href="#" onclick="return false;">show</a></span></div><div class="quotecontent"><div style="display: none;">Round 2 actions pending, awaiting a PM response from Kitts</div></div></div>