> Nepeta: Host Midsw33p's Vigil.

[nepetaleijon]

The path up to Nepeta's cave has been carefully shoveled free of snow.

(Okay, not so much "carefully shoveled" as "joyfully blasted". If there's one thing laser claws are good for that isn't fighting, it's carving through annoying stuff that's in your way. There are a few vitrified and/or half-melted fragments of rock lining the path. Don't worry; none of them are still steaming.)

Up close to the cave mouth, two huge cats have been sculpted out of snow in guarding positions, one on either side of the path such that any visitors will have to pass between them. They look incredibly adorable menacing.

Invited guests are welcome! Uninvited guests will probably be warned off before the cave's automatic defense systems kick in.

Probably.

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Re: Hanging Out

[nepetaleijon]

Nepeta cants one more card, and her side of the board resolves into mountainous territory.

"We could," she says judiciously, "but the fighting would purrobably wake up the babies."

(Standard Alternian practice when playing Fire, Water, Sand -- a game roughly akin to Rock, Paper, Scissors -- is to throw moves all together, and then spend as much time as necessary fighting violently over who's won.)

Re: Hanging Out

[vance_prime]

Meanwhile, Alyx cants her cards, bringing up a flat, reedy swamp patrolled by slow but heavily armored arachidnas and faster but more vulnerable platypods.

Also, one tiny, fluffy yellow duckling, looking extremely out of place.

Re: Hanging Out

[bloodyvirgo]

"True," she agrees, side-eyeing Alyx for a moment because the woman is scary when she wants to be. "How About We Just Let Her Go First?"

Re: Hanging Out

[nepetaleijon]

"That works fur me!" Nepeta says agreeably.

Re: Hanging Out

[vance_prime]

Alyx nods. "Okay... I'll start by playing the Demicorona Maneuver card with my arachidnas." She lays down a card and the spiky beasts shift into a semicircular configuration, prominently displaying their spines.