BARATHEON

"the world is mine for the taking"

The white--green?... the green continued to wave his rear paws in the air watching them with amusement in his overly bright pink eyes. Oh, they were just funny little things weren't they? So green with strange little claws. He thought they were so funny that he started to laugh out loud until he heard the sound of a familiar voice. Was that his Macawi? He tore his eyes away from his feet long enough to look back and see the glimmering, wavering, apparition of his friend. The dragon gave a toothy grin and said, "Mraacaawwrriaaa!" He set the vases in his paws down and starated to clap them happily together as she came even closer.

He gave the coyote a friendly pat on the head as she brushed up against him then he began the important task of explaining exactly what was going on. "Fraawraara aagraawra graaawwwwrrrrr grawr fraagraaaaraa!" He said and nodded his head importantly as if he'd just explained the how the very universe itself worked. He pointed one claw to one of the vases and then lifted it and sat it next to Macawi. "Agraawra? Rawr?" He asked. Was she old enough to partake in the liquid? Pfft, of course she was! It was all in good fun!

FOOBAR!
@Macawi
Bara is a goalpost... Please use him as such, he will not move.
8/10

"Talking looks like this!"
Thinking looks like this...

MAKYNA
"let's sing a song for the heart"

She'd been skeptical about the idea of fermented liquids at first but hell, it was her wedding day! Why not go crazy? So, after very little urging from her peers she'd taken a small sip which turned into a huge gulp and then she'd downed a whole gallon of the stuff. Now the lioness was whistled a cheerful tune as she walked alongside her husband, clumsily keeping pace with him.

The process of gembounds made their way to Orion, she could tell because of the stars in the sky. Sky? Ceiling? Whatever, they were there... Swimming a bit but still there, yes. The lioness raised a paw and pointed with a laugh. "Tha's right m'boy. The room 'a staaaarrrsss!" The lioness hiccuped. "Stars! Stars! Ooooooo, staaaaarrsss!" Another hiccup as she turned her attention to Leon's loudly proclaimed words. "Foobaaaaww! Oooooo I'm ready for foooobaaawwww!" It was then that she noticed her tiny cub... well, he wasn't exactly tiny anymore but there he was trying to get into the liquids too!

The lioness placed a paw on his snout, trying to push him away. "No no no! M'boy! Your faaaarrrr too young for this stuff! You should come t'the sidelines with me! We'll cheer fer papa bear!" The happy lioness slurred.

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"This is how I talk!"
"This is how I sing!"
This is how I think!

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Leon @Quintus
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6/10

So in order to have some good sized teams, I'm assuming Amaria, Arkrael and Liora are also here (I'll post with Liora tomorrow and say she came in after Aza'zel). Basically, your characters will have to make an attempt to steal the ball, carry the ball some distance, and score it. I don't have any special guidelines, so be reasonable!

Leon's Team consists of Leon, Quintus, Amaria, and Liora; they are protecting Baratheon's goal and trying to score on Kerberos.
Fisher's Team consists of Fisher, Arkrael, Aza'zel, and Bartos; they are protecting Kerberos' goal and trying to score on Baratheon.

To start the game off, the first person who posts and rolls a minimum of Barely Successful to take the ball will therefore have it. You are encouraged to post as often as possible in order to progress the game. There is no deadline - the game will be best of 10 scores. HAVE FUN!!!

The bear gazed blearily around at those that had followed him - it seemed a good portion of them had come from the wedding party with him, but some unfamiliar faces were beginning to show up as well. That was no problem! They could join in the festivities too! Leon wanted everyone in the cave to join in! Imagine if they could play a whole cave-wide game of foobaw... Oh but he was getting ahead of himself, glancing briefly over at Makyna and Quintus who looked like Makyna and Makyna and Makyna and Quintus and Quintus and Quintus and cracking open a broad smile at all six of them as Makyna started to sing about the stars, and then their game of foobaw, and he laughed and sang with her until Quintus stuck his head in the vase for a taste of the bitter liquid himself. Makyna tried to push him away, but Leon laughed and raised a paw, batting at Makyna. "Shhhhh! Let'im have some, istime the boy became A Man!" Leon declared proudly.

Out of the corner of his eye, he'd seen Baratheon come waddling in and pass out, only for a little coyote to run in after him and ask what was happening. His attention didn't linger for long on them. Soon he saw Clover walk in with Bartos on her back, and they were singing too - or were they just repeating some word over and over again? He almost joined in but then Fisher had come charging up yelling at him, and had Leon not been completely pissed out of his mind, he probably would have been a little worried. Instead, he only laughed and laughed, clutching his chest and leaning back as the laughter shook his body. By the time Fisher had finished his challenge, Leon leaned forward and reached for Fisher in an attempt to flip him back onto his feet. "Okay," He giggled. "Okay-" He was trying to think of a comeback, but honestly Leon was still too busy giggling.

He only managed to slow down, wiping tears from his eyes when the little bat Tal'at had come up asking to be a referee. Leon barely gave him time to speak before nodding vigorously and waving his paws in the air. "YES! THE BAT WILL REFERREUS!" He half shouted half slurred and fumbled onto his paws, glancing around at those gathered. At some point, Aza'zel had flown in yelling about foobaw, and Kerberos too had drunkenly wandered in and plopped down on the opposite side of the court. Leon pointed at Baratheon and shouted again, "DIBS!" Before waddling out to the center of the field.

"AWRIGHT AWRIGHT, LETS SORT THIS INTO TEAMS, MR FISHER CAT *HIC* I CALL QUINTUS AND AMMY AND, AND YOU GET AZA'ZEL AND ARKRAEL *HIC* BAARRTOS!" Wait a second. That team wasn't even. Leon blinked and narrowed his eyes at the gathered Gembounds. Who else could he put on his team? "HEY YOU, KID," He called over at the black bird that had flown in after Aza'zel, the one that had tried to sit on his back that one time when they listened to the Lorekeeper's story. "YYYOU'RE ON MY TEAM, COOL?" Hopefully.

Clearly his throat, Leon looked between the teams and nodded decisively. "OKAY! Thhhiiiis is how its gonna go, my team tries to score on KErby-ros and Fishy's team scores on Baratheon, we have a ball, and each team tries to have the ball, and whoever has the ball has to get it past Kerberos and Baratheon, but you gotta steal the ball before the other team scores-" Was this even making any sense? "-AND UH, best of ten scores wins, OKAY? and PLAY FAIR!" The bear yelled, clapping his paws on the ground in order to emphasize the importance of playing fair. Right. Now... where was that ball?

...The ball. Leon's eyes widened, glancing around the group. What the hell were they going to use for a ball? "UHHH.... JUS'SEC," Leon fumbled, rising to his feet. As quickly as he could, the bear stumbled over to the nearest building - they were bordering the playing field in abundance, and searching through them he eventually found a large piece of dusty cloth. Scooping a pawful of dust and dirt into it, he made a big enough pile and then clumsily tied the corners of the cloth together to make for a loose sac of dirt. Good enough. Leon grabbed it in his teeth and came running back out into the field, proudly plopping the ersatz ball between the two teams. "There! BALL!" He declared and moved to situate himself in front of Amaria, Quintus and Liora. "Okay, ready, set............. GO!"

@Arkrael @Amaria @Azazel @Fisher @Quintus @Macawi @Clover @Makyna @Talat

There was a thing about eating tails and stuff, Azza was too damn drunk to care. He noticed his daughter sitting off to the side, but he didn't really take note of it (you can totally do that.) Azazel murmured incoherently to himself and when he finally grasped the rules, the ball was set in the center of the room.

FucK YES.

Carmine eyes glinted and the bird wasted no time in rushing towards the ball. Of course, he didn't know who the fuck was on his team and was dead set oN GETTING THAT dirty ball over the... shit what white thing was it again. Baratheon??? Yeah, it had to be Bara, right? He was the bigger fluffy white sheet. Surely he could make it.

AND HALLELUJAHAHAH THE GODDAMN BONE® king MADE IT TO THE ERSATZY ( ban really like this word rip ) BALL AND snatched it up in his beak and began to blindly flap his wings away, though they were clumsy wingbeats and didn't get him anywhere.

Liora had managed to follow her father from Canis to the weird waterfall room where they seemed to be holding some kind of ceremony - she didn't know what it was, and partially she didn't really care because they were talking about very boring things that the bird lacked the attention span to pay attention to. She was only there to look good, and she had relented against even speaking to many others because, well, they weren't members of the Bonebound (except for Kerberos and Bones and her own father), therefore not good enough to constitute as proper conversational partners. And... well, the truth behind it all was that Liora was a little shy. One on one, the bird could make friends easily, but in a large group where Liora was a stranger and knew barely anyone, she felt diminutive. Overlooked. It was best to stay quiet rather than risk making a fool of herself.

Afterwards, they had broken out some bitter drink and started dancing and singing and laughing amongst each other. Her father had neglected to allow her any, but Liora had gotten a whiff of it and decided she didn't like the smell anyways. While everyone was enjoying themselves, the bird was for the most part perched among one of the cave's higher ridges and looking around, getting a scope of the whole thing. Then finally they had moved on, wandering from Pisces to another room, Orion. Liora dutifully followed, watching as her father positively made a fool of himself and continued to ignore her (was she bitter? No, Liora figured it was just King things, and when she grew up and became King, she'd probably do the same). Then they all coalesced into a group in the center of some kind of field and decided that they would play a game.

Liora had soared in on her baby wings, landing near her father and listening. She was silent for the most part and somewhat startled to hear that the big ugly bear knew her name and, more than that, placed her on a team opposite her father. Predatory white eyes flickered between the group, and outwardly her reaction to this was ambiguous - she said nothing. Inwardly, the bird was only somewhat nervous, but quickly decided that everybody here was wasted off their ass and probably wouldn't care if she made a fool of herself. Better than that, she could probably easily destroy them with her sober prowess. Game on.

She turned and sided with Leon, waited until the bear had shouted GO, and then soared forward - only her drunken father had beaten her to the punch, somehow, and grabbed the ball in an attempt to charge forward towards their goal. "KRAK KRAK! NO YOU DON'T!" Liora chortled and lifted off, chasing after him. The wind had picked up beneath her wings, allowing her to catch up to him quickly and barrel into the larger bird with the intent to slow him down.

As he scampered across the field, not even aware that his daughter (who was the only sober Gembound at this giant shitpost of a game, lmfao) was chasing after him, he found himself stumbling here and there. Once again flapping his wings and hopping like that one penguin meme, he squawked in glee. But then he dropped the ball as he did so. "FOOOOOOOOCKKKKKK," he cried out just as his daughter barreled into him.

Flopping for a moment, he looked drunkenly at his child. "LIORRAAAAAA let your daddy play his gaaaaame. OoooOOH it looks like I've had too many DADddy sodas." Twisting awkwardly, he grabbed the dirt ball once again and began to flounder away the best he could. But of course he tripped again. This time, he laid there for a while, clutching the ball in his beak. A prime opportunity for someone to steal it.

Her father screamed out as she tackled him, lending pride to swell in her chest as she did so. He fumbled the ball, only to stare at her and attempt to lecture her on letting him play the game. What he apparently didn't know was that Liora was playing this game too, and she was in it to win it. After clambering back to her feet, she narrowed her eyes at him and scoffed. Too many daddy sodas? Apparently! She scurried after him, trying to flap her wings to make herself run faster but it wasn't very effective. When she saw him trip, she saw her opportunity to strike. Her father had fallen flat on his face, or something like that, with the ball still clutched in his beak. She scampered up to him, nearly toppling over herself as she stopped in front of him. In a flurry of wings, she managed to pull the ball free from his grip and hop away, cackling.

With the ball in her court now, Liora made a few running hops before stretching her wings, attempting to take off with the ball.

Arkrael

You don't know what your power has done to me
I want to know if I'll heal inside
I can't go on with a holocaust about to happen
Seeing you laughing another time

Arkrael had sauntered in at some point, sitting merrily off to the side as so not so gracefully took a sloppy drink of the mixed juices that had been at the wedding. Her tail thumped against the ground in her hazed joy. She had watched the dragon come sauntering in only to guzzle down one of thee vases and simply fall down at a certain point in the area. She giggled just a little bit at it, but had soon turned her attention to the big three headed beast that had sauntered in soon after Baratheon. Her tail swatted at the ground, happy to be seeing another friend joining the fun. Audits had jumped into attention when the big bear friend had finally called everyone's atteention. She instantly rose to her paws and joined the gathered gembounds. When Leon began listing out the teams Rae gave a yip of excitement. "Yeeeeeeyyyaaaas! I'z on' Fish'uuurz team!!" She howled happily, her tail going a mile a minute as she turned a happy lopsided grin to the mustelid.

The game had only started in a matter of minutes. Azazel having gon for the ball himself, stealing it away from Leon and for a moment Arkrael sat there in a drunken stuper. Was not the big bird part of the big bears team? She watched them for a moment, before her gaze suddenly caught sight of the ball and her body completely froze. Eyes grew wide as her pupils grew even wider with sudden excitement. "Ball?!" She cried out as she was suddenly on her paws, tail moving quickly behind her to the point where it made her rump wiggle back and forth.

The birds were suddenly battling for the ball, but that didn't matter. The moment the onyx feathered bird had grasped thee ball from the other Arkrael instantly sprung at them. She sprinted, or rather swayed to and fro in a hasty fashion towards the bird with the ball and made a stumbled lunge at the bird, jowls snapping to grasp the ball from the bird's clutches! Hoping to grasp the ball in her fangs and when she did she stumbled around and tried to remember just which 'goal' she was suppose to be headed to. When she vaguely remembered, and hopefully was right, she raced towards her designated goal. Paws stumbled over unseen obstacles, but she was able to maintain her paw steps. At least...for now...

"Speech"
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OoC: GET IT RAE! GET DA BALL!

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You'll never know why your face has haunted me
My very soul has to bleed this time
Another hole in the wall of my inner defenses
Leaving me breathless, the reason I know....

Oh frick the game already started!! It turned out that the dumb bear decided to give him Arkrael and Aza'zel-- his FIRST mistake!! "PFFF WE GOT THIS GUYS!!" He cackled to himself, rising up on his hind feet and laughing as hard as a lil' mustelid could. In fact, he laughed so hard that he fell over, and didn't get up until the ball was already darting down towards Baratheon. Grinning, he twisted around to his paws and scampered after the ball. Arkrael had it, which meant he just had to keep the competition off of her-- she could totally score if given the chance!

With a scream that could pierce the heavens, the fisher cat lunged into the midst of the opposing team, trying to make them stumble and keep them off of Arkrael so that she could continue down the field and get that oh-so-sweet touchdown.

"GO GO GO ARKRAEL!! These dumbasses got nothing on us!! Show 'em how FIERCE ya are!!" He howled after her, grinning his whole stupid face off. In fact, he was too busy staring after Arkrael's hot tail that he just ran headlong into Leon's big furry butt and was rebounded back about five whole steps, spinning on his own feet. His vision swarmed, his attempt a miserable failure, but oh well!

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@everyone

Tal'at was already having a hard time making sense of things. He wasn't sure who exactly was who, or even which teams were which-- so instead he tried to do the proper referee thing and make sure he kept track of the ball and made sure that no one tried anything too dangerous or violent. Sure, it was foobaw, but that didn't mean hurting each other!

He noticed a furry ball blundering into another, larger furry ball-- In'am wasn't having the best time watching this loud thing and his red sense only did so much. "No causing injuries!" He called out to them, "Better play fair!" He warned them, settling down on his seeing-eye spider. So far, however, it seemed like everyone was having a good time.

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going out a different path lead by a beating heart