[Mini Game] Party of Three

[Epine de Rose]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: ABC

Sample Party Banter:
"You literally had one job!" the wild dog whailed as she watched their meal tumble down stream. It had all been going so well too, they'd made progress, there had been a pile.

Did you have any idea how hard piles were to make? They were very hard!

"Oh, literally?" the leopard replied wryly and raised a brow. "So I literally just had that one right there, that single one, right?" she continued and motioned to her oddly fashion fishing rod. It now lay in pieces, her handiwork had been ruined and yet that wasn't what was bothering her. "I don't think you know what 'literally' actually means."

"Yeah cause like, she had more than one job," the hyena pointed out, rubbing her belly as she admired the rushing water. She had an unusually serene expression on her features, no one would have ever imagined one with such a relaxed demeanour could possibly be starving. In fact, one might even be so bold as to assume that she just lived off air.

"You stay out of this!" the wild dog demanded.

"Oh, no no no, do let her continue," the leopardess interrupted and held a paw up as if to silence a crowd. "Clearly she knows what that word means, she isn't in to being middle management," she stressed with a growl.

"Excuse me, I'll think you'll find -"

"That you tooooootally snapped the rod trying to show her how it was done," the hyena yawned sleepily and slouched further. By now she was marvelling at the little bump that had developed in her stomach. Curious, she wondered how big it could get if she lifted up her hindlegs.

"Because I supposedly had one job which you wouldn't let me do!"

"If you'd just put a little bit more -"

"Shut it. You know how many fish we lost because of your micromanaging? Way too fuggin' much," the leopardess hissed and turned on her heel. "If you want to do something useful then do us all a favour and bash your head against a tree, maybe it'll knock some sense into you!"

"Wait, where are you going?" she was clearly alarmed.

"TO FIND ANOTHER STICK FOR GODS SAKE," The leopardess howled without looking over her shoulder.

"Ooooh bring me back a present!" the hyena called with a merry wave and a jovial smile. She chose to ignore the dirty look that had been shot towards her by the wild dog...

"Ten hours... I wasted ten hours on this!"

The leopardess could be heard ranting to herself for a considerable length of time, even if she happened to have disappeared from view long ago.

"You know," the hyena pondered. "This is probably why we can't have any nice things..." she concluded lazily.  

[Eos Galvus]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: XYZ

Sample Party Banter:

No. No banter. Anthems courtesy the Final Fantasy XIV Fandom. You're welcome.

Wipe Song - The Mage, a healer

The Longest Time (Without TP) - The Rogue, a DPS (TP is technical points for physical attacks)

I'll make a Team out of You - The Warrior, the party's longsuffering tank

IT'S THEM. IT IS. YOU'RE WELCOME.  

[OP-Yuna]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: ABC

Sample Party Banter:

Leopard: WHEEEEEE! Lookit all these colors! omg I just looooove the fall!

WD: o,O Honey, this is Africa...

Leopard: ...So? *JUMPS IN ANOTHER PILE OF LEAVES*

Hyena: Africa doesn't have fall....

*Suddenly the leaves and pretty colors poof*

Leopard: Oh yeah.... Wait, how did I even know about fall then?

All: *Stares at each other* ....OOC knowledge.

Leopard: the BANE of IC-existance! *dramatic flop*

WD: Forcing incompatible couples together since 2000.

Hyena: And ruining friendships better than Monopoly.

All: ....What's Monopoly?  

[Pollack]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: 123.

Sample Party Banter:
"YOU! Oh my sweet summer child. You can't be serious. You just CAN'T be serious! Don't you know who we are? Why we are here!?" The loudest and no doubt the leader of the trio cried in shock and horror. Dramatically flopping down onto her rump the Hyena rested a paw on her forehead.

A monotone voice barely over the volume of a whispered cut their leader's dramatic wallowing in an instant. The other two allowing the soft spoken Leopard to speak her mind without interruption. "Perhaps this one made a mistake summoning us here. We should move on if they have no need for our services."

"NO!" Cried out from behind the two larger bodies.The last member of this wild trio finally speaking up as she frantically wiggled in-between her two best friends to strike a confidant pose in front of them. "We are the Cute Cut Gals! We never give up! We never surrender! This poor, sad, miserable." A flash of moment caught her eye. Pausing for a moment she lifted herself upright onto her back legs so she could rest a paw over the muzzle of their newest target's mouth given that they were preparing to intervene her prep talk.

"Ahem! Carrying on. This loveless little thing was brought to our attention for a reason, ladies. It is our sworn oath, our selfless duty to make sure that these pathetic shells of their potential, such as this one become the talk of the savanna! Is it not our true purpose in life to make living art out of nothing!?"

The other two in her group nodded in agreement with her. Rising forward they circled their next victim as one seamless unit that one could question mimicked a pack hunting in the wild for fresh meat. They were seasoned pros and knew just how to effectively trap their next victim project!

The tan wild dog spoke once more, a impish grin spanning ear-to-ear forming. "Well girls? You know what time it is."

There was a tense pregnant pause before all three of them pounced at once onto the poor soul. Their terrifying war cry ringing out from the mangled mess of bodies. Spelling doom for their new target for at least the next few hours.

"MAAAKEOVERRR TIME!"

 

[Wylde Roses]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: 123

Sample Party Banter:

Who needs banter when you have IN-GAME TITLES.

For our warrior we have the title earned by acting as the tank - the buffer between her party members and their enemies - over 200 times:

For our rogue, known for being a backstabber and jumping head on into attacks instead of dodging like she's supposed to:

And for our mage, who acts as the healer and patches up the two excitable idiots with little to no gratitude turned her way:  

[Kieko]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: 123

Sample Party Banter:

(Names/personalities can be changed by the final owners!)

Wild dog - Alzubra: African name meaning "Star in the constellation Leo"
Hyena - Yejide: Yoruba for "image of mother"
Leopard - Chizoba: Igbo for "God protect us"

Alzubra sprung ahead. Regardless of whose idea it was, she would be found at the forefront, eager to get her paws on whatever lay on the other side. How she managed to keep her shiny bangles from chiming was beyond anyone else. She might have been more effective at sneaking around without them, but they were prizes claimed from various adventures that the group experienced together. They were sentimental.

Always at her side was the large and formidable hyena Yejide. "Caution, Zubri," she chided. Anyone else might mistake her stern voice as an order, but her two travelling companions knew the hyena was only looking out for them. Having been close with her own mother, Yejide fell easily into the supportive role for her motley crew. Adorning the side of her face with the jaw of her late mother, however, never got any less unnerving.

Toward the back, and falling farther behind, was Chizoba. Somewhat absent minded and ever-curious, the leopard was engrossed in the fascinating lichen growing at the walls of the cave.

"Chop, chop, Chi-chi," Yejide barked.

Pulled from her contemplation, Chizoba's vibrant green eyes darted to her companions. "These could prove to be useful to us..." Idle thoughts were spoken aloud to no one in particular. In a more pleading tone, she added, "If I could only gather a couple specimen to study..."

"Be quick!" The hyena countered.

"You won't believe this!" Came Alzubra's enthusiastic voice from up ahead. By now, she'd likely reached the end of the narrow cave passage.

Reluctant, but unwilling to miss out on the new discovery, Chizoba tucked the plant samples into her pouch and bolted up ahead to join her friends.

"You never split the party..." Yejide muttered before letting out an exasperated laugh and following behind. She could only protect them if everyone stayed together!

"Worth it though, right?" Alzubra gloated while spinning a shimmery carved stone in her paw. Once the leopard was at her side, she tossed it over.

"It's another one?" Chizoba asked with a growing smile. From her same pouch, she procurred a similar stone of another color.

"And we still don't know what they are," Yejide commented.

"That's hardly the point!" Alzubra laughed.

"Yea?" Ever-practical, the hyena could only shake her head. "Then what is?"

"The adventure." Chizoba pocketed the stone with a smirk.  

[SilverLutz]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: ABC

Sample Party Banter:

"We should go east," the wild dog said emphatically, a pink toed paw stamping the ground for emphasis. Red eyes rolled as the leopardess shook her head, looking at the energetic canine with mild disgust.

"We should go west. You remember what happened the last time you decided which direction to go."

Both glanced for a moment at their third member who was currently trying to chew on her own head decoration, the jawbone of a small lion that had been in the very wrong place at the very wrong time. Sensing eyes on her, the hyena paused in the middle of her attempts to bring the bone to her mouth, tongue sticking out of her muzzle from the side, drool dripping from the tip and from the bottom of the mandible.

"Wha?" she asked, a mildly deranged giggle leaving her before she resumed licking and drooling.

"...well, that wasn't really our fault," the wild dog said after turning her gaze from the hyena. "If those wildebeest hadn't decided to stampede it would've been a good way to go!"

"They didn't decide to stampede," the leopard said with a mix of a snarl and a sigh. "Miss Bottomless Pit over there decided she wanted a snack and ran right through the middle of them! Very much our fault. Now that whole mob of meerkats will be digging themselves a new burrow for the next moon. Our whole 'helping those who can't help themselves' mantra has been, quite literally, trampled into the dust."

"Well if y'look at it like that," the wild dog said with a snort, her tail flicking back and forth behind her. "Maybe it was a good thing they have to rebuild. Having tunnels and burrows collapse like that under the weight of the stampede is a sign of shoddy infrastructure if you ask me. Right?"

The hyena was once again in the spotlight and she froze with her prize between her teeth, her head turned at an odd angle to chew on the decoration attached to her head. She offered her two companions a wide grin, which the wild dog took as an agreement and made the leopard shake her head in mild disbelief.

"We're going west," the lone feline insisted before setting off, following the setting sun without another word. The wild dog let out a little sigh but followed, and after a few moments the hyena trotted dutifully after the other two, the jawbone still being happily chewed.

---

Behold, the fearsome threesome out to save the world...or possibly end it. They mean well, they really do! Things just never seem to go their way. They are your Saving Grayce!

-is shot for the awful pun-  

[mouselet]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: 123

Sample Party Banter:

"Look what I found!" the wild dog exclaimed, returning from her scouting to drop a strange, spit-covered object in front of her companions. The hyena took a look at it and snorted.

"It's a weird rock. You find a hundred of them every day," she sighed. "What else did you see? No threats or dangers?"

"Well, maybe some cheetahs. But it's not a rock! Look at that shine!" the wild dog replied, licking her find to clean it off. For some reason, cleaning off saliva with more spit wasn't helping.

The leopardess shook her head mentally as she knelt down to take a better look at the item. It seemed to be hard as a rock, as there were no tooth marks on its surface, beneath the drool. But it wasn't a rock she knew. The leopardess pulled some leaves from a convenient bush and began scrubbing off the dog spit.

"See? She doesn't think it's just a rock!" the wild dog informed the hyena triumphantly, panting eagerly. The hyena merely sighed and cuffed her friend. The wild dog rolled with the blow before sitting up again. It happened numerous times every day, and she knew the hyena didn't really mean to hurt her. She only hurt those who wanted to hurt her friends first.

Under the leopardess' ministrations, the true shape and color of the not-a-rock revealed itself, and she studied the object critically.

"Well?" the wild dog demanded, turning her attention back to her prize.

"It is...a rock," the leopardess confirmed. The wild dog drooped and the hyena began laughing as was her nature. "But!" the leopardess continued, perking up the wild dog and stilling the laughter, "it is a rock from the ocean! The great saltwater. What it is doing here, so far inland, I cannot say."

"Did you hear that?" the wild dog asked of the hyena, despite the fact that they were right next to each other. "It's from the ocean! So far away!"

"And yet, it's still a rock," the hyena retorted, snickering. "So it's still useless!"

The leopardess watched her companions, sighing inwardly. It was an interesting rock, though still a rock. But neither the wild dog nor the hyena would be willing, or able, to move on from this spot until they'd both recovered. She settled down to take a nap: they could be at this for a while.  

[mouselet]

ENTERING FOR PARTY: XYZ

Sample Party Banter:

"Can we go yet?" the hyena whined. They'd spent all day poking around this weird place. The caves had smooth walls and floors and roofs, and were covered with brightly colored things that were also smooth. They were strange and different and scary. Plus, the oldest scents, the ones she could barely detect, were also strange. It seemed like a place of...gasp!...two-leggers.

"You try getting her to move," the wild dog grumbled. "She's too heavy for me to budge."

The hyena considered this suggestion. However...

"She's too heavy for me alone, but maybe if we work together?" she proposed, eyeing her companion. The wild dog was slight, excellent for getting in and out of tight spaces, not so great for leveraging heavy leopardesses out of weird caves they wouldn't stop staring at. The hyena was more powerfully built, but even she needed help when it came to their companion.

The wild dog considered the counteroffer. Brute labor, such as shifting the cat, was not her preference. Still, she she was beginning to wonder when they'd leave this place. Not as much as her fellow who was never happier than when attacking males who were "not worthy" of her companions, but that was because she was eyeing some of the odd items jumbled up in corners, calculating what they could be traded for to some of the prides they'd passed.

"I suppose," she agreed, before she found herself speaking to the air. The hyena had bounded off already towards the cavern where the leopardess had secreted herself. Sighing, the wild dog followed more sedately.

She found her companions deep within the strange caves. The hyena was clearly waiting for her, tail wagging eagerly. The leopardess seemed utterly oblivious to both of them, scratching at something on the cave wall. The wild dog gestured for the hyena to grab a hold of one back leg, as she would the other, when she gave the signal. Three, two, one...now!

Two pairs of jaws clamped down in the silence, which was then broken by a startled yowl of pain as the leopardess was startled from her contemplation by the sudden sensation of being dragged away from her study.

"Hey, stop that! I'm not done here yet!" she ordered her comrades. The two dogs ignored her yells, her demands, and her pleas, dragging her all the way outside the caves before finally releasing the leopardess.

"We're leaving now!" the hyena insisted, glancing at the wild dog for confirmation, who nodded slightly. The wild dog turned to the leopardess and merely raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, very well," the leopardess gave in with bad grace. Still, she had learned somethings, and found even more questions to ask, which she proceeded to inundate her companions' ears with.

The wild dog ignored her with the ease of long practice, though the hyena seemed to have managed to avoid learning that, and still replied with whatever was at the front of her mind and asked, as if it were possible, even dumber questions in return.