<font color='#F8F8FF'><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana;color:white">Out of Character For Mana only. =] SHORT POSTS ONLY, DEARIE! Let’s make this comical... Current Day: 2. Current Quarter: Dyo. Current Year: Year 2. In Character Caramel-’n-marshmallow female known as Okkie picked her way along the coast-line of Mansukh. Her four mitts made delicate imprints in the silt. Blue orbs roved over the waters to her left, and they scrutinized the majestic mountains across the stretch of sapphire. Then, a blur of color flashed by her right flank, and ’Kie turned to see...</span></font>
<font color='#A8A8A8'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:white'><span style='font-family:verdana'>.. And that burst of color was the body of Seizetsu, except there wasn't alot of color to her. The white and gray female stood on two legs, her handsmoving methodically back and forth. After a bit of movement, she stopped and rested her blandly colored hands on her hips. With a slightly agitated tone in her voice, she asked, "Who the hell are you?"</span></span></span></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana;color:white">In Character The swirl of motion turned out to be a blue-gray pendragon — one in a bipedal shift. ’Kie peered at the unfamiliar face, concluding that this stranger was a female. The cocoa she-’dragon was about to open her mouth and utter a cautious greeting, when the other burst out with a rude query. Okkie’s ears pinned back and she blinked agitatedly, countering with a, “Well, who the hell wants to know...?”</span></font>
<font color='#A8A8A8'><span style='font-family:verdana'><span style='color:white'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>Before she opened her mouth, Seizetsu knew that something stupid was going to emerge. Wonderful. Just wonderful. "Uh, I the hell want to know..?" Yep. Definately stupid. With a short and uncaring shrug, 'Zet pulled the hem of her tiny skirt down a bit to cover her thigh, even though she knew it wouldn't do anything. "Anyway, my name's Seizetsu, Zet for short. I'm new around here, if you couldn't already tell.."</span></span></span></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana;color:white">In Character Okkie listened to Zet’s rambling, ’brow quirking all the while. “Um... okay? I’m Okkie. And, yes, it was actually very apparent that you were new. Got any manners, newbie?” ’Kie uttered in a playfully mean timbre. Spiced pendragon then slid to her haunches, curling tail around to rest on velveteen forepaws. “I’m the Queen here, you know. And I lost my shorts.” Out of Character I’m writing in NeoPets style... thus no line breaks. Bwaha.</span></font>
<font color='#A8A8A8'><span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'><span style='font-family:verdana'><span style='color:white'>"Manners are for squares -- or people who have shorts. How could you loose shorts? You're a quaddie.. I'm confused." Crimson orbs blinked as the gears in Seizetsu's head were turning. At this rate, no one would know that she actually had a brain. Oh well. Some would say that she used the bimbo and slut routine to cover up her real intelligence, but she didn't need any more shrinks in her life.</span></span></span></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:verdana;color:white">In Character ’Kie’s ears pinned even further as Zet spoke some more. The dull femme’s words bled attitude and disrespect... Ah, nothing the winged pendragon couldn’t handle. She simply flexed and dug her paws into the sand, tail-tip flicking. “For squares, eh? I guess so... if you’re one of those wannabe bad-asses.” She shot this jeer off without thinking, sifting the grains of sand with her left forepaw. “I have the ability to shift into an anthropomorphic state, whenever and wherever I want to. In fact, I was in my bipedal shift earlier today, but then I switched to my quaddie state to go swimming. I left my shorts on the beach when I transformed.” This was, of course, a web of lies. But it amused Okkie, so it was all good.</span></font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font size=1 face=tahoma color=#cccccc>Mmm. Â Wannabe bad-ass. Â Yup. Â She'd been called that before. Â Ah well. Â With a seemingly ditz-like chuckle Seizetsu plopped herself right down on the sand in the spot she was previousley standing. Â Smoothing out her tiny skirt over her smoky thighs, the femme looked up at the other questioningly. "A shifter, eh? Â I've had close enounters with a few of those in my days..." Â A sly grin passed her mouth before she continued, "so which state do you prefer, quaddie or bipedal?"</font></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:georgia;color:white"><dd>› In Character</dd> Which form did she prefer? Ah, that was an easy one. “Bipedal.” Without uttering another word, Okkie tucked her muzzle to her chest. Curled into herself. Two or three seconds later, she unraveled. Now in her anthropomorphic shift. “Will you help me find my shorts now?”</span></font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font size=1 face=tahoma color=#cccccc>"Of course I will," Seizetsu repiled. She would choose to be helpful instead of a moronic version of a bump on a log today. She was usually good at that. "Uhm, this is going to sound odd, but where did you see them last?" Stupid question number one.</font></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:tahoma;color:white"><dd>› In Character</dd> Blink blink. “Um... I dunno. On the beach?” They were on the beach right now. “I mean... back there.” Okkie lifted from her crouch and pointed behind her. Tail flicked and she offered Zet a wry grin. This was gonna be one hellafun — albeit pointless — search.</span></font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font color=#cccccc size=1 face=tahoma>Crimson orbs watched the female closely as she answered as to where her shorts were. Maybe it was a hunch, but Zet doubted very largely that these alleged shorts even existed. With a shrug, the smoky femme said, "Hmn. Oh well. I'll... look somwhere, I guess." Whatever floats her boat</I>, Seizetsu thought to herself.</font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'>Okkie pointed towards some dunes. “You check over there... and I’ll look near the water’s edge.” Caramel pendragon scuttled towards the sea, kicking up water and dampened sand with her digitigrade feet. All the while, she sent sidelong glances at Zet.</font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font size=1 color=#cccccc face=tahoma>With a short nod, Seizetsu turned about and headed toward the dunes, thinking all the while. Why did Okkie want her to search for shorts that didn't exist? Yes, she was vexed, but at least she finally got the old gears turning. As the femme reached the top of one of the dunes, she blinked and looked down at the warm sand beneath her. Laying right there was none other than a pair of purple and pink polkadotted shorts. Could these be Okkies? With a slight shrug, Zet bend carefully down and picked the old short up, all the while trying in vain to keep her skirt low enough to hide the smoky body beneath. As she stood up, her melodious voice called out, "Are these yours, Okkie?"</font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'>It felt good to stretch her muscles and walk about on only two feet. It felt even better to do so amidst the cool tides, which lapped at her calves and licked between her toes. It was a shame that Zet’s grating voice had to interrupt. Okkie swiveled, tail flicking rather aggressively. She leaned down to let the small waves trickle through her fingers, and watched as the grayscale femme held up a pair of vibrantly colored boxers. “Ah... no... mine are... red with little monkey heads on them. Yeah...”</font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font size=1 color=#cccccc face=tahoma>As her finding was rejected, Seizetsu muttered to herself, "Red with little monkey heads? These are more fun." With a sly grin the ghastly femme slipped the shorts on over her skirt, making a rather fetching look -- at least, she thought so. Again she muttered, "Red with little monkey heads," as crimson orbs roved about the dunes in search of the nonexistant shorts. Then, as if by magic, a pair of shorts exactly as Okkie had described appeared at her feets. (FEETS!!!!111) A dizty grin appeared upon Zet's face as she bent down to pick them up. Red monkey shorts in hand, she frolicked down the sand dune to Okkie, where she promptly chucked the shorts at the femme's face. "I found 'em, Okkie. Now we can be twins.. except not. We can be nontwins?" There she went again, saying stupid and meaningless things.</font></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'>She was about to say something, but, ahh... she had a face full of monkey-marked cotton in her... face. With a rampaging snarl, she tore the shorts off her countenance, and glared icily at Zet. “You have a lot of nerve, you know. Useless. Absolutely useless.” Okkie then looked at the pair of boxers that was now clenched in her hand. Red. With little monkey faces. What were the odds...? The demonic she-’dragon peered warily at Zet, then slipped the shorts on over her bare body. “Hell yeah. We are the shit.”</font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font color=white size=1 face=tahoma>Yeah, she did have alot of nerve, which was part of the reason she was still alive. Oh well. Different pendragons were -- well, different. Some are your friends, others are enimies. But most were just that stupid group in the middle that you either never meet or have met before but just forgot about. So what was Okkie to Seizetsu? "Yay! The shit!" Zet danced in a small circle, letting more of her idiocy go. To hell with it. Okkie could like her or not, but life would go on.</font></font>
<font color='#F8F8FF'>As Seizetsu began to prance in circles, Okkie couldn’t help but cackle out loud. It wasn’t a mean laugh, either. Just one of those belly-busters that comes out when something really stupid like a moron dancing around in a mini skirt flashes in front of ya’. “Maybe not so useless, after all. I think I’m going to wet my funkadelic monkey pants.” Tears of laughter threatened behind Okkie’s lucid blue orbs, and she clutched her stomach as she broke into more riotous laughter. It wasn’t about Zet anymore. It was just... once Okkie got started, she was like a damned raccoon on speed.</font>
<font color='#CCCCCC'><font color=#cccccc size=1 face=tahoma>Seizetsu tilted her smoky head to the side, white locks shifting lightly. She had stopped prancing. Now she just stood and watched Okkie. What was she laughing at? Hmn. Maybe Zet had missed something.. The dull femme suddenly plopped down in the sand -- her brain hurt. With a few blinks of her eyes, she said to Okkie whatever came out of her mouth. "Okkie, do you like monkies?" Mhmn.</font></font>
