A Griffon In Tatzl Land

3 March 2015

10:00 Zuthal nibbles on Serilde

10:01 Serilde squirms and lick sback

10:02 Zuthal moves around to Serilde's rear, starting to slurp up her tail.

10:03 Serilde eeps and fishes her tail out of the strange creatures mouth. "No! No eating my tail! Does it look like food to you?" She asks, not realizing the pony to be sentient

10:04 Zuthal squeaks a little bit as he feels the tail yanked out of his mouth. "Hey, I was just being playful! I know that you're not food... though you don't taste bad."

10:05 Serilde blinks and does a double take as she hears words coming from it. "Playful? Woh woh, I dont want random...things? chewing on my tail...and I am decidedly not tasty or for eating."

10:06 < Zuthal> (Going with colt Zuthal here, because fun :P)

10:07 < Serilde> (Alrighty.)

10:08 Zuthal pouts at her, looking up at the griffon. "But... you are tasty. And I'm not a thing, I'm a... uhm... a tatzlpony, yeah."

10:09 Serilde turns around and shakes her tail back and forth, slinging tatzl slime everywhere. "A...tatzl pony? What the hell is that? And where are your parents?"

10:10 Zuthal points to himself, spreading his wings out a bit. "Uhm... I'm a tatzlpony. I dunno how to explain it. And my parents are... somewhere over there," he says, pointing a hoof along the shrubby landscape.

10:11 Serilde sighs, looking the strange creature over as he flares his wings and then looking back the direction he pointed. The griffon had quite the load on her back and had been traveling northward back through civillization. "I...didnt think anyone lived all the way out here...You're a strange little creature..."

10:12 Zuthal gives her a wide smile. "There are quite a lot of us living here! If you come with me, I can show you! Oooh, and what is that on your bag?" he asks, hopping around her to poke a curious hoof at the griffon's packs.

10:13 Serilde reaches a claw backwards and grabs hold of a long handle with a head attached. "This is my warhammer. It's what I use to help defend the caravans I escort." The griffon had a bunch of other traveling gear in her bag, and was wearing armour adorned with some menacing spikes. "Oh...there are more of you? Umm...I suppose maybe it might be nice to stock up on some supplies..." She says, twitching her slimy tail and keeping an eye on the stallion.

10:14 Zuthal ooooohs at the large weapon, looking at it with big eyes. "Oooh, this is like the hammers our stonecarvers use... but waaaaaaaaay bigger. And you... ecort caravans? So you protect ponies travelling with you from scary monsters? That's really cool!" he says, hopping up and down excitedly. As she mentions stocking up on supplies, he nods. "Okay, follow me~" the colt says cheerfully, walking off into the direction he had pointed in earlier.

10:15 Serilde looks at Zuthal with bemusement as he hops up and down and hefts the hammer, weight several kilograms, and holds it for the curious pony to mess with. "Yep. Monsters...and when I'm this far south bandits too...seems not all ponies seem interested in fair play." The griffon nods at his indication and follows along quickly.

10:16 Zuthal looks at the hammer and extends a coil, smiling at the griffon as they walk along. "Can I try holding it? It look sreally heavy, but I'm sure I can hold it!" he says. Were she to look, the coil would seem almost dry, despite just having come out of his mouth.

10:17 < Serilde> (Have you decided you dont hate her? :P)

10:18 < Zuthal> (I've decided to give her a chance :P)

10:19 Serilde looks at the strange appendage, shuddering a bit as it extends from the creature's mouth, but it certainly wasnt the strangest thing she's seen in her travels. "Oh...umm, sure I suppose you can hold it...Just please dont get too much slobber on it..." She hasnt quite reailzed that he'll be using his coil yet.

10:20 Zuthal sizes it up, before extending the two other coils as well. The tatzl wraps them around the shaft of the heavy hammer, but, as soon as he pulls it away from her grasp, the weight proves to be too much for the young stallion, causing him to faceplant into the dirt as the hammer lands with a heavy thud.

10:21 Serilde raises an eye skeptically as the pony grabs the handle with three strange appendages, and then laughs when he face plants. Extending a claw, the formel ruffles the ponies mane and picks the hammer back up. "Too much for you huh? And you hold things in your tonge

10:22 < Serilde> tongues? That's a bit strange."

10:23 < Serilde> (Enter instead of backspace...)

10:24 Zuthal pulls his coils back in as he gets back to his hooves, shaking the dirt off his face. "Heehee, yeah... it's really heavy. You must be really strong!" he says, before tilting his head at her. "Well, yeah. They are better at holding things than hooves are. And we can control how wet they are, so..." he says. If she were to check, there would indeed only be a surprisingly small amount of moisture on the hammer, what had still been on the coils

10:25 Zuthal and even that quickly dries off in the hot, dry air.

10:26 < Serilde> (I think it only ways 5kg :P Though that would still be unweildy if he was unprepared :B)

10:27 Serilde shakes her head and picks up the hammer in her claw, noting that it was fairly dry. Still she leans over and wipes what's left of the spit on Zuthal's coat. "Ya...hooves are rubbish. I dont see how ponies get by using them...Claws are still better than even those I think. That is a handy trick though."

10:28 Zuthal eeps as she wipes the spit on his coat, though he doesn't really mind. "Yeah... though I bet you can't reach as far with your claws," he says, before extending one coil to almost two times his total body length and then retracting it again.

10:29 Serilde puts the hammer away, and then watches in amazement as Zutahl extends out that far. "Oh...umm wow...no I'd need a bow or something for that range, except for that one time some Zebra that I was helping turned me into a massive griffon."

10:30 Zuthal giggles a little bit, shaking his head. "No, I don't mean for hitting things. Just grabbing things and stuff. Oooh, and I can also grab three things at once. Don't think you can do that."

10:31 Serilde grabs a rock in her beak and picks up two more in her claws and nods at the little creatures. "Of course I can..." She reponds, spitting out the rock before tossing the others aside. "Though...I prefer not to use my mouth, inhibbits talking."

10:32 Zuthal giggles a little bit at her actions, before hopping up to press a hoof against the tip of her beak in... a good enough approximation of booping her nose. "Heehee, you're funny. I like you!"

10:33 Serilde snorts and shakes her head and gestures the tatzl onwards. "So...you said something about getting supplies littel one? Cause it'd be nice to...well I probably cant get any more jerky here I guess...but maybe cheese and bread?"

10:34 Zuthal raises a brow as she mentions jerky, before his face lights up. "Oh, you mean meat? We do eat that, I'm sure I can get you some meat. Though I'll have to get it for you... I don't think you speak our language..." he says as he keeps trotting onwards, seeming as bouncy and happy as can be.

10:35 Serilde blinks at the stallion and looks him over again. "Wait...you guys eat meat too? Thats really suppirsing...I didnt know any of you ponies did that...But they need to be dried meats for travel. And you seem to speak this language fine...what do you mean?"

10:36 Zuthal nods to her with a slight giggle, opening his mouth to show off two pairs of canines, not too big but still much bigger than on normal ponies. "Yup, we eat meat. And I learned it from a pony who's living with my tribe..."

10:37 < Serilde> (Aww not 3? No teeth on teh center line? :P)

10:38 < Zuthal> (Hmmm... actually, yeah.)

10:39 < Serilde> (Are you splitting the jaw here too?)

10:40 Zuthal nods to her with a slight giggle, opening his mouth to show off three pairs of canines, not too big but still much bigger than on normal ponies, with one of them being on the middle line of his lower jaw. "Yup, we eat meat. And I learned it from a pony who's living with my tribe..."

10:41 < Zuthal> (Nah, jaw stays together. But would mebbe still be visible a bit)

10:42 Serilde rolls eyes as the stallion shows her his mouth, initially inimpressed with his assortment of teeth, until she notices a strange line in the middle, covered with even more. "W...what? You guys have 3rows of teeth?" She asks, compeltly confused. "And...why are they here?"

10:43 Zuthal raises a brow at her question, before letting out a giggle as he realises. "Oh, yeah... that's something that's special with us. Here, let me show you!" he says, opening his mouth wide as his lower jaw splits apart with an audible pop.

10:44 Serilde gasps in suprise as the pony suddenly pulls his his mouth appart and shudders at the strange sight before her. She then shakes her head and turns away. "N-no...that's just a little too much for me...I cant believe you were chewing on my tail with all of those sharp teeth..."

10:45 Zuthal closes his jaw back up, pouting at her a little bit. "I didn't really use my teeth... and I don't think it's that weird. I think it's kinda weird that you don't have a normal mouth," he says as he keeps walking, his tail swaying behind him a little.

10:46 Serilde clakcs her beak together a couple times and follows behind, amused that his tail was much closer to her own than that of a normal pony. "So...how far away is your village or clan or whatever?"

10:47 Zuthal hums softly as his tail waves around almost right underneath her beak. "We're almost there, don't worry~" he says. Despite his assertion, there are no above-ground buildings visible. There are, however, a few tatzls flying around in the sky, and what looks like fields and an orchard are visible a short distance away.

10:48 Serilde feels the wagging tail triggering a bit of instinct in the back of her mind and bats at it with a claw with a small giggle escaping her beak before she starts. "Almost here? But...I dont really see anyone?"

10:49 < Serilde> s/anyone/any buildings

10:50 Zuthal eeps as the claw bats against his tail, rubbing it against the formel's chest. "That's because we live underground!" he exclaims cheerfully, stopping rather abruptly as they come to a sheer cliff-face. Far, far down, a wild stream runs through the canyon it has carved out of the rock, and only a short way underneath the edge, there are several ledges and openings in both walls.

10:51 Serilde whistles as she looks at the drop far below the canyon and then scans the walls, noticing all the different entrances to something. "So...then...where do we go? Which of those do we want?" She asks, feeling at home with the cliffside housing.

10:52 Zuthal smiles happily as he gives his wings a little flap. "Just follow me, I know the way," he says, before jumping down into the gorge. After a few moments, the colt catches his fall and flies down to one of the larger ledges, landing on it with a happy smile.

10:53 Serilde watches Zuthal take off, and then hops off the cliff after him, flaring her wings and dropping further than he had under her weight before maintining altitude and then circling down to where he landed. "These remind me a bit of some of the griffon colonies, actually I called a cliffside house home for a bit."

10:54 Zuthal smiles happily as he listens to her, walking into the tunnel. It is lit mainly by torches, with ventilation shafts extending up from the ceiling in regular intervals. "That's neat. We do this, uh... I think it's got something to do with not getting too hot," he says. There are a few tatzlponies of different shades walking around, looking curiously at Serilde.

10:55 Serilde looks around at the collection of colorful ponies, giving them the same curious glance that they gave her. Occasionally she hears some weird sounds being made by some of them and turns to look at her guide. "What are they doing?" She asks, indicating towards a pair of ponies having a conversation in thier language.

10:56 Zuthal smiles happily as he greets one of his friends, exchanging a few words with him before turning to Serilde. "Oh, they're just talking. Don't you guys just talk with each other when you see friends?"

10:57 Serilde blinks and then starts. "Oh...ya...I guess. I just didnt realize that was supposed to be speech. It sounds like trill slurps and things like that..." She responds, shaking her head.

10:58 Zuthal giggles a little bit, shaking his head. "Hey, your language sounds really strange to me too... but anyways, you said you needed some dried meat? Anything else?"

10:59 Serilde rolls her eyes and hmms to herself as she thinks of what she could get. "Mostly some fresh food would be nice...dried fruits, dried meat, cheeses...that's really all I need...Just something to stock myself for a bit."

11:00 Zuthal nods to her, smiling happily. "Okay, then just come with me. I'll do all the talking, so you don't have to worry about that." As they walk, there would be one or two tatzls with rather large, occasionally wriggling bellies... large enough to contain another one of the large ponies.

11:01 Serilde nods at the stallion and looks around, frowning as he sees those large wiggling bulges and shudders. Serilde stops to stare at one of them, trying to figure out what was going on, tensing up as she gets a little more wary of attack. "Zuthal...what type of meat did you guys say you ate?"

11:02 Zuthal shrugs to her, not understanding the reasoning of her question at first, as he is all too used to the sight. "Usually just what we can catch out here... so, pretty much anything that tastes at least decent and isn't too fast or too small to get away."

11:03 Serilde squeaks and begins to back up, before realizing she's not actually sure of the right direction to exit the labrinth of tunnels. "You know Zuthal...maybe you should just take me back to the surface..." She says nervously, reaching for her warhammer as she realizes she fits that description.

11:04 Zuthal stops to raise a brow to her, looking concerned. "Uhm, Serilde... why are you suddenly so nervous? There's nothing to be afraid of, really."

11:05 Serilde has her eyes transfixed on one of the wiggling bulges that another tatzl has in his gut and grimaces. "Because...I'm just not a fan of dark places..." she says, though her gaze makes things clear.

11:06 Zuthal opens his mouth to object, but then his face lights up in understanding as he follows her gaze. "Ooooh, so that's what you're afraid of. Don't worry, we won't eat you. At least, not for food, and not unless you want to."

11:07 Serilde blinks in confustion as he seems unphased by her objections. "What? Wlhy am I different that whatever is in his gut? It certaily looks my size...and what do you mean you'd eat me if I wanted to be eaten? Why in the world would I want something like that?"

11:08 Zuthal giggles a little bit at her confusion. "Oh, if we eat other ponies, we don't digest them. Our spit somehow prevents that, and it's actually really nice, being inside someone's belly. Warm and comfy... we pretty often do it with ponies who we like, and feel close to."

11:09 Serilde 's jaw drops wide open, showing off her pink tongue to the pony in front of her as she sits there stunned. "You...eat each other?" She asks, sounding even more skeptical. "Warm...comfy?" She putters out. "Thats just crazy...eww that'd ruin my feathers. No way would I let you guys do that to me."

11:10 < Serilde> (Now to conspire to get Serilde to agree to it...maybe she has nothing they want and thats their trade or something.)

11:11 < Serilde> (You'd have to confince her it was safe first though...maybe Zuthal and Serilde at the same time...with Zuthal first? :P)

11:12 Zuthal shrugs a little bit, before sitting down as well and placing a hoof on his belly. "Yup, we do that. And it's not too bad, it dries off pretty easily, so it doesn't really ruin anything. I, uhm... I could show you..."

11:13 Serilde makes a face as Zuthal offers to show er and shakes her head. She continues standing after Zuthal takes a seat. "No thanks...That's one trip I'd prefer not to take."

11:14 Zuthal lets out a soft sigh, standing back up. "Fine... but I promise you, it's perfectly safe. Though... I'm not so sure if I'd have managed to fit you in anyways," he says, before starting to walk down the tunnel again. "Anyways, we should get your stuff."

11:15 < Serilde> (See OOC)

11:16 < Zuthal> (Have fun adulting!)

11:17 < Serilde> (She's only about 2 ponies, so maybe :P)

11:18 Serilde rolls her eyes and shakes her head. "No...that's not happening, regardless of what you say. I'm not going to let one of you things eat me..." She says, sticking her tongue otu disgusted. She follows along quickly to whereever she's being led.

11:19 Zuthal lets out a sigh as he looks down to the ground, wondering how he could get her to go along with it. Soon, they reach a small door in the tunnel wall, and he walks in, to see another tatzl in what looks like some kind of food store.

11:20 Serilde follows along quietly, adverting her eyes as she occasionally sees a squirming bulge. Soon they arrive at the store, and Serilde smiles as she sees the assortment of things to pick from and flits around the room. "Oooh, there looks to be some things i'd llike here...and some things I dont think anypony in their right mind would eat..."

11:21 Zuthal nods to her, asking the storekeeper for a bit of patience before turning to the griffon. "Well, what do you want? Just tell me, and I'll get it for you."

11:22 Serilde points out a number of items, amounting to several pounds of food as well as pointing to a couple bottles of what she things are alcohol of some sort. "I think I want all of that. So...how many bits does that add up to?"

11:23 < Serilde> (I wonder if Zuthal even knows what bits are :P_)

11:24 < Zuthal> (prolly not. Also, minecrafting.)

11:25 < Zuthal> (will post... whenever i get up to it :P)

11:26 < Serilde> (Tis alright, though I just finished my returns. Have fun!!!!!!)

11:27 Zuthal raises a brow at the griffon's words. "Bits? What are bits? Anyways, I'm gonna get you your stuff," he says, before turning to talk to the shopkeeper. She nods and gathers up the requested items, putting them in a couple of bags before hoofing them over the counter with a smile.

11:28 Serilde blinks at the pony and pulls out a bit from her bag. "You know...bits...money? These little gold pieces that ponies use for trade?" She asks, watching them gather up the things.

11:29 < Serilde> (Oooh, I bet Zuthal agrees to the price to teh shopkeeper, contingent on Zuthal getting to eat Serlide :P)

11:30 Zuthal raises his other brow at that, before letting out an aaah of recognition. "Oh, that stuff that Shooting Star told me about! We don't use those. We just, like... do stuff for eachother. Like, I give you something, and then you will give me something or do something for me in return."

11:31 Serilde blinks and lets her mouth hang open as Zuthal explains their system and then shakes her head. "Ok..fine...what does he want from me then, for all of this stuff? I might have some things to trade..." She responds, opening her pack and rumaging through to find stuff she could part with.

11:32 Zuthal hums softly as he looks at the stuff, pulling her over to the merchant as he starts talking to her.

11:33 < Serilde> (Hmmm?)

11:34 < Zuthal> (Just.. dunno what else to do with that post)

11:35 < Serilde> (I mean...I dont know what you meant...are you pulling Serilde over?

11:36 < Zuthal> (Yep)

11:37 < Zuthal> (Or at least trying to)

11:38 Serilde sets her stuff down and stands in front of the shop keeper. "Well...what do they want for all of that? And that is alcohol right?" She asks, curiously.

11:39 Zuthal nods to her with a smile. "Yeah, that is alcohol. And well... she isn't really interested in any of your stuff... though there is another thing that she would like..."

11:40 Serilde huffs as she's told she doesnt have anything of value and sighs. "Well, fine...I'll do whatever task it is that he has for me then...What does he thing fair?"