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Post by Marrowbone on Aug 20, 2009 23:27:46 GMT -5
Spade's paws rasped against the stone floor as he padded down the halls. Today was a rather dull day, so he was hoping to track down his gambling brothers Jackpot and Jackle, though chances are they were gone out hustling kittypets.
A sound came from an adjacent corridor, and he swerved in to investigate. Peeking behind the wall, he saw several ferrets dash from a room, chattering to themselves. The nearby ferret colony often traded with the Circuits, so it wasn't uncommon to see them about the tunnels. But what were they up to?
He went poking into the room, and his jaw dropped.
"Hey, Spade! Look what we 'found' at a human's place!"
Clopar called, looking over his shoulder at Spade in the doorway. He was perched on the back of a couch, but that wasn't the odd thing. That couch had been here forever, an ugly, tacky, vomit green thing with hundreds of claw marks in the sides.
The odd thing was the giant black box sitting in front of the couch. It was smooth and shiny, very thin on the sides, and below it sat smaller boxes with blinking lights.
"What on Earth is that thing?"
Spade looked it up and down, absolutely puzzled.
"The humans call it 'Television'."
Jackle was sitting at it's base, poking the buttons on the smaller boxes and grinning at the funny colors and sounds they made.
"I couldn't decide between TiVo and CableBox so I got both."
Clopar held an even smaller box in his paws and pressed a switch on it, making the 'Television' turn on with the hum of a generator in another room (Where DO the Circuits get this stuff?)
"Oh look, Animal Planet!"
((Leave me alone; It's funny XD
"Who's up for movies and popcorn?! 8D "))
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Post by ~XxLone*WolfxX~ on Aug 21, 2009 13:26:52 GMT -5
((So it is. XDDD 'I couldn't decide between the TiVo and the CableBox so I got both.' XDDD))
"Hey, hey. How in this world did you carry it?" An orange tom questioned; joining the group and jumping up on the couch. The tom cat turn and set his front paws on top of the sleek machine and dipped his head down to look at the screen. He was about an inch from the screen so it was starting to hurt his eyes.
"It buuurns..." He stated in a dazed tone. Though he did not move just yet. Staring at it for a moment longer he lifted his head up and blinked. "Woooh... The lights are on the wall." Raptor said blinking again. "Nuh, they're on my eyelids too!" He exclaimed flopping back on the couch only to fall off in a heap of orange and purple fur. The odd cat picked himself up and shook his fur out. "Hey Clopar. What's happening?" He question with a shake of his head to remove some stray hairs from his eyes.
"Hey look prey!" He exclaimed as he saw a meerkat on the TV screen.
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Post by Marrowbone on Aug 23, 2009 1:13:29 GMT -5
"Well, you know those ferrets, they always come up with something tactful. We took it apart, brung it down the tunnels, and set it up again. All in five minutes, a new record!"
Clopar yawned and leaned backwards, sitting on his back with a paw behind his head.
"Be careful, Raptor!"
Spade hopped up on the arm of the couch to observe Raptor's little excentricity.
"It's like staring at the sun; Don't do it! But you're right, what are those weird things?"
The confusing critters on screen were numerous, and seemed to be perched around a badger or ferret set.
"Those would be Meerkats. They're sorta like ferrets, but they live faaar away. Nice folks, though, I've met a few in zoos."
"Clopar, what do humans use this thing for?
Spade cautiously put out a paw and touched the screen, instantly pulling it back like it'd eat him otherwise.
"Sports, mostly. The younger ones usually watch stuff from Japan. But there are hundreds of different 'shows' that come on at different times. Oh, and we can watch movies!"
((Me writes goods.))
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Post by Destiny on Aug 25, 2009 8:50:41 GMT -5
In a moments silence which occurs naturally in conversation, Faker landed with a muffled "Oomph!" on top of Raptor. The red and black tom rolled off the other, immediately sitting as though he'd intended to land on top of the orange cat, and that he hadn't instead gotten distracted by the glowing box mid-trick, which had caused him to botch it.
"Ooh, Faker likee Sparkle-Box." he meowed childishly, eyes glued to the screen, tail flicking in Raptor's face. Then he looked around at the rest of the cats, pulling himself into a two-legged standing position as he had seen on TV. The handsome young tom couldn't be bothered to alter his accent into the one most of the cats around here carried, instead sticking to his native. "Ah rather fancy it woul' beh nice tah be a wun uv them weaselly things. Seems rather fun." On the TV, a meerkat was carried off by a bird.
"Ooh, look. They even have theme park rides!"
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Post by ~XxLone*WolfxX~ on Aug 27, 2009 13:12:27 GMT -5
Raptor let out a rather surprised yowl from being landed on. He flailed and stood up fur practically on end now. Once he saw it was just Faker who had landed on him he calmed down. "Oh hey Faker." He said. Though now he had a tail in his face. The tom blew on the cats tail then bit it.
" 'thunks iphs bin currieb oof." Which somehow translated into 'I think it's been carried off.' Since he had Faker's tail in his mouth. So he spit the tail out and stuck his tongue out and spitting some fur out. He gagged on the fur and shook his head.
"Faker. Your tail taste- gag- terrible. I'd rather eat a rotten rat." The orange cat stated sitting back down still making odd faces as he continued to attempt to remove the fur from his mouth.
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Post by » Sacrifice on Aug 28, 2009 12:07:56 GMT -5
"That could be arranged."
A voice saud, before revealing the strange tom. In outward apperances, he wasn't too strange, for there had been a lot worse, or shall we say crazy, Circuits out there. But still, he was different. A kit of the card cats, Taegan had some of the checkered pattern, but most of it he concealed with the flowing cape he had always had, ever since trading for it with the ferrets. More recently he had picked up an earing, just one stud, in his right ear, and he was basically the guard for the Circuits, a self appointed role. Nobody knew what he could do, only that he moved soundlessly, and most often was lingering in the shadows, watching. After doing that for so many moons, Taegan knew just about everyone by name, and if they had a clear power, what they did. That didn't mean that he actually got along with them though, for unless he was in a rare light mood, there were very few Circuits who he actually liked being around.
Half colored gaze, something that really did make the black/purple tom look odd, turned toward the brightly glowing box, lighting up the shadows that he usually carried himself in. Ears pricking forward, he stared at the screen for a few moments, before shrugging slightly.
"Ferrets. I always wonder where they get what they have, but then I ask myself, do I really want to know?"
Offering another shrug, the tom leaped up onto the sofa, sitting in a spot that seemed to be too small for anyone, and yet, looking as though he was right at home there.
Someone else must be on guard. Or, he just got tired of it. Either way.
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