Cat Town - Painting the Purrfect Pictures - RPLOG
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Date
7/11/2014
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The milk bar stands tall and proud before the Lazy Lake shore, surprisingly well put together considering the strained resources of Cat Town- it's hardly crooked at all! Unfortunately, despite its impressive stature, the building is as bare as can be, presently colored the drab brown of the wooden planks it's composed of. A small group of felines in plastic toy hardhats and denim overalls are busily hauling about paint buckets and brushes of varying size, the Mayor herself, Cookies, overseeing the construction team nearby. She doesn't seem to be actively participating. How lazy!
Due to having absolutely nothing to do today, no Zephyr jobs currently assigned to her, Illera just walks on up to the Milk Bar. Looks over the drab building, tail swaying about behind her, the vixen smirks. Speaks to the mayor. While having no idea it's the mayor. "So. Painting a building. Can't be that hard, right?"
Soon after the vixen a pale looking human appears, wearing a bare-shouldered crimson blouse and gray capris trousers. Felictus arrives near the group of cats, giving the structure in front of them a glance before looking back at the cats. "So, too lazy to do anything artistic I see? I hope I can help you with that. Any certain themes you want us to adhere too?" the vampire said with their melodic voice with an obvious cheeky tone in it.
shi smiles as shi approaches the little cat people the arachne speaking gently to them before approaching the building, looking it over not noticing the others till she reaches down for a bucket almost bumping into the vixen "oh sorry i didn't see you down there" offering a hand "I hope we can work well together" bending hir knees slightly though almost taking out one of the other volunteers in the process
Skade saunters in from the south. Clad in her usual short black leather jacket with a white bikini-top underneath and a pair of low-slung red denims. And of course, a pair of heels on her feet. Seems she's taken on a decidedly more feline form today to go with her outfit. Almost a necessity when dealing with cat town. Though even so, the girl can't help but stay mostly human due to her peculiar nanites. "Well well, Cooks! Hard at work, I see! I guess you can't steal artistic talent though. Still, place has potential!" the redhead says as she places a hand on her hip and looks around. "Now, who do I have to kill to get a glass of milk first?" she finally says, licking her red-painted lips.
Cookies offers Illera a sideways glance, smirking. "I'd paint, but the boys here decided they wanted to run a contest for the PR, and it would hardly be fair of me to join it- I'd win," she purrrs out bemusedly. The construction-cats set the supplies up in convenient spots next to the building, then promptly join their Mayor in lazing about. They all retrieve small sandwiches from under their hats and munch away. Cookies glances about at the agents arriving, offering them each a broad smile. "Welcome, one 'n all, to CAT TOWN!"
She gestures towards the bare bar. "Unfortunately, we spent all our creative energy on interior design, and have a case of the lazies. We would /prefer/ you stick to feline related themes," she explains, rolling a hand in gesture, "but I mean, if you wanna make something unrelated that's too awesome to deny, by all means!" She shoots Skade a playful glare, though she can't help but smile wryly. "Me. I am that person. You do the work, you earn the milk. Our cooks are already hard at work, so your culinary reward will be brought about SWIFTLY, and JUSTLY. Now, get to work, people! I ain't payin' you to stand around and look pretty! In fact, I ain't payin' you at all!"
The supplies themselves seem to be brushes made for mutants of varying size and shape, along with big buckets of just about any color one could ask for- even a couple cans of spraypaint. It's a perfect pile of creative tools for all-purpose painting, one's only limit being their imagination!
Illera isn't being payed and doesn't need to be paid. Sets about gathering up supplies. For painting. Gives only a small nod to the large Deamona who nearly bumped into her. Isn't concerned. Looks over the assortment of stuff she aquired. Starts plotting. Evilly. Or not evilly. Depends on the others. "WEll, I've no ideas..." Not creative. WAits for others to do stuff.
Felictus shrugs and flashes a smirk to the cats, "Translation: We just want to laze about and do nothing. Eh?" the vampire says teasingly, before moving towards building, grabbing a number of brushes and setting a some of the assorted paint buckets near them. Felictus holds a hand with a brush up, sizing the side they chose, before looking back and saying, "So feline themes, yes? Do you want me to stick to cats or add lions nad tigers and other felines?"
Deamona nods as shi picks up hir stuff, "hmmm cat stuff sure i can work with that" the arachne nodding to hir self before getting to work giving the cats another glance, the arachne licking hir lips before turning away mummbeling to hir self under hir breath "help ...not eat" as shi starts to paint
Skade is a great many things, but an artist isn't reaaaally among them. Still, she'd be damned if she wouldn't give it a go! Stepping forwards, she grabs herself a brush and a mixing board. "Alright.." she says to herself as she gazes at the piece of wall she's chosen for her masterpiece. She stares at it for awhile before finally she decides to simply dip the tips of her fingers into some of the black paint. Extending her small claws, she draws four lines, like cat scratchmarks across part of the wall. "A start.. definetly catlike. Now, let's see here.."
The Mayor nods towards Felictus. "Lions, tigers- but not bears, oh my- really, anything feline. Doesn't even have to explicitly be cats. We like pictures of fish and milk and things, too." The sandwich-chewing cats watch the painters intently. A couple of them smile and point at Skade's scratchmarks as they chatter amongst themselves, Deamona getting a couple odd glances from cats who almost hear what she's mumbling! "Finger painting is encouraged, if you feel like it! In particular, I'd personally like to see all of you put your handprints in paint next to your murals when you're finished," Cookies explains.
Illera glances at the Mayor, noting the 'anything feline' bit... she gets a plan. Starts painting. A very small barbed cat dong on the wall. Extremely simple. And not exactly easy to see. Would need to squint to make out what it is. Given how small it is, be very easy to cover. Which she doesn't do. Instead, moves on to painting an actual cat. Not a pussy. A cat. With the paint. Black paint. Because, lack of creativity.
Deamona stands back as shi finishes the bottom of hir art, nodding at the slight 3d effect of hir grass, the arachne having spun some of hir webbing into hir paint mix as she went the silky strands adding some texture to it, "heh if old mikey could see me now, and he said I wouldn't do anything as nice as that church roof thing he did" the arachne oblivous to the odd looks shi was getting as shi added the next layer to hir work this time adding some slivery strands to it, curling them out of the grass to look like a furry tail
If anything this sassy vampire was born for the sake of art. Getting their answer, Felictus immediately looked back at their wall. After a minute of deep thought, the vampire raises a brush in the air, "Eureka!" they declare in their cronning voice, before dibbing two thick brushes in one of the green paintbuckets and moving towards the wall, covering the wall's lower section with green stripes as they paint enthusiastically. Almost as an after thought the vampire said to the cats lazing about, "Oi! Get me a ladder here, I am not going to perform acrobatical feats to get the upper section painted." not stopping a moment from their work.
Skade dabs a bit of black paint onto her nose and leans in, giving the mural a kiss. As she steps back, one can see the black nose-print left behind, as well as a full imprint of her red lips. A few quick dashes and whiskers as well as a pair of triangular eyes are quickly added to form a rudimentary cat-like face. Four more angular strokes at the top and presto! Ears! She admires her work, tilting her head to the side as she glances down at her chest. Would a pair of boob-prints be too much, she wondered? After all, the boobs were always the first thing into any room Cookies entered. Absentmindedly she paws at her blackened nose with the back of her hand in a very cat-like gesture. No, that'd have to do. For now. Wait! THe redhead snaps her fingers. A boob print would of course not add much, but surely the tail is very much the.. essence of cats!
A couple of the construction cats who've finished their sandwiches groan at Felictus' request and hobble off, quickly returning with a slightly nanite-decayed ladder. They set it up carefully against the vampire's wall, careful not to interrupt the painting. Deamona's art earns a few interested 'oooh's from the crowd, and Skade's imprints are being carefully watched with great intrigue. Now that Illera begins painting, the cats start pointing at her wall, too, observing the art beginning to take shape. A couple of giggles sound out as people notice the barbed cock. Points for dong-vandalism!
Illera giggles softly herself, leaves the dong there. Unmolested. Giggity. Continues to paint in silence. Ending up with a black cat of middling artistic quality. "Any suggestions for this? I'm not very creative. As you can tell..." Shrugs, sniffs about for personal reasons, then returns to painting. With a brush, as she has been using one. To finish adding detail to the cat. By detail, I mean the tail. Completely forgot it needed one.
The picture is already starting to gain form. The lower side of the wall now looking quite similar to masterfully drawn grass, with some brown smudges on the right side of the wall, and blue smudges near them. Felictus nods at the cats as they bring in the ladder, and quickly adds a couple of some final adjustments, for now, to the lower side of the wall, before grabbing a blue paintbucket and a white one too, and ascending up the squeaky ladder. The vampire continues their diligant work for now.
Deamona happily hums to hir self as shi works one hand adding silk while the other adds the paint the large spider smiling to hir self as shi finishes the first part nodding at hir cat in the grass, it's slivery tail poking out above a pair of hidden amber eyes, with a nod of approvale shi starts on the next bit picking up multiple shades of blue's and browns before striding up to hir wall placing one of hir pointed feet on it giving a little push as if checking it before adding another, the arachne soon standing on hir wall slowly painting as shi moved around
Skade takes another fortifying sip from her hip-flask as she decides she doesn't want to get her trousers or pants dirty. Thumbs hooking into the waistline, she pulls the lot of it down to her ankles, revealing her shapely, white butt. Twisting herself around, she tries to get a good look at her rump but as any human knows, that's rather difficult to do. Instead, she winks at one of the slacking cats and points to the bucket before patting her ass. "Well, are you going to help me out or not? Get yer hands on my butt! ASAP!"
One of the cats shouts out a couple suggestions to Illera. "Milk! Oh, oh! Or paint, like, a patch of catnip! No, a FIELD!" A few felines tilt their head at Felictus' work, interested in its progress so far. "Is it a landscape?" "No, it's like, a sea-dragon!" "I bet it's gonna be a big painting of Cat Town!" Deamona's painting gains increasing levels of interest from the crowd, a couple of cats staring intently at her careful work.
Skade, for her part, gets a lot more stares than her painting when she does away with her pants. The winked-at cat looks a little bit befuddled at first, though he quickly gets to his feet and trots forwards- only to be pounced by another eager catboy, doing his damndest to clamber over the first. Fortunately, one he climbs over, the first grabs his tail and yanks him down, sending him falling on his back with an 'oof!'. Victor of the silly rough-housing, the feline saunters up to dip his hands into the bucket of paint, quickly bringing them back out dripping and slapping them right onto Skade's rear. A thorough, terribly lewd rubdown follows, hands kneading and sliding across that shapely backside until it is 100% prepared for paint. The catboy glows with pride. Or sexual frustration. It's not entirely apparent.
Illera is amused by this development. Visibly. The blushing under the black fur is not at all as visible as her amusement. And as she now has several suggestions... looks for a way to work 'em all together. That is, she ends up painting a simplistic milk jug, on a field, with the word 'Catnip' and an arrow pointing at the field. A field of catnip, clearly. Shrugs at her simplistic work. "I'm not an artist. Clearly."
The painting is finally taking shape. The upper portion of the wall now looks quite similar to a serene blue sky, while the lower portion now quite similar to a meadow, with a white table in the center of the meadow. There are still a good portion of paint smudges, foreshadowing things to come, a group of differently coloured smudges surrond the table with another smudge or two beyond it a bit. The vampire is too engrossed in their work to notice anything of the happenings near them, or the most likely thing just ignoring it. Felictus suddenly stops, looking back at the cats and giving Cookies a good long look, before going back to their mural and their race up and down the ladder.
Deamona continues to move around hir work, the sideways arachne working hir way back to the layer of grass shi had done leaving the bare top of a tree adorning a blue sky, silvery white clouds resting behind it, as she reached the grass layer shi starts spinning slick onto the wall making a roundish shape the silk covering some of hir grass shi then adds a few strnads in the middle before slavering it with different blue paints the neat shpe looking like a blob in the middle of her work the spidder turnning around to finish the rest of hir tree, carefully paint down to the grass line before heading back to the top carefully adding leaves before turning to the trunk the arachne slapping hir fore head, as shi does shi see the now black rump of skade looking back to hir work then the black butt, befoe heading over "sorry need to borrow some" before wipping hir fingers up between the cats cheeks smiling as shi returns to hir tree with hir now black tipped fingers
Skade shoots Deamona a smirk before wiggling her shiny rear. Of course, she can't help but to thank the helpful cat by offering him a good view of her cleavage as she presses her freshly painted ass against the wall. Of course, she has to bend forwards to get the proper artistic view of a shapely rear and tail that she's after. Thankfully she's wearing heels and that always helps with a nice figure she finds. The cat girl can't help but giggle as she finally hops forwards, very nearly tripping over the pants around her ankles. Once more, she gazes on her beautiful creation on the wall behind her as she reaches for a nearby rag to wipe herself off. Scratches, a rudimentary cat face and now.. a cat butt. Not bad. It does need some colour though, that's for sure. The only splash of colour right now are the bright red lips. Still, it has a certain charm to it maybe? Skade taps her chin as she considers adding something to the mural.
The lucky catboy gets his peek at Skade's cleavage, then trots on back to the rest of the group with a big dumb smile on his face, and a ton of paint on his hands. Her art earns a great many smiles from the cats already, many evidently appreciators of 'hands-on' art. Meanwhile, on Illera's side of the building, another cat shouts, "You gotta have a big sky, and clouds! And a sun!" A few felines appear to be trying to figure out what to make of her painting, soon nodding in approval and quietly discussing it amongst themselves. Deamona's tree is getting a lot of 'ooh's and 'aah's out of the silly cats, too. "Ooh, ooh, is it the tree in the middle of the town?!" one asks. Cookies herself gives Felictus a rather odd look when she notices them staring. "Take a picture, it'll last longer," she snarks. Touchy!
Illera does as suggested once more. With the sky, sun and clouds. All the simple stuff. That ends up looking like a child made it. A really good child, but not a professional artist. "Right, this is working. I think..." Looks over at Skade and her stuff. For purely academic reasons. Not ass ogling. Probably. The others also get a quick look before she's back at her wall, painting again. With the sky.
And voil�! The vampire's work is done. Felictus moves aside the ladder and the other painting supplies giving anyone who wants to look a good opportunity to do now without tripping over anything. Looking at the mural one can see a pleasant meadow at the center of the mural, littered with daisies and buttercups and other flowers, a tree, with a posture depicting a lion and two cats waving rationing tickets nailed to the tree trunk, and a small stream passing near it on the lower right corner of the wall. Taking a good portion of the lower center and the right side of the wooden wall is a large, white, wooden table. Surrounding the table are matching white seats, each with their feline occupiers sitting on top of them. On one end of the table one can see a brown furred catgirl smiling happily as she sips from a glass of milk in her hand. Sitting next to her is a cute looking, male kemonomimi catboy, yellow eyes staring hungrily at a fish in front of him. On the opposite end of the table sits a large and burly looking male tiger sipping calmly from another glass of milk, near him is a female spotted lynx staring with adoration at the statue behind her, and finally a large lion beast savagely tearing apart a piece of tuna. In the center of the table are two fresh jugs of milk and a couple of tuna fishes with a stack of rationing tickets lying near the food and a posture hanging limply at the side, showing a group of felines moving a fallen tree trunk with 'TEAMWORK!' written on it in bold letters.
As one raises their gaze, they can see the beautiful day sky drawn above the scene, a serene blue colour with white clouds separating it. And finally, one could say the essence of what is Cat Town, is a rather huge and impressive looking golden statue of none other than Cookies. The catgirl is standing in a defiant posture, hands on her hips and face staring into the horizon, while her tail is set at an angle. The shadowing done on the other pieces of the mural pales in comparison to that of the statue, its shadow reaching to the table and covering it, a symbolism to the protective shadow of the leader over Cat Town, or maybe the shadow of tyranny some might say,and finally etched on the sculpture's pedestal is 'OUR BENVELONT LEADER COOKIES'.
All around the mural extra care has been given to add those little details like a wood texture to the tree and ripples to the water and, naturally, the statue was given quite a good amount of attention to detail, making the catgirl's stare look as confident as possible and giving the statue a good amount of layering to give out some semblance to a sheening golden statue. All in all a perfectly flattering picture of Cat Town and its dicta...mayor.
The vampire, now covered in a multitude of colours, lets out a sigh, "You asked for something Cat Town-y. I hope this meets your expectations." They say with a smirk and a deep breath.
Deamona works on hir tree etching the trunk details with the tips of hir fingers, the arachne etching on some finner details to hir background before wipping hir hands clean on some rag, efore going back up to the braches below the leaves once more spinning hir webbing into some gold and burnt oak mixing the two together as shi makes as second cat person this one relaxing in the tree branches some flecks of gold in it's furr, the arachne climbing off the wall before adding a root sticking out of the grass a little grey mouse peeking from behind it, looking over hir painting before adding a few bits to the background some rocks and few little cats playing around it the arachne turning away from the painting
Skade manages to clean herself up somewhat. Atleast enough to get her trousers and panties back on, struggling a bit to get her tail into the hole made in her pants specifically for such apendages. She finishes her work by painting a cat's paw in bright blue to add a splash of colour more. "Well, atleast I gave it my best!" she says with a laugh as she steps over to view the other agents paintings with a smile playing on her lips.
hir mouth opening to say something before shi clicks hir fingers "oops almost forgot" turning back to the large blue splat near the middle of hir work, hir fingers scrapping at the edge before , gripping it shi peals the blue coated webbing off the splants edges becoming crips and clear the sticky webbing giving the green underit a stippled look as the splat bcomes a lake with a few reflections in the water "ok now it's done my tasty ..I mean happy little felines" stepping back from hir painting
Cookies patiently waits for everyone to finish up, then slowly, lazily gets to her feet. She looks over the paintings, one by one, giving each a thorough examination and nodding before moving onto the next. She clasps her hands together and smiles broadly, looking over the artists with a broad smile. "Well, hot damn, people. You all did good. I wish there was enough space to give all of you a room!" She huffs in frustration and rubs her chin. "Which makes it all the more difficult to decide. Illera's is simple," she states- say, she never got any names, did she? How strange. "But I like that. It fits just right in all the right ways." She points over to Skade. "Another sweet-and-simple one, for sure. Way to think outside the box, and of course, bonus points for finger-painting. Or... or butt painting in this case." Her gaze then falls on Deamona. "Now, the tree... I love the tree. I really do. I don't think I need to explain myself here. The silk thing is beyond creative and quite pretty- might be a little harder to maintain, but definitely worth it..." Finally, she looks- and points- at Felictus. "You, though. Blatant pandering! How terrible! Almost cheat-y! But you know what, I like that, and the detail you put into it goes a long way too. It really embodies the... the straight-up /community/ of Cat Town. I love it to death. And I think I'm gonna have to give the grand prize to Felictus, here! But EVERYBODY gets ration tickets, yaaay!" The hardhat-clad cats burst out into applause and appreciative cheering for all of the lovely artists!
Illera has apparently been given ration tickets for simplicity. Approves, nods and such. "What are these tickets for? Like, what do they get me exactly?" Of course she had to ask. Doesn't comment on how the name was known. Assumes the mayor has one o' them comm units. That give names of people. Illera has one, of course.
Felictus's eye widened in mock shock, "My work made for flattery? Madam, I simply did what was requested of me paint a picture of a feline nature and that represents. Any panderings are obviously accidental." the vampire said teasingly, "So? I won thegrand prize? Which is a room here yes? Do I have to sign any legal papers or anything for it?" the vampire asks, glancing around for anything to clean the paint with.
Deamona looks at hir tickets wondering the same thing, as shi waits shi approaches a pair of catboys whispering in their ears though the little bulges gives some idea what was being said "all you two wait for me there and I promise i'll give you the time of your lives, ok" the pair of them sheepeshly nodding "good now run along, i'll be with you soon" the two of them looking at each other before leaving, they do the arachne licks hir lips before quickly wipping hir mouth as shi answers question about hir piece
Skade bows to the glorious winner before she make her way to the milk bar with a fistful of precious rations to burn. Hooray! She pulls the cat fellow who so enthustiastically covered her precious butt in paint close to her as she waves whoever's in charge over. Milk for me and my friend here! He's going to need his energy.
Cookies crosses her arms and peers between Skade and Deamona. "Sheesh, you lewd people! If I don't see all three of those boys safe and sound later, I'm going to be /very/ upset." Her tone suggests something slightly worse than just being upset, but she leaves it at that, and opts instead to smile again. "That said... Thank you, all of you, for the help. Enjoy free food for the rest of the evening in the milk bar. To answer the question- ration tickets are usually what you'd trade in for various things around the town, in this case food. I'll give you each a standard booklet. Consider yourselves more or less a part of our community!" She gestures towards the entrance of the milk bar, sauntering her way over and pushing open the doors. "We're god-damn-finally open for business, folks." There are lovely, lovely smells of cooking food wafting from the place already. Within, a variety of cat-girl waitresses await, beaming wide smiles and ready to take orders for the cooks who are busily preparing all kinds of things back in the kitchen. Cookies herself makes her way to the kitchen to assist. "Anything you want, I can make. Just tell one of the fine waitresses~!" she calls out before getting to work bossing the cooks around.
Illera is now a part of a community. This is a good thing. Nods at the mayor, and, having no particular need of anything for the moment, just departs. With a smile. Alone. With no catboys for fuckery. Okay, maybe one... No. Must remain pruder than these other people. For personal reasons.
