tippler 2026/01/01(Thu)10:28 No. 1119520 ID: f1368b
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After Lucy left the house to meet with the Gargill employee we were told was keeping an intact doe, I did my usual routine. Eat, groom, work on my tunnel. The streets were empty because of the rain and after the hard work of digging I took some vegetables from the fridge as a treat.

I know I’m not supposed to go in the kitchen, but ever since Lucy got a job at the library she’s been too busy to keep track of the produce before things spoil. I don’t like seeing the rodents she keeps in there so I don’t open the freezer compartment. Simple. We haven’t gotten a chance to talk about it, but I’m sure she won’t be mad.

She…really likes me. She likes me enough that she doesn’t eat rabbits anymore and she’s willing to risk herself to help the rebellion. Sometimes I’m not sure whether she’s delusional or genuine. Well, it’s pretty clear she’s genuine at this point but I don’t feel like I’ve done anything to deserve it.

tippler 2026/01/01(Thu)10:28 No. 1119521 ID: f1368b
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Soon I’m full, clean, and bored enough to start worrying. I can tell time from the alarm clock in the bedroom, and as the hours stretch on I wonder how long a simple scouting mission should really take.

I wait on top of the couch by the big living room windows for a glimpse of her umbrella and methodical, long-legged walk. The gray sky darkens and eventually night falls, with no sign of the snake.

Something’s very wrong. Lucy hates any weather cooler than sweltering and she isn’t the type to stay out late with a stranger, even if it’s to get close with them.

Did that stalker Gustave find out what she was doing? Has our cover been blown? If they’ve caught Lucy, will they come for me next?

I hope my cagemates didn’t attack her again. I tried to make it very clear to them that Lucy is kind and wasn’t keeping me prisoner, but they hate reptiles so much it might not matter.

A. Sleep on the bed and search for her in the morning
B. Go to the rebel base tonight
C. Other (suggest)

She's a little bit of both.
Go to the base tonight, sleeping here alone doesn't feel safe either.

>>1119521
C. Give her a bit longer. If she doesn't show up, try to sneak your way over to Lucy's spank-happy friend's house to see if she knows anything.

B Lucy is a lost cause. It's time to move on asap

but also stealthily. If she was captured, her stalker will probably start spying on you in order to find the secret rebel base. Dig tunnels, go through bushes and small holes.

C. Seconding going to find Violet. We should bring something of Lucy's, to signal to her that Lucy is missing without letting on that we can speak.

B) If she got in trouble they might come here next.

>>1119521
Whats the weather?
They dont like the rain.
Well, i guess no one does.
Except the crocs.
Shit.
The condition that would stop you running into most reptiles increases the chances of the one you really dont wanna see.

Maybe... maybe something has happened.
Perhaps your cagemates have heard something?
No... too far.

>>1119523
Ah!
Yes.
The smaller snake with the nice hands.
We shall call her spanky.
Practice your biggest, saddest eyes and find something of lucys you can hold outto wordlessly express your worry.

tippler 2026/01/03(Sat)12:09 No. 1119604 ID: f1368b
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>Go to Violet the spanking snake
>Bring something of Lucy’s to communicate without speaking
That could work, except I don’t know where Violet lives since I’ve never visited her house. I’ll approach the viper the next time I see her.

>B, stay at the base
I can find out if any of my cagemates saw Lucy and I’ll be safe from any reptiles who come snooping around the house. The only downside is if Lucy comes home and can’t find me and panics, but I trust her to understand my logic.

I can’t lock the house behind me, but I make a mental note of how everything looks so that I can tell if someone searches the place. It’s damp, but not actively raining. Under the cover of Lucy’s bushes, I put on the woven leaf cloak my brothers made for me and head through the neighborhood into the forest.

tippler 2026/01/03(Sat)12:09 No. 1119605 ID: f1368b
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I check periodically to make sure I’m not being followed and then duck into one of the entrances to the burrow, under a fallen palm tree. I can smell my comrades, and I call out to announce myself.

“Hullo! It’s Rudger coming in from the south tunnel–I have a lot to tell you guys.”

I use my whiskers to navigate as I run on all fours to the main chamber, where Clear Sky and Fresh Grass are working through a new collection of scrap.

“Where’s Sweet Root?” I ask.

“Sleeping. Did you finally tell that snake to leave you alone?” Fresh Grass grunts.

“No, well, kind of…I talked to her and she wants to help us find a mate before I leave. She really, genuinely wants to help.”

The bucks look at each other skeptically. “Sweet Root says he saw her by the factory earlier. Are you sure she didn’t go there to snitch?”

“Yes, I’m completely sure. We got a tip that there was a reptile keeping two women captive and she went to scout the property. Did Root follow her? I’m here because she never came home.”

“You’ll have to ask him.” Grass examines a dirty tin can and sets to work cutting pieces out of the metal.

A. Ask Grass and Sky more questions
B. Bother Root

Anything good in the scrap heap?

Root will be in a better mood if you don’t wake him and ask later

Ask if they need help cutting

B. More information would be good.

Chat while helping your brothers.
May be more info to gather. Safe routes. Danger spots. Good forage areas.

>>1119607
yeah, help out

tippler 2026/01/05(Mon)17:57 No. 1119709 ID: f1368b
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>A, socialize
“I’ll wait, don’t want to put him in a bad mood by waking him up.” I settle myself next to the scrap and crane my neck to see what Sky is working on. “Anything good?”

“This can’s the best thing we found, got some nails we can make into caltrops and glass bottles that we can break to make shards.” Sky sighs. “You said the snake has good quality knives, if she’s gone you should bring them here.”

“I don’t know what’s happened to her yet, I’m not going to steal from her.”

“This again!” Grass snorts. “You can’t treat reptiles with normal standards of morality because they don’t do the same for us. Even if this snake is barely decent for a carnivore, she still supports the factory implicitly.”

The criticism makes a mix of guilt and anger boil in my stomach. I’ve told them everything about Lucy except for the intimate parts of our relationship, and I don’t know whether I feel especially defensive because she’s my lover. Maybe no matter how good she seems, a reptile can never be fully trusted.

tippler 2026/01/05(Mon)18:06 No. 1119711 ID: f1368b
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>Layout of the area
I ask questions to get a mental map of the town and the surrounding forest. The best forage is in the grassy field along the road where we escaped, but they add that there’s an armed chameleon working for Gargill who’s been stalking them, although I’ve never seen this fellow myself.

My eyelids grow heavy and I move to the sleeping chamber, which is lined with dry grass and ferns. I curl up next to Root, who mumbles in his sleep and turns over.

What do I dream about?

Her, of course. You know you're never going to experience anything like her again.

Screwing a Wolpertinger

dream about Fenrir the God of the chain, repression, and control. Because you kinda feel repressed, so you're swayed to dream of that dog wolf deity thing...

carrots (because you're a rabbit)

Gangbanging Lucy with your brothers.

Dream that Lucy is a tiny lizard and you're a big bunny.

>>1119711
The night you escaped, before you found Lucy.

>>1119722
Ah yes.
Perfect.
Sleeping with a new, prominent worry, then an anxiety fueled dream would fit and this topic would be prime material.
Probably wake yourself doing that scrabbly dream running thing

Perhaps what peace with reptiles would look like?

>>1119722
Agreed.