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Pathfinding: An Adult Choose Your Own Adventure

Eleventh Entry

By Gideon Kalve Jarvis

Vote Tallies

A)

Spark - 3

Urtan - 3 & Urta

Rufus - 16

Cassidy - 1

Adel - 1

B)

1 - 1

2 - 9

3 - 3

4 - 1 (Urtan with Deriny and Morgan)

4 - 5 (Spark) & Morgan or Ryg

4 - 1 (Marlene)

4 - 2 (Urta and Adel, with Urtan/Regina on the side)

4 - 1 (Urtan alone)

4 - 2 (Adel and another unwilling human girl)

4 - 1 (Leta, Regina, and Urtan)

4 - 1 (Marlene and One-Eye)

4 - 1 (Deriny)

4 - 1 (Rish and Rack with Urtan)

Hmm, and I think I'll do my best to make a compromise here. Option 2, a consensual orgy, is the clear winner, but I'll try and work in the characters folks voted for, to the best of my ability.

Author Notes

Random Encounter Chance 60% - rolled 46 - no random encounter this time.

Pathfinding Eleventh Entry

The slender figure to step from the bushes was Adel. The little chipmunk was still wearing the simple leather breeches and vest she wore beneath her armor, but her boots were gone. As Rufus stood there with the water just barely censoring from view his vital essentials, the young princess gave a long, pleased sigh, almost a moan, as she arched her back, stretching long and full. For once, Rufus decided that small breasts were an advantage, since it meant that Adel's already-unbuttoned vest didn't immediately fall open, which would have made it very hard for the grey-furred male to keep his sheath's contents under control. As it was, the lithesome femme was still a knockout, and Rufus had to focus himself pretty hard to keep all his bits where they should be. After all, after the orgy a few days ago, Rufus really was trying to be on his best behavior, especially with who else he was smelling in the woods nearby.

Adel seemed not to notice Rufus, even though he was standing right in front of her, and she paid him no heed whatsoever as she half-turned from the water, and bent forward to pull her vest over her head. Not quite knowing what to expect, Rufus just watched, his muzzle slightly parted, his nostrils working as he took in the chipmunk girl's scent, sweet and succulent and juicy. His yellow eyes slid lower as she unbuttoned the front of her breeches and pushed them down, baring her trim little buns to the moonlit air, Rufus' eyes immediately zeroing in on her tan-furred treasure tail. Still seeming not to notice him, Adel stood once more, facing completely away from Rufus as she began to stretch her arms, bending first to one side and then the other as she gave soft, sweet little moans as she worked all the kinks out of her back and shoulders. Finally, the svelte little teen turned and stepped into the water, daintily, like she was entering a royal bath. Of course, that was just a part of Adel's nature: even when she was at her most naughty, it was impossible to forget that she was royalty, born and bred.

Still holding still, watching the little chipmunk, Rufus blinked, unsure of what to do as she simply began splashing water onto her body, until her fur clung tightly to her slim, agile frame. Was she expecting him to do something? He could smell her arousal, though it was muted slightly because of the water in which she'd buried her tiny cunny, which lapped around the girdle of her hips. His eyes simply followed the supple curves of her body as she bent forward, extending one leg to stroke her hands down its length, washing it clean, before repeating the process with the other leg, obviously long for her relative size, and so very easy on the eyes.

A moment later, Rufus started, feeling a heavy paw on his shoulder. He'd been so focused on Adel, that he hadn't even noticed the large frame of Urtan coming quietly up behind him. Another hand stroked down his back, then closed on his rump, giving him a squeeze, and Rufus glanced over his other shoulder, seeing Urta standing there wearing a teasing smirk and a rigid hard-on and nothing else. Slung over one shoulder was Spark, his beautiful, fluffy foxtail pinned to his slim back by the she-gnoll's powerful arm, keeping his squeaky clean, virgin tailhole quite exposed, a condition of which the little fox was obviously aware, as his cheeks and inner ears were flushed so deeply, the white fur had turned pink. The cute foxboy looked at Rufus sheepishly, and bit his lower lip.

"I didn't mean to peek," he whined cutely. "Really. I was just coming down to the pool to take a bath, and then I kind of smelled you over here, and just went to see what you were doing, and then I saw Adel, and thought maybe I shouldn't intrude, but you were just standing there and she was naked!, and I kind of got a little distracted, but then Urta here-mmf!"

Firmly, but not ungently, Rufus gripped Spark's slender muzzle, and closed it tight, cutting off the red-furred teen's run-on sentence in midstride. Glancing behind Urta, he saw the other gnolls standing there, up to their calves in the shallows, all of them as naked as their chief, all of them sporting erections at the sight of Adel's presented body, coupled with the smell of tasty foxboy. Rufus couldn't really blame any of them, as he thought about it. After all, foxes always smelled like sex, and when they were aroused (as Spark obviously was, his long, slender pink penis rubbing against the coarse fur of the she-gnoll's shoulder) they smelled even better. And that was even without the scent of a willing teenaged princess' aroused juices filling the air.

Adel's large blue eyes flicked to the gnolls with a moment of trepidation as she looked over her shoulder, but then shifted back to Rufus and Urtan, and her expression relaxed, as did her stance, her cute stub-tail flicking up, laying bare her tight brown-furred backside in open invitation.

"No free shows, Sparky," growled Rufus with a chuckle at the little fox, before reaching up to give the boy's buns a squeeze, making sure to dig his fingers into the snowy-white splash of fur right between his buns, before gently stroking downward, caressing Spark's sac, feeling it tense under his fingers. "I think now's a good time for you to get your tailcherry popped." He grinned at Urtan, who returned the toothy smile. "Thoroughly."

*

She just couldn't believe it. It just seemed so surreal to her. Marlene wandered around the site of the camp, her brain reeling from what she'd just learned from Ryg. The blind she-wolfen had noticed how Marlene was having a hard time sitting still around the fire while Cassidy stirred a pot of simple porridge for their dinner, and soon the other girls admitted they'd been feeling...strange, ever since, well, the 'events' of a few nights back. All of them, that is, except for Regina; for some reason, the black-haired girl was missing from around the fire, just like most of the others.

"It's no surprise," Ryg had said, even as she openly caressed the bunny boy's backside through his breeches in a manner that suggested that, despite her handicap, she knew exactly what she was touching. Judging from Cassidy's flushed inner ears and cheeks, it was pretty obvious that the she-wolfen was good at it, too. "After all, you were anointed with the essence of the spring wolf." She lifted her nose slightly, her nostrils working, even as she made Cassidy wince, almost dropping his spoon as she slipped a deft hand into the back of his knee-length breeches. "And you're pregnant as well, all of you. That just makes the reaction stronger."

"Reaction?" Deriny asked, looking worried. "What sort of reaction?"

"Why, heightened sensitivity," replied Ryg as though it were obvious. "Especially sexual sensitivity, but your other senses are likely better as well. The essence of the spring wolf was made originally to help frigid females enjoy sex during their time of mating, and to encourage nervous young females to enjoy their first breeding. The formula, though, was a bit more potent than its original maker, my great-grandmother, intended, and it tended to have permanent consequences." The blind shamaness shrugged, and as she did so, Cassidy's eyes rolled back into his head, even as he lay down the ladle inside one of the wooden bowls the party was using, to keep it off the ground. "Not that we wolfen ever saw a need to correct the formula, of course: having a sex drive equal to that of a male is hardly something any sensible she-wolfen would think was a bad thing. It just makes it all the easier for our two sexes to get along. Of course, the effect isn't quite so permanent for males, since they're already so high-sexed when healthy, but it can last months if a large enough initial dose is applied."

Not long after, Marlene had excused herself to go for a walk, and not just because Ryg had started to undo Cassidy's shorts, her blindness making it easy for the she-wolfen to be shameless. Not only was she struggling with the knowledge that she was pregnant with an animal's child - or at least a race she had always thought of before as nothing more than an animal - but that she was actually going to...to enjoy the most depraved and degrading act to which any female could submit herself: sex. Raised among the upper crust of urban humanity, Marlene had been brought up taught from the very start that sex was for making babies, and that was it. Anything more than that was sensuality, and sensuality was a grave sin against the pure and lawful gods of the Light. Out here, though, where the gods of the Wild watched over everything, and the eyes of the Light were obscured, everything was starting to get fuzzy in Marlene's mind. All her life, she'd dreamed about being able to travel, to adventure, to live the life of freedom that she'd always heard about in the tales of the bards and read in stories. What she hadn't counted on was how real things were, once you actually got out into the world.

Deciding she could use a dip in the cool stream she'd seen while they were approaching the camp, to better cool her head, Marlene turned her steps toward the sound of water (and, just like Ryg had said, its sound was so very clear in her ears even at a distance). Suddenly, however, she came up short at the sight of two skirt-clad bottoms upraised before her. It was Morgan and Deriny! Before she could open her mouth to ask what they were doing there, crouching in the bushes, looking toward the stream, Morgan turned her head and lifted a finger to her lips. Deriny then turned to motion Marlene to join them.

"Leta's back at the fire," whispered Deriny, the chatty redhead unable to keep completely quiet even now. "She couldn't take her eyes off that rabbit. Especially not while Ryg was getting him out of his shorts."

"It's Regina!" Morgan suddenly hissed in a harsh whisper, and immediately all three girls' attentions were drawn back to the scene before them at the water's edge.

Just a short distance away, both Adel and Spark were bent over the side of the bank, their feet in the water, their arms resting on the shore, their bottoms held nice and high, fully presented to the large, muscular wolfen behind them, Adel even wiggling in her eagerness. Rufus was slowly caressing each of the pair's presented cheeks, taking his time, making both chipmunk and fox moan, their commingled cries joining together in an erotic chorus. Rufus had just been lowering his muzzle toward Adel's heart-shaped tushie when, suddenly, the slightly hunched-over gnoll, One-Eye, gave a laugh, and pulled a smooth, pale shape out of the bushes. As Morgan had said, it was Regina, her smooth young body completely naked, something wet glistening between her thighs. A matter of days ago, Marlene wouldn't have had a clue as to what Regina had been doing there. Now, however, she knew full well what the pigtailed teen had been doing, while watching the show taking place at the water's edge. A show in which she was likely to have a full part.

Cackling wickedly, One-Eye pulled poor Regina into the circle of male gnolls, holding her wrists behind her back with one hand, the other reaching around, catching one of her breasts, making her cry out in her high-pitched voice as he squeezed the plump globe of smooth flesh, making her perked nipple stand out between his clenching fingers. The other gnollish males were just starting to close in as well, drooling eagerly as they let their primal, savage instincts come to the fore, when Rufus turned and barked out an order to them in their harsh, snarling language. With a reluctant growl, One-Eye released the pale-skinned teen, though Regina continued to stand there, bashfully covering her body as best she could with her hands, bent slightly forward, her knees turned inward as she pressed her legs together. The attempt to cover herself was actually adorable, as was the blush visible on her face from where the three girls were hiding, though it was also quite futile, as the gnolls continued to play their hungry eyes down the nerdy teen's exposed backside, left all the more exposed by her slightly bent-forward position, which helped hide her front, but did less than nothing for her rear.

Then, to the watching girls' surprise, Rufus didn't scoop up Regina and carry her away, nor did her ravish her himself, or arrange a more organized gangbang of the poor bespectacled teen. Instead, he turned from where he'd been squeezing Adel and Spark's bottoms, and lowered his head to speak to Regina in a voice that, while curling with the growling accents of his first, bestial language, was somehow comforting and gentle. For a moment Regina's eyes widened behind her glasses, and she looked around at the gnolls, who looked even more astonished than she did. After a moment's surprise, however, Regina turned and lowered herself to her knees in the shallows, one hand rising to take firm hold of the outthrust cocks of Greymuzzle and Horse, respectively, before she opened her mouth wide, and took One-Eye's blunt shaft into her small mouth. The gnolls traded glances, obviously completely taken aback by this new development. A hot human girl, completely willing to have sex with them? Unheard of! Yet there Regina was, looking up at the three males with cheeks flushed with eagerness, her arousalscent filling the night as she rested her smooth bottom on the heels of her feet. Rish and Rack stood just outside this circle for several moments, and then suddenly knelt to either side of Regina, their hands and tongues caressing her body with surprising skill and gentleness, making the dark-haired teen moan loudly around her mouthful of cock, even as she began to squirm under the attentions of the twins.

Regina's safety now more-or-less assured, Rufus turned back to Adel and Spark. The pair were looking over their shoulders at what had just taken place, and the sight of Regina's willing and eager submission to the gnolls seemed to do nothing to dampen their own eagerness. Wasting no more time, Rufus seized Adel's rump firmly in his powerful hands, his paws so large they easily dwarfed little Adel's tushie, before he plunged his muzzle beneath the heart-shaped crease of her bottom, where Marlene, Morgan, and Deriny couldn't see. Whatever he was doing, though, it had to feel really good, because Adel only held off for a matter of short minutes before her head snapped back, and she gave a loud, adorable squeal in her beautiful voice. As Adel's head lowered once more, Urtan was there, one big paw cradling her chin, the other guiding his hard shaft to her lips. Without hesitation, Adel looked adoringly up at Urtan, who smiled gently down at her in return, before the precious furry princess carefully pursed her lips around his stiff glans, and began to slowly bob her head, still looking up at him. In moments, Adel's face was mostly obscured from the girls' view as Urtan's spotty rump thrust forward, though her hands were visible as she reached around and seized his muscled buns, moaning loudly as she greedily suckled on him.

As this was happening, Rufus was very carefully and very thoroughly rimming Spark's tense, virgin pink tailhole, getting the foxboy nice and slick. Urta, for her part, slipped her muzzle into the slight gap between Spark's hips and the shore, and eagerly engulfed the foxboy's shaft with a lusty moan of her own, her faux-cock throbbing and bobbing visibly. At the same time, Rufus reached over, and visibly teased a finger around the barely-visible nub at the apex of Adel's tushie, before squeezing it inside, making the munkling put one hand by her cheek even as she used the other to grip Urtan's shaft firmly, on the places near his sheath where she couldn't reach so easily with her cute little muzzle.

Pulling his muzzle back, Rufus grinned down at Spark, giving the boy's butt a light smack that made the teen foxling give a startled yelp, making Urta give a startled grunt as the foxboy deepthroated her. One huge paw seized Spark's buns, fingers squeezing into the foxboy's tailhole, making him moan loudly, his hips rising upward. This gave Urta the perfect opportunity to slip her whole body beneath Spark, and before too long the foxboy was giving as good as he got, bobbing his head up and down on a meaty length of gnollcock, even as Urta's paws grabbed his buns right alongside Rufus' paw, pulling the boy downward to let her take him even more deeply.

Using his other paw, Rufus gripped and then spread Adel's upthrust buns, angling his hips downward toward her vulnerable little tushie. The blue-eyed hottie briefly lifted her head from Urtan's penis, a trail of liquid connecting her with the hyenaman's glans as she glanced back at Rufus with a slightly worried expression as she felt his thick wolfcock nudge at her tiny virgin tailhole...right before he slowly, carefully stretched the petals of her chrysanthemum apart with the slick, fat head of his penis, which suddenly sank past her tailring, popping her tail cherry. Deliberately muffling her cry around Urtan's cock, Adel squealed loudly as Rufus started to ride her sweet buns, slowly at first, but soon making her bottom bounce with each rough thrust to the hilt, his hips slapping against her upturned tushie. The force of impact was more than enough to soon have Adel deep-throating the panting hyenaman, who caressed the russet hair on her head with swiftly-advancing arousal, the two males hunching their hips as they spitroasted the sexy little princess between them.

Suddenly, as Adel gave another loud moan around Urtan's cock, this one in unexpected anal orgasm, Rufus gave a loud grunt as he popped his cock free, the heavy organ bobbing several times, painting Adel's bottom white with ropes of cum before he pressed his still-spasming glans against Spark's own bum. Urta eagerly spread the foxboy's bottom widely apart, growling lustily around her muzzlefull of tasty boycock, her eyes downright predatory as she watched Rufus feed his cock into Spark's sweet little tushie by fingerlengths, making the poor little foxie squirm and whine at the unaccustomed (but not painful) penetration and sensation of complete fullness. Then, suddenly, Spark's eyes snapped open, his ears and tail perking up, as Rufus' shaft rasped against his prostate. Instantly, his rump was visibly clenching down, his bushy tail wagging like a well-petted puppy's as he started to hump his whole body, sucking on Urta's cock even as he thrust his hips into her greedy muzzle, the experienced she-gnoll easily taking Spark's shaft to the hilt, the pleasure on her face telling just how much she loved the taste of fresh fox cream. This soon proved too much for Rufus, especially with his cock as hypersensitive as it was after his recent orgasm, each movement of Spark's tail sending ripples of pleasure down his shaft and shooting up to his pleasure-hungry brain. With a loud snarl, Rufus started to hammer the poor little foxy, holding nothing back as he nailed the teen good and rough. This was all it took, and soon Spark was squealing around his muzzlefull of cock, while below him, Urta shared in the simultaneous threeway orgasm, drinking down every drop of tasty foxcum, while Rufus' own cum dribbled down onto her forehead as he first came inside Spark's tailhole, then pulled out just in time to properly paint the boy's bottom like he had Adel's, marking them both as his.

Not far off, Regina was lying on her back on the soft grass near the shore. Or, rather, One-Eye was lying on his back, growling in barely-restrained lust as Regina lowered herself down, biting her lower lip to keep from whimpering too loudly as she surrendered her anal virginity to the scarred, spotty-furred savage, then lay back against his furry belly and chest, her breasts heaving with the exertion of her first anal experience. Almost immediately, however, Regina was opening her mouth, moaning loudly as Greymuzzle fed her his thick shaft, shivering as she felt Horse's immense slab of meat pushing between her breasts, his big paws squeezing them together into a snug channel. Suddenly, Regina cried out loudly as she felt her cunny stretched open by two cocks at once, Rish and Rack shafting her together, Rish upright behind Horse, while Rack was facing away from her on all-fours, thrusting downward like a dog that's tied with a bitch. Fortunately for Regina, the gnoll twins weren't terribly well-hung, or else they might have hurt her. As it was, she still felt immensely stretched, the sensation of complete, utter fullness making her whole body tingle as she surrendered herself to the shared lust of the males growling and snarling and hunching their hips all around her, losing her senses in the frenzy of bestial mating that ensued.

Marlene's panties were soaked as she turned her attention once more to where Adel and Spark were now on the short, still both on all-fours, and knew that her friends' panties were similarly soaked, noticing how Deriny and Morgan squirmed as their eyes fixed on the scene before them. Now both Adel and Spark were eagerly nibbling and licking Rufus' cock, sharing it between them with eyes heavy-lidded with pleasure, tongues flicking up and down the wolfen's heavily-leaking organ. Behind the pair, Urtan seized Adel's bottom, while Urta grabbed Spark's, and soon both siblings plunged their cocks into the pair, Urtan filling Adel's cunny with surprising gentleness mingled with passion, letting her have an opportunity to savor each sensation, while Urta just plowed herself into Spark's freshly-deflowered bum, making the foxboy yelp even as his cock sprang once more to full erection.

"We should get back," Morgan's said suddenly, belatedly, tearing her eyes with an effort of will from the continued orgy. "We...we shouldn't be here."

"We could be caught," Deriny said, reluctantly pulling herself away as well. Marlene didn't say anything at all, but lingered a little longer, long enough to watch Rufus cum on the pretty faces of the gorgeous blue-eyed princess and the adorable green-eyed bard, even as Urtan and Urta snarled in their own orgasms. She only barely managed to tear herself away as she saw everyone switching partners; Rish and Rack surrendering themselves to Urtan as the heavily-muscled hyenamale kissed first one and then the other of the twins, gripping their bottoms in his heavy hands; Adel eagerly surrendering herself to the press of Urta, Horse, and Greymuzzle, mounting the older gnoll as he lay on his back, before letting Urta's cock plunge into her sweet tushie, and taking Horse's obscenely-sized organ as much as she could into her muzzle; and Rufus making a sandwich of Regina with One-Eye, slowly shafting her juicy cunny while the scarred male pumped his hips, taking her greedily-sucking mouth with a will. To Marlene's surprise, Rufus suddenly leaned in, growling something in One-Eye's ear, before grabbing the unruly male's head and pulling him into a brutal liplock. At first, the gnoll resisted, trying to jerk away from Rufus' powerful grip. Then, slowly, with Regina still suckling his cock with all the skill she'd gained from her recent experiences, One-Eye's struggles slowed, then ceased completely, and his single eye shut as he let Rufus kiss him, then, gradually, started to kiss the wolfen back.

No! It was too much! Marlene's mind jerked itself back with all the will she could muster, nearly stumbling backwards into her friends as she turned and fled back toward the camp. Of course, Ryg, Cassidy, and Leta were nowhere to be found, though the girls could hear soft, girlish cooing from off in the distance in the bushes, punctuated at times by the masculine, tenor moans of a healthy rabbit boy, making sure his seed had been properly planted in the womb of his human lover, all while an almost supernaturally-talented she-wolfen's tongue did things that were positively obscene to them both. Thankfully, Cassidy was a conscientious guy, and he'd taken the porridge off the fire so that it wouldn't burn. Actually, by the time the girls got back to camp, it was just the right temperature to be eaten, and after an initial taste revealed the so-called porridge to actually be flummery with almonds and honey, the girls ate heartily, doing their very best to ignore the many lewd and distractingly erotic sounds coming from either side of the camp.

*

Rufus lay back, sighing in contentment, his balls empty and his stomach full. He'd never thought that herbivore food could taste good before, but Cassidy had proved him wrong with that flummery. Of course, it didn't hurt that the bunny had used some whiskey to add to the flavor.

"I guess you're wondering what's gonna happen tomorrow," Rufus started, looking around the fire at the others in his little pack, unable to restrain his smile as he saw the newfound respect and even admiration from the gnollish males, even One-Eye, at an alpha who'd provided for their needs, and without making them resort to rape, something it was fairly obvious they'd never really considered before...and had actually enjoyed a very great deal.

"More than that," said Adel, who was leaning back, relaxing into Urta's breasts, the hyenafemme now wearing a brief halter after her recent bath following the streamside orgy. "I'm sure I'm not alone when I say that we'd like to know why you always look so pained whenever the High Alpha is mentioned."

"Yeah," chimed in Urta, grinning down at Adel, stroking the smaller femme's soft hair and the fur of her neck and shoulders affectionately. "I wanna know if we're gonna be in trouble or somethin' when we run into this wolfy high mucky-muck. You've got guts to spill, Rufus, so spill 'em."

Looking around the fire at the others, Rufus saw the same sorts of looks on each of their faces, and then heaved a long, slow sigh before nodding.

"All right," he acquiesced. "It's not that long a story, though, I guess. I just...the High Alpha's my father. My mother's not his mate, though - she's his top strategist, or was last time I saw 'em both. I was kinda unexpected, you might say, even a bit of an embarrassment. Not as bad as with a lot of human society, you understand, but it's still not really polite to have a pup by a woman who's not your mate.

"All the same, I grew up happy enough, I guess, though I never really did get along with my father's mate. She was always looking for ways to lay pressure on me, make me work extra hard to get the same rewards as everyone else. If I didn't bring back the biggest amount of meat from a hunt, I was lazy. If I didn't take the most wounds in a fight, I was a coward. She was an alpha's mate, the High Alpha's mate no less, so what she thought mattered more'n what even my mother thought, and she made sure to grind my nose in it often enough that I never forgot.

"Well, finally I just had enough. I came in an' confronted that bitch, and we exchanged some pretty hard words, back and forth. Thing was," Rufus finally paused, looking a bit sheepish, "um, I kinda came in for our big fight while she'd been taking a bath. Being High Alpha's mate, she could get these nice-smelling soaps and perfumes and stuff, and her fur was so incredibly soft. When she wasn't being nasty to me, actually, she was a real knockout. So there we were, fighting it out, nice and loud, with her naked and me with just a typical tribal's loincloth.

"I'm not really sure who kissed who first. I've forgotten. I think one of us was going to hit the other one, and things just...didn't work out that way." His ears turned down in embarrassment as Rufus remembered the past. "One thing led to another, some steamy things passed between us, and next thing I knew, a couple months later the High Alpha's mate was pregnant, and she was pretty sure it wasn't by the High Alpha.

"Well, that started making problems all around. Nobody was really upset with anybody at that point - my father's the forgiving sort, and my mother and the High Alpha's mate made up after our little roll in the bath together - but it was real embarrassing. I'd kinda gotten used to being apart from everybody else, thanks to growing up with all that pressure on, so it just seemed natural for me to make my goodbyes and head off to make my fortune elsewhere." Rufus shrugged. "Turned out, wolfen are pretty desirable as mercenaries and that sort of thing, especially if they've got some skill with woodcraft, so I didn't starve. Actually, I did pretty good for myself. Then I signed on with this little group that were set on putting a stop to some Warlord who was causing trouble, and you know the rest of that story." Rufus chuckled. "Guess I was kinda expecting us to meet up with da at some point, if we lived that long. I don't think we'll be in any trouble, so I wouldn't worry too much about that, but I also don't think we'll get any special treatment. Still, the High Alpha's pretty likely to give whatever I say some more weight than if I was just some green hunter, though we'll still have to win his advisors over." Rufus looked around the campfire, then, a little ruefully. "We're gonna hafta come up with a really good gift, if we're gonna bring them around to our way of thinking."

Path Choices

It's customary to bring a gift to a great ruler like the High Alpha. This isn't really negotiable if there is to be any hope of a peaceful and amiable visit. Since the party isn't really rolling in cash right now, that means a gift of tail. This is not enslavement (though it can be if desired - mention specifically if you want to offer someone as a slave), just sex, though it does usually mean that the "gift" in question will be used by the High Alpha first, followed by his sub-alphas, male and female. Gnolls don't really make very acceptable gifts on formal occasions like this, the gift must be completely willing, and only one gift is allowed to prevent too much time being taken away from matters of state (wolfen are civilized folk, after all). The following party members are willing to serve in this role:

A) Rufus. Rufus could offer himself as a willing gift of tail to the High Alpha and his most trusted subordinates. This is considered a great sacrifice for an alpha, however small his pack, or how unattractive the alpha might be (though Rufus isn't that bad a looker...), and will suffice in all circumstances as a gift. However, if Rufus chooses someone else as the gift, and if he fails to please the High Alpha with his selection, the faux pas will be on Rufus' head (or, rather, tail) alone, and he will end up right alongside whoever was supposed to be the gift. (100%)

B) Spark. What could be more hot than a cute-faced and tight-bottomed foxboy? Spark said he'd do anything we wanted, and he's eager to please in any case. Of course, he might get a case of nerves at the last moment, inexperienced and excitable as he is, which could cause us problems. (80%)

C) Adel. A pretty and petite pubescent princess as a present? This is the height of decadent sensuality! Adel is more than willing, now that her cherry has been popped, and is actually quite eager to test out her newfound sexuality. Not even the mention that she might have to perform for females seems like it would deter her from performing her royal duty. The only danger is that she'll get the wolfen too excited, and they'll need to drag Rufus in as well to keep from overloading the poor little princess. (90%)

D) Cassidy. Cassidy is cute all right, and he's certainly tight and eager to please. The only problem is that he's not especially memorable (useful for when you're being stealthy, not so much when you're trying to stand out), and the High Alpha has a good chance of demanding a second tail alongside the first - Rufus'. (60%)

E) Leta. Leta has no objections to serving as the party's gift to the High Alpha. Leta's game for almost anything, and she's up for most any challenge. Her problems are a lack of experience, average-but-pretty looks, and a lack of attention to social skills in favor of her martial training. (50%)

F) Marlene. Surprisingly, Marlene is actually willing to make a sacrifice for the team. She seems to have found a way to swallow her pride and address even beastfolk in a civil and diplomatic manner, as though she regarded them as equals. Hmm, maybe she's had a bit of an attitude adjustment after all. The only problems that could come from this, as Marlene is a genuine knockout in appearance, and has all the social graces expected of royalty (though, to remind readers, her actual heritage is still unknown to the rest of the party), are her lack of sexual experience, and, much more importantly, a resurgence of her bigotry at an especially bad time. (70%)

Be advised: if the check is failed by 10 or more, it fails completely, and while Rufus will still get the assistance of the one tribe that he befriended, they are hardly the force that can be expected from the full Blue Feather pack.