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The smells were crazy in the room, so many people around and so many creatures merged in with them. The most noteable, to his nose anyway, was Ambrose. It was hard to ignore the smell of a wolf when it was in the room with you. He made his way cautiously over to where a bit of a ruckus had been stirred up and basically just hung around the outskirts listening. Seemed that Richard had hauled off and hurt someone, a new islander by the looks of it and the distinct lack of fur or scales on the blue-haired girl.

He was being an eavesdropper but could care less, you were allowed to with such large ears.

"Good, good," Nita replied nodding. "It's been kind of crazy for me, but I'm trying to fade into the background for a while." She refilled her cup and drank slowly. "Did you come on your own or with someone?"

Gallen got up and waved Richard and the new guy over his way. "here Richard you can sit here, want me to get you some food or drink." he had been watching from the table. What the hell have the people here done to them? The sudden snap Richard had caused Gallen to realize that was not normal for the man, and was brought on by his changes. Gallen worried, was he destined to suddenly go wild and violent too?

The youngster chuckled dimly at the obviousness of Thom's statement, letting the buzz of the alcohol find amusement in it. The sudden downslide of the conversation caught him offguard to say the least, suddenly dizzy at how the topic had twisted into something questionably morbid. Alec's expression dropped as Thom went on incoherently to describe these things, almost confused whether the snakeman was joking or serious. The look on his face surely seemed believable but the words he was speaking didn't make any sense.

Once he'd finished, he echoed a laugh just as abruptly though it didn't contain the enthusiasm that it probably should have in order to mask his awkwardness. Well that wasn't right. Time for another drink.

"I came with Amaya. She's pretty nice." Marshall said, "I'm just her escourt." he added as he finished off his soda. The party was going great, even if he didn't know any one.

Zach was considerably bombed at that point, but on the plus side he was no longer as bitter as he had been when he'd first arrived. The alcohol had done exactly what he hoped, and even a little more, leaving him buzzed and rather dizzy and just the tiniest bit disoriented.

He happened bast a conversation between two girls, one human, one feline, at the tail end of the rainbow-dressed girl's remark. He grinned at her, as though she had told a joke, half-spreading his wings from some indecisive thought. "Sss'too late t'be picky..."

"Za--!" Ginerva managed to cut herself off before addressing the dragon. It was Zachary. She had sooo been looking forward to meeting him.
"I find our red friend is right," she said pleasantly, turning back to Aislinn. "We've past the point of no return... Only way to go now is up, up, up!"

Richard still remembered the sensation. "She just grabbed one." He gestured at the tentacle. "It was like a switch." He shuddered, still a bit shaken at how easily and suddenly he had lost control.

He noticed Pyroth, "Hey Pyroth, I'm trying the best I can here." He smiled weakly. "The puppets are stuffed with cotton anyway, to avoid..." he trailed off. "Anyway I'm hungry. Meat table?"