Encounters of the Neko Kind, Part Deux

So I was relaxing after taking a look around RAW, beginning to edit the evening's photos for the Animayhem post, and somehow end up in Encounters of the Neko Kind - only this time Zan Eldrich joined us!


I actually hadn't made it that far from Raw itself before I started editing. The mushrooms just looked so comfy, and reminded me of the ones Lucia was working on a week or two ago for Cyria. Granted, our mushrooms aren't so organic in colour...well, they are but they're more like flesh mushrooms. You know, flesh - skin, muscle, blood?


Anyway, when Beetle returned, she was wondering where the park was that we'd found during our first romp through the Neko world. I thought it had been near Gritty Kitty, because she'd mentioned the mini-carnival there shortly before summoning me to hang out in the park.


That reminded me that Yabusaka had posted to one of the fashion blog collection sites about a Neko AO that had been made by J's Factory. I dashed out to get it quick, edited it and some pairs of ears, and tried it out. I go back and forth on whether or not its a little too hyper, but the animations individually are amazing! The hover animation, though a little off at first due to Avatar size, is entirely awesome and works so well with twitch tails. Once I get an action shot from Beetle, I'll post it.


Well, we began our search across Neko territory, and the long and the short of it is that we ran into a rather large pack of Neko outside Gritty Kitty. I slipped from a Kitsune look to an amber Neko look on rez, and took a look about the store. This stacked with my own Nekoness and AO made Beetle want ears and a tail at least, so we began looking for such about Gritty Kitty before I ran through the sim looking for the park.


Now, when I say run, J's AO uses a feral run so I look like a feline bounding through the streets. Absof*ckinglutely awesome! I run every chance I get when wearing the AO just because of that animation. ^.^


Our search was unsucessful in Koreshan, so we began shop hopping until we found Atomic Kitty, where I got ears that are more um...trendy would be the word, I guess. They're not feral style like Wynx are, but are still twitchy and furry. There is a defining difference between my Neko sets and hers - our tails. She went with the slender short hair tail while mine are both long hairs; all of my cats have had long haired tails, even the one that was a shorthair otherwise.


We found our park in the same sim, and went to go play and talk while I worked on the review. I wasn't very far into it when I remembered that we'd tried going to Sn@tch earlier, but the region was going down as we rezzed. So we trekked over and began looking through the shop.


I was specifically looking for the new tattoo and hat that had been sent out across the blogs, and while I didn't give into the hat just yet (since I might get the one that comes with the Attitude set from RAW), I did finally buy the basis for my tattoos and a very nifty gypsy top and skirt from there as well.


The upper part of the image is in the store itself. The lower part of the image is actually one half of a really cute animation that Beetle found, but she got up before the textures around me had rezzed enough for a picture. But it was a really neat pose anyways, so I took a shot for the tattoo relaxation value - its much like I recline when I get them in RL, oddly enough.


We made our way back to the park and I began blogging in ernest again. Well, much to our surprise, a bit later Zan found us; I remembered after that I'd given him the ability to see where I was, heh.


Even more to our surprise... Zan whipped out a Neko look. Now, I'd seen the tail before, but I thought he'd just bought one at the time to try and figure out a HUD for me when I got the 9 tails. No, he actually has a full set.


"Everyone's got an inner Neko," was the excuse he gave. Which means even those who hate them have one, which is probably why they hate Nekos in the first place! ^.^


We wandered all over the rest of Klapheck, chilling where we could. Zan even played with a ball of yarn! Beetle's discovery of the tire swing let to more running, which I wasn't against, and the above kitty pile. Loads of trouble with blogger kept me from really being active, and a bit later Zan wandered off to his bed for the night.


Beetle and I went back over to the main playground and curled up on our sekrit favourite pillows. We end up here by the end of the night on most nights, and its quickly becoming a weird little tradition of ours. Since we're on slightly different schedules, she always has to log earlier than I do; I stay there until her Avatar de-rezzes, and then I'll go to the reading ledge in the park or return to Cyr.


Though she'd shown me much earlier in the night, this is the first picture where he's visible...Beetle got Gwen a friend! She named him Alistair and he's a little grey mouse who looks like he's wearing sunglasses in this image. O.o

Gwen's happy with having a friend! She squeaked a bunch tonight. Alistair, however, really only comes out if Beetle's ferrit is off spying on people for us. And to fight zombies.


That's right, the grey mouse fights zombies. Undead, be afraid!