hmm...it seems like some mysterious, cute pastel critters have been appearing around the HD forums...

want to try your hand at getting an easter-themed (vaguely, anyway) critter of your own? the first one's free, and for 15 forum cash you can get another roll!

just post away with how many you want (and send cash if applicable), and they shall be yours

In front of you is a polished stone dish held delicately in the hands of a white marble statue. Its face is twisted and grotesque in such a way that it's hard for you to discern whether it is in great pain or snarling at you, the viewer. The bowl is tipped slightly towards you, allowing it to rest at an angle.

Around you are three walls, one ahead, in front of which lies the gargoyle-like in form, but not function, statue. While two to your flanks. Glancing behind you, you see your beat-up station wagon sitting in the parking lot of your local 24-hr diner, a place that you had never visited before but your aunt claimed was where she had worked in high school. Such statements often intertwined with the implication that one of your many cousins was conceived there, though your family's faux politeness at their functions forbid the mention of such things at such events.

You take a deep breath, the air is cold, brutally cold. The snot takes to running from your nose instantly, you pull it back with a loud, disgusting snort. Despite the discomfort, you note how clean the air smells, devoid of the heat, smoke, and grease you'd expect so close to the diner, of which you can faintly see the flickering sign behind your vehicle. The air smells only of frozen earth and cold stone, a scent evocative of a cavern you experienced in your youth, a misguided attempt by your mother to entertain you on a visitation she fought so hard to retain and yet did so little with. You hold the memory for a moment, in the way that our minds do before it sinks back into the depths of your mind, like a snapping turtle retreating into the murk. You still know it's there, sharp and volatile, primed to snap.

You hear only the distant buzz of the neon sign far behind you, likely echoing off the barriers to your sides. Its steady hum fades quickly, the waning escape of a mosquito late in a summer evening before you can't hear it anymore.

You glance behind again and the sign is gone, as is your tan station wagon with the rusted rims. In the place of your path lies a new wall, as stoic as the others.

So it is you, the bowl, and the walls.

Somewhere near the heart or lungs or maybe the liver of Cityscape where the sun kinda shines but the buildings are so tall that it's hard to tell, lies a normal-sized tiny little gray building... The sign at the front reads "STUNT TROUBLES INVESTIGATIONS". You eye the interior up and down - all muted and dim, but it had style and no legs to be seen.

At least, not until a stumpy little gator waddles onto the scene. He sits himself behind the front desk, looking over papers, pretending he didn't see you - kinda silly and unobservant for a so-called investiGator.
 

im gonna break the format of tasks for my own entertainment

THE TASK
For one reason or another, you've been called by the Investigator for a little one-on-one talk. Everything is fine, you're not in trouble, he just has a few... questions for you.

Effectively, this is a low-action scenario where Stunts asks your character questions and the two of you have a conversation together. Think of it as less of a job to do and more of a little character-building opportunity. You can interact with the environment and characters outside the scope of the task as well - for example, if the interrogation takes place at a restaurant, you and Stunts can order food from the restaurant staff.

All of these interrogations are individual (unless multiple characters agree to be investigated together); in other words, even if multiple characters sign up, the conversations can happen at different times and places. The encounter will be as low-stakes as possible, both in and out of character. Feel free to respond in any format or length as you want. Stunts may respond in an exaggerated long-winded way because he's a ridiculous detective character, you do not have to match him.

INTERROGATION TO-DO LIST

• Your character here?!
  

STUNTS "INVESTIGATOR"
stubbigator
he/him/doesn't matter

Universe: Critter AU
Neighborhood: Cityscape
Occupation: Private Investigator

confrontational, meandering, solitary
Many people can't fucking stand this guy.

change one thing about the post above you. after 25 posts i will make the beast. let us begin

PERSONALITY: Random (can be just a characteristic, i can match personality to a breed)
HEAD: Default
EYES: Default
MOUTH/EXPRESSION: Default
BODY: Default
LEGS + FEET(can specify difference between front and back, but picking either count as a change): Default
TAIL: Default
EARS: Default
ACCENTS/DETAILS: (can have up to 2, removing one counts as a change) None
THEME: None