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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toric_Arthendain" data-source="post: 678273" data-attributes="member: 9833">(Shadow Demon and Shade)OOC:  The zoo is about a mile north of the apartment.  It'll take you both several minutes to get there using conventional running speed.  I'm assuming that Shadow Demon isn't using his Super Speed, otherwise he'd be outdistancing Shade by quite a bit...IC:  The two friends run through the fairly deserted streets heading north towards the zoo, the incessant howling continuing off and on as they go.(Centurion)Centurion flies closer for a better look.  When he gets to maybe 60 feet above the wolf habitat and above the circled wolves, his penetrating vision allows him to make out the scene in greater detail.  He sees the wolves gathered in a near perfect circle.  There are ten of them.  In the center of the circle is a huge, creature, appearing to be manlike but also bestial.  It is roughly seven feet tall and is covered with coarse dark brown hair.  It is standing on hind legs, growling and howling.  The wolves surrounding it seem enraptured by it.  After a moment, the creature in the center looks up as if startled by Centurion's presence.  Its razor sharp teeth flash as it growls and Centurion can see its eyes, which seem to be glowing red.  Centurion isn't sure whether he was seen or if the creature just sensed his presence.  The creature then leaps from the circle and runs off into the trees, disappearing into the shadows of the wolf habitat.  After he leaves, the wolves scatter.  Lying on the ground near where the creature was a moment ago is a body of a man.  He does not appear to be moving.(Spyder)Spyder looks around for another vantage point that would allow him to remain unseen but finds nothing closer to the enclosure than he already is.  Keeping his place in the tree, he watches the wolves, trying to make out what is standing in the center of their circle.  After a few minutes of observation, listening to the occassional howling, he sees the creature in the center of the circle suddenly leap away from the gathered wolves, possibly startled by something.  As the creature leaps away, Spyder can make out what appears to be a large, manlike, bestial creature.  It is large, maybe near seven feet tall.  It appears to be covered with coarse, dark brown fur.  It growls as it bolts from the circle and disappears into the shadows of the heavily forested habitat.  As soon as it flees, the circled wolves also scatter.  Left behind where the circle of wolves was, there appears to be a body lying on the ground, either a man or woman, it is difficult for Spyder to make it out from this distance.  The body is not moving.(Ringmaster)Ringmaster makes his way towards the zoo entrance.  As he walks, the howling grows louder and more frequent.  It is obviously the howling of wolves joined by the howling of something else.  Quickening his pace, he begins to follow the signs to the wolf habitat.  Soon, he hears the howling cease and the sound of intensing growling and then all falls silent.</blockquote>

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