You wake up in a field of grass. You yawn and get up. There's nobody around and it's dark out...
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Waking up
RexHeller
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You wake up in a field of grass. You yawn and get up. There's nobody around and it's dark out. It's night time! Cool! Look at the moon! Hi Moon! Pretty moon! You howl at the moon to say hi.
...
The moon doesn't say anything.
Oh well. You don't know where you are! You're lost! That's not so good... but that just means you get to explore until you figure out where you are! Exploring is fun! You start to walk abound the field, investigating everything. There's some white powdery stuff making lines on the field. It smells weird and tastes bad. You whine and paw at your tongue, trying to get the bad taste away.
It doesn't go away.
You whine some more and try licking the grass instead. There's all these little drops of water on the grass and that tastes better. Bad taste gone away, you go back to exploring.
There's some metal post-things at the ends of the field. You sniff them. They smell like metal. You don't lick them though! You learned from the white powder that you shouldn't lick random stuff. You're smart!
There's nothing else in the field...
Oh! There's a building! You run over to look at the building and you only trip once! It's big and squat and made of brick and covered in paint! There's blue and green and red and black and all the pretty colors! Oh, the paint forms letters! You know this... A-B-B. ABB.
....
That's not a word! You try again.
E-8-8. E88. That's not a word either! Most of those aren't even letters, they're numbers! You can't spell words with numbers!
Oh, look! There are some letters underneath the paint. They're made out of metal and stuck to the wall. W-I-N-S-L-O-W. Winslow! That's a name!
...
Why is there a name on the side of a building?
...
Oh! Maybe Winslow lives in the building! And that means Winslow must have painted all the pretty pictures on the building. You want to meet Winslow! You want to watch him paint! Maybe you can help him learn to spell! You rush off towards the door.
There's a splash and your paw gets wet. You yelp and jump back in surprise. When you land, you shake the water off you paw. Once it's dry you look at what you stepped in and IT'S A PUPPY! HI PUPPY! YOU'RE SO CUTE AND FLUFFY AND CUTE AND FLUFFY AND CUTE! You want to meet the puppy. You say hi and the puppy barks! Oh, that's so cute! You reach out with a paw to pet the puppy and the puppy does the same! It wants to shake! Good boy, shake!
Oh.
You put your paw down and the puddle just ripples. The puppy is just a reflection. How disappointing.
.... Wait.
....
If the puppy is a reflection...
And if you have paws.....
then....
then....
then....
YOU'RE A PUPPY!
This is the best day of you're life! You're a puppy! A PUPPY! You can't believe it! This is best thing ever! You're going to chase squirrels and get pets and play catch and fetch sticks and get belly rubs and people will give you free food and you get to pee wherever you want and oooooh, the belly rubs and the ear scratchies and you're so CUTE! With your big eyes and floppy ears and itty-bitty paws and a little black nose and fluffy....
Um, wait. What color's your fur again?
[] Red (Fire)
[] Brown (Earth)
[] Black (Shadow)
[] Gold (Light)
[] White (Ice)
[] Dirty Blonde (Lightning)
Hey guys, what's up? I'm RexHeller and welcome to Puppy Love, the Worm quest of love and puppies. Inspired by @TheBleachDoctor's Meow Quest, here you play as Case 53 puppy. That is to say, a puppy that became a Case 53, not a Case 53 that got turned into a puppy. Soon, you'll be bringing the love and fluffyness of a puppy to the grimderpness of worm but for right now, just pick which element you want for your super powers.
...
The moon doesn't say anything.
Oh well. You don't know where you are! You're lost! That's not so good... but that just means you get to explore until you figure out where you are! Exploring is fun! You start to walk abound the field, investigating everything. There's some white powdery stuff making lines on the field. It smells weird and tastes bad. You whine and paw at your tongue, trying to get the bad taste away.
It doesn't go away.
You whine some more and try licking the grass instead. There's all these little drops of water on the grass and that tastes better. Bad taste gone away, you go back to exploring.
There's some metal post-things at the ends of the field. You sniff them. They smell like metal. You don't lick them though! You learned from the white powder that you shouldn't lick random stuff. You're smart!
There's nothing else in the field...
Oh! There's a building! You run over to look at the building and you only trip once! It's big and squat and made of brick and covered in paint! There's blue and green and red and black and all the pretty colors! Oh, the paint forms letters! You know this... A-B-B. ABB.
....
That's not a word! You try again.
E-8-8. E88. That's not a word either! Most of those aren't even letters, they're numbers! You can't spell words with numbers!
Oh, look! There are some letters underneath the paint. They're made out of metal and stuck to the wall. W-I-N-S-L-O-W. Winslow! That's a name!
...
Why is there a name on the side of a building?
...
Oh! Maybe Winslow lives in the building! And that means Winslow must have painted all the pretty pictures on the building. You want to meet Winslow! You want to watch him paint! Maybe you can help him learn to spell! You rush off towards the door.
There's a splash and your paw gets wet. You yelp and jump back in surprise. When you land, you shake the water off you paw. Once it's dry you look at what you stepped in and IT'S A PUPPY! HI PUPPY! YOU'RE SO CUTE AND FLUFFY AND CUTE AND FLUFFY AND CUTE! You want to meet the puppy. You say hi and the puppy barks! Oh, that's so cute! You reach out with a paw to pet the puppy and the puppy does the same! It wants to shake! Good boy, shake!
Oh.
You put your paw down and the puddle just ripples. The puppy is just a reflection. How disappointing.
.... Wait.
....
If the puppy is a reflection...
And if you have paws.....
then....
then....
then....
YOU'RE A PUPPY!
This is the best day of you're life! You're a puppy! A PUPPY! You can't believe it! This is best thing ever! You're going to chase squirrels and get pets and play catch and fetch sticks and get belly rubs and people will give you free food and you get to pee wherever you want and oooooh, the belly rubs and the ear scratchies and you're so CUTE! With your big eyes and floppy ears and itty-bitty paws and a little black nose and fluffy....
Um, wait. What color's your fur again?
[] Red (Fire)
[] Brown (Earth)
[] Black (Shadow)
[] Gold (Light)
[] White (Ice)
[] Dirty Blonde (Lightning)
Hey guys, what's up? I'm RexHeller and welcome to Puppy Love, the Worm quest of love and puppies. Inspired by @TheBleachDoctor's Meow Quest, here you play as Case 53 puppy. That is to say, a puppy that became a Case 53, not a Case 53 that got turned into a puppy. Soon, you'll be bringing the love and fluffyness of a puppy to the grimderpness of worm but for right now, just pick which element you want for your super powers.
Puppy Heroics
RexHeller
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[X] Dirty Blonde (Lightning)
That's right, you're blonde! You're covered with fluffy blonde fur, darker on your back and face and fading to near white on your belly. You're so cute and fluffy! Something about blondes having more fun rises up from your fuzzy memories but that's just silly. You're a puppy! You can't have more fun than a puppy! Puppies are the pinnacle of fun-ness.
With that settled it's time to get back to… wait, what were you doing?
…
Oh, right! You were going to find Winslow and teach him how to spell. You start walking around the walls of Winslow's house, looking for a way in. Eventually you come across a pair of metal doors. You push on them with your paws but they don't budge. That's disappointing but you have other ways of getting in. You start scratching at the door with your claws, whining and barking until you catch Winslow's attention and he lets you in. It's only a matter of time now.
….
….
….
You're bored now.
You decide that Winslow isn't going to let you in, which is really, really rude of him. Who would ever say no to a cute, little puppy like you? A rude jerk, that's who! Or even worse, a cat person!
Brrrrrrrr…..
But you're sure that Winslow isn't a cat person. He made all that pretty art after all! So he's probably just a bit of a jerk and it's proven that exposure to puppies has a one hundred percent conversion rating of jerks to not-jerks. That's just science!
Now you really need to get inside! Not only do you need to teach Winslow how to spell, you need to save Winslow from his own jerkiness! You start walking around the building again, looking for a different way inside. There are lots and lots of windows around the building but they're all closed and have metal on the other side of them. That seems kind of silly to you. What's the point of having windows if you just cover them up so you can't look outside?
Still, you manage to get lucky. One of the windows is missing! There's just some brown paper covered over the hole and you can tear through that easily enough. Takes you a couple of jumps but eventually you managed to get your claws into the paper and pull yourself through, leaving a puppy-sized hole behind you.
You fall to the floor and roll a couple of times before coming to a stop. You try to get up but the world is all spinny and slidey. You wind up nearly teetering over but you catch yourself. Stupid world, stop spinning!
You pause for a moment and let the world settle back down. Good! Now you can look around without feeling dizzy. It looks like you're in a long hallway, with lots and lots of metal… things lining the walls, with the occasional door to break things up. You wonder what the metal things are. They have doors, so maybe they're supposed to be boxes? Tall, metal boxes? That makes as much sense as anything else you guess.
Still, it's clear that this place is even bigger than what you first guessed. If you want to find Winslow, you're going to have to track him down. You start to focus on sniffing him out, letting all the smells around wash over you. There's a lot of human scents, like really a lot, and you have no idea which one belongs to Winslow.
There's another scent though. It's wafting in from a distance so you can barely smell it but it's absolutely disgusting. Like something was left to rot for a long time. Normally, you'd ignore that scent and try to get as far away from it as possible. But from the direction the scent is coming from, you can hear echoes of a particular sound: whimpering.
You immediately start running towards the scent and the sound. Somebody's in trouble! Somebody needs help! You have to help them!
Left here…
Right here…
Left here… No! Right! You meant right!
Another left…
Eventually you find the source of the bad scent, another metal box thing. This one has disgusting goop leaking out the bottom and you can hear somebody inside, crying. You're kind of scared, what if there's a goop monster in there, but it sounds like whomever is in there needs your help. You're just going to have to be a brave puppy.
You try banging on the metal door and scratching at it but nothing happens. You're too small and weak to open it. If only you were bigger…
Suddenly, you are bigger. Much bigger. Cool! You wish you had some steak!
…
Nothing, drat. Maybe it just works when you need to help… somebody… oh right! Getting back to the task at had, you claw at the door again and this time your claws sink right into it. With you claws hooked into the door, you pull, ripping the door right off with a screech of tearing metal. It's surprisingly easy. You like being big!
Somebody falls out of the the metal box. It's a girl! That means it's not a goop monster! YAY!
Wait… Could this be Winslow? She's the only person in the building, she must be Winslow. But that means… Winslow is a girl?! Cool! You don't know why that's cool but it's cool!
Unfortunately, Winslow doesn't look so good. She's covered in the disgusting goop, and it looks like she's having a bad dream. Her eyes are shut tight, she's twitching and shivering, and she's muttering things like "stop," "help," and "let me out." She still needs your help! But how do you help?
[] You need to wake her up!
[] You need to clean her up!
[] You don't know what to do! You need to find somebody to help!
UPDATE!
That's right, you're blonde! You're covered with fluffy blonde fur, darker on your back and face and fading to near white on your belly. You're so cute and fluffy! Something about blondes having more fun rises up from your fuzzy memories but that's just silly. You're a puppy! You can't have more fun than a puppy! Puppies are the pinnacle of fun-ness.
With that settled it's time to get back to… wait, what were you doing?
…
Oh, right! You were going to find Winslow and teach him how to spell. You start walking around the walls of Winslow's house, looking for a way in. Eventually you come across a pair of metal doors. You push on them with your paws but they don't budge. That's disappointing but you have other ways of getting in. You start scratching at the door with your claws, whining and barking until you catch Winslow's attention and he lets you in. It's only a matter of time now.
….
….
….
You're bored now.
You decide that Winslow isn't going to let you in, which is really, really rude of him. Who would ever say no to a cute, little puppy like you? A rude jerk, that's who! Or even worse, a cat person!
Brrrrrrrr…..
But you're sure that Winslow isn't a cat person. He made all that pretty art after all! So he's probably just a bit of a jerk and it's proven that exposure to puppies has a one hundred percent conversion rating of jerks to not-jerks. That's just science!
Now you really need to get inside! Not only do you need to teach Winslow how to spell, you need to save Winslow from his own jerkiness! You start walking around the building again, looking for a different way inside. There are lots and lots of windows around the building but they're all closed and have metal on the other side of them. That seems kind of silly to you. What's the point of having windows if you just cover them up so you can't look outside?
Still, you manage to get lucky. One of the windows is missing! There's just some brown paper covered over the hole and you can tear through that easily enough. Takes you a couple of jumps but eventually you managed to get your claws into the paper and pull yourself through, leaving a puppy-sized hole behind you.
You fall to the floor and roll a couple of times before coming to a stop. You try to get up but the world is all spinny and slidey. You wind up nearly teetering over but you catch yourself. Stupid world, stop spinning!
You pause for a moment and let the world settle back down. Good! Now you can look around without feeling dizzy. It looks like you're in a long hallway, with lots and lots of metal… things lining the walls, with the occasional door to break things up. You wonder what the metal things are. They have doors, so maybe they're supposed to be boxes? Tall, metal boxes? That makes as much sense as anything else you guess.
Still, it's clear that this place is even bigger than what you first guessed. If you want to find Winslow, you're going to have to track him down. You start to focus on sniffing him out, letting all the smells around wash over you. There's a lot of human scents, like really a lot, and you have no idea which one belongs to Winslow.
There's another scent though. It's wafting in from a distance so you can barely smell it but it's absolutely disgusting. Like something was left to rot for a long time. Normally, you'd ignore that scent and try to get as far away from it as possible. But from the direction the scent is coming from, you can hear echoes of a particular sound: whimpering.
You immediately start running towards the scent and the sound. Somebody's in trouble! Somebody needs help! You have to help them!
Left here…
Right here…
Left here… No! Right! You meant right!
Another left…
Eventually you find the source of the bad scent, another metal box thing. This one has disgusting goop leaking out the bottom and you can hear somebody inside, crying. You're kind of scared, what if there's a goop monster in there, but it sounds like whomever is in there needs your help. You're just going to have to be a brave puppy.
You try banging on the metal door and scratching at it but nothing happens. You're too small and weak to open it. If only you were bigger…
Suddenly, you are bigger. Much bigger. Cool! You wish you had some steak!
…
Nothing, drat. Maybe it just works when you need to help… somebody… oh right! Getting back to the task at had, you claw at the door again and this time your claws sink right into it. With you claws hooked into the door, you pull, ripping the door right off with a screech of tearing metal. It's surprisingly easy. You like being big!
Somebody falls out of the the metal box. It's a girl! That means it's not a goop monster! YAY!
Wait… Could this be Winslow? She's the only person in the building, she must be Winslow. But that means… Winslow is a girl?! Cool! You don't know why that's cool but it's cool!
Unfortunately, Winslow doesn't look so good. She's covered in the disgusting goop, and it looks like she's having a bad dream. Her eyes are shut tight, she's twitching and shivering, and she's muttering things like "stop," "help," and "let me out." She still needs your help! But how do you help?
[] You need to wake her up!
[] You need to clean her up!
[] You don't know what to do! You need to find somebody to help!
UPDATE!
Waking up Winslow
RexHeller
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Winslow still needs your help! She needs to wake up from the bad dreams! You know how to do that! You start to lick her face and EW! EW EW EW EW EW! Bad taste! Bad taste!
You scrape your tongue against the metal boxes, the clean ones, and get rid of the awful, no-good, bad-taste goop that's on your tongue. After a few likes, you start to taste metal instead of bad taste, so you stop. You still need some water to get rid of the bad taste completely but it's good enough for now.
With that crisis averted, you turn back to Winslow and try to figure out what went wrong. Her face is clean, so why did you get the goop on your tongue?
….
Oooooooh! Your tongue is too big! You meant to lick her face but you also licked her hair and there's bad goop there. Well, that's easily solved. You just need to get smaller again!
You're small again! Yay! Now you're cute and fuzzy and you can wake up Winslow without getting goop on your tongue. You immediately get to it.
At first it doesn't seem like it's work, Winslow just keeps muttering in her sleep, but you keep at it and eventually she calms down a little and her eyes flutter open.
"Wh-what? I'm… free?" Winslow pushes herself up off the ground. Sitting up, she looks around and spots you. "A puppy?"
You bark to say hello. Yes! You are a puppy! Winslow should pet you and call you a good boy! You saved her so you're a good boy! Your tail begins to wag in anticipation.
Winslow doesn't pet you though, or call you a good boy or pay any attention to you at all! Rude! Instead she just looks around some more. "What time is it? How long was I in there? How did I get out? What… what's going on?"
Oh no! Winslow is panicking! Quick, apply pupper to the face! You leap up onto her body, scrambling a little to stay there, and start licking her face! Puppy kisses make the bad feelings go away!
"Wha- Hey! Hey, stop! Yes, hello. Yes, you're a good boy. Please stop now. Please- Whaa!" Winslow stops panicking thanks to your kisses! Success! She even starts to laugh a little, even as she asks you to stop. But you don't! No mercy until all bad feelings are banished! Unfortunately, you might have been a little to forceful with your licks because Winslow leans back until she loses her balance and falls.
You're safe though! You land on Winslow, nice, warm, soft Winslow. Although you do get some off the goop that was on her, on you. Oh well. As long as it isn't in your mouth.
"Owww…" Winslow groans a little, before pushing herself back up, dislodging you from your spot on her chest. You fall to the ground and tumble a bit before popping back up, panting happily. Fun!
"Wait, what the...?" Oh! Winslow fell on the door of the metal box, the one you tore off to free her. Now she's staring at it with a funny face. She holds her hand out over the claw marks you left, comparing them. Wow! Her fingers are so much smaller!
Winslow looks at you wide eyed. "Did… did you do this?"
You bark happily again. Yep! You did it! You saved her, you're a good boy!
[] Show her how you get did it and get big!
[] Don't get big.
You scrape your tongue against the metal boxes, the clean ones, and get rid of the awful, no-good, bad-taste goop that's on your tongue. After a few likes, you start to taste metal instead of bad taste, so you stop. You still need some water to get rid of the bad taste completely but it's good enough for now.
With that crisis averted, you turn back to Winslow and try to figure out what went wrong. Her face is clean, so why did you get the goop on your tongue?
….
Oooooooh! Your tongue is too big! You meant to lick her face but you also licked her hair and there's bad goop there. Well, that's easily solved. You just need to get smaller again!
You're small again! Yay! Now you're cute and fuzzy and you can wake up Winslow without getting goop on your tongue. You immediately get to it.
At first it doesn't seem like it's work, Winslow just keeps muttering in her sleep, but you keep at it and eventually she calms down a little and her eyes flutter open.
"Wh-what? I'm… free?" Winslow pushes herself up off the ground. Sitting up, she looks around and spots you. "A puppy?"
You bark to say hello. Yes! You are a puppy! Winslow should pet you and call you a good boy! You saved her so you're a good boy! Your tail begins to wag in anticipation.
Winslow doesn't pet you though, or call you a good boy or pay any attention to you at all! Rude! Instead she just looks around some more. "What time is it? How long was I in there? How did I get out? What… what's going on?"
Oh no! Winslow is panicking! Quick, apply pupper to the face! You leap up onto her body, scrambling a little to stay there, and start licking her face! Puppy kisses make the bad feelings go away!
"Wha- Hey! Hey, stop! Yes, hello. Yes, you're a good boy. Please stop now. Please- Whaa!" Winslow stops panicking thanks to your kisses! Success! She even starts to laugh a little, even as she asks you to stop. But you don't! No mercy until all bad feelings are banished! Unfortunately, you might have been a little to forceful with your licks because Winslow leans back until she loses her balance and falls.
You're safe though! You land on Winslow, nice, warm, soft Winslow. Although you do get some off the goop that was on her, on you. Oh well. As long as it isn't in your mouth.
"Owww…" Winslow groans a little, before pushing herself back up, dislodging you from your spot on her chest. You fall to the ground and tumble a bit before popping back up, panting happily. Fun!
"Wait, what the...?" Oh! Winslow fell on the door of the metal box, the one you tore off to free her. Now she's staring at it with a funny face. She holds her hand out over the claw marks you left, comparing them. Wow! Her fingers are so much smaller!
Winslow looks at you wide eyed. "Did… did you do this?"
You bark happily again. Yep! You did it! You saved her, you're a good boy!
[] Show her how you get did it and get big!
[] Don't get big.
Quest updates when the lazy author stops being a lazy loser or whenever somebody complains about the slow update speed.
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Yes! You saved her! You saved her by getting big! It was super cool! You get big so you can show her how.
"Whaa!" Winslow shouts in surprise and flops onto the ground again when you get big. Now that you think of it, when you get big, you get big quick! It's almost like you're exploding outward. It's so cool!
Winslow looks up at you with eyes wide open. "Holy shit. That's a big dog…"
Yes! You are big! But you're not a dog, you're a puppy! You must remind Winslow of that! Quick, puppy kisses!
"Eep!" Winslow sees you moving in for the kisses and tries to scramble away but it's too late! Nobody can escape when a puppy wants to lick their face! Similar to the last time, Winslow tells you to stop but you ignore her. No mercy!
At least, no mercy until you accidentally lick a place that isn't her face and get the bad-taste evil goop on your tongue again. As soon as that happens, you freeze, flop over and start whining. It tastes so bad! You start licking the ground to get it off your tongue.
"What are you…" Winslow shakes her head, smiling slightly. "You're just a big, dumb puppy, aren't you?"
Hey! You're not dumb! You're smart! You rescued Winslow, didn't you? And you can read and you know that ABB isn't a real word and you know not to lick gross stuff…
Oh…
Maybe you are kind of dumb…
Winslow sighs. "Come here, you big lump. Let's see if we can get your tongue clean."
You whine some more but you get up and do as Winslow says. You stick out your tongue and she wipes it off with one of the few bits of her shirt that doesn't have goop on it already. You immediately taste the difference and move to give Winslow thank you kisses.
"Whoa! Hey boy, hold up." Winslow holds up her hands and blocks your approach. "Remember what happened last time?"
Yeah! Last time you gave her kisses and it was fun and you made her happy and then you got bad-taste goop on your tongue and… oh. Right. Oopsy.
Feeling depressed, you lie down and look up at Winslow. Not really sure what to do without the option of licking your friend's face, you start to whine quietly.
"What, no. Nooooo, not the puppy-dog-eyes…" Winslow looks away but you keep looking at her mournfully.
Eventually she looks back. "Stop that. You can't lick me. You'll get sick."
You keep whining.
"You can't. Seriously." Winslow sighs again. "Look, how about I scratch your ears instead?"
You immediately perk up and bark once happily. Yes! Ear scratchies! That's almost as good as belly rubs! You pad over to her and sit beside down, panting at her expectantly. Winslow reaches out to start the pettings but stops when she sees her hand, still covered in evil goop.
"Oh. Right, I need a shower." Winslow blinks several times and to your confusion, tears start to fall from her eyes. "I-I need a… a show and I n-need to call dad a-and the police or an ambulance and oh god. Oh dear god."
No! Winslow, don't cry! She's safe and out of the goop box and she has a puppy! She should be happy! You nuzzle her face, careful not to lick and get the bad taste again, but she collapses on top of you, sobbing into your fur. You don't mind, even if she is getting tears and goop all over your fluffy soft fur. You'll be there for her as long as she needs.
After Winslow recovers, what will she do? Whatever happens, you will accompany her.
[] Call her father
[] Call the authorities
[] Take a shower
[] Walk home
So I got a new full time job and it is of course eating into my writing time. Updates will be slowed as a matter of course. However, it's only a temp thing, so after a few weeks I'll be back to writing full time.
"Whaa!" Winslow shouts in surprise and flops onto the ground again when you get big. Now that you think of it, when you get big, you get big quick! It's almost like you're exploding outward. It's so cool!
Winslow looks up at you with eyes wide open. "Holy shit. That's a big dog…"
Yes! You are big! But you're not a dog, you're a puppy! You must remind Winslow of that! Quick, puppy kisses!
"Eep!" Winslow sees you moving in for the kisses and tries to scramble away but it's too late! Nobody can escape when a puppy wants to lick their face! Similar to the last time, Winslow tells you to stop but you ignore her. No mercy!
At least, no mercy until you accidentally lick a place that isn't her face and get the bad-taste evil goop on your tongue again. As soon as that happens, you freeze, flop over and start whining. It tastes so bad! You start licking the ground to get it off your tongue.
"What are you…" Winslow shakes her head, smiling slightly. "You're just a big, dumb puppy, aren't you?"
Hey! You're not dumb! You're smart! You rescued Winslow, didn't you? And you can read and you know that ABB isn't a real word and you know not to lick gross stuff…
Oh…
Maybe you are kind of dumb…
Winslow sighs. "Come here, you big lump. Let's see if we can get your tongue clean."
You whine some more but you get up and do as Winslow says. You stick out your tongue and she wipes it off with one of the few bits of her shirt that doesn't have goop on it already. You immediately taste the difference and move to give Winslow thank you kisses.
"Whoa! Hey boy, hold up." Winslow holds up her hands and blocks your approach. "Remember what happened last time?"
Yeah! Last time you gave her kisses and it was fun and you made her happy and then you got bad-taste goop on your tongue and… oh. Right. Oopsy.
Feeling depressed, you lie down and look up at Winslow. Not really sure what to do without the option of licking your friend's face, you start to whine quietly.
"What, no. Nooooo, not the puppy-dog-eyes…" Winslow looks away but you keep looking at her mournfully.
Eventually she looks back. "Stop that. You can't lick me. You'll get sick."
You keep whining.
"You can't. Seriously." Winslow sighs again. "Look, how about I scratch your ears instead?"
You immediately perk up and bark once happily. Yes! Ear scratchies! That's almost as good as belly rubs! You pad over to her and sit beside down, panting at her expectantly. Winslow reaches out to start the pettings but stops when she sees her hand, still covered in evil goop.
"Oh. Right, I need a shower." Winslow blinks several times and to your confusion, tears start to fall from her eyes. "I-I need a… a show and I n-need to call dad a-and the police or an ambulance and oh god. Oh dear god."
No! Winslow, don't cry! She's safe and out of the goop box and she has a puppy! She should be happy! You nuzzle her face, careful not to lick and get the bad taste again, but she collapses on top of you, sobbing into your fur. You don't mind, even if she is getting tears and goop all over your fluffy soft fur. You'll be there for her as long as she needs.
After Winslow recovers, what will she do? Whatever happens, you will accompany her.
[] Call her father
[] Call the authorities
[] Take a shower
[] Walk home
So I got a new full time job and it is of course eating into my writing time. Updates will be slowed as a matter of course. However, it's only a temp thing, so after a few weeks I'll be back to writing full time.