Hail Primus

The Vore Casino

"Okay, folks, here we are in the grounds. Quite elegant but functional in my opinion. The low cut hedges here that provide the natural railing to this path lead along the meshed pebble and cobblestone path to meet the statue of me there in the center of it. Now be careful. The Statue is a guardian who will eat people on sight. I had Odaira my Synthician sequence it. It won't chase after you so long as I'm here but it won't hesitate to eat you if you get any closer," Michi narrated to us backing up a little toward the statue.
"What's so bad about that? Isn't vore in the name of this clinic?" Sidge proposed.
"Well, the statue has a golem's furnace stomach. Fun to look at, probably not fun to be in unless you're immune to fire," Michi pointed out.
The spindle pillar blared overhead a bright day light over the small garden-like grounds to the north west side of the exterior of the Clinic.
I found the garden to be quite simple. Various colored wild flowers set in their own patches of flowers in squares aside of each of the hedgerows that were aside of the path. Tulips to roses, each patch had one flower kind per patch but that was of many colors. The resultant cross pollination I thought looked to make the many usual colors that were rarely found in such flowers.
The Cobblestone and pebble interlaced paths went in the four directions from the circular center of the path. On the paths set evenly were marble benches without backs. In the center was Michi's statue raised on a smaller grooved pillar standing with one foot paw raised into the air and looking on with a wave of the other hand. This statue was surrounded by another low hedgerow that Michi stood a little before.
The paths came from the clinic assistant's dorms and offices wing and also went east to meet the large general purpose bay we hadn't looked at.
The path to the west continued on into the thick tall pine, maple, and oaken forest that outlined the small plot the garden was in. Then to the north the path continued criss crossing out of sight through the forest.
I sat down on the marble benches with Sidge. Wovelmlos and Jaze sat across by me as Michi stood talking. Eckstal had insisted to stay and help the assistants giving her reasons that a casino with a sole vore theme was not compatible with her.
"... the westerly path from here goes out and around the clinic intersecting with the main road to the west and continues slightly south to the temple. North from here is the Casino and our destination. We'd better get going. Hope you brought some coinage with you," Michi narrated his tour guide spiel he told us he's given many times for new patients.
"Coinage?" Jaze asked as she, Sidge, Wovelmlos, and I stood up.
"You have your buddy there to stipend off of. You probably don't have to concern yourself with that," Michi added with a smile.
"Maybe but I may not be into much vore this time," I told them and Jaze immediately frowned.
"Oh yeah. You were telling me you wished to go to the Jyiri government next. There's a raccoon girl that comes here every so often. She knows the movements of Jyiri and General Hedin, being she works for them. While she probably won't tell us, she's a good place to start short of just appearing where they are which is up to you if you want to do this," Michi told us.
Sko appeared in our midst as this was spoken making about all of us jump except me, "Ias knows about the movements of them Michi."
"Well to move the plot along we'd better have some interests associated in this excursion," I responded.
"Fice, Ias, why can't we just a have a little outright fun," Jaze demanded.
"Yeah, take a breather from the plot," Sidge suggested.
"But Michi was a part of the plot," I reminded Sidge.
"Maybe we could hold off on the Vore Temple for some other time. So you can get to Jyiri sometime soon if you wish to," Michi offered.
"Okay, then, that's the plan for now," I responded nodding looking over at Michi with a solemn shrug but I also saw Sko put his paw to his ear bud he being a mirror copy of my Jackalope form he had to have an ear bud to match.
"Right... Ias you'd better listen into this," Sko told me.
I put my ear bud in my ear but I already knew what it was about.
"What's wrong?" Michi asked.
"Oooo hooo, here's a plot for you people. I mean, I love vore but I love other things too. Prepare for war," I stated.
"Be on alert! Intrusion on Primeon's western turret by Gryphons. Guardians alerted by Debacho. Masprit Guardians implementing counter intrusion measures," Sko repeated the ear bud's sayings for everyone to hear.
"A welcome break from the same old thing," I remarked.
"Oh?" Jaze remarked surprised.
"What about the vore casino?" Wovelmlos remarked.
"Awww c'mon Wovelmlos. You like a larger belly from chubbiness than vore. Maybe you'd better come with me," I communicated to Wovelmlos.
"Then there won't be vore?" Jaze asked disappointedly.
In response I picked up Jaze with a slight howl of protest from her and threw her at the Michi's statue.
"No, don't do that!" Michi exclaimed running toward the statue and stopped.
It came alive and started to introduce her to its stony gullet. I winked and running toward her jumped up and took possession of her. The next sight I beheld I remember particularly. I looked down into what resembled a long and very narrow clay colored stone cavern that went down at a sheer drop. Down at the bottom was what made me strain to get a better look at it myself as Jaze almost slipping further into the narrowing warm rockiness now coming upon me expanding nearest me slightly in welcome. At the far end of the long drop the cavern turned off to the right and from the right emitted a steady reddish glow giving the rest of the rocky gullet more light. Occasionally, a bit of steam came wafting up from there.
Then I was pulled backwards abruptly until I was out of the creature's stony gray mouth and facing its stony eyes.
"Put her down," Michi demanded and the statue set me down before the base but between the hedge and the circle of the paths which I reluctantly jumped over and stood beside Michi.
"Why did you do that for...? Iasney.... hey!" Michi started to ask but noticed I wasn't there so started to look around for me.
Wovelmlos and Sidge had a slight smile on their faces and Michi gave an uneasy half smile at them so they pointed at me as Jaze with Wovelmlos remarking, "He's done this before."
"But I think I might stay with her for a while. I'm sure she wouldn't care. Especially being this is a vore casino," I remarked.
Michi backed slightly away from me but I jumped up into his arms and he caught me quickly. I beeped him on the nose, "No Michi, be a dear and go to your casino. I can't wait to see it."
"No worries about Primeon," Michi asked.
"No no Michi, you know the guardians'll handle it. They've fended off attacks before from curious gryphons," Sko remarked and gave a nod before disappearing.
I jumped down off of Michi and crawled piggyback onto Sidge's shoulders remarking, "Awww my favorite dragon."
I leant over and pulled on Wovelmlos' ears remarking, "I love you two Wovelmlos. Now would the two of you be gentlefurs and escort me with Mr. Gimiguchi to the casino?"
Sidge and Wovelmlos exchanged a glance and a laugh and went with an uneasy grinning, walking around the statue carefully. With Michi in the lead, we moved up the North path and off around the thicket of the trees as the path twisted and turned around them. I went down onto Sidge's belly sitting on the top of it as it hung down and laid back onto his right shoulder and he looked down at me remarking, "You're pretty agile."
I chuckled and stayed in this position for several paces before looking over at Wovelmlos who was beside Sidge and I and he was eying us every so often. I waited another set of paces and suddenly jumped over to him and sat on his smaller but furrier and still big and fat paunch. I went to the same position on Wovelmlos and closed my eyes feeling the jiggle up against my body.
I noticed the Stonition in me was moving around slightly inside my stomach making it move out in one side, stopping, and moving to the other so I gave it a tap and it responded in muffled apologies.
The path was quite twisted and slightly elevated a bit but came down again. Overall the trip wasn't very far and the path ended at a few offhand trees fully blocking the path ahead of us.
"This is to deter the Saynajaus. They've probably tried to kill me seventeen times recently and many times in the past. They don't know much about the casino itself. We usually blindfold clients wishing to come in here at around the clinic or the temple before leading them in under secret ways from each place. If you try to approach the casino this way then you run into the confusing maze sequence put on here. The final trick is this," Michi told us and passed a claw in front of him at the trees ahead. Before his talon touched the tree, it passed right through it without resistance.
"Hold your breath, you two," I told Sidge and Wovelmlos and they exchanged a blank expression with each other.
Michi smiled and stepped into the trees disappearing from sight. I jumped down and removed myself from Jaze's person and she shuddered and wavered and looked at Wovelmlos and Sidge skeptically before taking in her surroundings and back at me. I had assumed a Jackalope form again before she saw me so she asked instead getting a bit uneasy "Did I faint or something?"
I exchanged a glance with Wovelmlos who rolled his eyes and at Sidge who shook his head with a small smug expression so I shrugged replying, "Yeah, all of a sudden."
Jaze pondered a second and stepped forward for a reason I picked up as an impulse and disappeared so Sidge and Wovelmlos followed her in but I hesitated and turned around and thought I felt a certain presence. Then I saw the glimmer in the air several paces back down from me and I adjusted my eyes to see through the illusion and there stood a pale white skinned pointed eared Maginean dressed in full hunters camouflage.
When I stepped forward the creature reacted by bringing tail and fleeing down the path. I reached out and grasped the air and pulled it back and it brought the Maginean backwards kicking and scratching at the ground with a hand on his neck as I had gripped his neck. Then, as he came back I raised my other paw and said, "Amnesiate!"
The creature went limp, its mouth and features agape and extended. Before it could regain it's thoughts I said, "Return!"
The Maginean then vanished leaving no glimmer or traced other than the dirt clods it kicked up. I moved my paws toward them and they redid themselves with the earth and dirt to show no struggle. I turned around and entered the trees vanishing myself.