QUESTIONING MY MENTAL HEALTH | OPEN, DIPPIN' DOTS

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    //this makes no sense but everyone deserves some dippin dots so here u go


    Pierce had no idea what this thing was. It looked kind of like a fridge, but big and colorful and with an open front and... in the middle of the snowy forest. He had been on a simple walk, his blue bandana tied comfortably around his neck, when he stumbled upon the thing, standing erect in the snow, glowing and smelling strongly of sugar. At first, he had been shocked, but now he was just confused. What was this thing? What was it doing out here? He wasn't exactly closeto camp, and it kind of reminded him of those things humans used to put money into and get sodas and candy out of. He furrowed his brow, walking a circle around the machine as the snow numbed his paws, though he was far too focused on the fridge-thing to be worried about that. He paused at what he assumed was the front of the thing, since it was the part that glowed and had writing on it. Squinting up at the text, he muttered softly to himself, "Dippin' dots...?" Dipping dots. Why would you dip a dot? Into what? And what was the dot made of?


    The little serval took a step closer to the Dippin' Dots machine, getting on his toes so he could reach the big square buttons on it and jabbing the closest one; one that read "Cookies n' Cream". He had to get on his back legs to see into the machine, but his green eyes widened as the things inside started moving. Mesmerized, he watched it closely, until the big tube that had grabbed hold of a weird bag from the inside of the weird fridge dropped it. Tentatively, he copied what he had seen the humans do with these things, and pushed the door at the bottom of the machine open with his head, grabbing the bag with his teeth. Oh, this was weird. He dropped it on the ground to observe it, a frown of contemplation on his lips. What was he supposed to do with it? Cookies and cream sounded like a flavor, but last he checked, you couldn't exactly eat plastic.

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    "Ay, look. It's a Dippin' Dots." Jerseyboy mused, padding forward and gazing upon the colorful machine in awe. He just happened to be in the same area as Pierce, but surprisingly, he had never come across this machine before. "How the hell did this get here?" The New Jerseyan murmured, rounding the machine and observing it. He couldn't read the letters, but the decor was familiar. There were Dippin' Dots brand-items in the city, and he had only ever had a taste of the stuff once in his life. It was still good, though. They were like solidified, tiny balls of ice cream.


    "You gotta' open it, Piercey-boy." The tuxedo tom commented to the vice-leader as he came around the front. Jerseyboy's eyes flickered up towards the button that the serval pushed in order to retrieve the packet. Given that the other was much taller than him, the male had to jump up and press the button at just the right moment. A satisfied gleam shone in his eyes once the pack dropped into the bottom, and Jerseyboy dragged it out onto the ground.


    — A...Dippin' Dots? That was a weird name. Tavi thought it was some sort of game. But this game seemed...edible? "What's a...Dippin' Dot?" she inquired, bounding up and eyeing the two bags curiously.





    Fadingmoon

    Fadingmoon blinked in surprise at the human contraption. That was....odd. Didn't those things, ya know, require electricity to run? Where was it getting its power source from? Deciding not to question that, she stepped forward with a curious glance at Jersey. "You've had these before?"

    TAGS ---- (rip this will either turn out great or horrible xD)


    Human food. Blue had never been given anything like that. Which was probably good because it would be bad for her health to have a little bit too much. When they were caged, the Utahraptor was a little bit curious on the stuff that the humans ate, which was rare since they would go into a building to eat as not to antagonize the raptors when they did have food with them. Especially if there were any sandwiches since most of them had some sort of sliced meat with them. The pack had been given a specific diet to make sure that they were extremely healthy and that they wouldn't get all that sick as easily compared to other instances. One thing was for sure though, Blue hated the snow. So why she was she here in the first place? Blue had smelled something interesting, almost familiar so she had decided to check it out. Only to come across three different Blizzardclanners. She wasn't hungry, and they weren't doing anything to her but there was something standing in front of them. It reminded her of a human structure. And something seemed to be popping out of it. Now, the raptors couldn't just be lethal the entire time, and could be considered incredibly curious creatures. Almost like children themselves. The young female made her way over, almost carefully. The last thing she needed was to get in a fight without Owen being around. The other was usually quick to put her in place when she wasn't acting right. Tilting her head a little bit she looked at the fridge. The dinosaur nudged it with her nose a little bit, not realizing what the buttons were. Then something fell out of the machine. The hell was that? A chuffing escaped escaped her jaws as she shifted her weight from foot to foot almost like an excited child. Yet, despite that she felt like she was about to get in trouble. Blue grabbed the bag that was slightly poking out and made her way a little bit of a distance away from the clanners as she wanted her own personal space. There she dropped the bag and looked at it in an incredibly confused manner. Blue didn't know it, but she had chosen the vanilla bean flavor. Which was much better than her eating chocolate because that probably would have been toxic to her. When she had gripped the back to take it out of the machine, she had nearly ripped it. Tilting her head, a purring rumbled in her throat for once that wasn't aggressive. Using her arm, she knocked over the bag, only to have nothing happen. Her tail seemed to wag behind her almost like a dog that was excited about a new toy. Blue grabbed the top of the bag, and threw it into the air, her eyes watching it closely as it flew vertically above her. Only for her to crouch down and leap up into the air and grab the bag in her jaws as she landed back down onto earth. As soon as she gripped the bag with her full strength, the Utahraptor ripped the bag and the strange cold contents filled her mouth. Tasting the plastic though, she dropped it down onto the ground as the substance melted into her mouth. It tasted.... weird. But it wasn't incredibly unpleasant. Honestly, the raptors would really eat anything that were placed in front of their face. Blue still remained at least 10ft away from the rest of the group.

    What exactly was a Dippin' Dots? Light had actually never heard of them before, and whatever they were, they sounded weird. She was still curious about whatever her clanmates were looking at, making sure to keep a safe enough distance from Blue. Sure, the raptor was already far away from the group, but she wasn't taking any real chances. She glanced up at the machine, seemingly perplexed by its existence. "What is this?" It was some kind of dispenser, she knew that much, but how was it doing all of this?


    The wolf had been able to reach better than Jerseyboy and Pierce due to her size, just pressing the first button she saw. That one happened to be the one for Cotton Candy. She picked up the colorful package with her teeth, before dropping it to her paws and examining it. All of them seemed to have some sort of flavor, so they had to be edible. "It's food, right?" She was mostly thinking out loud. She was ninety percent sure it was some kind of weird human food. She knew that Sugar had eaten human food before - although Light personally never tried it. None of it was exactly recognizable She guess she'd try it, but now, she actually had to try ands struggle to get the stupid thing open without it spilling everywhere.


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    Pierce glanced up from his bag of ice cream as Jerseyboy came over, listening closely to the former deputy’s words. So... he knew this thing? The serval knew he couldn’t read, so that was the only logical explanation, though it still didn’t make much sense to him - he had no idea Jers had lived anywhere before the Rift, where he had lived on a dual-alliance when he joined Blizzardclan. “I don’t know,” he admitted, “I just found it here.” It was all lit up and everything, which was weird- unless it ran on batteries? That’d be a lot of batteries... the vice-leader thought, imagining just how many packets he’d have to steal from human stores to have enough to power this thing.


    "You gotta' open it, Piercey-boy." His jaw clenched at the nickname, and he uttered a quick, somewhat irritated, “Please don’t call me that,” though he was already following the tuxedo’s advice and pulling the back open. The scent of vanilla and chocolate wafted up to his nose, and he peered into the bag. “It’s a bunch of tiny balls.” What the hell? Was he supposed to eat these? He reached into the bag, managigg to pull one dot out with his claws and placing it on his tongue.


    “It’s ice cream!” Pierce announced excitedly, just as Tavi arrived. At her inquiry, he turned to her, a sudden, genuine smile spreading across his maw as the sweet treat melted on his tongue. “It’s a dessert,” he repeated. “Here-“ the vice-leader reached up, pressing a random button and, in moments, one of the bags had fallen, which he quickly passed to the girl. “Try them! They’re really good,” he promised, tipping a few into his mouth. Next came Fading, who addressed Jers, and then Blue. Out of all the raptors, he tolerated her the most- because she reminded him of Ev, but he wasn’t going to admit that to himself, especially since she’d been the one to hurt Percy, though that was back when he was Mike.


    His emerald gaze shifted over to the reptile as she approached, purring and chirping and then... eating an entire package. Oh, that couldn’t be good. “Blue,” he spoke up gently, getting to his paws and leaving his own bag of ice cream on the ground - it wasn’t like it was going to melt. He reached toward the machine and pressed the button for the fruit flavor, grabbing the bag and opening it up once it was dispensed. He took a few steps toward the raptor, closing a few feet of space between them, though taking care to stay away as he poured the contents into the snow. It was better to eat it with a bit of snow than plastic, right? “Here, girl,” he said gently, sounding almost the same as his ex had when speaking to the dinosaur as he took a few steps back, his ears angling back at Light’s arrival, though he was sure the others would help her if she needed it.


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    — Huh. A dessert? As the bag was pushed to her, she opened it and popped a few into her mouth. "Mmm..." She swallowed. "They taste better than I thought they would!"




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    There were plenty of things that the raptors didn't know about the world that they had been dropped in. In their enclosure where they had grown up for most of their life, it had been an entirely controlled environment. Their exposure to certain objects and different types of foods that were put into their diets was slow and progressive. When introducing a raptor to something that they weren't positive about, they usually began aggressive and would try to destroy the object without a second thought. This could be problems if the scientists had to approach one of the raptors with expensive equipment to see how their growth was doing. Thanks to how they were engineered, it didn't take long for the pack to grow up almost to being complete adults. This meant that around a year old, they were already full grown to their max size. Depending on the time that they were hatched of course depended on how they compared to the rest of the pack. Blue being the largest as she was the first to be hatched and actually survive after hatching from the egg that she had been put it. There had been plenty of things that had been dropped into the cage that they had been caged in. Clipboards. Cups. Weapons. Etc. All of which were immediately investigated by the raptors as they were very strict to what came in and out of their territory. Even if it was just a small area, they would defend it with their life and make sure that nothing tried to trip them either. As soon as something fell into the cage that looked like it could be destroyed, that's exactly what the raptors would do.


    They didn't know their own strength when it came to human objects. So a raptor standing on something that was made by a human usually crumpled in a matter of seconds. That's what happened when something that weighed 1,000lbs stood on something. Then there was food that had been dropped into the cage that wasn't proper for their diet. One of them had gotten incredibly ill from ingesting something that upset their stomach and made them vomit over and over again. It had not been a happy time, but as soon as a feral creature was exposed to something that was considered unpleasant, they most likely would never do it again unless they were determined enough. Plenty of the animals in the area were smart enough to give raptors enough space when it came to interacting with them. It was incredibly smart as it would mean that they would have more time to react about the raptors movements. When they became occupied with something though, it took a while to get their attention to something else. Which had been a problem for Owen when they first started off training them, as Blue was constantly looking around the enclosure for something else to do and ignoring the Alpha that was giving her orders. That ultimately didn't last very long as she was bent into shape quite quickly. Distracting a raptor wasn't hard, if one was smart enough. They weren't complete idiots after all and were quite smart compared to some of the clanners that they had met. Any quick movement was bound to draw the dinosaurs attention, as any predator was prone to looking at something that was moving in a territory. Some of the plastic did get caught in Blue's teeth, causing her to shake her head with her mouth open so that the bag would fall from her mouth.


    The rest of the contents that had been stuck in the plastic fell to the ground and practically blended into the snow. Now that was disappointing. Of course, Blue probably digested some plastic, but with her strong stomach acids it probably wouldn't kill her. It was when her name was called that her head shot up from looking at the ground. Tilting her head almost like a puppy was to spot the serval. The one that was close to one of the food givers that had disappeared. Blue let out a chuffing vocalization, wondering what the Blizzardclanner had called her name for. As far as Blue was concerned she wasn't doing anything wrong. The animal began to carry over a bag toward her, and with sugar in her system, the Utahraptor was shifting her weight from one foot and the next in almost excitement. There was no aggression given toward Pierce though. Blue remained calm the entire time that he emptied the strawberry contents onto the ground. Blue taking a couple steps forward as she sniffed the ice cream that was emptied out onto the snow. Lowering her body, she scooped up a large amount into her lower jaw, which she then closed her jaws, practically swallowing the ice cream as soon as she closed her jaws. Her scarred tail almost seemed to wag behind her tail. Food giver. That's what Pierce was. Just like the other animal just like him had been. Her amber eyes would glance at the other for a second before letting out a chitter from her throat. In almost a thanks toward the other. She wouldn't attack him this time. He had given her food after all. Even if it wasn't quick to fill her stomach it was still something that she could eat. After that, she lowered her back down to the ground and began to pick up strawberry specks off the ground.

    It seemed Dorian was a bit late to the party. Nonetheless, he was curious as to what this was and why everyone was flocking around it. The direhound approached, giving Blue a wide berth, and stood beside Tavi. He turned to watch as Pierce passed her a bag of the 'dessert', as it was called. Then, she tried them, announcing that they tasted alright.


    At this, Dorian tilted his head questioningly. Really? It was human food - like those other treats he, his mother, and Tavi had seen at the border. She'd been awfully hesitant to try those, but she seemed to enjoy this. In Dorian's opinion, he'd rather not try any of this stuff. What was the point when he'd likely prefer a nice rabbit over it all anyways? The pup preferred to stick to what he knew.



    JUDITHIX!

    blizzardclan - member - male - tags


    ― "C'mon Dorian, ice cream is good, isn't it? Never had it." Judithix sputtered out as he walked over to the group, his German Shepherd side kicking in as he devoured the cup of Dippin' Dots within a few seconds. Oh lord. Cold. "Brain freeze! Ouch!" The dog yelped out, tongue hanging out of his mouth as he shook his head.