Because the transitional period between winter and spring often left days swinging between short sleeved weather and winter weather, this would often cause problems in cases of agriculture, or farming in general. But Animalia's transition period was a little less stressful in some ways, but more so in others.
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Evelyn was sitting on the couch in the room she was lead to while waiting for her second punishment to begin. According to what she'd learned, this was where she would be learning about clothing for snake Animalians, or "public decency" as Maggie called it. She was just wondering what it would entail when suddenly the couch tipped! She tumbled head-over-tail backwards into a new room that said couch had tipped her into. Her head was still spinning when she realized that she had landed at the feet of three female Animalians wearing stereotypical "sexy maid" outfits and holding similar, but not the same, outfits.
"Wait 'til you see what we have for you." they all said together, and Evelyn only realized then what her punishment was to be. Before long, Evelyn was not only learning about fashion options for snakes, but also taking part in a, willing or not, photoshoot. While it wasn't as bad as Heather's own, it was still rather humiliating for someone like her. She did do the required poses, but her facial expression made it clear that she was really uncomfortable with what she was doing.
"Is this the only kind of reality tv show they have in Japan?" asked Maggie, who was skyping with Ammy again about this.
"No, not necessarily." Answered Ammy, "We do have animated television shows and crazy game shows. It's just that not all of them are something to watch with children."
"Why am I not surprised?" asked Maggie, as the maids and Evelyn began working on "themed costumes".
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Meanwhile, the guys from "Mr. D.'s House Party" had taken their assigned "girls" to the hot spring spa at Worldmeet Glade. They were not only able to meet and socialize with each other, there were also some discussions. But there was the occasional interruption to do some "counter-teasing" at frat boys who had some unfortunate "thoughts out loud".
"So how is Mr. D. dealing with the aftermath of his house party?" Jan asked Kip, who was the latest to be contacted by the guys' old landlord.
"The repairs are going to cost a little more than originally thought," said Kip, "but it was discovered why the apartment's power got shorted out. It turned out that some of the wires that got shorted out were found to have been nibbled on by pests a good while before the outbreak."
"That's too bad." said Jan.
"While Mr. D. is now part of Animalia's 'Hospitality Committee', and can get repairs/renovations for the party room we ruined for cheaper, I can safely say that we're not getting our deposits back."
"Shh. Listen..." said the lioness who was also enjoying a good soak. All the girls perked their ears and heard some frat boys coming down the hallway to the cave spa and seemingly jealous of Kip's 'luck'.
When they least expected it, the lioness and Theresa began another round of teasing.
"Hello boys," said the lioness, "Are you the beefcake express?"
"Choo choo!" egged on Theresa, much to their chagrin. What made it even funnier was the fact that most of them were stunned nearly speechless, especially since one would only say "bu-bu-bu-bu-bu".
"Well, boys," continued Mary-Anne, "You know the rules here. Drop 'em so we can see them. Don't make us start singing the log song."
"You little scamp!" said King Andrew, who had been in a nearby changing room, "thought you could start without me, eh? Well then," he said, flinging his towel away dramatically, "Behold your king in all his glory."
"DONE!" said one of the guys, heading back out the way he came, "I'm out."
"Why is that so angry?!?!" said another holding his hand in front of his eyes because he didn't really want to see... that.
"Dude," said a third really shocked at the size of... that, "what do you feed that thing in the morning?!"
"Just my usual 5 dozen egg protein shake with my queen's secret protein powder recipe." joked Andrew, not saying that he was just "lucky".
The final member of the group had the most reasonable (in a matter of speaking) response to this display. Wearing a bored expression on his face as he watched most of his friends leave for the Meat Market for some drinks to kill some brain cells, he turned around calmly and headed back the way he came with a calm, "I wonder what's on tv."
After everyone had left, and Andrew got into the spring with them, everyone broke down laughing.
"I hadn't had that much fun since I raced in the Kentucky Derby!" said Theresa, reigning in her laughter enough for her to talk.
"Somehow I doubt it." countered Mary-Anne.