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[Draconia St George]

"Well, bloody bats!" Draconia exclaimed, finishing Sally's left hand and moving on to a tendril. "Then you're right brave for coming to your first creepover EVER! Ghouls!"

Draconia called out to everymonster else.

"Did you know this is Sally's FIRST creepover?! And here we've just dove her in without any sort of warning!" Draconia started polishing another tendril. "Well, you've done marvelous so far for being a newbie, Sally, I must say! You've got the basics down. Snacks, a creeping bag, makeovers and the like. But then there's ADVANCED creepovering. Things like, 'pile all of the stuff on the first one to fall asleep!,' or, 'watching scary normie movies!,' or, 'play Goblins to Goblins for chocolates!'"

Draconia took another tendril for polishing.

"You've got so much to look forward to!"  

[Tori Underbridge]

"Demona, It's your turn to choose, Truth or Scare on someone." Everyone was in silent agreement that her worst habit was being put on the spot.

Tori leaned slowly in the direction of where the polish was coming from.

"You wouldn't happen to have any natural tones in there would you?" She asked Hellene. Tori herself didn't bring any polish. But if anyone needed to wash their hair she did carry a ton of hair products in her bag.

"Hmm....Anyone looking for a new hair do? ... Or don't?" She offered eyeing Marcelene who looked like she had hair to rival the trolls.  

[Skinny Sally]

Sally tilted her head as she held her hands up to dry. There really was more to this than she had originally thought. Draconia seemed really excited about all of it. But, so did the rest of the ghouls.

She nodded, "The new experiences is why I left the forest." she tilted her head, looking at her first painted tendril, "I knew there was more out there to see and I'm glad I made my decision." She looked at Draconia again, feeling like her smile could show through, "Thank you for including me in all of this. I may not be the most sentimental ghoul, but it means a lot to me."  

[Hellene Harpie]

Tori Underbridge

"You wouldn't happen to have any natural tones in there would you?"

Hellene looked around at her solid gold BFF Draconia, the ethereally white Sally, bright cheerfully pink Ascreama, becomingly blue Doriana, Tori's own lovely shade of lavender and finally at her own opalecent white hands with blue and green sheen.

"Ummmm....natural? I'm afraid you're going to have to be more specific. Like earth tones?"

She looked down at the rainbow of colors she had sorted before her.

"I don't have anything in brown, but I've got lots of greens and some peachy kind of colors," she said, holding up a bottle of pale beige called Britsh Normie.  

[Ascreama Poweurgh]

Hellene Harpie

"Oh! It's goo-d to meet you! I'm sorry," She felt a little flustered and somewhat rude after not introducing herself to monsters she wasn't too familiar with "You have such a great sense of colour, I'll have to ask for your artistic-y-ness when I'm inking my art!" She shook Hellene's hand happily "Oh blob, I'm Ascreama!"

She withdrew her hand, suddenly aware that she was shaking a bit too eagerly.
"So where did you buy all those gems and stones?" She pointed to the rhinestones. "I have.. an affinity for glitter." She grinned.  

[Hellene Harpie]

Hellene smiled widely at the compliment.

"Thank you! You know I pick these up sort of all over, I used to travel a ton, it's the harpy way to get to know the world we sort of migrate around before we settle down, so half of these I don't know where I got them. The rhinestones though I got at the Arrrgt House where Kai works because he'll give me a discount under the counter so I can afford to just put jewels on anything and everything, but a lot of the polishes I got at the maul. Bloomingscales and HAC cosmetics have sales and I basically grab anything bright and sparkly in the discount bin! Sometimes you get just stick the smaller stones on the polish and you don't need glue at all but I think if you use your claws a lot you need the glue anyway. OH! But you don't have claws do you so you don't need to worry about that at all!"

Hellene barely noticed that she was rambling, it was an old habit and long past ever breaking.  

[Doriana Taylor]

Doriana looked over at the mentioning of her name by Hellene Harpie. Did they really want her over there? After she had practically ruined the entire creepover? She slowly edged over to the smaller group.

"Uh... Hi..." She said awkwardly.  

[Hellene Harpie]

Hellene looked up at Doriana, standing shyly off to the side but peering at the ghouls. Hellene considered what to do. She did say she'd paint claws, any and all claws, as long as there was color, including Doriana's. Part of her was still probably a little mad but the creepover was coming along marvelously; several ghouls were already sporting fashionable new moanicures and any minute now the Truth or Scare game would pick back up and then things would really get moving. This was just like a night with her sisters, even the petty fighting, Hellene reflected.

"Uh...I mean..."

Doriana was still standing there awkwardly and Hellene shook herself back into the present. Even though she hadn't properly apologized it would be a shame for anyone to not have a good time. And the dress Atomica had...created, was very nice, even the extra sleeve.

"Do you want to pick some colors?" she asked finally, "I have some blue with gold sparkles that would great with that hair of yours. Oh! Or grey and silver?"  

[Doriana Taylor]

She hesitated to reply, she could feel that Hellene was still mad at her for the whole thing. However, she did still want to have fun. She looked at the colors with close eyes, deciding took up a lot of her precious time! After all, time managment took up almost 4/4 of her 'precious' time, it seems. See the irony there?

"Silver!" She exclaimed, before edging closer and sitting on the ground. She didn't really want a public appology because, well, that was too embarrasing. She did her a lot of chatter behind her, she thought that everybody else was chatting with their friends to pass the time of dead scilence during Truth or Scare.

"Hellene, I need to tell you something..."  

[Hellene Harpie]

Hellene grabbed from the silver section of her Color Rainbow and set them down between herself and Doriana. Goodness this creepover was a good idea, it was finally going to use up some of this clawpolish Hellene had accumulated over the years.

"We can do silver with blue glitter? Or white speckles! I have a couple of weird topcoats I picked up the last time I was in the Harpajuku district and they're odd but frankly I think that makes them more fun, this one is just little white stars and this one is little green leaves, actually I think I should show this to Tori now that I think about it..." Hellene paused, realizing that Doriana had been trying to stay something. It took a while to rein in her chatter.

"Yes?"  

[Doriana Taylor]

How did she make an appology sound sincere? She had never appologized to anyone before, and then being told she wasn't being sincere enough. She was guessing that it was due to the differance of social etiquette between her homeland and Salem. After all, all monsters had different way of doing things.

She cleared her throat, and gave in a appologetic tone, "Hellene, I'm really sorry about the creepover dress thing. In all honestly, I got so carried away with being able to actually help somebody for once that I didn't think before I spoke," she sighed before continuing, "You have all the right to be mad at me, I know, and I understand that. All I ask for is that you forgive me. I never intended to hurt anybody, my intention was to help a friend because of all that she's helped me with."

She looked down at the floor, and felt her face beginning to get red.  

[Hellene Harpie]

Hellene put her hand on Doriana's shoulder.

"I forgive you. I know how it is to get carried away with something, but all you had to do was ask, really, and we would have figured something out. It's nice that you wanted to do something for someone else, just, you know, forethought. Anyway this is nothing compared to my sister Melpomene's meltdowns...we just call them melpomelts now, she actually tried to take all the treats my cousin and I made for the creepover! Uhg. Now! Let's get those claws sparkly, do you have a preference? Or we could do what I did with Jewels and just paint them all different shades of silver. There's Tinsel Talons, Grimma's Silverwere, Moonlight, Mirror Mirror, this kinda blue called Abominablely Shiny..."  

[Doriana Taylor]

She looked at her webbed fingers. "I'm fine with the blue and white pokadots, it'll match my hair, I think,"

Cosmetics wasn't her thing.  

[Atomica Servo]

Demona MH

"If you can't answer the T-t-t-t-truth, you ha-ha-have to take the Scare." Atomica pronounced at Demona. It'd been several minutes now and Demona seemed no closer to deciding what her worst habit was. And besides, even on dial-up, Atomica had managed to cook up what she thought was a great scare. Atomica paused to store up her bandwidth and speak as clearly as she could.

"If you can't come up with the Truth....I scare you to call up some boy OTHER than your boofriend and tell them you're home."  

[Demona MH]

Demona pulled out her i coffin "Call up someone other then kai....okay." She dialed the number "Hey Brandon Hi. Long time no see yeah I'm home...." She made an annoyed face and mumbled "i should have called my brother..no no no your fine..I mean im really glad i talked to you....really glad totally.."