Merha Mad Laboratory and domicile

[Hagetha Mistie]

Dashner Hawke

He looked straight into the mirror before saying the summoning chant. "Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim Rorrim!!"

**telephone ringing....**

**telephone ringing....**

*ping!*

The image in the mirror wavered like ripples in a pool when a grotesque but disturbingly familiar face filled the mirror, staring hard right at Dashner!

"The Summoning you have attempted to make cannot be completed as dialed. Please fang up and summon again ... nasty little brat!"

And Hagetha's face faded with another ripple and the sound of a telephone being hung up.  

[Dashner Hawke]

Dashner blinked... He was so confused. The magic world was something he'd never understand. Then he remembered a conversation they had long ago:

Flashback

"Dash, you have to say my full name in order for the summoning to work."
"Oy, I'll never understand the magic world, bro."
"There are lots of power in words."

He decided he'd try again! "Rorrim Bludworth! Rorrim Bludworth!" he exclaimed, repeating 13 times. He hoped that this time his friend would appear.  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

"-do so long as I'm careful!" Rory appeared, mid-sentence, next to Dashner. He was clearly not quite prepared, with his coat half-off and one foot wearing only a sock. He jumped when he suddenly realized he wasn't in his room in Mirrorverse anymore.

"Who sumons-oh. Dashner. It's you." Rory gave out a sigh of relief. Being summoned to a creepover was fine....being summoned to a normie SLEEPover was a much different thing altogether, and one he wasn't quite sure he was ready for. His mother had a huge amount of practice doing it, but Rory had never been summoned like that yet. His name wasn't that well-known outside of his circle of friends.

"Hey!" Rory brightened up as he realized half the boos were dressed as pirates. "I was right! There IS a theme!"  

[Dashner Hawke]

Dashner looked down at his own... Not so well planned attire. "I didn't."

He leaned against the wall of the narrow hallway. "So uh... At first I summoned you wrong... and Hagetha Mistie picked up the phone? What's up with that? I thought they'd never let her near anything related to the outside world.."

He shifted uncomfortably, and added, "If you know, that is..."  

[Glen da West]

Suddenly the hall door swung open with a bang and Glen came charging in, eagerness on his face and brandishing his iCoffin/wand, ready!

"Where is she!? I hear her!"

He looked around eagerly before settling on Dashner and Rory.

"Where is the old bag!?"  

[Rorrim Rory Bludworth]

"Relax." Rory looked around, realized that his other shoe didn't come with him in the summoning, and frowned. "Hagetha's not here. She's just working out the sentence the Witches Council gave her. Mother is terribly busy, being the only Mirror Witch, and so she implored the Witches Council to assign Hagetha to assist her with some of the more mundane tasks in Mirrorverse."

Rory decided to split the difference, and took his one shoe off.

"Basically, she's an interdimensional operator. She's charged with routing magic mirror summonings and requests, answering wizard conjurings and directing traffic between dimensions. And if she serves her sentence in full, with no mistakes, the Witches Council might consider returning her magic."

Rory paused.

"MIGHT."  

[Dashner Hawke]

Dashner looked between the two boo's. "Well, I'm glad she's still being punished! If not, I'd still be a clown..." He shivered at the thought.

"Do any of you have hextra pirate clothes?? I wanna fit in too! Unless I can somehow... I don't know, it's Saturday, my brain is on vacationnn," he added, with a bro point.  

[Dashner Hawke]

Ronan Aalto

"Or I could get Ronan to bring me some, I'm sure he's got lots and lots."

With that, he took out his iCoffin and wrote the following hext:

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From: Dashner Hawke
Yo yo yo, bro! Is there a chance you could bring me some pirate clothes to the creepover?? It'll be fangtastic!

 

[Ronan Aalto]

No matater how many times he'd showered, apparently whatever Mr Hack used as engine grease and oil was indelible.

Truth be told, the creepover had totally slipped Ronan's mind. He was hexhausted after a long day and had decided if he never saw chrome again, it'd be too soon.

His icoffin buzzed and he groaned, sitting up from where he'd simply slumped and sighing.

"Pirate clothes?"

He glanced to Coleridge who cawed in reply and went back to carefully shredding Ronan's clawculus homework.

Shaking his head Ronan replied to Dashner's request.

Quote:

Is a change of clothes REALLY essential?

Shortly the reply came:

Quote:

"Yes it is, bro! The pirate costumes make the party fun! Unless, you know,, you don't want to have fun..

Ronan sighed deeply.

"He's going to continue arguing all evening isn't he?"

The bird chewed on problem 15 thoughtfully, tearing 16 through 18 to ribbons and scattering the paper like confetti.

The Selkie shook his head, stood up and went to find something appropriate for Dashner to wear, texting back.

Quote:

Fine. I'll be there soon with clothes.]

 

[Nero de Sphinx]

Nero shuddered and the mention of Hagatha's name.

"Brrrrr, listen bros, let's just not talk about that. Worst. Bat and switch. EVER. Let's go slam a couple Moantain Dews and wait for the screechza and never, EVER talk about that again."

He put a friendly arm around Kai and Rory and steered them towards the HexBox.

"I brought HeXCOM and Moancraft, we have plenty of non-creepy-witches-who-fall-on-you things to talk about so come on. Glen, grab your scissors, we've got to do a pirateover on Kai here."

He paused a moment to look at who he'd gathered under his bicep.

"Who's the new bro? I dig the whole reflective thing you've got going on, very new wave. You ever listen to Flock of Seaskulls? You've got the vibe."  

[Ronan Aalto]

A dishevelled and rather irritated looking Ronan knocked on the door, which was conveniently propped open. Despite this however, he considered it polite to not simply wander on into someone else's home and instead called out tentatively:

"Hello?"  

[Glen da West]

Nero de Sphinx

"I brought HeXCOM and Moancraft, we have plenty of non-creepy-witches-who-fall-on-you things to talk about so come on. Glen, grab your scissors, we've got to do a pirateover on Kai here."

"Right! I shold have some scissors in the trunk. I packed everything else..."

Glen looked around and then peeked toward the end of the hallway.

"...I just need a hand unloading the goodies from the Glenmobile. I brought eeeeverything! Games! Food! Spellbound! Red Ghhh..." He looked at Kai and smiled. "Ghoul gracious the schreechza will be here soon! Let's hurry!"

Glen then ran for the front door, grabbing Rory by the wrist and dragging him along! En route, they passed Ronan and Glen snatched his wrist too!

"Sweet! Ronan's here! Future Spellbound champ alert! He can lend a claw!"

They trotted down toward the drive where Glen heaved open the trunk and gazed in at the treasure trove of creepover goodness!

"When Glen Da West plans a creepover, he does it right!"

Glen then proceeded to crawl inside and toss creepover goodies and items for the two boos to catch and carry.  

[Shadeaux D Gloom]

**a thud against the closet door**

"Ow! My nose...!"

**rattles the door**

"Please don't let this be the Looking Glass ... again!"

**jiggles the knob**

"Now who goes and locks a coat closet!?"  

[Nero de Sphinx]

Nero looked up from equipping his Maul of Duty: Ghosts avatar with stealth armor. Nero strongly believed in the power of gold jewelry in the real world, but not so much when trying to take out the enemy squad: Sgt. Greeniron and Pvt. Wingfist.

"Does you hear something rattling?"

He leaned over the HexBox, hoping it wasn't the dreaded Bling of Death that happened sometimes when you put too much awesome into a game. All he heard was the gentle whirr of the fan.

He looked around but it was just him and Kai. Glen and Dashner had gone off to meet Ronan at the front door, and hopefully come back with screechza. Kai got up to check the windows, in case someone was trying to break in a crash the creepover, but that's a thing that usually only happened to ghouls. At least, according to every movie they'd ever seen. Where ever the rattling came from, it wasn't the sunporch.

"All clear, you wanna take point, Commander Sickbling?" asked Kai, still using their game script.

"I'll go left, you go right, Lt. Tripl3Claw."

The boos crept out into the hall, keeping close to the walls and peering around corners.

Rattle rattle rattle...

"mmmp mm?" went a door.

"Lt. Tripl3Claw, isn't that where your dad keeps his spare labcoats?"

"You got it, commander. We keep in locked in case anything thinks it can escape the lab in the pockets."

"Alright, we've got 'em surrounded. Let's move in."

Kai and Nero flanked the door, whose handle was still jiggling. Nero nodded to Kai, who fished the key out of the dish by the door and passed it over.

"mmph mpm mm?"

Nero unlocked the door but kept his hand firmly on the knob.

"mmmp mm?"

The bros nodded to one another. One nod.

Rattle rattle rattle...

Twoooo nods....

"mmmp mm?"

and THREE!

Nero flung the door open. A bundle of starched white coats and an umbrella fell out.

"AH HA!"

"We've got you!"

Shadeaux poked his head up from under a sleeve and found himself confronted with two gun-hands pointed right at his face.

"I SURRENDER I SURRENDER I JUST WANT TO JOIN THE CREEPOVER AAHHHHH!"  

[Kai Merha]

"Woah. Sorry, bro." Kai holstered his pointing finger. "C'mon in! Screechza's on the way...." Kai leaned over and saw Ronan Aalto out with Glen and Rory. "And it looks like Ronan came too! Now we're starting to get a party together!"

Kai did the mental checklist. Glen, Rory, Dashner, Nero, JD, Shad, Ronan. Did anymonster else reply to the hext saying they'd come?