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 Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:12 am
"XBALANQUE."
Uh oh. First name treatment! That meant trouble. He glanced over at his Guardian, an innocent look on his face. No, he wasn't doing anything out of the ordinary! Certainly not. The fact that he was standing there, about to throw a shrunken head like a bowling ball? Yeah, that meant nothing. He was...stretching! Yeah, stretching.
"I told you to stop Shrunken Head bowling. They can't like that." The blue haired woman had appeared from behind a shelf, her arms folded and a rather stern stare cast down at the dark skinned child with a skull covering half his face. Kay sighed, standing up straight and holding the shrunken head between two hands, looking down at it.
"But Naaa, they don't say they don't like it!" He protested, turning the sunken face around to show his Guardian, whose upper lip twitch in repulsion.
"Xbalanque Gear, their mouths are sewn shut, they can't talk clearly to you." Not buying his ploy, she swung out one arm as though it would erase what was going up. "Now clean it up, or I'll make you into a shrunken head." She threatened, stepping over the pins and making her way back to her desk.
"Aww maaaan..." Kay whined, putting the head down on a nearby shelf. Nahual, the feathered serpent fused to his skull, curled out of his dark and beaded hair, his tongue flicking out sympathetically. Petting the creature, the Mask boy set out to clean up the piles of plastic bowling pins he'd found and set up for his game.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:17 am
A tall pink haired woman entered the shop around that time. She wasn't like the last pink haired woman who had entered - her hair was obviously dyed (the brown roots visible) and she looked much thinner and dressed a bit more normally. Well, as normal as a wife beater, khakis and a scarf were in winter.
She smiled brightly down at Kay as she walked over, noticing him picking up the pins. "Hey there. Need a hand?" Ixxie offered, noticing them. Why should she be weirded out by a kid with a snake and a mask? She'd seen weirder things by this point.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:23 am
Switch glanced at the woman as she entered, a little too ticked off with her kid to be able to greet the woman nicely. This was the fourth time this morning she told him to stop playing that horrible game. Kay knew how to handle the shop and customers so, for now, she disappeared upstairs.
Kay stared up at the pink haired woman, really unaffected by what she wearing because, well, he wasn't wearing a shirt. He did when he was outside because it was cold, but in the warm shop? The shirt came off. The mask wasn't actually a mask - it was the real half of his face...not that he cared if someone thought otherwise.
"Yoh." He shook his head, much to the displeasure of the feathered serpent that was part of his skull; Nahual hissed in annoyance, it's ears flattening. "Nah, s'okay, Na doesn't like it when I bowl in the shop." He explained, cleaning up by kicking the pins into a corner. "Um. Welcome to Balcombe Curiousities, I'm Kay, and my Na is Switch, and she's...um...somewhere. Hi."
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:25 am
The woman smiled, "I'm Ixxie. What sort of bowling?" she inquired, waving a bit to the snake as well. "I just came in to look around really. What sorta stuff counts as curiosities?"
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:30 am
Nahual stared at the woman when he was waved at, responding with a very unhappy hiss. Nahual wasn't the most understanding of serpents, apparently. Kay didn't seem to mind, continuing to 'clean up' his mess. "I was Shrunken Head bowling with Mrrh." Mrrh being the name he gave to one of the shrunken heads; its all it would say, so he assumed it was a name.
"Um...Curious things, I guess." He shrugged, looking perplexed at the idea. "Like once, when I was little, I saw a mummified human torso sewn onto the tail of a big, mummified fish! It's not all weird like that though, I saw nail polish in there too." The boy explained, pointing back at the rather full shop. Kay's favourite game was "Find the Weirdest Thing". He played it almost every time it was here. It was fun, and it usually made Na squick.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:42 am
The woman laughed and laughed at that. "I've done that a few times. The medicine woman hated when we did it though since she said the spirits of the heads would complain at her all night long after we did it."
Ixxie snorted, "That would be someone trying to make a mermaid I surmise." she said with some slight amusement, "And nail polish too hm? Sounds like a fun place. I may have to let me kids look around here at some point."
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:48 am
"Oh, really! Sometimes they make noises, but I just assume they're cheering." Wooooow, this woman played Shrunken Head bowling? With a Medicine Woman?! AWESOME! The boy's red eye widened happily, while the skull eye remained perfectly and forever composed. The mermaid part seemed about right; it was gross, and he didn't ever remember seeing it after that...maybe someone bought it. Or Switch tossed it.
"You have kids?" He parroted happily, finishing his "cleaning" and wandering back to her. "We get lotsa kids in here." He said, quite aware of the dual nature to his sentence. Lots of kids come in, but lots of kids leave, too. "You can look around now, if you want!"
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:51 am
"Oh they might be. My friend always told me that the medicine lady was just doing it because she was angry that they didn't let her play anymore after the time she threw her hip out." Ixxie said with a grin before nodding at his question. "Yes, two boys and a girl." she agreed, "I think my elder son's about your age."
The woman looked about the different shelves before picking a direction to wander and look for stuff. "Neat things to look at." she commented, picking up a couple of small items and fiddling with them.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:00 am
Kay chuckled about the Medicine woman, poor woman! He'd hate it if he couldn't ever play Shrunken Head bowling again. It was too much fun, no matter how often he got in trouble! He couldn't help but trail after the woman as she started to wander the shop, hearing about her kids. "I have a little brother, he's really mean but a lot of fun." Tek often left quite a few nasty cuts on anyone he came into contact with...what a nasty baby he was!
"Are they adopted like me n' Tek?" He couldn't help but ask, going through the items with her because he could, and always did.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:03 am
"Yes they are." the woman told him with a nod, "Lessee, Phineas is a moose with glasses, Cornelius is some sort of owl bear creature, and Julie's one of those angellic imp things."
As she looked through the boxes and on the shelves, she found a few odd objects that she'd occasionally show to Kay and laugh about, not always knowing what they were.
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:48 am
"They sound cool! You should bring them over one time!" Because he didn't know what half of that meant and figured it would just be easier in the end to just see them with his own eyes.
Kay laughed along with the woman at some of the items, showing a few of them to her in turn, until, finally, a....really odd mannequin came into view. "Haha! Lookit that!" He laughed, pointing at it. "So weird!"
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:51 am
The mannequin had been altered a bit so it moved like a ball and joint doll. It's eyes were fancy and glass with too many decals and it wore a pretty flamboyant rainbow fuzzy dress. And coiled around it's neck was a pocketwatch that fit even less with the mix. It was old and steampunky.
Ixxie grinned, looking at the piece. "Well, it's pretty big for a Bee-en-jay doll, but it looks neat." the woman said, slinging an arm of it over her shoulder and wrapping hers around before grinning down at Kay. "This is my buddy Pogo. Pogo, say hi to to the lil guy." she teased, reaching over to bob the mannequin's head a bit and pretend it was talking just to be silly.
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:37 am
"Bee-an-jay?" Xbalanque parroted, tilting his head at the ridiculous looking mannequin and watch. One was a fuzzball, the other one was full of gears and stuff. Odd. The boy chuckled when the woman introduced him to her buddy, more than able to tell that this was more than just a joke. That item? Actually, both of those items.
"Nice to meet you, Pogo." He grinned, bowing at the waist. "What's the name of the watch?" The boy questioned, being coy about the eventual children...it intrigued him to find out whether those names stuck!
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:39 am
Ixxie blinked and looked at it. "Patton. He was a general dude." she said with a nod, "And a bee-en-jay doll is a ball and joint doll. They're usually smaller and people like to dress them up and put them in wigs and such for pictures."
She jokingly danced around with the mannequin for a few before grinning down at Kay. "Why did you think I should name the watch too?"
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 3:50 am
A general dude, huh? "Neat." Still grinning, he stored that piece of information about the ball jointed dolls away. If there was one this big in here, there had to be more! When asked about naming the watch, he shrugged and pointed at it.
"He didn't fit with what Pogo's wearing. Looked like something seperate to me." Which it was, really. The boy looked over his shoulder, his hands clasping behind his back. "You know, if they're your buddies, you should probably take them home...no use keeping them lost in here anymore." He suggested, rocking back and forth from the balls of his feet to his heels.
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