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 Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 10:56 pm
Riley reached over and pulled the torn up elephant toy, ripping it in half. The fluff bulged heavily out from within the half of it's body in a grotesque manner. She leaned down, and held out that half to Malodore.
The pink elephant. You asked me to save some of it for you. She said softly. She looked interested in the idea of the knowledge it had gleaned from the other toy, and her eyes shone brightly. When this is all over, will you share with me what you've learned?
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:12 pm
Amrita had followed Lizzy is a nearly dedicated manner; when she was able to, she even took the Demoness' hand again, albeit sheepishly. There she was, a creature of halloween, but she preferred to hold the Demoness' hand. A shame, indeed. It was safer this way, less of a chance to get lost and it was easier to walk this way. When it was all said and done, she still wasn't as used to the whole walking-with-backwards-feet thing as she'd hoped.
The Vetala had been looking around at their surroundings and the other students (HOLY CRAP WAS THAT A PURPLE TENTACLED THING RIDING A DRAGON?!), but the appearance of Christof on a Gryphon definitely caught her attention; she clung onto Lizzy a little tighter, uttering a cry of surprise. Wait...Gryphon?! While the Demoness did the introductions, the Vetala stared hard at the creature...but was distracted for a moment, by Christof.
"Aah...I-if you need extra fabric I can, um, take some from..." She lifted her arm, one with a bunch of extra fabric from her sari-wrap. Sure it was cold, very cold...but she could deal. Her gaze kept going back to the Gryphon, though. She knew a Gryphon. A pretty white and blue one...
"...Tahki?!" Amrita sputtered out, a mixture of surprise and awe. Whoa! She'd never seen Tahki's true form! ...If this was Tahki, anyway. She hoped it was. How embarrassing would it be if she was wrong!
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:14 pm
"Ah - splendid!" Malodore took the stuffing with surprising eagerness, given its usual calm demeanor. "Perhaps the fact that this one fell from the sky means it's a rarer flighted subspecies. If we encounter a ground-bound one we should sample it as well."
It tucked away the fluff along with its other loot, then nodded to Riley. "It would be my honor to share a laboratory with you."
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:29 pm
Riley looked pleased that Malodore would find the gift useful, but even more pleased that she would find out what made these fascinatingly terrible creatures tick. It was all very exciting.
She took her half of the elephant doll, placed it on Jericho's neck, and then rested her head on it - while still facing Malodore. Her voice sounded much softer, a little watery perhaps.
I look forward to it. Her eyes were slowly hazing over, looking a little weary. The lids lowered. A wordless thought brushed against Malodore's brain, one that, if it could be explained, would simply sound like sleepiness. It was her equivalent of a yawn. She tucked her feet in so they wouldn't freeze in the cold, and closed her eyes.
Want to spend lots of time with you, Malodore. She murmured liquidly, already half-asleep. Staying awake for two days had finally started to take it's toll.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:33 pm
"Oh stuff it Night!" He growled; slipping just a little as he reached the edge of land. Man, you think being a ghost this would be nothing. Unfortunately, that was not the case. He still felt wet, and because he felt wet, he felt cold. Ahhh... This trip was really beginning to piss him off!
He rewarded the Sylph with a glare when he made the flight comment. "I can't." Was all he said, as he hoisted himself up onto cold, but dry land. Ugh, he really wanted to smack both of their heads together. Then again, that would require going near the feline and there was no way in hell he was doing that! Nu uh! No thanks! "Yes. Go pet him. He'll probably enjoy it faaar more than I would." He encouraged.
Now that he was finally out of the water, he stood there a moment, watched his fur slowly 'drip dry' and turn back into soft wisps of what looked like smoke. That was always weird to watch. However, his attention was then brought to another boil----oh! JP. He must of tagged along with Haku, he realized. "It wasn't like I was hiding." He mumbled and shook the last bit of 'wet' from his fur. Though rather than water, he sent little spots of black in all directions that faded away in the air, within seconds.
"Share what with who now?" He asked; keeping a fair distance from the group. He had no idea who Jericho was, but he didn't like the idea of snuggling up to a dragon to keep warm.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:33 pm
"Hm?" The first words Amrita had uttered for a while, other than speaking to Christof, and she exclaimed someone's na- Hold on...
"Tahki?" She echoed softly, brows furrowing in a slight frown as she tried to recall where she had heard the name before. When realization finally hit, she felt herself going pink with embarrassment, "T-Tahki! Little Sprout's other mummy!" How could she have forgotten? They took care of a pumpkin-Scareling together, and during their first meeting, Lizzy was sure that the Monster ghoul had told her that she was a Gryphon...
Then, she turned to Amrita, her head tilt slightly to a side; did she know Tahki too?
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:33 pm
"Once we get through this ridiculous place..." Malodore opened its beak a bit in a small smile, then fell quiet as Riley seemed to fall asleep - at least her thought had been filled with echoes of tired that set off similar chords in the plague doctor's own head.
But they had to keep going. If only because Malodore had wasted too much time here to stop!
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:56 pm
Riley mumbled a few more incoherent things, which, as it had been for the last few hours, was shared with the group. Finally, a vibrating could be felt by all, but she snapped herself out of it when Jericho started moving again. She lifted her head, blinked a few times, and then pressed back down on her makeshift pillow. Her thoughts were now private, thankfully - no one would have to listen to her snore for the rest of the evening.
Her tentacles wrapped around the elephant pillow like a cherished toy, and she fell fast asleep to the thumping rhythm of Jericho's slow and constant movement forward.
((OOC: Consider this a tenting, although Jericho will be NPCing me on his back for tomorrow. See you guys soon!!))
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:57 pm
Mei followed along the two, pleased with the route they decided to stick too. Unlike the forest, it was easier for them to move about. However, all of the creatures that seemed to roam this area were a step up from the trees they had bumped into in the forest. No.. As much as Mei wanted to think positive, from here on, she felt things were to get a whole lot worse.
Glancing about, she noticed more students appearing out of the woods at random. Who they were, she had no idea. But at least their little Halloween army still progressed through the JOY filled land. Maybe.. Just maybe they would make it?
"Hmmm." Mei thought a moment, trying to recall anything she had heard of Sandy Claws as Cry brought the topic up. "I don't know much about him, only from what my creator had told me. To be honest, if the stuff in his workshop, is as freaky as these creatures we keep seeing.. I really don't think it'd be worth raiding at all." The last thing she wanted to see in Halloween town was a load of creepers created by the man in red.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:08 am
Christof blinked as Lizzy offered him the silver thread. It looked like... but she looked so human! He took it gratefully just as the girls seemed to come to a realization about his "mount". Tahki! So that had been her name! His brows furrowed as he gave the tired gryphon a tender, thankful pat. At least he wasn't alone in the communication problems at the moment. Sighing he scowled down at the thread in hand, pulling his needle out once more. Ugg he was not looking forward to this. It wasn't supposed to HURT when one put themselves back together! Sure it was unpleasant, no one liked shoving needles through their skin, but here... whatever this place was, powered by it's "Joy", there was certainly no room in Joy for stitching one's self back together. Well... maybe he could think of *something.*
While the girls caught up, he was fairly useless in explaining and so he sat himself down in the snow to carefully remove his hasty bandage-strap and with a wince and a strangled whine in the back of his throat, cut through the sloppy attempt at stitches from the forest. Once freed, the leg itself didn't hurt, although the stump that remained pulsated with unconnected phantom feelings and urgent pain up his side. Just get it over with! He quickly set to work with his dull pen-knife, trying to cut away the tattered skin to leave a fresher "hem". If only he had a proper KNIFE or even a scalpel!
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:17 am
Sin was glad that Julian seemed alright he sort of surprised her with his attitude. She had thought that Julian was...well a bit of a push over, she was glad to be wrong though. She sighed and then looked back at Alcie, right now her priority was herself, and Alcie and Junko. They had to keep moving, they had to get to Santa's Workshop, because if they didn't they might never get back home.
She had always had such a fond appreciation for snow, such a love for the magical white stuff. Perhaps because it was rare, now that there was an overabundance of it her opinion was swiftly changing. Especially because she saw how cold Alcie was getting she moved to give the ghoul a hug. Sin dressed up in the JOYfull outfit was rather nice and warm.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:17 am
Well, Astra would of been very interested in whatever was happening at the moment, but for now, the fae had decided that enough was enough, and mabye a small power nap would perk her up enough so she could continue to follow.
The snow may have been freezing cold, but she wasn't caring at the moment, and had fallen asleep on a pile of snow. She wasn't in a tent, but she didn't care. She didn't think she would be asleep for that long anyway...well, when she was awake to think that.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:36 am
Petro hadn't been able to find the group he'd arrived with, which is rather distressing for the tikbalang. He was used to being in large groups, even if it was to just hang around in the fringes. And with these horrible JOYfilled toys lurking about, he would feel much more comfortable being around other students. Hell's bells, at this point he'd even take the gnomes for company! He paused, briefly to rest, lowering his backpack and snowball launcher just beside his leg.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 4:55 am
Stepping through the snow, Alcie was caught off-guard when she felt the warm arms wrap around her. Realizing that it was Sin, she couldn't help but smile crookedly even though snow was flying into her face every second. Her bikini wasn't helping much in this weather and even though she was pretty tolerant to cold weather, this was getting to be a little too much for her. Maybe it would be better for something to attack her so that she could move around and try to generate some body heat.
Gingerly, Alcie continued to trek through the snow. The outlook was looking bleak even in her optimistic perspective. Everybody looked worn down at this point and she couldn't help but wonder what exactly the school was trying to accomplish by making them do this.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 6:14 am
While she was a denizen of Halloween, gore was never really something she was exposed to; after all, while spiders do eat a variety of "live" food, most bugs are small and go 'squish' inside your mouth when you bite into them... Not outside of the mouth like some of the food she had seen in the cafeteria. Seeing Christof hack away at his own leg was enough to make the Demoness look away; besides, she was sure that it would be pretty rude to stare... And too bad he was not made of cloth - she would be more than willing to help stitch that up quickly and painlessly!
However, after looking away from the hunchback, she soon realized that there was a most familiar figure a short distance away. She started to stare as he stopped moving, wondering why he appeared so familiar; loincloth, mohawk- Wait, a mohawk!
"Amrita, its that mohawl-horse-boil student from before," She tugged at the Undead's hand while gesturing to the hulking student a short distance behind them. She then paused, frowning a little, "Why is he alone in a place like this?"
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