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 Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:44 am
"Oh yeah?" Lin waved his wrench at her, having found it amidst the rubble on the cavern floor, have submerged in a solid glop of catacomb slime. "OH YEAH!?"Lin then froze in mid-rant, his ind suddenly elsewhere. His ears perked up and his red eyes shifted slyly to look at Arilenna and as he patted his wrench into the palm of his hand, a single white eyebrow rose as he asked,"Say... WOULD you wanna go out sometime?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 2:47 pm
Harry had gone looking for his right-hand goblin, Gibberish, only to find him cornered by Jimi Hexdrix. The rock star was clearly totally not zen and Gibberish looked like he was ready to explode.
"I do not share the stage with anymonster much less some jumped up high school ghoul band! I am a STAR! Where is your boss!?"
Gibberish glared at Jimi.
"Right behind you. This is Harry Herne."
The singer jumped backwards before composing himself. He gave Harry a sickening grin.
"Prince Herne, such a pleasure to meet you. I was just discussing this silly little thing about a ghoul band? I usually work solo and I don't think our...boosical styles would groove. If we could just move them offstage a bit...?"
"What? OH NO! Atomica is our guest of honor! The BOJANGLES are frighting for her rights and we need her with our headliner, sharing the stage and the boosic! Don't worry, Atomica and the Rest in Piece are truly outrageous!"
Hexdrix looked like he was about to puke.
"Truly?"
"TRULY, TRULY!"
Suddenly, Harry totally Spaced Out and began to stare at some point beyond the singer's head. Hexdrix glanced back at Gibberish, who took the opportunity to threaten...er...convince the star to back off.
"The Erlking will have your mushroom addled head on a pike at his next party if disappoint his son. Sir."
All emotion drained from Hexdrix's face as Harry's came back to life. The young price, totally missing Gibberish's threat, smiled at his headliner. A sly grin grew on the rocker's face and his held out his hand to Harry.
"Sorry, man, my head musta been in a purple haze. Everything is voodoo, child."
Harry had no clue what Hexdrix meant but he shook the singer's hand. Hexdrix bowed his head slightly and left to find the rest of the so called "talent."
"Everything will be so voodoo."
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 3:53 pm
"Hey, take it easy! I'm not Gumby!"Nero protested as Glen pulled him through the mass of goblins putting the finishing touches on Woestock, as well as kids from Monster High who have arrived early for curiosity's sake, or to pitch in and lend a claw at Kai's behest. They arrived at the Mirror Pool, a stalagmite that rose five feet from the surface of the catacomb's floor, it's point worn down and into the shape of a large, smooth bowl shape through time.
Rain water, that has dripped down from the stalactites, filled the 'Mirror Pool" and the water's clear sheen and the crystals embedded in the surface of the rock gave this monument its name, used often by many witches and wizards for scrying purposes.
Glen stepped onto the base of the Mirror Pool and pulled himself up so that he was waist level (barely) while Nero simply stood over it, and gazed down into the water, but saw nothing."Alright," Nero shrugged. "What now, mini-bro?""Well, now I have to ask the Mirror to show me Grumpy Bat." Glen studied the mirror's water carefully. "Rory told me it's like any form of mirror magic. You just have to ask nicely -- and in rhyme.""In rhyme?" Nero's eyebrow rose."Yeah." Glen nodded. "It's not like Oz magic where you point and poof with a wand. You have to recite a verse for the one who's on the other side.""Like your Aunt Mary.""Right!" Glen nodded and gave Nero the bro 'bang bang'. "Or, dare I say it... Hagetha."Nero involunscarily shuddered."I hope it's not her." Glen shook his head. "I tend to go into attack mode when she answers my calls for Rory."He thought for a brief moment longer and then leaned forward at the waist and held his hand over the mirror's water. Glen slowly started to draw his hand over the surface in a circular motion, and as he did, the water started to take on the same healthy green glow that Glen's eyes were now taking on. Glen then started to recite..."Aunt Mary, are you there?
It's your nephew Glen, I do declare!
I have a favor, and that is that.
Can you please show me little Grumpy Bat?" A regal sounding voice was heard from somewhere within the water, the tone rippling much like the water itself... "Oh for the love of..."And the surface of the water slowly shifted and the two boos' reflections vanished and were replaced with the scene currently at the maul and right there smack dab center in the mirror pool was..."Grumpy Bat!" Glen cried gleefully, clapping his hands and almost topling back to the floor were it not for Nero's quick reflexes. Glen pulled himself back up and propped his chin in the palms of his hands and sighed as he watched the little bat on break from the photo ops with fans. "Isn't she adorkable?""Yeah." Nero half-heartedly agreed, clearly not as convinced as his little bluddy on just how cute a dwarf bat actually could be. "She's so cute and tiny and fluffy!" Glen reached forward and pretended to tickle her chin in her reflection. "I could just...."... Meanwhile, Kai was across the cavern, still chatting with Dashner when he distinctly heard a "Psst!" Kai turned around and looked questioningly at his two fiends, Nero who was looking a bit nervous and beckoning him discreetly with a wave of the hand, and Glen looking around from behind Nero's wide back."`Scuse me." Kai said to Dash and Harry and he walked casually over to the two and asked, "What's up?" "We have a problem." Nero answered, jetting a claw back behind him to a guilty looking Glen."What happened?" Kai asked. "Didn't you see the bat?" "Oh yeah..." Glen answered, his voice a little higher than normal. "I saw her alright!""Well, that's good, right?" "Yeah, he got pretty hexcited seeing the little bat." Nero nodded. "Maybe a little too hexcited." And he stepped aside and Kai looked at Glen, then looked down at the fluttering little bat in the palms of Glen's hands....
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Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2015 4:57 pm
Grumpy Bat was not pleased. Grumpy Bat was technically never pleased, but now she was hextra-displeased. Minutes ago she had been in a nice dark box. Well it was basically nice. It was fine, at least she had gotten used to it. There were worse places to be. Probably.
Then, without warning, she was grabbed by a strange little green hand and taken to this weird giant cave filled with monsters, who were all loud and milling about and something in the corner was sparkling most distressingly and claiming nobody should date its bass player. Grumpy Bat didn't know what a bass player was, but she suspected she'd hate it.
A big face peered down at her, its eyes goggling and mouth gaping.
"Wah waaah wah wah waaah, brah!" it exclaimed.
"Doooo wooo dooo dowoo," came the reply from somewhere directly over Grumpy Bat.
"Wuuuh, whu whu wuuuh..." said an enormous creature that seemed to tower over everything else in her field of vision.
Grumpy Bat flapped her little wings and narrowed her eyes. She didn't know what was going on, but she hated it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:34 am
"This is seriously NOT cool, brah!" Kai exclaimed. He had withstood a lot of Glen's obsessions with internet famous bats.
First, there was Longbat. The bat who was long. It was a funny picture, and all of them had laughed over it when Glen had shared it to Fiercebook.
Then Tankbat. Then Lil' Blub, a bloblular bat with a tongue that always stuck out. Marboo, the box-loving bat from Shibooya. The one bat whose claim to fame was that it seemed to have eyebrows. Harmilton the hipster bat. Colonel Skree-ow, who was a giant puff of grey fur. Chase Noh Face, Spoopy the bat who wore a slice of bread, even a bat that was captioned with phrases that indicated it was suffering from an existential crisis.
All of them Glen had plastered on Fiercebook, on Grimblr, on his blah-g, in text messages and on more than one t-shirt. But Grumpy Bat had been the most prevalent. Kai had even quietly unfollowed Glen's Fiercebook posts to keep his own page from becoming a giant wall of fuzzy, angry-looking captioned bats.
And now Glen had bat-napped it. It was hard to tell who looked grumpier, Kai or Grumpy Bat.
"You have to put him back, Glen!"
"HER!" Both Nero and Glen chimed in unison. Kai threw up his arms.
"Whatever! You can't just steal a grimternet personality, Glen! That's why they make plush toys! So no one will steal the originals!" Kai wasn't really sure if this was true or not, but it seemed like fairly logical reasoning in the face of what he was looking at.
"But...." Glen's eyes wibbled. "I LOVE her!"
Kai sighed.
"I love the Bone-a Lisa, but I'm not going to travel to the Boovre and steal her off the wall, Glen! Can't you just put her back the way you grabbed her?"
"Toss her into the scrying pool?!" Glen replied, horrified. "But Grumpy Bat HATES water! It's one of the things I like best about her!"
"SHE HATES EVERYTHING!" Kai answered back, feeling frustrated for the first time today. "And we're supposed to be focusing on the band right now, not Grumpy Bat!"
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 9:36 am
Woestock.....what is that?
It looks so.....interesting.....
The Scrying Pool's surface rippled, and turned completely white. Nothing reflected from its surface.
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Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2015 11:50 am
Monsters were starting to filter into the massive cavern hosting Woestock. The hacktivities were filling up, and crowds of monsters were looking around, chatting and starting to have a good time.
Rory scanned the crowds. Near the far end of the cavern, he thought he saw Glen, Kai, Dashner and Nero. They were all huddled around something - probably band-related. Across from them, there was a large stage set-up. That must have been where the boosical acts would be performing soon.
On the other side of the stage, it looked like some instruments were set up for tuning and re-hearse-al. Rory caught a glimpse of forest-green hair over that way and froze.
Duh...of course Marceline was going to be here! She was part of Atomica and the R.I.P!
Rory's mind raced back to last night. To the poetry reading at the Looking Glass that he had spied on. Marceline's words had seemed pretty funny last night when he was watching her recite, but...what if her recitation were actually song lyrics she was working on? MARCELINE HAD WRITTEN AN ENTIRE SONG ABOUT WHAT A BAD BOOFRIEND HE WAS AND NOW ATOMICA WAS GOING TO BELT IT OUT FOR EVERY MONSTER IN SALEM TO HEAR.
"Gah!" Rory twitched. Never in his un-life had he wanted to disappear more.
"Okay, I think enough monsters have showed up for the Fearstival, so now we can practice disappearing into a crowd!" Invisi Billy informed the club cheerfully. "We can break into pairs. That way if you lose yourself, your vanishing buddy can help you out."
"Hm...we have an odd number of club members now." Twyla pointed out. Invisi Billy nodded.
"No problem. I'll just, you know...pair off with my ghoulfriend, Scarah. She's so great at fanging out in the background, she's practically a club member."
"Purr-fect." Catty purred. "Twyla, let's pair off. We can practice that shadow stalking maneuver we worked on last club meeting."
"Sure!" Twyla agreed. Rory quickly did the math. That meant that he was partnering up with-
"HEXTREME!" Peggy clapped Rory on the back. "I guess that means you and I are teaming up!"
"I...guess so..." Rory turned to say something to Twyla about the arrangement, but surprise surprise - she'd already vanished. Rory turned back to Peggy. "So, what should we do first?"
"Let's find interesting things...and POKE them!" Peggy replied cheerfully.
Rory looked around. So long as they stayed away from the musical acts, maybe everything would be all fright...
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Posted: Fri Jul 03, 2015 4:44 pm
Arillena blinked. The outbursts between Atomica and the Lin- (Ari had registered his name somewhere in Atomica's shouting.) -had kept her silently listening and watching, Things she did just out of habit. Until the Gremlin turned to her and asked... Lin McGearloch "Say... WOULD you wanna go out sometime?" She stuttered feeling her face and her hair turning a bright shade of red. Many years of Watching and listening taught the otherwise socially inept changeling how to recognize some social ques. He was asking her on a date. That had never happened -to her knowledge- before. The red Fae's voice couldn't make a sound. ~ Noticing His friend being broken, white bat form Damyn fell from his perch and landed on her shoulder.
"I believe the word you are looking for is, 'Sure~'" He whispered, elbowing her cheek with his tiny bat arms. "S-Sure~" Ari nodded and smiled, the red fading to pink. "I think that would be fun~" Just then Damyn's ears heard a familiar faint humming sound. Where was it coming from? While Ari spoke to Lin He dove into her bottomless purse and followed the noise. The interior of Arillena's shape shifting bag was like a endless library of things and nicknacks. One could get lost in here... Sitting alone on a shelf sat the blank mirror Ari had fixed the other day. It's humming was louder. "Hm..."
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Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2015 7:03 pm
Peggy was having an amazing time so far, poking and prodding things as she wanted. There was a tent selling various potions and charms, which Rory had to pull her out of after she almost hexed the 5 people browsing the tables in the tent.
"HEY. I was poking that!" she huffed as he pulled her along, scowling as she went. "why don't you want to have any FUN. I mean... what's out here that could possibly be... "
her eyes settled on a tent and a pen that was surrounding a pit. "puppies of the hunt".
HEXTREME PUP WRESTLING" she cried happily as she ran to the tent, pulling Rory with her before she jumped into the pit, rolling around and playing with the little pups.
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:45 pm
It was the last thing Rory heard before he was yanked towards one of the Woestock booths. Peggy was clearly taking this 'partners' thing VERY seriously, judging from the death grip she had around Rory's wrist. "Hextreme WAT-" Was all Rory managed to gasp out before the two of them dove into the pen where the Wild Hunt, the magical hounds that Harry Herne had the power to summon, were being held.
To the average lay-monster, Harry Herne's Wild Hunt looked less like the viscous man-eating hunt-beasts of Fae legend, and more like several slobbering, overgrown puppies wearing tutus and bows and occasionally taking breaks from wrestling with each other and any monster that stepped into the pen to beg for noms from nearby spooktators. As Peggy dove in willingly, and Rory fell in less-than-willingly, a line started to form behind them for other monsters to take their turns tumbling around with the fun-loving, petite pups.
This was, to Rory, a calamity of epic proportions."AGH!" Rory gasped as one pup walked up to him and sniffed. To other monsters, it seemed to have a big, goofy grin on its puppy face. To Rory, it was a giant gaping mouth full of slobbery teeth ready to chomp down on his arm. He rolled out of the way."EERK!" Rory cried as he found himself face-first being presented with what looked to other monsters like a happy wagging tail. To Rory it looked like a fur-covered scythe of destruction, whipping through the air towards his face with deadly intent."OH NOES!" Rory cried as his arms flew up to protect his face. One of the pups, a caramel and black colored puppeh wearing a red and blue tulle skirt had spotted him and was diving in for a bodyslam! Rory braced himself and prepared to be shattered into half a million-"R-K-O-OUTTA-NOSCARE!!!!!" A voice suddenly yelled, leaping in front of Rory, grabbing the dog and delivering a viscous-yet-playful over-the-arm slam to the hound. The crowd gathering around the pen all cheered."I can't believe it!" Manny Taur shouted, his jaw agape. "RANDY GORETON IS HERE!"Rory looked up, stunned as one of the Woestock fearstival attendees - world-famous monster pro wrestler/minotaur Randy Goreton dusted off his hands.
Goreton looked left.
Goreton looked right. After soaking in the applause of the monsters waiting for their turn in the pen, he stalked away. Perhaps looking for somemonster else to surprise with an RKO.
Rory gaped."Wh...what was THAT?" He finally managed to ask."Can't talk. Too busy hexting that video to Chase and every other monster EVER." Manny replied. "Hashtag RKOOUTTANOSCARE!"Rory decided that now would be a good time to practice disappearing...somewhere far, far away from Peggy Springwell. Unfortunately, just as he was about to exit the pen, Peggy popped up next to him."I win! I've pinned them all!" She was laying on top of a pile of exhausted looking, but happy hounds. "Now! What should we go poke next?!"
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Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:59 pm
It didn't seem to Draconia like Skeletorrence was coming back anytime soon.
She sighed. Despite the fact that the cavern holding Woestock was starting to fill up with monsters, she felt rather alone. She felt her iCoffin buzz. There, she'd received a notification from Grimblr from Manny Taur.
Now Trending:
-#RKOouttanoscare
-#Batnapper
-#GrumpyBat
-#Woestock
-#NoGrumpyBatMeansCryptmasIsRuinedForevarrrr
A video from Manny played when Draconia tapped on it. It looked like...yes! Manny was somewhere here at the fearstival! Draconia wondered if it would be weird of her to go fang out with an ex-boofriend since her current date seemed to have vanished. She decided it would be weird and sighed as she put her iCoffin away.
She decided to wander around Woestock a bit more. Maybe she'd manage to find somemonster...ANYmonster she knew.
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:37 am
Atomica Servo "Uuugggh. Band drama!" She said to both of them. "Neither of you are planning on dating Lin, are you?"
Orrrrr.....maybe they were super jealous because they all wanted to date Lin themselvesorWHATEVER, Atomica had no idea what they were thinking. When did Lin become so smooth with the ghouls?!
The extended lull of uncomfortable silence was broken by the sound of a new voice."Hey, Joe." Atomica whirled around to see a tall, purple, fringe-covered witch with black eyes and a towering indigo afro. He held up two bony long fingers. "Peace.""Jimi Hexdrix!" Atomica recognized him immediately. Her beast friend Gryff owned an ultra-rare vinyl recording of a concert from the 1960's where Jimi Hexdrix had lit seventy-six guitars on fire. Gryff thought it was hextremely edgy, but Atomica though it just sounded like a recording of a lot of burning guitars.
Jimi smiled at the band, revealing his many pointed teeth."That's right, foxy malady, here in the flesh. So, you must be the....'band' that's scheduled to perform with me on stage later."Atomica nodded matter-of-factly."Yes, we are Atomica and the Rest in Peace. I am Atomica. They are the Rest." She pointed at her band, grimtroducing each of them. "Regina Arche, Laya LaMia, Marceline LaGhede, Hellene Harpie, Sally Slender and Arillena FaeDathanna.""Right, right." Jimi gave the band a wave. "Normally, I don't perform with any other headlining acts, but this groove seems like a real swift kick to the BOJANGLES here.""I...guess so?" Atomica tried to follow what Hexdrix was saying.
Jimi jumped up on the stage they were practicing on. He extended his hand to Atomica."Well, I just want to wish you ghouls luck today. Don't let the jitters and nerves get to you.""I don't have jitters. Or nerves." Atomica informed Jimi as she shook his hand. "In fact, Lin just ran a diagnostic on me last ni-*SQUEARK!*'"Atomica clapped her digits over her mouth. She must have been standing too close to Sally, with her mechanical disrupting aura. How embarrassing!"Wishing luck to you." Jimi shook Regina's hand. "And you. And you. And you."He shook Hellene, Layla, Regina and Marceline's hands."And luck to you and you as well." He shook Arillena's hand, and then shook both Sally's hand and one of her tentacles. "See you up on the main stage, groovy ghouls."Jimi gave them one last, purple-hazed wave goodbye before jumping off the stage and heading away. A large grin was plastered on his face."ALL the luck." He muttered quietly to himself. "Didn't say it was going to be good luck, though..."Meanwhile, back on the stage, Atomica unclasped her digits from her mouth and moved six steps further away from Sally."So, why don't we take a break and enjoy the Fearstiv-*squark!*-al for a few hours? Then we'll meet back up here and warm up before perf-*bleep!*-orming!"Atomica grimaced. The first thing SHE was going to do was ask Lin to run another diagnostic on her! There was no reason for her voice box to be malfunctioning like this, so close to their big show!
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:41 pm
Layla watched as the boober popular Jimi Hexdrix made his exit, when her attention was disrupted by Atomica's voice box going haywire! Layla stared wide eyed at the automaton. She didn't make such an ear splitting sound when she ran on dial up, a result of Truth Or Scare.
Hoping it would work itself out, Layla drew her pungi flute to her lips for a modest regrrsal. She puckered her lips and blew into it -- only no sound came out. Nor did any air. Nothing emanated from her instrument.
Drawing her head back, Layla looked at it with a critical eye, then tried again.
Nothing.
"What in the world...?" She wondered as the ghouls watched.
Layla then drew a deep, deep, DEEP breath... and blew!
And a giant spit ball rocketed out of her flute with the velocity of a cannon ball, veering right towards some poor, unsuspecting monster!
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 10:43 am
Hellene was starting to get a bad feeling about this show. That Jimi Hexdrix looked suspiciously bro-like as he grinned at them, and if there was one thing Hellene knew rattling around in her hollow bones, it was this: NEVER TRUST A BRO.
"Er, Layla, is everything quite alright?" she asked, as the lamia smacked the side of her still malfunctioning instrument.
"I'm not sssssssure..."
Hellene fluttered over nervously to help, but was jerked backwards with a yelp.
"OW! What...what's..."
She gingerly felt her scalp and found that her hair was caught on another low hanging stalactite.
"Where on earth to these things keep coming from!?" she demanded, trying to extricate one of of her ponytails from the fiendish geology.
"This is why most concert events are held in FIELDS. Bros had to come up with this silly cave idea..."
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Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 3:01 pm
"By the black bones of the Hurdy Gurdy Man, what else could go wrong!?"
After meeting Jimi Hexdrix, it seemed like some uncruel cosmic joke was being played on Harry. First, monsters in the Puppy Petting Pit were out of control and actually WRESTLING the Wild Hunt. Some pantless monstrousity named Randy actually did something called a "finisher" on one dog! Harry was not sure what that was but it did not sound zen.
After that, reports that the..."being"....in charge of Hackey Sack got into some type of hextreme-off with that annoying centaur ghoul...er...pegasus ghoul and they hacked every sack into the roof of the cave. The Hackey Sack lead was currently trying to pull the sacks out with his mighty hammer. It was not going well.
Now, a report that there was something wrong with the rainbow colored tofu goblin fluff! After eating it, several monster wandered around in a daze and talked about seeing double rainbows...ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE SKY. Harry hurried to the stage to give everyone a warning. He grabbed the mic and flipped it on.
"Groovy ghouls and boisterous boos, I just received word from the goblin chefs...do NOT eat the rainbow tofu fluff. I repeat, do NOT eat the rainbow tofu fluff!"
A familiar voice shouted she was gonna poke that fluff and then eat it with her new partner. Ugh...that ghoul...
"Uh, thank you. Concert should start soon."
Harry hurried offstage but not before tripping down the stairs. As he hit the bottom, the sack of gold he borrowed from his Old Monster(unknowingly but it was for a good clawse!") flew off his belt, bounced across the floor, and fell down a kobold hole.
"NO!"
How would he pay the talent for their expenses now!?
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