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 Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 9:29 am
Winter break!!!!!
With school (finally) out, the Maul was crawling with creepy characters as monsters filtered in and out of the stores to finish their howliday shopping.
Aberzombie & Stitch had a sale on scarves and bandages - the store was overfowing with mummies. Aeroghostale had racks being ransacked by zombies. Gloomingdales had so many monsters in line at the cashiers that they trailed out of the store and into the promenade!
Monsters of all shapes and sizes walked, crawled, slithered, lurched and oozed between stores and the food court as the cryptmas carols filtered over the Maul PA system...
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Posted: Sun Dec 27, 2015 5:12 pm
The past...
"Oh Essi darling, how was your day?" Mrs. Geode cheerfully asks. She was lounged in her favorite sofa, which the twins teasingly dubbed "the drama couch". Her dazzling features sparkling like the gem she was.
"It was...quite interesting.." Essi sat next to her and explained only necessary information. "....So I decided to participate in this social event, may I attend?"
Mrs. Geode laughed. "Of course darling, we would love for you to see as much as you can during your stay, plus you'll still be able to attend our Hauntnukah party anyways!" She squeezed and hugged Essi.Essi smiled. "Might I borrow some currency to purchase an appropriate outfit?" Mrs. Geode slipped out a bunch of credit cards. She gave a nod and Essi picked one with "Hello Creature" on it.
The present...
"Essi!!! Essi!!" Pebbles, the youngest yelled out. She glomped the galaxy ghoul and pecked her cheek. "You never told me if you met any boo's!!"
Essi stuck her tongue out. "Young one's shouldn't be worrying about potential mates." Essi teased the baby. Quickly she learned to imitate the family's behavior.
"Can I go with you?" Pebbles frowned. Essi shook her head and placed her down.
"Pebbles, don't bother her...." Mrs. Geode came over to take her away. Essi laughed and waved before she left.
The maul.....was very busy. Was everymonster on this planet here? Jewel recommended Essi to check out the famous brand "Skullete" while she was here. Mrs. Geode suggested "Forever 2100".
"I suppose I could search both...." Essi rustled toward her first option. it was quite cold today, Mr. Geode insisted on Essi wearing some clothing today....he was worried about her.... Ivy said it because of Pebbles multiple questions if Essi had a date to the party though. Why was clothing so important anyways?....Oh well. Her stomach growled. Essi sighed. Already?
"I'll just grab a clawfree and maybe a sandwitch." She trailed toward the food court.
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 10:30 am
Peggy Springwell Peggy heard of groan of despair from inside her bag at Tori's comment. "new to clothes shopping, eh? You've come to the right ghoul." she winked. "so.. we need a formal gown"... She led Tori to a trendy shop on the first level of the maul. "I love this place. Come on!" Peggy pulled Tori inside
She holds up a blue dress."Winter right? What about this one?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 11:35 pm
After a quick meeting with the SKRM team to discuss strategy for tomorrow's match, Marceline decided to take a quick spin through the maul to find the perfect dress for Layla's Howliday Ball... but not before a coffinccino at the Coffin Bean to warm her to the bones! She sat, very uncharacteristically poised, at a table in the corner of the cafe, her iTomb propped up in front of her, wistfully swiping through reviews of Woestock for the third time that week...
She almost knocked her iTomb over as a Grype call blipped up over the screen, her brother Kriminel's face grinning in the window. Steadying the iTomb on its easel, she swiped the "answer" button across.
"Well hey there, bro!" Marceline smiled.
"Ma'celine, baby sista'a mine!" Kriminel tipped his hat to her. "Maman told me y'ain't comin' home f'Cryptmas! Y'gonna really break y'brotha's heart like this??"
"Sorry, Krim! I got a bit'a things to keep up on out here!"
"F'sure, f'sure... Don't think I haven' seen what'cha been up to, ghoul... Upstagin' THE Jimi Hexdrix like y'did! Gotta say that was one hex of a show y'an'yer band put on!" Kriminel laughed, his gold teeth glinting in the light from his camera.
"Well I can't help that I make a scream, boo!" Marceline raised her nose to the air with a triumphant smirk.
"Yea, and y'ain't lettin' it go to y'head either, I see..."
"Whassat s'pposed to mean?? Ain't I allowed to be conf'dent?"
"I'm jus'sayin'... Y'be good, ghoul. Anyway, Papa was also tellin' me about y'boofriend..."
"Oh, caskets! I gotta go, Krim! Gettin' another call I can't ignore! See'ya soon, bro! Love'ya!" Marceline abruptly hit "end call" and instinctively flipped her iTomb down with a heavy sigh... that was a conversation she wasn't ready to have with her brother... After taking a final sip of her coffinccino, she scanned the maul outside to figure out where to start shopping; it was then she noticed her dear friend Tori Underbridge holding a sparkling blue dress up to herself in a nearby store, and decided she should join her...
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Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2015 6:10 pm
Demona walked through the Maul doors, chewing bubblegum, her brother Damon behind her rolling a stroller with a sleeping Deanna inside, his eyes dull. He looked at the direction to the food corpse. "Demona, why on earth do we have to be here again? I finished my Cryptmas shopping months ago" He said in a tired voice. "Yeah, Okay Mr. Over-achiever, I'm the queen of procrastination." She said as there was a long pause. "Also i need to pick up some things for layla's ball that Kai asked me to" She looked at her ICoffin for any hexts from Kai. "Oh, Kai" Damon said in a less then pleased voice as he followed Demona into a store filled with gowns and rent-a-tux's
"hexcuse you? What's your problem with Kai." She peaked over a pink and black sequined dress.
"You need to start thinking about your future! You can't spend your life with a struggling artist in a lonely one room apartment in boo york! You have a promising career in modeling! If you could just go back and-"
She cut him off "What if I like that idea? Not having money or fame but having love?"
"Demon's don't love, and you will not talk like that. Love can't pay the rent or buy food, or keep the heater or water bill from being shut off. Love is just a silly idea for stupid Bohemians! You want to be free, to have love and to not give into corporate ideals and that's not how real unlife works! Unlife is more then Love and art"
Demona laughed. "How do you know what unlife is if you never live it? The most reckless thing you've ever done was fold a corner of a book page in when you wanted to mark a page"
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Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:42 pm
Astrid trots through the local maul, checking out a number of stores and a multitude of ugly boos. If she was to avoid wing-gawkers and tail-kissers, she's going to have to make her starry feathers less noticeable. How in the grave was she going to be able to do that?? The tip of her horn grows a little red in frustration. If she didn't find a way out of this hole soon, she was going to give the goons exactly that they wanted - Her wings. Right in their faces. Astrid smiles at the scenario.
Or maybe...
She could use these wings to her advantage. People seemed to enjoy them quite much. She could use these fans as a way to get popular. The bigger the fanbase, the less enemies she makes, right??
Astrid lets out her biggest smile as she opens up and pretends to stretch her wings. Really, it was only to get people to follow her. And it worked.
"Look at that ghoul!" says Manny Taur.
"She's soooo pretty~" says Voodude.
Success.
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:18 pm
"This is so soft, Peggy!" She showed it to her friend, it felt like silk. Suddenly The Winter Ball wasn't going to be so bad.
She spins around in her dress excitedly, it was then shoe noticed Marceline walking toward them. "Hey Marceline!" She gives a big wave to her, and smiles. "I know its a shock seeing me here, like a rose in the desert, But I'm here. Dad got a promotion." She explained, as to why she was getting a dress her mother didn't make her.
"Or is there something else bothering you?" Tori pats her on the back.
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 11:42 am
"Wow! Wow!" Octavia was seated in the passenger seat of her stepdad's van, watching videos on her step-brother's iCoffin. Kai was driving them to the Maul. The videos were of the many crazy things that happened at Woestock. The video she'd just finished up showed a band called Atomica and the Rest in Peace performing. "I wish I'd been able to come a week earlier. That fearstival looked SO much fun!"
Kai smiled at his younger step-sister.
"It was. I wish any of the videos I'd taken of our boo band performing had audio. Even the ones on frighttube are glitched! We figure it's probably some leftover bad luck magic from Jimi Hexdrix."
"Do you think Atomica and the R.I.P. would be looking for a backup singer?" Octavia asked as she loaded up the next video. "I mean...for the next two weeks?"
"Atomica said they wouldn't be peforming until the Howliday Ball, so I don't think they're looking for new members." Kai told Octavia with a grin. She already seemed much more relaxed than his last conversation with her over Crypte. Final hexams had been stressful at Blackwater Academy for her. "But if we run into any of them, we can sure ask."
Kai's iCoffin beeped. Octavia tapped the prompt.
"Demona just texted you." Octavia informed her step-bro. "Demona's back? You didn't tell me that!"
"She just appeared back in town yesterday. It was a total surprise." Kai admitted as they pulled into the Maul parking lot. "She showed up back at school and I was just floored."
"Well, she says she's at the Maul." Octavia told her brother. "Are you two back together?"
"I...don't know." Kai admitted as he parked. "I mean, when we broke up it was mutual, but still...it's kind of a weird place to be in. I think her brother's convinced I broke her heart or something."
"If you ask me, SHE broke YOUR heart." Octavia informed Kai. At 14 Kraken-years old, she was clearly an expert on affairs of the heart. "I mean, she's the one who asked you to uproot your life and move to Grrmany with her. Did she really hexpect you to say yes?"
"I thought about it..." Kai admitted as he put the keys into his pocket and held open the passenger door for Octi. "Wouldn't be the first time I moved countries after all. But I guess I just have too many roots in New Salem."
"Are you two going to get back together?" Octivia asked as she followed Kai into the Maul.
"I don't know. I asked her to the Howliday Ball." He admitted. Octavia raised an eyebrow.
"But...that means I'll be a third wheel!" She protested. "I don't have anymonster to go with..."
"Hey, it's all fright!" He told his step-sis. "Lots of boos and ghouls are going solo. There'll be plenty of groups and lots to do. I know that Howleen Wolf and a bunch of other first-years are going to be there as a group."
"Oh...okay." Octavia agreed, but she still looked a little crestfallen. "Maybe I can - OOOH LOOK!"
Octi pointed at the front of Forever 2100. Kai saw some of his ghoulfriends, Tori, Peggy Springwell and Marceline LaGhede standing there, looking at dresses. Octi grabbed his arm.
"That's one of the ghouls from Atomica and the RIP!" She recognized Marceline right away. "Come on! Let's go talk to them!"
For being so much smaller than him, Octavia's sucker-covered hands meant she had an inescapable grip, and Kai was dragged over towards the ghouliest store in the maul...
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Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2016 12:40 pm
Demona MH "How do you know what unlife is if you never live it? The most reckless thing you've ever done was fold a corner of a book page in when you wanted to mark a page"
"I would say you need to get to know him, but i'm afraid you might eat him." She left the store "Dont follow me!"
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Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2016 3:57 pm
Tori's head gave a tilt to the side, as her ears picked up an excited voice hurrying in their direction. "Oh Look, here comes, Octavia." Tori's cheeks puffed when she smiled.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:29 am
"Hiiiiiiiiiiii!" Octavia recognized Tori, of course. "Surprise! I'm back in New Salem for the howlidays!""Hey ghouls!" Kai greeted the gaggle of ghouls with a wave. He looked around. No sign of Demona, despite her text. Maybe she was somewhere else in the Maul. "We're here to get Octi a dress for the big ball."
"Even though I don't have a date." Octi frowned. Not having a date wouldn't be an issue if Kai hadn't mentioned going with Demona. Now it was a big deal to Octavia. "Aw, Octi, don't stress that. You're too young for a serious relationship anyways." Kai informed her, trying to sound big-brotherly.
Octavia rolled her eyes at him."I don't want a SERIOUS RELATIONSHIP, I want somemonster to dance with at the ball, Kai!" She informed him, her hands on her squiddy hips. Octavia sighed. "Oh, well. At least I'll have a pretty dress...and there won't be any lousy mermaids around."Kai's tail twitched a little bit. Octi's dislike of mer-people was well-known, and while she may have had reason for feeling the way she did, Octavia was not aware that there were several mer-people going to the ball....including Kai's own cousin, Melody Nocturna.
It was....something he hadn't gotten around to telling Octavia about yet...
"Oh! I saw the videos from Woestock!" Octavia quickly changed subjects, to Kai's relief. She was talking to Marceline, now. "So uhhhhh-mazing! Can I have your clawtograph?"Kai's tail suddenly rattled. His 'early warning system' was going off, though he wasn't quite sure why. He glanced around. The Maul was mega-crowded, right to the gills with monsters.
He saw a hint of blue hair over by the food court, though, that seemed clawfully familiar....Kai groaned.
Damon was here at the Maul...probably with Demona.
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 9:33 am
"Wow, Contain your enthusiasm." She gave him a sly smirk. "What are you doing here? I'm pretty sure there's a limit to how long boo's can be in ghoul stores before it starts to effect their masculinity. But you look like you're doing fine" She joked chuckling to herself.
"What's with the tail rattle?" She looked down, Demona had always thought the tail thing was incredibly adorable, and some-what useful
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:27 am
Above her sudden crowd of admirers, Astrid spots a familiar corpse above all the heads of the clustermunch. It was Kai! The boo she sprayed stardust at. He didn't notice the crowd at all. "okay, okay! Give a ghoul her space! I've gotta meet up with an old carcass..." She moves past her admirers and approaches Kai. "Hey there~!" Astrid chimes with a swish of confidence and pride. She pays no mind to consealing her winfs this time. They actively shimmer with a multitude of galaxies and space storms. If Astrid was going to be stuck in this dimension for a while, she might as well make herself known... And loved. "how are your eyes today?"
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Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:45 pm
Demona MH "What's with the tail rattle?" "Demona!" Kai hexclaimed. She'd popped out of nowhere (she was really good at that!) and Kai grinned at her. "Sorry, I was going to reply to your text, but I was driving, and then when we got into the Maul Octavia dragged me-" Astrid Fantasy "Hey there~! How are your eyes today?"
He looked at Demona.
Then he looked at Astrid.
Then he looked at Demona.
And then back at Astrid.
His tail rattled dangerously."Uh." Kai opened his mouth to say something. Even Octavia couldn't save him with an interruption, since she was fang-girling over Marceline. "Hey? My eyes are...fine today, I guess?" At least, they didn't have a heaping helping of space glitter in them thanks to Astrid...yet.
Astrid's wings flicked a little bit and caught the light in an uhh-mazingly artistic way. Kai blinked a couple times."Have...you two met?" Kai pointed at Demona. "Astrid, this is Demona. Demona, this is Astrid. Astrid's new to school. Demona's...just returning."
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