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 Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 7:01 pm
~Melody Beikove~ Melody, a shy new girl wearing a purple flowing blouse and jeans, walked into the school auditorium with a look of wonder coming across her face. She looked around slowly taking in all of the surroundings, and a smile slowly came across her face. Finally her eyes settled on the piano that was up on the stage, and joy over took her. Running up to the piano, Melody sat on the piano bench and put her fingers on the keys, slowly moving her hand across each key and wiping some of the dust away. She smiled again then looked around the auditorium making sure no one was there. Satisfied, Melody closed her eyes and slowly played what she was felling inside her heart. Sadness, longing, hurt, love, and hate, were all woven into the song one emotion at a time. The song was beautiful and went on for fifteen minutes telling the story of her life. As she continued she started singing with the music in a way that would have brought tears to any human who listened.
She had fallen in love with the piano, and she knew that she would probably spend hours and hours in the auditorium every day for as long as she was at Ria. She had finally found the place where she belonged, the one place that she fit in. Melody continued to play the music, each note moving itself into the next, each movement of music bringing the song together, her voice blending with the song making a sound that could only be described as enchanting and haunting all in one. Slowly the song came to an end and she let her hands fall to her lap. 'The end.' She thought to herself, a slow smile coming across her face.
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:27 pm
The stage had what appeared to be some kind of weird scene set up with the characters from the Pashoo show. They looked pretty real, as much as a cartoon character could look real outside of the TV. ON Stage Was Pashoo, armed with a golden sword, Negashoo, armed with a Dark Bronze looking sword, similar in design to Pashoo's, a slightly taller looking Pashoo with " Jorb" on it's chest that appeared to be armed with...a bee. Lastly, there was another disgruntled white Pashoo with eyelashes that was all tied up and dangling from the ceiling via a rope that didn't look very happy about it's situation. Scattered about the stage were various other props.
There were people loitering around, scratching their chins and talking about what the clue here might be. Looks like other people had gotten here first, but no-one knew where the dolls were.
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Posted: Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:00 pm
For a second, Nami just stared up at the stage, taking in the sight through large, golden eyes. "There are so many..." She stepped a little closer, bumping people rudely with her wings as she moved to the stage's edge to stare up, examining each one as closely as she could without fully moving onto the set. It didn't take long for the next step to enter her head. "I want them all! Xine, buy me all of them!"
She turned and hurried back to him. "Do you think they're giving out free ones of each? I want them. Hurry up, there are a lot of people here trying to take them from me!" Her voice hushed a little at the end, staring around at the others suspiciously. They all wanted to take her prizes from her. "...do you think when it's over, we could take those ones?" she added suddenly, pointing toward the stage.
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 12:02 am
" I thought It was just the Black one up there. I think the second thing you want is stealing. So no." unless they asked someone, but he'd yet to see anyone that looked like they worked for the company or anything. Other than the participants in the room he had yet to see a single other person during the hunt before, how long have these people been sitting here? Xine scratched the back of his neck and tried to figure out what the clue might be this time. After a bit of thinking...
He had no idea. It wasn't even a clue. It just looked like a bunch of characters from the school squabbling over something. Though from around him, he heard various harebrained theories.
"Well in Episode 37..."
"Maybe Pashoo's sword represents..."
" What is it with Jorb and Bees?"
" The mess around them probably means..."
Xine sighed, he hoped the answer wasn't steeped in the shows history.
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Posted: Wed Jun 09, 2010 2:12 pm
Nami huffed and folded her arms over her chest as Xine denied her right to take the models as her own. If she couldn't find a doll, she didn't want to leave empty handed. What was wrong with that?
She stood in place, staring around at everyone and listening as well, her expression falling even further. "Hey. We haven't seen the show," she announced to Xine, staring up at him again. "Were we supposed to? Hurry up and find the answer!"
But if all of these people had seen it but still couldn't figure out what they were doing here, how was she supposed to?
"Maybe there's another hint on the website? Hurry up!"
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 2:30 am
" Alright, chill. " She was pretty obsessed with these little guys already, which struck him as odd, but it seemed like a pretty good show, so maybe she was on to something in getting this limited edition doll. He might sell his on eBay. God knows hows much money he'd lost on Nami already. He pulled out his netbook and as he did, he continued to listen to people around the room to see if any of them might be on to something.
"Maybe the... uh... rope means it's somewhere high up?"
Xine made a note to himself not to listen to that guy. He went back to the website and to the page the first little event occurred on and poked around to no avail. There was a lot of stuff on here. Looking at all of it; DvD's, slippers, soda, Video Games and whatnot, Xine decided that he'd have to be extra careful to keep his money away from Nami for a while because she might manage to wipe him out. He might get a couple DvD's to keep her placated and to watch them himself but he couldn't handle her going on a spree here.
" She looks pretty mad tied up there. If that is her. She doesn't even have hair."
Xine looked up to the tied up one with eyelashes, then back down at a product on the site of that character, except with medium length dark brown hair named "Yorda". It looked to Xine that this whole clue wasn't completely set up.
Then, something clicked. He remembered that Negashoo said that he was setting up and it gave him an idea.
"Nami, Follow me. Act casual."
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 12:08 pm
Nami went back to tapping her foot impatiently as she waited, watching and listening to the comments others were making. Some sounded thoughtful. Some sounded pissed, but her eyes darted toward the subject of each and every one. If they figured it out, that wouldn't matter if she got their first! And she was pretty quick with her wings as a boost.
"What?" she grumbled distractedly as Xine spoke, before she realized what he'd said and lifted her head. She blinked at him, peered up at the stage curiously, and then tried to steal a glance toward his laptop.
But she gave up quickly, not wanting to draw attention as he'd said. For once, she fell silent to shuffle after him.
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Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:04 pm
There were several people on stage, poking around a bit at the props on the floor. It was hard for someone his size to be stealthy,Nami would be without her wings, but noone seemed to be paying attention to them. Probably because pretty much everyone at the school was used to see people with less than normal appearances. Xine slipped past the ones on stage, and tried his best to hunch down and keep the curtain still as he passed through it, hoping Nami would follow suit. As soon as he was back there, the clue was fairly obvious. Another statue of negashoo holding a sign with a familiar fountain on it, with the message-
" The final key is under foot."
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Posted: Sun Jun 13, 2010 1:26 pm
Nami frowned but followed after him, trying her best to go slow and quiet despite her growing excitement. Had he found it? He better have found it. She tucked her wings tight against her bag, attempting not to knock anything over, or rustle the curtain too much, and it was even harder not to shout something unnecessary as they passed through. She bit her tongue and shuffled closer, staring up at the sign and then down at her feet.
He'd found it again. She had to admit, at least in her mind, that she was pretty impressed. Their little trip out for pizza had sure turned into something a lot more. She glanced down at the Pashoo doll in her bag and her lips slid into a smile. Soon she'd have another to add to her collection~
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Posted: Mon Jun 14, 2010 9:05 pm
Suddenly, someone from who must have followed them in shouted back to the people in the auditorium the clue. " There's keys all over the floor!" Someone from the stage announced, and there was what sounded like a mad squabble outside for keys. By the time Xine manage to get through some of them, it seemed like the floor had been picked clean of keys and a few props even.
"Man. These fans are fast." He said, inspecting the floor carefully, but he knew they all had to be gone, it looked like someone tried to make off with the Jorb statue, but it was too heavy and it just fell over. He hoped Nami wouldn't be too upset by this, he assumed that having a key meant getting a doll. That didn't make sense with the clue though, so far they'd all been fairly clever, or at least not simple.
He bent down to look at something shiny, but it was just a quarter. With Pashoo's face on it. Might be worth something, he took it anyway. "Well this turned out kinda crappy."
Suddenly, a voice rang out from somewhere in the seats.
"Check under the black ones foot."
Xine couldn't see anyone, but he did so anyway, and from the looks of it there was something underneath Negashoo's skinny white leg. "Um, okay. Nami, I'll lift, you check if it's a key." With ease, Xine lifted the statue, there was indeed a key under Negashoo's foot.
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Posted: Wed Jun 16, 2010 5:44 pm
"Hey! Heeeey!" Nami wailed at the snitch. Why would he announce it to everyone anyway? He could've just taken one and slipped off quietly as well. Stupid, stupid! She tried to catch one herself, a key not a person, but her small frame was jostled about during the mad scramble and she ended up flattening to the tree-like Xine to keep from being toppled while Matsu yipped nervously from her bag.
"Ugh! Not fair!" she cried at the emptied stage, stomping her foot on the ground, only to freeze as a voice spoke up.
Her head jerked toward the seats, then back to the statue, staring blankly. But she shuffled quietly forward as Xine took the voice's advice, and she spread her wings as she knelt down, intent on not letting anyone else see, if anyone had lingered behind. "Got it!" she exclaimed, pulling her hand back tightly clutched in a fist around the key.
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 5:35 pm
" Wow, thanks whoever you are." Xine said, setting the statue back down, it wasn't that heavy actually. He dusted off his shirt and looked around in the seats again, he couldn't see whoever it was that gave them the tip.
"No problem, I couldn't move fast enough either."
" Uh, where are you?" The voice sounded closer now, but Xine still couldn't pick out where they were? Maybe they could turn invisible? At this school it was a possibility.
" Down here big guy."
Upon hearing that, Xine felt a sharp tap-tap-tap on the toe of his boot. Looking downward, he saw the biggest beetle he'd ever seen. That thought coming from someone of his stature meant that this bug was of notable size. Also, it could have just been the bugs big eyes, but it looked like it was looking up at him.
" There you go." It's mandibles jostled the vertical zig-zag that was it mouth quickly snapped open and closed with most syllables. It was a giant talking bug.
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Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2010 10:42 pm
Nami kept the key tightly clutched in her small hand, staring up at Xine until he set the statue down. But again, when the voice spoke up, she jumped and jerked her head around. And like before, she failed to find the source. She pouted to herself, folding her arms, and turned toward Xine to ask what they should do next.
Then it spoke again, and right after that, she saw it.
"...UGH, WHAT IS THAT?!"
She let out a sudden, disgusted shout and stepped sharply away, bumping lightly into the statue, which wobbled before settling back into place. That was the biggest bug she'd ever seen! She kept her distance, staring down at it as if appalled. It didn't want her key, did it?
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Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2010 8:25 pm
" What's what?" it asked, seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was what was being talked about. Even going so far as to crane it's head about to try and find the commotion. " Haaaa. Just kidding. Talking bout me. Happens all the time." Those funny mammals, they come in all different sizes, why was he so strange? He wasn't, in case you were wondering, you silly thing.
Xine, attempted to regain his composure. "So... you are?"
"They call me Jim-Bug."
"OH, well I'm Xine and this is Nami."
" That's great. Nice to meet'cha. I don't mean to rush you, but now that you got the key we'd better get on down to the courtyard before they all figure out where to get those dolls." It said, Jim-Bug seemed to want on too, for whatever reason.
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