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 Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:54 pm
"Seeds," Aria corrected, turning away from Caelius to carefully drop said seed into Madison's outstretched skeletal hand. Unfortunately for her, it happened to drop right through. "Ack!" Aria groaned, kneeling down and picking it up again. "Here, hold still." The mist hunter grabbed Madison's hand and looked it over, thinking. With a shrug, she wiggled the seed into a section of the skeletoness' carpals. "There! That ought to hold it. Can you still wiggle your hand okay?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:58 pm
Madison twitched her hand around; the seed creaked a bit between the bones but did not fall out. "Um, I think it's okay," she replied, a little shyly. "Thank you for the mon- seeds."
She straightened, then glanced at the lights. Kouki was humming matsuri, ma~tsu~ri~ in her brain, but a coil of nervousness settled in her stom... er... in wherever skeletons felt nervous.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:58 pm
"OI LADY, YOU GUYS PUT ME IN THIS BODY, AIN'T NOTHING TO LAUGH A-"
.. She was already talking to someone else! As if he no longer existed! WHAT THE s**t!
Robert stormed away, looking as red as the horrible little jumpsuit and pointed cap he was wearing, and headed straight for the festival.
He stopped about four feet in, mostly because it took him twice as long to travel those four feet, and stared at all of the people in the festival bustling to and fro.
And not looking ******** my life, for real."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:02 pm
The rotting cat-girl gave a cat-girl smile, tucking the seed between her ample chest. That's where cat-girls kept their money, right? Right.
"My mistake." He hummed, hoping his voice very pointedly said 'We definitely won't talk about this' before turning to hurry off after the others, tail whisking behind her.
This... would be fun, a festival, even a spooky one, was always enjoyable, right? And the Island had been so horribly boring since he had woken from his pod... He was ready to make new friends.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:03 pm
Cass was watching the exchange of currency with a sort of curious look on her face. Hmmmm. So they had one... 'pumpkin seed' with which to go out and get one of those strange little creatures with, right? It seemed...interesting. The incubus looked down at her red dragon companion with a slightly concerned expression.
"t-This seems to be it, Marcus....er..Marla? Marla.. Marla Marla Marla Marla Marla Marla Marla..." she repeated it about 15 more times, trying to make her voice as manly as it could possibly go. It... was slightly questionable, but if she spoke low enough she could at least pretend to be a male. A male who could probably be mistaken for very very gay.
"Okay.. this seems to be what we're here for, Marla." she repeated again, taking a deep breath. "s-Should we get one of those pumpkin seeds before we head off to...critter...hunt...?" She mulled the word over, looking at the fish bowl again with a curious expression, before nodding again. Okay.. she was seeming rather prepared..
...
Maybe.
She ruffled her hair a bit before she also approached Aria, scratching the side of her head awkwardly.
"May I have one as well, Ma'am? Miss? Miss Boss Ma'am?" She mulled over her choice in title before settling on the last one. It seemed.. properly polite enough.
She looked over her shoulder to see if Marcus was with her.
[Minipet SN: Pachurz. ]
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:05 pm
Gale had spent half of the time so far in HalloweenTown attempting to stop Bix from groping him (or rather, his female golem), and the other half trying to get Jinhai to stop calling him a moron.
<< If you were not a moron, you wouldn't have squealed like a ghoul when that other Hunter grabbed your - >>
"Let's not go there."
<< At any rate, there's someone here - someone you should pay attention to. >>
Namely Aria, the Mist Hunter leader. Gale quit bickering with Jinhai and clamped his frosty lips shut, wincing at the strange sensation of cold against his skin. He inched towards the...makeup...booth...peering into it cautiously.
...bloody hell.
It was the weirdest sensation he had ever had. The golem in which Gale had been placed was of average height and willowy, with long, pale-skinned arms that were tinged a faint, icy blue. Straight hair several shades darker than his skin reached a little ways past his waist. And there was something strange about his eyes...
At first he thought he had no pupils at all, but once he peered closer he could see faint blue irises that were nearly translucent. His lips as well were dusted with a pale blue.
This is so surreal, Gale thought, staring at his arms - which ended in blue and white painted fingernails. Except he was somewhat distracted in gawking at himself when he realized what exactly Aria was talking about.
"...fish," said Gale.
<< Fish. >> said Jinhai.
"How very, er...strange."
But Gale stepped up to Aria all the same, squaring his shoulders. This was a mission, and despite the somewhat...unorthodox premise of it, he was going to do a damn good job of it.
"I'd like some currency, please."
[ minis > kuromizuki ]
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:09 pm
Ennéa wandered past, still idly searching for her lost hand even though she was rapidly becoming distracted by the shiny lights and lanterns off in the distance now that her attention had been called to it.
Everyone was already headed off in that direction and she was tempted follow them. Ennéa looked at her arm stump. She was great at carnival games like ring toss and that milkpail one and that one with the airgun to knock over cans and stuff. Well, maybe not so much that one; she usually got her brother to play it for her. But it'd be hard to win a fish or even play the games properly with only one hand. Ennéa pouted a little at the unfairness of her situation.
Thankfully there was a really short troll-gnome-zombie thing that looked partially flattened and near to the ground. Ennéa, distracted as she was, never really learned any of the other hunter's names in the current forms, but maybe it would help her (him? ugh, her current form was confusing her) find her hand?
"Um, excuse me..." she started to ask politely.
The short gnome seemed distracted though and Ennéa noticed that one of the senior hunters was passing out seeds. She vaguely remembered hearing them talk about using the seeds as currency to play the various games.
She skirted around an exceptionally tall skeleton to stand near Aria. "Can I have a seed too, please?" Ennéa started to hold out her hand but then quickly switched to her left, the one that actually still had a hand.
sn: Frigoris
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:14 pm
Madison blinked - metaphorically - when Ennea's cheery voice suddenly emerged from the body of a rotting male zombie. Which was weird as hell, but it meant her friend had made it in, at least! "Ennea! Um, it's Madison," she added, quickly. "You want to come with me? Once you get your seed-thingie?"
Then she leaned down, down, down to Robert. "Um. I could carry you?" she offered. "Just, like, so you don't get hurt or something."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:16 pm
Robert's words only provoked another titter of laughter from Aria. For some reason, she found his unfortunate situation hilarious.
She was still grinning when Cass approached her, her smile fading into a puzzled look. "...Cassandra?" The mirth faded from her face as she stared hard at the girl in a demon-golem. "If I remember correctly," she began with a growl in her voice, "You failed to bring me the list of ten extra things I requested. Therefore, you will bring me three specimens of different minipets. If you fail to complete this task..." She trailed off, the warning hanging in the air as she gave the girl only one seed.
"You have the extra task of finding a way to make more seeds as well. Seeds are required to play games. While it is possible to get away and play without playing, it will not be on my head if you get caught. You do not want to get caught. Next."
As Gale stepped up, Aria carefully handed him a seed. "A frost demon?" She guessed. "Be careful. While you may be a bit cold now, if you go to places that are too hot there is still the possibility of your golem melting. Try to stay cool."
To Ennéa, Aria nodded and dropped a seed in her hand. "Just say it recently fell off," she suggested, glancing at the handless arm. "That will serve as a cover in case anyone asks."
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:18 pm
How many people were going to try and carry him during this trip? He was supposed to be a dead gnome, right? Couldn't he just FIND A NICE GRAVE AND GO DIE IN IT RATHER THAN FACE THIS SHAME.
"No, I'm - no." He grumbled, looking up at Madison with the SADDEST LITTLE PUPPY DOG EYES a dead gnome could give. "It'll just be more embarrassing if someone has to carry me like a baby. Poe already tried-" There was a hiss in his voice when he spoke of it. "But if I'm gonna make it as a hunter, I gotta do this alone. No matter what I look like."
Or how many times someone accidentally punted him.
"Maybe I'll just, like, follow behind you guys for a while. That'll be safe, right?"
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iStoleYurVamps
iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:18 pm
Marcus looked at the Vampire golem and tried to direct the attentions of the vampire in his head at him.
MMmmmmyess My sexy little gender switcher?
Shut it. Typical vampire like behavior. Details.
Only if you promise to humor me once in a while.
..Marcus debated. What was the worst he could ask?
Fine.
All right, tell him to mingle with demons, and other vampires. Think high class. Vampires are classy, sexy things. We're fabulaous-
"Act like a complete p***k towards anyone not a demon or another vampire."
....And to smolder. Always smolder.
"....and-" Marcus groaned. "Smolder."
The second instructor's arrivial and instructions got a nod of his head. He could do that. In and out. Easy as pie. But- "Ma'am, this currency." He raised a brow. Pumpkin seeds? Really? "Having pumpkins seeds seems hardly like a good monetary unit, seeing as you could just..grow pumpkins to simply harvest their seeds, thereby just creating an endless influx of mon-seeds." This batshit place just made no sense to him.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:20 pm
"You could stand on my foot?" Madison suggested. "Then it's not like I'm carrying you, or whatever? You're just standing. On my foot?"
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:21 pm
Robert slapped his tiny forehead with his tiny palm, and then pointed quite sharply to the floresctival, as if to say JUST GO. LEAVE ME WITH MY SHAME.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:23 pm
Madison opened her jaw and... realized she had no tongue to stick out at him. Argh. That was really annoying. "Just come with us, then, whatever. Hey, Ennea! Are you coming too?" she called out, straightening up again with a creak of bones.
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Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:24 pm
"Wellll," Aria began, leaning back as she looked at Marcus. "Funny thing. These seeds are grown, but if you plant this it's not going to do anything. Plain, regular pumpkin seeds have no value. If you feel a Floresctival Seed -- that's what these are called, by the way -- you'll find that they're sort of... metal. They undergo a process that is too complicated for you to comprehend to change them from a regular seed into metal." Aria shrugged. "All in all, it's not important for you to find out how they're made, at least not right now. I've already stolen enough seeds for this mission. Maybe in the future you will get an opportunity to break in and steal some too once you're more experienced."
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