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 Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:52 pm
(You want sugar? WE GOT SUGAR.)
Riley's living room had a single candleabra fluttering in a corner, giving off the only light of the room. That hardly mattered, since she was in the study - which was flooded with light. She had propped her door open after inviting Gabrian and Sin over, to partake in the sharing of the lovely confection she'd gone to great lengths to buy.
There were boxes. Boxes of them. They filled the study. Riley currently sat on her desk, indian style, fiddling with her eyephone while one of her tentacles idly sucked down on an Icky Stick.
Silly. They're all so silly. She murmured down to the eyephone, as if it could hear her. They just need to try some, they'll understand. Everyone will understand!
Her fishtank was brightly colored, and filled with wet pages. Her Bioluminora was laying on the edge of the tank, trying desperately to get away from the sugar that had just filled it's water supply.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:59 pm
Next door in Barth's room, Christof had loyally sent all the warning messages he could to Master Malodore before (carefully logging out of Groanspring and) slamming the Sloth Demon's laptop shut. He set it on top of the unconcious demon before scrambling for the window. His Mistress was not well! He could tell that much. He had no idea with these Icky Stix were, but obviously it was some dark and nepharious magic hell bent on bringing sparkles and rainbows and unicorns into your life.
The window was flung open, and he carefully crawled onto the window sill, leaning to look off in the direction of Riley's room. It... wasn't SO far...
He weighed his options.
Go out Barth's front door and stand in the hallway while he madly knocked at her door and prayed she let him in where he was out in the open and any demon might come to forcefully ask him to take his leave before he left a lingering smell-
-or brave the skinny edge of brick that went from this dorm room outer wall to the next.
He took the skinny ledge of brick.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 3:59 pm
What. What was even happening.
Malodore was convinced that it only had a groanspring to figure out when Riley needed medical or other attention. Sadly, its attempts to talk her down over the internet weren't gong well at all... So here it was, at the base of the ladder Christof had mentioned.
.... After moving it, of course. The first climb had resulted in a peek into a room it was quite sure didn't belong to the mindflayer. "Riley?" it called out as it climbed towards the window to her bedroom. The situation cold have been rather salacious if it wasn't so ridiculous.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:02 pm
Gabrian had come to realize he could not use his skellyphone as he skid-ran through the demon dorm corridors. He'd given up on the damnable machine and was, instead, just hoping the messages he'd sent got to their destinations. He didn't really know Riley all that well, but he was smart enough to know what was going to happen when the ghoul (was it really a ghoul? He'd never stopped to ask, but he was just going to assume for now) 'woke' up. She seemed like the private type and his instincts told him there was going to be chaos.
He didn't really appreciate that sort of chaos. Specially when he knew there was very little Riley was going to be able to do to FIX things bar... well, kill people, or possibly maim them, and he didn't quite put it past her to do so just yet. When he reached the demoness' dorm room, he skidded to a halt (this was starting to remind him of the time his Unmentionables had stolen those garments and he'd been forced to chance the damned pets down the demon dorm halls clad only in a towel), "Riley!" he used his fist to bang on the door several times, "Open this door up immediately!" a pause followed and he decided to rephrase that, "I er... came to enjoy those stixs with you!" he just hoped that he'd managed to take necessary precautions. Surely the ghoul wouldn't need more than a couple vermin brains.
... right?
Because honestly, he just had no idea what her real diet was, and on such short notice, he'd not been able to hunt down larger prey. Alas, the moment his fist hit the door... he found it to be open, "Er... Riley?" he called out as he entered the room, his arms wrapped around the bloodied container.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:07 pm
Christof wobbled on his brick ledge, filled with the fury only an Igor could feel when their Mistress was in distress, but after a bit of mortar crumbled under his boot, he clung to the stone wall frantically, preparing to step back to his ladder when-
Oh hey way down there in red that looked like Master Malodore's hat-
-oh HELL'S BELLS DON'T LOOK DOWN-
And.... it would seem the student in the red hat had moved the ladder, not seeing him clutching the side of the building precariously-
Oh hell.
Just... just inch forward...
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:12 pm
After having received messages from Gabrian and Malodore, Jericho was making his way to the demon dorms as quickly as he could. What was Riley thinking to eat so many Icky Stix at once? He supposed that didn't matter as much right now since they'd need to get her away from that stuff as soon as possible.
Arriving at her room, he found the door already open. Furrowing his brow, he entered the dimly lit place, taking note that Gabrian was already here. He recalled seeing Malodore outside as well, so it seemed he wasn't the only one looking out for her.
"Where is she?" he asked the green haired boy.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:12 pm
Sin headed downstairs from her suite towards Riley's room, she was worried about the other demon. Riley didn't seem at all herself, she was talking about rainbows for jack's sake. If Riley was in somekind of trouble and spewing nonsense she might let something important slip accidentally as well. So Sin headed towards Riley's room...if she was lucky she'd get an icky stix out of it.
She blinked at the open door, the bright lights, and the...sugar filled tank? Oh what was that?! Had Riley really sugared her tank? That poor Floresce! She knocked on the door as a courtesy before slipping inside. "Riley?"
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:18 pm
The first voice she heard was Malodore's. But it was.. coming from her bedroom? Was she dreaming? What was going on! Perhaps there was some, small truth to the idea that the Icky Stix were making her hallucinate..
Still, she jumped off her perch on the desk, and walked into her bedroom, opening the window to help it inside. Her eyes were wide, looking at it with a sense of caution.
Why are you coming through my window? She asked, as she reached out to touch it's arm and make sure it was real. You are actually.. here.. right? (It wasn't.)
Her worry disappeared as she heard multiple voices coming from her living room. Yay, everyone was here! It was like some kind of impromptu party. She brought the snacks!
She made sure Malodore was safely inside before returning to the study (or so she thought), and then leaned through the door to wave everyone inside. In here everyone, make yourselves comfortable. I don't have enough chairs.. I apologize.
She certainly didn't sound like anything was wrong.. yet. Her eyes, however, told a different story. They were wider than usual, round, and altogether looked far happier than they normally did.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:19 pm
Was that... Christof? Malodore blinked as it realized that the patchwork was a. Present and b. Possibly in trouble. "Hang on, Christof!" the plague doctor called as it sped up its ascent. Was he heading for Riley's window as well? "Just go a few more steps!"
Then it heard Riley's voice from above and... What. It saw her reach out and pull back into the room with absolutely nothing, though from her mental tone it was clear she thought the plague doctor was up there with her, instead of clinging to the ladder. "I happen to be down here," it called out, sighing internally. Hallucinations. Wonderful.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:26 pm
Sin's jaw almost dropped at the boxes and boxes of icky stix she saw in the room and she remembered minipet class. She wandered in and stared at the sugary color changing water of the fishtank then back at Riley.
"Riley how many of these have you eaten?!" She blinked as she found an empty box and rifled through at least a few dozen empty tubes. Oh boy...this didn't look good and Sin did not want to be around for the crash that had to eventually come. As she looked around she saw more empty tubes there had to be hundreds!
"We'd better get her some more substantial food..." Riley looked at the others.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:28 pm
Just as he was looking into the room, Jericho came to join his side, "I don't know. Please tell me you were able to bring a bigger supply of healthy food for her than I did?" he lifted the bloodied container so he could take a peek inside and let out a sigh, "I couldn't catch anything bigger on such short notice. Malodore seems to think we're in danger as soon as she comes down from her sugar high."
Riley's telepathic voice reached Gabrian and he made his way into the study, looking both wary and amused as he took sight of the state the room was in, "What in Jack's name have you been doing in here...?" no never mind that; he knew what she'd been doing here. He was more interested on how to fix it, actually.
He took note of Malodore and lifted the bloodied container for him to see from out the window, "What does she normally eat?"and when he asked this... he was more referring to what creatures she enjoyed, "I couldn't get better brains on such short notice," he paused as he took in the fishtank, "Those poor things," setting the container on the table, he began to reach into the water, trying to fish out the different pages of what was no doubt, the infamous Sugary manifesto. He looked at Sin as she mentioned the boxes, "I... wouldn't touch the blue ones if I were you, Sin. The stix I mean. Just don't."
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:30 pm
Riley returned to her perch on top of her desk, and her eyes tilted in lieu of a smile at Sin. Welcome to my dorm. I have eaten a total of five hundred and twelve Icky Stix in the span of three days. I have kept a running total of what choices I have made, including those I have mixed together before consuming. Seventy were orange. Sixty two were purple. Sixty were yellow. One hundred and fifty were pink. One hundred and seventy were blue. Please don't touch the blue ones. I'm very fond of them.
She plucked a few out of a box on the desk, and held them out for Sin and Gabrian both. Try one? They're delicious.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:34 pm
Jericho motioned to the bag slung over his shoulder, "I have some things but like you I couldn't catch a whole lot on short notice. I just have two hallow deer heads in here."
Now spotting Riley, the dragon shot a glance to the other demoness who had entered. It seemed that Christof and Malodore were on the brink of entering as well.
"Apparently she had a few hundred..."
Shaking his head he approached Riley a little cautiously. She sounded normal, but her eyes said a completely different story. It was a little unnerving to see her so.... happy, as wrong as that sounded.
"Here, Riley, I have some brains for you."
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:37 pm
"Well I have some left over brains from the party in my room...but I don't think all the brains on campus are gonna help if she doesn't stop eating this stuff." The last was said very very softly, she didn't want to upset Riley.
She offered the demon a smile and moved to sit next to her taking the offered icky stix and ripping open the top to pour the powdery sugar onto her tongue. Mmmm that was good, but she couldn't see why Riley had eaten SO many...and she still had boxes and boxes worth.
"Riley you don't feel...sick? From all this sugar?" She looked at her worried and lightly moved a hand to rub the purple demons shoulder.
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2011 4:39 pm
Malodore ascended then rest of the way up the ladder, reaching out to give Christof a hand once its feet were planted firmly inside of Riley's bedroom. It had not been in her bedroom before, but it was still fairly sure that her usual decor did not include boxes and boxes labeled Icky Stix...
Bother. "Let's try and get some of these out the window," it sighed in Christof's direction. It could hear other voices outside of this room. They could keep Riley distracted for now.
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