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 Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:25 pm
"Into your room now. C'mon." Riyo mumbled quietly as she shooed the last straggler, her boxcat, into the room she'd made especially for her hoard of cats. She had no idea what this Pepin ghoul was like... Besides extremely enthusiastic and somewhat... Glitchy. Yes, that word worked.
She had spent the last hour making sure every last inch of the jack damn dorm room was clean, not particularly for experiments sake but because she would be damned if anybody perceived her as a dirty person. Pride and all that.
The room itself had a very regal air. The parts that weren't covered in an enchanting dark oak were accented in crimson, along with the (expensive looking) canopy bed. Of course, there was a kitchen area. An old looking table most likely perfect for a small gathering such as this, and a worn-in desk when she was working solo.
The feline was still dreading this whole situation, considering she was more than happy to do any assignment alone, but whatever the homework called for, she would complete. Unfortunately.
Having a seat at her table, Riyo sighed and stared at her dust bunnies quietly, waiting for the knock that would signal the start of what she could only assume to be a disaster in the making. To which, she would respond "The door's unlocked."
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:46 pm
Pepin was feeling a bit mixed about the partner she was given. A most social butterfly, it was hard for her to handle the reaction that Riyo had given her in class without feeling a tad nervous. She had to be extra charming for this demoness it seemed, and one wrong move could break the scale of a relationship. Not that they would be paired forever, but to the glitch ghost they might as well be.
"HELLOOOOO. I AM HERE?" Pepin chimed from the other side of the ghoul's door. Even with Riyo's warning, she just HAD to present herself flamboyantly. Opening the door and floating her way in Pepin had a doofy smile plastered on her face behind her dust bunny babies. "Oh MY~" she gasped, nearly dropping her jars- again. "Your room is... is beautiful! It's so charming~"
She hovered over and set the bunnies down next to Riyo's and stuck her hand out in midair, having to float pretty far off the ground to be at eye level with the other. biggrin "I'm Pepin Molyneau, am I'm really excited to be your par- par- partner!"
Like a censor bar her face twitched into an array of blurred blocks for a moments time before it all settled again. "You ready to STUDY? Study HARD? Because I sure am. These little nasties were a challenge, weren't they?"
Come on, you're doing great! She will enjoy this idle talk, won't she? OH PLEASE LIKE ME ;w;
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:43 pm
Riyo rolled her eyes as she heard the ghoul loudly make her presence known. Jack she hoped Pepin wouldn't be yelling the whole time they were researching this.
At the very least, Riyo appreciated the comment on her room. "Thank you." Though she cringed at the thought of Pepin's dust bunnies escaping and ravaging the place much like they had did in the class.
As the ghost stuck her hand out in front of the feline, she looked down at it with an unimpressed glance. "I'm Riyo. I don't shake hands." As charming and flattering as Pepin was trying to be, her partner wouldn't appear to crack so easily.
"Yes, well-" Riyo paused momentarily as she noticed the ghoul's mouth change, raising an eyebrow as she continued. "I'm always prepared to study, and study HARD." She mimicked the ghost ghoul's emphasis before glancing over the jars again. "I've had worse tasks to accomplish." Cannon cats. They had given her a large blow to her ego, but it had obviously returned with the easy capture of the dust bunnies. "I wonder if these little suckers can multiply in a confined space like this..." Well, it didn't appear that she'd be rubbing that fact in... Too much. Poking at her jar, Riyo's tail swayed behind her as she watched the fuzz balls shoot her a hateful stare. It was a mutual feeling.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:58 pm
Pepin's panic meter was going off in her head, though the visible effects more than likely just blended in with the rest of her unsettled form. "Erm... okay well..." Before retracting the offer her gloves squeezed together and made a tight crinkling noise.
Reflecting the mood, Pepin hovered back down and sat on the floor with her legs scrambled about, setting the jars between them and taking a quick glance at the shadow beneath Riyo's bed.
Resist the urge, resist. RESIST. she thought to herself, relocating her hands from the lids of her jars to the floor behind her. "Wait so.. what are we supposed to do exactly to study them? Are we supposed to look around under your bed or-?" :/
The ghoul picked up the glass that held the bunny she caught between her boobs and tapped angrily at it's surrounding force-field. "We could maybe look some stuff up on the interweb or something. I just wonder if Savage is going to have a pop quiz on them. She DID give me a pop quiz the first time I met her," she said hanging her head before looking back up to Riyo. She wanted to ask what she'd dealt with before but wasn't sure if it'd cause further awkwardness.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 2:05 pm
The crinkling of the ghoul's gloves made Riyo's ears twitch. A very unpleasant noise indeed. As she stared at her little prisoners, the feline's face scrunched. "Good question." Riyo's eyes wandered to Pepin just as her eyes returned from under the bed. Oh, yeah. She had a few things stashed under there, didn't she? ********, why hadn't she thought about that?
"I guess we'll just have to cover all our bases and try everything. My laptop is under some papers on that desk." It was a nice one, too. Barely used. "I imagine you're better at using those things than I am." Call it a hunch. The cat demon knew how to check her squee-mails and groanspring, but that was really about it.
Standing up, Riyo left her dust bunnies on the table momentarily in favor of reaching under her bed to grab a big box. A big, locked box. Now what could be in that? "We won't have to worry about pop quizzes too much if we understand everything about these Jack-forsaken creatures by the time this study session is over." Quickly she tried to stash the box in her closet, doing her best not to make a big deal out of it. "I wonder what it takes to destroy them.."
A thought that made the creature's in her jar freeze in fear.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:42 pm
Pepin floated over to Riyo's desk swiftly determining it best to sort of follow any orders or suggestions in the other's presence. "Over here, ya?" she asked prodding around the papers to reveal the computer. All too naturally the ghoul picked the thing up and held it carefully before traveling back to Riyo's bed and laying on her belly on the floor.
"Do... is it... alright?" Of course when she asked she had already slipped her ghostly hand to the power switch and booted it up almost instantaneously. "I er... SO-"
Pepin diverted her attention to the box Riyo had just removed and scratched her cheek curiously. "Wait what was that?" she asked and peered over the screen of the now opened laptop. Although Riyo's next question sparked her interest some. "Well... now that you ask," Pepin wavered from the computer and took off a glove to reach into the jar through the glass and squeeze the dustbunny inside. It was sorta cheating as a ghost but she wasn't ready to release the demon creatures in Riyo's dorm just yet. She was still trying to win the cat over.
"You know you dress pretty interesting, ghoulie," Pepin tried to smile while the dustbunny screamed for dear life. "I don't mean to change the subject but you've just got this- this style. Your room is like it too. I guess a lot of demons are like that but not all of them yanno. Any.. ways... ahem.." she nervously looked back to the bunny as it passed out from her grasp.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 4:25 pm
Riyo was doing her very best to ignore the fact that her personal space had been invaded by a complete stranger. It grated on her insides that she had to let this ghoul wander around her room for the sake of a grade, but at the very least she was able to hide her frustration with that.
As the computer booted up, it appeared Riyo had a fondness for her own species. Everything was cats. Cat background, cat icons, cat pointer... How... Adorable. "Yes, it's f-" The box. How had the feline thought she would be able to avoid a conversation about the box? "A box. With a lock on it. Nothing very special inside. Just a picture and a journal." Riyo shrugged as she spoke, quietly closing the door behind her. The sad thing was, she wasn't lying. Just downplaying the sentimental value of both items. Dramatically.
Now that the box was taken care of, Riyo approached the ghost ghoul on the floor, the sound of her boots echoing through the room. Well, that was a neat little trick. Sitting down on her knees, her crimson eyes focused on the screeching creature in the bottle. Would it pop? would it disappear? Or would it just... Die?
"Interesting?" Riyo questioned with a raised eyebrow. She didn't dress like a slut, that was certain. Was that supposed to be a compliment or something? "When I was a child, I mostly just threw on things to be as clothed as I could without suffocating myself." The demon admitted, sighing when the dust bunny passed out. "When I inherited a business, I couldn't do that anymore, so I had to come to a compromise. I suppose my tastes just... Conformed to that." It had taken her a moment to find a good word, but conformed worked rather well. It wasn't that she didn't like it, but that there was practically no choice in the matter anyways.
Thinking over her words for a moment, Riyo's glance turned up to Pepin. "And what of you? Why do you dress so-" Non offensive word. Hm... "Sparsely?" Eh. That worked.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 8:37 pm
Fortunately Pepin had little interest in a book and picture although the fact that those were the only things inside the box, according to Riyo at least, was enough for her to keep in mind in case she need to risk her neck later. The digital world was her bread and drama her butter, ew.
O^O
Pepin's eyes grew large at the sight of Riyo's interface. Not even the interweb had this many cats on it.
OwO
Almost forgetting she'd been complimenting the other, she straightened up quickly and darted her eyes momentarily or whatever could be deciphered as such. Removing her hand now from the jar, she rolled it aside and continued to peck here and there at the computer keyboard before she nibbled her lip. "Sparsely means less data. Less Lag. If I bogged myself down with all the belts and buckles I'd get NO WHERE," she smiled and poked her own cheek. "It'd be like walking with your feet baked in concrete!"
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:12 pm
Riyo's eyebrow raised at the sight of Pepin's face. What? Had something popped up that wasn't supposed to? Leaning forward enough to where she could see the screen, it appeared that everything was in order... Huh...
When the ghost ghoul's hand slipped back out of the jar, Riyo carefully picked it up and shook the little creature inside with interest. Was it dead? Was it faking? Riyo couldn't tell. "That's... Actually a pretty good reason." Her face seemed to be in awe over the revelation that there were acceptable situations to be scantily clad. Even a prude such as herself could see that. Huh. So it was just because of her species and the fact that they slowed her down significantly. The cat ghoul supposed that was a fine enough reason to be almost naked. Maybe.
"Maybe we should look up how to tell if a dust bunny is dead." The feline mused, setting the jar back down to grab her own fuzzy foes. "And we can try setting them under the bed in the jar." Hopefully that wouldn't backfire on her.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 10:22 pm
Nodding happily Pepin let Riyo continue to identify with her dress code. Literally. "Do you really think I would dress like this normally??" biggrin ;;;; She smiled nervously, knowing that after walking around in a body suit most of her unlife she would more than likely continue to do so even as the living. "Okay well anyway-"
Instead of typing out a search Pepin began to place her hand into the device and search for their question on the interweb. At first she did it without hesitation but when she saw a couple of characters jarred off the line of text she gulped and turned to Riyo.
"On second thought.. perhaps you should do any typing heh," she turned the computer to the demoness to show her the strange stray symbols. "I can't actually type things out or it gets kinda garbled like this. It's okay sometimes but you've got a really nice computer and I'd hate to screw something up because I put in information." It had worked for Mitsu because Pepin had worked with old computers before and felt more confident in fixing them. New ones however were just virus bait for a glitch like her. Just the idea of the nice new software data-moshing itself into oblivion gave her a delightful chill. Riyo definitely didn't deserve such damage.
Stopping herself while she was ahead she rolled away from the laptop and to the other conscious dustbunnies. "You want me to set them under there while you type?" she asked unable but to admire the gorgeous bed skirt beside her. Riyo really did have a gorgeous room. Perhaps she could be convinced of slumber parties~! owo
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:14 am
Well, Riyo had seen people dress in less than that with no more of an excuse than 'they just liked the breeze'. Ugh. She needed to instate a dress code for her company. And maybe one just for the succubi. Out of spite. Riyo was not above spite.
When the laptop was pointed back in her direction, the strange stray symbols were the first things to catch her attention. What... How strange. Carefully, the feline lifted the computer and sat it on her lap. "Yes, that would be fine." Riyo agreed, the sound of clickity-clacking killing the silence of the room. "Just.. Keep an eye on them. I like my room not ravaged by filthy rabid vermin." Though... There was always a back-up plan should such a situation arise. What most people didn't know is that the cat demon had formed a small army in the short time she had been attending Amityville... And they were as close as a closed door.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 10:21 am
Pepin nodded officially towards Riyo before she placed the jars as far as she could reach under the bed and peered at them from outside. Her noisy eyes lit up just enough under the bed to see the reflection on the glass.
"I would not blame you. It'd be pretty easy to stop them in mine though. Well as long as they don't latch on to my laptop and make it overheat. That'd be a big ordeal heh." The ghoul pulled back to see if Riyo had found anything significant yet.
"Yanno how Savage was talking about portals with beds? Do you think dustbunnies know how to work them?" Amongst her silly demeanor the question was actually pretty serious. "Maybe they are like the power plugs. Or something like that. A series of tubes even?"
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 12:48 pm
"Oh?" Riyo looked a little confused at Pepin's explanation of her bed, until it hit her. Wait. She... Lived in a computer?
It... Made sense, she supposed. The only species Riyo was very familiar with was her own, because she had to deal with them so much growing up and in the present day.
"It says on Ickipedia that you can kill a dust bunny with... Cleaning supplies. Like Pine-Maul." The feline condensed the paragraph upon paragraph of rambling as quickly as she could and turned the laptop to show Pepin. "I wonder how many variations of dust bunny killing theories are on the interweb..." Probably too many.
Ears perking at the mention of their teacher, Riyo pulled her eyes away from the screen to look at her partner. "So... You think the dust bunnies could be some sort of catalyst to opening portals." At first, her raised eyebrow and questioning tone said the ghoul didn't believe a word of it...
... But the more she thought...
"My Jack." Immediately Riyo's head turned back to the screen as she typed in 'dust bunny portals' into greugle. There had to be a way to test that theory.
The feline had already forgotten that nobody was paying attention to the bunnies already under her bed.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:07 pm
Perhaps their theory was a little far-fetched seeing as the only websites that showed were hardly credible and possibly laced with malware and suspicious tags.
"I really only trust Ickypedia anyways and if they say cleaning supplies maybe we should go grab some. Do you have any here?" she asked. "I have a couple polishes back at my dorm so they may or may not work. "Maybe if we torture them enough with cleaning supplies they will show us the portal!"
Pepin grew giddy and leaped up to start clapping until she realized she had stopped watching the dustbunnies that had been under the bed.
((do you want them to escape into the room or no? xD))
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 5:23 pm
"Oh yes, plenty." Riyo nodded, sitting the computer down to grab some of the pine-maul she kept under the sink in the kitchen. "We should just... Pour it in the jar and let them drown in it..."
Wait, yes torture. That's it. "Maybe the energy they put off from extreme strife is the key to making portals. Which begs the question, how many dust bunnies does it take? Maybe they multiply to such huge numbers in order to create the energy necessary for forming portals." So many theories running through her head... Until she heard glass break.
"... What was that?" The ghoul asked with wide eyes.
It had come from under the bed, hadn't it?
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