MC Dorms: 2009: Home for the Holidays.

[The Count]

*Gets ready and leaves for an important family meeting.
*Uncle D prepares omelettes/omwiches for other roomies if they want any breakfast, along with big butterscotch cookies.

 

[The Count]

Hey guys, I'm back. Anything go on while I was gone?
*UD: Same old, same old.

Oh... Thanks. *Sits down for some breakfast/lunch, as I didn't eat before leaving.
*Sipping a Coke with microwaved sandwich. *Going over some errands on the to-do list. *Puts it aside to just relax for a while longer.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (in room 2, studying)

Spike, Pearl, Newsie, and Cotterpin (find Cait): We're ready! Where are we going? We'll chip in for gas! Let's go for a ride!

 

[The Count]

Dead? This place? Yeah, guess so.
*Uncle D leaves brownies for Nora.
*Ed leaves some for Kelly.
*Count leaves some more for Mimzy.

 

[RedPiggy]

Kelly (gets out of bed, scared): EEEP!

Spike (still sleepy): What is it? ZZZZZZZZZZ!

Kelly: There was a light in the bedroom. It was kinda like a nightlight, and there was this shadow that kept going back and forth on the bookshelf. I thought maybe the pups got in the room.

Spike: So?

Kelly (ominous pause): I don't HAVE a nightlight in my room ... O_O

 

[RedPiggy]

Spike (tending a fire outside the dorms): Okay, who's up?

Newsie (on the TV): Please feel free to meet Room 2's Scary Story party outside by the parking lot. There will be campfires, marshmallows, barbeque, scary stories, creepy sound effects, and other spooky stuff.

Cotterpin (eating a black lollipop at Spike's "campfire"): Okay, I had a really weird thing going on. *creepy music plays* I was headed deep into a chasm, just west of Doozer Dome. It was dark, and no amount of singing lit up the caves. In fact -- it was like music was being sucked right out of your throat! All you could hear was a set of heartbeats and creepy voices. *sips on some tea* I found myself nearly ramming into a heap of Doozer sticks, all scattered around.

Pearl (sipping some tea): What happened?

Cotterpin (gulps): I looked everywhere for a bolt cutter, for a hammer, for a drill ... for anything that could help me build some scaffolding. *long pause, inhales* But ... but ...

Kelly (sighs): Yeah? Get on with it!

Cotterpin (bursts out): THERE WERE NO TOOLS! I COULDN'T BUILD A THING! EEP! *buries her head in her hands*

Kelly: -_-

Cotterpin (peeks out): You don't think that's scary?

Kelly (shakes head angrily): You became architect apprentice so you wouldn't HAVE to build!

Cotterpin (growling): THAT'S NOT THE POINT! *trembles* For a Doozer, not having tools is the scariest thing you can think of ....

 

[The Count]

*Waiting for a PM reply from She Who Lives in Room 2.

 

[RedPiggy]

Pearl (sits at the campfire): Well, I reckon I'll try an' come up with a real humdinger of a tale. *scratches chin* Hmmm. I reckon the scariest time in mah life was when I was --.

Spike: Thin?

Pearl (smirks at Spike): Boy, you bettah be glad I feel I EARNED all this junk in mah trunk! Ahem. When I was a teenager, I was bustin' out o' mah seams, tryin' ta make mah way in the cold, cruel world. I went up an' joined the circus with a cute lil' lizard named Buttons. We were made for each other. There weren't a moment we weren't stuck together like glue. Anyhow, one fateful day, Buttons decided he was gonna make the audiences happy with a cannon. He packed that thing up with gunpowder for an hour.

Cotterpin: O_O And he blew up?

Pearl (shakes her head): Heck no! You know how much he weighed? Ain't no lil' firecracker gonna launch some megaton piece o' fine meat, y'know. *chuckles* Anyway, he done set it up right an' everything, stuffed his lil' self in to the cannon, an' lit the fuse. *long pause*




Pearl (claps hard finally): BAM! He done flew straight through the tent an' landed right on a bullseye!

Spike (nearly falling asleep): Are we gonna get to da scary part now?

Pearl (scratching her head): Well, actually, the ringleader was plumb sure Buttons was gonna land on the audience, an' he had a heart attack an' died right there on the spot.

Cotterpin: Golly.

Pearl (nods): O' course, that was before the autopsy found out Buttons had landed on that ringleader, but whatever. *shrugs* But evah since that night, on that very spot, the ringleader's voice would announce the act, no matter what was goin' on.

Spike: -_- You can't REALLY t'ink dat was creepy.

Pearl (shrugs): Well, we didn't quite know how ta pay a ghost for his services. The red tape ALONE was a right nightmare.

Spike (facepalms): Will someone PLEASE get a good story goin'?

 

[RedPiggy]

Newsie (shows up dressed as Father Marron)

Kelly (breaking 4th wall): Okay, ladies and germs ... if you wanna see Newsie act all dignified, please press 1. If you want him to say what I want him to say, please press 2.

 

[RedPiggy]

Newsie (tips his hat, then starts to do a little jig): I've been up and I've been down! Your head's been goin' all around! Time to smash that locust under my feet! After you float some more, I'll make sure you hit the door ... 'Cause my Holy Water Gun you can't beat! *squirts her with water* With a fling, with a fling, with a fling o' my wrist, I diss you! *stops singing* Kelly! I cast thee out of me! This is intolerable! I'm a respected journalist -- not some slave to ratings! *hurls himself out of the window, sprains his ankle* Owww...