52 - Phone/Action

[ceasetoexist]

[Phone]

So, y'know? A bunch of people are babbling about yet another stupid dance, but forgetting what's most important about this month.

Halloween. The single best holiday ever.

Which leads me to ask: does anyone actually have anything planned for it? Last year's kinda sucked, but maybe we'll get lucky and crap won't go insane this year. So let's do some kind of widespread party, or make a haunted house or something. It's the one time of year actually worth anything, so hey! Let's do something, you nerds.

[[It's odd. For once, he actually sounds excited about something.]

[Halloween is a remarkably big thing for Pokey. In a lot of ways, it's one arguably one of the few things that goes in his list of "things that make me happy". And so, even though he has until the end of the month, he clearly needs to prepare for it now. Especially after how everything went to hell in October last year, getting ready early couldn't hurt. So Pokey can be found around town doing a few things today.]

A. The Comic Shop

[One of the most important things about Halloween, of course, is getting a decent costume. And as hokey as some comics can be? Sometimes they have some pretty cool looking villains. So at least those could give him some ideas. While reading through one, he gives a small snort.]

Lame.

[And throws the comic to the ground. There's quite a pile of them now, just littering the area as he tries to find something decent.]

B. Screwing Around on the Lawn of 502 Ricardo Street

[Halloween also means there needs to be Halloween decorations. Considering he hasn't found too many to his own liking at the stores, however, Pokey has taken it upon himself to make his own. So the yard is currently littered with cardboard and spray paint as Pokey tries to make his own ghoulish displays of festering zombies, vampires, and other monsters. To say Pokey isn't artistically inclined would be generous, but hey. He seems to be enjoying trying at least.

Occasionally, he takes a break to sit beside a large tarp. Underneath it is the remains of Josephine, slowly starting to come back together as the boy and those he's asked for assistance have helped him with it since the mechas destruction. He leans against it, slowly sitting beside it. It's odd. In a way, even if she still isn't complete again, the mech's presence is comforting. And he'd like to imagine that, even if he isn't working on her at the moment? His presence is in some odd way comforting to her, as if it could actually tell he was there.

And he picks up something he'd laid down at the spot, and works on it. Not a part of the mech, but something smaller. Still a device to work on, a simple one, meant just for practice and to entertain himself and, in a weird way, for nostalgia. It'd been awhile since he'd made one, and he felt like doing it just to see if he could remember it.

For anyone choosing to pass by at that moment, it looks like Pokey's making some kind of gun out of...well, a bottle of mustard. Not the most impressive thing, but it looks like it could actually function.]

C. The Drive-In Theater

[Pokey may be too young to use a car, but that's not exactly stopping him from getting into the drive-through either way and just sneaking to one of the unoccupied spots or, otherwise, leaning against one of the less attentive drones' cars. The movies still suck, as far as he's concerned, but at least their playing monster movies there which is better than the crap they play at the Atomic Cinema.

Oh. And just so you know?]

Hey! Hey stupid! Don't go in there!

[Yeah. Pokey's one of those people. So enjoy hearing some kid just shouting at the screen if you're there today.]

Comments

Phone

[luxury-banana.livejournal.com]

Nwehehe! Now you're talking. That's one holiday I haven't seen for too many years and it's high time it came back.

[Fassad also seems to have some fond memories about Halloween. His taste for western clothes and the Magypsies' occasionally dabbling in these human practices worked together for once during Halloween. With one hand on the phone and the other hand being used to stroke his mustache, Fassad considers all the possibilities that can come out of this.]

But whatever we do, we will not have zombies. My taste for them has run out like the bland bananas in this town.

Phone

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What? They don't have Halloween in the future?

[Holy crap, what a shithole. Seriously, what'd he do to screw the world up so bad that there was no Halloween.]

...I think I'd agree with that. Kinda tired of zombies for the most part, myself.

Action A - Comic Shop

[alienfromkansas.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it.

[He doesn't look happy about the comics either. Why did he agree to check them out? They just tell lies about him.]

Action A - Comic Shop

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I know right? I mean I know comics are lame, but you'd think they'd have some good costume ideas. What are half of these jokers even wearing?

[And, true to form? He's read through some Superman comics, but he's yet to recognize you yet, Clark.]

[phone]

[vitalizes.livejournal.com]

I freakin' love Halloween!

But I don't have any plans yet. A haunted house sounds really sweet, I know I'd be up for workin' on one if others would too.

[phone]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Awesome. Least some folks got some taste in this hellhole.

B

[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Suddenly, there's a familiar presence at Pokey's side. Slugger takes a seat on the ground and watches for a moment before speaking.]

Is that for the K.N.D.?

B

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey makes a few more small adjustments before giving a small nod to Slugger.]

Yeah. It's called a M.U.S.K.E.T.

502 Ricardo

[hatinonlayton.livejournal.com]

[Don Paolo stands on the lawn and regards the Halloween decorations with disdain.]

502 Ricardo

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey, meanwhile, just ignore the man for the moment. If Paolo isn't doing anything, Pokey won't screw with him. Yet.

He'll just go about working on his decorations.]

[Phone]

[redthenightless.livejournal.com]

Oh? Celebrations for All Hallow's Eve? How interesting~

[Phone]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Uh, yeah! What, they don't celebrate Halloween where you're from?

[a]

[flameyedhunter.livejournal.com]

A haunted house? That sounds interesting.

[a]

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Course it's interesting. It's part of Halloween.

Phone

[brotherseyes.livejournal.com]

If anyone is going to do something, it might make sense to do it a few days before the actual holiday. That way, even if the town does try to do something terrible on Halloween, the celebration won't fall on the same day.

Phone

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...Yeah. I know. I know.

[And he really hates that. Pokey's not really given to nostalgia or crap like that, but if there's one day of the year he's fond of? It's Halloween.]

But we might as well start planning soon anyway.

[fineday4science.livejournal.com]

I could probably help make some anamatronic things for the haunted house if you need it!

I am usually not a fan of haunted houses... but working one, on the other hand...

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well, you wanna work on one we'll set one up then.

Me though? I love 'em.

B

[a-gentle-boy.livejournal.com]

[Lucas stands watching the mess from a distance for a little while. Some sort of morbid curiosity searches for an image of the Ultimate Chimera or any of the other monstrosities he knows Pokey would have later created.]

B

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[No Ultimate Chimera yet, but it probably doesn't help that at least some of the props and images he's made are pretty clearly animal hybrids. He may not know what a chimera is, but he's at least had some idea.

And then he spots Lucas. And for a moment, just stares back.]

....What?

B - Now that I finally have an idea of when for something she'll be dealing with

[infinitemars.livejournal.com]

[This probably isn't the best idea, but after looking over Pokey's displays, Kira calls out to him]

Um... excuse me... are you trying to make those realistic...?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[The boy just looks over to the girl and shrugs.]

Eh, just making them really.

It'd be cool if they were scary. But eh.

phone

[redtogold.livejournal.com]

[[Quite suddenly:] I'm going to get candy with this nice lady and other people! Unu!

phone

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is trick or treating squirt.

[He'll assume the "nice lady" is Gash's drone mom, as he wonders if the kid even gets the idea of the drones.]

What're you going as?

Phone

[badend-replay.livejournal.com]

mi~i. Something fun for Halloween would be quite fun. I do not know what I can contribute, but I could certainly attempt to help out~.

Phone

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

Some people I know are putting together a haunted house. You want in?