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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.]

B

Date: 2011-10-09 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 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.

Date: 2011-10-09 06:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
For shooting acid.

[He's joking (hopefully).]

Date: 2011-10-09 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
[That gets a smile out of him.]

Naw, just mustard.

[But acid WOULD be cool]

Date: 2011-10-09 07:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Could work. Only doing this one since I was shown how to make it before.

Date: 2011-10-09 07:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
[Slugger has decided that if he should ever build one of these, it will be filled with hot sauce. Or kerosene. Whichever he gets his hands on first. It looks simple enough as he watches Pokey build his.]

So. Homecoming dance...

[This is all he says and already he's grinning like a jackal.]

Date: 2011-10-09 07:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
What? You asking me out?

[Yeah, there's just a slow grin starting to grow on his face.]

Thinking we ought to get to what we planned last time?

Date: 2011-10-09 07:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
[You bastard.]

This time we kill the lights, no matter what.

Date: 2011-10-09 07:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
[Hey he thought it was a pretty good one.]

Sounds good to me. Wanna see if we can set the sprinkler off too?

Date: 2011-10-09 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
Yeah. ...How would we do that?

Date: 2011-10-09 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
How do you think?

We'll put a flame up to one of the fire detectors or set something on fire.

Simple.

Date: 2011-10-10 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
[Slugger considers this. It's something he'd thought of doing as well, but the idea was compromised by one problem.]

How do we reach the ceiling?

Date: 2011-10-10 12:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
....I've got no clue.

So set something on fire it is, I guess.

Date: 2011-10-10 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
[That would take a big fire and probably a bit of time before the smoke reaches the detectors. Slugger doesn't have a problem with this, per se, but as he thinks about it, another problem arises relating to the fire.]

Then it wouldn't be dark anymore. Can there be smoke without fire?

Date: 2011-10-10 12:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
...Crap. Good point.

Maybe a firecracker then, or something. Or there has to be some manual control for it...

Date: 2011-10-10 02:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
Got a couple left, yeah.

[Still, fire is so much more entertaining.]

Date: 2011-10-10 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
I could set one on the rafters while you cut the power.

[Tentative plan of action. He's rubbing his chin and looking much too philosophical.]

Date: 2011-10-10 03:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
[Impossible. You cannot look too philosophical when you're planning to prank a dance.]

Works for me.

How far in do you want to do this?

Date: 2011-10-10 03:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
Midway?

[Hopefully, when most of the people are there.]

Date: 2011-10-10 03:14 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
That's what I was thinking.

Where do you want to meet. On the bleachers, or what?

[Cause God knows he doesn't have anything else to do with this.]

Date: 2011-10-10 03:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
Sure.

[Another grin as their plans come together. Slugger then reaches to his side and picks up one of the cardboard cut-outs Pokey had made earlier. It's a ghoul face.]

What's this?

Date: 2011-10-10 03:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
What are you, stupid? ..Well, stupider than usual, I guess.

It's a monster. What's wrong with you?

Date: 2011-10-10 03:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] strike-you-out.livejournal.com
[He doesn't realize until after he's snapped you over the head with it how painless it must have been.]

What for?

Date: 2011-10-10 03:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] godisachild.livejournal.com
[Seriously. Pokey just looks annoyed by the snap.]

....Halloween, you friggin' dork. Come on.

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