[Crack Plot] Attack of the Vampire Melons 2.5: The Rise of the Squash

[gardenwarlock]

This summer has a unique situation: there's a blue moon at the end of the summer, as the days grow shorter and the angle the sun grows lower, leading to cooler days. Klingsor, anticipating it, has harvested the remaining melons and has already uprooted the vines

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[cantplaygod]

Reese was on the porch, eating some spring rolls he'd found in the fridge (likely someone else's supper), but the racket draws his attention and he just about drops his plate as he jumps to his feet, hand reaching for the Glock he's tucked into the back waistband of his trousers but not gripping it yet.

"What's all that?" he demands, seeing movement in the shadows...

[binkypowah]

This sort of thing isn't safe for extremely tiny beings, so have a floating, extremely panicked toddler perhaps run into your face.

"What are those things?"

[cantplaygod]

Reese staggers back: this is so out of his range, he's in a place where he usually isn't and doesn't particularly care much for, and that place is Totally Out of His Depth.

"That's what I would like to know," he says. "And what... are you?"

[binkypowah]

"I'm Koenma Daioh, son of the Enma Daioh, Eastern King of the Dead. And you are, human?" He nearly rattles that off, since he is rather scared.

[booradley_girl]

Dancy has seen some weird things.

She's fought a thing that crawled out of the swamp and killed her grandmother and mother.

She's slain a were-leopard, and she's fought an abandoned church full of monsters, including a twisted Nephillim sent by a post-modern faery queen, intending to kill her.

She's released a tired immortal and outwitted another that tried to drive her mad.

She's destroyed a bottle containing "a thousand ways to die".

She's never seen anything like this. But she's perched on the wall surrounding the rose garden, and she's armed with the butcher knife she'd brought with her.

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka is slipping along the wall, sword in hand. He's trying to make it to Klingsor's garden, hoping the deadly vegetables have not yet made short work of the warlock.

But he hasn't gotten that far yet. And then, he sees Dancy. "Good evening," he says. "I don't believe we've met before."

[booradley_girl]

She'll peer down at him, narrowing her pinkish eyes a bit, this pale girl who looks like she might be a none-to-distant relative to Muraki.

"No, we haven't," she says.

Then looking back at the battling squash, she asks, "What are those things...doing?"

[in_summer_leaf]

"I'm Hisoka Kurosaki," he replies. "Hurling themselves at the Mansion residents, mostly. I'm not sure what they're intending. They seem to have very rudimentary minds."

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka hears the racket and rushes out onto the front porch. "What the hell??? Not AGAIN???"

[thistle_muncher]

He might hear a supremely annoyed and *scared* "Ho'ohh!" coming from the garden and something small comes barreling out of the shadows and heading for the porch -- Eeyore, a squash bounding after him.

[in_summer_leaf]

Hisoka perceives the situation, vaults over the rail to leave the steps clear for Eeyore, lifting his sword and stepping swiftly in front of the squash. "Halt, vicious vegetable! You shall not touch that plush donkey!"

[thistle_muncher]

Eeyore scrambles up the steps onto the porch and scoots under a porch swing. "Better you than I, Hisoka: You have a sword," he says. And as spooked as he is, Eeyore just can't look away...

[pigeonsblood]

Ruby is on her way into the house to raid the kitchen (anyone who left something especially good in the fridge may have found it missing, because she's all about the finders keepers) when she hears the noise.
She freezes; her first thought is that a particularly inept night lurker has left their mobile phone on. Then she remembers that she hasn't seen anyone here using a phone of any kind, and besides, the noise is somehow more... organic than that.

And then she sees what's bouncing and tumbling across the lawn. She stares incredulously for a moment, then a broad, delighted grin spreads itself across her face.
"You have got to be kidding me."

She'll follow them as far as the house and then head for the kitchen.

[silvereyedphage]

She'll find she has company in the kitchen, in the form of a tall, slim, pale Japanese gentleman, clad in a summer weight black and white yukata, sleeves pushed up, and filling a large stock pot at the sink.

And if she looks closely, she might notice something angelic about him: he's not the vessel of an angel, but there's something there...

[pigeonsblood]

Ruby's first reaction is disappointment; if people already know about boiling water for vampire melons, that's an ace she doesn't get to keep up her sleeve. Oh well.

She busies herself instead looking for any more suitable water boiling containers, while she eyes the man at the sink with undisguised curiosity. While she's waiting behind him to fill her pot - at least this way it looks like she came here purely to be helpful - she wrinkles her nose at him.
"Hi. You reek of angels, man."

[silvereyedphage]

He remove the pot, stepping back from the sink. He turns to look at her, peering through his fringe and his rimless eyeglasses, his good eye narrowing a bit, curiously.

"You've got a good nose: a pretty one as well," he says, his baritenor voice mellow yet with a Jeremy Irons-esque nasal hum to it. "And I see you've encountered the latest vegetable intruders that rolled out of the night."