[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.

[cantplaygod]

"King of the Dead...? What are you, some kind of god?" he asks, caught between not quite believing, and thinking 'if growling squash, why not gods that look like babies??'

He's not agnostic, he actually believes in God on his better days, he just *hates* the Big Guy...

[binkypowah]

"More or less." Koenma utters.

[cantplaygod]

He runs his hand over his eyes, baffled and unsettled by all this. "What kind of place *is* this," he murmurs. "Am I going nuts?"

[binkypowah]

"You obviously don't look it."

Yes the Little God is being sarcastic.

[cantplaygod]

"So does anyone know what those things are?" he asks, looking back at the strangely behaving squash.

[binkypowah]

"I'm not all that sure... they were perfectly normal vegetables until magic got on them."

[cantplaygod]

"Magic? You mean there's real magic here?" he asks, still skeptical.

A squash will bounce against the base of the porch, emitting an especially loud "BRRRR!" before dropping to the ground as if stunned. Reese actually starts back, drawing the Glock and aiming at the thing.

[binkypowah]

"That enraged squash is all the proof you'll need! Shoot it!" Koenma orders.

[cantplaygod]

"Looks like it's knocked out," he says, but he doesn't retract the gun. And it's wise he doesn't, since the thing rolls away a little ways, emitting a grown. Then with a yowl, it starts to bound toward the porch.

It's reaching the peak of one bounce when Reese fires, hitting the thing, sending it splattering all over the grass.