The strange spell lifted as the sun came down, and left dozens of gremlins looking confused and bewildered all over the island. They skittered home quickly to tell tales of their terrible, no-good-day. Soon, a decision was made, and lo and behold, just an hour after sundown, signs started to appear everywhere reading SORY and WE MAKE IT UP TO U, ( Read more... )

Like so many weekends before it, the calm of a September Saturday morning was interrupted by the unscheduled opening of a portal in the park. This one sprang to life in a blaze of blue and gold and a burst of glitter before settling into something more stable ( Read more... )

As it turned out, conventions were super easy to organize when you had the power to make everything happen, so guess what you had to deal with today, Fandom! That's right, overnight the community center had been taken over by as many NPC fans of Fandom High that could possibly fit in it, and everyone was so happy to be able to mingle with other ( Read more... )

Okay, so it had taken him a few days to realize that the radio staff wasn't broadcasting from the radio station.

They'll all gone on a ship, and left him, Captain Barbossa, behind on dry land ( Read more... )

"Why are you dressed like that?" Jolee asked Tino when he got to the bar tonight ( Read more... )

"Happy holidays, me hearties!" Barbossa crowed into the microphone. "How be yer sugar highs this week? Did ye enjoy the feast o' holiday music that the squirrels 'n me assembled? Do ye want t' kill yerself every time ye hear 'Christmas Shoes'? It be almost th' end of the semester--" which he only remembered because of the giant note his staff had ( Read more... )

Barbossa was on a bench sharing his rum with a huge gaggle of slightly unkept men with cameras, laughing as they exchanged the gossip of the town with him.

"Really?" he crowed. "So it were a gremlin bite last night? Here, be havin' more rum!"

It may or may not have occurred to Barbossa that the squirrels weren't normally human.

To someone who was from a galaxy far, far away and had been to so many planets with far too many local customs to remember all of them, Thanksgiving wasn't anything too special. It was just another harvest festival, only it wasn't done with nearly the style or stench of a harvest festival on Kashyyyk. Wookiees knew how to party ( Read more... )

The ceremony had been beautiful. And the evening was only getting started. The guests were ushered into the large tent that had been erected (hee) in the park earlier in the day. The caterers had delivered and set up food and enough free alcohol to drink the entire town into a coma ( Read more... )

"Happy Friday, me hearties!" Barbossa crowed into the microphone ( Read more... )