☆ First Haunting ☆

[not_booberry]

[There's a clatter over the phone lines, as one of the phones at 337 Brady Lane gets knocked off the hook when Phantasma's arm doesn't pass right through it. Well, that's weird!! Whatever! There's another series of loud crashes as she proceeds to run into basically everything in the room like a bull in a china shop, knocking lamps and picture

Comments

[numanstan]

That does sound like a bad sign! Nothin's on fire, yeah?

[because that's totally the first thing one should think of]

[not_booberry]

[WAIT WHAT oh it's the phone. Picking that duder up.]

No, that's dumb! Um. Ehh heh heh heh-- um, can you be on fire from the inside?

What, ha ha ha ha--, like, what does fire even feel like? Like an oven, right?

[numanstan]

I think y'can-- you'd probably notice if it's fire, though, since your organs'd be cooked and all.

And fire... feels like fire, I reckon. Really hot and burny. Dunno, I've never been on fire before.

[not_booberry]

Me neither! Whatever!

Aa ha ha ha ha-- I bet, like, the wizard did it, right? He's in my house, but he doesn't have a pointy hat or anything. Dumb.

[numanstan]

Wizards're always doin' somethin'. He oughta be wearin' a pointy hat, though-- that's just common sense!

[not_booberry]

Yeah! Eee hee hee hee hee-- d'ya think that's why he looks so angry all the time? I should make him one! It'd be spooktactular!

[Pause.]

Hey, Mister! Are you from Transylvania? You, a ha ha ha ha-- you sure talk funny!

[Obviously because anyone with an accent other than Peter Lorre means you're a Dracula.]

[numanstan]

Yeah, that'd be... cool... [did she just use a pun non-ironically what is this even]

No, I'm from London! That's how words're supposed to sound!

[Urge to app Peter Lorre character... rising...]

[not_booberry]

Really? Wow! I, aa ha ha ha-- I've never heard of that before!

...All of them? For real? I wonder, eee hee hee hee-- I wonder why no one talks like that, then?

[o-oh goodness WHO ARE YOU AND WHY DO YOU SOUND LIKE MY DAD]

[numanstan]

All the important people talk like that.

Y'know, like me. And my friends. English people.

[And if you're good, the character won't be the one from M.]

[not_booberry]

Not all of them! Like, eee hee hee hee-- Father doesn't talk like that! Or Dracula! Or Mr. Frankenstein or Mr. Werewolf or the Mummy Daddy or anything!

They, like, aa ha ha ha ha-- have movies made about them! That makes them important, right?

[OH NO BAD TOUCH STRANGER DANGER]

[numanstan]

... Dracula? Y'know Dracula?

[not_booberry]

Uh? Yeah! Hee hee hee-- He's my friend's papa, he's really nice!

[numanstan]

Really? He always looks so mean in the films!

[not_booberry]

Don'cha think he'd write it differently, though? People get all scared over some pretty strange things!

I mean, aa ha ha ha ha-- it's just a little blood, right?

[numanstan]

... Yeah, you're right! I reckon he's just got a bad rap or somethin'.

[not_booberry]

Yeah!

[A giggly pause.]

Hey, what's your name, Mister? I'm Phantasma! Hi!