Osiem--Voice/Action

[polishrule]

[So many people.

Poland's worst nightmare. Or one of them.]

G-guys. Stop caring about all the weirdos and like, I have a big problem. A really big problem.

[What's the problem?]

I totally need a carp. Somebody help me!

[Poland will be outside, looking for a way to get a carp. Feel free to run into him, weirdos. Give him advice because seriously, he

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[wearyofscreams]

[Have a skeleton dropping off a roof as Poland moves around.]

Hullo! Might I ask you a question?

[polishrule]

[...Not a carp. Definitely not a carp.]

Um....

[wearyofscreams]

[His spindly legs are sinking fairly deeply into the snow and he lifts them out, laughing.]

Come now! Don't be afraid! I'm not trying to scare you. Isn't the season for it!

[polishrule]

[He glares because hey, he couldn't be scared if you tried to. Except he could.]

You totally couldn't scare me...

[wearyofscreams]

Oh, but I could, my dear fellow, I could. You see, that's what ol' Jack is for! Scaring and frighting the world!

[Or he used to be. That shtick has been getting old lately.]

Unless you're in need of a good scream. Jack Skellington never lets the audience down!

[polishrule]

Dude, that's your job?

That's like, a pretty stupid job.

[...]

Are you Russian or something?

[wearyofscreams]

We're in charge of Halloween, my boy.

And no, not Russian. Halloween Townian!

[polishrule]

Um, I'm not a 'my boy' and like, uh, never heard of that. Is it in Europe?

[wearyofscreams]

Oh, hardly. It's quit--

[He stops and thinks.]

Well, perhaps it is. We're not exactly where the rest of you all are.

So! Introductions! Jack Skellington's the name. Yours?

[polishrule]

You kind of sound American? [MYSTERY SOLVED.]

Um, Poland.

[wearyofscreams]

American? Perhaps so!

Greetings and salutations, Poland! It's a grim pleasure to make your acquaintance.

[polishrule]

He totally never knows where anybody is.

...Grim? Um, like, it's totally the opposite of grim to meet me.

[wearyofscreams]

Haha, is that so? How curious! Well, I come a place called Halloween Town, but we do come to the Human World every so often. Usually once a year when the holidays happen.

Yes, yes, a grim and ghoulish pleasure. I'm thoroughly thrilled to meet you! Say, you wouldn't know anything about a strangely shaped door, would you?

[polishrule]

Totally? That's seriously weird.

...[What.] Um, no? All the doors here are like, pretty square shaped and normal and stuff.

[wearyofscreams]

Well, that's what we're for, you see. We spend all year getting ready for it! Halloween! The best holiday of the year! [Yep, yep, totally convinced about that. ...only not. Ugh, he's so tired of it, but he can't show that.]

Oh, bats. I came through a door like this one. [Pulling a Christmas Tree shaped cookie from his jacket pocket and dangling it between two bony fingers.] You haven't seen it at all?

[polishrule]

No, my birthday is totally the best holiday of the year. [Hey, it's a holiday in Poland. That has to count for something.]

No? Who builds a door like a Christmas tree anyway? Like, what if part of your shirt got caught on it and it tore?