[All the "cool people" reach the festival. No sooner do they set foot in it than Rei hyperactively bumps into a familiar person. Literally.] (Then what am I doing here?) Oof! ( Yeah, that's true. We need Chomei here so we look even cooler by comparison. ^_~ ) * Rei falls over. Uh! * Maria blinks at Rei. "You alright?" (/me is a mook ;_;) * Maria blinks at the person Rei ran into. I'm okay. Just on the ground. Hello ground. Nice to see you today. Have any coffee? @_@ * Chie blinks and looks down at her. "Rei? Maria? What are you all doing here?" The girl certainly sounds like Chie, and she'd look like Chie, if she had purple hair. * Maria blinks. "...Chie?" * Chie bends down to help Rei up. It is, in fact, Chie, now with purple hair. ^_^ * Chomei walks up. "What'd you do now Rei?" ( But since she has purple hair, she must be a smorfy instead. ) * Maria eyes Chie's hair. "What happened to you?" * Rei is helped up and blinks. "Oh, Chie! Sorry 'bout bumping into you, I was looking for cotton candy and- cool hair!" Yeah, it's me. I dyed it. Was gettin' tired of the old color. * Chie grins. * Chomei looks at Chie. "Nice look." * Rei digs out the bag of cucumber chips and hands some to Chie. "Munchies for you. They're good, I swear, and everyone should try cucumber chips!" Heh. Thanks. So what are you guys doin' here. (? even) Our job. We've gotta stop an evil demon thing that shows up every midnight. Didja miss the memo? * Maria gives a thumbs-up. "They're good!" * Chie takes the bag and eyes it, then shrugs and pops some into her mouth. "Hmm. Not bad." Wait, you guys are here about the demon too? ( They're better than bad! They're good! ) Hey, so you didn't miss the memo! Coolness. Not every midnight. Wasn't it supposed to be midnight every three years? Nah. Eoi-sensei called me, actually. Said he thought I should check it out. Didn't know the rest of you were going to be here, though. Peter and Lazar and probably Makoto headed off to the shrine ahead of time, because they insist on sitting and being bored for hours. Which is fine for them. Peter's the commander, by the way. ( Every three years OR SO! Ha! ) Bo-ring. Why wait when there's fun stuff to do? Oh. Well, now you know. And better the prof than me. * Chie winks. * Rei pops some chips in her mouth and chews thoughtfully. She swallows. "Hell if I know." * Maria sneaks more chips. :9 Anyway, we're gonna meet them at eleven. Spot any cotton candy, Chie? * Chomei eyes the chips, and decides against tasting them. Yeah, cotton candy's over that way. * Chie points to the east. * Rei cheers! and bounces there! Why do you need cotton candy? You're already on a sugar hi- nevermind. ( I'm gonna ignore this channel a bit, on account of being busy with two NPCs. /msg me if anything important happens. ) * Rei buys cotton candy. She considers, then buys another one. * Chie laughs and buys one as well. * Maria walks cautiously over to Rei. "What's that? Haze on a stick?" * Rei hands the extra she bought (and the one she didn't stick her nose in) to Maria. * Chomei looks at the cotton candy. "Oh, the heck." He gets one as well. Kinda sorta. Try it, you'll like it. I got blue raspberry, 'cause blue raspberry's just that yum. * Maria takes it and eyes it suspiciously. * Chie got standard pink. Not 'cause it's standard, but because she likes it better. * Maria tries some. Her mouth puckers. "Mmf!" @_@ * Rei takes some of the fluff and eats cheerfully. * Chie nibbles at hers. "Ahh, good stuff." See, she likes it! Lookit those cute buggy eyes! Aww, how adorable. * Chie grins. * Maria swallows quickly. "Damn that's sweet!" * Chomei got lemon-lime. "Ah, cotton candy goodness." It's spun sugar. Nothin' in the world like it. Like what a cloud would taste, only sweeter. * Maria doesn't stop eating it, tho. She just picks a tiny bit off at a time. * Chie munches some more. "Need to do this more often." * Chomei takes a big bite, emerging from the fluffy mess with much sugar on his face. The world could always use more parties. Bet the guys are badmouthing us right about now. Don't think Lazar likes me much- well, maybe at all. * Rei hums and eats some more, the grin not fading from her face. * Chie shrugs. * Chomei talks with his mouth full. "mrrfm mrffmrmr." * Rei sticks a cucumber chip in Chomei's cotton candy. * Chomei doesn't notice. S'not like it's gonna take that long for us to get there, get the info and then kill the thing when it *does* show up. * Maria keeps picking at her cotton candy. :9 They worry too much. * Chie takes another big bite of cotton candy. Well, it's just a matter of time, anyhow, so I'm called a freak now or called a freak later, there isn't much difference in the end. * Chomei seems to be relaxed by the cotton candy. "I really wish they wouldn't take this like someone was watching them constantly." * Rei peers at Chie's hair. "What color is that, anyway?" Mmm. The box said "butter purple," although it doesn't look all that buttery to me. But I like it. ( ... ) ( *cracks up* ) Purple? Ooh, okay. Just looks darker to me, so I kinda needed to ask. Why butter? Why not? * Chomei looks at it. "I'd say platapus purple myself." Silly Chomei, platapi aren't purple. They're mauve. That doesn't stop people from calling a color platapus purple. I'm not even gonna ask what a platypus is. True enough. Maybe you should suggest that to the dye company. They'd probably name one for you... if you agreed to model it. * Chomei shakes his head. "I like my hair the way it is." * Maria eyes Chomei's hair and grins. "Naaaah. It's look great purple!" Purple would be good. Dark green, that'd work too. Or we could do multiple shades. Hmmmm. Maybe. Ooh, multiple shades! Could lighten the tips maybe... sort of a silver-blue. If you didn't want to change it completely. Or we could go all-out. * Chie grins her borderline-manic grin. No purple, no green, no multi-color... Just stop trying to change my hair color with your mind, okay? * Maria grins and leans over to whisper something into Chie's ear. Great idea! Rei, could you do that? * Rei looks up, some cotton candy dangling from her nose. "Do what?" * Chomei rubs his head. "Why did I come with you guys again?" * Chie whispers back. * Rei snatches the candy off the tip of her nose and pops it in her mouth. * Maria smirks at Chomei. "Because we're cuter than Lazar." * Chie looks up briefly. "Change Chomei's hair color with your mind." Huh? Um, no. No, I can't. Aww, drat. You do have a point there Maria. * Maria whispers back to Chie. * Rei actually looks a little embarrassed. "I mean, Dad could, and maybe I could, 'cept I can't tell different colors, so even if I tried and maybe could, it'd turn all gray and boring." Oh, and sitting for two hours is boring as hell, right. * Maria blinks at Rei. "You can't tell different colors?" Colorblind? That would explain some things. * Chie looks up at Rei and blinks as well. "Oh, really?" Um, nope! Color blind! When I say blue raspberry, I just take their word for it. ^_^ * Maria chuckles. * Maria whispers back to Chie. Generally, people don't give you the wrong kind of cotton candy. At least, not deliberately. * Chie whispers back. That'd be just mean! I'd have to stuff it in their eye. * Chomei goes on ignoring Chei and Maria's whispering. That wouldn't be a pretty sight. * Chie looks up at Chomei, grins evilly, and whispers back to Maria. * Rei waves the cotton candy at Chomei. I'll practice on YOU! Except for the man you shoved the cotton candy at. Why me? * Maria stops whisperwhispering with Chie. She grins impishly. Because you're not whispering and I'm just being a distraction. En guarde! * Rei stabs at Chomei with the mostly-covered cotton candy cone. * Maria picks at her cotton candy some more. :9 * Chomei dodges the cotton candy and stabs with his own. * Rei bites at the cone! :9 " Tuche Rei cooties! No, you defiled my cotton candy! BWAHAHAHA! * Rei powerposes, cotton candy held high. "You cannot defeat me! You cannot hope to try! Resistance is futile, and we shall all take a vacation to Planet Rei!" You've got your own planet, too? * Chomei smacks Rei with what's left of his cotton candy. "And what planet would that be?" Hell yes. You think I'd just let you have Europe without having my own planet first? Come on here. * Maria laughs. * Chie chuckles. "True, that. So when do I get Europe?" * Rei is smacked and gets cotton candy in her hair. She doesn't seem to care too much. You already got it! Don't tell me you've been neglecting it. You did give it its shots, right? Aww, damn, I knew I had to call the doctor about something. I'll have to do it when I get home. You'd better, or I'll be very disappointed in you. Yeah. Having a continent can be a very big responsibility. * Chie fishes a pen out of her pocket, and writes "Call doctor about Europe" on her left hand. There. Not gonna forget now. * Chomei looks at the girls like they're crazy, which they are. * Rei checks her watch. * Maria doesn't look at the girls like they're crazy, since it's not really necessary. * Maria checks Rei's watch, too. We got plenty of time, Rei. Okay! We just mercilessly stabbed a half hour to death. So what do we wanna do next? ^^ Play games, of course. Yay! I suck at games. Let's go! Let's do some gamage. * Chie starts walking toward the gaming booths. We could go pester the others. Or should that wait for la... games work, too, I guess. * Rei starts singing in English as she follows Chie. * Maria follows Chie and Rei. She needs to stop assuming they know what they're doing. ( Back inna sec. ) (But we do know what we're doing. It's just not what we're supposed to be doing. ;p) * Chomei walks after the group. ( Ok, you can go back whenever :P ) * Rei grabs Chie's arm as she sings, "" o/~ * Chie sings in English as well. ~~ (Dueling songs!) ( Back. ^_^ ) * Chomei looks at them like they're speeking Greek, which is close enough. (And if anybody recognizes mine, you get a prize. ^_^) * Maria doesn't bother trying to figure the songs out. (And I can't believe Rei is singing 'I will survive'. Wait, yes I can. ) (I can.) (I very can.) * Rei sings, louder! "" o/~ * Chie continues, also louder. ~ ( ...damn you, Rei. *sings along* ) (I ROCK!) * Rei looks over at Chie, and she gets an evil glint in her eye. "" she deadpans. [And so it became 11:00] * Maria checks Rei's watch again. Is it time? * Maria would facepalm if only she knew what they were saying. * Rei glances at her watch at Maria's look, then nods and starts heading to the shrine. Ah, time to go. Onward! 'n stuff. * Maria nods. "Let's go!" Yes, but I've got your picture. I'd like a million of them over myself. * Maria runs off towards the shrine! And then sneaks the last fifty feet or so, just for the fun of it. And I want a doctor to take your picture, so I can look at you from inside as well. You've got me turning up, I'm turning down. ( Show up whenever ) * Chomei shakes his head and heads torwards the shrine. * Maria fortunately doesn't hear those. 'Cause they'd really creep her out. I'm turning in and I'm turning 'round. * Chie walks towards the shrine. * Rei smiles and walks into the temple.