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Heather Mason ([personal profile] foolishwren) wrote2011-11-04 05:33 pm

82. [Video] Backdated to November 1st!

[It's about eight in the morning, the day after Halloween night. Juuuuust the right time for the bright early-morning sun to be shining in through everybody's windows. The Ecruteak Inn in particular is RIGHT in the perfect place for that light to be blaring in, which is why the first thing that shows on the screen (accompanied by the scrapes and jitters of somebody picking the 'Gear up) are the bright white bars of sunlight across the wooden inn-room floor.]

[The next thing it shows is ALSO covered in the bars of sunlight, but it's so BRIGHT that the glare actually maxes out the screen's capacity for a second or two before it adjusts and shows that the gleam is actually the sunlight reflecting in a million little points off of what seems to be a fairly impressive pile of NOT candy like one might expect there to be on somebody's floor after a successful night of trick-or-treating, but... shiny... things?]

[Yes. Shiny things. All kinds. Eyeglasses, doorknobs, strings of still-lit decorative Halloween lights, a genuine police badge, a set of handcuffs, a roll of foil tinsel, some well-polished pots and pans, small hand-held mirrors, coins of all shapes and sizes, more than a few pieces of (gulp) expensive-looking jewelry, a weathervane, several articles of clothing studded with those fake rhinestones, bottles of glitter (as one may imagine, the glitter is now EVERYWHERE), flashlights of all shapes and sizes (all of them are still turned on), a large (and opened) tube of "Sparkle Fun" toothpaste, what appears to be a small army of glossy Mr. Mime-shaped garden gnomes...]

[And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Somebody was productive last night.]

[The unmistakeable sound of a panting dog suddenly invades the speakers and a giant orange blur passes in front of the screen briefly, accompanied by the click-click-click of blunt claws on hardwood.Then the sound of licking, followed by a hoarse groan.]


Nnngh....

[Around this point, the view begins to zoom out. .... Erratically and jerkily, like the most poorly-filmed dramatic zoom-out in history, because instead of using the zoom button, the camera-holder is literally scooting backwards across the floor on his butt, all the way to his sleeping bag. Only then is the whole scene revealed.]

[Sprawled across the sparkly spoils of their night on the town are two very, VERY tired teens, now only partially-dressed as the thieving monkey and corvid they started the night out as. Kaito Kuroba is face-down on top of a small, tangled pile of beaded strings (you know, the rainbow-colored kind that hippies hang on their doors), with his monkey-ear headband slid down over the back of his head. And part two of the dastardly duo is flat on her back, half of her poncho rumpled up around her neck and her mask is halfway off. As is expected of someone like Heather, she bears the telltale marks of having apparently gotten into a physical FIGHT with someone at some point during the night, and somewhat LESS expected of someone like Heather, she also has what appears to be an infant Tyrogue clinging to one of her legs.]


[It's like The Hangover, ADD Teenager Halloween Edition.]

[The screen stops jittering once the filmer is safely settled on his sleeping bag once more.]

[Cujo is busy rousing his trainer by licking what's visible of her face while she mumbles protests and sort of feebly slaps him with one hand, while Kaito is dragging his face up off of his uncomfortable-looking pillow and squinting blearily in the bright morning light. Biz the Aipom scampers onto the screen and hops up on his trainer's shoulder to proudly present him one of the many wallets stolen during the night. Nobody particularly notices.]


Wh... huh...?

Cujo, go 'way ... where... whuhappen...

[At last, the mystery filmer finally speaks up, in that mild, quiet tone some of the network may be familiar with as coming from the scruffy, twitchy photographer that follows Heather and her father around and occasionally talks about serial killer owls.]


Oh, you two are up.

Mr. Mason says you have to give all that stuff back today.


[The two teens stare at him blearily, and then down at their piles. ... And then at themselves. Kaito reaches up to run his fingers through his hair and produces a small shower of glitter. Heather lifts her leg in the air with a mildly horrified expression at the pink... thing on her leg. Then they look back at Henry.]


[The feed cuts.]





[BUT A FEW HOURS LATER, a much-more-cleaned-up Heather will be popping onto the feed again, hair still sticking in every direction (she'd had it gelled to look like a Murkrow's head feathers) and glitter still sparkling pretty much... everywhere. ... Including her teeth, when she grins sheepishly.]


Uh... hey, guys... so um... Kaito and I found a bunch of... stuff... that was apparently stolen... by kids in costumes. That totally weren't us.

... So if some weirdos grabbed something from you last night, it might... totally be here.

Yeah.

Uh.

... Happy Halloween.




[OOC: Action for Kaito and roomies, obviously! Otherwise, if your character was in Ecruteak, feel free to assume that the dastardly duo nicked something from them and will be sheepishly returning it at some point today.
Blue
= Kaito, Orange = Heather, Brown = Henry.]

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Whaaat!?

You guys stole stuff for Halloween!?

...That's awesome why wasn't I told this is a Halloween tradition?!
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[personal profile] bakaitoukid 2011-11-04 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[replying from his own gear sob sob, trying to cover this up]

We found it. There's a difference.

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's so not buying it.]

You don't just find piles of stuff like that.

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[personal profile] bakaitoukid 2011-11-04 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
'Course we did! It was just laying there. When we, uh. Got home.

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[This is the face of not believing you.

He's busted thieves before man, still he finds this pretty amusing assuming this was an elaborate Halloween prank.
]

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[personal profile] bakaitoukid 2011-11-04 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[THIS IS THE MOST INNOCENT OF FACES]

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[He still thinks it was awesome. LOOK AT HIM EYEING YOUR LOOT PILE.]

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[personal profile] bakaitoukid 2011-11-04 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
... we're gonna return it all, since it's not ours.

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you guys not get even any candy last night?

[Because he remembers his last and only Halloween involving candy, not objects of the shiny kind.]

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[personal profile] bakaitoukid 2011-11-04 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[lifting a hand to rub at his head with a grump]

We had better got some candy. We didn't get any last year.

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
...How can you have any Halloween without it?

I thought that that was like...the most important part or some slag.

[He's never eaten candy himself but IT IS WHAT HE WAS TOLD.]

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[personal profile] bakaitoukid 2011-11-04 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Last year we got creepy glitches and giant skeletons instead.

[... brushing tons and tons of glitter out of his hair euch]

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
...

[His expression just reads that's just awesomely terrifying!]

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Crime is bad when you hurt people I thought.

...Eat my what?

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
...What?

[He still doesn't believe you Heather.]

Well at least you're returning all the stuff you stole.

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It's easier to tell the truth, or so Bossbot tells me, especially when the truth can't be well hidden.

That's always really slagging hard to cover up.

[He's speaking from experience.]

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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean you could always throw a sheet over it but that's a bad idea.

It makes it more obvious.

[He's done things like try to fix broken objects before Bossbot gets home.

Never really works out.
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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like all "Dad"'s know these things.

[Sari's Dad even. Did Bossbot count as a 'Dad'? ...He was more impatient with kids but he tried...so he figured so.]
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[identity profile] allabout-speed.livejournal.com 2011-11-04 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[THERE ARE A LOT OF SUPER DAD'S IN THESE KIDS LIVES THEN.]

...Weird, is it programmed into them from the start I wonder.