A very merry Halloween! [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: 31st of October
Characters: Open!
Warning: Non-sexual desecration of formerly buried corpses

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On the morning of Halloween, when people first step out of their houses, they will almost step into something.

A bucket of water. Every flat and every house in the Mossgate Boundary has a bucket placed in front of its entrance door (and sometimes, especially in Folkton and Moss Manor, the back door too), in which scary apples are floating. A little sign taped to the bucket reads: Have fun bobbing!.

But that's not the only thing that happened. The second thing that people will notice is that there are billions of spiders of all sizes crawling all over the town and villages, the military base, the Manor House... everywhere. And they certainly did their job - trees, lanterns, the higher attractions on the pier, and everything else that is high all over Mossgate Council is covered in thick layers of cobweb.

And lastly... those who pass by a church will notice something about the graveyards around them. Namely, that someone placed skeletons on top of most of the graves... Awfully real looking ones. Really, really awfully real looking ones. To some of them, the soil of the graveyard still clings, and the graves underneath them are in a state that betrays that they were dug up during the night. DNA tests would show that, indeed, the skeletons belong to the individuals buried in the graves.

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[dragoonrouge]

Sadie spotted the flash of poofy white fluff as she walks through the graveyard. Moving around a headstone, her eyes widen in shock and a little bit of horror as she sees a very familiar dog dragging a human femur along the ground.

She dashes over, "Chad! Chad drop it! Bad dog!"

[channingchanningchanning]

He jumps a bit at the sudden command, unwilling to drop the bone yet also trying to stand attention, which results in only his butt going up (not that that's a far distance).

The Bad Dog makes him nervous, though, even though he misinterprets it - he did sneak out this morning to wander around a bit on his own.

But then he found that this place had suddenly gotten so much more interesting, so it's all worth it.

[dragoonrouge]

"Chad, drop the bone you bad dog!" She was not going to stand by and watch the tiny dog knaw through someone's bone. Sadie marches over, rolls up the long sleeves on the witch's robe she's wearing and grabs Chad about the middle.

"Leave the human bones alone Chad."

[channingchanningchanning]

...He has to let go of the bone when that happens, because the bone is almost as long as him and it's just too heavy to keep his teeth in it and lift it up.

The moment he has to let go, he starts barking.

THIS. IS. RUDE.

He has to admit that he might be a bad dog for sneaking out, but WHY should he not be allowed to snag a bone that clearly nobody needs any more or it wouldn't be lying around like that?

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie winces as the femur drops to the ground but sighs, exasperated as the Pomeranian starts to bark. Because of course he does. Sadie boops Chad gently on the nose, the action normally enough to distract most dogs from barking at least temporarily, and lifts him up till the fluffy dog is level with her face and has to deal with being stared at by a pair of slitted, amber eyes.

At least he's finally accidentally found 'the blonde girl'.

"Only bad dogs eat human bones." She tells the Pomeranian in a calm but serious tone, making sure to maintain eye contact with the animal.

cw attempt to kiss someone without their prior consent

[channingchanningchanning]

The action does distract Chad for a whole fifteen seconds, which is enough for Sadie to get a few words in edgewise, and then the judgement startles him.

Enough for him to realise who delivered him.

The blond girl!

He stills and just stares at her. He doesn't think that she is the same blond girl from his memory, she smells different. But maybe... one way to find out. At least one way he can think of right now.

He tries to wriggle out of her hands and stand, somehow finding leverage against her hands and arms and chest, paws somewhere against her front, in an attempt to press his face against hers the way he did in the memory.

Re: cw attempt to kiss someone without their prior consent

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie's eyes widen in surprise as the small dog starts furiously wriggling about in her grasp, causing her to change up her hold alongside the mantra of 'Dog, not cat. Do not drop.'.

Chad placing his paws on her chest and booping her face with his nose was unexpected but kind of cute, Sadie slowly pulling her face back and scratching Chad behind the ears. "Hello to you too Chad. Did you get away from your owners again boy?"

[channingchanningchanning]

...He's pretty sure that that was not the kind of reaction that he was going for. Though if from himself or her or the world in general, he isn't sure. But he feels that something should have happened.

Aside from being asked if he got away from his owners again. Which he did, but come on. They have their own lives to live, and THERE ARE SO MANY BONES HERE!

...Talking about which. He tries to crane his neck and spot where his prize ended up. He dropped it somewhere...

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie sighs as she watches the Pomeranian's attention drift back to their bone-filled surroundings. She continues to scratch his ear and takes a nice big step over the fallen femur. "Come on, let's get you home. your family must be worried about you."

[channingchanningchanning]

No, but more importantly, where is that nice biggest bone that he could find?

He starts to try and wriggle out of Sadie's arms. He needs to find his bone before they leave!

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie grimaces as she struggles to keep ahold of Chad.

"Chad, please. You can't have these bones, they belong to people."

[channingchanningchanning]

He falls quiet and gives her a very dubious look at that.

They quite obviously don't belong to anyone, otherwise people wouldn't just let them lie around like that.

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie absolutely notices that look and she has worked with dogs long enough to know that that is not a normal reaction. Sadie just watches Chad for a moment and huffs out a breath because good god this was going to be stupid.

"You...you understood that didn't you?"

[channingchanningchanning]

He barks in surprise at that statement.

Shit. SHITSHIT SHIT. Uh.

More barking? Barking! Clearly if he barks enough she'll forget that notion?

Busted

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie stares at the now frantically yapping dog.

"Oh my god you did didn't you?!" And really there was only one reason as to why that could be in Mossgate. "You have a Number!"

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo /launches into the sun

[channingchanningchanning]

Shit. shitshitshitshit

uh????

BARK MORE???????????

He really has no idea what else to do right now. It's very much a version of loudly yelling NO NO NO NO NO NO NO and hoping that it will make the thing go away.

[dragoonrouge]

Sadie won't let this go because that looks like panic to her.

"You do. I would bet money on it! Have you spoken on the Network?"

[channingchanningchanning]

Okay?

Okay.

You know what.

He abruptly stops barking and gives her a LOOK that is as witheringly a look as he can manage (which isn't very witheringly, considering that he's a fluffy white dog with slightly bulging eyes).

Seriously. Dogs can't talk. Everyone knows that. Shhhh. The shouty guy on the network is an entirely different person.

[dragoonrouge]

Well done Chad, the withering look is very dog-like.

"You're just proving my point at this point."

[channingchanningchanning]

Why does she have to be so impossible about it. Look, he's just a dog. Right? So he can't talk.

And all this because she was being ridiculous about clearly unclaimed bones that he found.

How rude.

He abruptly starts to wriggle again, hoping that she'll drop him so he can stalk of indignantly. ...Or that's the plan, anyway. Dignity and grace is him, after all.

[dragoonrouge]

"No you don't, I know the best way to solve this."

Sadie carries Chad with her away from the bones and sits down. Placing Chad into her lap, she holds onto him with one hand as she pulls out her phone and types in her Number. Time to test if her hypothesis was correct.

[channingchanningchanning]

Oh. OH FUCK.

Chad starts barking at her, frantically trying to make her stop, but to no avail...