Happy "Cthulhu Day"! (Open RP)
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hh_mirror((The Shoggies have decided it is 'Cthulhoo Day' because in the HPL story "The Call of Cthulhu, April 25th is the date on which Cthulhu woke up to munch on a few fishermen. None of the food at the party is necessarily hexed, unless you feel like your characters finding something a house-elf got creative with, or any magical products the Shoggies might have brought back from Hogsmeade. Your characters don't have to interact with the Shoggies if they don't want to, of course. =D They're just all over the tower, since there's lots of them.))
((Gets NSFW by the end of the Dethklok sub-thread.))
The Shoggies weren't usually aware of dates, but, they were sensitive to the stars and their varying degrees of rightness. And, today, Shoggy 10 awoke from whatever dreams it was that Shoggies had during whatever it was that passed for Shoggy sleep. "Oh my Great Cthulhoo!" it announced loudly, waking Shoggies 3, 4.6, and 18, who all simultaneously popped out of their drawers and annouced, "It's Cthulhoo Day!" For, the Shoggies had all realized that on this date 85 years ago, sunken R'lyeh had briefly arisen, and Great Cthulhu had eaten a few fishermen. This was a day to celebrate! "We gots to have a party!" insisted Shoggy 3, and the others agreed enthusiastically. They squelched down from their drawers and set out to find the rest of the Hogwarts Shoggies.
It was only a couple hours later that the first of the weird signs started appearing in the halls. Shoggies 3, 4.6, 10, and 18 had suggested to the others that they use construction paper and paint to make their party announcements, since it would be faster than carving them out of stone, and so, they had. The signs were all quite colourful, and had been decorated with paintings of a corpulent, squid-headed creature with small wings, often shown with a handful of tiny little men splattered in red paint, and the words 'yum yum'. The signs all said basically the same thing, and it was evident from the grammar that Toki and Skwisgaar's Shoggies had done most of the lettering. The lettering was quite crude, as, Shoggies were used to complicated hieroglyphs, and not the simplistic shapes of the alphabet.
IT IS CTHULHOO DAY! Comes to our party and celebrates!
The party is ats Andy's McGraw Tower ons the grounds.
Comes when it gets dark! Brings a sacrifice if you wants!
Don't worry, we cans say Fhtagn right!
There wills be chickens and beer and candy and sandwiches ands other foods.
It'll be SOOO COOL!
By early evening, the Shoggies had everything ready for the party, and gathered it all together at the unholy version of McGraw tower which had graced the campus since they'd transported it from the past for Andy's Christmas present. The chimes of the mostly-manifest tower were playing an eerie, unnatural music. House-elves had helped the Shoggies with the food, and so there was beer (ridiculous quantities of it, as, the Shoggies had learned about beer from Nathan Explosion), and there was chicken, and there were sandwiches as promised- eyeball sandwiches were the Shoggies' current favorite, so most were these. A close examination would reveal that the eyesalls were some sort of wizarding candy. There was also a huge heap of other wizarding candies, as Shoggy 10 had had talked its "Master Toki-Dad" into giving them the galleons to send a delegation of Shoggies to Hogsmeade. Some of the less civilized Hogwarts Shoggies had brought their contributions to the party as well, which included a dead acromantula brought by those who usually stayed with Smaug. It was arranged as a sort of centerpiece for everything else, lying on its back with its legs in the air. They'd painted a large mural one one wall, of the same squid-headed creature eating little men from a boat.
Once the Shoggies had everything arranged, some of them waited expectantly for partygoers. Some of them had already been distracted by the piles of food, and yet others had wandered off into the rather Escher-esque staircases of the tower.
((Gets NSFW by the end of the Dethklok sub-thread.))
The Shoggies weren't usually aware of dates, but, they were sensitive to the stars and their varying degrees of rightness. And, today, Shoggy 10 awoke from whatever dreams it was that Shoggies had during whatever it was that passed for Shoggy sleep. "Oh my Great Cthulhoo!" it announced loudly, waking Shoggies 3, 4.6, and 18, who all simultaneously popped out of their drawers and annouced, "It's Cthulhoo Day!" For, the Shoggies had all realized that on this date 85 years ago, sunken R'lyeh had briefly arisen, and Great Cthulhu had eaten a few fishermen. This was a day to celebrate! "We gots to have a party!" insisted Shoggy 3, and the others agreed enthusiastically. They squelched down from their drawers and set out to find the rest of the Hogwarts Shoggies.
It was only a couple hours later that the first of the weird signs started appearing in the halls. Shoggies 3, 4.6, 10, and 18 had suggested to the others that they use construction paper and paint to make their party announcements, since it would be faster than carving them out of stone, and so, they had. The signs were all quite colourful, and had been decorated with paintings of a corpulent, squid-headed creature with small wings, often shown with a handful of tiny little men splattered in red paint, and the words 'yum yum'. The signs all said basically the same thing, and it was evident from the grammar that Toki and Skwisgaar's Shoggies had done most of the lettering. The lettering was quite crude, as, Shoggies were used to complicated hieroglyphs, and not the simplistic shapes of the alphabet.
IT IS CTHULHOO DAY! Comes to our party and celebrates!
The party is ats Andy's McGraw Tower ons the grounds.
Comes when it gets dark! Brings a sacrifice if you wants!
Don't worry, we cans say Fhtagn right!
There wills be chickens and beer and candy and sandwiches ands other foods.
It'll be SOOO COOL!
By early evening, the Shoggies had everything ready for the party, and gathered it all together at the unholy version of McGraw tower which had graced the campus since they'd transported it from the past for Andy's Christmas present. The chimes of the mostly-manifest tower were playing an eerie, unnatural music. House-elves had helped the Shoggies with the food, and so there was beer (ridiculous quantities of it, as, the Shoggies had learned about beer from Nathan Explosion), and there was chicken, and there were sandwiches as promised- eyeball sandwiches were the Shoggies' current favorite, so most were these. A close examination would reveal that the eyesalls were some sort of wizarding candy. There was also a huge heap of other wizarding candies, as Shoggy 10 had had talked its "Master Toki-Dad" into giving them the galleons to send a delegation of Shoggies to Hogsmeade. Some of the less civilized Hogwarts Shoggies had brought their contributions to the party as well, which included a dead acromantula brought by those who usually stayed with Smaug. It was arranged as a sort of centerpiece for everything else, lying on its back with its legs in the air. They'd painted a large mural one one wall, of the same squid-headed creature eating little men from a boat.
Once the Shoggies had everything arranged, some of them waited expectantly for partygoers. Some of them had already been distracted by the piles of food, and yet others had wandered off into the rather Escher-esque staircases of the tower.
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Re: Fthagan?
Date: 2010-04-03 10:38 pm (UTC)When he arrived, he was bemused to encounter the swarm of amorphous eyeball creatures. He paused to thank the little group who welcomed him for their hospitality, before wandering over to observe the weird banquet the Shoggies had put together. He smiled brightly at Zex, not at all surprised to encounter an alien. There were quite a few alien inhabitants of the End of Time, and in Jherek's opinion, people were people, regardless of the amount of tentacles they might have. "I'm not sure what sort of custom it is, but, it's interesting! I've met many aliens, but, none like these fascinating pink creatures. I haven't met an alien like yourself either- you have very nice tentacles."
He squatted down to be more on level with one of the Shoggies who was squelching by, Shoggy 26 to be specific. "Where do you originate from?" he asked, adding, "Your race is splendidly amorphous." Compliments were always good manners. The Shoggy blinked at him a few times before replying, "We were in Antarctica, and before that, we were under the under, and before that we were sooo far off in sooo cool space!" It didn't seem that a more specific answer was forthcoming.
Re: Fthagan?
Date: 2010-04-04 01:57 pm (UTC)"Thank you! I love compliments. And I was wondering the same myself. I would love to have one aboard my ship."
The Shoggies replies made very little sense to Zex, but he nodded. "I agree- the amorphousness is certainly attractive. Maybe sometime we can compare notes on space travel." Space was so big, though (so huge, mind-bogglingly big) that he had doubts they'd ever visited the same places.
Turning to Jherek, he added. "Pardon me, did you say that you've met many aliens? That would be very unusual for a human in my time."
Re: Fthagan?
Date: 2010-04-04 10:59 pm (UTC)"Sooo cool! We've seen some ships. They're mostly made of wood, but, they've got the sooo yum yum squishy bits inside!" Shoggy 26 told Zex- the Shoggies hadn't actually been on a spaceship, as, beings like the Elder Things or their 'Great Master Cthulhoo' simply flew through space on wing-like appendages. So, the Shoggy presumed that 'ships' meant boats.
Jherek nodded affirmatively to Zex. "Oh yes, I've met a lot of aliens. Many have visited Earth, and, sometimes they stay. I'm from the End of Time, you see, it's millions of years in the future. But, even though we've met many aliens, I've not met any of your species." Which wasn't much of a surprise- space remained mind-bogglingly huge at the End of Time, and, the inhabitants of Earth had ceased to bother with space travel themselves. They merely met whoever happened to drop by.