"Ah yes, I know just what you mean! Lurid chemical tones would indeed suit this place well. . ." The Baron had watched enough Muggle programming to have seen raves, and a notion suddenly struck him. He tucked away his Spice container for the time, hands fluttering with excitement. "My dear Valentine! You've just inspired a wonderful idea! We should have a rave and call it a class! I couldn't think of a better fusion of Potions with Muggle Studies, and all we'd really have to do is sit back and enjoy the fun."
Shoggies 8, 21, and 21.5 ushered them into the strangely-angled Dethtower entrance chamber, pointing out the sandwiches-and-hats table as usual, laden with its heap of fish and mystery meats. A few Shoggies were at work on the hat side of the table, diligently concocting more hats from aluminum foil. "If we had the chemical lights we could attach them to hats!" one conjectured, which met with a chorus of 'sooo cool' from the others. "Do you know where to get them, Master Potions-Master?" The Shoggy wasn't sure of Valentine's name, but was aware of his position due to the Shoggies who'd attended his salvia class. "And would you like hats?" A pair of curiously-folded foil hats were offered, more like weirdly-shaped tiaras of surprisingly complex make for a foil hat. "They're Y'ha-nthlei-style like from Innsmouth! We're getting pretty good at folding hats." The Baron accepted the curious 'hats', passing one to Valentine. "We started with sooo easy hats, but, we've been doing it for sooo many hours now," the Shoggy explained. Indeed, the hats collected on the table were starting to show a progression from the simplest of triangular hats to bizarre constructions like the one that Vladimir found himself admiring. The Shoggy had managed to work some impressive shapes into the cheap material, and he had to wonder what actual Y'ha-nthlei style metalwork looked like, wherever that was.
Once finished with the sandwiches-and-hats table, Shoggy 21.5 took the lead and squelched along toward one of several tunnels leading off the entrance chamber. "Remember, you waive your life and your sanity in DETHTOWER! We are not liable if you don't follow and get eaten by the grue!" it announced. "Or maybe it's a dhole, we don't know since we haven't seen it." Having fulfilled the obligatory warning, the Shoggies squelched excitedly into the corridor that Shoggy 21.5 had chosen. "Sooo cool, we're going to go see the Trapezohedron! Follow right behind," Shoggy 8 announced, keeping close to the left-hand side of the chosen tunnel with the other Shoggies. It was impossible to tell which direction the tunnel sloped, or possibly twisted, and all sides, walls, ceiling, and floor, were covered with complex carvings, many involving tentacles and a strange, three-lobed eye. These designed flowed into one another, and the entire effect was directionless confusion. "What an effect!" the Baron declared, offering his arm to Valentine as they moved into the tunnel. "Should we see if they can install one of these too? Perhaps as a way to connect up the islands. . ."
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Shoggies 8, 21, and 21.5 ushered them into the strangely-angled Dethtower entrance chamber, pointing out the sandwiches-and-hats table as usual, laden with its heap of fish and mystery meats. A few Shoggies were at work on the hat side of the table, diligently concocting more hats from aluminum foil. "If we had the chemical lights we could attach them to hats!" one conjectured, which met with a chorus of 'sooo cool' from the others. "Do you know where to get them, Master Potions-Master?" The Shoggy wasn't sure of Valentine's name, but was aware of his position due to the Shoggies who'd attended his salvia class. "And would you like hats?" A pair of curiously-folded foil hats were offered, more like weirdly-shaped tiaras of surprisingly complex make for a foil hat. "They're Y'ha-nthlei-style like from Innsmouth! We're getting pretty good at folding hats." The Baron accepted the curious 'hats', passing one to Valentine. "We started with sooo easy hats, but, we've been doing it for sooo many hours now," the Shoggy explained. Indeed, the hats collected on the table were starting to show a progression from the simplest of triangular hats to bizarre constructions like the one that Vladimir found himself admiring. The Shoggy had managed to work some impressive shapes into the cheap material, and he had to wonder what actual Y'ha-nthlei style metalwork looked like, wherever that was.
Once finished with the sandwiches-and-hats table, Shoggy 21.5 took the lead and squelched along toward one of several tunnels leading off the entrance chamber. "Remember, you waive your life and your sanity in DETHTOWER! We are not liable if you don't follow and get eaten by the grue!" it announced. "Or maybe it's a dhole, we don't know since we haven't seen it." Having fulfilled the obligatory warning, the Shoggies squelched excitedly into the corridor that Shoggy 21.5 had chosen. "Sooo cool, we're going to go see the Trapezohedron! Follow right behind," Shoggy 8 announced, keeping close to the left-hand side of the chosen tunnel with the other Shoggies. It was impossible to tell which direction the tunnel sloped, or possibly twisted, and all sides, walls, ceiling, and floor, were covered with complex carvings, many involving tentacles and a strange, three-lobed eye. These designed flowed into one another, and the entire effect was directionless confusion. "What an effect!" the Baron declared, offering his arm to Valentine as they moved into the tunnel. "Should we see if they can install one of these too? Perhaps as a way to connect up the islands. . ."