A Castle On a Hill

[Shine]

On the outskirts of town, on hilltop, is an abandoned mansion. It is haunted by all sorts of undead and inhabited by many different ghostly goulish things. Most of the surrounding countrysides had been owned by the old squire, but had been sold off for a housing development of condominiums and town houses. The developer and the Homeowners Association had aggreed not to bother the Mansion, or the old church cemetary that lay at the bottom of the hill, (complete with mausoleums and a chapel).

Then one late October afternoon, the sound of bulldozers interupted the somberly peacefull atmosphere as the workers began demolishing part of the house. The profits from the first set of houses had been so great that the developer just couldn't resist the urge to do it all again, and the Homeowners Association had wholeheartedly agreed. There would be a grand "Castle" shaped apartment complex on top of the hill and more condos replacing the cemetary. They were just starting the demolition when the clock struck 6:00 and union rules dictated that the workers stop for the night. A gaping hole let the sight of the rising full moon enter the grand ballroom as the workers headed down the hillside for their pickup truck and the drive home to their spouses and supper.

"The ghost of the Old Squire sighed and rattled his chains is anger as he watched them go.

"That developer and the Homeowners Association will rue the day that they broke our aggreement."

Snapping his boney fingers, a black candle lit itself. He took the candle to the window. This was a signal to those of the ghostly "underground" community that they had to have a meeting. He then sat in his high backed chair and waited for the others to arrive.

((Mostly you should create new halloween character for this. Lets have an absolutely horrible experience with this thread ))

[Panther385]

((YAYAYAYYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAY! X3 ))

Death.

The rotting stench of death surrounded this creature.

Both eyes were like ghostly maelstroms of grey and purple, changing color every few moments. Dagger-like fangs protruded from his gator-esque maw, each stained with the blood of innocents he had devoured. The slimy reptile made his way to the Old Squire's ghost and sat on his haunches. His slippery hide was like a frog's, mottled green and black in color. However, some of the black spot were not spots... An orange pinprick peeked from the inside of one. A lengthy worm slithered out and arched over to another hole. This monstrosity's body was host to hundreds, thousands, of parasitic beasts. His eyes glazed over as a small worm inched its way from under his eye and to his neck. Then his opticals resumed their normal sheen.

"What isss it that thou had to wake Maggot from hisss sssleep? It makesss him quite grumpy and not keen when he is deprived of hisss ressst...." The monster spoke in third-person a large amount of the time, extenuating the 'S' sound with his black and deteriorating forked tongue.



((Maggot is so gruesome, I just might make him a permanant character for me.... ))

[the Drazilim]

Up stairs, in the Library/Museum, an egyptian sarcophagus standing in the corner screeeeeeeeeeks open and slowly a hand reaches out. It is wrapped in old dry gray gauze. The lid sticks and the mummy inside gives it a bit harder shove, and it flies open, hits the wall, and bounces back breaking off the arm.

"Da*n but I hate it when it does that."

The Mummy opens the lid more carefully, walks stiffly over to a small table on which is set some super glue and extra gauze wraps (this is not his first such mistake) awkwardly, he squeezes some of the glue onto the bone, reattaches it, counts

"1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, good"

He flexes the elbow and the arm does not fall of. He then adds some extra gauze to the arm, loosely tying it off, and heads down the stairs. He jumps on the bannister, and sliiiides to the end and jumps off.

"Hey Hey Maggot my man que pasa, give me five, er, maybe not."
Turning to the Old Squire he asks

"??So? whats the big deal?"

[Somefreakoverthere]

The ghost of a young woman in a watery blue ballgown shimmered into view and floated downwards and towards the Old Squire's room. Nobody could remember her name so she was called "Black widow" and for a good reason too. She was one of the less friendly ghosts, luring young living men into her trap and leaving them for the others to finish off.

"What's going on, Squire? I have a young man down in the crypt and I've only just got him screaming and frothing at the mouth."

She told him with extra ice then needed. To the undead community, cats and children she was just the ghost of a 19 year old girl with long blond hair that drifted out behind her, sharp blue eyes and poisionus fangs. To a male who was old enough BW was a beatuiful unmarried woman with innocent looking eyes, a pretty face and silky, long, blond hair.

She sat down and the ghost of a black cat leaped onto her lap. Black widow liked cats, as they shared her hatred of water and living men. It was her husband cheating on her that made her drown herself with the note "YOU CHEATER" carved in his door.

[Jent]

*In a log cabin in the wilds, Natu rests while the Demon plans.*

Inside the demon's head

"Today is a frightening holiday, I be free for a few hours or........... I can free 3/5 of my soul. What to choose, what to choose. I'll go with the second plan."

Out of mind.

*Breathing in and out, Natu still sleeps unknown of the demon plan. When he breathed out, a dark gases fled out of his mouth and into the forest.*

An hour later

*Coming from the wilds was a wolf, a vampire bat that standing on his head, and a floating grey egg. They soon go past Dojopolis then onwards to the abandoned mansion.*

[Shine]

((Curses upon a downed server, but it could still be fun, even if its after Halloween))

The ghost of the Old Squire, who consisted of rotting skin over a boney skeleton wearing an old tuexdo and a fine top hat, addressed the gathered group:

"I am hoping that more will join us, but I think that it is time for us to seriously run amok and wreck havoc on the mortals who think that they can just do whatever they want to our homes.

I think we need to scare the residents of the housing development into moving away, and in particular, we need to haunt and pester

-The Developer
-The Chairwoman of the Homeowners' Association
-The Crew Boss of the demolition crew
-The Security Guard of the Development

((Which also means that each of us could take control of one of these, or they could simply remain as Non-Plalyer Characters))

Now, leave us go into the night, to work our mayhem, Mwahahah!!

((wow!, I actually got to work my evil laugh into a thread in context and everything ))

Raising his hands above his head and looking towards the attic he proclaims

"Fly, be free, mine fledermouse legion!!"

and a veritable hoarde of bats began to fly from the attic windows and descend upon the condo dwellers. The Old Squire began to march towards the front door, intent upon joining them for a night of mischief.

[the Drazilim]

The Mummy of Aman Ham'ar walked out the front door of the mansion and started down the hill. He tripped on some of his gauze, and rolled down the hill, screaming earily as he went. He stopped when he bump /smashed into a grave stone. Picking himself up, he went on into the development. Walking down the middle of the street scaring small childrn was a good way to get noticed.

Before too long the Security Guard for the housing development, had been called and came running down the street with his gun drawn. The mummy did not stop, so the Guard shot him, which was fairly pointless. The mummy went over to him and grabbed him about the neck as if to choke him, and then breathed the breath of a long dead and rotting mummy right into his face, Yeeeeech.

[Somefreakoverthere]

Black widow laughed madly as she dived neatly through the floor and into the ground, quickly finding the mains water pipes. She was still laughing as she poured out of the chairwomans shower while her daughter was in there.She crouched down so she was at the girls hight and opened her arms.

"It's me, your new mother. I know how you hate your old mommy, so get dressed and then come with me, Petal. If you come with me you'll be fine and will never need to fear that nasty woman any more."

She whispered, the girl hypnotised by the lady's voice that sounded like angels. Now she came to think about it, she hated her mother.The child did as she was told.

The chairwoman screamed as her daughter and Black Widow stepped ot of the bathroom. Black widow smiled at her as she walked past and left the house, her hair streaming out behind her. Within the hour all three of the woman's children had left with BW, and each one of them had been holding her hand tightly and had glared at her as they went past. When she left the third time, BW had tapped her on the cheek twice. Her skin there had gone white and hadn't gone back yet.

((Chairwoman's being dealt with. Guess what? The house's undead comminuty is going to get three new members! ))

[Shine]

The Chairwoman of the Homeowners Association was obviously distraught, her daughters had been "abducted" by a spectre and she wasn't going to stand for thet (?is there still a white patch on her cheek, if so say more?)

She ran to her church to find Pastor Todd. She goes to the Intolerance Eeeevanjelikul Independant Community Church of the Open Bible (-Montana Synod). However, it was locked and Pastor Todd was out of town at a mega-church youth rally. One of her good friends was a member of the parish of Our Lady of Condescending Superiority and she knew they always leave their front door open. Grabbing one of the children's super-soaker squirt guns, she ran all the way, pushed through the big front doors, and filled the super-soaker from the holy water in the baptismal font. Now "armed and dangerous" she emerged from the church building, headed for the Mansion.

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Old Squire Chadwick strolled down the long stairway, along the path past the cemetary, and on into town. As he went he passed a cute little puppy.

"Here, boy. Come here little puppy!" he said in a kind voice, and taking his ebony walking stick cane, with the silver tip and the eagle's head handle, he tapped the puppy lightly on the shoulder. It's hair began to fall out and a nasty gangrenous infection started to spread across its body. It is a highly contagious infection, and usually fatal.

"Now run along home, my widdle germ bag, my walking repositowry of horrwibo death. Hee hee"

The dog ran off, coughing...

Old Squire Chadwick arrived at the home of the Developer, and knocked on the door. Without waiting for an answer he floated through the solid walls and into the house. The children were watching television, except for the teenaged girl, who was chatting on the computer. "Mom" was cooking the meatloaf, and the Developer, Mr. William (Bill) Anderson was in his home office, completeing the blue prints for the up-scale condo complex he had planned to replace the mansion. The TV viewing kids ignored The Squire and he ignored them, they were as good as zombies already.

He proceded into the home office room, materialized more fully and said:
"Mr. Anderson, may I call you "Bill", we have something to discuss."

[Somefreakoverthere]

((I'm just gonna go ahead and make this up: Seeing as BW drowned, holy water doesn't harm her. Holy Pocky = yes, Holy fire = very yes, but holy water= no. The white mark on the chairwoman's face should still be there, and will look like a skeletons hand. It will glow in the dark too .))

The children looked at their new mother, smiled, and dived into the murky depths that was the place of BW's death, and now theirs too. Five minutes later all four ghosts glided out of the murky depths smileing and laughing at a private joke.

"Can we go scare that woman who wants to destoy our home?"

"Sure Andrew! Just remember not to try and scare anybody else. We can't go about scareing people just because we can, understood? We have to have a reason to scare them, like it's halloween or something."

They started to float down the path that the chairwoman was marching up, holding each others hands to make sure the newest addisions to the undead community didn't drift away.

[the Drazilim]

((Well, since nobody has so far stafte playing the Security Guard, I'll just start to beat up on him. any other security Guard could always show up when he doesn't report in ))

The Security Guard took out his long metal flashlight and whacked the Mummy hard in the shoulder and it broke the arm, so he had to let go

"Now you've done it" yelled the mummy "You've gone and made me MAD!!"

He opened his mouth again, but this time a hoarde of scarab beetles came pouring out and devoured the flesh off of the security guard.

The mummy took out his little tube of super glue and fixed up the broken bones. "This is getting terribly inconvienient" thought the mummy
The skeletal frgaments pulled themselves together and a skeleton stood up before the mummy and said "Your wish is my command most honored one"

The mummy of Aman Ham'ar grinned to himself and said "Ah yes, the beginning of my army. Just follow me for now" and the mummy, the skeleton and a hoarde of beetles continued into town.




The developer guy looked at the ghost of the old Squire and said
"Just who are you and what do you think you are doing coming into my house?" He took his T-square off of the drafting table and swung it at the Old Squire. "Take that! you evil thing you!"

[Panther385]

(( OH NOES RP LAG! D: ))

Maggot's face burst into a wild grin as the flying rodents zoomed out the door. He bounded down the hill with muscles like tense nw mattress strings and a gait like a playing puppy's. His black tounge flapped out of the side of his mouth as the undead pounced around the town, searching for the Chairwoman- she was pretty easy to spot, holding a water gun and bearing a small white mark upon her cheek. Hahah, Black Widow wasss here... Now for some fun until she arrivessss. Maggot burst into a sprint and leaped over the Chairwoman, then skidded and turned around to face her. He loved showing off to the mortals- it scared them silly.

[Shine]

Old Squire Chadwick just grinned as the drafting tool passed right through his spectral, noncorporeal body unaffected.

"I am the Lord of the Manor of the Chadwick Mansion on the top of the hill, and I had believed that one of the stipulations in my will, which allowed for the development of these, my old fields, was that the Mansion and the graveyard would NEVER BE TRESSPASSED UPON, NOR TORN DOWN, NOR DEVELOPED IN ANY WAY ? Am I wrong

And did not your bulldoziers just come and make a new side door to my living romm? hmmm?

You will stop this new development or you will regret it!!"

And with that he turned and walked back out of the home office. He stopped near the kitchen and tapped the floor with his walking stick. (All the food in the house will very soon become rotten and inedible.)
And then, as he passed the "zombie" children watching TV, he stopped and tapped the floor again. One of the children started to sniffle it's runny nose, and the other began to cough a mucousy hacking.
He then proceded out the front door.


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"Get thee beehiynd mee Spawn of SAATAN!! drawled the Chairwoman of the Homeowners Association as she proceded to spray the super-soaker full of holy water on the characters in front of her and held up her bible with the other hand. It had a large cross on its front cover.

[Somefreakoverthere]

"PEEK A BOO! WE SEE YOU!"

Chourused Black widow and her children, bounding down the hill towards the chairwoman, laughing madly. The children slowed down and let BW sort things out, giggling and laughing at a private joke. They clearly knew what was comming next.

"You know when you cheated on your husband and when he caught you, you threw him out the door? Well, guess who found him! He's dieing to see you again, Mildred!"

Black Widow threw back her head and laughed before she leaped straight through the Chairwoman and slapped her on the other cheek before leaping through her again. The slap mark turned a sickly looking green and began to glow in the same ugly way.

"And the thing is, when I hit somebody hard enough they always end up getting waterlogged and drowning, even when they're nowhere near any water. And trust me, your children are having the time of their deaths. Kids, come meet my friend Maggot!"

All four laughed and the children ran forward to meet the reptile. Andrew simply said "Cool...." while the twins Petal and Max looked at him, clearly impressed.

[Panther385]

Maggot bowed his head as many parasites leapt out at the incoming water. He now had what resembled a quivering, squirming orange shield. As the Holy Water hit the worms, they began to wither and shrivel until they were grey, then they simply fell off of the reptile's person with a sickly crunch. Several long worms slithered out of his feet and towards the Chairwoman before rearing up like snakes. One speared through Bible and situated itself in front of the woman's face- it would be glaring if it had eyes.

Maggot smiled at the children in his own odd, undead way. "Greetings, young ones. Maggot thinks you will certainly enjoy being with the unholy community." He chuckled at turned his attention back to the Chairwoman, making sure his worms would have a quick getaway or backup if she had a trick or two up her sleeve.