39 days till Halloween [video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[At first it's hard to tell that the Pumpkin King is upside down. He's hanging off the common room sofa in the Breeding Centre with his legs draped over the back. A pokemon toddling by along the cushions is the only clue to his position.]}

You know, I've been wondering...just how many of you were dead before you arrived? I admit it's gotten a little lonely on the network. We dead folk must stick together!

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Re: [video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[JACK HAS HEARD OF RASPUTIN IN STORY AND SONG. Oh, Rasputin.]}

Hard for you to die? Are you a kind of immortal?

Re: [Video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack's face blanks. Deaths Ha---OH. OH! He starts laughing. Somehow he had forgotten about that.]}

You would be surprised how easy it is to frighten people. Your friends are lucky to have you.

Re: [Video]

[quickattackjack]

That's very noble of you. I'm proud to know someone who would give his life for another.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Maybe Jack's funnybone was broken lololol]}

It wouldn't do for me to be double dead, would it?

_{[Maybe he'd been sitting upside down for too long...]}

[Video]

[rooster_shout]

[Nicknames are a child's best friend.]

I know some people just have to face their what's making them scared or have a good friend to help them.

I get scared when I think my friends might get hurt but doing nothing isn't going to help!

[video]

[pinnedbangs]

[The cool factor has tipped in Jack's favor.]

Whoa. ...What do you do on Halloween every year that you end up forgetting?

[video]

[quickattackjack]

It's alright. I'm not afraid of water or anything, no trauma there.

_{[Besides, he had DENIS. Denis would just...EAT THE OTHER WATER POKEMON. Probably.]}

--Oh! I'm Jack. I can't reacall yours either.

[Voice]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Ooh, a holy man! That was interesting! Jack listens as Vincent explains.]}

How exciting! _{[That is...not a normal response, Jack. You're awful at this.]} Beats the pants off drowning, I bet!

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Oh, Heather! _{[Oh, yes, he knows who this is now!]} She's a great kid. One of the first friends I made when I got here.

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[quickattackjack]

I'm sorry. You're alive here though.

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[tinymoonkid]

Yeah, but it's not really the same, you know?

[conduit]

Then I guess I do count. I'm just alive in the afterlife. Or maybe the correcte term is afteralive.

[ Rangiku is unavailable. She is continuously blowing her mind. Leave a message after the beep. ]

[Video]

[newbiehero]

You were dead before your arrival here? [o_0]

[video]

[darkenedgales]

[ . . . ]

Yeah, not at all. [He's seen dead people dying again. Never a nice sight...

... Speaking of which, it reminds him of something that's been on his mind since like, forever or so, considering how he's been surrounded by people dying since he could only remember and even before that... And the people that could actually answer this question he's met back home weren't exactly, uh, willing to have friendly discussions with him (and vice-versa).]

... What does it feel like, anyway?

[A beat.]

Dying, I mean.

[notrueking]

Understandable enough. So, how many have you found so far?

[quickattackjack]

Ha ha, thanks!

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Well it's not so much what we do, it's just...well, our job was to bring Halloween to the rest of the world. Scheduling theatric storms, monitoring bat migration, rangling cats.

Have you ever tried to get cats to do anything in an organized way? They just all tend to bleed together.

[video]

[crimsondirge]

Undead? As in -- a zombie?

[keychained]

Kinda.


.... I got better though.

Re: [video]

[used_fireblast]

Interesting would certainly be one way to describe it, I suppose.

[Technically 'interesting' and 'pants-wettingly terrifying' could be considered opposite sides of the same coin. The variable would the distance of observation, probably.]

Harry Dresden. ...I think we might've spoken before, actually. You were the guy who went on the pumpkin-carving spree around Halloween, right?

[arcanaeum]

Mhm. So what should I call you?

[quickattackjack]

Quite a few, actually! I was a little surprised.

Re: Text

[quickattackjack]

I suppose not. Though I wonder if this has all happened for a reason.

[quickattackjack]

The terminology can be a little difficult. Dead, undead, re-dead, double dead, and so on. It's nice to meet you either way!

[Video]

[quickattackjack]

That I was! Were you?