It's night. You'r
Chatterbox: Pudding's Place
It's night. You'r
It's night. You're sitting in your bed, staring out the window, searching for something lost. But you can't remember what it is, or was. All you know is that it's out there...it's important...and it was once yours.
Perhaps you never used it, perhaps you did--once, maybe twice. Or more. But for some strange reason, you can't remember if you did or didn't. Or what effect it had on you. Or...where it is now.
As you awoke from a particularly bland and boring dream, the memory that you were missing this...thing slid into your head. As you sat in a haze between asleep and awake, you stared outside, scouring the landscape that, for one fleeting moment, was no longer the familiar world you saw every day.
So here you are, staring outside, searching.
And then you finish waking up.
And here you are, trying to remember what you were just doing.
Hm, you think, smacking your dry lips. The covers rustle as you reach for your water glass, which sits by your lamp on your nightstand like it does every night. That's really wierd...I can't remember my dream. It seemed important--almost real. Your hand meets cold glass and you close your fingers around it. You bring it to your lips for a satisfying sip, but you realize that it's empty.
"Darn," you whisper. You'll have to get out of bed to fill it up--but it's really cold, and you don't have socks on.
Eh, it's no big deal. You'll fill it up.
Throwing the covers to the side, you haul yourself out of bed. With every footstep towards the kitchen all memory of strange dreams and searches leaves you, and by the time you return to your comfy nest of blankets with your full cup of water, the night seems almost normal. That is, until you glance outside the window.
Something moves across the front of the moon, which is full and shines right through the middle of your window, lighting up your comforter. What could it have been? It seemed familiar...And perhaps it's the fact that you're still half asleep, half awake that you can sense it, but a powerful force beats from it. Calling you. Presenting opportunities that you absolutely cannot miss.
Without any hesitation you get back out of bed, but before you can even leave your bedroom you notice a puddle of water near your nightstand.
So that's where all my water went, you realize. I must've knocked it over. Upon closer inspection you realize that there's writing on the carpet, glowing faintly yellow from under the patch of wetness.
The writing is so interesting you don't even realize how strange it is that the puddle isn't soaking into the carpet, or wonder how the words got there. In fact, the words don't even seem scary to you, despite their suspicious nature.
Hello, person! You are one of the lucky few CBers to be chosen to go on a nice, relaxing, beautiful vacation over Lake Lelillo! (Lay-LIH-loh) If you do indeed come, and we absolutely hope you do decide to, you will be given a free getaway from work, school, and empty water glasses! Here at Lake Lelillo, you will have all-day access to the lake itself, the fun attractions, the ice cream stands, the hot dog stands, the hamburger stands, the steak stands, the spagghetti stands, and any other stand marked with a silver star. (Which is all of them, so please don't forget!) Your rooms will be huge and most of them will even overlook the lake! They will of course be inside our one and only Luxury Lake House, which you will live in until your stay comes to a close. Remember this is all completely free, free free! Please pack your things, bring an AE and/or CAPTCHA if you'd like, and wait with them by the nearest stream at sunrise tomorrow morning. As we always say: All inlets lead to Lelillo!
~Your Soon-to-be Chaperones,
Cassy and Lily of Lake Lelillo
How you read all that small print was beyond you. Will you go? It certainly seems relaxing enough. The choice is yours to make.
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I'll tell you all when the spots are closed, so join while you still can!
Please note that this is my second ski lodge, and it's kind of linked to my first. In a sense, it's the next part. I don't know if I should call it a part two, or what, but some things might reference the first ski lodge. Don't worry--I'm not going to make things super confusing. I'll explain things as I go--and I really need new CBers to join in. But I also need some CBers from my previous ski lodge to come. ('Course, they don't have to join if they don't want to; I'll understand.)
Here's another clue (if you didn't catch the others...) for the CBers who were in my first ski lodge, or read it, and wanted to be in this one:
What do you get when you cross a scorpion and a sloth?
Hehe, my alias isn't going to last the day. :D
(January 1, 2017 - 11:51 am)
I bet my AES are happy I left them home at my ice mansion. HAVE FUN SNOWBOARDING YOU UNGRATEFUL BAGS OF AWFUL ATTITUDE!
*BRAE! (Be ready AEs) Woah woah calm down Wolfy!*
OK I'm calm I'm calm. Let's just hope that the murderer didn't escape somehow and DECIDES TO KILL EVERYONE ELSE IN ONE FOUL SWOOP.
*Wow you're even gloomier than me today.*
YOU'RE JUST HAPPY BECAUSE THERE'S A VEEY SMALL CHANCE OF YOU GETTING KILLED SOON.
*Guilty as charged. Have fun fearing for your life.*
YOU'RE WORSE THAN MY AES. UGHHH!
(February 5, 2017 - 8:54 am)
I have a theory!
Neither Rosalyn nor Cortana was the murderer, but they thought the other on was. The murderer must have convinced them to attack each other, so no explaination could be given beforehand. The shouting was fake. The murderer must have somehow gotten of an AE or CBer to yell those words, and then recorded it. The recording was played to alert Lily and Cassy of the fight.
Please point out any kinks.
(February 6, 2017 - 4:38 pm)
I have a different theory. I think the fight didn't happen. That's just too specific, I think, to be able to played out. I think the murderer killed both of them, then staged the whole thing. Made burn marks and stuff, then when they were all finished creating their fame crime scene, they alerted the others.
I say this because that's what I did in my ski lodge...killer killed 2 people, then adjusted the placement of the bodies and made all sorts of clues hinting a fight, extremely specific. There was "evidence" of every step of the fake fight. Then after the killer finished setting it up, they starting screaming, then ran away. Of course,the others came running, and reached the conclusions the killer wanted the, to reach.
(June 22, 2017 - 3:29 pm)
Anyone have any theories yet? Any guesses as to what's behind that door? Any ideas on why Lily stepped on Cassy's foot? How about some premonitions on what work of art Jayfeather will sculpt with his food next???
(February 5, 2017 - 5:46 pm)
Theories coming soon!
(February 6, 2017 - 12:43 pm)
I think what is behind the door has something to do with the whole connection between ski lodges thing. That's a really remarkable thing about this ski lodge that I've never seen before, that really pulls me in...the whole thing with the CBer memory, and their oblivion to there being murders, and even the reference to the farm ski lodge. I know this sounds dramatic, Micearnice, but you're like a frontier explorer. Going where none have gone before. Pushing the boundaries of conventional ski lodges. It's an interesting take...I'm really excited to see how this will all be woven together, one thread at a time.
Back to the door. It may have something to do with that.
Another theory, a vague one, is that it's some dark secret Lily and Casset are hiding...maybe an error that dated back to when the lodge was made, or even to the original owners. It may end up being an asset to the killer. A weapon, an object, a function.
(June 22, 2017 - 3:45 pm)
(February 6, 2017 - 10:48 am)
Icy, since when did you become me mudda? I get the 'full investigation' type thing, but seriously? A popsical stick.
Yeesh. Spot and the boys are going to tease me so much when I get back to Brooklyn.
(February 6, 2017 - 4:47 pm)
*sighs* I'll give you a full popsicle next time.
(February 7, 2017 - 9:45 am)
OOOPS! For the post below, I meant DAY FOUR--PART TWO!!!!!
(February 7, 2017 - 7:33 pm)
Egg drop? Is this what I think it is?
In fourth grade, we got into teams, and each team had to design a contraption out of given materials, and that contraption would hold an egg. (Regular sized, not ostrich.) Our teacher would drop each team's egg contraption from a specific height (he had a super tall ladder). The surviving eggs were dropped again, from higher heights. Last egg standing one. Most teams' eggs cracked on the first or second try, but my team's didn't crack at all! We won! I really loved that science teacher...he was fun, and he taught us at higher level science than he even had to.
Hehe, had a little anecdote there. Had to say it, this story just reminded me.
(June 22, 2017 - 4:28 pm)
Day Three--Part Three:
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By the time the CBers made it through the front door of the Noodle mansion, the front terrace had been magnificently transformed. Well, you know, not really. Lily and Cassy weren't done with it, yet. But the CBers were sure that it would look great when their chaperones were finished. For now, heaps of paper lay haphazardly, many of them blowing straight into the fountain in the center of the cobblestone circle. There were tables turned on their sides, surrounded by boxes of straws, tape, bubble wrap, and many other things.
"Oh! You guys are pretty fast!" Lily exclaimed. Cassy was sitting cross-legged next to a teetering tower of empty Pringles cans, using a screwdriver to fix the last little earpiece. She was frowning and peering intently at it, but a moment later she placed it in her done pile, stood up, and stretched.
"I hope you can recognize your things, guys...I didn't think about labeling them," she apologized.
The CBers reclaimed their devices, doing their best to differentiate their own from the many others.
"Can we help set up?" Autumn Leaves offered. Lily and Cassy were setting up plastic tables, but there were plenty of things that needed to be set upon them.
"Sure! Yes! Thanks!" Lily gratified, handing her a list of things that would be placed on each table.
"Cool! Okay, wow...We need to put five Pringles cans, two wire cutters, a pipe cutter, some duck tape, a hot glue gun, a box of random junk, a box of random stuff--what's the difference?--three boxes, two packs of straws, a roll of freezer tape, a pack of markers, a rock, a ball of yarn, two pairs of scissors, one book, two rolls of streamers, and...a stack of paper on each table," Autumn Leaves read. The CBers scrambled off to get the objects as she called their names. "That's quite a list," Autumn Leaves remarked.
Pretty soon, the front yard of the mansion was finally transformed into a proper contest setting. A podium stood to the right of the fountain, surrounded by seven plastic tables covered in various bits of unused scraps.
Cassy and Lily stood at the podium, crowding around a wireless microphone to start the contest.
"You have--"
"--fifteen minutes--"
"--to--"
"--build the proper container for your egg."
"If your egg survives the drop--"
"--which will be from the top of the roof--"
"--then you'll get to drop it from something higher!"
"It's pretty straight forwards from there."
"READY? OKAY, GO!"
"And when you're ready, the eggs are right here," Cassy added, pointing to a stack of XXXXL egg cartons next to the podium.
The seven teams of roughly five CBers each got straight to work.
"Ahh," Dragonrider sighed sadly. "Turgon would've loved these eggs. He probably would've wanted to hatch one...or he would've burst into tears at the sight of them."
She shook her head to clear these dismal thoughts. Dragonrider observed her table and suddenly a gleam inspiration flashed in her eyes. "Hmm. Hey, Lily? Can we use anything to make our egg thing?"
Lily nodded. "Anything at your table!"
Dragonrider cocked her head. "Holly, you're at the table." (Dragonrider's whole team consisted of CAPTCHAs.) "How about we tape the egg to your back, and you land on your feet?"
"Clts," Holly meowed, tilting her head curiously. "Flrp? Bity, getw."
"Fing," Chester suggested.
"Loul!" LilyCat squeaked.
"NOOO!" Nico de Furr screeched. He stuffed his face into a Pringles can and rolled off the table.
"Um, whatever you just said, go ahead and try it? I'll work on something else while you do that."
Fifteen minutes came...and went. The CBers finished their models and gently put their ostrich eggs inside. Lily and Cassy gathered up the CBers' creations, climbed a wooden ladder to the roof, and lined the seven egg holders up at the edge. Lily sat down on the peak of the roof, Cassy close behind, and began the commentary.
"Lovely day here, Cass, don't you think?"
Without a microphone, Cassy's reply was unintelligable.
"I totally agree. Here we have the seven teams! I'm going to have you all shout out your names, one by one." Lily pointed to Dragonrider's team.
"CAPA!" shouted the CAPTCHAs all at once.
Lily pointed to Jayfeather's team. "The Awesome Flying Hot Dogs!"
She pointed to Autumn Leaves's team. "The Omlettes!"
"The Our Egg is Better than Yourses!"
"Egg Drop Soup!"
"Broken China!"
"Team Galaxy!"
"And there you have it, spectators. All seven teams showed up today! Stand around, everyone, and get ready! The first egg is about to drop!"
The teams gathered around the space below Lily and Cassy, where there was a big red chalk X.
"The first egg to be dropped belongs to none other than the Omlettes! Let's see how their model marks up!"
Cassy handed Lily the multicolored box decorated with the Omlettes' team logo. The egg was suspended by string and straws inside the box, which was lined with bubble wrap.
"We're ready to drop it, and...THE BOX IS IN THE AIR! AND--IT HIT THE GROUND! I DIDN'T HEAR A SPLAT, DID YOU, CASSY?"
Cassy shrugged. "MAYBE I SHOULD GO DOWN THERE TO CHECK THE EGGS?" she shouted.
"Sure!" Lily said.
Cassy scrambled down the slant of the roof and climbed down the ladder. Pushing her way through the teams, she crouched down and opened up the box.
"WHAT A TRIUMPH!" Lily shouted, her microphone magnifying her voice exponentially. "THIS TEAM SURE KNOWS HOW TO BUILT IT! GREAT JOB! YOU'LL BE GOING ONTO THE NEXT ROUND!"
Cassy took the box and set it by the door to the mansion.
Lily took the next egg package and held it in front of her. "We've got the Egg Drop Soup coming up next! Let's hope their egg doesn't end up like their name! Ready? Get your cameras out! We're dropping the egg now! OH! IT'S ON THE GROUND IN AN INSTANT! WHAT'S THAT LEAKING OUT OF THE SIDES? WHAT IS IT!"
Cassy nudged the container to reveal a shattered egg. "You look so tiny, Cassy!" Lily said. "Can you tell us what happened?"
"It looks like the egg broke, folks!" Cassy called.
The crowd 'awwed'.
"Great job, E.G.S. Better luck next time. And for our next egg to be dropped--the CAPA team's! What's this? A note! The egg container--WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?! THIS TEAM HAS STRETCHED THE LIMITS! THEY HAVE REVOLUTIONIZED EGG DROPPING! THEIR EGG CONTAINER IS MADE OF THE CAPTCHAS THEMSELVES!"
The CAPTCHAs smiled smugly and climbed up onto the roof. Their egg, which had been inside a plain storage box on the roof, was soon strapped to all of their backs. They inserted their feet inside a thick layer of bubble wrap, cloth, and styrofoam to cushion their fall. Lily commentated while the CAPTCHAs set themselves up.
"This team knows their stuff! Team Captain Dragonrider, what comments do you have for such an idea?"
Dragonrider shrugged. "I think Nico's the captain, actually." Everyone looked up to the roof and saw Nico shaking his little paws at the other CAPTCHAs, yelling and shouting bossily in the common four-letter CAPTCHA tongue. "But if you want my opinion, I have to say, these creative CAPTCHAs are sometimes underestimated. They really have great ideas! And they play MarioKart really well."
"Well said, Dragonrider, well said. It looks like the CAPTCHAs are done setting up! And what a setup indeed! Let's see how they do! Best of luck, CAPTCHAs!"
The CAPTCHAs bounced off their roost and plummeted for the ground. With a soft thud, they landed lightly a few moments later, their egg unscratched.
"UNBELIEVABLE! The CAPA team is still in the game! I hope some of you filmed all this!"
The egg drop continued. Icy looked more and more worried with every drop until she eventually siddled away from the crowd. She returned ten minutes later, crashing through the open doors, calling warnings that reached the CBers' ears only after the last egg had been released...
"STOPPPPP!" Icy screeched, but the egg kept falling. "THE MURDERER IS NOT DEADDDDDDDD!" But the egg kept falling.
"IT COULD BE A TRAAAPPP!" But the egg kept falling. Icy made as if to catch it--
"THE FINGERPRINTS DON'T MATCH UPPPPPP!" But the egg kept falling until, splat, it fell past her open fingers and broke upon the ground, splashing its contents out in a vertical spray and splattering Icy with gooey clear liquid.
"Ow. Ow ow ow ow ow owwwwwwwwwww," Icy moaned as the egg's contents sizzled and bubbled over her skin. "Acid. It's acid. I told you," she groaned slowly, stumbling backwards into the crowd.
"WHAT happened?" Lily screamed, nearly jumping off the roof herself. She scrambled to the ladder and leapt down it.
"Get some water! Somebody DO something!" wailed Cinderpelt.
Lily and Cassy picked Icy up by her arms, ran her over to the fountain, and dumped her in it.
Icy cringed and shivered as the acid on her skin rose to the surface of the water, spreading like oil over the rippling liquid.
Icy leapt clumsily out of the fountain's water. "It's still going to burn me, even if it's on the surface of the water! And it won't--help--anyway!" she said jerkily, her voice rising in pitch. "I got it in my mouth! I had to check one last time...the fingerprints weren't matching up...there weren't any fingerprints at all...Um, um, September! Read my journals! Last pages! Okay? Promise me! All my notes are in there! Read them all!"
"I promise!" September cried.
"Good! You haven't seen the last of Icy!" The CBette breathed one rattling breath and closed her eyes.
"ICY!" wailed the CBers.
Icy opened one eye. "I'm not dead YET!" she bellowed. "But this sure hurts!"
"Here," Cassy said, her voice cracking. She broke open a few normal ostrich eggs and let the egg whites soothe Icy's fierce burns.
"Ahh," Icy sighed. "That's better. Gross, yes...but better...much better..."
Icy closed her eyes once more...and finally succumbed to her injuries.
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I'm sorry, Icy. Rest in Peace.
(February 7, 2017 - 9:58 am)
I live in my journal.
XD
This is actually my first Ski Lodge death.
My last regrets are that I didn't get to finish my complex theory--
BUT WAIT! I CAN STILL POST MY COMPLEX THEORIES CUZ THEY'RE ALL IN MY JOURNAL!
Scary fact, I just had eggs for dinner --- oh, Irene. *dies*
(February 7, 2017 - 9:16 pm)
DAWWWWWW NICO! YOU'RE SO CUTE WHEN YOU'RE BOSSY! GO INSIDE THE PRINGLES CAN AGAIN YOU WERE SO CUTE AND FLUFFY!
*Pumm!*
DAWWWWWWWWWW! WAIT WAIT WAIT! NO ICY WAIT! LET ME GET SOME BLEACH TO NEUTRALIZE THE ACID. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO IM TOO LATE! IM SO SORRY ICY! I FAILED YOU!!!!!!! *cries*
**Looks at me** *Uh does someone want to get rid of the crying pile of werewolf in front of me? Seriously, Wolfy, you're making a river.*
WAAAAAAAAH!
(February 7, 2017 - 11:06 pm)
Aww no! Icy!! RIP.
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moment of silence.
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Great writing, Micearenice!
(February 8, 2017 - 9:43 am)