Thread: Stolen Virgin's Wings [Scribble Journal]

The Hokey-Pokey Graveyard Somewhere in an isolated corner of the world there is a village. This village is small, but it prospers well on its own. It also lives in fear of the road that leads away towards the misty cliffside above. What lies beyond those earthly clouds, you ask? Why, the Hokey-Pokey Graveyard. Of course, the villagers just call it a haunted graveyard. All day and night there are lights seeping through the mist. The fog never goes away, no matter what sort of weather befalls the village. Nature's phenomena don't seem to effect the cliffs. If someone tries to walk the faded path up, the villagers either pretend they're a ghost, or they try desperately to keep them from going. But the choice is yours, no matter what they do. So will you stay? Or will you go? After all, the place is haunted. And everyone knows that the haunted eat your soul. -- So they say. But the Hokey-Pokey Graveyard is nothing more than the humble home of a simple man named Loky. The path leads you up to the cliff and through the mist. Everything is dark and foggy, but at least you can see the road in a one-foot radius. So unless you leave it, there's no danger of getting lost. There is a point, however, where the road ends and you suddenly come upon a space clear of fog entirely. A graveyard full of headstones and a dusty old church. The graveyard is very dark because of the fact that light is blocked from all sides. Fog encompasses the place like a dome, too thick to even let in sunlight during the day. To make up for this, little marbles float around in different colors, each one infused with a relatively large amount of elemental energy, causing them to glow. There's a great number of them, so the graveyard is illuminated well enough. There are also paper lanterns hanging between the larger statues of headstones of the graveyard, also colored differently, each with a globe of light placed inside them. Around this clearing are several rings of skeletons holding hands and dancing the hokey-pokey as they circle the area. They're somewhat slow and the hokey-pokey is all they do, so it shouldn't be too hard to get past them. You should also feel free to blow them to bits if it so pleases you. Built like a lean-to to the side of the church facing the graveyard is a bar. This bar is small and made out of bones--no seats for customers. There are drinks of all kinds, and a variety of odd potions for sale. Several skeletons take orders and serve the drinks while a raven-possessed zombie works as bartender. All payments lead back to the bartender no matter who takes the money. And the bartender eats it. There are some skeletons who pretend to be waitersthey all look very much the same, so it's rather hard to tell the differencebut are really only there to kill the customers. They come up with a large variety of pranks. Poisoned drinks, claw sandwichesthey pull your tongue out when you bite, attempted sneak-attacks, pushing people into graves and burying them alive, neck-severing axes...the works. By the way, the bathroom's inside the church. It's advised you go there instead of doing your business in one of the open graves because the owners will throw tantrums. That, and those prank-pulling skeletons enjoy dumping your urine over your head. Or throwing feces. If you walk into the church, you'll find that it's not as bad on the inside as it looks on the outside. The pews are clean and they're adjusted so that they make decent beds. The mattresses are comfy enough and the blankets are cozy. If you walk down the velvet carpet in the middle, you'll come to the front of the churchopposite of the entrancewhere a gold fountain sits on a marble pedestal. At first glance one might think 'holy water'. Really its crystal water. There is a sign in front of the pedestal that says 'free to drink'. There's plenty, so don't hold back on this wonderfully refreshing, energizing, and soothing liquid sweet to taste and clear to the senses. It also removes or reduces migraines and stomach aches. The bathroom is to the left of this fountain. To the right is the Caretaker's quarters. There is a silver-colored wooden door with no knob but a door-knocker in the shape of a dragon's head made out of mythril. Unless mentioned otherwise, this room is always locked. The only way in is through this door, and the only way to open this doorsadly, it cannot be destroyedis through Clara, Loky's draconic pet. Oh, and there are no windows in the church. But there are more marbles. -SVW