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Post by scoobnick on May 17, 2019 19:17:14 GMT -5
Velma stirred from the couch she had fallen asleep on while keeping an eye on Baxter and Chris Velma stretched and groaned, her right leg tingled from being slept on , her phone glowed from two recent messages, both from Marcie" Got knocked out in 21st place, which was better than I thought I would finish by about 30 places. Leaving for Vicksburg now, I'll be there around 9 tomorrow morning, assuming I don't pull over Somewhere to spend the night. See you soon". The other one was brief"Reaching Vicksburg now, will look for your showboat "Velma texted her back"Am currently on Green Island, north of the city, try and find a road leading to the river. V" Velma sent the message then roused herself to make some breakfast as Dixie wasn't here yet.
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Post by scoobnick on May 18, 2019 5:41:01 GMT -5
Creola and Nora soon joined Dixie downstairs for a short breakfast as they waited for the others to get up and join them
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 8:25:29 GMT -5
"I guess we should ring the bell since we can't go anywhere just yet." Chris remarks. "That's about all we can do." Baxter commented. "Also when your magic was taken did that mean anything you ever did with it before this happened was undone?" "Yes, unfortunately that is the case." Chris replied. "The Spellman sisters say that this is because there's always a consequence for any time it is used and it infuriates their niece." "Spellman?" Madelyn asks. "As in Sabrina Spellman?" "That's the one." Chris nods. "Something about rule 54321!" "Then it's easy to see why the magic was lost." Madelyn replied. "You were training to be a wizard apparently as Mr. Van Ghoul was your primary mentor, therefore subjecting you to those rules as the Spellmans never stop blabbing about." "What is rule 54321!?" Baxter asks. "No doing good deeds." Chris replies. "Which clearly neither Sabrina nor I agree with, magic should be used to help where it can, not cause trouble like Sabrina's Aunt Hilda does."
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Post by scoobnick on May 19, 2019 12:59:38 GMT -5
Velma came in to the room just in time to hear the words about rule 54321, ' waits so there's at least 54000 rules about magic? geez the rule book must be bigger than Websters Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia Britannica combined. ' She said shaking her head. " I brought some breakfast for you three, also my girlfriend Marcie will be joining us later today. Madelyn, I dont think you have met her yet, although I have talked about her a bunch .' Velma said. " you'll like her"
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2019 17:17:24 GMT -5
"Thanks, but it's really not that long on the rules." Chris said as he took a bite of breakfast. "Yeah, the way he said 54321 wasn't as in that number but rather as a countdown if you were to scold somebody." Baxter replies also munching some of his breakfast. "Although I don't personally do magic without some kind of assistance, I do understand enough about it to avoid utilizing it unless we have no choice."
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Post by scoobnick on May 23, 2019 12:23:52 GMT -5
Ahh that makes sense "Velma said with a shrug. "Do you guys want anything else?Sausage, perhaps?"
Winnie, Sybella, Tanis and Missy joined the girls around the table as Nora passed the tray of pancakes around. "Try and limit the pancakes to 5 per person " Nora said as Winnie quickly reached for the syrup to spread over her pancakes. "Everyone sleep okay?" Winnie asked. "Bed was comfy, even if I didn't have much personal space. But at least I got prime choice on where I got to sleep. If you don't mind Dixie and Nora, but I wouldn't mind if I bunk with you two again tonight. I could cream you again in 'Graveyard ' or we could try my new 'console ' games. I have 4 of them. 'Wolfland', 'How to train your handlers ' 'Catching the 3 Pigs ' and 'Race by Moonlight ' 'Which is your favorite,Winnie?"Dixie asked. "Race by Moonlight sounds fun . Does it have 4 players?" "I just got them recently. "Winnie said, but yeah you have 4 possible players. We could have a tournament together. There's 10 of us, right. We could all play together, taking turns of course. " I don't play video games that often " Dixie said. I will likely stink at the game " "It's all for fun Dixie "Missy said. Count me in on the games ladies. I will give the winner a shopping spree, up to 1000 bucks. " Winnie and Sybella grinned. "I need a new cape. Sybella said. 'Eyeliner too, my current stuff is too hard on my eyes.
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2019 14:32:20 GMT -5
"Some sausage would be nice." Chris comments.
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Post by scoobnick on May 24, 2019 13:50:39 GMT -5
Velma nodded and turned to go back into the kitchen."I'll see how much sausage Dixie has in stock "she said. "Just give me a minute."
Marybelle and Cruny were the last of the group to get their breakfast, Cruny yawning openly as he grabbed some pancakes. "Excuse me ladies but I just woke up. What is that? Games? Forgive me, but I don't play games, except if they involve horse racing." "Drat" Winnie said as she crossed Cruny's name off of the list. Ok, that still leaves 9. Marybelle, you want to play with us on the showboat later? I'm having a video game tournament." What are video games?"Marybelle asked. Oh, that's right. You guys didn't have them back then. Video games are played with a controller, with the game shown on a TV screen. They are very fun to play and watch."Winnie said. "I'll watch first before I play " Marybelle said.
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Post by scoobnick on May 29, 2019 11:10:18 GMT -5
Well the girls found the cache " Dixie said as she finished eating. "Velma said that they are on the showboat, and once everyone's done with breakfast, we'll head to the boat and find out where the next cache is hidden." "I will need a few minutes " Nora said " I'm going to go to the treehouse and collect Nili's masks.Is there a place to store them on your showboat Dixie?" "There's the boat safe" Dixie said. "It normally holds cash, jewels and other valuables that guests have with them when they visit. That should be a safe place to store them." Nora smiled "Just head to the boat. I'll join you shortly
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Post by scoobnick on Jun 1, 2019 3:05:18 GMT -5
Dixie Missy and Creola finished their meals and pushed in their plates. Nora headed out the door and went south. Cruny poured himself some milk, as they didn't have coffee. "I doubt you ladies would permit me to smoke at the breakfast table " the gentleman spirit said. " You would be right Cruny . Smoking is quite restricted these days, for health reasons. Doctors have found some 4000 things in cigarettes and cigars that cause cancer and other bad things " Missy said. " But I am a ghost Missy, I have no lungs to blacken or teeth to lose." " We do, Mister Cruny" Winnie said. "My dad smokes a pipe and he goes outside the house when he does, for my sake and at Mom's insistence." " There was a time when some smoker threw his cigarette away and it landed on me" Tanis said " Ignited my bandages and burned away the ones on my left side and right arm. It hurt a lot, plus it revealed my skin underneath. My dad and mom were furious when they found out and went after the guy. They put him into something called the "Boo Box" for hurting me, I don't know what things they put in there with him (likely scarab beetles, scorpions and snakes), but he screamed for hours, until mom gagged him.Then he just made noises banging around in there until dad let him out again the next day." Sybella shook her head. "My dad would have drained that guy dry for something like that. And that's not an exaggeration, he told me that he would do that after Tanis' experience if anything like that ever happened to me." "My dad would tear that guy into pieces, literally " Winnie said with a grin. "Don't mess with the Wolfman" she said as she got her things together.
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Post by scoobnick on Jun 7, 2019 15:36:30 GMT -5
One by one the group headed to the showboat, Winnie getting the others to agree to play her games later that evening. Velma welcomed them aboard, and Dixie went to the operation room to drive the boat away from the dock.
Missy went to the boat safe and retrieved the cache before bringing it into the meeting room "Nice work girls on finding this" she said with a grin. "Now let's get this open and see where Marybelle hid the fifth cache. You figure that it's further away from Vicksburg than Green Island. Possibly over on the Louisiana side
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Post by scoobnick on Jun 10, 2019 19:49:40 GMT -5
Velma looked on as the cache was brought out on to the table and the gang gathered around " Madelyn do you have any lockpicks on you at the moment? If so we will need them to open up the cache and see what is inside of it "
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2019 19:56:44 GMT -5
"I do." Madelyn said as she pulled it from up her sleeve and handed it over. "This is one of my aces, here you go." "Ugh." Chris groaned, while Baxter was still resting too drained to give a reaction to the slight dig."I like you, but that pun is worse than Baxter and the Ghoul's jokes." "At least it wasn't monster humor." Madelyn commented.
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Post by scoobnick on Jun 12, 2019 8:51:22 GMT -5
Yes the girls do tend to go on with their ghoul jokes. But it is funny to them, and you are only a teenager once, so there's no real harm in their jokes " Missy said as Dixie began to fiddle with the lockpick, trying to lift the tumblers of the cache so that it would open. It was slow going as the hinges were quite rusty." Let's hope that whatever is in here is still intact " Creola said " Otherwise we won't have much to go on in finding the next cache " "Patience ladies, Let Dixie work on it for a little bit " Cruny said as he took a seat at the table. A long creak accompanied the first tumbler rising , soon followed by a second. Finally the latch opened and Dixie slowly moved it up revealing a piece of paper surrounded by rings rubies and pearl necklaces Marybelle pulled out one of the necklaces, which was a brilliant emerald green. "My mother's necklace. An extremely rare green pearl necklace worth a lot of money. Most of the time pearls are white or black but very rarely they can come in other colors, with pink being the rarest, followed by green, and red , respectively. My mom only wore this on very special occasions, like weddings and the like . My father bought it for her as a wedding gift, I don't know where he found it or how much he paid for it, but it almost certainly was more than $50,000. Which was a enormous sum in those days , remember that the average person was lucky to earn a few thousand dollars a year " Missy and Winnie gaped at the beautiful necklace. "Man, that is a furtastic necklace!" Winnie said " Any chance I could touch it?"Marybelle showed her the necklace more closely " You can look at it but don't touch. I need to have it appraised for its value. " Sybella and Tanis both peered at the necklace " My mother would be driven batty after looking at such a fangtastic necklace. Knowing her, she would demand my father find one for her." There's only one problem with that Sybella. There are less than 10 necklaces like this anywhere in the world,"Velma said as she showed a news article on her computer. "Marybelle's necklace might be only the eighth ever recorded, as this article of the Walochian Crown Jewels mentioned that there are only 7 such necklaces known to exist "
" How much would it be worth, then?" Nora asked. "Many many millions of dollars " Velma said " Could be over $100 million, even " Dixie whistled at the sum. "My word, Marybelle. That 2 billion dollar estimate is going to be on the low side if we keep finding things like this. In the meantime Creola read the note and tell us where we need to go next
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Post by scoobnick on Jun 21, 2019 11:34:43 GMT -5
Creola took the faded paper in her claws and looked at it " Creola, if you are reading this then you have already recovered several of my belongings. I hid the next cache in a cave near Injun Rock, remember the long red stone pillar in the back? I put the cache in behind it in a small opening. You'll find it if you remember the three directions we would use.Marybelle" Creola paused after reading. " Injun Rock is on the other side of the river, on the Louisiana side. Prior to the siege, it was a cool place to explore with friends I remember one trip with Nili and Nora that ended up with us getting separated from each other and spending several hours trying to find each other and getting out before nightfall. The cave is huge and has several rooms"
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