The Turtle-King's Foul Plan: Day of Confusion! Day of Terror! Into the Ghost House! Into Our Fears!

[ihateplumbers]

Who: Bowser, Peach, Interested Parties
What: Bowser Kidnapped Peach!!! Oh no!!
Where: A weird building that appeared overnight next to campus
When: The evening of Sat. June 29
Warnings: Ghosts!


Oh, it says 'Ghost House'; that's probably just for fun.

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KIDNAPPING IS A GO

[ihateplumbers]

Bowser politely knocked on Princess Peach's dorm room door.

DANG

[inanothercastle]

"Who is it?"

But before there could have been an answer, Peach opened the door. Then she almost-nearly shut the door, leaving just enough room for herself to peak one eye through the sliver she left open.

"What can I help you with, Bowser?"

[ihateplumbers]

And now that the door wouldn't be broken, Bowser just shoved himself on through the slightly opened door.

A shyguy holding a... kitten(???) followed in after him.

"I came to give you this kitten, Princess," said Bowser in a sweet voice.

"Give the lady the kitten," ordered Bowser in a less-sweet voice.

The shyguy waddled up and held the kitten out to Peach.

[inanothercastle]

Oh. Guess Peach was just gonna move out of the way for Bowser.

She looked down at the shyguy holding a kitten, and her nervous expression softened considerably. It was so adorable.

"What's the occasion?" she asked, before taking the kitten from the shyguy. She did lean down to pet it, though.

[ihateplumbers]

It was a Scottish fold. From somewhere across the aether, Maxwell Labs shed a single tear, but didn't know why.

"You being so beautiful," said Bowser, who was telling a lie of omission.

[inanothercastle]

"Ah..."

Not entirely sure what to make of that reply, Peach simply frowned. And continued petting the cat instead of taking it.

"Well, thank you. She's absolutely darling."

[ihateplumbers]

Bowser nodded to the shyguy.

The shyguy pulled a vial he was hiding behind the kitten.

SLEEPING POTION TO THE FACE.

[inanothercastle]

What was- zzzz.

[ihateplumbers]

Bowser directs the shy-guy to put one of your dresses on the ground and put your second-best crown on top of it, which you probably have lying around somewhere, and then lets the kitten loose in the room.

The next thing you're aware of, you wake up in a kitchen in a shack somewhere with Bowser staring dreamily at you from across a kitchen table.

"Good morning, my sweety Peachy."

[inanothercastle]

Blink blink.

There, indeed, was Bowser sitting across from Peach at a kitchen table. Not feeling quite as dreamy, she huffed and crossed her arms at him.

"I should have known you weren't just being thoughtful!"

[ihateplumbers]

"I'm always thoughtful," corrected Bowser.

"I think about me and what I want all the time."

He waved his claws at the weird kitchen around them. "Right now, I want a cake baked by your lovely hands."

[inanothercastle]

Huff. How rude!

"Well, I don't want to make you one." Although she didn't want to get herself into any more trouble than she was already in! "...At least not until you say please!"

[ihateplumbers]

"Since you're so adorable, I'll humor you," said Bowbow, in a nauseatingly sweet voice.

"Please bake me a cake." He smiled at her with all of his many sharp and hideous teeth.

YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE HOUSE. FOR SOME REASON YOU THOUGHT COMING HERE WAS A GREAT IDEA.

[ihateplumbers]

You enter into the house and the door disappears behind you. Oh. Okay. That's cool. There's a giant circle of ghosts in front of you. That's cool.

[worldrestored]

[Holy shit, this is TOTALLY COOL. Can he form contact with these ghosts? He'll just move closer to them...]

[koopatroop]

::They continue to circle about, but there's a gap in the circle for some inexplicable reason::

THIS IS OPEN TO EVERYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO JOIN IN

[worldrestored]

[His Pixie companion is looking pretty confused.]

Wow, these guys are pretty boring. You sure you want one?

[Naoki shrugs and just steps in, watching them spin around him as he thinks, sitting down.]

[will_be_god]

Ghosts. Should be simple enough. Not knowing their statistics, Cyrus felt it best to cover his bases and use both physical and special attacks. "Weavile, Night Slash. Houndoom, Dark Pulse."

And if they were somehow immune to Dark-type moves, he readied Gyarados to simply sweep them away.

[koopatroop]

Wheeeeee, they keep spinning around in a circle.

MARIO GHOSTS DON'T PLAY BY YOUR RULES, BRO.

[will_be_god]

Weavile stared at its claws, in a fair amount of disbelief that the attack hadn't worked. Houndoom simply moved out of the way as Gyarados readied Aqua Tail. SOMETHING had to hit these suckers.

YOU HAVE GOTTEN PAST THE GHOSTS. WELCOME TO ANOTHER ROOM.

[ihateplumbers]

Oh there's some yellow blocks in here and HOLY CRUD A GHOST THE SIZE OF AN ELEPHANT. OH GOD, OH MAN, OH GOD, OH MAN.

SOMEHOW YOU ESCAPED. BUT SUDDENLY... A DOOR.

[ihateplumbers]

There's a door here, but it's locked. But there's this totally innocuous purple box next to the door. There's probably a key in there.

Outside the mansion, before they enter.

[trustycrowbar]

Gordon and Connor had gotten wise to the Koopa King's plans and had headed into the woods with a goal in mind; to defeat him and save the princess.

Gordon didn't actually realize how, well, storybook that sounded until about twenty feet away from the front door, in his orange hazard suit with gravity gun slung over his shoulder. He peers up at the sign.

"'Ghost House.' Hmph. Really."

[pitticus]

SUDDENLY...

a purple convertible with cartoony eyes and a mouth came putting along, a rather cramped passenger with spiky hair jammed inside the driver's side. Said spiky-haired passenger- was he the driver or was the car driving itself- had been similarly hollered at to go rescue the princess from Bowser's scaly clutches, so here Phoenix Wright was, along for the ride.

"GUYS! Princess Peach has been kidnapped!" he interrupted. "We have to go save her!"

GET IN LOSER WE'RE GOING PRINCESS SAVING XD

[trustycrowbar]

"..."

Blink, blink.

"We know! That's, err... what we're here for." He calls back, lamely. "Where'd you get the car?"

[mohawk_tomahawk]

...Connor was busy examining the house for anything suspicious like a way to get in without going through the front door. Or any traces of fiends, the kidnapper, or whatever else.

...He was knocked out of his quiet state when Pit abruptly came in.

...What the hell was this. What the hell were you. Why.

"...!"

"...Mr. Wright, what is this..."

He heard Princess saving and holy fuck what.

[thewrightidea]

Phoenix looked none too amused at this whole thing. Of course, when he heard about the kidnapping, he wanted to call the authorities and get in a rescue team, but then... this vehicle had shown up. And Phoenix had no idea what to think.

"Oh... Hi guys..." He was a bit relieved to see Gordon and Connor, but this situation was... not ideal. At all.

"Um... I well... Just... Don't ask," was all he could really explain.

oh god no notifs bash me against the wall

[raw_angel_power]

"I found him on my way and asked for his help," explained Pit in Phoenix's stead. Give him no choice to help was a more accurate way of putting things. "But this is good! We have a whole team of rescuers who can stomp in and kick Bowser to the curb! Mario's not here, so it's up to us to save Peach! Everyone, hop on in! We can't just stand around shooting the breeze!"

He didn't give them much room for choice, as he sped along next to the two men and used his extension cable thingy that shot out from the trunk area to coerce them inside. He was turning into a clown car with all this man-packing he had to do.

[trustycrowbar]

"Who's Mari--"

That's all Gordon manages to ask before he's yanked into the convertible by the cable with a yelp and an upholstered thud. He sits up in an upside-down sprawl in the back seat, one orange leg draped haphazardly over the side.

"God--gh... Watch it, Phoenix!" He growls, mistakenly thinking that the lawyer was the one who sent out the tow line. He WAS in the driver's seat, after all.

[mohawk_tomahawk]

WHAT NO.

WAIT A MINUTE.



WAIT A MINUTE--!!

Before he could object, he was snagged and thrown into the car. With a grunt he landed in. He wanted to raise his voice about it, but had enough control to keep it down to a growl himself.

"This is outrageous, what if we are spotted this way?"