This strip offers a few glimpses of what the interior of the haunted house does look like…and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it looks like it’s doing its job quite effectively. Especially by the normal standards of high school haunted houses. Creepy atmosphere and some nice SFX, a well-framed entry for Mopey and, implied, fitting sound effects.* Mopey definitely knows her stuff.
And she knows her stuff not only when it comes to creepy, but also when it comes to shipping. Her new besties have been a bad influence in that regard, but she knew the basics even before that. So she knew she was going to end up on a date with that guy the moment she saw him, resigned herself to her fate, and graciously allowed me to skip all of the process and jump straight to the result. Their characters are just too close in theme/style…shipping was inevitable.
It would probably have been very cheesy and/or sappy if I had attempted to write budding romance between teenage creatures of the night, and Mopey is very right to assume most of the audience can easily come up with something much better in their heads than I could have put on the page. XD
More on Monday.
* Created by K’ip playing the Ocarina of Creepiness off-screen. He had a lot of musical instruments in his inventory, for some reason.
“I like sugary foods now that I have no teeth, can’t get fat nor am vulnerable to the die-a-beetus.”
XD Well, if you can appreciate the small advantages of undeath, it offsets some of the negatives…
Positive attitude can take you far!