[Action Post]: Hey There Skull!

[harrys_skull]

[Sitting on the reception desk is a human skull. Your standard boring human skull with empty eye sockets and made of weathered bone. This skull, however, isn't completely normal. The bone is covered with strange runes that look older than the skull itself. It might be worth it to pick it up to examine them or it might not, the choice is up to you.]

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[kappagirl]

[Nako immediately hides behind a shelf when she sees the skull sitting on the desk--is that thing supposed to be there? Her first thought is that it looks kind of gross and kind of scary, like something that should be thrown out. They said not to damage the books, but that certainly doesn't look like a book.

Unpleasant as she knows this will be, she steps out of her hiding place, though she continues keeping her distance.]

E-excuse me, um... Are you a monster?

[harrys_skull]

[Orange lights appear in the skull's eye sockets and a warm chuckle comes out of the mouth even though it isn't moving. The voice is gentle as if whatever or whoever is trying not to scare the person in front of it.]

Me nahhhhhh. I'm just a spirit sweetheart. Name's Bob.

[kappagirl]

You talk?!

[Despite the friendliness of the skull, she jumps, startled.

A pause as she stands there blinking at him. When she speaks again, her tone is apologetic.]

No offense Mr. Spirit, but... I thought a talking skull would have a more impressive name than Bob.

[harrys_skull]

Yup...my owner says I run my mouth more than he does even though my mouth doesn't really move.

[A soft chuckle.]

Hey Harry was seventeen and had just blown up his mentor's house...Bob was the first name he thought of.

[kappagirl]

[She skitters back, as if the skull just said something about blowing this place up.]

B-blew it up?! Madame manager would slap someone a thousand times if they did that!

[Or, you know, report them to the police like a normal person.]

[harrys_skull]

He had no choice trust me. His mentor was a bad, bad man.

[Bob sounds sad about the whole thing.]

I hope he'll be okay without me.

[kappagirl]

Oh...

[Hesitantly, she reaches out to try and pat the skull. Being patted on the head is comforting, right?]

I-I'm sure he'll be okay. If he can burn a place down, he can probably take care of himself!

[harrys_skull]

[Bob would be purring if he wasn't worried about what people would think of purring noises coming out of a skull.}

You'd think so...but this is the same guy who rode a dinosaur skeleton down a major city street when trying to fight zombies.

[kappagirl]

[Yes, that might be a little creepy...

She pauses in thought, her hand hovering over him.]

...Does that not help in dealing with zombies?

[harrys_skull]

Oh it helped...it was just weird...even for him.

[Bob chuckles softly.]

Harry kind of lives for weird.

[kappagirl]

...He sounds like Ohana, then.

[She would definitely fight zombies astride a skeleton, if she could. That's just the kind of girl Ohana is.

Some of the ease of her speech evaporates as she thinks more on what she just said. She quickly shakes her head.]

She's my friend. Th-that's not important, probably, sorry!

[harrys_skull]

Sounds like a good friend if she likes weird stuff. The best friends are the ones who are willing to stay with your through thick and thin.

[kappagirl]

That's true. Whenever things got rough at the inn, she really stepped up! Is your friend the same way?

[harrys_skull]

Harry, oh yeah. He might grumble and pretend to get mad when he needs to keep saving the world, but he knows he's one of the few who can.

[kappagirl]

[She laughs.]

I don't think Ohana came very close to saving the world...

[She couldn't even save the inn probably, not that that was her fault.]

Doesn't your friend get tired at all?

[harrys_skull]

He does sometimes.Magic takes a lot out of a wizard. But he knows how to take care of himself so he doesn't use up too much will.

[kappagirl]

...What happens if he uses too much?

[harrys_skull]

He could die. Wizards have had that happen to them.

[kappagirl]

He could die?! Th-that's terrible!

[harrys_skull]

It is terrible but Harry is really good at being careful so don't worry.

[kappagirl]

I-I hope so...

[Though she's never met this guy, she can't help but be concerned. She knows plenty of people who tend to rush into things without thinking it through and those are pretty high stakes.]

So when your friend's saving the world... What do you do?

[harrys_skull]

[Bob chuckles.]

Read romance novels...I love them.

[kappagirl]

Romance novels..?

[Oh dear. She immediately thinks of Jiromaru, who isn't exactly a great person to be associated with.]

...We had someone who wrote those staying at the inn once. He was very, um...

Strange.

[harrys_skull]

Strange...strange like how?

[kappagirl]

He got Ohana stuck in his room once...

[And then tried to kidnap the whole lot of them.]

O-only for a little bit! And she was fine! But then he stole the inn's vehicle and tried to jump into the ocean.