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[rocknload]

The house on the hill was lovely, really. I'm sure people can get the best of their backyards when they've got a slope of about fifty degrees. And letting that yard become overrun with a carpet of long, slippery grass? Makes it picturesque. ... Okay, planting every thorny kind of plant imaginable at regular intervals?

We're starting to tread into the realm of what the hell, here.

You can imagine what happened to us, me and Bryce. Repeatedly. I don't know how we avoided getting stabbed in the face as we slid and flailed around.

We also broke into the abandoned house and looked through all the stuff that'd been left behind, though, so I don't know if we can complain that much.

My job has bizarre perks.

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[pretzelcoatl.livejournal.com]

I saw "abandoned house" and "stabbed in the face" and thought you were talking about going into Silent Hill or something. o_O

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Well, the guy we were spying on was dead, I think, so it was kind of creepy?

[sunsetsred.livejournal.com]

Ooh. That sounds like fun.

...Y'know, minus the... stabby, flaily pain.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

It was! And my brother got much more pain than I did--I guess he's allergic to one of the plants...

[unicorn]

Did you take pictures?

I really doubt the thorny horrible plants were intentional, though. They regularly try to menace the field north of our house until my dad mows them down with his giant tractor.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I didn't! It was mostly empty, except for some really strange papers Bryce dug out of a cabinet. Mostly, limericks the guy apparently liked to write...

The yard was horribly overgrown, so I guess it wasn't intentional; it just made the whole thing into a TRAP.

[unicorn]

Whoooa, poetry. That's a fairly good find on the abandoned house market. Were any of them AWESOME?

Sticker bushes are the #1 reason I don't hike as much as I should. They're always, always awful around here. During. Pretty much any time of the year.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

They were mostly silly, I think! It felt weird to read them all that closely.

These were mostly weird trees with really looong thorns that were surprisingly painful when they stabbed you!

[unicorn]

Ours are kind of like huge rosebushes, only without the redeemingly pretty flowers at some times of the year. IT IS GOOD TO AVOID TREES THAT HATE YOU, YOU KNOW.

Does this mean your dad's gonna have regular work for you again, or was this a oneshot?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

I dunno if these had flowers! Maybe I should return in the spring! I TRIED. BUT WHEN I SLIPPED ON THE GRASS AND STARTED SLIDING DOWN THE HILL, THEY WERE HARD TO AVOID.

Who knows!

[unicorn]

Thornsledding could be your new sport! YOU WANTED TO GET MORE IN SHAPE, RIGHT?

That's annoying.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

That involves less aerobic exercise, and more BEING A VICTIM OF GRAVITY, though!

A little!

[unicorn]

But then you have to climb back up the hill.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Which can be cool, actually! If friction fails you just right, you get to run in place!

[unicorn]

Aerobics and terror in one strange package!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

That is the very definition of excitement!

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Dude, were you investigating a dead guy's life? This was on "This American Life" last week!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

Only what his relatives didn't take away! Which was his poetry and some letters and the plaque for his patent!

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Why were you inv-

Oh.

OH.

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

... What?

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

I've been wrong all this time. You're not in training to be the next Indiana Jones.

Your family are demon hunters. Like on Supernatural!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

... Maybe.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

I can't believe it took me this long to figure it out!

So, did you find the bones?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

We didn't. I bet they were sunk in the nasty pool.

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

Oh, right. I forgot. You've sold out to your Demon Overlord.

YOU'RE THE DEMON!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

...

[immelmanturn.livejournal.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

[yamiaudra.livejournal.com]

Find anything cool?

[rocknload.livejournal.com]

It was mostly empty!