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Deep below the surface, the Sea Hag raged. Bent and swollen fingers curved like the ribs of sunken ships, tearing at the lake bed. The gouges became furrows, deepened still to become trenches, changing the topography of the World Beneath the Waves and, as a consequence, changing the currents around it.

The waters became treacherous, routes that were easily navigated now twisted out of true or vanished entirely, and vicious storms sprang up out of nowhere, capsizing ghost ships and sending their crews to a second, permanent death.

And the mermaids sighed, and fetched their shovels, and went to work.

Ongoing Verse: Janet

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Marshall checked the clock.

The Eerie Baitshop and Sushi Bar opened early, selling fishing lures and chum buckets to those who hunted in the waters of Lake Eerie, and bought sodden wallets and gold teeth from those that hunted those hunters. If Janet had closed up the night before, she'd be at home, sleeping off the after-effects of a dozen warding rituals and the unique horror of cleaning the customer toilets.

"I'll go by the shop," he said. "If Janet's not working, maybe whoever Fred is impersonating today will know what to do about the ghost-pirates instead."

Simon looked sceptical.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: Janet

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Ghostly hooks and spectral cutlasses littered the kitchen counter, pulsing with a faint blue other-light that resembled nothing so much as a migraine aura. Marshall winced. Ghost-pirates it was.

"Hey," said Simon, who was wearing a pair of sunglasses indoors to ward off the glare and trying to read an ancient tome on seagoing exorcisms at the same time.

"Hey," said Marshall, reaching through a tangle of discarded and incorporeal peg-legs in order to grab the cereal. "Problems at the lake?"

"Looks that way," Simon agreed. "I think Janet worked the closing shift last night, so I haven't called yet."

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: Janet

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The bottle of Doctor Eukanuba's All-Purpose Breath-Freshening Plaque-Killening Anti-Bacterial Mouthwash (eucalyptus flavour, as if that was something anyone other than a koala would have ever asked for) stood on the edge of the bathroom sink, next to the hot tap, under the cabinet with the mirrored doors.

This was where it always stood, being too tall for the cabinet itself and too frequently-used to be relegated to the storage cupboard outside the bathroom, where pungent gift sets received in office Secret Santas languished in the dark behind the extra towels and the spare packet of toilet roll.

The label on the bottle was a drawing of the eponymous, and ominously-smiling, Doctor Eukanuba. In the picture he was leaning over a terrified patient who Marshall suspected was a slightly mean-spirited depiction of Steve Konkalewski. The legend "now floss!", in bold and bloody all-caps, was written beneath it.

Today that familiar image was almost obscured by overlapping layer of skull and crossbones stickers, plastered on so thickly that only the faint green glow of the liquid within let Marshall know that this was, in fact, his dental-association-approved mouthwash.

Poison or ghost-pirates, he thought. Either way, he'd need to buy a new bottle.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: The Children

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"The other alternative," Simon said, "Is that you contract with the Ghost Pirates to try to lure the kraken-babies back into the Phantom Ocean the next time it shows up, and keep them there long enough for the reality of Lake Eerie to reassert itself and sever the connection."

Chisel thought about this.

"Expensive," he mused. "And there's no guarantee the Pirates would make it back, which might adversely affect visitor numbers for years to come if tourists aren't spotting a ghostly galleon on the lake every night..."

He opened a drawer and pulled out his cheque book.

"Thanks, boys."

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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"We know that the Ghost Pirates came here via the Phantom Ocean," said Marshall.

He waited for a moment, but as Chisel didn't seem inclined to argue this obvious fact, he continued:

"We know that they stayed here after the ocean relocated the first time, and we know that they've chosen not to go with it when it's reappeared since."

The Mayor nodded.

"We also know that sometimes the ocean brings other things to the lake, and that those things can get stuck here."

"The seagulls," said Chisel, nodding again. "They're wrecking havoc on French-fry sales and the Pteranodon population."

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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For his part, the Mayor seemed more amused than insulted.

"That's just my face," he said. "I hope you don't go around telling all of your clients to fix how they look."

"Just the condescendingly evil ones," said Marshall.

Chisel turned this over in his mind.

"Fine," he said. "In the interests of keeping part of Eerie's tourist economy alive long enough to drain their wallets, I will allow you to tell me about the Kraken spawning out on the lake."

Marshall and Simon exchanged a glance. Marshall nodded, and Simon pulled out the scrapbook.

"We think it's the pirates."

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The ghost pirates had acquired a paddle steamer and they chugged back and forth across the surface of Lake Eerie, pausing occasionally to let out a loud hoot from the various whistles that jutted from the elderly vessel.

"I thought they were into Viking longboats?" said Marshall, snapping a few photographs more out of habit than any real expectation that the ghosts would show up on film.

Janet shrugged.

"I guess they wanted a change," she said. "Can ghosts have a mid-life crisis? Mid-death cri- what's the word for something like this?"

Marshall thought about it.

"Weird," he said eventually.


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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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The foghorn sounded, faint and far away, though the day was clear and Janet could see the other side of the lake from where she sat at the end of the pier.

The pirates had absconded with the Baitshop's entire fleet of pedalos and she was on the lookout for any sign of a tricorn hat or a prow curved like the neck of a swan.

The re-emergence of the Phantom Ocean caught her off-guard, and Janet shrieked as icy ghost-water froze her skin without ever dampening her clothes. Pale and eyeless fish gaped their apologies as she stood, cursing.

Ongoing Verse: Janet

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The pirates claimed that marine worms had eaten their ship. Marshall wasn't sure how a living creature, no matter nightmarishly ugly, could chew through the spectral wood of a ghostly galleon, but Janet shrugged and said, well, it did happen, and had they tried vinegar to keep the worms away?

The pirates explained that all their vinegar stocks had gone down with the HMS Jolly Rodger, and that yes, they knew what HMS stood for and didn't care, and could they please borrow the Baitshop's pedalos, just for tonight?

"You'll spoil them," he'd warned Janet, once the pirates were gone.

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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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The spirit she'd captured in the brandy bottle was singing sea shanties again.

Marisea was almost certain it hadn't lived a life on the open waves before it wound up haunting a grandfather clock in a junk store run by leprechauns, but that hadn't stopped it manifesting in a blue and white striped shirt, a red neckerchief and a costume shop-level "Sea Captain Hat" the moment she'd brought it home.

"It wasn't even a rum bottle," she complained over the noise. "At least then it would be thematically appropriate!"

"Threaten to beat it with the cat-o-nine-tails," suggested Andrea. "Keel-hauling. Scurvy?"

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The sound of ghostly drumbeats echoed across the still waters of the lake, and the spectral prow of a Viking longboat, carved to look like a snarling dragon, slid across the surface without leaving a wake.

Marshall Teller rolled his eyes.

"There aren't any Viking settlements in Eerie," he said. "That oarsman's got a hook for a hand and the helmsman's got a parrot on his shoulder."

Janet shrugged.

"So the ghost pirates like to dress up now and then," she said. "Let them have their fun."

"They're ghost pirates," said Marshall. "How much more dressed up can they be?"

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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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The lit interior of the vending machine shone like a beacon in the darkened street. Behind the fogged glass, blurred shapes in faded packaging strained against the coils of metal holding them in place.

Marshall Teller hefted the bag of cursed doubloons in one hand, the enchanted gold humming his name in a sweet, lilting tone that any siren would be proud of.

"This is a bad idea," he said, to nobody in particular. Around him, Eerie lay quiet, keeping it's counsel.

"A mysterious vending machine that only accepts ghost-pirate currency appears out of nowhere," Marshall continued. "You'd have to be the sucker of the universe to fall for that."

The lights in the vending machine dimmed, then brightened. Marshall got the distinct impression that it had winked at him.

He stepped closer, trying to peer through the condensation that streaked the inside of the display case.

The number six button flashed. Once. Twice. Three times. From the coin return slot came the tinny approximation of a raven's caw. The buzz of an electrical current filled the air, though Marshall could see the power lead and the plug lying abandoned on the sidewalk.

He sighed, and reached for a coin.

Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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Title: What Friends are For
Rating: G
Author notes: For the amnesty round on [community profile] fan_flashworks prompt 'triangle'
Summary: Simon's just helping Marshall keep busy.

What Friends are For
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Pay Attention
Text Parts 1-5: http://eerie-indiana.livejournal.com/67017.html?thread=210121#t210121
Text Part 6: http://eerie-indiana.livejournal.com/67017.html?thread=196297#t196297
Text Side Story: http://eerie-indiana.livejournal.com/67017.html?thread=288713#t288713
Audio: https://soundcloud.com/user-511656485/pay-attention-1-6-and-side-story

Thank you to Froodle and Deifire for letting me play with their fics, by the way. It's been super fun and I'm psyched to have Eerie fic to listen to while Crocheting (even if it's in my own voice...which should be weird but kind of isn't).

I was going to do Gingerbread tonight, too (have it all recorded and everything) but omg editing Pay Attention was a pain 'cause I fail and mess up a lot and I should probably go to bed as I'm still not 100% better...

Also, by the way? THIS IS BASICALLY THE LENGTH OF AN EPISODE. Which is pretty freaking awesome. And according to Froodle I'd already done 46 minutes of Eerie fic before this so like. HOLY SHIT GUYS. We basically took over the show. like. Legit. there is enough Eerie fic on the internet for MULTIPLE EPISODES.

Pretty sure if the Eerie fans decided to we could make our own damn Eerie continuation...

um. AN EERIE PODCAST?! Where like. Simon, Dash, and Mars create a subversive radio station when Chisel's plans start working out and shit goes all out into OMFG DON'T LET US DIE territory? And Syndi is their like...story writer because she took one look at Mars's first news bulletin and was like "No." and rewrote the whole thing?

Also it's location moves and Radford helps them because there are like. Weird portal things all over Eerie and he can help them go places. And like. A series of eps that have to be transmitted from the Bureau of Lost with ENTIRELY lost items because Chisel's too close and they literally have to get lost for awhile?!

Are we organized enough for this?

I'm way too tired and should stop typing but the audio is still uploading...

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