"A Night Visit to the Lake" Flash Gathering
Hope you have a great night at the expo, filled with screams and shrieks
Horropedia: ... What's this?
Horropedia: I don't remember an ad like that in my subscription to Monster Weekly... Huh...?
There is a familiar odor. Horropedia examines his palms, dusty and covered in mold.
Horropedia: Okay, I know this stuff. Looks like Green Lake is inviting us again.
Horropedia: But we abducted its owner. Who else could have done it?
Blonney: Hey, can you get out of the way? I want to grab... Ahem, the fashion magazine I ordered.
Blonney: The sound of footsteps comes closer and closer, mingled with the pounding of hooves upon the ground.
Jessica: A fashion magazine! A fashion magazine!
Jessica: Fawn's head pokes out from the side, eagerly searching.
Jessica: Jennifer, we're looking for the September issue this time, right?
Horropedia: She's into fashion now?
Horropedia: I guessed that she was a curious girl who was willing to experiment, but I didn't expect her to find a new hobby so soon...
Blonney: Don't make that "one less horror enthusiast, boo-hoo" face.
Blonney: Blonney pulls out the September issue and handed it to Jessica.
Blonney: It's a deranged bridal magazine. The goth aesthetic has taken over everything, including the wedding dresses... You remember the ghost bride, I presume?
Horropedia: Oh! Nice!
Horropedia: Can I borrow this magazine later?
Blonney: It's Jessica's magazine. Don't ask me, ask her.
Horropedia: Nice! Jess -- Huh?
Jessica: "A Night Visit to the Lake"... Flash Gathering?
Jessica: What's this little card? Jennifer?
Jessica: This smells like Green Lake. Did you do this? But we've spent the last few days together, so you probably haven't had time to make this card...
Blonney: A card?
Blonney looks down and sees a card in the open magazine in her hand.
Blonney: I didn't do this, Jessica. I got a card, too.
Cautiously, she picks up the little piece of paper and glances at it. She turns it over and reads something her companions have not seen.
Blonney: "Monster Chronicles"... A book club?
Jessica: What's that?
Blonney: I think it's a book club based on a villain from a horror movie...
Blonney: Members... Big Trouble Girl, Avant-garde Critic, New Director, Top Collector and...
Blonney: ... The survivors of Green Lake.
Blonney: Ah...
Think, think, think.
Blonney: That seems to be referring precisely to us.
Blonney: Jessica, give me a hand.
Jessica: Huh? What's the matter? Jennifer?
Blonney: This piece of paper has a spider on it, and the signature--
Blonney: Oh-- Oh, my!
It is rare for her to get so excited, but girls like her do get excited in this sort of situation.
Blonney: This is an invitation to UTTU! An invitation from UTTU, the greatest fashion and arcanist information magazine!
Blonney: If I die, this will go on my tombstone. Oh, my word...
Blonney fell limply against Fawn, who naturally caught her.
Jessica: U... TTU?
Jessica: Well... Together, these letters look like... A crying puppy!
Jessica: Are we going back to Green Lake to see some crying puppies?
Horropedia: Wait... UTTU, and Flash Gathering, I think I've heard stories about them.
Horropedia: It was a book club that took the arcanist world by storm. Everyone was fascinated by their books and cards.
Horropedia: But this craze hasn't caught on with the friends of the Foundation. After all, we have little time for leisure activities...
Blonney: What are you talking about? Don't you want to go--?!
Horropedia: No, what I'm saying is... It's different now.
Horropedia: My guardians are no longer the faculty or the Foundation, but Vertin and the Tooth Fairy. We can go wherever we want.