Y'all ready for this? Here is our prompt list for the event this year! (Please clap)
What's this? A triple prompt for the first day?
That's right! We're celebrating the Phandom new and old for our favorite ghost boy's 20th anniversary with a theme centered around the passage of time and what that could mean to Danny and his rogue's gallery.
As always, our last prompt day is the 24th where we hand off to @ectoberweekofficial for their event. This makes our free days October 5th, 6th, 19th, 20th, and the 24th to Halloween this year.
Please tag all prompt fills as "ectoberhaunt24" so we can find your posts, and follow the guidelines below the cut.
Posting for this event begins Monday, October 1st!
Down below are our written out calendar prompts (for accessibility) AND our posting guidelines. Check 'em out!\
The Prompts
Below are the listed prompts in date order, if it's blank it's a catch up day. First prompt is Past and second is Future.
Past, Present, & Future
Dinosaur & Robot
Archaeology & Meteorology
Came Back Wrong
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Bury & Unearth
Pirate Ship & Spaceship
Rise & Fall
Creepy & Wet
Dark and Stormy Night
Isekai: Past Prompt (Here)
Isekai: Old Hero, New World
Cult Classic & Murder Mystery
Science Fiction & Double Feature
Bloom & Wither
Gothic Horror & Cosmic Horror
Mirror Image
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Analog & Digital
Steampunk & Solarpunk
Big Bang & Heat Death
Time Loop
Ectober Week: 25-31
Post Guidelines
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Danny and Vlad somehow ended up stuck in an alternate dimension where different times and eras seem to mesh together. Danny and Vlad have a lead as to how they can get home however.
Somewhere, in the Old New West, is a facility that has been researching inter-dimensional travel. It is an ancient facility in this world. Despite their attempts to sneak in, the walls are lined with some type of anti-ectoplasmic material, making it impossible for Vlad and Danny to just sneak in.
They need a key, and what better place to find a key to an ancient facility than a museum?
Ye Olde Village, the sign reads, welcoming would be travelers to its town.
A hover car then passes it by, kicking up dirt as it passes by a wheat field with a robot tending it.
The man driving the hover-car, with a lit tobacco pipe hanging on the side of his mouth, fixes his cowboy hat and the red tie hanging from his plain white dress shirt, complete with a vest.
As he approaches the main street, a bunch of the villagers shopping along the businesses camped along the main street stare at their newcomer.
To his left, a group of greaser boys loiter in front of the saloon with their hover-bikes. As he passes them by, the greasy haired boys give the stranger a side-eyed stare as a welcoming present. A couple of them, holding spiked bats and 6-shot revolver pistols glare at the newcomer.
The driver, feeling a bit of sweat form around his brow, wipes his face. His breath shutters, wondering what exactly he has gotten himself into.
Peaking back into the back seat of the vehicle, he asks, "You sure this is the place?"
The boy sitting in the back seat, his face hidden under his own hat, with snow white hair spiking out from it answers, "I'm sure."
"Daniel, I'm really not too sure about this."
Danny's glares at the driver and asks, "You got a better idea, Vlad!?"
Vlad shouts back, "Well, it certainly wouldn't have started with driving the Fenton Hovercraft into the one town controlled by one of the most notorious biker gangs of the Old New West! Brilliant planner!"
"We needed a distraction!"
"And we could have done that by blowing up their hoverbikes with a sneak attack! But you didn't think about that, did you!?"
"Pssh-What do you mean!? Of course I did!"
"Then why didn't we do it!?"
"That's easy! Because-" Danny begins, "...we -uh, well...there was...a need, to ensure, that the...uh...paint?"
Vlad slams his head into the dashboard, and speaks, "Brilliant, Daniel, just brilliant. While I have tried to figure out for weeks how we can get home from the Old New West, and finally found a lead on the key to getting into the facility that holds the way home, at least I can count on you to ensure that we don't hurt this dimension's property values!"
"Hey!" Danny shoots back "We have a duty to not do any more harm than needed!"
"Like that has stopped you ever, back in Amity Park?"
Danny folds his arms and sits back, "It's different when I can be around to help pick up the damage."
"And foot the bill on me..."
"Hey, you wanted to be mayor."
"Until I remembered that kids can still use the first amendment." Vlad looks so defeated from back where Danny is sitting.
Danny laughs a little, feeling a bit of triumph. "Heh...maybe consider not shooting kids."
Vlad corrects him, "I shot the limo."
"Right, and the laser went through the doors and into me, not before hitting the fuel line which set off the explosion."
"We're getting off topic," Vlad says.
Danny, not letting it go, adds, "You really got to look before you shoot. That's like, first rule of shooting guns. Remember what happened to Dick Cheney's friend?"
"Daniel!"
The loudness of his voice shocks Danny, freezing his words.
Vlad is really pissed now. His face is visibly red. Vlad is now looking back at Danny at Danny, hollering, yelling, and pointing at him and then outside, trying to prove some point.
It's lost on Danny, because..."Um, Vlad?"
"No! Shut up! I'm talking!"
"Vlad?"
The little brat then raises his finger. Vlad smacks his hand and continues his screaming session, "Why can't you just listen while I'm talking to you!?"
"Vlad!" Danny shouts!
"What!?"
Danny doesn't speak. Just pointing, with eyes full of fear.
Vlad turns and his face drops. He sees a wall, only feet in front of him, and they are still moving.
"Cream puf-" Vlad doesn't finish his curse.
The hovercraft crashes into the building at the end of the main street, tearing a gigantic hole in the wall.
Thankfully, this is the building they needed to be in.
From the driver's seat, Vlad looks out the windshield. Dozens of statues, paintings, and pieces of pottery are displayed throughout the hallway.
Vlad is frozen, shocked that he had let this happen. "Shit," he says.
Danny floats to the front seat and sits himself on it, "Well, if we needed a distraction, we have it now."
"Don't speak anymore, Daniel."
Danny then notices the display of artifacts in the building. "Hey, hey," he exclaims, "We made it to the museum!"
"Yes, Daniel. We did," Vlad concedes.
Danny floats up from his seat, "Well, if you need me, I'll be off grabbing that key." He then points towards where they came from, "Can you handle the cavalry?"
Vlad is confusion . "Cavalry?"
"Yeah," Danny says, approaching and pointing to one of the mirrors, "Those gangsters look pretty pissed." Through the reflection in the mirror, they can see a group of those bikers approaching, with pistols and bats drawn.
"Daniel, I must really ask that yo-"
"See ya!" Danny disappears from his seat.
Vlad mutters "That little shit, can't believe he would leave me to fend off these lunatics by myself."
Peaking through the mirror at the spiked bat waving gangsters approaching the Fenton Hovercraft, Vlad takes a breath and remembers that most of these guys that they encountered before haven't been ghost hybrids.
Opening the door, Vlad steps out of the hovercraft with his two 6-shot revolvers drawn. He announces, "Alright, you heathens!" He twirls one of the pistols, "Stand down! Or prepare to face the wrath of Vlad Master-!"
They start shooting at him.
A bullet hits Vlad's hat, knocking it off of his head. Another bullet whizzes by his ear, followed by another, and another until dozens of bullets are raining past him!
"Oh, fudge biscuits!" Vlad jumps into cover behind the wall next to the hole.
As he catches his breath, the footsteps from the gang outside grow louder. The clanging of their metal spiked bats ringed past the hole, echoing throughout the whole room.
He fires back a couple of shots, blindly. Hopefully that stalls them.
"Get them," he hears one of the brutes shout.
"Good luck, imbeciles!"
Backing up from the wall, Vlad prepares to fall back deeper into the museum, but still has his pistol pointed towards the entrance next to the hovercraft.
Seconds pass, and then one of the gangsters pushes through into the building.
Vlad fires, hitting one of the gangsters in the leg.
"So sorry, my bad," with a sly smile.
"AAAAAHH!" He screams.
Seeing that there is no way he can hold them all off from here, Vlad retreats deeper into the building. He runs into a hallway and dives around a corner.
Despite his efforts to evade, one of the gangsters saw him turn the corner. The leader of the chase squad signals to his minions and tells them, "Come on!"
More of the gangsters soon flood into the museum. They swarm all the surrounding hallways in an effort to cut off Vlad and Danny from escaping.
As the squad chasing Vlad approaches the corner that Vlad had hid behind just moments before, they prepare their weapons. They turn and find that Vlad is nowhere to be seen.
That can't be right, they think.
"They couldn't have gotten far! They must still be here! Find them!"
They scatter.
What they don't know however is that Danny is watching them, from just above. He is hovering along the top of the ceiling watching them make their moves.
"Daniel?" He hears through his earpiece. Great...
He responds with a whisper, careful to not alert the guards below. "Yeah?"
"Where are you?" Vlad asks.
"Where those idiots last saw you."
"How do you know where the last place they saw me was?"
"Meh...I was watching."
"And you didn't think to help!? Or steal the key!?"
"What key?" Danny tries to hold back his laughter holding his hand to his face. He pictures the way Vlad must be having a stroke over that.
"This isn't funny, Daniel!"
"For you, clearly. Me? I'm having a great time."
"It isn't going to be funny for you when I have my hands around your neck!"
Danny imitates static, "psssh- bzzz- sssssssh-"
"Vlad?" He then asks, "I-eeeek, think I'm lo-ing you."
"Don't pull that shit with me again! I can hear you fine!"
"Yeah, I'm gonna have to call you back. These guys are offering to file your taxes at a discount," Danny then yeets the earpiece smackdown on top of one of the heads of the gangsters.
The brute looks up and glares at Danny. Fury burns in his eyes.
It doesn't phase Danny though. "Hey asswipe," he shouts, before blasting an ectobeam at the man's feet.
It hits the ground. The blast explodes, sending a shockwave throughout the room, hurling the gangster against the wall, knocking him unconscious.
This is just too easy Danny thinks.
"Over there!" He hears someone shout. More gangsters flood in with their guns drawn.
"Would love to stay and chat, but gotta' run!" He phases out of the room.
"Find him!"
...
Just on the outside of the building, Danny emerges from the roof and hovers above it, holding the purple skeleton key in hand. "Finally got you," he says.
All of that had gone much better than expected. And then, just a few feet from Danny, a purple ectobeam blasts out straight up out of the roof
Staring at the new hole the museum had collected, Danny hovers back toward it and peaks inside. He sees a bunch of commotion going on down there, with Vlad in the center of it.
He needs some encouragement , Danny thinks. "Keep it up, old man! I'm sure you'll be alright,"
He backs away and turns around, only to see Plasmius standing right in front of him. "Oh, hey," he laughs nervously, “Welcome back!”
Danny attempts to break the ice, "So...uh-...did you win?"
"Are you serious!? 'Did I win!?'"
"Sheesh," Danny says, "No need to be so rude about it."
Vlad's hands begin to glow pink.
Danny backs up just a wee bit and asks, "Little mad?"
"A little!?"
"Okay...? So," he continues, "a lot then?"
Vlad blasts another ectobeam. It barely misses Danny whizzing just past him before he turns to see it hit one of the gangsters who had just climbed onto the roof. It blasts him off and down onto the street.
As Danny begins to look back at Vlad, the old man begins his lecture: "Daniel, you really need to work on being more aware of your surroundings. Now, come on!"
Danny can't argue with that and followed. Thankfully that was the shortest lecture ever.
As they begin moving towards the edge of the roof, Vlad continues, "We have to get back to the hovercraft and get to the facility!"
They run back towards the front of the building, and then, an explosion.
They see fire erupt from where they had left the Fenton Hovercraft, just before the shockwave hits them. It blasts the two of them backward. The explosion tears through the front of the building, shredding and throwing the wood from it and scattering the debris everywhere.
Bits and pieces of shrapnel from the hovercraft begin falling from the sky. They start small, like nothing more than pebble size pieces hitting their bodies, before the larger ones come hurdling in.
As Danny lies on top of the roof, a sharp hunk of metal from the ship is hurdling right toward him!
"Oh, shit," Danny shouts. He rolls, and he feels the wind of it whoosh by his face as it impales the roof.
"Man, that was too close," he says.
Crash
Another piece crashes.
"Shit!" He covers his head
Other large pieces of the hovercraft crash into the building.
Danny keeps his head covered while Vlad goes intangible instead.
After the rain of debris stops, they look up, surveying the damage -- one of the pieces containing the green ghost logo.
"So much getting back to the hovercraft," Danny says.
As Danny walks towards the edge of the roof, thinking about what to do next, he catches a side eye of Vlad.
"What?" Danny asks, oh so innocently.
"Happy now? We lost our vehicle and all of our equipment!"
"Hey, you're the one who wanted to go all Texas Ranger or Revolver Ocelot on those guys."
Vlad counters, "Revolver Ocelot is the coolest cowboy in existence and you, a little shit, will never convince me otherwise!"
"Yeah, yeah, let's just get out of here. We got what we need," he says, looking down at the key in his hand.
The direction of the facility is just out in the mountains in the distance.
"Let's get moving and get back to the present," Danny says, before adding, "Wherever that is."
"Technically, dear boy, we are already in the present."
"Yeah?" He turns his head back at Vlad, "In what era?" Danny points at the village below, "None of what appears around us gives us an exact hint of where the hell we are on the timeline! Hover bikes mixed with old time western towns!? The greaser looking biker gang ripped from the 1950s!? Or how about the use of old Shakespearean English!?"
"Well, obviously we are in the future," Vlad says.
"Then why did we run across a calendar that said it was the year of 896!? And why was it using the French Revolution calendar!? It was the ninth day of the week when we read it! Furthermore, why the hell was it named 'UNIX Time!?'
"I don't ask questions I can't know the answers to, Daniel."
"Liar."
"Am I? Or am I just not wasting my time, along with yours?"
"Whatever."
"Consider asking yourself that next time."
As the two idiots bicker, they begin hearing more of the gangsters clamoring to get onto the roof.
They go intangible, so as to hide themselves. Danny says, "If you were so committed to not wasting my time, you wouldn't be trying to convince me this is the future." He looks down again at the village, "Because I really have no idea where we are," he says solemnly, "and I don't think you do either."
Instead of the argument Danny anticipates, he hears nothing. Vlad stands there in silence.
"Daniel...I-" He tries to find the words, "You're not wrong. I just didn't want to let on that I don't know either, because...I think it's more terrifying if we don't."
"You're not sparing me by keeping me in the dark from your thoughts."
"I know, but I still feel as if I should. Wouldn't you do the same for Danielle?"
That catches Danny by surprise. "I-" he begins, but is interrupted by Vlad.
"Let's get moving."
Vlad floats up off of the roof and begins flying in the direction of the mountains. Danny follows.
