HELLO EVERYONE!!!!!
THE BONFIRE HAS BEEN LIT, CAKE WALK IS IN FULL SWING, AND YOU ARE ALL HERE HAVING FUN!!!
MANY OF ASKED WHERE THE GROTTO G.S.M. INC. STAFF WAS, SINCE IT IS OPERATED ENTIRELY BY STUDENTS WHO NEEDED A JOB.
WE ARE JUST CHILLING AT HOME, PARTIES ARE JUST NOT OUR SCENE.
FEEL FREE TO ADD YOUR STORY AND SUMMARY OF THE BALL!!!

THANK YOU!!!

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I was //this// close to cornering the level 7 bounce house! Ugh, I'm so mad. It's all Eddgarion's fault. Apparently he'd fitted a locust swarm with little cameras and was using them to try to track the bounce house through the woods, but as usual he lost control and the locust went mad. Luckily, there were a few telekinetics who were hanging around the cakes' prep room and hastily put up a block to keep the hungry little buggers out. So the number of cakes we've lost to tragedy -- locust-related or otherwise -- is stabilizing at like 5 for right now. Pretty good if you ask me.

After the bounce house disappointment, I took a break to burn some assignments with everyone else. Let me tell you, that's some intense heat there. I can't tell if it's from the sheer massive amount of homework thrown onto the flickering flames or the bonfire picking up on the months of hatred and frustration preserved in the ink, but it's almost painful to stand within ten feet of it all. I took a peek at it with my Other Eyes -- energy releases always look prettier that way -- and someone must've thrown a heat-activated portal-ing assignment in there. Because there was a LOT of space time being bent toward the middle of the fire. It looks fantastic.

Myuri wants to go back out and try one last time to get the bounce house. She keeps hinting that she's in on some big student conspiracy to catch it, but she won't say anything about it aloud. I'd like to watch some of the cake walk first, but afterward I guess I'll join her team. It couldn't hurt. Besides, Myuri said there was a cute guy she wanted me to meet.

Oh dear, I seem to have lost my way home from the ball! And before the prizes were given out! I just know I landed in the top three in the fashion show, but I don't know what happened. There were so many flashing lights, and Chocolate Babka and I were talking and suddenly the Battenberg ran by on its tiny chicken legs screaming and waving its spindly little arms and you know how we get spooked easily and pretty soon Babka and were I screaming too, dashing out of the tent and into the gardens, mindlessly running around in circles and wailing and bumping into each other, trailing frosting and crumbs.

Now it's dark and dear me I've lost my friends and there were crows and bugs and I'm ever so spent could you let me know the way back to the ball?

THE FESTIVITIES HAVE WINDED DOWN AND WE ARE GLAD TO SAY THE BALL WAS AN OVERWHELMING SUCCESS!! WE WILL ANNOUNCE THE CAKE WALK WINNERS LIST AND PRIZES, AS WELL AS A SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT TOMORROW.

WE HOPE THIS WAS A GREAT END TO YOUR SUMMER AND WE HOPE YOU HAVE AN ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL SCHOOL YEAR!!

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THE WINNERS OF THE CAKE WALK ARE:


IN THIRD PLACE, OUR VERY OWN INTERN #00815 WITH Pumpkin Princess DRESSED IN A ELEGANT, FLOWING MAGENTA BALL GOWN. THEIR AWARDS ARE A $100 GIFT CARD TO JOANN'S FABRIC AND MISCELLANEOUS ORGANS, AS WELL AS A $50 GIFT CARD TO FROSTING AND GLAZES INC.!

IN SECOND PLACE, @Lady Baltimore WITH BEAUTIFUL Chocolate Babka DRESSED IN A PERFECTLY FITTED OFF THE SHOULDER GOWN IN A GORGEOUS CREAM COLOR. THEIR AWARDS ARE A $500 GIFT CARD TO JOANN'S FABRIC AND MISCELLANEOUS ORGANS, AS WELL AS A THANKSGIVING GETAWAY FOR 2, IN SCREAMING STREAMS, NEVADA!

AND IN FIRST PLACE, @Julissa Uitvlugt WITH MAJESTIC Alaska Dream DRESSED IN A HOLOGRAPHIC SUIT JACKET, PERFECTLY TAILORED PINK JUMPSUIT AND A INDESCRIBABLE FLOWING SCARF. THEIR AWARDS ARE A $500 GIFT CARD TO JOANN'S FABRIC AND MISCELLANEOUS ORGANS, AS WELL AS A WINTER GETAWAY TO PARIS, FRANCE!

EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED WILL RECEIVE A PASS FOR FREE BOARDING AND CARE FOR THEIR CAKE, CLAIMABLE AT THE GROTTO G.S.M. INC. SECURITY OFFICES.


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Oh dear, I am afraid through my enthusiasm for couture baking I have put myself in a rather embarrassing position. Because I must now reveal the terrible secret that I am, in fact, a cake myself!

It is true. In order to give cakes the recognition they truly deserve, and to create culinary perfection at the level I knew I was capable of, I began to bake, passing down the inner knowledge of cakedom down through my creations, and creating a house full of the tastiest and most fashionable cakes in the land. Chocolate Babka is only the most recent in my line ever more sophistcated cakes. There was Tiramisu Semifreddo, Pineapple Chiffon, Jamaican Burnt Sugar...

But to do so I needed to hide the fact that all along, underneath this frosting and fondant, I was actually only a cake myself.

I apologize for "pulling one over" so to speak on the judges of this most wonderful Walking Cake Compettion, and I can only assume this will disqualify me from claiming my prize, though it was long been a dream of mine to visit Screaming Streams, Nevahda.

I will gladly accept the decision of the judges, but have also learned to be proud of what I am, and will, from this moment on, proudly announce the words that for so long I have forbidden for myself to speak out loud: I AM A CAKE!

THROUGHOUT HISTORY SENTIENT CAKES HAVE BEEN DISCRIMINATED, IN WAYS MANY CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE.

OUR CAKE WALK, WE THOUGHT, WOULD DISPLAY, WHAT WE BELIEVE AND WHAT IS TRUE, BUT IT STILL APPEARS THAT OUR MESSAGE IS NOT CLEAR.

WE KNOW IT IS CONTROVERSIAL FOR A BUSINESS TO ADVERTISE THEIR SPECIFIC BELIEFS, BUT LOOSING BUSINESS IS WORTH THIS MESSAGE BEING SENT INTO THE UNIVERSE.

WE MIGHT NOT BE THE NICEST COMPANY, WE MIGHT NOT HAVE BEEN THE MOST LEGAL COMPANY, WE MIGHT OCCASIONALLY FRAME PEOPLE FOR MURDER, BUT AT THE HEART OF HEARTS (OF COURSE,WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE HEARTS DUE TO BEING A MIND HIVE, BUT IT IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH) WE CAN SEE THE TRUTH.

AND FROM THIS DAY FORWARD GROTTO G.S.M. INC. WILL NOT HIDE THE TRUTH ABOUT OUR WORLD.

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD GROTTO G.S.M. INC. WILL NOT HIDE BEHIND THE IDEA THAT WE WILL LOOSE BUSINESS IN "OTHER" COUNTRIES.

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD GROTTO G.S.M. INC. WILL NOT IGNORE OUR BELIEFS FOR THE SAKE OF MONEY.

FROM THIS DAY FORWARD WE DECLARE THAT WE ARE PRO PSYCHIC HIGH, WE ARE PRO INVASIVE TECHNOLOGY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY

WE ARE PRO CAKE.

@Lady Baltimore, YOU WILL RECEIVE THE PRIZES YOU WERE AWARDED AND THAT YOUR EARNED.

THANK YOU,
GROTTO G.S.M. INC.
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