With the Animalia Halloween Exposition/Carnival only three days away, a lot of people were getting ready for it. But there were still some time to allow for pet projects and similar things:
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Malice was on her way to the Meat Market, not for any performance, but because Annabelle and Miss Vivian were talking about something for the Adult Halloween Party. But when she got there, Miss Vivian was nowhere to be seen and Annabelle was looking at something on her IPad and writing things down on a piece of paper.
"What are you doing?" asked Malice, coming up to her.
"A pet project for Project Phoenix." answered Annabelle. Malice, a little confused, went round behind her, but what she saw made no sense.
"The List of Adult Entertainment Stars with Sexually Transmitted Diseases?" she asked in confusion, one ear showing it.
"Yes," replied Annabelle, "It was originally considered a novelty until AIDS took hold in California. After that, it was considered mandatory. Once a star is diagnosed twice with a confirmed infectious STD, they're put under quarantine."
"I know what STDs are." said Malice, having learned about them during the mandatory Sex Education classes at WSA. "I just don't know why there would be a list of them."
"Some adult stars who have been placed under quarantine are able to return to college and learn other ways of earning paychecks, while others are forced into badly made porn films." Said Annabelle, matter-of-factly. "I'm looking for ones that might be good members of Project Phoenix.
"Annabelle just happened to be one of the lucky ones." said Miss Vivian, coming out of the bathroom, much to Annabelle's surprise and embarrassment at the comment, "So what did you want to talk to me about?"
"It's this stupid angel costume." said Malice, holding up a bag that held a white G-string, a winged harness, and halo-headband and a sheet of paper."
"How is it stupid?" Asked Miss Vivian, not losing her neutral expression.
"It's not the costume that's stupid, it's the 'lines' that come with it." answered Malice, "'Are you ready for the Rapture?' Seriously?"
"It's supposed to be 'so bad, it's funny.'" answered Miss Vivian.
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Maggie, meanwhile, was doing a pet project of her own. With the discovery of the remains of a speakeasy beneath what was now her Modeling School, she decided to get a historian to take a look at it. What was found was that it not only owned by the Mafia in Nevada, it did both alcohol, women, and gambling all at once. This was discovered by the remains of both old, portable gambling devices, like tables and roulette wheels, and old prohibition era alcohol devices, such as an old distillery and a really old cocktail mixing machine.
As it turned out, when the original owner of the social hall above was arrested for his connections to the Mafia, the police threw all the stuff found in the basement into a nearby side room, and the basement was sealed up and forgotten. But all of the old stuff found there not only prompted a historian to take a look at them, but also an appraiser to determine anything of value, and how much said things of value would be worth. With a few phone calls, they were able to get Antique Roadshow to make a stop in their town during the Animalia Halloween Carnival to get the appraising done as part of the festivities.