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Who: All troublemakers and part-time ghouls [that means open]

Where: The movie room, then the Quad

When: The very night of Halloween!

What: Get SPOOKY, get SLEEPY, get STUPID, it's a sleepover costume party.

Content Warning: none for the post; byocw (bring your own content warnings)

[It starts a few nights before, with a network post.]

10.27.xx 19:28:16 un:hudie

20:00....Halloween night...the movie room...

You'd better be there. You'd better be in costume.

10.27.xx 19:29:43 un:akapassionista

I can't wait to see everyone's Halloween costumes!! ♪♪(o*゜∇゜)o～♪♪

[You'd better. Because it's a party!

Kaede and Erika have dressed the room up for the spookiest night of the year. It's nothing professional - lights dimmed, music playing, store-bought balloons with jack-o-lantern faces on them, paper cutouts in pumpkin and ghost shapes stuck to the wall. A "bat" is fluttering around, but if you squint, it's actually just Erika's familiar with black paper stuck to her wings. There's some kind of plastic tub in the corner full of water and...apples? Is it supposed to be bobbing for apples? All in all, it has some kind of DIY charm to it all.

Of course, everyone's actually here for the refreshments, and there's plenty of those. Some Bender specials, mostly the non-enchanted fare, but you might find a couple of the milder curses and blessings on the table. Bowls of popcorn and chips and every other genre of snack food you can scrounge up at Fantasy Costco. Candy galore. A modest assortment of Faerunian treats familiar from missions. Paper cups and plates and napkins. Soda bottles and a water pitcher and a few big bowls of punch. (One is labeled "alcoholic". Be ye ware.)

And by the way, costumes really are mandatory. There's a sign out front saying so. If you came unprepared, there's a bin of costume components outside to choose from, capes and headbands and masks and whatnot, but they might not coordinate well. If you think you're getting in without making an effort, Kaede and Erika (themselves dressed in bargain bin warlock and bard kit, respectively) are ready and waiting to chase you down and apply whatever degree of force or Sleep they need to correct the issue, with costume accessories and water-resistant face paint in hand.


About two hours into things, the two get everyone's attention and move the party outside to the Quad. Out there they've got a campfire going, picnic blankets spread out for sitting on, ingredients for s'mores laid out, and...pumpkins! And tools for carving or painting them. A sign out by the campfire announces a contest for the best decorated pumpkins, but nobody ever comes along to apply judging standards, so everyone's just free to show off their creation.

Things wind down a little after midnight. You can head on home...or just sleep out here, between blankets under the stars. It's that cozy kind of night.]

Comments

[motherfucking_ghost]

Ooo, no argument there. [Tucker isn't here to ruin all of the moments. This is potentially good.] Should've come as a cupcake, Cupcake.

[eudaimonikos]

[Somehow, Michael failed to foresee this consequence of his actions.]

...oh, I hate this.

[motherfucking_ghost]

...Oh. Uh. Was it something I said? Too forward? Was th--I was too forward with that, huh.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, don't feel too bad, I'm sure Eleanor would go for it.

[Eleanor's always down for that sort of thing, honestly. Michael lets his illusion drop.]

Really not used to it myself, though.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Whoa- [It's not quite the same amount of surprised jump that he did when the knife was suddenly plunged into the table, but it is not dissimilar.]

...Whoa. You just...turned into a whole other person.

Ohhhh, so that's your costume! That's pretty fucking clever. Magic? Disguise magic?

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael grins.]

Illusions! It's my power from home, more or less. Goes transparent if you touch it, but that just means I need to be a little careful.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Whaaat, you had magic at home?! Damn, starting to think the whole technologically superior thing my home's got ain't nothing compared to actual magic powers.

You still coulda come as a cupcake.

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael swaps his illusion to one of a giant cupcake with legs and arms.]

I'm a demon. Magic is basically our whole thing. Not to say we didn't have better technology than the humans, we had that too.

[motherfucking_ghost]

You're a snack that can turn himself into snacks with the power of demon magic.

I feel like it's way better for my sanity around here if I just stop questioning things and just go with the flow.

[eudaimonikos]

Ha, the snack bit is something Eleanor says.

[He's actually literally never heard it from anybody else?]

But not questioning magic probably is the way to go around here. There's a lot of it flying around.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Well, you're both variations of snackable, and then we can forget the word ever came out of your mouth as her.

...Man, I don't have flying magic, but now I want flying magic. Cuz. Of the magic flying around.

[eudaimonikos]

[He is a snack? Him???]

There must be flying magic, right? Humans love flying.

[motherfucking_ghost]

[It's a scale. There's a scale of snackage.]

So long as I can control where I go, how I go, how fast I go, and how softly I hit the ground. No being flung into the sky and crash landing on some rocks, thanks.

[eudaimonikos]

I can teleport. Bet I could do it up into the air, too. But then I'd just drop thirty feet...

[Maybe if he got a hang-glider?]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Oof, yeah, that's not the same thing. Maybe with a parachute? But pretty sure that's way too close to the ground to even get it open much less actually slow you down.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, that's more of an airplane thing, isn't it...

[He knows full well how humans splat, too, it isn't pretty.]

I can move water and ice around. What if I made a disc of ice, and then flew people around on it?

[motherfucking_ghost]

...I...huh. I mean...there's nothing keeping you from moving it up, I don't think... And if you just keep doing it, you could move it wherever you wanted?

I could be the Silver Surfer, but with ice. Huh. I'm trying to decide if that's fucking awesome or fucking lame.

[eudaimonikos]

I can definitely move them up - I've used it to drop big chunks of ice on people before. But it would almost definitely be very lame.