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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

[eudaimonikos]

Plus, there's one or two spells out there that identify demons. There's no way that wouldn't come back to bite me.

[He can see it now: getting himself established as Michael the Human Man, only to be dramatically outed by some random paladin and lose all the relationships he's built. Pass.]

[cuttingremark]

Yes that would have some rather nasty outcomes.

[He gets the marshmallow to close to the flames again and it catches fire. He's able to pull it out and blow it off quick enough that the charred bit is small. Still he frowns as he assembles the s'more]

[eudaimonikos]

Better just to be honest from the start.

[Michael turns over the marshmallow on his stick, considers it, and slides it onto his crackers.]

My friends from home know, anyway. And I couldn't ask Chidi to lie for me, he's a strict Kantian.

[cuttingremark]

A what now?

[He knows nothing about Earth, much less Earth philosophers]

[eudaimonikos]

He's an old Earth philosopher. Weird religious guy. That's most of them, though.

[He takes a bite of his new s'more, thinking it over as he crunches.]

Chidi might actually lie for me, if my life was on the line. But I don't want to put him in that position deliberately.

[cuttingremark]

Those that do not like to lie are often very bad liars.

[Loki bites into his own s'more. As long as he can avoid the charcoal bit it is much better than the first]

They fold too easily.

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, he's better if he sticks to technicalities. I did get him to tell one or two half-decent ones over the years - but all those memories are long gone. He's basically back at the stuttering and sweating level.

[cuttingremark]

Oh, yes, you can't trust that type with any sort of secret.

[eudaimonikos]

[None of this is exactly false, but Michael's starting to get the feeling that Chidi's being dragged a little too hard. Or, at least, a little too hard by someone who isn't Michael.]

He's just very set on his principles, that's all. He'd never break his word, either.

[cuttingremark]

[Not so much dragging as his general level of bitchy disdain for others.]

Loyalty is a most important quality.

[eudaimonikos]

...yeah. He's a good guy.

[cuttingremark]

I will keep an eye out for him then. Chidi, you said his name was?

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah. He's been a friend of mine for a long time.