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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]

Laws and morals aren't the same thing.

[He brings the glass of water and puts it in Deku's hand.]

You'll be fine. It's not that dangerous unless you drink a lot, or unless you operate a motor vehicle.

[shootstyles]

I guess not.

[He hiccups.]

I'm not old enough to drive either.

[eudaimonikos]

I don't think there's cars on the moon, anyway.

[So. Water. Sitting. What else helps with this, food?]

You want anything to eat?

[shootstyles]

Yeah. They'd probably drive off the edge. Too dangerous.

[He sniffs.]

I dunno. I feel kinda... sick. Should I eat?

[eudaimonikos]

I guess you don't have to, if you don't want.

[He's just gonna pull up another chair for himself, then.]

It can't possibly matter all that much, right? I've never had to think about things like this before - demons can just stop being drunk.

[shootstyles]

You can? That sounds... nice.

[He sighs softly.]

I don't really like how I feel right now.

[eudaimonikos]

I could. Doesn't work here.

[That's why it took him so long to even try drinking, with his new liver and all of that. But he's done it now, and it was fun. That was different, though, a special night with his friends; he didn't have much here and now.]

Think you could go to sleep? I'd do that when the humans had problems before, just flip 'em off and back on. Like a computer.

[shootstyles]

Oh well, that's too bad. I wish I could do that now.

[Izuku stares for a bit and then giggles. The idea of just turning someone off is a little amusing to his brain.]

I don't think sleep is actually a reset button! We're not computers.

[eudaimonikos]

You're not that different. I used to be able to reboot people, just like that.

[He snaps his fingers. Being on Faerun, of course, it does nothing.]

[shootstyles]

Did people actually... reset? Like it fixed... everything?

[That's quite a power!]

[eudaimonikos]

...yeah, it did that. Also set their memories back.

[So from his current perspective, not a perfect system.]

[shootstyles]

I wish I could be reset to before I drank anything. ...Except then I'd forget about drinking and I might just do it all over again because I don't remember.

Hmmm.

[He leans back, thinking to himself and almost topples out of his seat.]

[eudaimonikos]

Yeah, you probably would.

[Repeating mistakes and all.

Michael darts forward to put out a hand, to keep Deku from falling out of his chair. Damn, was the chair not the best idea?]

Careful!

[shootstyles]

Woah!

[He grabs Michael's arm as Michael steadies him.]

S-sorry. My body feels so weird! Everything is spinning and it's heavy.

[eudaimonikos]

I don't really know what to do about that...

[It's true. He didn't get that drunk the last time, and while he knows what Eleanor used to do on Earth, he just sort of assumes it wasn't anything advisable.]

But I'll sit here with you until you're ready to head home?

[shootstyles]

Okay. Thank you.

[He's clearly pleased with that because he sort of just... leans against Michael in the way only a drunk person is capable of doing.]

...Does this usually happen at parties? I think it all happened because I'm not very good at parties. I should have done more research about parties. Do you like parties? Can you teach me?

[eudaimonikos]

[Michael chuckles; boy, that's a lot of questions!]

I don't know if I'm the best person to ask. Most of the parties I've been to were demon ones, and those are pretty different.

My friend Tahani threw pretty much all of the human parties I've attended, but those were more like high-society galas. Black-tie, stand around and drink champagne, that kind of thing. They really aren't terrible, but I don't know if "fun" is the point.

[shootstyles]

Hmm. I suppose a demon might have a definition of a party.

[They're probably terrifying but not as terrifying as the second thing that Michael says. He trembles a little at the idea of fancy parties and looks a little sick.]

Those sound even worse than this kind of party! You have to go and talk about import things like the economy and sometimes even have to give a speech in front of everyone.

Hrk.

[eudaimonikos]

Oh, I've given those! It's not that bad, really, just a lot of platitudes. As long as you don't get too drunk or set the curtains on fire, it's not too bad.

[shootstyles]

I already did the first thing and I wasn't even trying to get drunk!

[He says like it's the most hopeless thing ever.]

[eudaimonikos]

Did you not know you were drinking nooze?

[shootstyles]

No.

I was just drinking the punch and everything started getting... I dunno, it was just easier to talk and be at the party. I thought maybe all my notes had paid off. Then I started feeling sick and weird and that's when I realized I'd been drinking.

[eudaimonikos]

Huh. Probably should've been labeled.

[Michael didn't set up the party, so he doesn't feel particularly bad for not seeing to that. It's a note for later, though.]

Well, you're not giving a speech. So it really doesn't matter as much. Everyone gets a little too drunk on their own time, at least occasionally.

[shootstyles]

Really?

[He sniffs.]

That makes me feel better. I guess I didn't super embarrass myself... except... when I talked to... every single girl I know.

[eudaimonikos]

I'm sure it wasn't that bad.

[well, he's not, but all the girls here are very forgiving]