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(cogito ergo sum.) ([personal profile] bu773rfly) wrote in [community profile] balance_logs2019-10-27 10:50 pm

boo

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.]
korekara: (Smiling015)

[personal profile] korekara 2019-12-14 05:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Exactly.

[ She gives him a grin – not quite as her usual levels of sunshine, but a bit more acceptably so – and a nod. ]

Honestly, I kind of feel like if it had been something big and special – like maybe if you'd tried to give me a big pep talk about how I just need to believe in myself super hard or something like that, it probably would've wigged me out even more. I guess I just needed to hear it was okay to feel kinda scared or out of place.

... feels like forever ago now, huh?
rockymountaindie: (✈ so many dumb ways to die)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2019-12-30 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He shrugs and sort of returns the gesture, or at least the sentiment of it, with his own small, awkward smile, and a mumble ] Well, 'course, wasn't gonna lie to ya, or anything...

[ And clears his throat. ]

Yeah. Like... Like all that was a lifetime ago. ...Huh. Don't know how to feel about that.
korekara: (Awkward08)

[personal profile] korekara 2019-12-31 04:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I always used to make fun of my Mom when she said stuff like that but... wow, now I kinda get it. Wild to think about, huh? Guess it's because so much stuff has happened.

[ There's Wonderland, of course, but that's only part of it. ]

At the same time, isn't it totally bonkers to think how long ago it actually was? Like, did you really think things were gonna last this long? I was honestly expecting someone to pop out and tell me this was a huge prank forever ago.
rockymountaindie: (you can talk to god)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2020-01-04 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Part of it is definitely Wonderland.

Alex lets out one, small laugh. ]
Not...exactly like that, but...yeah, you know. I never thought saving the multiverse was something I'd actually...be a part of, let alone for this long.
korekara: (Sulking03)

[personal profile] korekara 2020-01-05 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not even good at remembering to separate my recycling when I throw out the trash. I can't believe I'm really out here saving like, a million billion universes. That's a lot.

[ You don't say!! ]

D'you think there's any other universes out there where we're hanging out and having a talk like this? That's how it's supposed to work, right? I saw it in a movie once.
rockymountaindie: (and listen to the casual reply)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2020-01-06 11:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And he laughs, somewhat wistful, somewhat sad. ]

I think...if we believe in that, it can exist. Another somewhere, somewhere...where every bad thing that's happened, it doesn't have to anymore. That's...what someone important to me believed, so...I believe it too.
korekara: (003)

[personal profile] korekara 2020-01-07 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And in contrast, Honoka's returning peal of laughter is sunny and bright as she spreads her arms out wide on the cool grass below them. ]

You really think? Huh, I like the sound of it. I think I'll get on that too.

[ She props her chin up on her hand and gives Alex a grin. ]

Okay, so does this mean there's a place out there were you guys are all in μ's? Because I gotta tell you, that would rule.
rockymountaindie: (and it doesn't last long)

[personal profile] rockymountaindie 2020-03-18 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ This time, his laugh is- well, it's not quite a laugh, more a choke and he self-consciously just...pulls at the skirt Maya's forced him into. ]

I-isn't this kinda a...girls-only thing?