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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.]
eudaimonikos: (analogy)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-10-30 06:50 pm (UTC)(link)
It's an aphorism! Like - "the real journey was the friends we made along the way".

[He tried to make it generic, and he maybe made it less sensical.]

Here, here, I'll try it again. The real monsters were...our feelings...all along? [no]
parfaitgirl: (summer)

[personal profile] parfaitgirl 2019-10-30 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... Okay, so he's just messing around. At least, that is what she thinks. ]

The real monster all along is whoever carved that thing. [ She points to a nearby pumpkin left behind by somebody that has a horrified face carved into it and a knife still stuck in the top of it. ]

eudaimonikos: (start over)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-10-30 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Michael laughs. It's Shawn's laugh. Weird to hear that coming out of him.]

I like it! The knife really pulls it all together. Oh - [He drops his illusion real quick.] - it's me, by the way. I figured this was easier than making a physical costume.
parfaitgirl: (jump)

[personal profile] parfaitgirl 2019-10-31 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
--Nngh!

[ She jumps a little when he drops the illusion. ]

Jeez ... at least give me a warning before you do that.

[ She's still not used to all this magic stuff, can you tell ... ]
eudaimonikos: (so please come through)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-10-31 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry.

[That didn't even strike him as a potentially alarming one.]

I'm gonna put it back up now. Don't wanna get jumped by the costume cops, am I right?
parfaitgirl: (nibble)

[personal profile] parfaitgirl 2019-10-31 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She relaxes a little when he warns her. Mostly, she's just embarrassed that she had no idea it was an illusion ... ]

... Y-yeah, they'll probably dunk you in a tub of face paint or something.
eudaimonikos: (but I want to make yours come true)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-11-01 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shifts back into Shawn. Seeing the transition, it's obvious that he's disguised himself as someone shorter than he is. There's probably some invisible Michael sticking out over the top.]

I was disguised as my friend Eleanor earlier - the one who's here. They thought I was her without a disguise. Came after me pretty hard.
parfaitgirl: (hop)

[personal profile] parfaitgirl 2019-11-01 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, to be fair, an illusion isn't really a "costume" either ...

[ Sorry Michael! ]
eudaimonikos: (cosmology)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-11-02 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
[He leans over a little to say:]

It's a trick.

[like in trick or treat! get it? get it?]
parfaitgirl: (summer)

[personal profile] parfaitgirl 2019-11-04 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ She rolls her eyes, but there's a little smirk, too. ]

Ha, ha.
eudaimonikos: (works of love)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2019-11-04 02:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Michael grins a little too for a moment, leaning forward to grab a pumpkin from the pile.]

This is my old boss, Shawn. He was a real dink. I was being my friend Eleanor earlier, but it was getting a little weird with two of her at the party.