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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.]
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[personal profile] protegge 2019-11-06 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Lord.]

[While Shinjiro's been pacing and considering and pondering, Mista's just been pouring him a damn cup of punch. Once he's noticed, he pushes it into Shinjiro's hands.]


Quit agonizing and chill out.
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[personal profile] petsthedog 2019-11-06 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
[He stares from the glass to Mista and then back. To the glass.]

...It ain't that simple.
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[personal profile] protegge 2019-11-13 06:09 am (UTC)(link)
It's not?

[He waggles the glass at Shinjiro, holding it between two fingers.]

I got Command, y'know. If you lose it and let him out, I'll tell you to put him back. Sounds simple to me.
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[personal profile] petsthedog 2019-11-13 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
[There's a beat. He considers it for a moment--would that work? Could Mista use Command on a piece of his soul like that? But then. He shakes his head.]

Nah, man. You don't wanna be babysitting my ass all night.

[Surely he had plans. Shinjiro doesn't want to cramp his style like that.]

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[personal profile] protegge 2019-11-13 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
If you don't let me do it, I'm gonna just hover behind you and breathe down your neck all night anyway.

[This is peer pressure.]

[Like okay, he would lay off if Shinjiro actually asked him to, but he knows what this is. This is I-can't-be-a-regular-teen-idiot-because-of-my-Standsona. He refuses to indulge this bullshit tonight! Let Shinjiro have fun!]
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[personal profile] petsthedog 2019-11-13 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
...What about Sayori?

[The 2+2 is not quite 4 with regards to the dating, but they did show up in matching costumes. Presumably he wanted to spend some of his time with her and not, you know, stalking him for meltdowns.]
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[personal profile] protegge 2019-11-13 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[. . . Hm.]

[This does appear to vex Mista for a few seconds, in part because he doesn't want to be rude to Sayori and also because what, did Shinjiro suss out his extremely subtle maneuver? However, the answer occurs to him very quickly.]


Well, I bet she'd just help me make sure you're okay, so you can have fun.
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[personal profile] petsthedog 2019-11-13 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
[And herein Mista gets to witness his very dumb friend having a whole new internal debate about whether or not that's okay. He and Mista have been through enough by now that the imposition might be possible to ask of him on a good day, but Sayori .... he's only barely chatted with her in passing a few times.

Guilt itches under his ribs, especially because the simple solution to this is just Not To Drink.]


....That ain't her responsibility.

[He doesn't even want to say it should be her choice, because he's pretty sure if Mista asks she'll feel obligated. And this is such a stupid thing to ask so much for.]