🎃 HALLOWEEN MINGLE 🎃

[benames]

You are cordially invited to Cisco and Winn's Not-Too-Terrifying Halloween Costume Party!

Who: everyone ( yes, you too!)
Broadcast: N/A
Action: aboard the Iskaulit!
When: current



[ on the night of the 28th, the lecture hall will open its gates though it'll look remarkably different. Winn and Cisco would have decorated the corridors leading to it with Jack-o'-lanterns made from the pumpkins gathered at the little patch on the planet. The hall itself will be similarly decorated, along with other traditional scary Halloween decorations made from paper and fabric ( don't ruin the little paper spiders, they took hours to make! ). There will be music from various times of Earth-1 and Earth-3, so don't be surprised to find Lady Gaga playing alongside the Spice Girls! Feel free to make requests or otherwise, just show your skills on the dance floor!

There will be a bar run by Nami offering free sodas, though you'll have to pay for your own alcohol ( remember, don't drink and fly! ). Alongside the bar, characters will find a few tables offering candy from Earth-1 won by Cisco at the game room with a little sign reading TAKE ONE, LEAVE SOME FOR OTHERS and quite a lot of space chips and protein dips as well as various candy from all over the different planets ( cleverly hoarded by Winn! ) and a large selection of pumpkin pies and pumpkin treats. Characters will also find a line leading to Cisco's trusty ice cream machine, though it'll only offer peanut butter flavored sorbet.

At the corner of the hall there will be a karaoke machine with a little sign-up sheet. Characters could sign up solo or in groups and list the song they'd like to sing. Keep in mind though, the entire hall will be able to hear your rendition of Sexy and I Know it!

Adventure-seeking characters will be able to follow signs reading HAUNTED HOUSE and reach a large hall that was turned into a maze by large cardboard blocks painted black or covered by dark fabrics. Making it out of the maze won't be too hard and the maze itself won't be too frightening but will be mildly startling. It'll include some nifty engineered animatronics of witches, scarecrows, scary clowns and skeletons as well as holograms of ghosts! The song featured in the invitation will also be heard here, on repeat. It's a good break from the dancing and for some private conversations and moments.

Remember, costume are mandatory! you don't want to be caught by tonight's pumpkin kings, do you? ]

Comments

[experiencepoints]

[The problem with dating a music nerd is that sometimes it involves things you don't understand. Like incredibly depressing musical stories, and weird jokes you don't get, especially about birds. She doesn't even do ballet.

But Opal got her into this, so here she is. She is staying far away from that karaoke machine, instead hiding out by the bar, before heading out to the tables. She can briefly be heard muttering to herself:]

Why is everything pumpkin, anyway..

[Earth traditions are weird, you guys.

Aside from that, she's trying to wallflower pretty much the entire night, but she does keep stealing none-too-subtle glances at the dance floor. A little encouragement might go a long way here.]

[save_the_souls]

[Allen (in costume of course) overhears her. He seems to be in a very good mood, though he oddly isn't looking...um directly at her, with that costume on. He's a gentleman okay!!]

Because pumpkins are good! And it's what's in harvest during Halloween...

[experiencepoints]

That makes a little sense, but... It's harvested all over Earth at this time?

[... wait.]

... Are you okay?

[save_the_souls]

Well, probably not all over Earth, but it is where a lot of us are from! [EARTH'S A BIG PLACE]

Huh? Yeah! I'm great! Why?

[experiencepoints]

That's... weird, but okay. And the faces?

[fuck earth]

You look distracted by something. What's over there?

[She's gonna get closer to Allen to try to figure out where his line of sight is going.]

[save_the_souls]

That's for fun! And spookiness!

[Earth is the best!!]

Ah, nothing! It's just- [ergh] It's just with your costume I'm not sure where to....look and be appropriate.

[experiencepoints]

...

Allen. We're both gay. Does it really matter?

[at least, she thinks he is.]

[save_the_souls]

I'm still a gentleman..!

And- And I've dated girls! [Years and years ago, BUT-!]

[experiencepoints]

You have?





Like, intentionally?

[save_the_souls]

[!?]

Yes!

How do you even unintentionally date a girl?!

[experiencepoints]

... I mean, I went on a date with a guy once, but I didn't know it was a date until after it was over...

[save_the_souls]

...You would do that.

[Nightingale please]

I had a girlfriend, okay.

[experiencepoints]

It was not my fault, okay?!

[she groans.]

Okay. I didn't know. Still, it's not like I'm going to set you on fire for looking, so please don't act all weird about it?

[namisan]

You got me. I don't get the correlation between orange vegetable and spooky. Though I guess they're good for carving faces into.

[Sup. Can your witch-ish bartender get you a drink?]

[experiencepoints]

Earth is just fucking weird, I guess. Cute costume.

[okay yeah she's going to just. hide over at the bar with nami. nami is good people.]

I am going to need a very strong drink soon, by the way.

[namisan]

Very strong we can do. And thanks. [She grins.] Parties like this not your thing, or...?

[experiencepoints]

My girlfriend wants me to sing up there.

[She waves at the stage.]

I'm going to need something to make sure I forget it afterwards.

[namisan]

[Grin.] Let's hope nobody gets the amazing idea of recording it to show it to you later. [She would never. Honest.]

Can you sing?

[experiencepoints]

Well, whether I can or can't, I guess I'm not now.

[WHY DID YOU BRING UP THAT IDEA]

[namisan]

[Because I have a terrible sense of humour! But also, whoops.]

Aw, come on! Don't let that stop you. Will it help if I tackle anyone I see trying to get you on camera?

[experiencepoints]

I would rather not be responsible for a scene like that?!

[namisan]

Then I won't. But just sing. You shouldn't let me make you nervous. [Pause, amend:] More nervous, anyway.

[experiencepoints]

I don't know any Earth music, anyway!

[namisan]

Music only from one place? [She raises her eyebrows and glances over the many and varied people here.] That's kind of limiting, considering.

Your girlfriend will be disappointed, though, won't she? Maybe you should drag her up there with you.

[Also she's curious, because last time she talked to Nightingale there was no girlfriend. But she's not broaching that conversation when she's already flustered over singing.]

[experiencepoints]

Everything here is all about Earth.

[ugh, though. you just had to bring up disappointing her.]

... Opal's absolutely amazing with music, though, there's no way I'd compare.