🎃 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

[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?

[save_the_souls]

Okay, fine...

[He gulps a little, before looking right at her! Man it sucks that he has to look down to see her maybe he should sit. But no- don't be weird!]

There. Better?

[experiencepoints]

[say that part out loud i fucking dare you]

Better. Was that so hard?

[save_the_souls]

I...suppose not?

[experiencepoints]

Good. Problem solved.

I'm surprised Clay isn't with you, though.

[save_the_souls]

Oh, he's here! He's my date! [Allen that goes without saying] He just went to check something out.

What about Opal? Is she here?

[experiencepoints]

She had better be. If she ditched me in this so she doesn't have to wear hers, then I'm going to have to get revenge.

[save_the_souls]

Er...

Did you two force each other to wear costumes?

[experiencepoints]

Of course not.

[... but the fact that she isn't expanding on that may be a sign that he may not want to know.]

[save_the_souls]

[....Lesbians are scary...]

Ah, right.

So...! What's your costume supposed to be? A ballerina?

[experiencepoints]

[we're not scary, we're just thirsty.]

Ah... It's apparently from a ballet? Opal called it "Swan Lake"?

[save_the_souls]

Oh! That Tchaikovsky ballet?

[HE KNEW THAT REFERENCE]

I've heard of it! Never actually went to see it though.

[experiencepoints]

... You know it?

Is it as depressing as Opal makes it sound?

[save_the_souls]

Sure, it's pretty popular back home.

[He was never into ballet, but it'd get mentioned in the news and by people enough to be memorable. He shrugs]

It's Russian, so probably.

[experiencepoints]

What's 'Russian'?

[earth is weird]

[save_the_souls]

Oh, right. Russia's a country on Earth, the biggest in terms of landmass. It can be pretty cold and harsh there, so their literature tends to be pretty...grim.

[experiencepoints]

... Wouldn't living in a shitty place make people want happier stories?

[save_the_souls]

[He shrugs] You'd think so, but not the Russians.

[experiencepoints]

That's... weird, but okay. And it's that famous?

[save_the_souls]

[RUSSIA IS A STRANGE LAND NIGHTINGALE, too bad you can't see their driving videos]

Oh yeah. Russian literature and ballets are popular in Europe in my time.

Er, Europe's a continent. That's where my home country is and Russia's there too- half of it, anyway.

[experiencepoints]

... One of these days, I'm just going to need to sit down and start studying Earth seriously for a bit...

[why this]

[save_the_souls]

Ha...sorry. It's a pretty big world.

Would it make it easier if you saw a map? I could bring one up on Tim.

[experiencepoints]

... I mean, maybe? If you showed me one, I could remember it, but a map won't tell me everything.

[save_the_souls]

Well, no of course not, but it might help give a frame of reference.

[Instead of leaving her guessing how many countries and continents there are. So he reaches up and pulls Tim off his shoulder, holding him in his hands]

Tim, could you show us Earth's world map? The one we found in Paradisa's library.

[Tim takes a second before he opens up his mouth wide. From his mouth, a holographic projection of a world map appears.]

There we go. This is from about a century after my time, but that's Earth. [Because it's really hard to find a good 19th century world map] Each different coloured area is a different country. Russia's the really big pink one.