🎃 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

[passingthrough]

[She reaches down to pull the boots off.] No promises on whether or not you can learn this in the next five minutes or whatever.

[experiencepoints]

Thank you.

[she sounds so grateful. SHE IS SO GLAD YOU UNDERSTAND THE NEED TO IMPRESS A DATE.]

[passingthrough]

Okay, start by just watching me. I'll teach you a simple one. [She gets into a pose and then corrects herself to make it a little simpler. It took her years to get to where she got.]

[About that...] So, who is Opal?

[experiencepoints]

[For what it's worth, Nightingale is managing herself fairly well. Obviously, she's untrained, but she is following along with Kitty's instructions pretty easily.]

... Ah... I didn't mention her? [whoops.] My girlfriend.

[passingthrough]

I guess that means things didn't work out with Laura? [She is! She'll probably be able to pull this off. It helps a lot if you already have good posture and muscle control and aren't starting at zero.]

[experiencepoints]

... That's, um, well... ... Complicated?

[Okay, that is awkward. But while her strength stat is miserable, she is in fact an adventurer, and is actually a lot hardier than she seems. And as a rich girl, she does indeed have very good posture.]

[passingthrough]

Complicated like weird to tell me when I set you up or complicated like open relationship, threesome things?

[Repeating the moves and watching how she mimics them.] See if you can lift your leg a little higher without losing balance.

[experiencepoints]

"Complicated" like I went into a week-long coma, remembered about three or four months worth of memories from my last interdimensional shithole, and Opal and I started dating there, since I didn't know about here while I was there, and... Complicated.

[SHE'S STILL SO CONFUSED

but at least she's obeying, she doesn't seem to be having any problem with her balance.]

... Really glad this has tights underneath it.

[passingthrough]

Ah. That kind of complicated. [A very similar complicated that ended her last relationship before Winn. Or at least deeply wounded it so that they tried for months to resolve things and just ended up hurting each other more and more.] Not a favorite.

Mm, yeah, that's a plus. They have to think about that kind of thing in costume design.

[experiencepoints]

Yeah. It was a mess for a while, but... We're together now, so it worked out.

[are you going to make her dere bomb at you. She will.]

I guess so. Really wish whoever came up with my uniform design had thought of that.

[passingthrough]

[A dere bomb? How could you?]

That bad?

[experiencepoints]

You've seen it, right? The short skirt and the boots?

The last interdimensional shithole I was in where I wore that? A castle. My team's dorm was at the top of a giant staircase.

[passingthrough]

Sounds familiar. If you're not a fan why where it here?

[experiencepoints]

Because it's my team's uniform.

[passingthrough]

[She could argue that she's not there anymore, but teams are important. If she had her X-Men uniform she'd be wearing it at least some of the time even if it doesn't exactly fit in to life in the fleet.] Right. Well, maybe add tights?

[experiencepoints]

... Maybe. I'll see if I can find any that work, anyway.

[She is loathe to change anything about the uniform :(]