driftfleet | 🎃 HALLOWEEN MINGLE 🎃

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? ]

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[She doesn't even seem to notice the staring much, just giving him a weird look.]

Why are Earth stories so damn depressing?

[... that's helpful, right.]

Uhh...I think it depends on the stories, and who's telling them.

[ frowning. ]

Who's been telling you what?

[She gestures at her costume.]

Opal told me about "Swan Lake".

Ohhh-kay no, let's clear things up - not all earth stories are like that. Some are really depressing, some are really happy, most are somewhere in between. Heck, I wanna say the mooooost - but I'm not sure so I'm gonna say one of the most profitable entertainment companies in the world built its reputation on and they all lived happily ever after. But yeah, some are really depressing because stories are trying to like - convey emotion, and that's an emotion that people feel, sometimes life sucks. But not right now cuz we're at a totally awesome Halloween party and there's nothing depressing about that -- [ ha...haha...why is he slipping into lecture mode at a party she just asked a simple question - he's sorry! ]

Well, at least there's that...

Right, let's figure something less depressing to talk about than... that, then.

[she isn't sure she believes the 'nothing depressing about that' part.]

[ ok if she finds his halloween party depressing, that'll depress him. ]

I heard you've gotten some ballet lessons to go along with that outfit -

Just enough to impress Opal. Don't expect anything great.

If I promise to keep my expectations low, do I get a demo?

Absolutely no chance in this or any hell.

Oh come on - I'll reciprocate?

Or we could have neither of us embarrass ourselves.

[ scrunching his nose ]

Where's the fun in that?

The fun is in not being embarrassed in public.

Half the public is drunk and isn't gonna remember it anyway, you can't let people hold you back from having fun.

I totally can, watch me do that.

You're just punishing yourself for other people's potential boringness.

Maybe, but I'm still not embarrassing myself in front of the entire Fleet.

I still don't think you'd be embarrassing yourself but fine - [ offering her a hand ] how about a regular dance?

... Well, all right.

[She takes the hand.]

But I'm going to warn you now, I don't know how much of this I remember.

There really nothing to remember, just move to the beat. [ he smiles, leading her a little distance away from the bar so they could have space and not be in the way of people looking to get a drink. with her, he does a more subtle normal dance. ]

[She follows his lead, and she's pretty good at figuring it out on the go, though she's more used to slow, more formal dances.]

Pretty sure I haven't had a real proper dance since I got disowned, aside from games.

-- disowned?

[ he's hesitant to ask at a party but how can he not. ]

Yeah- Wait, did I never mention that part?

[she doesn't seem to bothered at least.]

Uh, no, no I don't think so. Pretty sure that's something I'd remember...

Oh.

[She shrugs.]

There was a date that went really, really wrong. Not a big deal.

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