🎃 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

[outstandingbalance]

Not all fighting is muscle and guns.

[Said with a shrug.]

A lot of the most important work isn't.

[winn]

That's my jam - backstage work.

[outstandingbalance]

That so? Ever in drama?

[He seems like the type—must be the karaoke and the enthusiasm for superheroes.]

[winn]

Just AV club.

[ he might have been the type, if he hadn't spent his childhood and adolescence trying to be as invisible as humanly possible for his own protection. ]

[outstandingbalance]

Still sounds true to type.

[winn]

I'm pretty easy to figure out.

[ if it's a nerdy cliche there's a good chance he's done it. ]

[outstandingbalance]

I didn't mean to put it that way.

[winn]

But it's not wrong. [ he shrugs. really, he doesn't mind. he owns his nerdiness, and he actively dislikes being shifty. when you're trying to distance yourself from the image of homicidal family, being seen as simple is a blessing. ]

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha gives half a shrug at that.]

Fair enough.

[They differ on that, but Natasha's used to people not being as comfortable being shifty as she is.

She does understand preferring people see you as simple, though, and she'll give him that.]

You have a pretty good leading lady to back up now.

[winn]

I have the best leading lady to back up now.

[outstandingbalance]

I'll have to take your word for it.

[winn]

She'll win you over, always does.

[ his faith in kara is pretty...endless. ]

[outstandingbalance]

She doesn't have to win me over. She seems... sweet.

But young.

[winn]

She's much tougher than she looks.

[ he knows he and kara come off as happy-go-lucky ridiculous people who never had to make a tough decision in their lives.

but it's all the tough decisions they've had to make that made them this way. ]

[outstandingbalance]

It's not that I don't think she's tough. I've heard a little about where she's coming from—you have to be tough to come out of that still an optimist.

That doesn't mean she's not young. And naive.

[winn]

Maybe, but she gets the job done.

[ he worries sometimes, about them losing it, about them keeping it and getting hurt. but kara's the strongest person he knows. if she could survive the loss of her planet and come out...kara, he believes she can do anything. ]

[outstandingbalance]

It's not a criticism.

[If anything, Natasha respects Kara's freshness. It's a bit like Steve, but newer, fresher.]

[winn]

Sorry it's the best friend thing, you instantly go to defensive mode.

[ he knows natasha is important to kara, and he just wants her to see how amazing she is. ]

[outstandingbalance]

You're a good friend.

[winn]

I have to be, she deserves the best.

[outstandingbalance]

I don't think that's how friendships work.

[winn]

Doesn't it? You love your friends, you wanna give them your best, always.

[outstandingbalance]

Not quite the same thing.

[She pauses, considering how to frame her thoughts, or if she wants to share them at all.

In the end, she settles for:]

I think when you're friends with a good person, it inspires you to be a better version of yourself. Not because they deserve it, but because they bring it out of you.

[winn]

[ that makes him smile, he couldn't agree more. ]

That too, yeah. [ he pauses. ] Steve? [ he hasn't met everyone who's on the fleet from her world, and he definitely hasn't met all the people who aren't - but he still feels fairly confident in his guess because steve very much gives him a kara vibe at times. they're both just so...good. ]

[outstandingbalance]

He's on the short list.