🎃 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

[winn]

A good nerdbro knows how to work a costume to his advantage.

[ nods the guy in the skintight red suit. ]

[arfvader]

Hear, hear! If only the Comic-Con crowds could see us now!

[winn]

We'd have our own cosplay panel.

[arfvader]

You'd lead the panel and I'd be the moderator and we would leave as legends.

[winn]

Before you know it, we'll be turning down offers to make the real deal.

[ ok he already makes the realest real deal and he'll never turn that down, but why involve reality in a fantasy. ]

[arfvader]

And because we're humble and down-to-earth we will clothe all superheroes in need, no matter how obscure!

[winn]

They gotta have a suit. I don't know what makes them think that saving the world in jeans is a good idea but someone's gotta help them.

[arfvader]

And who better than us? The new vanguards of of outfitting superheroes! Edna Mode is basically old news.

[Okay but Ravi is 100% not qualified for any of this.]

[winn]

Edna who?

[ he's partly going along with the joke and partly -- he really doesn't know who that is, the augment is messing with his pop culture referencing, so that names and exact story lines are sometimes fuzzy sometimes all gone leaving nothing but quotes in their wake. ]

[arfvader]

[Ravi would think that was so tragic if he knew.]

Exactly! Glad we're on the same page.

[winn]

[ it is extremely tragic, and a big part of his grudge against the atroma. so many scores to settles!! ]

I got a feeling we're gonna be doing that a lot. [ they live on the same page. ]

[arfvader]

I mean, it's a pretty good place to be, if you ask me.

[winn]

In a total twist in the plot -- I agree.

[arfvader]

I believe we need to christen this moment with a beer!

[winn]

You know, I believe you're right. [ patting his shoulder, he leads the way to the bar where he will proceed to try to order and pay unless stopped - look at how high profile he is, ok, he's got credits coming out of his nose. he likes being a bro. ]

[arfvader]

[Ravi makes the socially acceptable amount of effort to pay, but lets Winn, well, "win" this time.]

I've got the next round, when my "shame money" will no doubt have grown an impressive amount.

[winn]

[ he can't even deny that. you know, he prefers his shame money to his porn star money, though. ]

It's a deal. [ he raises his beer towards him. ] To many next times.

[arfvader]

[Ravi reaches out to clink his beer bottle against Winn's.]

I'll drink to that!

[And so he does!]

So I have to ask, is this your first inter-dimensional kidnapping experience?

[winn]

Yeah, it is. [ he nods, totally getting it, he had to ask that too. taking a drink. ] Yours?

[arfvader]

Round two for me. The first place was a zombie summer camp overrun with purple gorillas. And I can assure you that's not just the alcohol that's talking.

[winn]

I've been here long enough to honestly say - I've heard weirder.

[ though that's still pretty out there. ]

When you say zombie summer camp - do you mean like zombie counselors or were you supposed to entertain like zombie kids cuz that's just overkill kids are scary enough on their own -

[arfvader]

The zombies were really mostly there as set dressing and seemed content to lumber about harmlessly. There was definitely a lot of underage campers though, which meant I had to wear my "responsible adult" hat on more than one occasion.

[Which is fine, he didn't get to be a forensic pathologist by shirking responsibility altogether! But still, it's nice that he doesn't have that same pressure here.]

[winn]

Don't you just hate that?

[ yeah, he's plenty responsible, and he's had to be the responsible adult with some of the teenagers around here - and even some of the adults - which is fine. but being the immature idiot is so much more fun. ]

They kidnap you, and then they try to suck the fun right out of it.

[arfvader]

Exactly my point! They could at least have the decency to not impart responsibilities and jobs on us!

[winn]

Yeah! What's up with that. Especially here, if they're trying to make a reality show shouldn't they be encouraging people to act less responsibly? Instead we have jobs that if we skip out on our ships could fall out of space and kids we have to try to be good role models for. [ drinking his beer in a huff. actually he likes the work and some of those kids are really important to him, but complaining is fun. ]