🎃 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]

Pretty much.

[ he doesn't want to get too much into it because he's pretty sure the tech stuff would bore her and worse - it'll possibly open a door to zoom and reverse flash and that would turn this party from not-too-terrifying to I-need-a-change-of-pants.

a creepy high pitched laugh echoes through the room. ]

-- something wicked this way comes - [ they're almost at the clown. ]

[ladybro]

[ she gives his hand a quick squeeze. ] Okay. I'm ready. I can do this. I'm Kate futzing Bishop.

[ but she crowds against him, peering over his shoulder and cringing as the low light spills across an animatronic. ]

[winn]

[ he gives her hand a reassuring squeeze in return and smiles - if she weren't behind him he'd wrap an arm around her. ]

I got you, Kate futzing Bishop. [ the animatronic laughs and moves back and forth, before sticking a red foam cake in its face and going back to its hiding place to reload. ]

[ladybro]

[ thank goodness 'cause the clown defeats itself -- ersatz-dessert and all. the oddity of it all prompts some genuine, well-felt laughter. ]

You got me, Winn futzing Schott.

[winn]

[ he laughs too, it still brings him joy - totally worth the time he spent wracking his brain over trying to figure out the reloading mechanism. ]

You like that? That was my idea.

[ladybro]

The cake? Cathartic. Supremely so.

[winn]

We don't have no time for clowns.

[ they creep him out too. if he has to put them in - he's getting a little payback. ]

[ladybro]

[ once upon a time, katie made out with a clown. granted! he wasn't in make-up. and he was also an assassin. and entirely too old for her. but let's not quibble. bottom line? she's got lots of reasons to be anti-clown. watching even an animatronic one get its comeuppance is a sweet sweet moment. ]

Yeah! We came here to kick its ass and take clown-names. And -- we're all outta bubblegum. Or whatever. Sorry, I never actually managed to make it through a single Carpenter film. [ she always fell asleep. ]

[winn]

You are both so lucky and so unfortunate I wasn't kidnapped with my movie collection.

[ because he would so make her sit through so many films. ]

[ladybro]

Maybe I'll just have you and Cisco reenact some for me on a slow afternoon at Malum.

[winn]

[ well, he would have to ask cisco to fill some blanks for him, but he's pretty sure he can do that -- and knowing stuff again will make him feel a lot better too. ]

Don't say things like that if you don't mean them, Bishop -

[ladybro]

I very rarely say what I don't mean. [ a grin. ] It's kinda my thing.

[winn]

It's a good thing.

[ladybro]

Oh, sure. Right up until you stick your foot in your mouth. Usually around someone painfully cute and unobtainable.

[winn]

Suspension of disbelief broken at someone being unobtainable for you.

[ladybro]

Better believe. It happens. [ but you're cute winn. so cute for thinking so. ] That's the thing about some of the masks and capes: they turn unobtainable into an artform.

[ and also sidebar the winter soldier is way out of her age bracket the end. ]

[winn]

[ look kate is amazing and if kitty hadn't stolen his heart he would've probably been crushing on her pretty hard. ]

Ever considered going for someone who isn't an alien or a superhero or both?

[ not that he gets to talk... ]

[ladybro]

[ she laughs. ] Point taken -- but I promise, I'm just talking about those people whose pictures you'd wanna put up in your locker. Like they don't even know your name yet. [ oh oh oh, she knows how to describe it: ] Like a celebrity crush. You never expect to actually meet them.

[ let alone end up intergalactically kidnapped with them. ]

[winn]

[ he tilts his head, and his little smile times perfectly with another screech of evil laugh playing in the soundtrack. ]

So who are you celebrity-crushing on?

[ladybro]

[ that's creepy, yo. ]

Not fair. A version of him is here and if I tell you who he is you're gonna think he's the one I mean when -- he's really really different.

[winn]

[ accidental creepy is his kind of creepy.

putting a hand on his heart. ]

I promise to keep the differences of the multiverse in mind.

[ladybro]

-- The Winter Soldier. Bucky Barnes. Whatever he's calling himself. [ huff! kate isn't embarrassed, exactly, but she's more than cognizant of the guy's mottled reputation here in the fleet. ] I can't help it. It's like watching the aloof bad-attitude anti-hero in any movie ever.

[winn]

So 'unobtainable' is basically your type.

[ he is allowing to multiverse differences, honest! he never even met bucky, he was supposed to ask him some questions once but he chickened out and found other stuff to do...

it's her description of him that he's going on here. ]

[ladybro]

Hey, now, I've obtained. I've obtained plenty. I obtain all the time. [ why does it sound kinda dirty when said like that? ] Unobtainable is just, like, one possible type of mine. I also dig platinum blonds.

[ she's drunk someone stop her. ]

[winn]

[ probably the subject matter. ]

So unobtainable platinum blonde - hottest thing ever, or too much?

[ don't look at him, he's enjoying this. ]