🎃 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]

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.

[winn]

And pretty close to the top, right?

[ because their lives keep getting so hectic he doesn't get to see that much of steve and he still feels very attached to the guy. ]

[outstandingbalance]

Let's say he's in the top three.

[winn]

Top three's a good spot - you get a medal in top three -

[ no, he has no idea what he's talking about either. in his head, it just sounded better than an awkward silence as he tries to figure out what to say next. ]

[outstandingbalance]

Captain America wins silver in friendship?

[She jokes along mostly because it is awkward, pushing it just a little further.

But she takes pity on him.]

Are you two close? You and Steve, not you and Kara.

[winn]

[ bless you, natasha, you're good people! ]

Pretty close, [ he nods ] I'm his tech-support guy. [ and, for some truly unexplained reason, someone who helps him with girl problems. how did that happen, no one will ever know. ]

[outstandingbalance]

Good luck with that. Steve's a smart guy, but he's still catching up with technology.

[winn]

At least he's got an excuse and he's nice about it - already beats tech support jobs back home.

[outstandingbalance]

What, he hasn't pulled the old man act on you yet? Damn these kids and their texting.

[winn]

Not yet, must be saving that for a filler episode.

[outstandingbalance]

Filler episode?

[winn]

You know -- since we're theoretically on a show -- nevermind. Hey, he did do a coffee rant, though -

[outstandingbalance]

[Natasha sort of follows the logic, but she hasn't been envisioning the show as episodic so much as live streaming. However:]

Wait, what was his coffee rant?

[winn]

You know, [ fake old man voice ] back in my day, coffee used to be coffee! Now it's let me have a tall macchiato skinny with seven shots of espresso - what does that mean? I just want a coffee, darn it! [ back to his normal voice ] Okay he maybe did not say darn it - [ or made the fake coffee order, but he was feeling the improv! ]

[outstandingbalance]

Did you point out that you can still get a coffee if you want a coffee?

[winn]

Actually I was playing along, felt like more fun. He was just saying it took him weeks to figure out how to order it.

[outstandingbalance]

Shouldn't indulge him when he's like that. First he's complaining about people's frappuccinos, next thing you know he's talking about how dubstep isn't even music.

[winn]

Or - we do indulge him, and start a web-series - Captain America Rants.

[outstandingbalance]

Really? Not making enough money already, we 're going to start shilling Cap's old man habits for extra?

[winn]

Okay I was just thinking he'd be fun to listen to, are you always so suspicious of motives?