🎃 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

[passingthrough]

Yeah... That's a lot of future knowledge to take in. [How's that working out?]

The only person from my version of a universe is from a few years into the future. And that's already too much. [Things went really well and then they spiraled down to the actual worst.]

[mucked]

Think about it for too long, and you're liable to feel like a train on pre-designed tracks. Inflexible.

[passingthrough]

Mmm, it definitely feels like that. [Especially knowing that she has seconds to change things if she goes back. And seconds would be enough time. She could phase instead of being a fool in love. But would it be enough time to realize where she was or what was happening if she did keep all her memories? And how would she even begin to change them other than keeping herself alive a little longer.]

How do you keep yourself off the tracks? Or do you?

[mucked]

I trust my instincts. [ above all else. above others. even above steve. ] To stick with the analogy a little longer, I think I can stomach the tracks laid of my own inclinations.

[ not choices. not will. she speaks of the primal, knee-jerk moments that shape the broader strokes of life. ]

[passingthrough]

Hmm. I remember instinct trusting. Mine went a little off the rails after I spent almost a year in a multidimensional prison that turned out to be a virtual reality. [Has a way of making a person doubt all their senses when everything tracked as real and then it wasn't. Or maybe that was the illusion, but not being sure just makes the rabbit hole deeper.]

[mucked]

That'll do it, I imagine. Although I suppose one's instincts don't go wrong in circumstances such as those. More like the data can't be trusted -- even if you react to it precisely as you should.

[ a sly way of at least absolving kitty of her mistakes, perhaps. or else a means of moving the conversation on without probing too deeply. hard to say whether she's being sympathetic or hard-hearted. ]

[passingthrough]

True. [But sometimes it's easier to feel like a failure than to feel helpless. Since that's a terrible conversation though...] I should probably get some more mingling on. Wouldn't want anyone to miss out on the costume. It was good meeting you though.