🎃 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

sealed with a loving kiss* i forgot the l!!

[mucked]

And above and beyond those are the usual slog of military initials upon initials upon initials. [ ... ] Makes a headache out of codebreaking.

<3

[winn]

[ he nods ]

But most professions come with acronyms I don't think that's so much a generational thing - computers have a ton too.

[mucked]

I'm afraid that's a conversation well beyond my scope. We may have had computers back in the '40s, but those computers were the girls doing the maths so the gunnery officers knew where to shoot.

[ all her computer education has come from her augment and from the fleet itself. the word 'computer' had itself been nothing more than a job description. ]

Not that I doubt you. Progress breeds complication.

[winn]

Yeah I'll spare you the headache - let's just agree that professional acronyms don't count. The internet loves its acronyms though...and its emoji.

[mucked]

-- Don't get me started on emojis.

[ NONSENSE. ]

[winn]

Not a fan?

[ why is he getting a feeling that getting her started will be hilarious though. ]

[mucked]

[ peggy actually enjoys deciphering things, but those silly little faces! the bother her almost as much as the music does. ]

They're a touch on the dramatic side. [ ahem. ] And I can't help but feel like a toddler pointing at a picture book whenever I consider using one.

[ 'how are we feeling today, pegs? oh! look, she pointed at the face with the rolling eyes!' ]

[winn]

[ he laughs ]

They get addictive, the more you use text, you know - picture's worth a thousand words, and who's got the time to type a thousand -

[ writing judgmental glare just doesn't convey it as well as ಠ_ಠ ]

[mucked]

All it means is that someday eloquence will be a lost art -- [ mind you, she isn't saying it's already lost. she's met plenty of eloquent creatures from the future. but beyond that? who knows. she doesn't trust it. ]

[winn]

Or it'll evolve, like all art forms.

[mucked]

I commend a great many things about the future -- medical advances, a shift towards diplomatic relations, of striving for equality. The future sounds plenty evolved, and that's marvelous.

[ AND YET... ]

But there's nothing evolved about winky-faces.

[ nothing!! ]

[winn]

I dunno, there's something pretty impressive about novels being translated into them.

[ he might possibly be enjoying this just a little bit or like a whole lot. ]

[mucked]

The Bronte sisters are likely doing somersaults in their graves at the very notion. Imagine, for a moment, Jane Eyre in emojis. I dare you.

[ #leaveberthaalone ]

[winn]

If we had access to the internet, I'm pretty sure no imagination would be required.

[mucked]

And without such a smoking gun source, I imagine we may simply need to agree to disagree on the topic of -- emojis.

[ dear lord help her. ]

[winn]

That would be most civilized of us. [ he smiles, only lightly teasing. ]

[mucked]

These things called selfies, however? Those I don't much mind the thought of.

[ they sound AMAZING. ]

[winn]

Yeah? Wanna snap one?

[ he kinda loves them, he's trying to grab them with as many people as possible! ]

[mucked]

Of Ginger Rogers and the Flash? Yes. Positive as pie.

[ she sets her drink aside and adjusts her wig. ]

[winn]

[ out comes the phone!! and he poses with her, snapping a bunch of pictures.

he's smiling like an idiot in most of them. ]

Want me to print you any?

[mucked]

-- I'd like that. Yes.

[ and for a moment, her demeanor softens. she's never quite wholly sweet, but she has her minutes where her edges are far less cutting than normal and one is allowed to believe she might not always have her guards in place. for her part, she'd sported quite a goofy grimace in the pictures -- but that was ginger rogers circa carefree, after all. just another disguise.

curious: ] How do you...get them printed?

[ she might have other photos that deserve physical existence. ]

[winn]

I have my own setup back on the Tourist - I can show if you want! [ ... ] Or, just print whatever you want printed for you if you're not really interested in the process... [ he just got her smiling he should probably not be ruining it by boring her to tears, right. ]

[mucked]

-- No, by all means. I'm interested in the process. [ she may not be a scientist, but she is technically inclined. ] After all, I work for the SSR. And the second S stands for Scientific.

[winn]

[ he lights up!! ]

You're welcome to come visit anytime then, I'd love to show you - it's easier to explain how it works in front of the real thing.

[mucked]

Someday, certainly. You may have to bear with me -- my schedule gets knotted up rather quickly.

[ most of it is make-busy work. but when they're not actively on a planet or at a waystation, she makes a point of not venturing too far from the starstruck. it's hard to predict when she'll be required to act in a captain's capacity. and she has quiet projects of her own on the go. ]