🎃 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]

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. ]

[winn]

Yeah, yeah I totally get it. I tend to keep pretty busy too. Busy, busy.

[ and he is, he can't even seem to go through a whole party without picking up something new to work on.

but unless it's a time-sensitive important project, there're few things he won't blow off for his friends. ] Whenever you want, it's an open invite.

[mucked]

I'll be sure to give you a generous heads-up before I come traipsing over for a lesson.

[winn]

Come traipsing anytime, for you I'll free up.

[ unless it's an emergency goes without saying, of course, because he's terrified of jinxing himself by saying it. besides, he doubts she'd want a printing lesson if the ship's on fire or something. ]

[mucked]

For me? [ she nitpicks -- but only in a sort of joking manner. ] I'm not certain I deserve the favoritism.

[winn]

Sure you do, you're a friend.

[ and a friend's girl, and really he'd probably do it for anyone who asks, but... ]

[mucked]

-- I'm honoured.

[ it's the kinder response. the more honest one would have been her querying the reality of that comment. them? friends? though she supposes the young man made friends easily; by contrast, she was a far pricklier creature. she could count her friends on one hand. ]

[winn]

[ before the fleet, he could do the same, and not by choice. getting to have a lot of people accept him and care for him is an incredible experience for him, one he intends to make the best of. it doesn't matter if people won't do as much for him as he does for them, he wants to be there for them. yeah, there are degrees of friendships - she's not a close friend, and really acquaintance might be a better word but he never liked it, it feels so cold - but he enjoys spending time with her when it happens, she's fun to talk to, she's kind to him, and that's all he really needs to get attached.

it's not that he doesn't understand the response, it's that he's been starved for affection for far too long, and he's willing to take any scraps offered, even now. ]

The ready-made response for that kinda feels weird here - [ narrowing his eyes a little with a smile. 'the honor's all mine' at getting to call her a friend and doing her a favor just feels a little too needy, even for him. ]

[mucked]

No matter. [ a wave of her hand, and she dismisses the thought. ] I've never much been one for the ready-made.

[winn]

Me neither, I like to make my own. Unless we're talking food, in which case this whole cooking for the party deal is a one-off, I'm all about the ready-made.

[mucked]

I may need to agree with you on that front, [ she confesses. ] I've never really been best-suited to the kitchen.

[ such an understatement. ]

[winn]

[ holding a hand up for a high five - when he has his way, he lives on cereals, snacks, takeout, and tv dinners. ]

[mucked]

[ she stares at him. she stares at his hand. she stares at him again.

-- yeahno. peggy carter doesn't high five. instead, she clears her throat. ]

A thumbs-up will do.

[ and there she goes! offering one of her own. thumb, decidedly up. ]

[winn]

[ well he's feeling judged. it kinda makes him homesick.

hand goes down and both thumbs go up with a side of awkward smile. ]

Thumbs up it is -