🎃 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

[apurrstate]

[Anders chuckles and nods.] All right, that seems fair since this uniform is limited to my world only, as far as I've been able to tell.

I don't know who King Arthur is, but if he keeps cats at court, then he must be a fine king. Unfortunately, I believe my queen would rather keep dogs.

[Perhaps he could be a cat in Queen Riona's court, but he'd already promised to keep the monarch thing quiet, so he keeps the joke to himself.]

Let's see...for you, hmm...a lovely red wraith? I mean, most wraiths aren't lovely in the slightest, but for you I can make an exception.

[ladybro]

-- Close, but nope. Still a W word: I'm Wiccan. [ and then she can't say for certain how strictly earth-based the term is, although she knows the young man himself is something of a stranger around these parts.

so, helpfully: ] Kinda like a magic-y hero. From home.

[apurrstate]

'Wiccan?' [He tries the word out for himself. It sounded nice enough, similar to witch, he supposed.]

If we were back home, a Magic-y hero would be perfect for the 'scary' motif.

[He doesn't mean to let the bitter comment slip out, but it does and he can't take it back, so he presses forward instead.]

I'm dressed as a Grey Warden, I used to be one, it was the only 'costume' I had. They're...monster-fighters, I suppose. They protect innocent people from some of the worst creatures in Thedas.

The...ears was Adalwolfe. He got them in a sponsor gift along with that ridiculous dragon get-up he's sporting and he put them on my head as we were leaving.

[ladybro]

[ mild damage control: ] Trust me, I'm not going for scary. Wiccan's -- I love the guy. One of my dearest friends. I'd trust him with my life. Hell, I historically have done just that.

[ her smile is small. ] He protects innocent people, too.

[apurrstate]

[That turns his expression fond.]

Good. I'm glad at least one world accepts magic as a means to protect.

[But there's no need to go down that route at a party.]

So, if you weren't aiming for 'scary,' were you just hoping to honor? Is it common for the people of your world to dress up like your friends?

[ladybro]

Not exactly, no. But plenty of people dress up like the Avengers -- or other heroes, back home. It just happens that the Avenger I wanna dress up like is also my friend.