🎃 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

[mucked]

[ her agreement borders on intimate. ] Always was, too. He once gave me a very heartwarming tour of Brooklyn where he showed me every alleyway wherein he'd -- got involved in fisticuffs.

[ that's lightly put. ]

And I was the idiot asking him why he never ran away.

[outstandingbalance]

Not surprised. Pretty sure it's just not in his DNA.

[And apparently never had been.]

I can't tell you how much easier my life would be if we had roughly one man on the team who new how to compromise.

[mucked]

Thick-skulled, are they?

[outstandingbalance]

Thick-skulled, stubborn as they come and a lot of ego.

[A pause, and she adds.]

It's possibly I shouldn't include Rhodey in that count.

[mucked]

Which teammate is Rhodey, again? [ dot dot dot.

peggy tries to keep up. it's not always a simple task. ]

[outstandingbalance]

One of the new recruits, but seems a little weird calling him that considering. He's a friend of Tony's.

[And we all have to realize that the only way to be friends with Tony in the lon run is to be able to compromise.]

He's a good guy.

[mucked]

A friend of Tony's. [ now, there's a thought. what sort of friends did a man like tony actually have? she'd known how isolated the father could be -- aggressive egos did better alone, by times.

not quite beneath her breath: ] The man must be a saint.

[outstandingbalance]

Maybe not a saint, but... a decent guy.

Even he can be pretty stubborn, though.

[mucked]

How certain are you that this is trait exclusive to the male members of your team, rather than simply the whole damned lot of you?

[outstandingbalance]

Should I take that as a hint?

[mucked]

Somehow, I suspect you're the most -- flexible one on the roster.

[ ahem. ]

[outstandingbalance]

[Ahem indeed.]

It can seem that way sometimes.

[By which might mean she's often frustrated by the inflexibility of her teammates. Or it might mean that Natasha's apparent flexibility isn't exactly what it appears to be.

Either way would be accurate enough, in its way.]

Imagine I'm the only one who can do the splits, at least.

[mucked]

To be fair, [ peggy's laughter is stilted. still a little hollow, as she has steve's modern isolation on her mind even now. ] I doubt I could do them, either.

[outstandingbalance]

[An attitude not lost on Natasha, though for the moment she chooses not to draw attention to it.

Peggy deserves the opportunity to draw her own conclusions.]

You can't tell me you got as far as you did without being flexible.

[mucked]

-- A different kind of flexible, perhaps. [ no less deceptive and certainly no less honeyed. peggy admires the differences as much as she does the similarities. ]

[outstandingbalance]

Well, if you think you can teach Steve that kind...

[Or any kind. Literally any kind of flexible.]

[mucked]

Beg pardon? [ she almost chokes. her fault, really, for letting her thoughts still trail humorously along the established double entendre behind flexible. but then she catches up with herself, chuckles it off, and busies herself with a hair pin holding her wig in place.

peggy clears her throat. ] Right! Well, I'll do what I can. [ she gives natasha a friendly tap on the arm. ] Can't make any promises, however.

[outstandingbalance]

I can't expect miracles.

[She is clearly amused as she says it, the conflation intentional.]

[mucked]

[ she offers a sarcastic little salute. ]

Let's never tell him we had this conversation. [ peggy chuckles, again. ] Please.

[outstandingbalance]

It's a deal.

[mucked]

[ oh so dry: ] Much obliged.