🎃 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]

[ considering what she's been enjoying tonight, guess what's not going to be a surprise? ]

I particularly liked the pie.

[winn]

[ smile widening ]

Who doesn't love pie - which kind's your favorite? They were pretty great on the hand holding planet - [ so much nostalgia for that place. definitely the best stop so far...even though the faction planet was a great place for work and tech shopping, he hated the divide. ]

[mucked]

Key lime. It's worth moving to America for that pie alone, Winn. [ -- and maybe because answering with 'apple' is just a little too on the nose for someone like her. ] Although pumpkin is becoming a fast runner-up.

[winn]

[ she called him winn he's so happy right now! ]

We should put it on a giant sign at immigration: Welcome to the United States of America, home of the key lime pie. [ filing that information for future usage... ]

Yeah, it's that good? [ he's so proud! ;;; ]

[mucked]

It's delicious. [ and from context one can assume she does not lightly throw 'round such high praise. ]

[winn]

Thank you - I'll pass it on.

[ he and cisco worked so hard, it may be a silly thing to be really excited about but he's really excited about it so just deal with it, ok! ]

If we can get more stock from the planet, we could make some more. [ ... ] Maybe we can freeze some for later...

[mucked]

Or, pass the recipe along. You can't be expected to do everything.

[ REALLY, winn. ]

[winn]

So I keep being told.

[ he nods. which is good because if his friends weren't keeping him in check he would have been so much worse. ]

[mucked]

And yet I imagine it still can't be helped. [ how can one person sound both stern and indulgent at once? ] I confess I know a thing or two about taking on more than one's fair share of the work.

[winn]

I get the feeling a lot of people around here have some experience with that.

[ it's why he can get away with as much of it as he does. ]

[mucked]

[ hah. ]

The Atroma don't shanghai slouches. That's for certain. Or - rather, very few slouches. I'm certain there are some among us. For balance.

[winn]

Gotta have that balance.

[mucked]

Oh, yes. Most important. [ a beat. ] Just not, it would seem, in our personal lives.

[ overachievers and busybodies let everyone else worry about balance, she supposes. ]

[winn]

I have a balance - I work with my friends, perfect, problem solved.

[mucked]

Oh, I see. So that's the simple path the balance, hm?

[ -- she almost laughs again. the solution is so endearingly naive it's almost hard to dismiss it. ]

[winn]

All things being equal, the simplest solution is the best.

[ nodnod. ]

[mucked]

No -- you see, I've found that working with a load of idiots and wankers has the trade-off of keeping me sharp.

[ she's not arguing. at least, not with a smile like that. ]

[winn]

Working with the best does that for me, I'm always trying to keep up, to learn from them.

[ he was a lot lazier back home because there was nothing truly challenging about his job. ]

Prove I deserve to be there.

[mucked]

Admirable.

[ the war felt a bit like that -- at times. but afterwards? well, she knew she deserved to be there. it's everyone else whose opinions were dysfunctional. ] They're not all bad eggs at the SSR, admittedly. Only most of them.

[winn]

[ he struggles with feelings of inferiority, no one should learn from him. ]

Well, if it's only most -

[mucked]

[ sometimes, when she's feeling particularly playful inside a topic, her nose crinkles. this is what happens now. ]

Luckily, I've no doubt I can -- handle them. [ so to speak. ] That's the soft underbelly of a chauvinist for you: they tend to underestimate everyone who isn't exactly like them.

[winn]

[ raising both hands ]

I wouldn't put my money on anyone taking you on. Well. Kara, if you were like arm wrestling or something, but that's not fair...and she's definitely not a chauvinist so you'd be allies anyway.

[mucked]

[ a shake of her head. ]

Definitely not fair. And also well beyond my jurisdiction -- I'll leave the enhanced individuals to sort each other out, thanks.

[winn]

Probably for the best - it's way more fun to watch, anyway.

[mucked]

[ it had been bad enough trying to tackle the winter soldier when he'd been atroma-jacked. some mornings, she still feels a stiff ache from the ordeal. but she isn't here to gossip about bucky. or herself. so! ]

Do you have plenty of opportunities to watch her fight?

[ peggy's never met the woman, really. but she's certainly heard of her. ]