🎃 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

[passingthrough]

[Kitty is quiet a moment, watching the snakes slither. The words that follow are measured. The concepts still carry a lot of weight for her and while she speaks of them seriously, she's not letting herself get too emotional which is still very easy to do. It does still come out very personal.]

Back home, the other side of the fence was committing genocide, irradiating entire continents until they are uninhabitable, and murdering my parents. I made sure they had as little fun in the process as possible.

[She knows there's a big difference between what she just described and knocking over a gas station for some cash and funyuns though. Not all worlds are in a state of collapse. The stakes are different.]

So, I guess it just kind of depends on your fence.

[stretchy_girl]

[There's a part of Gemini that recoils at the mention of such crimes, but there's another angrier side that couldn't care less how many people suffered, people lived people died, that was the way of things. But she can clearly hear what it means to the other woman and can't resist jabbing a metaphorical finger into that wound. It's the least a 'superhero' deserves.]

Did you and how did that go for you? Lose anybody else close to you?

[She gives Kitty a patently false sweet smile, her snakes hissing in clear amusement.]

One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter, isn't that how the saying goes?

[passingthrough]

[She's lost just about everyone close to her. Some back home. Some from dying/being kidnapped herself and some in these realms where people just disappear. But she's definitely not answering that.]

I know I've been called both. Apocalypse didn't want freedom for anyone.

[stretchy_girl]

Apocalypse? [The name makes her snort, the name reminding her of Doomsday from her own world.]

Let me guess, he was more a destroy everything sort of guy?

[passingthrough]

[It's a ridiculous name and under other circumstances she'd be all for laughing and mocking the drama of it.]

Survival of the fittest. Comes pretty close to destroying everything.

[stretchy_girl]

It must be much more comfortable for you here.

[Her voice hasn't lost that mocking tone.]

[passingthrough]

Like a bean bag chair. [Just watching her, ignoring the snakes as much as one can ignore snakes.]

[stretchy_girl]

[She gets a snakish hiss in response, possibly laughter or maybe something more hostile, it's deliberately hard to tell. The hair-snakes watch Kitty unblinkingly, coiling and twisting but never taking their eyes off her.]

[passingthrough]

[She doesn't want to start anything at the party. Instead, she stands up.] Enjoy your tricks and treats. [For now?]

[stretchy_girl]

[There are far too many witnesses around for her to want to start anything either.] Oh I will. You can count on it. [She gives Kitty an amused half-taunting wave, then turns her head away, as if Kitty's no longer worthy of her attention.]