it's halloween, lo-ween, everybody!

[sos_pilot]

Who: Everyone's Invited!
Where: Various decorated carriages!
When: Horseshoe 31.
What: Della is hosting a Halloween party! Come for treats, tricks, and trouble!
Warnings: N/A, will update it needed.

The room is dark…why aren’t the lights on? But as the doors fully open, a voice begins laughing darkly…

… although if you’ve ever heard the voice of Della Duck, you’ll recognize her immediately.

“Boys and girls of every age, wouldn’t you like to see something strange?”

Suddenly there’s a big THUD as someone drops from the ceiling, the lights flash on, and Della herself, dressed as a zombie – ripped apart clothes, fake blood here and there, drawn on scars - wiggles her fingers before laughing joyfully. “Happy Halloween, everybody! Let’s party!”

Tasty Treats

A big buffet table of candy and punch has been laid out! Mini chocolate bars and multi-colored lollipops, gummy worms and candy corn, all sorts of sweet and sour shenanigans, ghost-shaped cookies and mummy-looking muffins! There’s plenty to eat, with absolutely no healthy alternatives.

There are also small wrapped bags of candy with the letters “T.o.T” written on them. If someone tells you, “Trick or Treat!” you have to share your candy! Or keep it to yourself, you monster.

Haunted House

Thanks to Seto Kaiba’s projections, a neighboring carriage has been converted into a Haunted House! While it’s all a trick on the eyes, it gives the illusion that there are several floors of spookiness. Each floor has a different theme –

#1 Serial Seriousness – Every so often, a masked intruder pops out at you, with long claws or chainsaw, ready to give chase! Be careful, or you’ll be the next victim!

#2 Zombie Zaniness – Moans and groans of the undead can’t be unheard. Rotting arms will try to swipe at you through the floorboards!

#3 Ghostly Games – You can see through them, and they can see you too! Each mirror reflects a different dastardly demon!

#4 Deadly Doctors – In this hospital, it’s not the awful health insurance that’ll kill you! Beware the bloody nurses and their extra big needles!\

#5 Fishy Fears - … Wait, what? … Okay, this last floor was clearly designed by Della. It’s like Under the Sea, but with sharks and octopi and kraken - and Della insists this is the worst floor.

Feel free to have your characters braving the house, or trying to scare people within!

Dance Floor

If being haunted isn’t your thing, nothing wrong with getting your groove on! Ask DJ Della what kind of song you’d like to play, and she’s happy to put on the list, from a classic Monster Mash to something more somber and soulful for you slow-dancing-romantic-vampire-types.

Turnip Carving
… Look, they didn’t have pumpkins. Anyway, you’re encouraged to carve scary and silly faces in these veggies! There is a contest, but everyone will be a winner, from “Most Realistic” to “Most Depressing” !

Movie Mania
Kick back and relax – and be horrified – at the otherworldly horror films! Like the horrific monster mime, “That”, the relentless umpire-mask wearing killer, “Monday the 20th”, and the endless array of the undead, “Midmorning Of The Not Wholly Alive”!

Some of you awful people might be thinking of popping up and scaring the theater-goers and this is /winkwinknudgenudge/ totally not approved. /plausible deniability/

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark
In one secluded, quiet, and verrry dark carriage, lit only by candles, here you are encouraged to tell the scariest stories you can think of! What eerie legends will you share from your world, or do you dare to make it up as you go along?

Make your own top-level, and happy haunting!

Also, if your character would like to dress up, costumes are available for this night only!

Comments

[ramengroupie]

"....Well...."

That's a good question. Ken watches Wormmon root through boxes in search of the green construction paper. Not here. Or here. Oh, what's in this trunk....

Aaand that would be Wormmon. Tipping over and vanishing.

[thornsofmundus]

Oh.

[Her shoulders sag, disappointed, but soon enough she rallies herself back to cheerfulness.]

Still, it could be interesting? You can still read me.

[dreamtamer]

Takato hastily gets to his feet. "You don't think he got hurt?"

It is possible that Takato's long association with both Guilmon and Culumon had left him with a tendency to panic whenever nearby digimon were out of sight.

[only_one_wei]

"I don't think the songs are particularly scary, but I can use the music to gather resentful energy and use it for...various purposes." To give an example, he put the flute to his lips and blew a few notes, using the energies collected in that brief moment to set a few ghosty decorations fluttering.

[only_one_wei]

A moment of cloudyhaze, and then one of the white decorations, formerly a blob of a head with a white sheet over it, now has cloth covered arms-blobs too, and is bowing to her, offering one "hand" as if offering her a dance.

[only_one_wei]

I've seen scarier. [He'd been scarier, honestly.] But it's amusing, at least?

And if your cards say something easy, like, 'you are going to get lucky tonight' I'm going to judge you hard, you realize. [He grins as he says it though.]

Turnip trouble

[only_one_wei]

"Now I know what the true horror of this event is," Wei Wuxian said, recoiling a bit from the white vegetables. "They look like radishes...that's just evil."

"Why would you want to cook it? Someone might accidentally eat it!"

[blue_ice]

Something strong...heroic...

[ He pages through superhero costumes and frowns. Not quite right. That cape's too big. Maybe a gladiator? Maybe. Then he turns to a knight's armor and holds it up. ]

...do you think?

[blue_ice]

Mm. Tidus. He's a pro athlete, involved in lifting everyone's spirits, and...impressively positive.

[ That's about the nicest way he'll ever phrase it. ]

How'd you find a hoodie that small?

[blue_ice]

Mm. It's just to tell scary stories and eat junk food. It's not big where I'm from either, but people are starting to import it for the excuse to wear costumes. It's...all right.

[blue_ice]

{ He groans. ]

This is not my color. Not that orange is either. But.

[ He takes her up through the first set of hollows---charmingly cute Ghostrick creatures, waving her in with a smile. ]

This is just to get you warmed up.

[ Suddenly, a loud shriek comes from the next room! He suppresses a jump. ]

[blue_ice]

He is. Still not sure where he found the belts.

[ But her costume is...impressive. He grins. ]

I saw the feast too. Do you know how many overexcited passengers we'll be dealing with?

[magicurls]

It's part of my magic. I can create clothing...I just can't do too much at once.

Nothing all that impressive!

[magicurls]

Okay! A little scary, then how about...

[ She snaps her fingers and summons a simple silvery-white frock and bonnet, with a silly ghost's face painted on the hat. ]

A ghost? I thought this would be easier than cutting holes in a sheet.

[magicurls]

That's it!

{ She smiles. ]

You look wonderful. How'd you find a great fit so quickly?

Re: Starting at floor one?

[myblueskies]

"No." He looked back at Alfredo with a gentle smile. "It's not like a mission, we don't got to fight anything. I think it's meant to be the good kind of scary."

Which was a bit tricky when they really did have to fight monsters sometimes. "Like the films that are scary or books that are scary."

[blue_ice]

"We're rethinking the name," he counters immediately. Vice...mm, vipers, maybe? He'll think about it.

"But is there room to play now? Between all this stuff?"

Re: Scary Stories

[myblueskies]

Mummies... [He shook his head.] No, Della! I don't know what a mummy is! Are they monsters?

[xue_yang]

Once in the kitchen he deposit Xingchen in a seat so he can begin his hunt for noddles and tea. He remembers at least where the people kept the tea bags from the last time he saw someone make it. He starts to work on that, letting the water heat up while he goes to rummage for what might be left of the ramen.

Finding it, he pulls it out of the cold box so that he can start to heat it up on the stove. There is much movement of pots and pans as Xue Yang goes to work getting it ready.

Once the tea is done, he brings it over and places it carefully in Xingchen's hands. "Careful, it's hot. The noodles will be ready in a few minutes."

[xue_yang]

Xue Yang is old enough to drink regardless and twenty is certainly old enough in his mind. He smirks at the suggestions that they should drink at some point.

"Might as well since there is no one to stop us and no reason not to."

Movie Mania

[namethattune]

[Siebren has taken a break for popcorn and to see if Della's taste in movies for this event runs towards the great or the terrible. So far, it's solidly the latter, but he doesn't mind a good laugh every now and again.]

[He stretches his long legs out into the aisle and catches sight of Della on the floor when he nearly places a foot on her. He blinks and slowly pulls his legs back in.]

What on Earth are you doing down there?

[happyends]

[ But you never go to get help by yoursef, Alfredo! Not in a dangerous situation! This is why we have the buddy system!!

Madoka is now totally trying to cover up her face with her free hand, only watching the movie through the slits of her fingers. It's too much. ]

U-um, maybe he's still trying to scare them.. [ With all these odd, medical-themed things. ] I-I hope he isn't waiting for them outside.. They should quickly run away!

[loveandduty]

"I mean whenever there are costume parties involved there is. So it's the same in this case too." She assumed because the method she used for this was vastly different and something she of course wasn't going to want to talk about.

"I am curious about what others might do with the costumes."

[loveandduty]

Well, that's definitely an interesting combination of costume ideas. She honestly found herself pausing for a moment, trying to think of the right words to say, mostly about the choice.

"If you are nice enough I will but first things first... What or who are you?"

OTA

[najaran]

Haunted House

Najaran.... had somehow wound up in the dressing car before she noticed any of the... festivities. Don't ask how, you'll just give yourself a headache. Some of it was being half asleep after a night full of bad dreams, some was just being, well.. Najaran. So when she realized she was in the dressing carriage... that she could be in it.... that it was full of clothes... she ran out into a panic, sure they had a mission and she was late. So of course she wasn't running to the ICP, she was running for the kitchen to pack up mission snacks!

She wound up in the haunted house, not paying attention to anything but the signs that pointed her towards the kitchen when someone with long claws popped out at her. She screamed and swung Goligan right through them. And yet they still advanced.

Her familiarity with holograms was... extremely limited. To one person on the train showing her once. So she came to the reasonable conclusion of "Gh... GHOSTS?!"

"I do not know that those claws will prove as insubstantial as his midsection, lady Najaran," Goligan said, wide eyed.

She stumbled back. "Wh...what does that mean?"

"I think he can hurt us even if we can't hurt him!"

Another "killer" popped up behind her. Two screams issued. The higher pitched one that sounded like a little girl was totally Najaran, not her walking stick, right....?


Turnip carving
After someone rescued her - and kept her from using her cards to destroy the holograms - she found the turnip carving. It started out fine. It went down hill, rapidly. She got frustrated with the provided knives so summoned a longsword from a card. But of course while that hard a sharp enough edge, it lacked the dexterity for anything other than slashing and stabbing given the distance between her and the table. From there she went to ripping the turnips with her teeth like a mad beast in frustration. and yes, eating them raw.

Feel free to interrupt her at any point in this process. The life you save might be her own.


Tasty treats
Someone finally showed her the candy table. She'll be here, happily working her way through all the yummy new foods. Every frustration about the haunted house and the turnips are forgotten and forgiven as she gushes over all the new tastes.