voidtreckerexpress | it's halloween, lo-ween, everybody!

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it's halloween, lo-ween, everybody!

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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

At that, he's starting to get flustered and frustrated. When he hears those promises, he wants to believe him. He's drawn to his intensity. There's something very dark and intense about Xue Yang that is different and real.

"That's the problem, Xue Yang. I do like you. That's why I wanted to tell you the story. It's a fable, but...." Hearing his confession and telling him his worries and hearing his response, can he feel safe with him?

"Do you mean it? Can I believe you?"

"I can't make you believe me daozhang, and I won't try to. I want you to believe me because you want to and it's your choice to do so. But I won't ever lie to you again. That is a promise I can make." His voice is energetic, fueled by his desire to show Xingchen that he is sincere.

He feels even more energized by hearing Xingchen say that he likes him. He doesn't care that it is just the like of friends like in Yi City. That is all he could ask for and can be content with. He just doesn't want the man to be afraid of him or want to draw away.

He could sense his hopelessness, but at the same time, he doesn't seek anything from him at all. He realized that he's content to stay in his hopelessness. But every word he said since the story, he realized he did change.

He's content with his answer. "Then that's fine. If you meant it, then from now on, I'll believe you."

He grins as he settles back against the cushion again. "That makes me happy daozhang." Because all he could possibly ask for was to be believed that his words are sincere. That is a step in the correct direction. As before he will never push xingchen or try to force his own feelings on the man. He is content to just go back to the way things were before his identity had been known. When they were living together like a family.

He's not sure if this is close to happiness or content, but he feels better now that he knows it's him. How much darkness Xue Yang must face on his own alone. Loving him maybe a mistake, a path full of sorrow and regret, but maybe that will be his path too if he chooses.

He's not sure if he's deserved to be seen worthy as a light. "I'll give it a try." He said. But a part of him is hopeful. While the road is maybe bumpy, maybe there is joy and happiness at the end of the road. "I can't be the source of your happiness sometimes. I won't be able to make you happy. My heart is weak."

Suddenly he feels tired, tired of fighting. He sees darkness everywhere within him, so it's better to accept it. So searching for him, he's going to wrap his arms around the man for a hug and seek his chest to lay his head-on.

"I suppose where you are, where it's dark. It's not so bad. As long as you want me there and be gentle with me, then I'll stay with you."

Surprise registers across his face as Xingchen hugs him. He can feel his heart beating so hard that he is sure the other man will be able to feel it. He slowly wraps his arms around him as if afraid this is a test and if he makes the wrong move then he will fail.

"I don't see you as weak, daozhang." And if he is weak it is because Xue Yang made him that way..and he will have to be the one to help Xingchen become strong again.

"But you already made me happy and the light is getting brighter on the path." His body is stiff, unsure how to handle being held in such a way when he hadn't been expecting it and when he is so uncertain what might scare the man away.

The hug is comforting. He'll linger in his arms and lay his head on his chest for a while because it felt right and part of him wanted to give him comfort too. Back then when they shared a life together in Yi City, when there was a time when they both like each other and it's almost close to love. It's a warm feeling wanting to flicker back to life after being dead for so many years.

"I'll try...I'll try, A-Yang. I just don't want to be hurt by you again, and I don't want to feel like I'm nothing to you and be easily discarded." The light came back, but a mere flicker. Slow and gradual.

"I do like you back then, but then I think we'll part ways someday and I'll continue helping people. So I simply don't think about it."

"I would never discard you daozhang. Even after...everything..I tried to collect your soul. I tried to find a way to bring you back. I never wanted to let you go."

Xue Yang doesn't know what this means for them but he will say anything he has to to try and make Xingchen feel better and start to heal.

Ah, this painful feeling. This reminds him that Song Lan yelled at him, blaming him for not being there for him at the massacre. He tried to make amends to appease his anger by giving up his eyes so he could see again and the man responsible for their drift is also right here.

"Forgive me, I troubled you enough." He placed a hand on his chest and very slowly he disengaged from him. He has feelings where he shouldn't and he tries to restrain himself, though with difficulty. His blindfold is becoming a pair of red because he loss the ability to cry real tears. He felt himself slipping away and less of himself as he's only been alive for a month.

Turning away to hide his eyes, very quietly, "You should go to the party. Maybe the children will be gone by now."

He frowns as he watches Xingchen and latches onto his wrist with concern. "You haven't troubled me daozhang. I don't want to upset you."

He doesn't want the man to retreat and become worse but he also doesn't want to make the man uncomfortable by making him stay. Slowly his fingers uncurl from around his wrist.

"I don't know. I've been alive for a month and I had my regrets." So many. His hand trembled as he held his wrist, slightly startled, remember he managed to live with him for three years without incident.

He wasn't upset. Stressed maybe. To retreat is always fleeting and on his mind. So he was startled when his wrist was grabbed...only he lets him go.

"I think you do also."

"I didn't understand what I felt but I do have regrets..I regret what I did to you. I would change it if I could but it is impossible. All I can do is try to make up for it now somehow."

Which is still a mystery to him. He doesn't know what it will take but he is willing to do anything. But he also doesn't want to force himself on Xingchen and so he withdraws his hand so that the man can leave if he wants to.

He hasn't left him yet, but he will to retire for the night. "Xue Yang, you're trying too hard. I don't want you to harm anyone. Harming another is harming yourself."

A pause, a beat. "I am trying to live my life for A-Qing for now. I live for her." Which sounds fair. However, he heard his desperation to do anything. To search for meaning and purpose. "If you want to make up to me, you..." Actually, he doesn't quite know. He has to give him a purpose.

"Just try to understand me and do your best. I think that's all you could do."

"Then that is what I will do." It's all he can do for now. And hopefully in time Xingchen will forgive him. He tries to not be annoyed by A-Qing's name coming up. He has done a lot of growing and so he knows that part of that is getting over the anger towards her.

"You can tell me anything..how you feel, what you are thinking, what you need...I'll listen and do anything."

"Anything?" With a sigh, "You simply can't see me as the sole reason." But that's probably the case, he suspects.

Becoming weary, "But if you need me to tell you anything. I like you better if you cultivate good behavior." It's a stepping stone, but it's a start.

"I've already been working on that, like I told you. You'll be able to tell." Because people will be able to tell him. He can't say it himself and make Xingchen believe him. Others have to be his voice in that way. And he knows that. So all he can do is hope that xingchen talks to the right people as Xue Yang works to keep himself improving.

"And I believe you, Xue Yang. I heard you." Slowly he rose, as he told him his story and what he wanted from him and he's going to fetch food from the party and return to his cabin.

"I think, personally. I want you to be kind to me."

He is trying so hard to do that. Escorting him to the library, listening to his story..being kind is not easy for him and he is doing his best.

He pushes himself up and out of the chair, "I'm trying daozhang.." and then after a beat, "Do you need any help back to your room?"

"I'm going to eat food at the party. There's a doctor on the train. He told me I need to eat more. It will help my body and spirit to heal, so I taking his advice."

He reaches out his hand. "You can join me if you like. You used to cook for me, I remember."

"You were the better cook." He takes the man's hand in his own after just a slight hesitation. "You should eat more daozhang. You can eat as much as you want here."

Xingchen is slightly taller then him and he turns his eyes up to look at that white bandage where his eyes would be. He wished he could look at him, but even this is his fault.

"I can't see what I'm doing and the technology they used in the kitchens is not familiar. So I asked the kind of people to help with me on that, to help with the meal prep."

He felt his hesitation, but he holds his hand as they walk together through the carriage of the train back to the car where the party was being held. There's plenty of food left over.

"I've been shown how to make a few things but I'm still not good at it." Mostly he used the oven to burn the hoodie covered in blood and..learned a bit about breakfast foods. He isn't particularly fond of the kitchen.

"I leave the cooking to the other team members. There are plenty to do it."

"Can at least try? Often times, I crave food. Tea, hot chocolate, soup, every now and then. For some reason, I often wake up feeling cold. They told me, to warm things up in a microwave, I think that's what it called?"

He can hear music in the party and people talking in the background. "Are we here? Do they serve anything at the food table?"

"It's mostly snacks and candy..but I think there are some cookies and muffins that are a little more substantial." Xue Yang listens to what Xingchen says about waking up cold. Not sure how he can help the man with that but going to do his best to help him ease some hunger with what is at the party.

"Surely there's something other than sweets. The doctor said I have to try some grains and meats with vegetables and fruit also. Ah, he uses a lot of medical words, but he says I'm exhausted a lot because I don't eat right."

If Xue Yang takes a little look closer, there maybe pizzas, pastas, cheeseburgers, and hot dogs down the table besides the sweets. The ideal meal of choice for kids, but the right foods to give them a lot of energy.

"Can you see there's tea also? Maybe coffee?" Well, there's soda everywhere, but there should be his preferred drink closeby.

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