it's halloween, lo-ween, everybody!

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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

[xue_yang]

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.

[feixuehua]

"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."

[xue_yang]

"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.

[feixuehua]

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."

[xue_yang]

"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."

[feixuehua]

"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.

[xue_yang]

"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.

[feixuehua]

"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."

[xue_yang]

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?"

[feixuehua]

"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."

[xue_yang]

"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.

[feixuehua]

"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.

[xue_yang]

"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."

[feixuehua]

"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?"

[xue_yang]

"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.

[feixuehua]

"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.

[xue_yang]

He stops and shakes his head, "You aren't going to find any of that at this party. We would be better off going to the kitchen. I'll take you there daozhang."

At least there he knows the things that Xingchen wants will exist and he even has figured out how to use the maker to do tea.

[feixuehua]

"If we go, we could make noodles?" He is hungry after all. So, surprisingly, trusting, he turns to him and reaches out with his hand.

Also, they can dine quietly together away from the kids and the loud music, since he doesn't like loud places anyway as he has practiced a keen sense of hearing. "We can go there to the kitchen and dining car if you want to."

[xue_yang]

"Let's go." He takes his hand again and leads him out of the car and towards the kitchen. "I'm sure there are noodles in there somewhere." They aren't far from the kitchen car. He remembers senku making Ramen so he had to have the noodles in there somewhere or there might even be leftovers from that left in the box that he could heat up.

[feixuehua]

Softly, "All right." Obediently, he follows him through the carriage and towards the kitchen, holding his hand (knowing one of them is missing a finger), minding his step, each step walk at a slow pace. Is this the same person he used to live with back in that house in Yi City? They don't hold hands often, but when they do, he noted that he does have a strong grip.

Perhaps, there should be in the pantry if he checks. Along with tea bags to make tea out of it. All is that required is hot water.

[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."

[feixuehua]

Xingchen feels for the seat, searching blindly, and finding the chair he sat down. He listens to Xue Yang's footsteps in the kitchen as he prepares a meal for them both, hearing the clangs of the metal pots and pans.

He's surprised Xue Yang goes as far as doing this for him. The cup is indeed hot. His hands are trembling. He wonders if he could trust him? He takes a sip, and it turns out...the tea is fine. It tastes as it should as he waits for noodles to be done.

"...Thank you."

[xue_yang]

He goes back to the noodles and places out two bowls that he fills once it has finished heating up. He turns off the stove and sets the remainder aside in case Xingchen wants more. ANd if he doesn't it will have to cool off before he puts it away anyway.

He carries the two bowls over and sets them down, settling into the seat next to Xingchen. "Give it a minute to cool down. It isn't an overly impressive meal but at least it will fill you up."

[feixuehua]

He can sense his calmness and his presence next to him. He can hear the bowls settled on the table and he sitting next to him.

Inwardly, he felt a little nervous that his hands tremble to search for the chopstick, feeling the table.

"Is there chopsticks closeby?"

[xue_yang]

He reaches out and places the chopsticks in Xingchen's hand, which lets him feel the trembling of it. He feels his heart sink, knowing that the man is scared of him. He slowly releases his hand and looks down at his own bowl of noodles, not feeling particularly hungry at the moment.