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

[myblueskies]

"Yes!" He grinned. "That was great teamwork!"

He nodded at him, "Are you ready for the next bit!"

He was sure they would continue to be a great team!

[hisblueskies]

Alfredo paused, took a breath...

And let it out with a grin. "Bring it!"

The next floor was the mirror floor. What monsters do they see?

Do any jump through the glass?

[myblueskies]

Oh this one was a bit scarier, Romeo looked at the mirrors as they showed demonic faces. "Let's go quick through here!"

If the didn't look in the mirrors, then it wouldn't be too scary, right?

[hisblueskies]

That was just as well; Alfredo nodded quickly right back at him.

Here, the faces were scarier than the noises... maybe they could locate their way through by sound?

But no; Alfredo shook his head at his own notion before speaking aloud. "I think we go right, here."

The rest of the navigation would be like that; checking for which way didn't have a mirror or monster (or mirror-monster) in it.

[myblueskies]

"Okay!" Romeo nodded and followed after him, going right, that sounded good!

"Now this way!" He pointed and darted round the next bit of mirrors.

[hisblueskies]

Alfredo followed through and found himself glancing away reflexively; there was some sort of bat creature behind this next mirror, looking very unpleasant!

"I think..." He said slowly, turning minutely first one way, then another.

"Front and to the left?" As opposed to the far left, which also seemed to hold a mirror.

[myblueskies]

"Yes! That's a good way!"

He's feeling calmer now, Alfredo is really smart so he's sure that together they will make their way through the mirrors with no problems!

Up to you what the solution is to this bit! ;)

[hisblueskies]

Meanwhile, Alfredo feels that he in turn can get through this as long as he's not alone...

"What now?"

It seemed there were mirrors on all sides, in this spot - except behind them. Maybe this was a dead end...?

And if it wasn't, then why?

"I don't think there's a trap door in here - do you, Romeo?"

[myblueskies]

"I don't think so... I don't think they could make that..."

After all all these things were just magic, pretend things. The train didn't have any real trapdoors though...

"Maybe we got to run past the mirror!"

[hisblueskies]

"Like a leap of faith?"

... Well, they did have experience with those.

"We can try it together."

He nods, more firmly than he feels.

[myblueskies]

"Okay!" He nodded and reached out for Alfredo's hand. "After three, alright?"

They would run together!

[hisblueskies]

"After three."

There was a small smile on his face, though it felt tight just now.

"One, two..."

[myblueskies]

"Three!" Romeo kept tight hold of Alfredo's hand as they ran, he looked just ahead as they passed the mirror, not looking at the scary face at all!

Then they were at the other side, no more mirrors!

"We did it!"

[hisblueskies]

Alfredo is relieved to be out of there - so much so that, as he's distracted offering Romeo a high-five, he at first fails to notice that they're in a hospital.

Well. "Hospital" is a better way to describe it.

"That was great, Romeo! Thanks for-"

What he was going to finish that sentence with is never learned, because that is when the sound of footsteps begins.

[myblueskies]

Romeo high fives back and grins brightly at the praise. Hearing praise from Alfredo makes him very happy, he might not know him very well but he knows how smart and brave Alfredo is.

Then Alfredo's voice stops and there are footsteps. Romeo spins round. Oh.

"It's a doctor..." He looks up at Alfredo. "That's not scary at all... Doctors help people."

[hisblueskies]

The sound of cruel laughter filtered down the new illusory hall.

Alfredo looks dubious.

"Not all doctors are like Professor Casella," he begins - only to stop, blink, and shake his head more furtively.

"And I don't like the look of those needles."

The man looks to be holding them properly - but the stick part of the needle is plainly visible, and sharp.

"Could we trip him? Or just try running through him?"

[myblueskies]

"Who is..." He trails off as he realised that he probably shouldn't ask that question. He tries not to think about it, to push down the name, out of his head.

Those needles did look big...

"Let's try and run past him first!"

[hisblueskies]

There's a shout, down the hall; the rooms look far away, but they'll have to run past those in addition to this man.

But Alfredo punts his worries away and nods.

"Let's stay close together so he can't separate us!"

That was more important than making sure only one of them got ahead - no boy left behind!

[myblueskies]

"Yes! We will stick together!"

There was no way he would leave Alfredo behind! And he knew Alfredo wouldn't leave him behind either!

"After three! One, two... three!"

[hisblueskies]

The man gave a very un-humanlike snarl and dove to try and catch them.

But they were already running.

"Duck!"

He'd jab away the man's hands with an elbow if they got close enough.

[myblueskies]

Romeo ducked and ran, darting under hands that were trying to grab him. He turned to check that Alfredo had gotten through too! He wasn't leaving him behind!

[hisblueskies]

Alfredo had banged himself up against the wall at one point, but - yes, they had both gotten away!

Only now there were the mysterious rooms to get past... or perhaps through; there was a dead end further ahead.

"Which room do you think is best, Romeo?" he asked, looking askance to his friend.

"The noise seems to be coming from both." Meaning the groaning.

[myblueskies]

"Um..." If the groaning was coming from both then surely they shouldn't go into either of them...

But they had to because the corridor was a dead end.

"This one!" He chose one at random, "Let's go together!"

[hisblueskies]

With a nod, Alfredo reaffirmed that they were holding hands again.

Just a little extra reassurance...

"Yes, let's."

There are no lights in the room - by the presence of some floating white sheets there may be some makeshift ghosts, however, but all they seem to do is float.

There was also a mirror at the far end of the room - like those in the floor they'd just left.

"That's our way out, then," Alfredo confirmed, frowning. But what else could come up to get in their way?

[myblueskies]

"After three again, we just run and run and don't let anything get us!"

If they held hands, if they worked together, they could get out of this scary place!

"One... two... three!"