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

[fun_thementalist]

[ Gen was starting to realize there might be something to this scared-people-clinging-to-boyfriends thing. Sure, it was the oldest trick in the book, but not every classic yielded such nice results. He'd keep sticking close and hanging on. ]

We could probably end up writing a whole horror movie around this, if we really wanted to invent an answer to that question.

[10billionpercent]

[ He doesn't mind at all, he remains relaxed as they walk through the haunted house. It's maybe strange, but he's just too skeptical maybe. ]

I'm not much of a fiction writer. Could you imagine? It would read like a technical manual.

[ Senku continued moving them along, giving a tiny tug to Gen's hand so they could go investigate the spooky hospital. ]

[fun_thementalist]

Senku, Senku.

[ Sly, conspiratorial. ]

I would be doing the writing. You would be the technical advisor, letting me know why some random plot element wouldn't work and why, so I could fix it before production.

[ He let him get tugged along, pretty sure nothing that wasn't just startling him would actually get a reaction from him in this 'haunted carriage'. ]

[10billionpercent]

Ugh, fiction. Well. It better be interesting then if I have to proofread it.

[ He didn't enjoy most fiction, but some of the science fiction was pretty good, and of course, manga that feature scientific robot cats. Those were pretty awesome. ]

It's just that-

[ It's his turn this time, to be startled, by a bloody nurse with a giant needle and then he covered the jolt to his torso with a snort. ]

That needle's way too big to be functional.

[fun_thementalist]

I will try not to bore you, Senku-chan.

[ That was a ridiculously sized needle. He noticed Senku had been startled, and put an arm around his middle - not trapping Senku's arms anymore - and gently squeezed. ]

I don't think function is why she's holding it. She's quite menacing, isn't she, my dear?

[10billionpercent]

[ He snorts slightly, but he doesn't protest his arm around his middle either. It's alright, for a moment at least. ]

Not really, it's like, what you'd see in a horror film or something, I dunno. I didn't see that many of those.

[fun_thementalist]

[ He grinned wider as he realized that Senku wasn't actually frightened, expression quite sly. ]

Uh-huh. So that's why this scared you so much - you're just not familiar with the usual tropes?

[10billionpercent]

[ He flushes. ]

I'm not scared! You're imagining things. Didn't you just go on about human responses?

[fun_thementalist]

Didn't you just dismiss everything about what I claimed about those human responses?

[ Gently squeezed him. ]

Plenty of people are afraid of big scary needles, it's nothing to worry about, Senku-chan~ ... I'll protect you from the mean doctors.

[10billionpercent]

[ Senku scoffs at that, please, he's not scared of needles. He rolls his eyes. ]

Go. [ He gives a little shove at Gen's shoulder with his free hand, towards the next spooky exhibit. ]

[fun_thementalist]

[ Gen giggled, and pulled Senku with him, knowing that they were both on the same page with the teasing. ]

[ He looked around, blinking. ]

Wait, is this an aquarium?

[10billionpercent]

It's...

[ He stares. There were holographic sharks sure, but... ]

Aren't we just under the ocean? I mean...that's the theme right?

[ Is there something he's missing? ]

[fun_thementalist]

[ He's looking around for anything and pointed. ]

I think that's a kraken, so ... that's kind of scary, I guess?

Especially if we were a 19th century sailor.

[ Gen couldn't help but grin a bit at that. ]

Did you like Jules Verne, Senku-chan?

[10billionpercent]

I...guess?

[ It's not scary. Not at all. At the question he hums slightly, looking like he's considering it. ]

I always liked Journey to the Centre of the Earth better.

[fun_thementalist]

And here I thought your favorite would've been From the Earth to The Moon.

[ Playful little smile. ]

[10billionpercent]

[ He scoffs a little bit. ]

It's not very accurate. Which I mean, I know that's not Verne's fault but still.

[fun_thementalist]

It was revolutionary for its time, though!

And I read there were experiments about actually shooting satellites into space, too, with actual canons. So people really did try it!

[10billionpercent]

Yeah, sure, but I didn't live in that time and I know it wouldn't work.

[ He shrugs. ]

Plus it ends without an ending, and I hate that. I know there's a sequel, that's no excuse.

[fun_thementalist]

Not a huge fan of cliffhangers, I see.

[ Tilts his head a little. ]

What about ambiguous endings?

[10billionpercent]

What makes you think I like ambiguity at all?

[ He snorts. ]

No, just tell me what happened. [ He whines a little bit. ]

You sound like my lit teacher. 'Tell me what this means'. It means what it says, ugh.

[fun_thementalist]

[ He has to try and not giggle this time. ]

But I thought you'd like mystery, trying to determine the answer for yourself. Isn't that just life, my darling? Open ended and up for interpretation?

[ Definitely teasing again ]

[10billionpercent]

[ He gives the blandest look at Gen. ]

No...mysteries of the universe are tangible and can be discovered. Ambiguous endings in fiction can never be answered unless the author writes more.

[ He grumbles. ]

And some of them are dead, so now what?

[fun_thementalist]

Why, the answer is obvious, my darling.

[ Gen's eyes twinkled. ]

Fanfiction!

[10billionpercent]

[ Gen is welcome to see himself out for that. ]

Fanfiction? Please. Spare me. I barely made time to read the book, I'm not hunting down dumb answers as to why the author couldn't just write a complete story in the first place!

[fun_thementalist]

[ Giggled, and squeezed his arm gently instead. ]

Maybe they're writing about things that the author neglected, that you'd find interesting.

Surely somewhere, there's fanfiction that caters to science nerds.