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

[loveandduty]

"Yeah. I've never really been able to afford snacks, so it's always nice to get when you haven't had it in so long."

She clapped her hands together for a brief moment. "I could not tell you who that was either, honestly. But if someone makes nay, they need to let me know."

[unfavorableinstigation]

"If I happen to remember who it was, I'll let you know," Nita said, grin returning.

"Though for all we know, they're on cooking duty this month anyway. I guess there's a higher chance of them being on Purple, right?"

[loveandduty]

"I mean Purple is the biggest team, right?" So it would be likely when she thought about it. "So it's always possible. Though is Red the smallest team? Or is that Blue?"

[unfavorableinstigation]

"... Red, I think."

Nita looks uncertain, because how many names were in gold again? It was exhausting to keep track, as much as she felt compelled to do it.

But given the mood of the day, perhaps doing so was unfair all the same.

"I still feel bad when they get the 'clean the passenger cars' chore, though, whether it's Red or Blue's turn."

[loveandduty]

"How come? Because of how many there are. I mean I feel bad for any chore that's given to me. I haven't managed to do them well. At all." The cooking one was perhaps the worst of them all because that one could have ended much worse if she had been left alone to her own devices.

[unfavorableinstigation]

"Sometimes, having a partner makes a load of difference," Nita replied, shrugging afterwards.

"Even if they're the one doing the task and you're just helping, it's rarely 'just' helping - and even then, I don't think the train cares."

Both the train itself and the passengers in general.

[loveandduty]

"It does in many ways." At least for Minako friends are helpful in that aspect, but not good for all aspects.

"I mean yeah...if the train cared we'd only be allowed to do what our teams chore was, but people can seem to do whatever."

[unfavorableinstigation]

The power of teamwork!

"And I'm not sure how it all even translates to points, beyond that it probably does. How would keeping us doing one thing - or from doing one thing - even work?"

Would their SCAs just beep constantly if they spent a whole week not working? It sounded kind of ridiculous just to think about.

[loveandduty]

"I try to not figure that out because then people would just work the system. For me, I don't really have much reason for points beyond maybe getting clothes and food now and again now really."

She was a woman of simple needs.

[unfavorableinstigation]

Nita could only grin again - and she was glad for that.

"Same here, really. Most of the things I want from back home I've either got now or are, well, people."

And that had its own downsides, if those people showed up...