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!

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"Yes." There's almost an edge of uncertainty to her voice. Not because Alice isn't sure of her answer - no, she knows this much despite having been separated from society for ten years, at the very least - but because she's trying to figure out why that would be so weird in this girl's world.

Especially since it's so normal in her own.

"Doing anything else with a dead body where I come from is considered cruel, really."

"It did be being?"

That was so strange, even more strange than most things she had heard. She shook her head. "We do be needing to be burning bodies, because that do be releasing the soul so it can be being reborn. If you do be burying it... it can no be doing that."

She sighed, "I do no be knowing if trapped spirits killing people do be being a real thing, but to be burying someone in earth or piling rocks on them... That do be being something you do only be doing to someone you do no be wanting to be being reborn. Somebody so terrible that you do be wanting that soul to be being dead forever."

And if she ever did that to someone, well she would make sure they did not know it was her, just in case the stories of vengeful trapped souls had a grain of truth.

That.. does bring a few questions to mind. Is the whole being reborn thing just something this girl believes in - just like how people do or don't believe in an afterlife in the world Alice comes from - or is it more literal than that?

She can't be sure, especially with all the odd snippits she's gained along the way of what this girl's world or life may have been like..

So she chooses to not ask about it. Instead Alice goes quiet for a moment before asking, "Then what about the people who don't wish to be reborn?"

"Why would someone no be wanting that?" She wrinkled her nose, "It do no be being a case of wanting or no wanting, it do just be being the will of the gods. It do be happening."

Like it or not. It wasn't like you could stop it. No more than you could stop death itself.

"It sounds as if many things are preordained where you come from."

She settles on saying that. Because Alice could very well explain why someone wouldn't want that, could tell this young girl absolutely everything about the dark pits she has found herself in before.

But maybe that isn't so appropriate to tell a young person about, especially if they clearly have no concept of it.

(Yes, stabbing is fine, but the line is apparently drawn in the sand at depression deep enough to make you no longer want to live.)

"Do those gods decide absolutely everything?"

"Yes." She nodded, she noted that Alice hadn't answered the question, but Alice was usually so open about answering questions that if she didn't... There was probably a reason.

And discovering secrets was not something you did by asking directly. "Sort of. They do no be controlling your actions, you do be being responsible for those."

And acting in a way to please them was better than not.

At least that makes it sound like they don't have total control. Because that might as well be the most terrifying world possible to Alice, honestly. A place where everything you do is controlled. Ugh, the very idea of it is awful. It's a bit too much like the asylum.

But still, even without them controlling your actions.. It still doesn't sound exactly pleasant. Though it may explain some of this girl's oddities.

"And you don't mind that? I mean, I know you most likely can't disobey them to begin with, considering they're gods and must be all-powerful, but that doesn't mean you can't have an opinion on it." She knows it skirts dangerously close to a conversation they had before that also didn't go that well, but Alice can't help it. This topic is so near and dear to her heart that she'd be betraying herself if she didn't bring it up at all.

"Why would I be minding that?"

She swallowed down her annoyance this time, giving Alice her most innocent look. "If you do be following the gods you will be living a good life, you will be being blessed. If you do no be following the gods then you will be living a terrible life. Why would I even be wanting to be living a terrible life?"

Even if she wasn't a servant of the shadow god it would be so. Those that didn't follow any gods, how could they even live in society?

Obviously here they could because trains had no gods.

Geez.

This girl really is brainwashed, isn't she. By some sort of religion too, it seems like, with all her talk about gods. It's almost painful to hear her speak that way, as if she's just never been presented an alternative. And when she is presented with one now, she just views it as something dangerous, too out of the ordinary.

"Well, I don't have to serve any god back home."

And thank god (hah!) for that. Alice would hate that. She hates having to listen to anyone but herself.

.. granted, she's also had a terrible life, but that was entirely caused by one human, not a god.

"It makes life a whole lot easier."

"Maybe in your world, but no in mine. It would no be making life easier, maybe if I did be being something stupid like a farmer then I would no be directly serving the god, I would just be farming and that would be being what the gods did be wanting. But it would be being stupid and boring."

She wrinkled her life, "I do no be being afraid to be serving a greater purpose."

Alice maybe lived in some world that was not controlled by gods, somehow. But even so, without a clear purpose to follow. How lost must Alice be?

"Oh, I didn't think you were afraid."

She says that easily. Airily. Because it's true. Even though she's young, the girl doesn't seem like the easily scared type at all. Besides, if she was only so convinced of all of this due to fear, it probably would have been so much easier to convince her of anything else.

No, this seems deeper rooted than that.

"You're not the type for that. But I also didn't take you for such an obedient type either."

She's glad about that, she wouldn't want Alice to think she is a coward. She's afraid of nothing and it's good that Alice knows that.

But the second makes her wrinkle her nose. "I do be being very obedient."

She followed the stupid train rules didn't she? She did what people told her here even if she disagreed and hated it. She was very obedient, it was one of the things she excelled in.

Had she let her training slip so much?

Wow, look. A kid claiming to be obedient to someone who definitely is not their parent and also doesn't care about their obedience. It may just be a small miracle.

"You are? Considering the whole thing where you certainly don't seem to mind stabbing and are very stubborn about your beliefs, I thought you'd be more free-spirited than that."

What can Alice say, the girl just fits a certain type. And obedience usually isn't a defining trait of said type.

"You know, the type who makes up their own rules."

"Well that do be showing what you do be knowing." She has drawn her legs up, into a crouch. Ready to run if she needs to.

Alice is dangerous and she needs to remember that. But now Alice thinks she is disobedient, someone who would just make up their own rules.

"You can no be making up your own rules, you can be following rules or you can no be following rules but making up your own rules do be being just hypocritical. Like you do be wanting rules but you do be wanting to be doing whatever you do be wanting to."

In which case, why have rules at all.

"It's more metaphorical than that."

But she doesn't blame the girl for taking it so literally. She's still young, after all. It's only natural for her to do. Alice doesn't really mind - she's just sitting there the same as before, not looking like she's about to stop the girl or move closer towards her in any way. Still relaxed.

"It's about the standards you hold yourself to, the ones you set for yourself. Like not killing anyone on the train since it would end up very annoying in the long run." Which is mostly Alice's own standard, but then again, the other did seem to agree with it the other time they talked about it.

More metaphorical? Rules weren't supposed to be metaphorical, that's stupid. But she understands standards, knowing that killing people on the train would cause more problems than it solves.

Unfortunately.

She is still watching Alice warily even if Alice has not moved and doesn't seem tense at all. "I do be having standards as well. You can be having both I do be thinking."

There's a pause. It may be hesitation, but knowing Alice, it's more likely that she's just thinking before she speaks up again.

"And how did you get those standards?"

There are always reasons behind how those are formed, after all. Alice is very well aware of why hers don't exactly match up with most people's - or, well, most people's here on the train, anyway.

"I do be using my brain."

She sounds sulky, she is sulky. This conversation has gotten complicated and stupid.

"I do no be being a stupid person, so I can be knowing what so be being the right thing to be doing. Because I did be learning all my life and I do be following the gods rules and when I do be knowing I do be praying until I do be thinking of an answer."

Ugh, praying. Praying. Uggghhh. It's at least better of an answer than she expected, but something about that word in particular leaves such a gross aftertaste in her mouth. Why would anyone pray to gods that - from what it sounds like to her in the girl's world - only restrict you?

Why would anyone pray to a god who would abandon a young girl to a locked away life of torture?

Alice knows it's not the girl's fault, but she suddenly feels so much more moody. Something about the topic feels sore.

"It's good to be using your brain." She'll at least give approval to that part of it, even though she thinks maybe the girl should use her brain even a little more.

But she won't lecture, not now he mood is shot.

Instead Alice stands up, dusting off her pants.

"Thank you for the story."

She wrinkled her nose. She's annoyed Alice she can tell that much but she can't tell why. She's meant to be better at this. She can usually tell when people are mad and change it so they aren't mad at her anymore. She's good at distracting.

But Alice? Alice makes no sense. She can't figure what she wants.

She nodded once. "You do be being welcome..."

This was stupid.

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