voidtreckerexpress | 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!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Thankfully communicating with a train is not the strangest idea to Alice - who has spoken to a lot of much stranger things than a vehicle, honestly - so that part doesn't really stick out to her. Instead she thinks more about everything Aziraphale is saying as a whole.

"Hmm, I understand." Or she thinks so, at least, with that explanation. "It does seem like there isn't much progress in our situation."

Though she's used to that. It's kind of Wonderland's whole thing, isn't it.

"Even though some people seem fairly desperate to get off the train."

The concept of talking to the train is still entirely strange to Aziraphale - never mind what he is and how his perspective of the world at large would blow the minds of many, many humans, as an example - but since he has been told about such a concept more than once, he's stopped questioning it. Whether or not whoever he brings it up to is on the same level as him is something he doesn't quite dedicate any time to consider.

"Well...I can't say I don't relate." He sighs faintly. "I would much rather be in my world than stuck here. And all of this, if there is a point to it and the things we are told to do, I would quite like to know it." Which is a significant development from how he's lived his life ever since Earth was created until very recently, not that Alice is aware of that.

"I think you're quite spot on by using the word 'if' there." Rather than assuming there is a point and wanting to know it. Sure, Alice is not totally discounting the possibility that there may be some greater point behind everything they're doing here, but from her own experience..

"After all, often there is no point to things at all."

Sometimes things just don't make sense. If Wonderland taught her anything, it's that.

"Perhaps that's why we are being told so very little. Because there is nothing to tell us in the first place."

Although he doesn't comment on it, for just a moment, Alice sounds remarkably like one certain demon. And, in that moment, Aziraphale wonders if their connection made on that island was coincidence, too.

"Right." He says with some vaguely frustrated resignation, in a gentle sigh of the word. "But I can't help to think there must be something to it."

There's something about the vague frustration in the face of a situation like this that Alice recognizes - not from her experiences here on the train, but something from longer ago.

But it's just enough for her to not push the point. Not when he seems displeased enough with the situation. Instead she shifts slightly.

".. well, someone I know once said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Even when that step may sometimes be hard to determine, especially in a situation like this. "If you truly wish to find out more, I'm sure you will find at least that first step."

At least the frustration eases from his face, the resignation perhaps a bit contested when she says that.

"That's quite true. And I do hope you're right." He's been trying to, at least. But his usual methods aren't quite paying off. Not yet, anyway. "I'm getting rather sick of having to choose between travelling to an unchosen destination, more often than not riddled with lurking dangers and strange happenings, or having to sit in a train for the rest of my days."

Which would be far too many days. All of the days. Unless something cut that short, and he would hope that was a solution and not, in fact, him meeting some sort of untimely end.

"I don't think we'll be here forever, at least."

Granted, Alice doesn't quite mean that 'forever' as literally as Aziraphale's days would turn out to be.. But even with the difference of length of a life, even for a human it wouldn't exactly be fun to be stuck on a train forever.

"Don't all things have an end, eventually?" Even her stay at the asylum did, and that really did feel like it would never end at multiple points. "Even though I'm not quite sure if that end to our journey here is something that will happen inevitably or if it's something that has to be brought about by us."

Don't all things have to end, eventually? Oh, how such a question bears such a weight in Aziraphale's mind. He's yet to discard all the meanings it had a year ago. Barely a breath and the blink of an eye for a creature like him, really.

His expression softens, however. He entirely agrees with her last assessment, though he fears to think what else could be brought on them by someone else, whoever they are. Part of him still believes the Almighty has to have something to do with this. But...

" That is usually the way of things." With the caveat of sometimes, far more often than it should, things not happening the way they were planned or assumed to be. "Suppose the best we can do is stay sharp and stay on our toes."

Her head slowly dips into a nod.

"That's what I'm planning on doing."

Even though she may not mind being away from home as much as other people - London was a miserable place, after all - she's all too aware of the downsides of their stay here on the train as well. She's planning on keeping an eye out for anything special.

There's a small, awkward pause. Like the girl just hasn't had enough proper conversations to know how to really end them, and so she slowly says. "Well.. Good luck to you with that too, then."

Good job, Alice. Totally not awkward. (Except it definitely sounded awkward.)

(Aziraphale was in London during her time, of course. His experience was, by nature, radically different than any young human person of lower means would ever be able to have. But he wasn't blind to the injustices and terrible deeds that ran abound back then. Such things seemed to be a bit of a constant, unfortunately.)

Aziraphale takes the hint, given to manners as he is (often employing a similar tactic, albeit a bit more smoothly). He gives the young woman a polite nod, already planning what to do with his next turnip-based creation.

"And you as well, dear girl. Hopefully, it will all work itself out."

He hopes. It wouldn't be too silly to think it could happen a second time around, would it?

it's halloween, lo-ween, everybody!

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