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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92010-10-28 08:38 pm

Halloween Party

Who knows why the ship was doing this. Maybe it was some kind of social experiment. Maybe Stacy was feeling festive and somewhere, out there, it was Halloween. Maybe the players just wanted to have Halloween fun. No one would ever know, would they.

In any case, what better place for a Halloween dance than a graveyard? In an area in the center, clear of headstones, there was a dance floor, and there were seats and tables with skeletal frames. Somehow grisly carved torches and jack-o-lanterns of varying sizes and shapes, cast enough eerie light to light up the place, despite the fact it was night. There were places to bob for apples, popcorn balls on strings strung up for people to try to eat for games involving that. The food tables will full of Halloweeny snacks and candy.

Far off, there was a haunted house, decrepit and foreboding. It seemed people could look into it if they dared sent down the dark trail to where it was. [ooc: Haunted house post link forthcoming].

Creepy--but danceable music was playing, from nowhere.

Perhaps most notable was the fact that the moment someone entered the Sensorium, they would find themselves in a costume. Sometimes these costumes would be what the character themselves would choose, but sometimes they'd be dressed as something strange, embarrassing, or just something they wouldn't even recognize. Leaving and coming back wouldn't fix the problem, in most cases. The costumes wouldn't change, and if they did, it wasn't guaranteed that they'd change to something better.

Whatever the case, party hard, Meatship. Somebody's got to teach the Vikings, draconians, aliens, and other sundry people to Thriller dance.

Re: Costumes

[identity profile] ttlytrickster.livejournal.com 2010-10-30 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Gabriel gives a hearty laugh, amused. Other people's discomfort is the best wine!

"I hate to tell you, but I can see you pretty well. Maybe just act like a normal housecat instead?"

He crouches down next to her, outfit bunching up at the folds.
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Re: Costumes

[personal profile] on_errantry 2010-11-01 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, you can?" Rhiow asked. She sat down, scratching at the hat in another futile attempt to get it off. "Well. That can be fixed in short order."

She stood, eyeing the arrangement of hyperstrings in this area of the ship for a moment. Then she squeezed in through a gap, stepping just to the side of visibility. Anyone with infrared could still see her, but visible light could no longer bounce off of her. "That's better. Now at least I won't have to live with the humiliation."

Re: Costumes

[identity profile] ttlytrickster.livejournal.com 2010-11-03 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
One moment, Rhiow is visible. The next, she's gone. Gabriel frowns, knowing that if he had his powers he could easily find her, but since he's only human now, he can't see her.

"My kingdom for a sliver of my old power," he bemoans to her invisibly. "If I have to wear this contraption, you should too, you little minx."
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Re: Costumes

[personal profile] on_errantry 2010-11-04 10:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm still wearing it," Rhiow said reasonably. "Just nobody can see me in it now."

Having a disembodied voice coming from somewhere around your feet was probably a fairly odd experience. After a couple moments in which Rhiow modified some of the parameters of her airwalking spell, she ascended a construction of perfectly invisible yet completely solid air until she was resting somewhere around chest level. "I can't understand the point. I'm sure a large number of these costumes are uncomfortable and humiliating" - aside from hers of course - "so why put yourselves through it?"