It Was a Graveyard Smash! [OPENTASTIC]

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

The Sensoriums are decorated like the most well-tended and enthusiastically holiday-oriented suburb Southern California could have created. Jack-O-Lanterns grin out from driveways and porches; smoke machines belch out onto the sidewalk; orange-tinted Christmas lights twinkle from the rooftops. A loop of Halloween-themed music, from the Monster Mash to Thriller, plays over the scene.

Eva knows there aren't many children on Stacy, but that doesn't mean that the ones here shouldn't have the occasional holiday. Just because they lack a calendar doesn't mean they lack a festive spirit. Besides, almost all kids like candy and she was able to purchase plenty at the theme park and in Geartopia.

Each house has some hologram families giving out candies and chocolates, as well as small toys and little origami animals. Every hologram is dressed up in a ridiculous costume of some sort.

She flits from house to house, imagining up little details to add, dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit she finds unbearably humorous. After sending out a message on the channels, she waits for guests to arrive.

[OOC: Everybody, go forth and mingle, have fun with the setting, TP some houses, whatever! Please threadjack, start your own threads, and go wild. The Halloweentown mini-plot will be in this post later tonight with those players, but the rest of the post is open for everyone.]

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MINGLING

[cityship]

[OOC: Start your own threads!]

Re: MINGLING

[tetsuwan-atom.livejournal.com]

Atom was walking around dressed as a red sphere. A smaller blue sphere orbited around him, occasionally bumping into things. He wasn't really big on candy, and of course he'd never been trick-or-treating, but Halloween was fun all the same.

Open!

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

Eva's just finished putting the decorations on another house in Disturbia. She conjures up a glass of wine and takes a seat on the porch, watching people as they filter in.

Re: MINGLING

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

So many choices! Mindy may have preferred being Hit Girl, but if she had to go and pick a disguise, just for a little bit, she may as well pick one that was a little more interesting than last year. Thar, and the need to geek it out a little bit with something that was all her style was what she needed. So she was dressed as a certain blond character in a pink dress (http://www.google.com/imgres?q=helga+pataki&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=709&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=eCdJz_unhSxOYM:&imgrefurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helga_Pataki&docid=sodKSt030gj28M&imgurl=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Helga_Pataki.jpg&w=240&h=351&ei=t-WrTtdP6uvSAafflbIP&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=178&vpy=151&dur=75&hovh=272&hovw=186&tx=80&ty=113&sig=100834025703460290050&page=1&tbnh=143&tbnw=98&start=0&ndsp=19&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0) was well needed. She knew that technically she shouldn't even have known who this character was, young as she was, but that was media for you: Mindy had always saturated herself with it.

She looked out at the houses though, grinning. Oh, she'd be be looking for a certain overlord, a girl with big hair and her viking: they had a LOT of work to do on these houses.

[greeedycat]

AND THEN CAZ WORE THIS

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[hexyeah]

Who said Wanda Maximoff didn't have a sense of humor?

She was dressed as a witch, just not the Scarlet Witch. She wore a black gown and a pointed hat. After being bounced back and forth by GLaDoS, she felt it was safe enough to go to a party. Besides, there was candy.

Trying to stand up | Open

[thewunderkind]

Okay, so she knew very little about Halloween apart from the fact there was a trick part and she might have plans for that later. Lash also knew that there were costumes involved, so Lash went with something typical of the festival (or so she had read) and considering the broom lessons she had had a few days later, it seemed fitting. True to Lash fashion, however, she'd tried to outdo herself and was walking around with a rather large hat that had most of her hair coming from all the sides.

Eventually the heels did her in. Unused to walking in them, Lash slipped right on the grass, landing and giving forth a slew of swear words that were not very festive at all.

[morphitudinous]

For his part, Billy had felt fairly lazy that Halloween. He had decided to costume himself as some sort of beetletastic warrior, but that wasn't the fun part!

He'd loaded candy into a small barrel on his arm, and one movement of his hand in a particular way caused candy to shoot from it. That was fun! He had set the aim to low power, gently tossing candy into passing baskets. It was a soothing rhythm to get into.

"Happy Halloween!"

Eva

[hi_there_aliens]

It didn't take much to locate Eva. The prison uniform kind of gave it away from a distance. He guessed it was her idea of a joke, but Daniel didn't see where it was supposed to be funny. Hopefully she wasn't drinking. He didn't think she would, not with Halloween and passing out candies to kids and anyone else. He hooped there was enough time since she graced his lab with her presence, and she'd gotten the urge to douse her problems with alcohol out of her system.

Daniel walked down the street towards her, hands going for a pocket only to remember that the Sensorium decided that he was best fit in a version of Abydonian robes. Right, no pockets. His eyes already felt better once he got off the planet. Faintly itchy, instead of steel wool cotton balls to the face, but Daniel was reasonably confident he wasn't going to suddenly sneeze on her. Getting from an actual planet to to what was apparently a virtual Earth suburb made a world of difference.

Unless there was virtual pollen. God, he hoped not. If so, why would someone do that?

Re: Eva

[vissernone.livejournal.com]

Eva spots Daniel from her spot on the porch of one of the houses near the Sensoriums entrance. And bites her lip and takes every second of his approach to try and figure out how she should react.

They aren't friends, per se; if they ever were they no longer are, and as such she probably shouldn't greet him with smiles and affection. They aren't enemies, which would be easy to define if difficult to live with. And they know each other too well to be acquaintances.

Somewhere along the line, their lives got twisted together, like a braid that's fallen into disorganized knots, too mutilated to untangle and too ugly to present to the world.

She decides on the same shield of humor she's come to rely on. "Daniel. Are you that tempted by the thought of chocolate that you'd put up with another run-in with me?"

[cityship]

And suddenly, one of the streets disappears. Simply vanishes.

So does the floor.

Six people find themselves falling for what feels like a very long time, before landing on a bed of leaves. The air is crisp and smells vaguely of mulch. A circle of tall trees surround the six crew members; on each tree's trunk is a carved door, with a symbol of the major American Earth holidays on it. A Christmas tree, a valentine, an Easter Egg…

The door with the jack-o-lantern is open.

[OOC: Please make sure everyone gets a chance to tag in each round! Characters involved are Harry Potter, Han Solo, Ankh, Fuu, Doctor McNinja and Grif.]

[head-heldhigh.livejournal.com]

As a rule, horrible or unlucky things happened on Halloween, such as Harry's parents dying, a troll getting into the dungeons, the Chamber of Secrets opening, Sirius scaring the wits out of everyone by attacking the Fat Lady, and the Goblet of Fire spitting out his name. Regardless, Harry had a fondness for the holiday, mainly due to the Halloween Feast at Hogwarts. It was difficult to not get excited about the prospect of carved pumpkins filled with candy, all the decorations (including live bats), and the castle ghosts gliding in formation.

For this reason, Harry had gone to the Halloween bash as soon as he read about it on the comms. Trick or treating was something more for small children but he still had something of a sweet tooth and was hoping to make a grab for some candy if he could.

The holographic costume that settled over his body was something he noticed almost immediately, but then he'd have to have been very unobservant to not notice that all his flesh had turned ghostly pale and sagging.

"Hang on just a moment. What have you gone and done now?" he asked of the Sensoriums, or perhaps asked Stacy, since she was, after all, in charge of the Sensoriums.

Catching his reflection on a car window, he saw great, gaping, rotting wounds seeping through his clothes, but he felt no pain because they were clearly fake. So he was an Inferi now. The Boy-Who-Didn't-Live, he mused. Ho ho ho. Hilarious.

He barely had any time to react to his grim and ultimately false visage before the ground fell out from under him and he found himself plummeting into nothing. Letting out a yelp as he fell, he landed in the leaves and was on his feet again in seconds, wand out, adrenaline pumping.

"What's going on? What just happened?"

When he looked up, he just saw a yellow sky, which made no sense whatsoever given they had to have fallen from somewhere.

Party at the playground!

[changelingdude.livejournal.com]

Candy was Dandy as they said,

But with so many people well beyond the age of trick or treating there was a gap, a need to fill for entertainment purposes.

And it was there that Beastboy scouted out a playground located in this spooky suburbia and claimed it as his own, setting up speakers (which were just reflecting the music Eva already had playing) Some screens showing scenes from Halloween classics and old black and white horror movies, and plenty of decorations and distractions, including bobbing for various fruitlike treats he had brought back from other planets in a cauldron, Pumpkin bowling and of coarse, plenty of dancing.

And in the middle of it all dressed as...well something (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v648/alanddizzy/089.jpg)...it had tentacles and lots of teeth was Beastboy laughing and having a grand time of it all.

Re: Party at the playground!

[masterofnun.livejournal.com]

"Whoa, Beebs, this shit here's church!" The words sound even stranger than normal coming from Punchy's mouth, since he's dressed rather snappishly as James Bond. "What's your threads?"

Re: Party at the playground!

[puny-parker.livejournal.com]

Peter was dressed in his usual uniform colors, but it was definitely someone else's uniform (http://spacedinvaders.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/artie1.jpg).

"Well that's all kinds of horrifying."

Tarot readings

[badluckbabe.livejournal.com]

In one dark little corner of the Halloween village a tent had appeared, dar and ominous with no light escaping from it's folds. Dark purple and gold wove and danced along it's surface in intricate patterns like vines and leaves.

Trees with bark so dark it was almost black stood twisted and creeping into the air with their leaves scattered about them making whispering rustling noises like something you can't see is lurking just in the shadows speaking about you.

And as a chill drifts along your spine a faint ringing can be heard from a wind chime hanging off a sign. "Your fortunes told here. Price: 1 piece of candy"

Re: Tarot readings

[hexyeah]

How could Wanda pass this up? The chill was only mildly unsettling. She was used to this sort of thing.

Wanda held up a piece of candy. "Will this do?"

Re: Tarot readings

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Kaya also approached a la April O Neal fare, placing a candy on the table. The backdrop was easily scary, and she liked that.

"My mentor loved doing this kind of thing," she said. "Is this all right?"

Trick-or-Treat [Open]

[keep-suriving.livejournal.com]

Let’s face it, everyone likes to dress up. That’s why once teenagers get to an age where people say ‘you’re too old to trick-or-treat’, they instead organize Halloween parties.

And of course, girls wearing more sultry than scary outfits was substantially more common nowadays. Diana was no exception, afterall, it’s not like she had a reason to hide her body, especially now it had returned to its former glory. So she’d dressed up in a sexualized skeleton outfit (http://www.fancydressnation.co.uk/acatalog/34192.jpg).

She wouldn’t wear a mask though. She refused to dehumanize herself anymore than she had done in FAYZ. Masks woke something up inside you. Diana didn’t want anything more waking up.

But that rubbish about being too old for trick or treating was nothing she was going to pay heed too. Free food was free food. And sweets had enough preservatives in them to last awhile should they need to.

So she’s walking around, looking for the best way to start getting some treats~

Re: Trick-or-Treat [Open]

[badluckbabe.livejournal.com]

Jinx was taking in the sights and sounds feeling nostalgic when the familiar face...and form, of Diana passed her point of view.

"I'm never sure what's more tempting," she spoke out loud to catch the girls attention, "to trick, or to treat~"

Jinx's costume was no less showy, a flashy display of red,black,green and gold designed into a dress with a casino theme. A roulette wheel styled skirt was short enough to entice but modest enough to give comfort, and the dice buttons were a nice touch on her corset.

Re: Trick-or-Treat [Open]

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

As if Howard could resist the temptation to go door-to-door begging people for food. He's also dressed as a skeleton, although definitely lacking both the sex appeal and the skirt. He does have the mask, though.

"Boo!" He sneaks up behind Diana and, for once, is the one invading her personal space as he taps her shoulders. "I think the skeleton effect was more convincing back home."

Re: Trick-or-Treat [Open]

[hit-girl-mindy.livejournal.com]

Mindy just happened upon Diana too. She gave her a wave, walking over to her to say hi. Ruffnut would probably be along soon.

"Glad to see you don't think trick or treating is beneath you. Most girls your rage probably would. Nice outfit too: never expected to see a sexy skeleton!"

Trick-or-Treat [Open after Sandy replies]

[moms-temperment.livejournal.com]

Hana was holding in a chuckle as he slunk towards the meeting spot, keeping low to the ground.

He’d gone over to see Jinx to help him finish off his costume, telling Sandy he’d come and meet her so they could go trick-or-treating together.

As suggested by his new big sister, Hana had gone for a demented Cheshire Cat look to compliment his already massive grin. After getting the outfit (http://www.topcatfancydress.co.uk/popup_image.php?pID=959) on, he’d ditched the mask and Jinx had helped paint his face then added some fake blood around his mouth. Finally, she’s sprayed his hair striped in alternating colours of purple, pink and black.

The effect was actually pretty cool. Even if he looked more like a Cheshire Lion than a cat.

Waiting behind a low wall, he peered out, looking for a familiar pretty face.

Suddenly, he jumped out infront of Sandy, hissing!

Re: Trick-or-Treat [Open after Sandy replies]

[justoutrunyou.livejournal.com]

Sandy let out a yelp and stumbled back a few steps, then pouted and her face went red as she swung an empty pillow case at Hana, "You scared me!" But she was giggling even as she pouted.

Trick-Or-Treat

[ron-factor.livejournal.com]

Ron Stoppable. for all his openness (after being dragged into it by his ankles screaming) to trying new things, had a few things he appended the word never to. For instance, he'd never be normal, and would never entirely grow up.

"Ohman. So much candy." He said to his hairless companion. The two of them had brought out the Fearless Ferret and Wonder Weasel costumes, from Ron's ill-advised brush with costumed superheroics.

Re: Trick-Or-Treat

[windyellow]

Now it came to little surprise to any who really knew him, that Dustin had prepared for this Halloween thing. His own costume was actually dressed as Sinestro from Green Lantern and he was grinning like an idiot with his huge bag of candy and at Ron.

"Man, dude! That's an awesome costume!"