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It Was a Graveyard Smash! [OPENTASTIC]

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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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.

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.

Zouichi was dressed as a high school student from the early 20th century (http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/File:Smtds-raidou-kuzunoha2.jpg), complete with hat.

"A prison jumpsuit? I didn't think you'd be so overt."

"I like to make my jokes so obvious that no one can possibly misinterpret them. Besides, orange matches the scenery." She pats another porch chair, gesturing for him to sit down. "I see you've stuck to your usual color palette."

Zouichi took a seat, brushing aside his mantle as he did so. "What are you saying, that there's a color that suits me better? I demand proof and not just baseless accusations."

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?

Edited 2011-10-29 04:48 (UTC)

"I'm not criticizing. I actually like your sense of consistency. But you never know what you don't try, and I have to admit I'm curious to see you in green. But I like everyone in green."

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.]

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?"

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.

Daniel should've expected it, but it still took him by surprise, even if just by a little. He paused, a fraction of a second, then decided after a second that honesty was the best approach. Not humor. Humor defused the situation, put them both at ease, while taking the wind out of what happened. He was ready to talk to her, and he hoped she was too, but he didn't want her pretending it was okay. "I figured now was as good a time as any." The chances of you being sober were higher, for one, he thought, but kept it to himself. "Is this all your work? It looks nice."

He motioned to the rest of the sensorium, the neighborhood and decorations, then returning back to Eva, took in the outfit with a little distaste. He was right. Prison jumpsuit. Because having to put yourself in the brig for your own actions was hilarious.

Daniel's voice was neutral. "Interesting choice in costume."

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.

Kaya LOVED this particular holiday. It gave her absolutely the perfect excuse just to see what she could dress up as, and this time was exception. She had searched the databases of popular characters and had finally settled for one that had especially caught her eye: a yellow jumpsuit (http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view;_ylt=A0PDoTCL6KtOjRUAkhiJzbkF;_ylu=X3oDMTBlMTQ4cGxyBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDaW1n?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dapril%2Bo%2Bneal%2Bninja%2Bturtles%26n%3D30%26ei%3Dutf-8%26y%3DSearch%26b%3D151%26tab%3Dorganic%26ri%3D151&w=529&h=660&imgurl=tazsimpson.files.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2Ftmnt_forever_12-01.png&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Ftazsimpson.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F11%2F23%2Fteenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-forever%2F&size=146.4+KB&name=April&p=april+o+neal+ninja+turtles&oid=39d1fc43cde6f541e3cf1d6638b53acf&fr2=&fr=&rw=april+o+neil+ninja+turtles&tt=April&b=151&ni=30&no=151&tab=organic&ts=&sigr=12gkll4eb&sigb=13pe8tj7j&sigi=11t755c09&.crumb=alDjl/x.gvk) with lots of zippers and had gotten the appropriate wig. Once she spotted one of her favorite people, she had to run over and give her a big hug.

"This is great!" She said, laughing. "I always love celebrations like these! What made you think of it?"

Edited 2011-10-29 11:51 (UTC)

"Oh, good. I thought you were going to call me a monochromatic weirdo." Zouichi's costume fades from black to... very dark green.

"What's with green?"

Eva snorts. "Who calls you that? And anyway, green's the color of life. Green and red, but some people have bad associations with the former. And I like to think it's a charming color."

She brightens the lights on the porch a bit to see his costume better. "See, I'd hardly recognize you wearing green. It's a perfect costume."

"I'm glad you like it. I thought it'd be nice to have a little festivity here for once. Butterfingers?" She holds one of the prepackaged candies out to him.

"I thought orange fit the holiday's color scheme rather well." She can tell he doesn't approve, but why should he? Her very outfit is a play off of an event they'd both rather hadn't happened. He probably thinks she's trivializing it or congratulating herself again, and he might not be far off. "I'm only a prisoner for pretend tonight."

She hopes Daniel doesn't take that the wrong way and assume she's referring to the brig. She's well aware she's a prisoner more of her own memories than by any physical cell. That's why she wore the outfit; it's nice to pretend the frightening thing you've become is as make-believe as Frankenstein or Raggedy Ann.

And it's funny, she'd insist.

Sandy was one of those eager to get started! Trick or Treating in her world had been...complicated.

You couldn't stay out too late, you couldn't wear masks, and if any of the gun toting police thought you might be causing trouble...say goodbye to your candy and hope you made it home without bleeding on your crappy costume.

Spotting Eva she scurried over, one hand holding her pillowcase, the other holding onto a green tophat with a tag sticking out of the brim. 10/6.

Trick or treat!" She declared proudly, more there to see her favorite adult then to ask for candy.

...though if she had any candy...

~~AND THEN CAZ WORE THIS~~

"So I heard there's supposed to be candy?" a voice asked from behind her.

When Mindy turns to address the person she'll find herself face to face with none other then Hit Girl!

...who is taller then she may remember.

But yes that purple wig, that skirt and belt, the unmistakable mask. Ruffnut didn't really understand why she needed a costume for whatever this event was but now that she was here she had to admit she liked the atmosphere.

Nah, he's just wearing his normal clothes. With the stolen cat-ear headband he'd pilfered from HHFW. It was the best his limited creativity could handle, okay?

But to say Caz didn't understand the "party" completely would be an understatement. Contrary to his usual cocksure attitude, the Greeed almost looked...lost.

Edited 2011-10-29 17:59 (UTC)

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.

Edited 2011-10-29 18:44 (UTC)

"--Ah!"

Fuu's mind raced as the ground vanished. These were the Sensoriums, weren't they? They were supposed to be safe! But of course, it would be unwise to trust that. And she'd had enough time to think that thought, which meant that she was probably high enough to die when she hit the ground...

Her first impulse was to try and use Guardian Wind, but if she was at terminal velocity, the sudden stop would still kill her. Reduce speed, then--"Binding Wind!"

The green swirls of air wrapped around her, slowing her quickly but not quickly enough to hurt her. She saw others, too--Fuu tried to extend the spell, but they were too far... and then she was in sight of the ground. Fuu released the spell as soon as she touched down and tugged the cape (http://gallery.aethereality.net/download.php?id=18) of her Cephiran costume away from her legs and hurried over to the rather... er... dead-looking boy. "Are you all right?"

"You'd be surprised. And I thought the purpose of Halloween was to have fun with your friends, not make them unable to recognize you." Not that it mattered to Zouichi much either way; Halloween was largely an unfamiliar holiday to him.

"You're not going trick-or-treating?"

"Yeah, there's always candy Ruff..." Mindy trailed off, staring at the costume. "You're on drugs, seriously. Why the hell would you dress like Hit Girl?"

Yes, there were still people around, she had to make sure she didn't say her.

"Granted, you make a way hotter one, if you ask me."

Oh yes, Mindy will still flirt, because that was fun!

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