🦇🎃 🦇🎃 Halloween Mingle Log 🎃 🦇🎃 🦇

[spacedisaster]

CHARACTERS: Everyone!
LOCATION: All around the station.
DATE: Last two weeks of October.
CONTENT: Time for some Halloween holiday shenanigans: spooky decorations, scary movies, pumpkin carving, sweets and a costume party.
WARNINGS: None, will update if needed.

 

↠ I. Spoopy decorations | The whole station | Mid- October

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[ Peter contacted Viveca to request some Halloween food and items in the next supply drop, but until it happens, he has decided to decorate the stations the old-fashioned way: making the decorations himself.

He can be seen in the communal room, surrounded by color markers, scissors, glittery papers in varied colors, and doing different kinds of arts and craft: cutting papers plates in the shape of black cats, doing some spiderwebs, ghosts, and even a few origami pumpkins. One of the markers has rolled off of the table and onto the floor, anybody who comes by should be careful not to slip on it by accident.

Or perhaps someone spots him in the kitchen, doing what Peter would call 'cooking' and any other normal person would classify as biological warfare. He's a bit of a messy cook, please ignore the chocolate stain in the ceiling (who knew souffle could explode?). He will clean the kitchen later, now he's busy adding the finishing touches to the spider peanut butter cookie cups, while the covered orange slices he's making for Yelena cool off in a tray.

There's flour in his hair, a streak of chocolate in his cheek and the apron he's wearing has seen better days, but Peter looks honestly happy, and he's humming a song under his breath as he works.

Another day, he's on a ladder trying to hang some paper bats and spiderwebs on the station walls. His right shoulder is still healing, so he can't raise it with ease, making the whole process a bit slow. some help would be welcomed. Maybe some orber happened to walk by Peter when one of the giant balloon spiders he was trying to stick to the ceiling falls off on their head. Or perhaps it was one of the bedsheet ghosts, obscuring their vision for a little while. Peter looks down once he notices; ]

Oh, oops, sorry about that. Could you give it back?
 

↠ II. Scary movie Night | October 3oth | Simulation room

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Welcome to the simulation room, ladies and gents, and variations thereupon. The moment someone crosses the door, they'll find themselves transported to the wonderful 80s. Bright lights, colorful clothes and questionable hairstyles.

There's a massive theater across the street, and it's clear the place is the main attraction. The giant marquee sign and the movie posters on the walls announce four different movies available to watch: The Shinning (🎥), Poltergeist (🎥), The Little Shop of Horrors (🎥), and Night of the Living Dead (🎥). Grab some popcorn, something to drink or snack on, and take a seat. It's all free, worry not.

A sign at the entrance of the movies reminds people that this is fiction, that no real people or animals got hurt making the movies, and that zombies ( probably ) aren't real. No such claim is made about talking alien plants from deep space, because Peter did end raising one as part of his family, after all. Leaving the simulation is possible at any moment, just wishing to do so will make a door will appear, allowing to return to the control room.

↠ III. Pumpkin carving contest | October 3oth | Kitchen

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[ On the large tables in the kitchen, pumpkins of different sizes and colors are waiting to be disemboweled, next to them there's also a large tray with the ghost cupcakes Peter promised The Doctor (11). Next to them, one could find several sharp knives and large, empty bowls perfect to use to keep the pumpkin entrails. That way they can be used later to make soup or perhaps bread. Wasting food when you are stuck in space is a crime, be mindful of the resources.

Or...not. Perhaps some orber gets fed up with how sticky is everything, or frustrated that their pumpkin isn't looking the way they wanted, and thinks it would be more fun to start a food fight. Peter's no one's dad, he will let people run wild and have fun as long as it's not the knives that start flying.

If anybody needs him for anything, or they have questions about what exactly is pumpkin carving, he's busy working on his own project, but he won't mind being interrupted. The music that can be heard comes from the Guardian's Zune, connected to a portable speaker on top of a shelf. It's now playing "Dancing in the Moonlight," the 1972 hit by King Harvest. ]

↠ IV. Party Time | October 31th | Common Area

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[ People can choose not to come to the party in a costume, but it's highly encouraged. Viveca even brought costumes and supplies for the occasion in the last supply drop. The costumes are a variety of different ones, and not all of them are Halloween-related or even unique. Are you in the same costume as someone else? Damn, awkward. Maybe you can convince other people that you're doing some sort of group costume.

 

Like the rest of the station, the common area has been thoroughly decorated, although some decorations here are a little...off. There are balloons resembling eyes, ghosts, or pumpkins, and the eye ones sometimes follow people across the room or blink at them. The purple and black curtains as well as fake spiderwebs covering the walls are as normal as they get, but the plastic skeletons seen in corners or handing from the furniture are of a questionable nature. Some have the wrong number of arms and legs, others have horns, and a few show bones where no bone should be. The skeletons with top hats let out squeaky laughs at random, scaring the shit out of anybody walking near them. There are black paper bats handing from lamps that flap their wings on occasion and, to complete the look, LEDs candles of different colors give the room some ambient light. Viveca has tried her best to bring decorations for the party, but multiple universes make for a varied and complicated mix to chose from.

If there is a Halloween party, then of course the pumpkins are also a must. On one of the large tables, the different messy masterpieces created during the pumpkin carving contest can be admired or even grabbed if you want to take a picture with them.

On the left side of the room, there's a small stage with a haunted mansion backdrop, different boxes with spooky props, and what seems to be a Polaroid camera. Black cats and wolf plush toys, fake bloody weapons, giant glasses, plastic tombstones, all sorts of different hats, a vampire cape, and a plastic skeleton dressed as a firefighter are available to play and pose with. That's right, it's a selfie corner! Come take some pictures or drag someone to the stage with you to pose and complete the scary look.

The big cleared space in the middle of the room is the dancefloor. The music playing once again comes from Peter's Zune, so enjoy those 80s and 90s playlists, currently blasting Michael Jackson's thriller. Get out there and shake your bones, try not to step on anybody's toes.

For those who aren't into dancing or get tired, there are plenty of chairs available, party food, and all sorts of drinks -alcoholic and non-alcoholic- by the buffet and bar. There's enough candy to give people a sugar coma: pumpkin buns, fondant ghost cupcakes that make the person slightly see-through for 10 minutes after consuming them, Halloween brownies, candy apples that make people fall asleep for 30 minutes unless someone wakes them earlier with a kiss, pop rocks candy, oreo cookie bats, a variety of halloween themed drinks, and voodoo doll cookies...some of those might look like the orbers. If you find a cookie that looks like you, well...eat it or protect it, it's all about personal choices. ]

↠ Wilcard

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[ If you'd like to do anything specific that isn't listed here, go wild. Just remember to add the appropriate warnings.]

Comments

COSTUMES THREAD

[spacedisaster]

Let us know what your character will be wearing! Or perhaps, what someone else convinced them to wear. Viveca got a variety of costumes for the orbers, pulling them from various universes...which means not all of them are necessarily Halloween-related. Or even designed for humanoid individuals.

If you couldn't find anything to your liking, Edward Elric can transmute clothes into an appropriate costume for the night. Give the guy some candy in exchange for the effort.

Peter Quill ★

[spacedisaster]

[ Those who know about Sleeping beauty might realize that Peter wearing a Malefica genderwap costume: Big pointy horns, long cape, black and purple clothes...he even has a raven plush sew onto his shoulder. ]

Yelena Belova

[laviny]

[Yelena is wearing a kind of steampunk outlaw??? something or other, with a couple of old fashioned pistols tucked into her belts.]

Kaidan Alenko

[majorbiotic]

[Kaidan hasn't celebrated Halloween very much, but it sounds like a fun time and it's a good way to get to know more people on the station. So he goes. When he tries thinking of a costume, he can't help think of the people who would really enjoy this kind of thing. And so he dresses to honor one of them: Jack. He can't replicate her hair but he does the outfit as best he can.

He knows her tattoos are personal, so he inks in his own. He has a zero, both for her and for Jump Zero; he has L2 on the back of his neck just below his implant; a line of poetry in honor of Ashley; the Normandy SR1 on his back; the date of when he killed Vyrnnus on his left fingers and the date he joined the Alliance on his right; the Systems Alliance Navy logo; and probably more but they're hidden by the sleeves of the jacket]

Rosinante

[callada]

[Rosi has no clue what this holiday is and if anyone wants to be the one who helped him figure out the costume thing, please let me know because that would be fun!

But in any case he winds up dressed as a scarecrow with thematic makeup. The pipe he bought in Braccia turns out to be a perfect accessory.]

Goro Majima

[hikae]

｢ Majima is going for a zombie get-up. He's got no idea how this contact lens gets its shiny effect but it's mighty cool, and a sin to not use. ｣

Eleven

[savingthrows]

[ Combine some black and white facepaint with some white fabric and tulle, add lights, and et voilá - you have yourself a whole entire ghost. ]

[chrysology]

Peter gave him a list of the usual sorts of costumes. Ed has decided on a vampire outfit. Because of course he is. And yeah, if anyone wants, feel free to say Ed helped in transmuting outfits or decorations for characters from fabrics/whatever materials they have on hand to work with!

ota

[firstroar]

i.
[Blue's no cook, so he's found he relies on the chance that those doing so before him have left something behind. thank goodness he's not an office worker, because he has no idea about refrigerator/leftover etiquette, and he has yet to get burned by those who do.

today, he finds the aftermath of one of Peter's preparatory baking sessions, and the Mu looks over the googly-eyed cookies with a soft, curious frown. anthropomorphized food isn't really a thing he's familiar with, and it does give him reason to hesitate in even touching one, so he may be found just looking mildly puzzled about it and any other discoverable confections wrapped up and stashed around the kitchen.]

iii.
[this...really does seem the place Blue encounters unusual happenings the most so far. and to be fair, with his limited mobility, it makes sense that it'd be where he needs to get food that does it...]

What...are they...?

[he looks confused at the array of gourds. they don't even look remotely edible, so why are they here, getting gutted and cut?]


iv.
[another dance, huh? an echo of Braccia. something familiar at last. the costumes are more peculiar than the uniforms of the Braccian families, but Blue can't really tell the difference in purpose this time around.

whether he's had help to get here or not, he needs a bit of time to sit and rest, which is just fine: the mix of thoughts and feelings swirling about with the conversations and music are engaging enough as a wallflower, and it's rare that such a flower lingers alone for very long. that's how parties work, right? so he's here for those who also need to catch a break or sit a while, just as he's here for those who are always compelled to pull people away from the wall and onto the floor.]

[majorbiotic]

[Kaidan stops by the pumpkin carving station. Not really something he's done before but why not? He glances over when he hears the question]

They're pumpkins. I guess you don't have them where you're from?

i.

[spacedisaster]

[ If Blue ever wants anything, he should just come to ask Peter to cook him something, he will do it with no problem. All Guardians know how to cook, with varying degrees of success, and most of what they do is actually edible.

Peter walks into the kitchen carrying a box of paper straw that they will need for the milkshakes, spotting Blue and stopping in his tracks. He still feels a bit awkward after what happened the other day during the movie night, but Peter recovers quickly and gives him a smile. ]

Ey Blue, hi. Looking for something sweet to eat?

iv

[hatejakku]

[ Finn didn't dress up much for the evening. Granted, he's still kind of confused about most of this, what's appropriate and what isn't, all of that. But he has gathered that costumes are highly encouraged, so he's dressed this evening in... a cloak? A dark brown cloak that hangs a little below his knees, cloth wrapped around his neck, and a hood pulled over his head.

He's a Jedi. Not that anyone here would get it. But anyway, that's what he looks like when he approaches Blue's table with a bright smile, taking his own seat. ]

Enjoying the party?

Rosinante | OTA

[callada]

1. Decorations

All right, he's starting to get the theme of this party. He watches Peter, and others, with their crafts and decor, and it puts him in mind of some of the stories he's heard along similar lines - tales of zombies and ghosts rising from the dead; of vampires and vampire bats and all things haunted and cruel. A festival to celebrate fear is new to him, but the elements separately must cross worlds in their own ways.

"Need help with that?" he offers, when he spots Peter - or anyone else, really - up on a ladder, trying to add trim to the halls or hang ghosts from the ceilings. His question is accompanied with a smirk. Heights? More like an easy arm's reach for him.

2. Movies

All right, now this he has to see. Now that he's been introduced to movies, a simulation room full three-dimensional experience just has to be even better.

It's funny, despite the things he's seen and endured, these movies still manage to be frightening in their own ways. For the second movie night in a row he spills all his popcorn, this time when a zombie looms too close - his entire chair tips back when he jumps in his seat, dumping him and his snacks all over the floor with a loud clatter.

4. Party

Rosinante makes for the tallest scarecrow the station has ever seen, quite possibly. A brilliant sunflower is painted around one eye, and his usual lipstick is replaced by painted black stitches. Having never really done this sort of thing, he's admittedly proud about how it turned out. Whatever this strange Earth holiday is, at least he can look cool. And probably kind of creepy.

For once, he's intent on dancing. The last few times he had the opportunity, there was something else going on, or he just didn't feel up to it for a variety of reasons, but this time? This time, he's ready. For those who he's already on good terms with, he'll hold out one hand, pipe grasped in the other, and bow comically low like some sort of scarecrow prince. "Care to join me?"

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Movies - gonna shift our planned movie night thing here ;)

[savingthrows]

There's a brief dull feeling in the air as if the pressure changes, just very mildly and very briefly. The popcorn still flies - but Rosinante's chair freezes, tipped so far back that it should topple over. For a moment it's perched like that, and then the chair rights itself, Rosinante still securely in his seat. Defying gravity.

A small hand rests on his arm. Eleven makes eye contact, her free hand briefly wiping under her nose. She gives him a solemn nod.

"Don't worry. The monsters aren't real."

Yelena Belova | MCU | ota

[laviny]

A. Spooky Decorations

[Yelena is drawn to the kitchen by the smell of chocolate and sweets. She pauses in the door way a little startled, because the kitchen looks like a disaster area, but judging by her nose Peter actually knows what he’s doing. Apparently he’s just not neat about it.

She enters the kitchen, looking around, not noticing the chocolate oranges that are set aside (and even if she had, she wouldn’t assume they are for her), because she’s distracted by the mess of chocolate on the ceiling.]

Whoa. That’s impressive. How did that happen?

B. Pumpkin Carving

[Yelena told Peter she was going to take part in the pumpkin carving contest, and by god she’s going to do it. Though to be entirely honest she’s not sure what exactly the contest is for. Do they win something? She doesn’t know. She’s just here for the experience.

She takes up a knife and...honestly brandishes more like a weapon than a carving tool, but she is pretty efficient at getting the top of the pumpkin off, at least. She pulls up her sleeves and scoops out the guts, squishing them a little like she vaguely remembers doing as a kid, and then sets them in the bowl.

Her first attempt at a pumpkin doesn’t go exactly as intended. The eyes and nose are too small and then she screws up the teeth completely. After some frustrated Russian cursing she proceeds to shove a bunch of tooth picks into its mouth. The end result does end up being vaguely creepy, at least.]

Huh. It’s so weird it almost works.

[For her second attempt she decides to draw a design with a pencil first. Having a plan might work better than just winging it like she did the first time. And indeed, her second one turns out a little better. Generic, maybe, but also pleasantly traditional which is kind of what she wanted.

She sets that one a side, and eyes another pumpkin, debating if she should try for a third. ]

C. Party Time

[Now this is really the part that Yelena is excited about. Costumes are the best part of Halloween. Well, and candy. But that generally comes hand in and with the costumes. She’s quite pleased with the costume she’s put together, and early on can be found inspecting the decorations as she sips one of the halloween themed drinks.

Once she’s finished her first drink she heads back to the refreshment table, to check out the food a little more seriously. Everything looks good, but she is particularly impressed by the pumpkin buns. She picks one up to look at it more closely.]

Oh, these are very cute.

Party

[savingthrows]

[ Eleven's costume lends itself primarily to one thing and one thing only, so being semi-transcluscent thanks to some choice cupcakes, she makes to sneak up on Yelena - with vastly lacking success, given that one of them is a child in a rustling costume and the other is a trained assassin. Still she makes an effort of spooking Yelena by declaring: ]

Ghost!

[ That's not at all what ghosts say, but honestly, how would she know. She seems to be having fun, and that's the important part, right? More importantly, she will then hold out both of her closed fists, apparently holding something in each hand when she declares: ]

You choose. Trick. Or Treat?

A.

[spacedisaster]

[ Yelena is a really sneaky lady and Peter happens to be a jumpy guy on occasion. He's holding a pastry bag in his hand, trying to add some frosting to a new batch of cupcakes, when she walks into the kitchen. He hasn't anticipated more people joining him, and Peter startles after hearing the familiar voice. His hands squeeze the pastry bag too tightly and send a splatter of frosting all over the counter. ]

Well, shit. [ He looks towards the woman and sends her a rather sheepish smile. ] Ey, Yelena...I didn't expect to see you so soon. And, uhm, right the ceiling. The Soufflé and I had a disagreement.

pumpkin carving

[bossily]

[Clara's not particularly artistic or super interested in pumpkin carving. But she is highly competitive and always values trying to be the best at things. So here she is, trying her hand at the carving contest. Hers is an utter disaster, and she turns over to glance at Yelena's first attempt at a pumpkin.

She has to say those teeth are a nice touch. She smiles as she points her little carving tool over at Yelena's pumpkin.]

Met an alien with a smile like that once. It looked about as terrifying as your pumpkin; so job well done, I'd say.

Eleven | Stranger Things | OTA

[savingthrows]

⦿ Spooky Decorations

I can help.

[ The offer is made very earnestly to Peter or whoever else is currently hanging up decorations. Eleven shuffles into view at the bottom of a ladder, fiddling with one of the sheet ghosts that was lying around, fingers tracing over the fabric with some fascination. ]

I couldn't have Halloween, before. [ She offers that in explanation and makes to pass the decoration on to whoever is on the ladders, but then hesitates and pulls it back, almost cradles it against her chest. ]

CanI? Hang it.

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⦿ Pumpkin Carving

[ Eleven's beloved leather jacket is draped across a chair - one of the few occasions during which she takes it off, and if you've spotted her before, you'll notice that she's wearing a smaller version of it now, now longer an adult sized leather jacket. Soemone took pity on her, it seems - which, incidentally, does not mean that poor Bucky ever got his own jacket back. It just means Eleven has two now - a big one and a small one.

Currently she can be found very poorly handling a carving knife. Her work station looks like someone vomited pumpkin guts all over. Streaks of orange have landed on her clothes, her cheeks and in her hair. Her skill is... questionable. And yet when approached, Eleven looks up - that carving knife damn near skids across the pumpkin to slide into her hand. But only nearly. It doesn't, and so Eleven seems utterly unaware and just smiles at whoever is approaching her, whether her atrocious knife skills are giving the person half a heart attack or not. She just looks proud as she says: ]

I made it.

[ Do you have the heart to tell her it's ugly, though? ]

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⦿ Party Time

[ Eleven's costume lends itself primarily to one thing and one thing only, so for the duration of the party she can be found being very much transluscent - good luck stopping her from eating those cupcakes once she figures that trick out - before sneaking up on people, standing right behind them and doing as ghosts do - scaring people by saying: ]

Ghost!

[ That's not at all what ghosts say, but honestly, how would she know. Of course, she's also not exactly great at sneaking up on people, so it will be up to them whether they humor a 14 year old girl on her first ever Halloween or not. She seems to be having fun, and that's the important part, right?

More importantly, she will then hold out both of her closed fists, apparently holding something in each hand when she declares: ]

You choose. Trick. Or Treat?

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Party

[majorbiotic]

[Kaidan will absolutely humor her. He gives a fake startled jump when he sees her]

Hello, little ghost. I think... I'll go with a treat, thank you.

Goro Majima | Yakuza 0 | OTA

[hikae]

▸ DECORATIONS

[ Halloween hasn't really planted its root yet in Japan, but just being familiar with some western movies was enough to give a context to get what Peter was going for. And here Majima thought it was just the kids in the US that dressed up... not going to look a gifted horse in the mouth. Everyone could use some goofy fun, and he was no exception.

Since he decided to attend, it made sense to help around. No, not in the kitchen, unless it involved cleaning the warzone, but with the arts and crafts. He reverse-engineers the origami of the pumpkin and makes multiple copies. Then starts going creative and adding bats, tiny witch hats, ghosts on a string and the like. ]

Feels like a whole damn holiday, ain't it? [ He muses, half-amused supposedly into the void, until he fires a more directed question to anyone that happens to be nearby ] So how does the scary month looks like in yer place?

▸▸ SCARY MOVIES

[ The whole simulation for the movie night sounds like a pretty incredible feat And oh boy, Majima is downright giddy at the prospect of the Night of the Living Dead. That means he's first in line, even if it's like half an hour till the actual screening. ]

Now that's pure, undistilled classic— Shit's made a bit differently nowadays, but ya just gotta know where it all began! The sequel's even better tho.

[ He will die on this hill.

Truth to be told, he's not really well versed in western cinema (or cinema in general). Too busy to keep up. But this one thing, zombie movies, are the guilty pleasure ]

▸▸▸ COSTUME PREPARATIONS

[ For a costume, he goes for something easy and just scary enough. Like a zombie. Giving one last moment to shine for that shirt ruined in the Braccia. It's not like he was not going to sew it back into a workable state, so why not slap fake blood on it and call it a go? The majority of the zombie impression lied in how you carry yourself.

And in make-up.

Given the supplies provided, it turns out to be quite an easy task to complete. In theory, it should be similar to applying make-up to a hostess' face, only the rules are inverted. Do not pretty it up, but make appear sickly and dead. Fake wounds though, now that's a real challenge, as he never had a chance to play with this kind of FX, but... he could figure it out. Right?

Should someone catch him in the midst of preparations, he'll notice eventually ]

If ya need a helpin' hand with a party glow-up, I can share. [ The paints, and tools and all other supplies ] I ain't the hoardin' type so get over here

[ Again, easier to slap that onto someone else, than try to figure out how to make a good-looking fake cut. Finding a victim = anti-frustration measures ]

▸▸▸▸ PARTY NIGHT!

[ Sooo being in a costume, means sticking to the role, doesn't it? Shuffling slowly and zombie-like from place to place has its place, but is slow and eventually gets oring. Finding a seat to stay in unmoving (pretending to be asleep) until someone else shows nearby, and he can startle them with a sudden movement? That's much funnier.

The local undead gets uncharacteristically fired up on the dancefloor though, as if a new life was breathing into him (ha ha). Can't pass on the Thriller (that sounds like a song that Miracle Johnson's would put up, funny how the multiverses work!). He's a little reluctant on the selfie corner, but give him a whiskey shot or two and you'll have a very convincing zombie at your group photo.

Partway through the night, he can be found slumped over whatever (or... whoever??) makes for a soft spot, a dead weight for good. Finally done making a jackass of himself. ]

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movie night

[majorbiotic]

[Kaidan, on the other hand, knows very little about movies. Especially the much older ones made far before his time. So when it seems like Majima is more familiar, it grabs his interest]

So you've seen this before?

Edward Elric l Fullmetal Alchemist

[chrysology]

Decorations:

[He's a growing teenage boy. Eating for two. It's more likely he's in the kitchen a few times a day than not. So it's hardly that odd to see the alchemist wandering in. Let alone when he smells someone already busy in there. Maybe he could have some of whatever it is? He had initially just been coming in to make himself a sandwich or something, but he does approach in raising an eyebrow at the mess, peering over to Peter's progress.]

You know there's some up on the ceiling, right? And your hair.

[He's clearly busy. Peter had mentioned Halloween and all. So he can guess it's for that? Probably?]

Movie Night:

Ghosts aren't real....

[Of course Mr Alchemist Scientist is all about what can be proven or whatever. So he's probably all skeptical for the most part on these. And probably constantly piping up with how stupid some characters are in getting themselves killed by the zombies or such. Sorry guys, he is probably the Worst to watch any sort of supernatural horror movie with......]

Party!

[Ed's not the most used to such social situations. But he comes along to see what the fuss is about in not having really done Halloween before and all. At the very least, he can grab something to eat or whatever. And probably thus get to experience say, turning invisible apparently.]

What is with the food being all weird?!

[Seriously?! Ed isn't sure if he should trust eating anything he didn't make himself at this rate?

Or maybe he's just. Napping. Or fallen asleep in a corner or something. Might be debatable if he's just that tired after everything or he's actually had one of the candy apples though. It is Ed, after all. He generally naps a lot anyway rather than getting in a proper night's sleep most of the time.]

Movie night

[laviny]

[Yelena is glad that the space station is giving her plenty of chances to watch movies she hasn’t gotten a chance to see yet. She’s getting a kick out of the scary ones, even though she’s not really finding them especially frightening, herself.

She glances over at the kid throwing around criticisms and raises her eyebrows at him.]

Do you hate fiction or something?

Daisy Johnson | OTA

[morethan084]

PARTY TIME

[Unlike a lot of the other party-goers, Daisy came dressed as depression herself. She almost didn’t show, especially since the person throwing this party was Peter. He had done his best to try and make it clear that he didn’t hold what she did against her, but Daisy still felt an immense amount of guilt for hurting him.

The guilt she feels is a major reason as to why she shows up to the party, sticking to the side for the most part. She watches others dance, when they come up to the buffet she makes it pretty obvious she has been watching them.]

You were really giving it your all out there.

[It could be a compliment or her teasing them depending on how good they are at dancing. It’ll take more patience than most people probably have to persuade her to get out on the dance floor with them, but not impossible. Especially after having a few drinks.]

[The food and drinks are a big factor as to why Daisy stays as long as she does. The drinks are dangerous in the fact that a lot of them don’t taste like alcohol, but there’s definitely alcohol in them. Smiling when someone comes up next to her, Daisy looks over their costume with slight confusion.]

What are you supposed to be?

[Daisy’s made her way through a good portion of the food already when she comes across the voodoo doll cookies, and is equally amused as she is unnerved when she spots a few that look familiar. Daisy picks up the cookie to show the nearest person.]

I don’t know if I’ve just had way too much to drink, but doesn’t that kind of look like me?

[Or maybe it looks like the person right next to her, and Daisy has to do a double-take.]

Uh--

That looks a lot like you.

[Daisy picks up said cookie with a laugh, holding it out next to their face.]

[By the end of the night, Daisy’s had maybe a little too much to drink, which might be why she’s passed out in a chair. It definitely has nothing to do with the half-eaten candy apple she’s somehow managed not to drop in her hand. Maybe they know where Daisy sleeps and takes her back to her room, or maybe they know exactly what’s going on here, and if they’re brave enough, try to wake her with a kiss.]

WILDCARD

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food and drinks

[bossily]

[Clara's also dressed up as...herself, because Halloween isn't something she typically celebrates and she isn't feeling particularly festive at the moment. She does go check out the party though, and keeps to herself for the most part. When she spots Daisy, she figures making her way on over for a chat wouldn't hurt anything.

It's been a long time since they've had a chance to chat, after all.

The question she gets as she walks up confuses her some. She blinks before shrugging, unable to come up with a witty retort.]

I didn't bother dressing up. Looks like that makes two of us.

Kirigan (The Darkling) // Shadow and Bone. OTA

[cruelyethuman]

i. Scary Movie Night the simulation room

[The electric lights have since stopped bothering him, the low hum of them and the utter lack of an open flame. The subtle strangeness of things moving on their own and how everything could be controlled with the click of a tiny button.

He's been in space, surrounded by this futuristic technology for months now and the sparkling marque in front of the theater does nothing to faze him.

It's a theater. The signs has warnings that he skims, walking briskly towards the delicious scent of popcorn and once he's had a small cup of it, he finds a seat in the near-dark.

The music starts, the light dims until there's nothing but the huge screen in front of him and even the other people in the room seem to fade away as an image fades in.

Completely enthralled, after he's made sure he can't see anything more by leaning to the side or looking around the white canvas stretched across the stage, the Darkling sits in the dark, popcorn forgotten as the horror of stumbling corpses and fear unravels in front of him.]

How do you think they made the dead bodies cooperate?

ii. Wildcard any other place with shenanigan

[Wildcard me if watching Night of the Living Dead with the Darkling is not your bag, baby.]

scary movie

[majorbiotic]

[Kaidan is paying attention to what's on the screen as well, but for a different reason. He's not seen too many vids, and this one is so old compared with the vids of his time period. It doesn't really seem that scary to him, but then again he's seen husks and banshees, so his standards are a bit different for animated corpses. At the question, he turns]

Those are just actors wearing make-up. It's an illusion.

Newton Geiszler | Pacific Rim

[groupiedrifter]

Fuck yeah, it's Halloween!

[What a graceful and mature way to start a top level. But Newton's (expectedly) a very large admirer of all things skeleton and spooky — dressing up? Eating junk food? Egging a house? How are all of these things not so intrinsically Newton? Usually he would lean pretty heavily toward spookier costumes — vampires and zombies and questionable creepy figures from pop culture — but today it seems he's getting in touch with his cuter side... which is to say, he's found a Godzilla onesie in the pile of costumes that they've all sifted through, and he now wears his comfortable outfit-that-is-practically-pajamas with pride.


Pictured above: a man with 6 PhDs who pioneered research in artificial tissue replication.
Thank god nobody is employing him to cook right now; he much prefers to just steal everyone elses cookies and candies and be a menace.

He also hosts a Halloween History 101 class, so feel free to come sit in on a man dressed as a giant radioactive lizard giving a fast and loose (and dorky) sermon on the origins of Halloween and all that it encompasses. Essentially, anything here will be fair game to be learned, if your poor character struggles with the concept of the holiday; the lesson ends with the oh-so-generic and casual "Any questions?"


Pictured above: the sign made by a man who taught at MIT by age 18.
Movie night is where cracks in his Halloween bravery show, though. Consider this revenge for making everyone cry at the end of Titanic during his supposedly nice and pleasant movie night from a few weeks ago; now it's Newton who looks distressed, but it's during The Shining's pivotal ending where Jack Nicholson has lost his mind and is readying to murder people with an axe. As you do in horror movies. Newt, however, is taking this opportunity to get too invested; he hides either behind someone else's shoulder or behind the blanket he's curled up in, his eyes big behind reflective glasses.]

— Oh shit OH SHIT oh no oh MAN oh DUDE —

Oh nooooo!

[This happens, of course, with Poltergeist, too. Of course it does.

The pumpkin carving contest is much more pleasant for him, and his work of art is proudly displayed among the other pumpkins:]


Pictured above: the expert in xenobiology who dissected alien organs for the survival of humanity.
You'd best expect he's at the party, too. A guy who already doesn't sleep most of the time, missing a night of celebrating spooky stuff and getting fat off candy and drunk off the rare appearance of alcohol aboard this ship? Oh, this is heavenly. When he's not bugging everyone in the room that he even half-likes, Newton can be found making a giant plate for a particular co-worker of his (who shall not be named... but it's Hermann and he will absolutely be named).

He stops long enough to pick up a voodoo cookie that looks like him.

...

He appears to be heavily considering eating it in this moment.

He's also very drunk, so.]

History Class!!

[hatejakku]

[ Finn, even though he thought the sign could maybe be improved, was really excited about this Halloween History class. No one's really been able to tell him where this whole holiday came from. Or, rather, everyone seemed to have different answers.

So here he is, sitting on the floor in the front row, legs crossed and attention entirely on the lecture. Since Newton's so smart and was a teacher in the past, Finn trusts his information about the holiday.

But considering that Finn's also a massive nerd, his hand shoots up as soon as Newton asks for questions. ]

If the winters were so difficult for the Celtic people, and they were worried about losing resources to the spirits, why did they... decide to sacrifice those same resources? They couldn't have burned something else?

for Kaidan

[winscenario]

[ A party isn't quite the kind of thing Jim is in the mood for, but he's been talked into a costume he actually likes; as Doctor Frankenstein (though he does look considerably younger, he knows), he wonders how many will even recognize him or just label him a generic scientist, but he doesn't mind.

He's been having fun identifying what others are dressed as, taking guesses or asking when he doesn't know. It doesn't take long for him to spot Kaidan, eyebrows both raised at his outfit, smile wide when he approaches him. ]

Wow. And what are you dressed as?

[majorbiotic]

[Kaidan spots Jim, too. He throws the captain a smug look because yes, he's very aware that what he's wearing goes against his usual attire and personality. That's sort of the point of the holiday]

A friend of mine named Jack. The only thing I changed around is the tattoos; hers are personal, so I thought mine should be, too. This one-- [he taps the zero on his neck] is sort of in honor of her, and for Jump Zero, where I learned to use my biotics.

[He pauses to give Jim a once-over] Nice outfit, by the way.