Halloween Party Post 🎃 [OPEN]

[irondad]

WHO: Everyone. Seriously!
WHERE: Tony Stark's place
WHEN: Halloween night, Oct 31st
WHAT: It's a party! On Halloween! Arrive in costume, eat, drink, make new friends & be spooky!
WARNINGS: Bog-standard Halloween imagery & shenanigans (skulls, blood, etc, potential pranks from guests); please add content warnings to subject lines & list/link to preferences (if needed). Feel free to select whatever the heck you like for the question maker & fortune teller!

Welcome to Halloween, Stark-style.

ARRIVAL

If you came by car, valets are on hand to park it for you, so don't forget your ticket! Follow the candle-lit path to the house, have your photo taken against the backdrop in the spiderweb-strewn entryway, and go grab a cocktail at the open bar before hitting up the rest of the party!

MONSTER MASH

You've been to a Halloween party before, right? If not, no fear- there's a buffet of perfectly normal, if on-theme dishes to nibble: try a black-candied apple or the macarons, vegan dips dressed like graves, squid-ink pasta bites, and a wide assortment of other common finger foods. Miss the food? Don't worry, helpful robot Butterfingers is on hand to bring you a plate of hors d'oeuvres- oops! He might have bumped you into someone else instead. Sorry!

Other activities abound, if you feel like risking the appearance of ghosts in a "haunted" photo booth, ”trick-or-treating” with a flight of jello shots (which one’s actually alcoholic?), or having fun with classic Halloween standards, like bobbing for apples, donut on a string, gross-out touch boxes, or horror film trivia.

Head outside to dance to a broad assortment of music, new and old, creepy or just right to boogie to. Got one in mind you’d like to hear? The band takes requests. Or maybe you’d prefer to mingle under the full moon with your fellow ghouls and goblins. Stuck for something to say? Don't worry, a blacklight question might flash across your costume, right in time to save you from any awkward pauses. Or add to it, depending on the question. So what is the weirdest dream you've ever had?

Careful not to get too rowdy, as there will be security around to keep anything too nefarious from happening. But hey, no one says they can't be distracted, right?

HORRORBEACH

Wend your way from the backyard down a lantern-lined path to the beach, where an intimate setting of dark tables and velvety couches await, and the music is subdued and eerie. Among the scattering of tables, there are fortune tellers there to give you a glimpse of your future. Why not, right?

Each character will have the option to have their fortune read (the choice of fortune is yours, but if your character needs a uplift this season, maybe keep it light), and walk away with a small gift, one random card of the Major Arcana. Because this is MoM though, these aren't just any cards, and some will impart a light-hearted, fully optional affect and/or compulsion on your character:

0. The Fool: Disclose a hope or dream to someone (within character's comfort level)
1. The Magician: Glowing sparks dance from their fingertips. Fingerguns get an especially bold burst of flair.
2. The High Priestess: Recipients feel the need to give a stranger a compliment, and get a glowing halo!
3. The Empress: Someone at this party needs a hug (or maybe a rescue from an overbearing npc), you can sense it. Go for it, and gain a cloak of shimmering sparkles.
4. The Emperor: You feel wise beyond your years. Offer someone your well-meaning advice, with an accompanying glowing crown.
5. The Hierophant: This card is all about tradition. So, bend to it a bit and ask someone to dance!
6. The Lovers: A heart appears over your head, "beating" rapidly in the presence of something they like. Could be their secret crush, could be a slice of cake, oops.
7. The Chariot: You feel the inexplicable urge to give someone a piggyback ride. May or may not include the sound of mysterious hoofbeats in your wake...
8. Strength: There's someone you need to tell something important to. Now you've got the nerve to make it happen.
9. The Hermit: Are you normally a wallflower? Now you feel compelled to sing! Go grab a mic and do your best Winifred Sanderson impression before the crowd.
10. Wheel of Fortune: Wildcard option! Choose any two that speak to you.
11. Justice: Have you been holding onto a petty grudge, or did you spill your drink all over Tony's couch and need to unburden your soul? Admit it to a stranger!
12. The Hanged Man: You can now levitate! Just a few feet, and try not to get turned around, like your card's namesake. You might need someone to tow you for a little while...
13. Death: You're compelled to change costumes with someone around you.
14. Temperance: You're now sober, sorry! This really is the worst card...
15. The Devil: Enjoy those horns, and a mildly heightened need to play a prank on someone.
16. The Tower: This is your moment. You're gonna climb that table and dance, baby.
17. The Star: Your eyes now glow with reflected starlight. Go you, Galadriel.
18. The Moon: Your verbal filter is gone. The first thought to pop into your head will be your next conversation starter.
19. The Sun: You now glow like a low-wattage lightbulb. Those in your presence get a temporary positivity boost!
20. Judgement: Solicit someone for their opinion. On your costume, the state of the world; you need to hear it.
21. The World: You're flooded with euphoria and affection for yourself and fellow partygoers, and you need to tell them. What a great way to end the night!

(The duration on these varies, and will generally be up to your player comfort level. If an option will unreasonably upset your character either at the party or longterm, then please don't select that one.)

(DEARLY) DEPARTURE

The party (and after-party) will go on well into the night, but everyone’s got to go home at some point. Heading out? Those with invitations, don't forget to swing by the last table before the valet stand, and claim your gift bag! All bags contain aspirin, a bottle of water, a black satin eye mask, a commemorative t-shirt, swanky new EarPods, and a spa gift card, to better recover from your post-party hangover. Thanks for coming!

Any questions? Feel free to ask here or hit up others for plotting purposes!

Comments

[anthropophagite]

Ah, you mean the fans? [ Kaneki touches his own chin with an awkward smile]

I'm still getting used to it. They don't even know us, and yet they love us. Is pretty strange.

[deadwenwalking]

It's very strange! I'm... I'm really not used to all the positive attention.

[Negative attention, yes. People don't call him the Ghost General because they love him.]

[anthropophagite]

Right - I'm usually very... unrecognizable? [ kaneki chuckles ] Most people won't even notice I'm there.

But here, everywhere I turn, they know my name.

[deadwenwalking]

Most people in my world know me.

[His smile saddens.] Just not favorably. This is new.

[anthropophagite]

Eh? Really? [ not favorably, though...? Should he ask? ]

Uhm- I'm sorry. That must be hard. [ he doesn't seem like he wants to talk about it, and while kaneki is curious, he also doesn't wish to pry and has some tact ] B-but then, that means this might not be bad at all, for you.

[deadwenwalking]

[Wen Ning shakes his head.]

No. It's not so bad. I have mixed feelings sometimes, but. Mostly it's alright.

[Everyone seems to get along, for the most part. There's so much to learn and see. It's hard to complain too much.]

[anthropophagite]

Mixed feelings? How come? [ nothing is perfect, Kaneki realizes]

[deadwenwalking]

It's hard to explain! This place itself is very nice. I wouldn't mind staying here.

[His smile turns awkward.] I do wish... we had more control over whether we stayed or left.

[He hasn't lost any of his friends here yet, but Jiang Yanli had been here. She was his best friend's sister and the wife of the man he killed. They all deserved to live a happy life here. She shouldn't have been taken away. Any of his other friends could disappear at any time, from how he hears it. It's horrible to think about.]

[anthropophagite]

[ ah...

kaneki's smile falters a little. He knows the feeling because he too feels the same. ] It's something a lot of imPorts aren't happy with. But no one was ever able to stop from happening.

[ kaneki touches the back of his neck, thoughtfully ] Some are trying to figure out a way to stop it, though.

[deadwenwalking]

They are?

[It's unsurprising, really. This would have been something he'd have assumed people had been working on from the start. The fact that it hasn't happened yet is telling, but he's willing to give those trying now the benefit of the doubt.]

And... have the people trying been disappearing? Any faster than usual?

[If whoever was in charge here didn't want that to happen, that would be an easy enough method of retaliation for them.]

[anthropophagite]

Well, I say trying but... many have been trying for many years, to be honest. [ no one has figured it out, yet. After so many years.

But Kaneki has to hope it will be possible, too. ]

No, they haven't. [ bakugou has been very loud about wanting to blow up the porter and he is still around, thankfully ] I don't think there is any relation to that.

[deadwenwalking]

Well... that's good, at least. I would hate to think that trying to stop people from disappearing was... making people disappear.

[It would be a very obvious method of stopping it from happening - a little too obvious. Hopefully the ones in charge here aren't focused on that at all, and they aren't simply doing something even more nefarious for repercussions that they aren't aware of.]

Has anyone asked a higher-up...? Who would we even ask?

[anthropophagite]

Yeah- [ there is a small pause, though. What if he... Is right? What if people who are disappearing are those who would try or tried todo something about the Porter?

Kaneki frowns for a moment there, but when Wen speaks again, he snaps out of it]

Ah... That's a good question. I guess the people from Cape Canaveral maybe, since they deal directly with the Porter.

[deadwenwalking]

[The name sounds familiar, but there are so many hard-to-pronounce names in the various cities they have easy access to that it's difficult to keep track of them all. He'd thought the world he'd known had been big. (It's possibly the same world... in a way. He's having a hard time coming to grips with the maps.)]

Really? I need to look more into it. I haven't been here for any of the major announcements - outside of Fanport.

[If that even counts...]

[anthropophagite]

[ Kaneki gets it, but he has time in his favor, in the sense that he is from a time point kind of similar to this one so technology isn't that different.

Kaneki nods softly]

Ah... To be honest, things hve been calm apart from the... Well, whole new world we were sent to in September. Putting that one aside, there hasn't been anything else crazy happening. [ for now.........]

[deadwenwalking]

Have... you seen other crazy things happen?

[Wen Ning is curious, because he's heard mention of events but hasn't gotten details descriptions of any of them. He'll have to do the research on his own. Though arriving in another world as he had is going to be a hard crazy to beat.]

[anthropophagite]

Mostly during Swear-ins.[ a pause] Welcoming ceremonies, I mean. There was always some weird person trying to do something, once there were even robot dinossaurs... [ sorry if you don't know what that is, Wen]

But after a while, it calmed down.

[deadwenwalking]

[Robot dinosaurs... Wen Ning knows what robots are now, but dinosaurs are still something of a vague concept to him. They're fictitious beasts, right? Or something that lived in the past... It's hard to keep track of all these things.]

After a while...? How long ago was this?

[anthropophagite]

The robot's attack was back at the beginning of July. Since then, the biggest thing that happened was September.

August and October was very calm... [ thankfully, it's as if they had the chance to rest between disasters. ]

[deadwenwalking]

[Those months were calm, but September had certainly been something...]

Do you... think we're due for something terrible?

[anthropophagite]

[ oh absolutely.]

Uhm... I'm not sure! But it's better to be prepared, right? [ and expect it, he means]

[deadwenwalking]

[That really does sound like he should expect it.]

Yeah. Yeah, that's. That's always for the best.

[Hopefully they won't try to outdo September. Or the dino robots.]