Party!!!, Purposefully Creepy Mansion, Wednesday Evening

[newroutines]

It was Halloween, and after a long four-year break, it finally meant that there was a party at the mansion again. There were Jack O'Lanterns outside lighting the way to the house, and bat cut-outs and balloons in the shape of ghosts and skulls all around the house, and creepy looking candy on the snack table.

And a bloody goblin in the fridge. This time, it had a name tag identifying it as April, because Mike was a sentimental fool.

There were also way too many kind of jello shots. And too many versions of Monster Mash on the Spotify playlist for this party, but at least Mike had made a sign with instructions on how to find the playlist and add songs to it.

[ooc: OCD up! OPEN TO ALL! If you're an adult, you got an invitation! Happy Halloween and welcome to long overdue mansion party! ]

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Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

To be honest, Eddie had sort of forgotten it was Halloween until the very last moment. Between the moving and fact that his office was apparently filled with deer and... stuff.

So, yeah. His costume was deeply concerned man who was eating way too much chocolate to keep his 'dark passenger' happy. Wow. Much spook. Very scare.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

So far, Eddie was the only other person Octavia had spotted who also didn't appear to be wearing a costume. And considering that she was finding out she still felt a certain amount of unease around masks and things of that sort, maybe that was why he got deemed okay to speak to.

Or it could've just been his proximity to where all the food was. Since she was poking at the jello shots, right now.

"Do you know what any of these actually are?"

She'd already had a few, but it was worth asking.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

He... was totally going to assume she was in costume, though. So, there was that.

"Alcohol, sugar, and regret mostly," Eddie said, clutching the candy bowl close. "Really rather just have a normal beer, but... late to the party. Like, literally on my part."

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

That was a risk she knew she was taking by not dressing period-appropriately.

"Must be why I like them," she said, examining one of the ones shaped like a tiny green brain. She shrugged. "They taste better than beer, anyway." Not that she was very picky. Back on the ground, they'd just had some questionable moonshine.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Okay, that's fair. But beer doesn't make you sick like these," Eddie replied with a dopey little half grin. "It's the sugar in 'em that gets you."

Said the guy hoarding the chocolate.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

Yeah, Octavia gave a pointed look at the candy bowl he was clutching, then looked back up with the universal expression of 'really?'

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"I have low blood sugar." Yes. That was it.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

"Okay," Octavia replied, and appeared faintly amused for a second. Must've been the booze part of the shots. "So are you new? I haven't seen you before."

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Just this week," he replied, offering a hand to shake. "Eddie. Eddie Brock."

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

"Octavia Blake," she said, managing not to stumble over using her last name or the handshake. Still wasn't going to manage any pleasantries like 'pleasure to meet you'. No one had ever actually taught her those. "I've been here a while."

Over a year, somehow.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[gobrookeyourself]

After talking to Mike, Brooke had to make her way over. Also, Jello shots.

"Eddie? Hi, I'm Brooke. Mike's girlfriend."

You'd be seeing way too much of her.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

Physically or emotionally? Because he was in a weird part of his life right now, just coming out of a serious relationship and into... another serious relationship with an alien goo.

"Hey," he said, offering the hand not clutching the candy dish. "Nice to meet you."

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[gobrookeyourself]

Physically. In a few different ways, probably!

"You too. So we have a newspaper?"

Look, she was curious.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Yeah," Eddie said, taking a deep breath as he once again had to process the deer situation without seeming crazy.

He was new, Okay?

"It's... the, uh, the Gazette?"

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[gobrookeyourself]

"Huh. Go figure," she said. "Did you write for a paper back home?"

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Uh, the Daily Globe back in New York--" If you were wondering what in the hell that accent was from, you had an answer with that. New York-ish. New York-adjacent. "And I did a series of video exposés in San Francisco."

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[gobrookeyourself]

You know what word Brooke looked? Exposé. Unless it was about her.

"Ooh, on what?"

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Uh, most recent one was on this shady pharmaceutical company usin' homeless people as easy test subjects." Also.. aliens.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[gobrookeyourself]

"Oh. That's definitely something that needs an exposé," she frowned.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[arboreal_priestess]

"Hey," Verity said, coming up to the refreshments table and giving the new guy a sympathetic grin. That was a lot of chocolate for one man to put away and Verity was betting that he probably needed it. Fandom adjustments could be...rough.

And that wasn't even counting, say, some kind of alien symbiote or whatever.

"Heard you're the new roommate here," she said. "Something about answering an ad that hadn't been written in a paper that might not exist?"

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Yeah, that happen a lot?" Eddie asked, inhaling deeply like this was all waaaay out if his admittedly pretty weird league.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[arboreal_priestess]

"That specific thing?" Verity asked, and then shook her head. "Things on that general level of weird? Hate to break it to you, but yeah."

She held out her hand. "Verity Price, welcome to Fandom. It only gets weirder."

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Eddie Brock, increasingly concerned," he replied with a twitchy little smile as he took her hand to shake.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[arboreal_priestess]

"See, and I think that's a perfectly reasonable attitude to have," Verity said, her own smile somewhat rueful. "But then, my family has a reputation for being paranoid, so maybe check with someone else."

Although, to be fair, it wasn't paranoia when they really were out to get you.

Re: Snacks and Beverages [Halloween 2018]

[whatdattonguedotho]

"Multiple sources," he agreed, relaxing his death grip on that chocolate bowl. "Good idea here."