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: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[puppy_fair]

"Especially when they're living things," Zack said, shaking his head. "We have an entire coop of chickens that just gets more full every year when Easter happens. They're harder to adopt out than rabbits, and I feel weird about eating them if they used to be someone's pet."

For maybe a month each.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

"But chickens lay eggs." Yes, she hadn't known what a panther was until this party, but she had definitely learned about animals that had a more immediate use. "Why don't people want to keep an animal that lays eggs? Are just too lazy?"

'Lazy' was also a concept that seemed more tied to this time period in her mind than it was to where she came from.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[puppy_fair]

"I don't know," Zack sighed. "Maybe they don't have enough space. Or they weren't thinking when they got a cute baby chicken for a child who isn't responsible enough to take care of them yet."

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

"I feel like I should have more of those shot things just to get through this conversation," Octavia noted, after a beat.

Look, humans were pretty much garbage, sometimes.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[puppy_fair]

"You know, I kind of do too," Zack admitted, glancing around for those with those luminous blue eyes of his. "And I'm not even much of a drinker."

It took a lot to make a SOLDIER drunk.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

"Barely counts as drinking, anyway," Octavia replied, nodding towards the table with all the non-drinks and other edible and drinkable things. "I think the stuff in the syringes was a little closer to liquid?"

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[puppy_fair]

"Syringes are such a weird way to drink things," Zack noted, eyeing them. Maybe kind of keeping his distance from them.

No reason.

"Must be some other weird part of the holiday."

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[okteiviakom]

Octavia just shrugged. "I don't know, it seemed easier than some of the other ones."

She didn't have any trauma associated with them, so she could just enjoy the ability to squirt the shot into your mouth.

"But I think they may just be a random thing. Among a bunch of other random things. There's a lot here that I didn't see when I went to one of these parties last year."

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2018]

[puppy_fair]

"It's all pretty random," Zack agreed. "I mean, there seems to be a general theme of 'spooky things, probably,' but when you settle in and really pick it all apart, coming from the outside there's no real rhyme or reason to any of it."

He'd be baffled if anyone were to actually explain the origins of the holiday to him.