Party!, Purposefully Creepy Mansion, Thursday Evening

[newroutines]

It was once more Halloween, and the island had finally calmed the fuck down again.

Well, mostly. The Jack O'Lanterns outside in the yard lighting the way to the house occasionally laughed in a PG-rated creepy fashion, and bat cut-outs flew around the ceiling above the partygoers' heads, and the black cats printed on the sides of balloons flicked their tails back and forth and sometimes hissed at people when they went by.

And because it was tradition, there was a bloody goblin in the fridge, complete with a name tag identifying it as April. Only this time, whenever you opened the door to get something, it'd tell you whatever you were grabbing was actually poison...ously delicious!

(Shut up, it was made of plastic, its punning game wasn't the greatest.)

There were also once more lots of snacks, lots of drinks, and way too many kinds of jello shots. But fewer renditions of Monster Mash on the Spotify playlist for this party, this year! So far, anyway. Mike had a sign up againwith instructions on how to find the playlist and add songs to it, so that may not last all through the evening.

[ooc: OCD up, have at! OPEN TO ALL! If you're an adult, you got an invitation! Students are welcome to try and sneak in should they so wish, but may be politely removed from the premises.]

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Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah," Rey said, though she would have said that anyway. "I'm not sure I'll be here long. I mostly wanted to see what it was like."

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

“Is it like you thought it would be?” Beau had to know. “Assuming you had expectations.”

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

"I didn't, really," Rey admitted. "Aside from what the island's done the last couple weeks, I e always sort of... not paid attention."

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

“Fair enough. It’s not your holiday anyway, so why would you think about it that much?” She did, but she had reasons. “

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

"Pretty much. I was never really involved in any of it."

It was possible she looked at it differently now. She hadn't decided yet.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

“You say that like you might be considering a change in policy,” Beau noted. Totally idly, of course. No particular interest or feeling like they were on the same page about it. Really.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

"Maybe. When I always planned on going back to Jakku there wasn't a point, but if I'm around for a while, why not."

She said that, fully knowing that she'd be missing training tomorrow and if this kept up she'd have to reconsider some things. Rey was good at denial.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

It wasn’t like Beau could get on her high horse about healthy coping mechanisms here.

“Totally reasonable,” she said, nodding. “Never really planned on going back so I just kinda dived right in. Was that the first time you were here, as a student?”

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

"Yeah. It wasn't much fun back then."

Not that she was here to have fun. But she didn't hate what she was doing lately.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

"Sorry," Beau said after a moment, uncertainly, like she wasn't sure what exactly she was supposed to say to that. "No point in getting used to something when you're just going to have to get unused to it again."

AKA what had been her general approach to interacting with people up until sometime after she'd gotten here.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[thatwaslucky]

"More or less," she said with a shrug. "And now I go to Halloween parties."

At least for a while.

Re: Arrive/Mingle [Halloween 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

"Our lives land us in some fucking unexpected places, I guess," Beau said after a moment. "Every now and then that's actually not a bad thing, either."