newroutines | Party!, Purposefully Creepy Mansion, Thursday Evening

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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"The first one," Duke said. "And . . . what are you dressed as?"

"A modern day human," Shunsui explained easily with a sort of explanatory wave of his hand, "out on the town ♥. Pretty convincing, neh ♥?"

Especially considering most people just assumed he was human, anyway. Details, details.

"Much better than a sheet with the eyes cut out, at least ♥."

". . . Sure, yeah. Probably more comfortable than just a big sheet, too."

He said, to the man usually draped in far too many robes and still wasn't sure what to really think about pants.

Shunsui gave a small breath of a laugh, and even though he still wore the smile to match, there was a speculative tilt to his head. "Sake ♥?" he offered, the jug seeming to manifest out of no where, like it was wont to do, a small cup doing quite the same.

You know what? After the last few weeks, Duke was totally down for magic sake.

"Sure thing, man, thanks. So how've you been holding up with the island's latest bout of weird?"

"Been sleeping through most of it, really ♥," Shunsui answered, truthfully enough, with a small laugh, as he poured Duke some sake and handed it over. "And yourself?"

"Spent most of yesterday murdering clowns with an axe. So . . . that was new."

"Ah, yes, they did seem rather intent on being murdered, didn't they?" said Shunsui, with a long-suffering sort of sigh, a disparaging shake of his head, as he poured himself a little, too, and lifted the glass in a sort of toast. "A shame, really..."

". . . Yes. It was very sad how they went around trying to stab people and all."

Shunsui's grin went a little wry and he shrugged. "I tried to talk them out of it, oofer them some sake, so we could maybe settle our differences in a less...stabbing way," he waved a hand a little as if dismissing the matter, "but there's simply no reasoning with some people..."

"Clearly they were murder clowns of very poor taste," Duke assured him.

"You're telling me ♥!" Shunsui said with an overdramatic, over-exasperated sigh, shaking his head, clicking his tongue, and going for the jug to pour himself a little more and lifting it in the question of whether Duke was in need of a touch-up. "Thank goodness the company today is much more discerning ♥."

Duke accepted, more out of habit than because he actually needed any more. "And far more subtly armed."

He was absolutely assuming everyone at this party had at least one weapon hidden on them somewhere.

And here Shunsui was actually without the two swords he usually had dangling from his obi, which made him feel a little uncomfortable if he thought about it, which was exactly why he was steadfastly not thinking about it.

"Though hopefully less likely to stab out anyone's heart," he added, then grinned faintly. "Break them, however....♥"

"You breaking their hearts, Shunsui, or are they breaking yours?"

Shunsui's laugh was light and short, his grin lazy, his shrug nonchalant "Who's to say ♥?" he asked. "But I'm sure we'll find out..."

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