( open ) I'll wear your colors til you come back home to me

[dothelokimotion]

Who: Everyone!
What: Masquerade Ball
When: 17th of October
Where: The Opherium
Content Warnings: N/A

[ Much like Loki's last party-venture, this is set up very much in the same vein. a large ballroom for dancing needs. Tables and waiters passing around hors d'oeuvres and drinks. At the entrance of the ball room, there’s a fancy mask waiting for you if you don’t have one already. There’s a strict dress code for the event this time and Loki expects everyone to dress accordingly.

The masks also have a spell attached to them. They’ll afford you complete privacy. No one will recognize you under the mask. Unless, of course, you take it off and let them know. Perfect for the party guest who may want to indulge without causing a fuss. Hit up a partner and see where the evening takes you.

This event wouldn’t be complete without candy, of course. There are candies arranged on the tables in all types and colors. In front of them is a small description regarding each kind of candy. Be sure to read them carefully, as Loki has added a little . . . extra to the sweets, to give them a little . . . zing. ]

🍫 White Chocolate: For those who needs a little honesty ( truth effect )

🍷 Alcoholic Chocolate: For those who need to loosen up ( slight aphro effects, please mark headers accordingly and communicate! )

🍬 Sour Candy: For those who are tired of being nice ( shorter tempers )

🍓 Fruit Candy: For those who need to open up ( increased generosity )

If you have a question or comment to direct at the host, Loki is by the entrance dressed in red and gold with a mask to boot. he’s instantly recognizable, compared to the masked attendees. ]

Welcome.

Comments

[unkindled_madness]

And you feel this is unusual for Halloween?

Perhaps it's a precursor to the next Confluence.

[welcome_summer]

[Mayuko leans on the arm of her seat and considers. The lore of Sunset Falls is something she's acquiring slowly. From records in the library, advice from local shopkeepers, even from overhearing other shoppers at the supermarket.]

None of the Starfallen have been here long enough to be able to gauge what a "normal" Sunset Falls Halloween is like. But hauntings to this scale aren't an aspect I've heard gossip about. If it were a Confluence... oh, that would make a horrible amount of sense.

[unkindled_madness]

Hmm.

I'm less familiar with how death works, in this universe. The ghosts I knew of were violent, but they lacked personhood. Here, are they a warning sign for something else, or will they themselves become dangerous?

[welcome_summer]

The ones in my house seem civil enough? And in the library, of course but... the ones roaming? Those are the ones I'd be concerned with.

As for death... well, with their access to healers and advanced medical tech, who knows if the guilds have an... intervention system set up. Wouldn't put it past them to have moogles squirrelled away somewhere....

[unkindled_madness]

All the healers in the world would not prevent...

Did you say moogles?

[One, it's the first time he's heard that word in a long time, and two, how are moogles remotely relevant to the conversation at hand??]

[welcome_summer]

Yes? The little bears with the pom-poms, said "kupo" a lot? They helped revive people in... another place I've been.

[unkindled_madness]

[That's sure not a myth he's heard, but that is an otherwise accurate description.]

Where were you that there were moogles?

[welcome_summer]

Iiiit was a smaller place than we are situated in now, only one community. But it drew in people and creatures from other worlds just as regularly. It was often ridiculous, but could be dangerous, deadly. That's why the moogles were brought in. You spoke with one, and if you were killed, you would be revived by... whichever one you had gone to.

[She pauses, and her eyes close. A hand drifts up to her heart before she catches herself. That had been one of the first things Hatori had taught her upon her arrival. He'd done his best to look out for her. All of the Sohma there had.]

It was either that or be revived slowly and painfully in the swamp.

[unkindled_madness]

...I see.

Were you trapped there by some manner of deity?

[welcome_summer]

Oh no, Director Sayre was no deity, but she exerted control over her domain and the force field around it. Every person brought in was a suspect in the murder of her fiancé.

[unkindled_madness]

[That... sure is a ridiculous pretext to kidnap people from other dimensions.]

...she was chasing some manner of interdimensional criminal?

[welcome_summer]

[That defines Camp Fuck U Die to a tee.]

That was her alleged motive. To top it off, the man had never been killed! Just gone into hiding. Not that Elizabeth Sayre could be convinced.

[unkindled_madness]

I would call that either a very poor cover story, or a sign of insanity.

[welcome_summer]

I would say it was a little of both categories! But you, how do you know of moogles?

[unkindled_madness]

They are native to my world.

Though very reclusive. I've never seen one.

[welcome_summer]

I see! A shame they keep to themselves on your world, they seemed friendly enough.

You don't... happen to also know about chocobos, do you?

[unkindled_madness]

Indeed I do.

Did you also have them in the world you were taken to?

[welcome_summer]

Yes, someone had set up a chocobo stable! I wasn't a rider but I borrowed a cart once in a while to pick up deliveries.

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth nods.]

Were there others familiar with chocobos there? Or did your captor simply have a strange interest in them?

[welcome_summer]

Yes, there were a few. Including two people that lived in an attached building. A man with... spiky hair and a woman. I wasn't well acquainted, but I recall she liked flowers.

[unkindled_madness]

[Spiky hair...]

I don't suppose his name was Zack?

[welcome_summer]

Hmmm. I'm pretty sure it wasn't, that doesn't sound familiar.

[She remembers what they looked like, but not their names.]

Someone you know?

[unkindled_madness]

[Sephiroth shrugs.]

A long shot.

These worlds seem much more fond of Earthlings.