Halloween Beach Bash!

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On the warm sands of the Caribbean inlet, there’s music, fire, food and fun. Come down and play.

{Open all through the weekend and beyond. Starting early to give everyone time to join in. Party rules – thread hop, start your own adventures, and enjoy!}

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Re: Music and Dance Floor

[hangingoutwithcrows]

Shimmy! (It's pretty obvious that this is juuuust about the extent of Ursula's dance moves. Although she tries out an awkward Charleston too!)

"You look right at home here! I love the wings! Did you do it all yourself, or did Bar just have everything for you?"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

As far as Emcee is concerned, any dancing is good dancing, even awkward Charlestons.

"I daresay that a good party is my natural environment," he chuckles. "And thank you! I did my own makeup, the Bar just supplied all the material upon request. When I was here the Halloween before last, she automatically dressed me as a character from-- I have to remember this title correctly-- The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I don't know if you've heard of it? I was in high heels and a corset."

He offers her a dip in the pumpkin-shaped bucket. "Would you like a glow-in-the-dark trinket?"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[hangingoutwithcrows]

"Rocky...horror...?" That's a no; she's never heard of it. But she grins happily. And ooh! Glow-in-the-dark? Yes please! She comes up with a glow bracelet. "Thanks. So--what is the Rocky Picture...?"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"--Rocky Horror Picture Show," he repeats carefully with a chuckle. "It's a film with musical numbers. I must admit, I have not actually seen yet, but a friend of mine here intends to rectify that. I'm-- not even sure what it is about, to be honest. But the character I became was named Dr. Frank N. Furter, and through the magic of the bar's karaoke machine, I ended up performing his signature song about being a 'sweet transvestite from transsexual Transylvania.'"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[hangingoutwithcrows]

Ursula laughs. "Well that sounds like a good time. Kind of glad all Bar got me with is this witch costume, though. I'm not sure I'm ready for performing in a corset and heels." It's not exactly her style. Awesome, though. "So--is there somewhere here to watch movies? I haven't really explored the big building all that much."

((Aah, sorry to disappear, had a sick kid...))

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"Have you any affinity for witches? I believe that the Bar sometimes picks costumes based on one's own preferences, albeit in some exaggerated way. Or, you know, just to embarrass."

A thoughtful beat. "Personally, I don't think Bar can embarrass me. She is always welcome to try, though." He grins.

"Do you mean like a movie theater? I'm-- really not sure about that! I have only ever watched a few films on those little tablet computers that I've borrowed from the Bar."

[ooc: No worries, hope they're feeling better!]

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[hangingoutwithcrows]

"No witches in my family that I know of," she says cheerfully. "And I've never met one before. But I do live off by myself in a little house in the middle of the woods, so that kind of fits the old stories, I guess?" Ursula waves a hand in an ooh-spooky gesture. "Like--that Russian one, what's she called, Baba Yaga?"

She looks for a minute like she's trying to think about how Bar might embarrass Emcee too--but no, never mind, not going there. "...Tablet computers?"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

"Or Hansel and Gretel, the children who are lost in a forest and are lured to a witch's house. Although I think you may be a much cuter sort of witch than the stories tell of," he says, giving Ursula's bow a light flick with his fingers.

"Tablet computers, yes--they are computers about the size of a book, but thinner. There is no keyboard, instead you touch the screen. A marvelous invention!"

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[hangingoutwithcrows]

"I promise I've never cooked and eaten any children." She crosses her heart! "Anyway, witches aren't really like that. You're--are you from one of those worlds that really doesn't have them?"

She's...not sure her world has computers, so.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

He blinks at the question, his head slightly tilted.

"Oh-- well, yes. That is, no, my world doesn't have witches. They exist in yours?"

It's not the strangest thing he's heard, but it never came up between them until now.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[hangingoutwithcrows]

"Well--sure? I mean, they're not common, it's just funny sometimes what's different between worlds. I ran into someone else here with no witches..."

She shrugs and shakes her head, and then looks a little guilty. "Oops, sorry, we're supposed to be dancing!" Shimmy?

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[i_am_your_host]

He laughs brightly and resumes shimmying with her.

"My world has no magic, at least not to my knowledge. We have illusionists and sleight-of-hand tricksters, not witches and mages. But some form of magic seems to work there, nevertheless, I suppose, as how else would a door to a bar at the end of the universe exist?"