All-Skate: Halloween

[raptorcanaria]

"I do not understand why you like Halloween so much," Oracle had said.

"Because you get to wear a sexy costume and go out at night and encounter scary things and eat a lot of really good food," Dinah had said.

..."That's what you do every night," Oracle had said.

"Don't care, I'm wearing the sexy cat costume."

"Dinah, don't wear the sexy cat costume."


...Dinah is wearing the sexy cat costume.




Welcome to your Halloween Milliways All-Skate!

All welcome - yes, that means all. Whether they're retired, deleted, AU, original or already being played by someone else, bring 'em along.

Usual all-skate rules apply:
1. Everyone's stressed out of their mind right now, so have fun!
2. Communication is key.
3. Gratuitous behaviour (either of a violent or sexual nature) will not be tolerated in the bar proper. Take that to an OOM, and then Content Warning the hell out of it before you link it.
4. Much like Vegas, what happens in All Skates, stays in All Skates.
5. Please don't be a dick.

As always, no need to stick to the party locations.

Comments

Bonfire

[raptorcanaria]

Apparently over 'the pond' there's some other holiday happening this week? With fireworks (when it actually gets dark early!), something called 'toffee apples,' and effigies of someone called Guy that you burn on a bonfire?



....This one is wearing a Green Lantern costume. Cor blimey. Pip pip wotcher, microwave your Liptons and join the fun.

Re: Bonfire

[awkwardbot]

Being in a crowd of humans, especially partying humans, makes me anxious (more anxious than usual). But this was a party where people could wear costumes. Perhaps costumes with face-concealing helmets, like the kind I missed from my old armor. And Fives had helped me pick it out.

So there I was, with a few small drones flying overhead in the darkness and helping me watch in case some large aggressive fauna came out of the forest or the lake and tried to eat the humans.

(It’s one of the reasons I don’t enjoy planets. Planets have things living on them that might eat the humans.)

Re: Bonfire

[have_no_mercy]

Tess is initially a little worried about that one effigy, but when it's determined to be nothing more than a good natured joke, she's able to relax. Dressed as yet another redhead icon she wanders around the party looking for people she knows and avoiding the alcohol line.

Re: Bonfire

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Least favourite holiday least favourite holiday. It's the time of the year that people find it most acceptable to tell ghost stories, which Yamato can't stand.

But the Bar gave him a costume.

So there's a brooding pirate with his arms folded, staring at the fire. Given the flickers of blue light every once in a while and the frosted air occasionally flowing off his body, he makes a pretty convincing ghost pirate.

Re: Bonfire

[heatherandsteel]

Quentin knows the feel of that chilly magic and heads over in his annoying costume, "At least you look dashing."

Re: Bonfire

[element_wizard]

Alec is meandering about in his bright blue long coat with golden yellow trim that kinda of looks like it could belong to a costume. There's a sword and bandolier even. The jeans and t-shirt sort of ruin it though.

When he passes by Yamato and the frosted air, he can't help but pause and give it an experimental poke and swirl around his finger. Not the broody pirate, but the air around him... testing to see how far out the cold goes.

"Neat."

Re: Bonfire

[alec_swamp]

Some beings don't need Halloween costumes. Though on this night, perhaps Swamp Thing can simply pretend he's a person wearing a costume instead being a plant who thinks he's a man.

Re: Bonfire

[childofrebellion]

Cassian noticed the Mandalorian when he came to the party but he's going to give them a wide berth. Instead he's going to drink by the fire, this year Bar kept it simple again by putting him in skull makeup and an outfit that's similar to his own, leather jacket, boots but from Earth.

He's worn it before and apparently it means he's dressed as Resistance from a war on Earth.

Re: Bonfire

[run_barry]

Barry has eaten, he's danced, he's eaten some more, and oh yeah he's been drinking. By the time he wanders over to the bonfire Barry's features are warm with mirth and end of the universe alcohol (not the Atlantean this time, he's learned that lesson), and he smiles widely when he spots Cassian.

"Hey Cass, happy Halloween!" Barry says, wearing a hood, mask, and with a quiver of arrows strapped to his back.

Music and Dance Floor

[raptorcanaria]

There's a dance floor set up by the Caribbean inlet. Dinah brought her vinyl. There's no way of playing vinyl here.

Someone who understands computers better set up a playlist.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[devilsrosebud]

There is a red-headed blind woman sitting on a chair by the dance floor, nursing a beer. She has one ankle crossed over her other knee and her heavy duty white stick resting across the resulting lap.

Mapone has earplugs in and it just about makes the place bearable, but she quite liks this song, and her feet are tapping.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[mogget_cat]

Someone who is less destructive with electronics better set up a playlist.

Meanwhile, Yrael is scraping out an appropriately spooky reel on the fiddle, perfect for getting toes tapping or heels lightened on Halloween.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[makes_the_toys]

Where there's a will, there's a way. Or rather, where there is a mechanical engineering genius there is most definitely a way.

Don't worry, Cisco got you, Dinah.

When Cisco sees all that vinyl and no table he gets to work and soon DJ Ramon is in the hizzy!

Milliways helps him out with an appropriate costume change and the jams are playing. He has vinyls spinning, but he's also set up with a nigh infinite digital playlist ready to drop requested beats.

[ooc: Because I feel like it I'm setting Cisco into this All Skate from a nebulous time during season 4.]

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[bestbuddydroid]

Teeeechnology!

Teeeeechnology!

BD-1, wearing his little witch hat, hops up onto the table and after giving Cisco a beeping hello, starts to scan it all with single minded intent.

Re: Music and Dance Floor

[run_barry]

While Cisco provides the music Barry is on the floor busting a move.

He's stoked about his costume this year and he's having quite a time.

For those curious, Barry dances like this.

[ooc: Because I feel like it I'm setting Barry into this All Skate from a nebulous time during season 4.]

Food and Drink

[raptorcanaria]

Loooong trellis tables are set up all over, from by the porch to the inlet itself, wherever you want to eat. Obviously we expect the usual suspects to help out here, but Dinah has also ordered industrial catering quantities of... well, everything.

There's a chocoloate fondue fountain. It's the size of a ninja turtle.

[manipulatestime]

Five has been helping himself to some booze. And the chocolate fountain. But mostly the booze.

He understands there's a Halloween party going on, yet he's not wearing a costume, unless you count his uniform as a costume. Hargreeves' didn't celebrate Halloween. Or anything else for that matter.

It makes no difference to him. Free alcohol is free alcohol and he's going to try his luck as long as he can.

Re: Food and Drink

[run_barry]

Well you had to know he was going to be around the food eventually (or rather, fairly regularly because Barry definitely makes more than one trip to hit the tables).

Catch him single-handedly making that industrial catering order a good idea, or at the chocolate fountain using one of the arrows from his costume to dip in different treats.

(There is a slight chance that Barry may or may not have decided to sample some of the stronger drinks Milliways has to offer at this point in the evening.)

[ooc: Because I feel like it I'm setting Barry into this All Skate from a nebulous time during season 4.]

Re: Food and Drink

[childofrebellion]

Cassian's looking over the spread, the chocolate fountain is odd and kind of mesmerizing. He's also fascinated by all the shapes of glasses, he didn't know skull glasses came in so many sizes.

Bar's kept his costume simple and put him in skull makeup and an outfit similar to his own, leather jacket, boots, he's worn it before, a Resistance outfit from World War II.

Party Games

[raptorcanaria]

Apple bobbing! Pin the tail on Comet the Superhorse! Wrap toilet paper around yourself and hop along like an idiot! Put your hands in bowls of cold spaghetti and pretend you're having fun!


Okay mostly apple bobbing. There's a pinata somewhere as well.

Re: Party Games

[bestbuddydroid]

Somewhere, somehow, BD-1 has acquired a witch's hat. Which somehow stays on. Right now the little droid is perched on the apple bobbing tub watching the apples. He'd already scanned the fruit and is now reaching out to grab a piece of fruit with one foot.

He's waterproof so falling in wouldn't be a problem, but it seems to be apart of the game from what he can tell, to get the apple without getting wet.

So, he makes a grab and watch as the apple bobs away and then try again. It doesn't look he'll be getting bored anytime soon.

Re: Party Games

[take_that]

Phoenix is hanging by the wall, with a glass of punch. He is watching Trucy run amok through the room, having a marvelous time.

She is dressed in her usual pink magician's outfit, but with a witch mask. She's a magician who is also a witch.

Ghost Stories

[raptorcanaria]

Okay, Dinah's not in charge of this bit. Presumably after everyone's calmed down a little there's a space by the bofire for sitting down and telling ghost stories. Or relating the plot of Psycho. No one's going to know if they're not from your world.

ZOMBIES! RUN! (body horror in tags)

[4th5]

Runner Five is wearing a backpack that chinks expensively. We'll say that fiirst of all.

They come sprinting out of the forest, eyes forward, face expressionless, until they realise they just hit the Bar, and then they start to slow down, smiling with relief.

Until there is a noise behind them, and they look over their shoulder, to discover HOLY FUCKNUGGETS IT'S COME WITH THEM.

This is not one zombie. It used to be many zombies. But someone's apparently been busy in the mad science department, and now it's one big thing with more heads, more legs and more arms than any undead has a right to.

Oh and also? A bunch of normal zombies as well.

Five turns, does a quick sitrep, then opens their mouth and screams as loud as they can, clapping their hands and vocalising as they run sideways along the edge of the forest.

The purpose of this noisemaking is twofold: keep the zombies away from the party, and hopefully attract the attention of the right kind of partygoer.

Come on, Milliways. You're full of people with superpowers, someone's got to want to fight some zombies, right?

Re: ZOMBIES! RUN! (body horror in tags)

[awkwardbot]

One of the drones I had patrolling the edge of the forest picked up a human breaking out of the trees at high speed, and then some multi-headed, many-limbed thing following them out. The human screamed and took off running, with the thing - which I labeled Hostile One, in pursuit. Trailed by a bunch of other hostiles that looked sort of like humans but...wrong, somehow.

I moved to intercept, dropping my gun (it was fake) and pulling off the sleeves and armor plates covering the energy weapons in my forearms (which are, importantly, not fake).

Hostile One was fast. The human was a little faster, but one misstep and fall could be the end. Fortunately, I was faster than both of them.

I closed to within a few meters of Hostile One and fired both my energy weapons multiple times into its center of mass. If that wasn't enough to bring it down, I might at least be able to get it to stop chasing the human and go after me instead.

(Yes, the other Hostiles were still a problem. I'd have to do something about that.)