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sailmods ([personal profile] sailmods) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-10-22 12:49 am

on this the night all hallows' eve

who: the living and the damned
when: October 31st, 8PM to 11:59 PM
where: around the main pool on deck 6
what: HALLOWEEN PARTY, 1/2
warnings: TBA

[as you exit the elevator and walk towards the pool deck on Halloween night, you follow a sort of labyrinth of panels and decorations. about halfway through the maze, a scythe swings into your path, and a tall animatronic crackles to life:]

It is harvest time. I can smell it in the air. And I sense your soul is ripe for harvesting as well. When your time comes, my scythe will cleave your soul right off the vine like a ripened pumpkin. Time for carving!

[welcome to Halloween aboard the Serena Eterna.

the Infinite Spirit Halloween has been put to good use by a crack team of Mizuki and Ebalon, and half of it seems to now be located around the deck on the main pool. the pool has been dyed a swamp-like green; fake plastic vines and (hopefully) fake plastic limbs float in the waters. there are fog machines studded throughout that are putting out a frankly dangerous amount of fog, and it can be pretty difficult to tell if your next step is onto the floor or directly into the pool.

there is food available on a long table on the side, but it’s entirely the usual fare found in the buffet, though there are also two punch bowls: one is a delicious fruit punch, and the other is about 99% vodka and then a single orange. the bar is also open, with extra liquor bottles scavenged from the other bars on the ship. Halloween music plays from unseen speakers.

Friday is here, and dressed in costume, but never seems to stop fussing and rushing around long enough to actually have a conversation with. but, hey! Jenny is here! hooray!

have fun. you have ‘til midnight.]
treadwater: (~ apologetic)

[personal profile] treadwater 2022-10-25 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
"Hi. Don't mind me, I'm not quite daft enough or drunk enough to try to swim in this." She sits down, gathering her excess fabric up off her legs so she can dangle in the water. "Are you from a world where this Halloween thing is...a thing?"
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2022-10-25 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
"No, not at all," says Cassandra. "I'd never heard of it before. Are you?"
treadwater: (~ hiding)

[personal profile] treadwater 2022-10-25 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
"We have a similar holiday, called Fright Night, where kids dress up like the monsters to appease them for a night in autumn, and go door to door, collecting sweets from neighbors."

Note the key parts of that sentence.
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2022-10-25 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
What? It makes perfect sense.

"We don't have anything of that kind. Is it ... in fun, the way they celebrate it here?"
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[personal profile] treadwater 2022-10-25 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes, it is. And it seems to work, too, which makes it even better. Less of a need to be on guard, to have full heavy patrols. Sometimes I wonder why we only do it once a year, if it works."
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2022-10-25 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Cassandra shakes her head a little, considering. "I wonder if anyone has ever tried doing it more often. Sometimes more doesn't work any better."
treadwater: (~ shrug)

[personal profile] treadwater 2022-10-26 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah. There's a lot that no one really understands about all of it. The magic, the dream, the monsters." She shrugs a little helplessly.
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[personal profile] not_the_last 2022-10-26 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"... The dream?"

Everything else about that made a certain amount of sense, but she isn't sure what to make of that part.