Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

[lucetimods]

Who: Everybody!
What: The Halloween Ball is finally here.
When: Evening of October 31st. (Or earlier, for those who arrive pre-Ball to take advantage of the safety bubble.)
Where: In the village's main plaza.
Summary: After one of the most grueling weeks Luceti's ever known, it finally all comes to a head when a massive, spooky tent appears over the plaza. Once night falls, you never know what might happen...
Rating: Anywhere from PG to R for language or graphic descriptions, most likely.

It happens at midnight.

Without even a hint of a whisper, faster than you can even blink, the tent appears; a towering monstrosity of dirty, ripped canvas in stripes of black and red and white, swallowing the plaza whole. For most of the day it sits, silent and empty, with its great main flaps pulled open to show only inky blackness inside.

Step inside, however, and you'll see it's dimly lit with silver shafts of light that streak in through all those rips and tears. As foreboding as it appears, it's strangely peaceful inside.

Come 7:00 on the dot, that quiet, empty interior will instantaneously transform for the purposes of the evening. Even this sudden change, unlike many Luceti resident have undergone lately, is not as eerie as one might expect. Despite the gothic trappings, the blood punch fountain, there's something a little benign about it. Perhaps this is meant to be a reward for all that suffering you've been forced to endure for almost a week now.

Or maybe -- just maybe -- and who would ever think such a thing? -- it's not so benign after all.

(so, so sorry this is late, guys. have at it, comment-spam style! also, optional suggestion: put the time of day in your subject line title so we know if your character is showing up before or during the Ball itself.)

Comments

[de_bel_survivor]

It's alright, we're doing our best to bare with it.

[Even if he agrees with her and feel his usual demeanor being tested during this week.]

We should relax for now, until whatever might happen, happens.

[analyzing]

But is that really the right thing to do? If we don't know what's going on until it happens, we'll just be playing into their hands. But if we stay out there...well, everyone knows what'll happen then.

[Throughout her speech, she's darting glances toward the exterior of the tent. The fog has already rolled in outside and looks every inch as unwelcoming as the stories everyone had been hearing about it.]

[de_bel_survivor]

It might happen or not, but I think it's better to clear our minds so we can handle whatever it is while being cautious.

[He notice the fog. It's dangerous to go out now, from the warnings and stories he heard over the journal. Including those sounds and visions...]

Let's do what we can. It'll end, sooner or later.

[Hopefully, soon and without incident.]

[analyzing]

[She doesn't look too pleased at having to admit to that fact but nods nonetheless. Sigh.]

You're really calm about this, aren't you? [Haha...] I guess you're right though...if we're going to become some kind of lab rat to whatever tests they're running here, we can at east make it a point to make it as much of a problem for them I can.

I'll do my best.

[de_bel_survivor]

I'm trying my best not to let it get to me. [After seeing and hearing things...]

But yeah, we'll get through this.

[analyzing]

...yeah.

[Inhale. Time to put on a more pleasant face because really, frowning all evening wasn't going to help her any either.]

Anyway. How've you been, Kouki-san? I haven't heard from you in the past few days.

[de_bel_survivor]

Certain things aside, I've been doing well.

[Nothing much, mostly keeping what he had seen to himself. He doesn't want to explain the lockdown, the demons, the Death Clocks (with '0' being the most common), to anyone else outside of it right now.]

Doing my best to live as normal as I can this past week.

[analyzing]

[Ahaha...] Any luck with that?

[de_bel_survivor]

I've done my best, but I found myself jumpy at times.

[analyzing]

I see. [sigh, and she lets the smile drop a little.] I guess everyone has their share of things don't want to see.

This place just gets really good at pulling those out of you.

[de_bel_survivor]

We do, we just handle with them our way but...

Being able to do that, this place's dangerous that way.

[analyzing]

No kidding. They say this place's been around for a few years already. It's kinda scary thinking of what some people around here had to go through.

[de_bel_survivor]

Yeah. I remember hearing that this is...the third year? And there's some people that might've been here for that long already.

[analyzing]

Three years? Wow, I can't imagine having to stay here for so long for a year and...gee.

Home's bad at times but I don't think it's this bad.

[de_bel_survivor]

It's kind of depressing, thinking like that. [Reminds him that he's in Luceti for about two months already. Time flies, doesn't it?]

Home is home, but yeah. [...] I would say something, but it feels like tempting fate.

[analyzing]

[Like an arrow. She frankly would rather not consider the fact that there's a possibility for her to be stuck here for three years, so the only reply Kouki will get about that first part is a sober look. It was really hard to consider being positive with such a line of conversation, unfortunately.

But she tries anyway. Being non-depressed, at least- she'd like the positive thinking to some other time when she wasn't half afraid for herself and Nanako at this ball.]

Something you'd rather not go home to?

[de_bel_survivor]

I have something to do back home, so being here is like a much needed break.

[The pressure from making that choice was mostly lifted, but there's always a chance of going back home. Meaning he have to make the most of his time here.]

Though, I could do without the experiments.