lucetimods: (Emily)
Luceti Mods ([personal profile] lucetimods) wrote in [community profile] lucetilogs2010-10-30 10:21 pm

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

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.)

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-10-31 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You could always go get one if you're so capable of withstanding those hallucinations.

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-10-31 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Thought so.] Then you're just going to have to live with the boredom.

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so. What do you plan on doing? Go around cleaning up after people?

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Very funny. [Of course, his prediction'll prove to be correct within the hour.] I'm going to try to get some sleep while it's still quiet. It'll be too noisy once more people arrive here.

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Sleep? Here? You ought to have brought a pillow and blanket. [Or perhaps she has a cottage in her inventory. Who can say?]

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[Nope. You only get about 5 seconds sleep with those things anyway.] I didn't really have the presence of mind to bring anything, I'll make do.

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 04:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[A groan as he debates in his mind over what to do.]

Fine.. If you're going to be like that... [He just warps away.]

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[He returns a minute later, a rolled up mess of pillows and blankets it in hand. Only difference now is that he looks visibly shaken. Going back out there wasn't a good idea. He pushes the bundle into her hands and starts to walk away.

It wasn't real.]

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Palom? [She knows magic well enough to realize that he warped himself rather than being teleported against his will like a few weeks ago. But it's still concerning. She looks around for him, not quite daring to leave the tent, until he returns.

When he does and when he hands the blankets over, she frowns for a second, entirely ready to scold him for going back out there. She's not quite that harsh, though, and her expression softens. She says nothing, letting him walk off.]

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[It takes her a little while longer to return from outside. But when she does she looks to find her brother again, holding out a small pile of books.]

You forgot to pick one up while you were gone. I didn't know which one you wanted.

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[By now he's cleared his head and pushed out the images of what he saw. So when she arrives, holding books, he's frankly surprised.]

You went back out there?

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-01 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
You did want a book, didn't you?

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-02 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but I didn't meant for you to go grab one.

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-02 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
If you can manage it out there, so can I.

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-03 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
[... he just laughs.]

You couldn't just let it go that I went back out there! You had to show me up!

[identity profile] praygenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-03 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Entirely correct.]

I was bringing you something you wanted! You're so ungrateful!

[identity profile] bluffgenius.livejournal.com 2010-11-03 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Wanted! Not needed. Way different than what I did. You just had to make it a contest.