lucetilogs | 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.)

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Been better. [He laughs sardonically. He's now seen his sister hanging by a homemade noose from just about everything in town at this point.] You?

Been better, yes. [He unconsciously tries to work the ache out of his arm.] Then again, so has most of the village, I'd imagine.

At least some of us got decent costumes. Yours certainly suits you- very Bela Lugosi.

[He laughs] That's...exactly who it is, actually. Very good. Hardly anyone's known that all week.

[No idea if they've broached the subject of being from Earth yet- but pretending it hasn't happened~]

Wait. So you're from Earth then... By the accent, I'm guessing England?

[They haven't. And he's been kind of curious ever since the zombies]

Yes, but I've spent the last five years in California. Yourself?

Spent my entire life on a colony fleet on a course for the galactic core.

You mean like...spaceships?

Ones as big as a city, even~

[Giles takes off his glasses and starts cleaning them] Good Lord.

All a bit beyond me, I'm afraid. In my time, we still consider it good luck to get someone to the moon without the ship blowing up or crumbling in the atmosphere.

The Apollo 13 and Challenger incidents, right?

At least on my version of Earth, That was about the best of humanity's progress towards space, up until we discovered the remains of an alien warship we dubbed the Macross. It took time to reverse engineer and repair everything, but it completely opened the rest of the galaxy to us.

...aliens?

What sort of aliens?

A race called the Zentradi- both they and humans were created by an ancient, advanced race called the Protoculture. The Zentradi were created to serve as proxy soldiers in a war that eventually destroyed the Protoculture- and we were created to preserve their culture.

Humans were created by aliens? [That's an uncomfortable thought]

Most intelligent life in our galaxy has been, actually. And most of those were in turn based on the Protoculture themselves.

Wish I could ask them why they took it into their heads to create vampires, then.

Hah. They may not have. For the most part, the Protoculture just manipulated the rise of a single sentient species among a planet's indigenous lifeforms.

Which means they might have created either humans or demons.

...I think I owe them a talking to either way.

If you ever manage to find one of them, I think you'd have earned the right.

But they exist in space, so that's probably not going to happen.

True- we've had the run of most of the Milky Way for the better part of fifty years, and no luck finding a remnant of them.

I'll keep my feet on the ground, thanks.

...unless the Malnosso decide to try teleporting us, again.

...I think I'd rather keep my feet on the ground for as long as possible then, too.

So would I.

Still. They sound a bit like the True Demons from my world. Just...a lot more powerful.

"They... don't sound all that nice though."

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