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

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Bet that was cold. What was it like last year?

[bamfing]

It was pretty great. Not as many people as my first year in Bayville, but... [Well, they lost most of their friends after being exposed as mutants. So not as many attendees for partying.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

But that's still cool. I haven't been to a normal party in forever. [Well, Taichi, normal might be up for debate.]

[bamfing]

Yeah? I guess you've been here over a year now...

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Almost two, like in February or something. Next month's going to be my second birthday spent here.

[bamfing]

Wow, that's pretty lame.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Tell me about it. But Luceti's getting a little more like home at least. Last year we didn't even have electricity. That was when it was totally lame. It's kind of an upgrade from the Digital World, but a downgrade from Earth.

...wait, you're from Earth, aren't you?

[bamfing]

Uh, yeah. But I've never heard of a digital world.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Most people haven't. We didn't know about it until we got stuck there and were told we had to help save it.

[bamfing]

Right, right. What exactly is it?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

It's...Koushiro said it's kind of a parallel to Earth. It exists outside of Earth, but it matches almost the same layout. It's made up of data and stuff, and we got through it with portals and stuff. Daisuke said that his group in the future gets to it by using the computers in school. So it's kind of in the Internet, I guess? It's where all of the Digimon live. [Very helpful, really.]

[bamfing]

[...]

Digimon. Like the... [He shakes his head. Yeah, of course it is.] Nevermind. That's pretty weird.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

[No, no wait. Back up.] Like the what?

[bamfing]

Uh, well. Like the video game. Thing. Kind of Tama-something kind of thing.

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

...the virtual pet things? Kinda like that, but they were a lot bigger. And they could talk.

[bamfing]

Right, of course. [Why wouldn't they talk? They're digital... monsters.]

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

And Agumon could breathe fire. And sometimes fly in his different forms.

[bamfing]

He had different forms? Oh wait... he evolves, right?

[goggle-syndrome.livejournal.com]

Yup! And then when he doesn't need to be bigger anymore or when he uses up all of his strength he devolves. That's how all of them work.