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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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.

[consultmybooks]

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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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

[consultmybooks]

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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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.

[consultmybooks]

Which means they might have created either humans or demons.

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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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

[consultmybooks]

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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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.

[consultmybooks]

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

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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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

[consultmybooks]

So would I.

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

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

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

[consultmybooks]

True Demons? No, they're not. But they are responsible for vampires. And many other things.

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

So they kept you as busy as the Vajra did me, I'll wager.

[consultmybooks]

We've only ever encountered one.

It took a hundred pounds of dynamite and nearly a hundred terrified, armed teenagers to stop it.

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

So probably about on-par with the firepower it takes to bring down one of the largest Vajra fighters.

[He laughs humorlessly.]

Be glad you didn't have to deal with a half-dozen or so at once then.

[consultmybooks]

[This face. Holy cow, Michael]

I am...very glad of that, yes.

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

On the other hand, we did have a lot more at our disposal than dynamite and an angry mob.

[consultmybooks]

Still.

Six? How on Earth did that happen?

((ooc: So do you want to tag Xander's post, or shall we have Michael's examination of the teleporters happen off screen? Or handle this another way?))

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

It was plenty more than six- that's just the usual number we'd encounter- one or two of the biggest, meanest ones, and four or so of the slightly smaller ones. Imagine giant red stag beetles and a sort of bug/squid hybrid, respectively. As for how it happened... we just ended up in the middle of an intergalactic hornet's nest. Literally and figuratively.

((ooc: I've been having a pretty busy week, so if you want to get on with it, feel free to handwave, otherwise hit me with a link, and I'll actually have a little free time for once come tomorrow evening.))

[consultmybooks]

But they were creatures you had fought before?

((ooc: Thank you for all the involvement you've kicked in already, by the way. Especially for a mission that has no chance of actually succeeding.))

[violet-veda.livejournal.com]

They were nothing most of Frontier had neither seen nor heard of before. I say most... Well, I never got all that deep, but I know running into the vajra was no accident...