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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Good. Great. [He peers over her, looking at where she came in.]

It's been some week.

No kidding. I'm glad you're okay. Sometimes I thought...

... yeah, I know. Me too.

Huh?

[... Huh is right. He's startled and waiting for something horrible to happen.]

... tables. With food. You're seeing that too, right?

Yes. How did...?

.... maybe that's what Shifting looks like. I always thought it just, kind of happened, you know, when we weren't looking.

Oh, you could be right. I dunno, I don't think I like it.

... well, it's not like we haven't seen weirder here.

And what would you consider weirder?

Than things just appearing in front of our eyes? Being dragged into the Spirit World by an angry giant panda monster.

Panda monster. Right.

Hey, it's a true story. [Just walking over to the food.] Looks good, though.

But is it safe?

[Sokka casually picks up a cupcake.]

Malnosso food. [He points at the grocery store.] Also Malnosso food.

Malnosso food during an experiment. Malnosso food handed out daily.

[He's already eaten half a cupcake.]

If they want to do something to us, they don't have to do it with food. They'll do it anyway.

You know who you sound like?

No, who?

Well... you know back in February? When you tried to convince me not to drink from the fountain?

Oh, that. [He glances at the cupcake.] Well in the end, it wasn't so bad.

That "wasn't so bad"?!

Compared to everything else?

Right. You're right.

[One cupcake later.]

I think I'm fine so far! Although I could use something to drink.

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