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.

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[He casts his gaze down for a moment.]

Aang was a good kid. A shame I won't get to know him better. This has been a pretty nasty Halloween, hasn't it?

[He nods.]

He's lucky to get to miss it. Maybe Katara is too.

[He'll try not to think about how much worse they could make this week for Katara.]

I really hope so.

Sometimes they do stuff that's not so bad. Annoying... but not all that bad.

I'm still worried about what will happen next time they come for me. From the sound of things, I got off exceedingly light. Nothing but a few bruises and a damaged ego.

They've got you before, huh?

[He nods.] For about a week, and I had barely been here a whole week to begin with.

Wow. Talk about being unlucky.

Given that I came back in one piece and don't remember much... I think I actually was, sadly.

Yeeeeah, I remember when they had me. I haven't decided if that's a good thing or not yet.

Think I prefer not knowing... but saying that, I'll probably be proven wrong soon enough.

You never know. I nearly managed a whole year without them ever dragging me off.

I can only hope to be so lucky. [He smiles grimly.]

Well we can't all be me. [Sokka? He's not letting himself get down, now. He's all about staying upbeat about this party thing.]

[Lucky for Michael, the mood seems to be rubbing off, at least a little.]

Hah. A real shame, that~

I don't know. I mean, I'd be pretty tough competition. For myself, that is.

At least you'd keep yourself on your toes?

There is no greater competition than yourself...

...You know, this might be an interesting idea to test in the Battle Dome.

What, are you planning to try and get the Dome to load up a version of me? [So you can see how you'd last if you ever took advantage of Katara and Sokka had to do something you'd regret?]

[Nonsense. a) He'd never think of taking advantage of Katara, and b) Michael wouldn't be regretting anything.]

Myself, actually. Who better to try and out-shoot than one of the best snipers to ever live~?

That sounds... [Supremely boring. He can't imagine how two people from hundred of meters away trying to shoot each other would be interesting.] interesting.

[It helps when you have a grasp of things like patience and subtlety.] You'd be surprised. Though realistically, it would probably have to be a more up-close-and-personal fight. Two snipers duking it out can take days to see a resolution.

[Sokka has those! He knows enough about tactics to realize how time consuming that would be, opposed to a straight fight.] Yeah and while this place isn't the most interesting place around, I can think of a better way to spend a few days.

[When it's just one on one, sure. But when you've got two armies with high-value targets who's death would mean a big shift in the course of the war? invaluable~]

Wouldn't work anyway. The simulations time out after about an hour or so.

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