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[royalsubject]

Who: Anyone who participates
When: tba Day 8, Night
Where: Labyrinth!
What: IT'S A HALLOWEENIE LABYRINTH, MY FRIENDS

[as you enter this labyrinth, bats flutter past you...]

((RULES — SIGN-UPS — MINGLE))

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RULES

[royalsubject]

• This is a Halloweenie Board Game Labyrinth in which groups will roll a die to progress across a board of 24 spaces. These spaces will involve tasks that are either a) social tasks, b) ~creative~ tasks, or c) brief activity tasks (example: KNOCKING ON A SUSPICIOUS DOOR and handling whatever the heck answers.) There might also be tasks that don't really fit into the listed categories, but you get the picture.

• This labyrinth is projected to span from 10/21 to 10/31. HOWEVER! It is COMPLETELY POSSIBLE that your group can finish sooner than this! Finishing up the last day is also a-okay. This long space of time is there as allowance for people to take their time if need be without feeling rushed since progress is dependent on everyone's interactions. However, my intention is to have everyone wrapped up on the last day of October!

• Please comment to the sign-up header as soon as you can! Even if you don't intend to tag around in the mingle, just go ahead and comment so I can sort people into their random groups.

• JOINING LATE/LEAVING EARLY: You're allowed to join in late—I'll still randomly assign you to a group! On an equivalent note, you're also allowed to leave early—we just ask that leave a comment in the gameplay portion indicating that your character ~suddenly disappeared~ at some point so the other players can know. And if you DO come back to play again, your character will just magically rejoin them.

• LABYRINTH PRIZE: each character will receive a bag of treats... as well as a Halloween-inspired prize! It can vary between oddly useful to very useless. They'll also get to keep their costume.

SIGN-UPS

[royalsubject]

Please comment here with each character you'll be playing! Come the 21st, I'll randomize everyone into groups of 3-4; you'll receive a response to your sign-up with such info.

Re: SIGN-UPS

[steelmyself]

Archer!

Re: SIGN-UPS

[sintimental]

Yuu!

SPOOKY SCARY SKELETONS!!!!!!

Re: SIGN-UPS

[reincatnation]

Rio!

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[ninetyninelives]

MAO

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[existonance]

ECHOOOOOOO

Echooooooo

echooooooo

echooooo

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[familitiarize]

Shinoa!

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[hushabyte]

CLEAR HERE

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[loveinvein]

Mika!!!

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[fauxfabre]

Luke!

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[cardofhearing]

Chihaya!

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[spelltrouble]

Tarnist!

[handle]

Sorey!

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[soulbridge]

Rideaux!

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[glorious]

...Van.

MINGLE

[royalsubject]

[it's night time, and you're standing in the front yard of a tackily Halloweened mansion. a song about spooky, scary skeletons that won't stop playing. there are jack-o-lanterns all about, plastic skeletons dangling from leafless trees, those nasty fake cobwebs that somehow get stuck in your hair almost everywhere. let's not forget the styrofoam gravestones that read cheesy things like "Yura Goner" and the silly sheet ghosts that wave around like they just don't care. they probably don't care.

overall, this is a cheap, but effectively elaborate, Halloween party. and lucky you—you're already wearing a Halloween costume!

Pumpkin Patch: There's a sign that's prompting you to take a pumpkin. However, they've already been carved with one of two faces, and they're connected to the ground with chains, so you can't actually... take one. Still, picking one up will alter your mood drastically. Some of you will find that its effect fades away (quickly/slowly) over time, but some of you might notice that it lingers for quite a while longer than that.

• Happy Pumpkin: You feel giddy—almost giggly! The smallest thing might amuse you since you're in a very easygoing mood. You still have your wits, but you might be tempted to take things a little less seriously, and with an extra ounce of jest.

• Evil Pumpkin: You feel grouchy—almost angry! You're now in the kind of bad mood where the smallest thing can inexplicably set you into a rage, and you might find yourself easily frustrated. It's very tempting to act out on this nasty attitude, even if you're the kind of person who usually keeps their cool!

Buffet Table: There's a large snack selection. We're talking stabbed peanut butter cupcakes, tasty cheese-wrapped sausage fingers, a graveyard dip, a giant bowl full of brand-name candy in which a plastic hand will harmlessly jump out and try to grab yours, and... a standard punch bowl. Not far off are tables (covered with Halloween-striped plastic tarps that don't touch the ground) set aside for you to eat at.

Punch Bowl: The delicious snacks won't have any weird effect on you, but you'll notice that the punch bowl has a silly little pumpkin-shaped "WARNING" sign which is clearly there for kicks and giggles, right? However, though its contents don't smell alcoholic in the least, it might make you tipsy or flat-out drunk. "Might" being an important word—you see, it's completely possible to guzzle down three cups of this stuff and still remain completely sober. On the other hand, a single cup might be enough to get you hammered. Everyone's experiences may vary!

Jukebox: Set off to the side, so you can presumably have room to dance, is a retro jukebox. There's a wide selection of songs available, but someone's already queued "Spooky Scary Skeletons" an infinite number of times. There's no way to change this.]

((Feel free to tag around in this before/during the labyrinth! If you decide to experiment with the simple effects of the pumpkins or the boozy punch, they CAN carry on into the labyrinth if you'd like! If you don't wind up thread one of those out, you can just handwave that your character did whatever before entering the mansion.))

Re: MINGLE

[existonance]

[and Echo's a sheet ghost with holes cut out for her eyes and arms. her weird little ahoge thing somehow manages to stick out at the top, too]

Is this... supposed to be scary?

Re: MINGLE

[hushabyte]

[ is this someone new? it's honestly hard to tell at first glance as he seems to be this year's pumpkin king, complete with jack-o'-lantern mask, crouching and perhaps attempting to hide in the patch among his people ]

N-no way... I had absolutely no idea haunted houses were involved? This is a shock!!

Re: MINGLE

[cardofhearing]

Ohh! A party?!

[says the girl's voice coming from this slightly terrifying bear-themed mascot costume]

Re: MINGLE

[steelmyself]

[ put-upon sigh ]

This seems unnecessary.

[ he's dressed as the Cheshire cat, with striped cat ears, paw-gloves, and tail ]

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[fauxfabre]

[Luke shows up looking like Death- literally. The ensemble is a hooded black robe with frayed sleeves, a menacing looking (plastic) scythe, and a skeletal mask. He lasts about a minute before pushing that bit up onto his head to reveal his face.]

How is anyone supposed to breath like that?!

[He scans the area until his eyes lock on the punch bowl. A cool drink sounds really good right now…]

Re: MINGLE

[glorious]

[is currently dressed as a vampire...and seems to be struggling with his new fangs.]

Re: MINGLE

[sintimental]

[ Yuu is dressed exactly like this. THIS IS A LITTLE SILLY.

But he doesn't look DISPLEASED about it or anything. ]

Guess it's the time of the year, huh?

END

[royalsubject]

[and it is here that you wind up, back in the front yard of the very halloweenified mansion that you first started in.

however, this time there is an additional table, one with large treat bags. there's also a sign reading "PLEASE SHARE!" because i guess they expect you to be nice or something. who knows. as for the treat bags:]

Archer's Bag: a bag of Warheads and a solar-charged, light-up lantern.

Yuu's Bag: A giant Snickers bar and Frankenstein('s monster) mittens that fit you comfortably.

Rio's Bag: A box of Nerds and a large inflatable pumpkin friend that still needs to be inflated.

Mao's Bag: A bag of pumpkin-flavored Hershey Kisses and a pair of sunglasses that kinda look like spiders.

Echo's Bag: a bag of Dumdums and a Halloween wristwatch.

Shinoa's Bag: some Halloween KitKats and a rusty bell that looks like a Jack-o'-Lantern.

Clear's Bag: a bag of Laffy Taffy and a a string of eyeball lights that do not need to be plugged in to work.

Mika's Bag: a bag of gummy bears and several sheets of Halloween stickers.

Luke's Bag: an assortment of Pop Rocks and these Halloweenified rubber ducks.

Chihaya's Bag: a bag of Starbursts candy and a Halloween face painting kit with a helpful booklet.

Tarnist's Bag: four Baby Bottle Pops and a bag of plastic spider rings.

Sorey's Bag: a bag of Jolly Ranchers and a 3 ft rubber snake.

Rideaux's Bag: a bag of Jelly Belly beans, complete with a list of "recipes" to try out, and a pair of red devil horn hair clips.

Van's Bag: a large bag of M&Ms and these little wind-up ghost toys.