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WHO: ERIDAN AMPORA and ZATANNA ZATARA and THEIR VERY UNFORTUNATE GUESTS.
WHERE: a creepy ~~rose red~~ house on the edge of the city.
WHEN: 11/5.
WARNINGS: fakemurder. gore. trauma. misery. mystery!!!
SUMMARY: since eridan spent the entirety of halloween wweepin and eating stale sugar cookies in his basement leah, he and zee throw a belated halloween party!! BAD THINGS HAPPEN.
FORMAT: ANYTHING GOES.

[the house - it's more of a miniature mansion, really, and incredibly creepy - is just far enough from the city's limits to be quiet. sprawling, dark, and eerie; it's kind of like a cross between rose red and dracula's summer home, which is at least half of the reason why it was chosen. maybe two-thirds.

inside the decorations are done up in lush reds and the occasional streaks of violet; the kitchen is full of food and refreshments, the main hall is decked out, the music is pumping, and the hosts will no doubt be more than happy to tell everyone all about how they heard a rumor from a friend of a cousin of the realtor that like a quintuple murder totally happened in the attic or something (or one of them will, at least). rooms beyond the immediate party area (a host of ground level rooms and anything upstairs, basically) haven't exactly been blocked off, but they're also visibly not as touched up and may or may not be haunted.

well, there's a definite risk. the place is creepy as hell.

doors open at eight-thirty (just to spite vriska). get in there!!

(DIRECT QUESTIONS AND CLARIFICATIONS RIGHT HURR.) ]

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[ kanaya at least moves to the other side of the table so they can face each other, but nepeta will have to close the hug gap herself. ]

No one needs that great a view of Eridan's horrendous outfit. Are you at least seeing anything else worth the higher position?

Pawsitively! Fur example, right now I'm seeing a supurr grumpy furiend who needs to stop being such a sourpuss.

[and so she does, giving Kanaya the most enthusiastic of OUTRAGEOUSLY FRIENDLY hugs. its devastating effect could only be increased if it were carried out through an air assault.]

[ she screws her lips downward, holding her drink out so it doesn't spill while giving nepeta a weak pat on the back. she's drawing the short stick of this hugging gambit. ]

Well, that should tell you how little there is worth seeing in this area. Your sight is put to better use in other parts of the party.

Sorry Kanaya, were you saying something? All I heard was 'bluh bluh bluh dumb stupid dumb'.

[gurl she's not giving this hug for her benefit, she doesn't care what she gets back. also she's not going to indulge the mopey boo hoo routine, NOT TONIGHT WHEN THERE IS CANDY AND FUN]

...That probably isn't terribly inaccurate, really. Just an unwelcome drone on your ears, I'm sure.

[ she's got an endless well of mopey bullshit, she can keep this up all night if you let her. and probably even if you don't. </small

Hee hee, I've heard way worse from Equius! You can't wriggle out of talking about nice things with me that easily.

[she finally pulls out of the hug to give Kanaya a mock stern shake of the finger before grabbing her half-eaten candy bowl and offering it]

[ she frowns and picks out a mini-packet of skittles. ]

As long as you don't expect me to participate.

I can purrtend to be you and keep the conversation going if I have to, so I'm not really worried about that. But you do have to pick the next topic.

[and from her expectant look it better be a fucking nice one gurl]

Well, uh. How are you settling into the City?

[ they can keep talking about nepeta, that's easier. she takes a few of the skittles to chew on. that's an excuse to talk less. ]

Purretty well, I think! I found the parks so I feel a little bit better about the icky concrete parts of the city.

[even if there still wasn't that much to hunt. bleh.]

And some guy fell out of the sky while I was expurrloring one! Does that happen a lot?

I can't say that I've ever encountered such a phenomenon before, no. [ outside of like some kind of big fight, at least. ] What were the circumstances that led to his descent?

He didn't say! I'm not really sure that he knew why eifur. But he came down like one of the meteors from the game and got up like there was no purroblem at all. It was really cool!

Well, the meteors weren't quite part of your standard celestial downpour, they were designed to protect and deposit their contents for... [ she's rambling. none of that is even important, is it? she looks up at the ceiling and wonders if this stranger could survive the vacuum like she had. there certainly weren't completely empty skies out beyond the atmosphere, and she knows that a little better than most. ]

Do you think he may have fallen from space, or just a high building? It would take some doing for a resident of the Carrier to lose their orbit if they passed outside the hull.

He didn't seem to know where he was at all, so wherefur he came from it wasn't in the city. [she grimaces a little bit] I had to expurrlain time and space shenanigans beclaws of that!

[ she furrows her brows. logical puzzles are a good distraction, at least while she's too busy thinking about them to realize it. ] Do you believe he may have been freshly imported? Those circumstances don't sound like one I've noticed to be typical.

Pawsibly! He didn't believe that this was Earth at furst. And then he wanted to see whoefur was in charge right away.

[she doesn't really know much about the way people are imported, having only been through it once herself]

He must have been unfamiliar with the setting. I suppose initial arrival can tend to be a touch overwhelming, and not all of us take the time to orient to our surroundings before making fools of ourselves to whoever we encounter.

[ the brochures are right there in the room, it is so easy to educate yourself. she feels very strongly about this.

she had also taken a bit of time to just let herself catch up to whatever the hell she'd stumbled into before bothering with the communicator she was issued. you now, allow herself to breathe and that, get used to the sun. there are protocols and guidelines to follow here and everyone should be smart enough to figure them out on their own the moment they're suddenly thrown into a very weird and confusing alternate dimension, come on. ]

I don't think anyone's really even in charge on Earth, anyway. Not the whole thing, at least, so perhaps he didn't really know much more about the planet than we had on initial arrival.

I think we eventually decided that he was from an alternate future Earth. Or something like that. [her nose crinkles again. god she hates time/space shenanigans]

Eifur way, he defurnitely didn't look stupid! He was supurr cool looking, especially when he climbed out and the crater was still smoking a little.

You would think an event like this would be better publicized. [ at least someone would've complained about the crater. ] What was he like?

Purrhaps efuryone is so used to it that they don't care? [man don't look at her. she gets excited at the question and leans forward, mimicking a deep manly voice when the narrative calls for it]

He was really really cool! And supurr tall, which looked even cooler beclaws he was wearing this really hardcore looking suit of armor. He was all 'this can't be Earth bluh bluh' and 'you can call me Chief hrm hrm'.

I see. [ she doesn't really see. that doesn't sound like anyone she's ever encountered before, but she doesn't know how else to respond. ]

Yeah! But he was purretty nice even though he looked so serious, so hopefurlly I can be furiends with him after he gets situated and stuff.

[lord knows she was going to talk to him again regardless]

[ what is that, is that a small turn at the corner of her lips? is that vague amusement on kanaya's face? maybe miracles do happen. ]

Gruff and serious? Well, you certainly do have a type.

[she giggles. fuck yes just for that this party is now A+ forever and always.]

It's a purretty sucky type, but somebody has to keep them from grumping all ofur efurything! And I guess I'm just too purrfect fur the job to resist.

Well, I guess certain absences require some attempt at compensation.