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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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Well either way I like it a lot betta than what we had at home. That was just ridiculous! And way too eager to just kill people because they could.

Yeah, that sounds, uh. [ Horrible? Insane? ] Rough.

It was kind of shitty, yeah! I was going to change it when I came to power. Oh well, it's all gone now, so it doesn't really matter anymore!

*She sounds oddly cheery discussing that.*

Gone? You mean like, destroyed? [ WHAT IS THIS THAT IS A DISTRESSING IMPLICATION and even if she doesn't care Wally cares about everyone. :c ]

Yep! Here come the meteors, kaboom, total planetwide devastation! And then oops, a psychic death cry that kills every last one of your race in the universe except the twelve of you that managed to escape beforehand! No more trolls.

...even if things kind of sucked where we were from, it's kind of a bummer. But I try not to let it get me down.

[ Kind of a bummer Wally doesn't even know what to say to that. So. There's a drawn out silence. ]

You seem to be doing a pretty good job of it.

Thanks, I try! No sense in letting it get me down over what might have been, right?

Don't dwell in the past, mister! That's the way to go.

[ Maybe you could dwell a little.... ]

Couldn't agree more. Always looking ahead, that's me. [ It's just a little weird seeing someone else do the same thing. Uncommon. ]

Exactly! That's the way to live. Who cares about everything I would have done once I was in charge, I'm not going to beach and moan about what might have been.

Just no point in that.

That's pretty mature of you. [ Of course he can't tell really what's her and what's costume, so. ]

How old are you anyway?

I'm six solar sweeps! So that's...

...hmmm. By now, I'm a little more than thirteen Earth years!

[ God, she's just a kid. ]

Are you here with an adult?

Nope! Here with friends!

It's okay, we didn't really have adults back home, either. So I'm used to it!

[ But. That doesn't make it okay. And now he feels kinda bad, and also responsible somehow. Well, he's kind of an adult, right? ]

I hope you guys are taking care of each other. This isn't a good city to be on your own in.

We're trying! For the most part we're doing okay now, I think, though there were some rough patches earlier. But that was before I got here.