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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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Yeah, I can see it. Not only that, but some of the shit you used to be able to do to kill time you can't anymore because of the sudden...people around you, or the lack of targets, or whatever the hell you used to have before but don't anymore. Everything changes.

I have no love lost for the animated dead who would roam the sands beyond my lawn ring, but I suppose I had more time to devote to various projects when I wasn't expected to take responsibility for such a large group as directly as I have needed to since.

Responsibility. Like you have to make sure they don't accidentally get themselves shanked while your back is turned or whatever. [Not that he knows what that is like. Just hypothetically speaking.]

Well, maybe not to such extremes. [ no, wait. accidental deaths are a thing they've had to deal with one more than one occasion. ] Actually, you never know with this group. That, or they could be doing the shanking themselves.

Sounds exciting. Happened often?

A time or two. Really the less said about it, the better.

[ especially given that, among the ones she would actually consider her friends, she's the most likely to do any kind of shanking. ]

I get that.

[Friends deathcount as of his canonpoint: 4.]

So we could talk about something else but I don't think you'd care about... [Um. Oh.] ...Rox leaving her cat in the fridge by accident.

She told me about that. She was spared quite a bit of suffering for it.

[ not just from the virus itself, but some of the dramatic fallout as well. ]

Yeah. Jake and Jane also got out before it happened. [And there is a pause. This is a pause shaped like, "So...were you...uh, virused?" Except in better Dirkese.] I got lucky.

I don't know that I saw you there at all, either before or after they left. I suppose you did.

[ she'd rather leave her "Yes" implicit anyway. ]

I kind of kept to myself so I ain't surprised.

[And/or he avoided crowds as best he could, keeping tabs on people from afar.]

[ she hasn't had much luck keeping to herself lately, especially not with everyone expecting her to take care of things. ]

Have you not been acclimating well?

I've been alright. It's just been a change, that's all.

[If the space they were in was any smaller he'd be spending his time neurotically chasing after his friends.]

[ this is why portal generation is both a blessing and a curse. ]

Well, it isn't a change the rest of us haven't needed to accustom to it. How extreme a change could it really be to go from one version of the same planet to another?

[Shrug.] Technological differences, for one thing: this is the 21st century and I came from what most locals here would consider the future.

Relatively moot. It's still the same world, after all. The standards by which it runs would have remained at a constant definition, I'm sure.

...not exactly. There was a troll invasion - singular, not plural - in mine which affected pop culture as well as pretty much everything else.

[ right. she should have already known that, roxy'd mentioned it. ]

But that singularity itself means it couldn't have been so drastic a change as experienced by those of us who had actually grown up on Alternia.