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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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My proposition is simple, uncomplicated. You allow me to cook your catches, and then I do. You are the only one expected to eat them, and if anyone else feels so inclined they may join you.

That's not much fun at all, though.

I'm not really concerned with how fun it isn't, only that your eating is being carried out healthily.

Why can't we have both?

[ because she hates her unlife and by extension everything in it. ]

Fun isn't really a consideration in my priorities. If you want to add that on your own, then feel free to do so, as long as it's within the boundaries of the guidelines I've already set.

Hmm. [she places a hand on her chin in exaggerated thought] I think that your purriorities may pawsibly be a teensy bit out of whack, Kanaya.

[ kanaya reflects it with one on her hip. ] I think I'm prioritizing precisely what must be prioritized. Anything else is a secondary consideration.

[she can't help but giggle a little at how they're mirroring each other]

That's a purretty good opinion, but I just can't bring myself to agree! I'm defurnitely going to have to keep with what I said befur.

[ kanaya groans loudly enough to make sure nepeta hears, she's not sure if she has the patience to keep up this fuss-off. ]

You shouldn't. If you want to have fun, you can do it with food that's been properly cooked.

Except I'm pawsitive that I can have just as much fun without having to go through all that.

[her smile widens at the groan, although she does relent a little. Nepeta just wants to tease Kanaya, not actually upset her]

Although I purromise I'll get some of it cooked sometimes so that your head doesn't spin off or anything.

[ and then this thread was both a callback and really unfortunate foreshadowing at the very same time. ]

Be careful. If the percentage of that "some" is too low, it will be likely to skip the spinning and just tumble off my shoulders instead.

[oh ouch that was my heart]

I don't think that'd be too bad! If we're fast we can purrobably just glue it back on.

For all I know, that might actually work. I don't think I've lost that yet.

[ but she's already used to body parts falling off, given how things went for her just the week prior. ]

That's good to know, although I'd prefur it stayed where it was. It looks purretty nice up there!

[ unfortunately, kanaya's got caught in her mood again, and just scowls at the compliment. ]

There's no need to lie to make me feel better, you know.

[Nepeta crosses her arms and scowls a tiny bit]

Kanaya, have I efur said anything even close to a lie to you in the entire time we've been furiends?

I don't know. Inaccuracies maybe, but usually done with that very same goal at heart.

[she huffs] Well it's not eifur this time! And since I'm the one saying it I think that I'd know best.

Edited 2013-01-17 20:23 (UTC)

[ she pouts. ]

So you're maintaining that it wasn't said to make me feel better, and was an entirely unrelated comment to anything I might have been feeling or saying at the time, existing only in the isolated vacuum from which your whims may produce themselves?

I'm not saying it was compurrletely spontaneous, beclaws that's not how conversations work [she nudges at her lightly with a foot] but I'm absolutely pawsitive that I didn't say it beclaws you looked like somebody better make up something nice about you befur you tried to drown yourself in the punch bowl or something!

[and honestly it was a little hurtful that Kanaya would think that of her, even in the sort of mood she was]

[ kanaya glares at nepeta's foot, then the punchbowl, then back to her eyes. she never claimed to not be a terrible person. ]

That wouldn't really do. Others will still expect to drink from it afterward.

I can't be sure, beclaws apurrently tonight you really don't care about ofur people's feelings very much!

[Nepeta knows that she probably shouldn't say things like that, but she can't help herself - she's never been very skilled at toning down her bluntness, and as good a friend as Kanaya is she's not willing to let her think this crap is ok]

[ kanaya just stands there a moment, frowning. she's really being spectacularly rude right now, isn't she. ]

Well. If I'm doing no good here then perhaps I should just leave.

If you don't think you'll be able to be purrlite to people then that's purrobably a good idea.

[her cheeks puff out sulkily. she doesn't want to tell people what to do or where to be but dammit if she didn't just want to have a nice party time]

[ kanaya makes a small hum of acknowledgement and turns to walk away. she knows when she's not wanting, especially when she's making herself distinctly unwantable.

the part that sits most uncomfortably with her is that she really isn't sure how much of it she's doing on purpose to push people away. that's pretty much what she'd done with rose, wasn't it? all karkat and nepeta are trying to do is help, after all. it isn't their fault they're wasting the effort where it isn't deserved.

she stops about five feet away and turns back to nepeta, looking miserable. ]

I'm sorry for having been nasty. You deserve better from your friends.

[ maybe better friends are what nepeta really deserves. regretfully, kanaya turns again to complete her exit. ]

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