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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 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. ]

You better not think that means you aren't still one!

[she calls out to her, mouth twisted up in a grin. she doesn't chase after her no matter how much she wants to; Nepeta knows that when people feel like this you can't push them, and sometimes they just need to be alone and to think.

but she does want Kanaya to know that just being difficult isn't going to get rid of her that easily. she's far too stubborn for that.]