boys and girls of ev'ry age~

[innocentloveholic]

[ With all the hubbub Aligula's been up for few weeks now and especially today, it should really, really not be a surprise that closing in around the evening, flyers start appearing pretty much everywhere, in true Aligula tradition.



There's an extra notice slipped under everyone's doors as well: i made costumes and you're not allowed to tell a ghost story unless you wear one!!!! they'll be in the bar with everything else so don't worry it's all taken care of~~~~ ♥

...yeah.

8pm sees the bar decorated with a lot of toilet paper—mummies were here, obviously—as well as cut-outs of cats, bats, ghosts, owls, and a few freaky looking things that are probably native to Aligula's world. Additionally, the bar counter is laden with dozens of treats, ranging from slightly overdone cookies (sugar, chocolate chip, double chocolate chip, snickerdoodle) roughly shaped like popular Halloween motifs like bats, ghosts, and something attempting to be a pumpkin; thumbprint cookies with some sort of raspberry jelly on them that's a little too sweet, thick, and sticky; to somewhat lopsided chocolate and vanilla cakes, topped with whipped cream frosting and mixed berries. There's hot chocolate and water for people who prefer not to take any of the alcohol that's naturally in the bar, and...

True to her notice, there are costumes laid across several tables and chairs that have been pushed together: bedsheets with fancy embroidery around the hem for some expensive-looking bedsheet ghosts, witch costumes, robes for every monster occasion, cat-ear headbands + tail combination and a marker for whiskers, the same except dog-themed, black capes with red insides for vampires...

If you told her a preference and let her measure you, your costume set aside with a piece of paper with your name attached to it! If not, well. Bedsheet ghosts and capes are one size fit all, though she attempted to eyeball (ha) most everyone, so maybe one of these other ones fit you? Or maybe you don't care and you're not going to tell a ghost story anyway, so whatever.

The ghost stories, by the way, have their own little throne—there's one table pulled away from the others that's covered with a blanket and has a pillow and a few of those cute Cerberus plushes that come out of the machine with it. Take a seat and share something spooky—tis the season in this room, after all. ]

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[zomgboom]

[Tabby is wearing the clothes she arrived in. It is a costume, as far as she's concerned - she even fashioned a fake flight harness to complete her look.

She's got a drink in hand, which is kind of a pointless gesture since it won't get her drunk, as she wanders around.

Eventually she ends up at the story throne. If someone wants a story, she'll explain Ghost Rider's origins. Or, well, the really fictionalized version they used to tell among the X-Men about how Ghost Rider comes for the souls of mutants who don't do their homework. There's children here, she's not about to traumatize them with an actual ghost story.]

story throne

[hesperos]

[ Hello there, he's here in his werewolf costume, because apparently he did decide to come after all, and he's totally here for any stories so he's going to come on by the makeshift story throne at some point. ]

So, you got a good story to tell?

[zomgboom]

There's this place where I'm from - not just my Earth, but the actual place where I was born and stuff - called Shepherdstown. It's weird. Heroes will go anywhere there's, like, people to be saved and stuff, but we don't go to Shepherdstown.

[She pauses, partially to try and figure out how to tell this so it's like a story, but partially to see if it's interesting.]

[hesperos]

Are there people who need to be rescued in your town?

[ Color him curious, to be honest. ]

story throne

[matchbreaker]

[ You know what, sure. But you know after that souls of mutants tho don't do their homework one...? She blinks, considers a moment and then gives a thumbs down. ]

Try another?

[zomgboom]

[She considers for a moment, checking to make sure Alex isn't nearby.]

Do you know about, like, the lost colony of Roanoke?

[matchbreaker]

Never heard of it!

[ she knows Japanese legends and old European vampire stories that's... about it really... ]

[zomgboom]

It was the first American colony. Some people, like, say that it's not a ghost story or whatever because the winter was harsh and the colonists probably just died of starvation and stuff. That's not the story mutants tell.

I dunno if it's just because a lot of us have been burned by humans, but the story goes that the first kid born in America, Virginia Dare, was the first mutant. She was a shapeshifter in a time when, like, that sort of thing got you burned at the stake. Now they usually just, like, shoot you or whatever.

Anyway, she and her family lived in Roanoke. There was a lot of conflict between the Native Americans and the colonists because let's be super real: Europe is, like, full of . [No offense, Elda.] They thought they owned the place because they built some houses or whatever, and the Native Americans were super rightfully upset by that. Eventually, like it usually does, that conflict turned into a war.

The Native Americans had their spears or whatever, but the colonists had Virginia Dare. She changed into a great beast and, like, slaughtered the opposing army. She saved Roanoke, but the people of Roanoke were big on God and, well. You and I both know what they would think of a girl who could turn herself into a monstrous beast.

[They had a whoooooooole talk about that, after all.]

[matchbreaker]

Still, to burn their own savior's something special. ... You'd think that their "God-fearing" elite would put her in chains, declare her a weapon in penance for some sin of being born.

[ Is killing her a mercy or a blessing in that respect...? She's not sure. She listened attentive to the story, because honestly, that reminds her of some vampire stories, the foolish ones about those who sided with humanity, like von Zarovich. ]

wandering around

[sleepytimegal]

[ hey fuck you reili

Zombie rock star Alex has arrived. ] Hey, does that really count?