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. ]

Comments

[matchbreaker]

Of course not! I don't mean some big sagely thing, but something controlled and proper! It's a gentlemanly look!

[ . . . Look. ]

[notaccurate]

[Elda do you have a type?]

What about a mustache instead?

[matchbreaker]

No.

[ FLATLy. ]

[notaccurate]

...

[Should he?]

Do you...do you have a thing for beards?

[matchbreaker]

Well my James did have a splendid thing. And our boy Henry's maintained a dignified looking one too.

[notaccurate]

Ah. So you have a thing for beards.

[Of course.]

I am not so sure one would look good on me, personally. They seem hard to maintain too, and they're always so scratchy-

[That sounds like it could be the end of a sentence, but the way he ends it sounds more like he abruptly cut himself off when he was going to say more.]

[matchbreaker]

... I have a thing for gentlemen.

[ She says, reaching a claw out to poke him in the chest. What was that weird cut off ]

[notaccurate]

But not for clean-shaven gentlemen?

[She'll have to ask more directly to get an answer out of him about that.]

[matchbreaker]

Show me one, and perhaps I'll answer.

[notaccurate]

[You're getting a look, Elda. Luca is totally a gentleman, okay?]

I shall do my due diligence to make sure you see a clean-shaven gentleman, then.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, really?! Well, good luck with that!

[ This look is either not noticed or ignored??? like??? ]

[notaccurate]

[Elda u shit.]

What, you think I can't turn one of the men here into an upstanding gentleman?

[Discounting Cabanela because he's got a beard and Luca won't ask him to shave. Everyone else has no facial hair, though.]

[matchbreaker]

Mmmm, well... the only ones even in consideration are Kimblee, who's too roguish by half, Archer, but I think that man's a little bit... well, he's out too. [ She taps her wand-spoon on her cheek. ] Cabanela is possible - he certainly can look the part, but that disproves your theory outright... Mmm.

[ Glancing around the room... ]

I suppose Rideaux holds promise. Tarrlok's also on his way there, though I cannot for the life of me understand that hair.

[notaccurate]

Cabanela would need to shave and that would probably look even weirder, since we are used to him having facial hair.

[He's not going anywhere near Kimblee or Archer either.]

Rideaux could work. I could probably give Tarrlok a better haircut too. Maybe Yuri too, but he's probably a bit too young for you.

[matchbreaker]

Oh yes, he's a spring chicken.

[ Confirming that. ]

[notaccurate]

I imagine that's why you didn't consider me too?

[He's only 6 years older than Yuri.]

[matchbreaker]

... Sure?

[ Look. ]

[notaccurate]

[Alright, moving on-]

Mikoto? Though he might be quite the challenge, I imagine I could not get him into a suit.

[matchbreaker]

That man? Even excusing his age, the man's so taciturn that it's easier to think of him as an animal than a human.

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