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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[evilfrenzy]

[The future is indeed here!!]

Oh, Tarrlok- excellent timing. I was planning on tracking you down. Yes, this is the phone.

[He'll let Tarrlok come over and get a look at it.]

The camera function works, but unfortunately, that's about all that works. I won't be making any calls or texts anytime soon as I have no reception here.

[bloodisthicker]

Oh, so... you use it to call people like a radio, then?

[...HE'S KIND OF GETTING IT, maybe, a little bit. he heads on over to look at it!]

...and you can also send text messages? Well, if it can take pictures, so that makes sense.

[evilfrenzy]

Something like that, yes.

[It's a little more involved than that, but it's also not wrong. Like a two-way radio.

Rideaux clicks over to his texts to show Tarrlok what that looks like. At a glance, it looks like Rideaux communicates this way a lot. There are a ton of messages here. He taps the "new message" button so Tarrlok can see the setup.]

The buttons for dialing phone numbers doubles as a keypad for typing messages. Of course, I won't be sending any until I get out of here...or figure out what's jamming the signal.

[If it's even jammed. They are probably really far from Rideaux's dimension right now to even have a signal.]

[bloodisthicker]

Ah, I see.

[He keeps a pretty close eye on things as Rideaux goes through, because this is some cool shit!!]

That's definitely very handy, and I'm... definitely hoping those get invented soon where I'm from, ha ha. Though, I kind of doubt it, given that we don't have anything like those screens, even.

[evilfrenzy]

Forgive me for being blunt, Tarrlok [click! goes the phone as he snaps it shut] but I find that to be incredibly depressing. Though that does remind me of Rieze Maxia, our neighboring country. They too are still developing, and have only just recently been introduced to our technology.

[bloodisthicker]

Oh, I know we've definitely got some catching up to do, but honestly the closest I've heard about anything like that is some ideas floating around about moving pictures. And given who's behind it... well, I wouldn't be terribly surprised if he gets distracted by some other bizarre venture sooner or later.

[evilfrenzy]

Oh, movies? [Wow, they don't even have movies yet. This is...something.] If you weren't already deep in politics, I would tell you to pursue that idea yourself. That is an enormous industry in the making.

[bloodisthicker]

Hmmm. I'm curious to see how it turns out, but honestly, I'd imagine that'd require some sort of artistic bent, wouldn't it? At least in terms of literary art or having an eye for something, anyhow.

[evilfrenzy]

Well, yes. [...] At least you're apparently admitting that you don't. There is always the option to fund it...

[Tarrlok's a politician, right? Clearly loaded.]

[bloodisthicker]

...It seems like it could be pretty useful, at the very least. Thinking about it.