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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[ninehundredlives]

Maybe if we ever got away from them, we could figure out how they took peoples' powers and reverse it. But, again...that's a really big "if".

[evilfrenzy]

[He's thoughtful for a moment.]

There may come a time where we have the opportunity to look into it, at the very least. New areas keep appearing every week, and we are generally unrestricted in our investigation of the place. Whether or not they would ever open up such a location for us to see is another thing entirely though, of course...

[ninehundredlives]

I doubt it. Unless they were really, really sure we wouldn't be able to use it.

[evilfrenzy]

Or...they would let us use it, because we reached the end. One way or another.

[That's cryptic when you think about it in certain ways. Reaching the end can happen in multiple ways.]

[ninehundredlives]

You think they’ll let us go, if we perform to their liking?

[evilfrenzy]

I have no reason to believe otherwise at this point in time. They do seem to be sticking to their rules, at the very least.

[ninehundredlives]

Yeah, they do have that going for them. But I don't know - they've never said anything one way or another about the non-early ending.

[evilfrenzy]

[With a shrug,]

It's at least something to keep in mind. As you say, we have little information on what a different ending will be like. Assuming we all make it that far.

[He doesn't assume they'll all make it that far. The only way they've been getting new floors is with every passing trial, so...]

[ninehundredlives]

Maybe some of the past groups figured it out. Or they didn’t, and that’s why this is still happening.

[evilfrenzy]

Now that we can't really say one way or the other, and I don't think the Coordinators will tell us anytime soon.