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

[sleepytimegal]

...Okay, then you should definitely be in the video game era.

[heritrix]

[/THINKS ON THIS...]

Oh! Are they like those games you can play at arcades? I remember some games with a computer screen off to one side.

[sleepytimegal]

Yes! Yes, exactly, those! You've never played one?

[heritrix]

No way. They looked clunky and weird. [She pantomimes inserting coins.] It would have been a waste of money, since I didn't think I could get the hang of them.

[sleepytimegal]

Not all of them are like that. Like, insert coin, play game. A lot are home consoles or...handhelds, things like that. You could borrow from a friend, or...see what they're like with that. A lot of 'em are strategy-based, so they seem like your thing, is all.

[heritrix]

...I could try one, I guess. [Rin says this, but she looks super dubious, like video games are actually unclean drinking water.] But it sounds complicated. What's wrong with a good, old-fashioned board game?

[Dislikes: Electronics]

[sleepytimegal]

Nothing... They can just be fun. Don't knock it 'til ya try it, missy.

[heritrix]

It's a shame there's none around. [Gosh she's so sad about this.] Oh well.

[sleepytimegal]

...If we get access to any, you have to promise to play one with me.

[heritrix]

[Mrrrrr. After a moment, she grumbles her affirmation.]

I'll try anything at least once. If you're giving me a look like that, I can't easily refuse.

[sleepytimegal]

Excellent.