[EVENT] 'Tis the Spooky Season...

[vrdr_mods]

Autumn is drawing on in the Velvet Room and its environs. The days are colder, the nights are crisper, leaves are a riot of colour ready to fall from the trees. And (besides all the pumpkin spice popping up for some reason) that means only one thing: Hallowe'en!

As the season approaches, you may undergo a mysterious transformation. Perhaps you wake up with wings, or hooves, or gills! Or perhaps your transformation will change more, go deeper... perhaps to your very soul. Who can tell? You might wake up as an animal, or a mythological creature. Or as anything at all.

Transformations will reverse on the morning of November 1st. Probably.

In the meantime, Destinyland is celebrating the holiday. Cheerful Jack-o'-Lantern Shadows have set up on street corners, handing out flyers advertising the park's seasonal festivities. In the days leading up to the 31st, Destinyland will host all the usual fun: Hallowe'en games, Trick or Treat for the babies (and the not-so-babey), the Gorb fortune teller, Shadow-run food stalls serving spooky meals and treats, and, of course, the haunted house with its array of friendly, candy-giving Shadows. Or maybe they're not so friendly.

On the night of Hallowe'en itself, there will be a parade at the park and a grand party out in the main square with food, music, and plenty of space, though characters are not obliged to attend. However, if you wish to show off your new form, see what transformations have been wrought on your fellow guests, or simply take the chance to celebrate, it may be a good opportunity...

Who knows? Perhaps you'll even see some special guests.

[ooc: Welcome to our second Halloween event! This post will serve as a mingle for the duration of the event. Feel free to invite friends to play as guest characters, too! There will be a toplevel, and guest characters are simply whisked into the setting to engage in festivities, with a slight ghostly aura. For an example, see the thread here from last year!]

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*SHORT OF, damn typos xD;

[undyingcrow]

"...That's fairly concerning." Multiple transformations. As if one wasn't bad enough. "Is that commonplace, in your reality?"

Frankly baffling. Pardon his staring.

[herewardbound]

He sighed, rubbing his face. "Haaah... Okay. Not strictly speaking, no? Up until February 3rd, 2017, I was, in fact, in much the same position as you, from what I've gathered. We made the decision to confront Maruki, I... went off to my death, we won, the Palace collapsed, and I... woke up in a place not unlike this one. A shared dream, connected to many possible realities. Dreams being what they are, the local reality was... unstable, at the best of times."

[undyingcrow]

"I suppose that's to be expected, in a world of dreams." Still, that's fascinating. Fascinating enough for him to relax his posture, taking his chin in hand. "In my case, I woke up only to find myself at a shelter my mother and I went to when I was very young, with a rush of memories I had 'conveniently' lacked until the collapse of Maruki's reality. Evidently, he was so convinced that I had died that he rewrote reality so that it was a fact that he reversed."

Which left him with quite a lot of existential baggage, to say the least.

[herewardbound]

"Heh..."

Phoenix stared at his hand, for a moment. "Funny. That's... funny." He tensed, slightly, as Reneé laid a hand on his shoulder. "I didn't make it that far. Maruki made it abundantly clear, what I was. I felt myself coming undone, when his Palace collapsed. If I hadn't awoken in Reverein, we wouldn't be having this conversation."

[undyingcrow]

"Ah." That's... hm. He can see why it would be... concerning. "Maruki claimed that Ren needed to accept his reality, for my sake. I had a gap in my memories. No real way of knowing if I would even survive. I had confidence that I was real, the same way that Wakaba Isshiki and Okumura were in that reality, but beyond that..."

He trails off, blowing a sigh.

"Well, I suppose it's rather moot, isn't it? Our experiences speak for themselves."