!★! Happy Halloween!

[beautifuldreamermods]

⭐ Who: The Dreamers of Yumemigaoka!
⭐ When: Forward dated to October 30th
⭐ Where: The Dreamer Union & the Slumbering City
⭐ What: The promised Halloween party! The DU

YUMEMIGAOKA

Thankfully for everyone's nerves, despite the increased activity in the Dream Sphere that's typical of spooky season, there's been no major emergencies for the Dreamers of Yumemigaoka to attend to for the month of October – which means that when the company Halloween party comes around, there's nothing to interrupt it!

Similarly to the anniversary celebration, the party is split into two halves, with the first leg of the party an all-ages event starting at noon and hosted at the Dreamer Union in Yumemigaoka, with an open invite to all employees and registered Dreamers. Everyone's encouraged to put together a costume just to get into the spirit of things, but while the HR department who set all this up might give you a woeful look of disappointment if you opt out, it is still technically optional.

Of course, with this many Dreamers in one place, things are definitely going to be a little busy, but the whole building has been decorated with some truly spooktacular vibes... and there's a few quiet rooms here and there that have been relegated to letting people catch their breath with some spooky movies if the scariest thing about this party is the prospect of socializing.

There's all sorts of candy and seasonal food to go around as well as a healthy supply of regular-ass food that's been dressed up and served to look spooky – riceballs wrapped with seaweed to look like mummies, crab dishes with the legs arranged to look like spider legs, spicy snacks with sauce globbed on to look like blood... someone was really having fun with this, huh?

For the most part, this is a pretty low-key event, despite the huge guest list – there's some chill games, like a beer pong setup with a fake eyeball and a pretty chonky pinata that's taking a shocking amount of blows before breaking open but for the most part, this just seems like an excuse for everyone to come together and blow off some steam. Of course, that's probably because for some of you, the party's only just begun!

THE DREAM SPHERE

The all-ages get together in Yumemigaoka was only one half of the Halloween festivities and once that party wraps at six, the real chaos begins! A 21+ only afterparty springs up over in the Dream Sphere, taking over the Slumbering City's DU office and spilling out into the plaza outside as well. Of course, this is just in the Dream Sphere, so if you're really determined to sneak in and see what the grown ups are up to, there's nothing stopping you...

Like Yumemigaoka, the DU office in the Slumbering City has been decorated nicely and the city itself is contributing with a nice and moody purple sky outside - though pleasantly enough, the weather is unseasonably mild so you can hang out in the plaza without freezing to death. While it is still a work party on paper, things are definitely a little rowdier by design. There's booze for one and a much more implicit encouragement to let down your hair and bust out a really goofy costume – this is the Dream Sphere, after all, so the sky's the limit!

That philosophy seems to have applied to the food as well and again, much like the anniversary, there's a whole buffet of totally impossible foods. Among other things, there's...


⧖ Cauldron-shaped cupcakes with bubbling 'potion' fillings that fizz and pop when you take a bite.
⧖ Cotton candy spun into intricate spiderweb shapes and adorned with gummy spiders.
⧖ A bubbling cauldron of some hot and savory stew that changes color with each stir and releases tiny puffs of smoke.
⧖ Pizza topped with ghostly white cheese and spicy phantom peppers that live up to their name and vanish from your hand once you're down to the last bite!
⧖ Corn on the cob made entirely of candy corn kernels.
⧖ A franken-fruit salad, with a number of confusingly flavoured fruits - apples that taste likes cherries, cherries that taste like bananas, bananas that taste like... salted caramel?!?


And if you're looking for games, the office itself and the plaza outside seems to have been set up with a whole bunch of them!


⧖ A number of apple bobbing cauldrons that look to be full of slime and various other unpleasant things... but if you're brave enough to go bobbing, you'll see it really is just water.
⧖ Enchanted pumpkin carving! Using anything they have to hand (maybe even their Sandglass??), Dreamers carve pumpkins that have unique properties, such as changing shapes when they're cut into or spitting sparks into the face of the poor person trying to carve them! You have ten minutes and a guide to follow, with the winner determined by whoever got the furthest along with their pumpkin fighting them the whole way.
⧖ A floor in the DU office has been turned into a mini haunted house walk! As well as traditional scares, a little trick of dream magic has been set up so that the floor will also pick on a Dreamer's own personal fears. For the most part, these will be pretty surface level and occasionally silly – a Dreamer with a fear of spiders might be faced with a room decorated with spider webs and the odd spider – but when multiple Dreamers pass through at once, the floor might dig a little too deep and show off something just a bit too personal...
⧖ Stuck without a costume? No worries! A floor of the DU has been set up with 'dressing rooms' to help you with that. Just step inside and your Dreamer costume will be reformed instantly into something more appropriate for the party and you can jazz it up however you like!


The party lasts through the Dream Sphere's night, with everyone dropping back into the real world just as sunrise tinges the Dream Sphere's sky. Of course, it's still the middle of the night back in reality but it's probably in your best interests to just head to bed... you can't get a hangover from alcohol you only dreamt about, right? ... RIGHT???

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[darcangel]

[ Instead of the wall, however, she finds a pair of arms waiting for her, steadying her shoulders. ]

Take heart. It is not real. [ Murmurs a voice at her ear. ] And this sort of fear is not in the spirit of fun!

[ Yes, a total stranger - a girl whose Dreamer outfit has her looking rather knightly - has just tried to brace her and is now scolding??? the Dream Sphere??? on her behalf. Don't worry about it. ]

[angelolatry]

It's...ah?

[Colette instinctively apologizes, not having meant to back into anyone else behind her like that. But the other was right. She was seeing herself somehow? So this couldn't really be happening. But at the same time...she hadn't meant for everyone to see this. To find out like this about her health. About her inability to feel pain and the complications that can come with when she doesn't always realize she is hurt or necessarily how bad it is.]

[darcangel]

This is a dream, and we shall leave it behind.

[ May she take your hand, stranger? To squeeze it between both of hers, encouragingly? ]

Now, go boldly!

[ Let's walk on past, defying sorrow! ]

[angelolatry]

A dream? You think so?

[Colette doesn't stop the other from reaching for her hands. She glances down at their hands together, before letting the other lead them to keep walking. To try get past this situation. She isn't against this but isn't necessarily expecting the other to take her hand like that, though Colette doesn't withdraw or pull back, allowing the other to lead the way.]

[darcangel]

Oh, yes. If it helps, please keep your eyes on me.

[ Can we actually just walk right out of this room? Will the dreamscape allow that? ]

[angelolatry]

Okay.

[Given the other is talking, she does. Try to focus on Jeanne. Not on the room. The image of her in the hospital. The doctors talking to her about needing to be more careful yet again for the however manyth time by now. She just leans more against the other, letting Jeanne lead the way. Trying to ignore the sight of the hospital room, the sounds, the beeps of the equipment, the chatter of the staff.]

[darcangel]

[ All right. They have reached the door. La Pucelle takes a deep breath. ]

O God and angels....

[ She slides the door open.

Please, please, no hospital beyond -- ]

[angelolatry]

Angels?

[She might not be the most with it, as distracted and upset as she was, as shocked at seeing that from the supposed haunted house of sorts. She hadn't anticipated it tapping into her fears, her insecurities like that. To show them to everyone. That people knew, found out like this. But Colette is distracted with the mention of angels.]

[darcangel]

[ Jeannette's face lights up. You could power a city with it. ] Yes! Have you met them too?

[ Let's hurry through this door then, before whatever this dreamscape is can notice they're escaping-- ]

[angelolatry]

I've only heard of them through stories, through books or classes. That sort of thing.

[Religious education and all. Church. Not that she had necessarily seen one herself. Or whether or not she actually believed herself in such. In angels or the like. Still, Colette had some sort of education and experience on having heard of or read a little about them.]