!★! 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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DU party

[saynotobugs]

[For obvious reasons Maki won't be in the Dream Sphere, but she does show up for the DU office party. She pops in with a wave, the only deviation from her standard work clothes being a store-bought cat ear headband and tail. Sorry she wasn't more creative.

Setting up with the other employees, though, she will get into, hanging up fake spider webs and setting plastic pumpkins on the ends of the tables.]

Did you guys get to papering the doors yet? Are we still going with a mummy for the elevator?

[At the food tables, Maki stands by waiting for people to ooh and ahh at the food, but after long enough she just steps in and starts piling some onto her plate.]

That's the downside of these things. The spider crab's cute and all, but then they all start thinking they don't wanna be the first one to ruin it by eating any.

[She can also be found supervising the games, checking on the piñata and making sure no one is spiking the drinks at the juice pong table. Hey, they're at work, no beer allowed.]

food tables

[dullshooter]

[And right next to her is Misfire, ready to ruin all the effort everybody put in to making the food look so nice.]

Don't worry. Totally not a concern of mine.

[To demonstrate his point, there goes a leg!]

They should really be thanking us for taking the brave first step. We're like martyrs.

[saynotobugs]

Don't swell your head too much, Florida, or we won't be able to fit it back out through the door.

[She rolls her eyes and takes a bite of crab.]

They did do a good job, though.

[dullshooter]

In the interest of protecting my fragile ego, I’m gonna go ahead and pretend you didn’t say that.

[He waves the crab leg around a little bit.]

But, yeah, huge agree on the presentation. [He takes a bite of crab. Sweet, delicious crab.] You think they’ve got it in the budget to provide this kind of catering year-round? Say it’s in the interest of morale.

[saynotobugs]

Now you're just getting lazy. Enjoy the party. Back in the day we didn't even have Halloween.

[dullshooter]

Hey, I find that a totally unfair assessment of character. Could a lazy person do this?

[And he just shows off his costume by. T-posing.]

[saynotobugs]

[snrk] No comment. How are you adjusting, anyway? I know it's been a little while.

[dullshooter]

What, to the Dreamer thing or the move-halfway-across-the-globe-for-reasons-I've-legally-been-advised-not-to-talk-about thing?

[saynotobugs]

Eh -- either or, whatever.

food tables

[i_peace]

[Keiwa... Is being Keiwa, watching people picking apart the food display not long after Maki takes the first portion. He's holding a plate, which should mean that he wants to get something to eat too, but someone keeps cutting in front of him and he's soft spoken to tell them off.

After a couple of attempts, he backs down and off the food table. Ah well, he can grab some food later... He looks over at Maki's plate of food before asking;]

Do you know who ordered the food? I didn't realize that there were places that made customized food like this...

[saynotobugs]

Not me this time. Pretty sure it was HR and the social committee putting in the work themselves.

[i_peace]

That's pretty impressive... [he tilts his head to look at the display again] Someone on the team must be pretty creative to come up with this.

[saynotobugs]

That's the Dreamer Union for you. You gonna eat anything? If someone butts in line, you can tell them, you know.

[i_peace]

Mm... Thank you all for your support. [a quick bow]

Oh- It's all right, I don't mind waiting. [in a comedy, his stomach would growl loudly now, but here he just laughs a little awkwardly] It looks like there's enough for everyone after all.

[saynotobugs]

Yeah, but don't let them skip you over anyway. You seem like a good kid. Don't wanna let you get walked all over.

[i_peace]

I'll be okay- Wait, 'Kid'? [laugh] I don't think we're that different in age... Are we?

[it's hard to tell sometimes and he doesn't want to offend]

[saynotobugs]

Heh, not by much. Just, I remember being new to this stuff too. Not the Dreamer thing, obviously. Just... life out here.

games

[thezekeinator]

[Maki might very well have checked the piñata just in time, because standing up to it is one Zeke Genbu, BRINGER OF CHAOS, in a profoundly ridiculous set of green sleeves and not much else up top. Not letting the incredible arm swellings get in his way, Zeke lifts the bat, then starts to wind up a swing.]

BRINGER OF CHAOS...

[Somewhere between blindfolding himself and picking up the bat, he's turned to face the windows.]

[saynotobugs]

Hooooooold up.

[Maki walks up, grabs his shoulder, and sort of pushes him in the other direction.]

I knew using this room was a bad idea.

[thezekeinator]

Ah! Foul! Interference! [Zeke vaguely waves the bat around, mostly with the intent of prodding whoever is ruining his perfect Ultimate Strike of Exploding Candy MAX.]

[saynotobugs]

I'm interfering with you breaking a window! Come on, move over here a little so you can actually hit the piñata, Genbu.

[thezekeinator]

Why is the piñata behind a window all of a sudden!? [Zeke takes a swing with the bat, which is fortunately waaaay over Maki's head. Die, piñata!]

[saynotobugs]

Because it's not.

[She groans and steps out of the way, keeping an eye on Zeke.]

You just got yourself mixed up.

[thezekeinator]

Me?! Mixed up!? Dreamer Chaosbringer would never --

[His next swing hits a wall, then bounces back at the precise angle to bean him straight in the face.]

Agh! Who's attacking?!

[saynotobugs]

You. You're attacking. Give it a rest and take the blindfold off before you hurt yourself again.