!★! 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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[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.

[thezekeinator]

[Her statements, while logical, come with a huge problem!]

But if I take the blindfold off, my attacks won't count. How can I claim the glory of candy in that case?

[saynotobugs]

You can't at least right yourself beforehand? Maybe we should have just taken this outside.

[thezekeinator]

[Zeke pauses, then, which at least stops him from menacing anyone or anything else.]

...of all the people I would ever have guessed would have asked me to take it outside... actually, you're higher up on that list than I realized.

[saynotobugs]

Do you ever think before you say anything? I'm gonna be clear. You. Aimed the wrong way. And you. Are very close. To breaking a window. Which I am trying to prevent.

[thezekeinator]

It wasn't the wrong way when I started.

[Zeke is perfectly reasonable, having failed to consider that the extremely overdramatic gestures he made when stepping up to take a swing may very well have turned him slightly.]

I didn't know you were so protective of the windows.

[saynotobugs]

[siiiiiiigh.]

You are seriously giving me a headache today. Look, I'm not trying to pick a fight, I'm just trying to keep things civil and prevent any disasters.

[thezekeinator]

..prevent disasters? At a Dreamer party?

[Zeke lifts the blindfold from one eye.]



[Naturally, it's the eyepatch one.]

[saynotobugs]

Okay, it might be hopeless, but they can't say I didn't try. [Maki rolls her eyes.] You realize that's your eyepatch, buddy.

[thezekeinator]

Ha ha ha ha ha! Perhaps it never occurred to you to think...

...that I can see through this eyepatch with my incredible power!

[This might have been a more amazing claim if he were addressing Maki, rather than aggressively smirking at the piñata.]

[saynotobugs]

Because you obviously can't. At least you're looking in the right direction now.

[thezekeinator]

--but you still should have considered the possibility!

[Zeke almost sounds petulant. Come on, Maki, can't you give him any credit? He's all sorts of awesome! Even out of the Dream Sphere! Right??]

[saynotobugs]

If I didn't deflate your ego once in a while, you'd get worse than you already are. Just saying. [Shoulder pat.]

[thezekeinator]

Hmph. [Zeke pushes the blindfold off his uncovered eye, finally.] That's where you're wrong. Nothing can stop me, even though everything has tried!

[The universe itself apparently desires to knock Zeke Genbu down a peg, if you consider his luck...]

[saynotobugs]

Considering your record, I'd almost believe it. How many times did you almost die in the past three months, again?

[thezekeinator]

Absolutely none. [Zeke waves off the question like it's so much nonsense.] I'm far too tough and stubborn to kill -- to even come close to killing! You can't imagine my resilience as a Dreamer.

[saynotobugs]

Nobody's unstoppable. Pretty sure that's an exaggeration.

[thezekeinator]

Yeah, that's true. But if something's going to take me down, it's gonna be news.

[Or a piano falling out of a window.]

I won't claim to be invincible, but nothing's threatened me in a long time. Not that I can outfight everything, sometimes you have to retreat, but I'm pretty good at that when I need to be as well.

[saynotobugs]

Long as you're okay. Last thing anyone wants is to lose you, you know. ...Or for you to break something.