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yumemigaoka2023-10-22 10:44 am
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!★! Happy Halloween!
⭐ 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
⭐ 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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Ooooh, I see! It would be interesting if we could grow bananas that tasted like caramel, wouldn't it? At the very least, it would be fun to share with others.
[a nod, like it makes total sense (or maybe he's an airhead...)]
Gardening though... You seem pretty serious about it.
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When it comes to the Dream Sphere, there aren't many things that I can share with people outside, but Sensei likes flowers and sweet things... it's silly, though, because bananas are propagated by rhizome cuttings, not seeds...
[As usual, Cinnabar is completely incapable of making normal, friendly small talk. Oh well, they're already feeling awkward, so they might as well make it even worse.]
I, um... I'm sorry for poisoning you during the battle.
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[Tycoon's education didn't include biology, so he's a little out of his depth here. All that's put on hold when Cinnabar suddenly apologizes out of the blue. Tycoon looks up in confusion for a second before realizing what they were talking about]
Ah!
[the sincere realization in his voice. Makes you wonder if he's poisoned on the regular, if it actually took him a few seconds to remember what Cinnabar's talking about. But the truth is that he's just not the sort of person to hold a grudge, no matter how badly he's been hurt]
It's all right, the important thing is that we saved Mio-san and none of us were ejected. [he thinks for a moment, then laughs, embarrassed] I think we would have been in a lot more trouble if you weren't there. Those barriers were life savers.
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Th-thank you. I'm not used to fighting as part of a team... um, actually, every time I've tried it before, it's gone badly.
[They grimace slightly, remembering all the previous times they've poisoned their teammates. Even though no one ever blames them for it, Cinnabar can't help but feel like they should.]
It's still hard to believe that things turned out okay for once.
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Has it...?
[he pauses, turning his attention to the globs of mercury floating around Cinnabar instead. The way they move, it’s a little tempting to reach out and poke one, but between Tycoon’s shy nature and his manners, the thought comes and goes harmlessly]
I guess it would be a little hard to work with if you’re caught by surprise. It doesn’t really move like how one might expect it to... [he points at one globule for emphasis]
... The DU has units, right? Maybe having a team that’s used to how you fight would make it easier on everyone? [he’s just a Novice, so he’s still learning how his own magic works, nevermind trying to wrap his head around the Archetypes on top of it. From what he’s seen, there’s enough variety that there’s probably no limit to what people could actually do (an intimidating thought in it's own right)]
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I've only just officially joined, but I think you're right. Units are supposed to balance each Dreamer's strengths, but...
[Anyone fighting on Cinnabar's unit would need to protect themself from Cinnabar as much as from Torments. The thought twists uncomfortably inside their head.]
It moves with a mind of its own, so I can't really control it. It's the only partner I've had all this time.
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[He thinks about it, head tilted one direction]
But that's all the more reason why having people who are used to you would be helpful right? They wouldn't be caught off guard if the mercury started doing it's own thing... [a smile, as he adds cheerfully;] It seems to be behaving right now at least. So it can't be all bad, all the time.
[barring the small detail of it passive poisoning people around it too long...]
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[Keiwa is one of the people they've hurt, but he's not angry or apprehensive... and he actually makes a good point.]
But... it does react to my mental state, so maybe if I were with people I knew, it wouldn't be so bad.
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[he thinks he heard a classmate talk about how pets similarly picked up on their owner's anxiety. Maybe it was something along those lines? ... He gets the impression that the comparison may not be appreciated, so he keeps that thought to himself]
We're all meant to be working together, but it's kind of hard to bring yourself to bother others for help, right? Even though it shouldn't be...