!★! 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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Comments

[liedol]

[ Adult costumes? It's uh not like she's wrong exactly but who put that idea into her head?

Ai thinks about it for maybe two seconds before realising she already knows the answer. ]

... Ah. [ UH OH ] Now I get it. Let me guess... a certain little ghost decided he'd make you his partner in crime?

[ Somewhere at the party, Dreamer Hanako feels a cold, cold chill. The end of days approaches........... ]

[determinationtofist]

Geh...!

[ At this point, Dreamer Gungnir is going to be the true death of Dreamer Hanako... will it be from a fist to the head or Hibiki's inability to keep secrets from his aunt? Hopefully for his sake we don't find out— ]

I-I mean... nooooooo...?

[ ...on the bright side, at least she tried? ]

[liedol]

There's no point in trying to cover up for him, you know. I've known him since he was a baby. I'd know his troublemaking anywhere.

[ She's still kind of laser focusing her eyes on Hibiki, but the intensity of her disapproval isn't quite as directed at her at least. ]

I'll just give you a warning, Hibiki-chan. This was pretty toned down since it's still a work party, but you shouldn't sneak into something for grown ups like this unless you're really prepared to see something you'd rather not see.

[determinationtofist]

Hnn...

[ Sorry, Hanako-kun... she couldn't protect you. Still, since it's Ai she was dealing with, it's understandable right? ]

Y-Yes ma'am...

[ Hibiki recognizes that Ai is right, plus the fact that she's only looking out for her, but... ]

Mnn... you look really good in your costume, at least?

[ Will a genuine compliment net Hibiki some brownie points? Well, even if it doesn't, it's still genuine... so it's not like Hibiki can keep it to herself, right? Compliments are meant to be said! ]

[liedol]

[ Her smile returns, with a little bit of a wry edge - yes, she can sense a grasping for brownie points when she sees it (again...... Hanako.......) but it's not like Hibiki's caused any real trouble. She just shakes her head a bit and steps back - scolding over, it seems. ]

It's not bad, is it? One of the perks of having a party over here is getting to wear the stuff you'd never be able to try out in real life.

[ Not unless she wants to be in seven thousand tabloids at least.

Her expression softens a bit. ]

Yours is cute too! You must've been excited to come see the party if you made sure to dress up for it.

[determinationtofist]

[ Hibiki really doesn't have it in her to try and actually be subtle about things like this. It's not like Hibiki can't keep secrets, but in cases like this where she knows she's technically in the wrong, well... ]

Right!? It's so fun! I couldn't get a disguise for some reason, but getting to dress up here is so fun!

[ And as an upside, while Bunny Ai may be saved from the tabloids... she will forever exist in Hibiki's memory— ]