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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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I suppose there's that...
[But you know, he kind of wants to protect this from the world at large. Let her express more of herself sometimes! Without criticism, critique, or the public eye looking at her!]
All right! So tonight you let your hair down and don't worry about a thing!
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[ She gives him a playful nudge in the side with her elbow. ]
You're not letting your hair down and enjoying yourself if you're getting all worried about me. Just relax for once in a while!
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[As if he can just stop worrying about her! But it's less of a specific worry than a very generic, "I have an active interest in making sure Ai's life is truly as happy as can be", which is much harder to dispel but also interferes much less in normal behavior. And right now she definitely seems to be enjoying herself.]
And really, don't take this a weird way, but you're rocking that outfit.
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[ She gives him a grin, all catlike teeth and mischief for just a second – before it softens again. Just teasing. ]
I won't lie, half of why I picked this in the first place was to see if I could even pull it off.
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[Look, Zeke would never have believed it either, but with hindsight in full force it's so obvious now. How would Ai not be aware of what she could accomplish?]
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[ Said like it's obvious. She's really going to act modest about it while standing there looking like that????? ]
It's not exactly my usual style, is it? I had no idea if it was going to look like a joke on me or not.
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[Look at him rock this idiotic horse costume, after all. Who would look at this thing and think, "Man, Zeke looks weird in that." Nope, this is a perfectly normal costume for him to be wearing.]
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[ When it comes to confidence, Zeke's kind of rizzed out, huh. ]
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I can't take the entire credit for it. Sam's the one who added the googly eyes.
[Which he'd been mildly annoyed about right up until he saw the results, and then enthusiastically embraced. It really does add so much.]
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Oh, the googly eyes pull the whole thing together. [ said with a decisive nod. ] A monotone brown and black look is pretty strong on the right occasion, but that pop of white and black really makes it shine. And the accessorizing is on point.
[ like she's giving him pointers on some high fashion on-trend look... ]
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[He only ate Spaghetti-Os out of a can the ONE TIME when the power was out and Sam refuses to let him live it down.]
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[ There's been Zeke gossip she doesn't know about for HOW long??? ]
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[Apparently a couple of months at least! What, did you think Zeke's ability to say the truth without saying the whole truth applied only to Dreamer things?]