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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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[Colette isn't sure why he would assume that. But then. Maybe most others that are younger might behave in such a way. Colette was rather tame and sheltered, rather naïve in comparison to most others who might be a little more carefree and rebellious.]
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[Seriously, who has been such a good and wholesome influence on this girl? It's downright scary.]
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[That and given her whole thing with her health? She always has to be careful. Cautious. Always checking she hasn't accidentally hurt herself or bled or something. Let alone the idea of how clumsy she is even sober, without adding alcohol or such to the mix.
That and well. Romance and relationships mostly just kind of go right over her head. Not that she isn't aware that people date and the like but most things pertaining to that doesn't seem to really compute for her. She has her crush on Lloyd, but she's never admitted it, not to him at least.]
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That there will, chum. That's not how a lot of people think, though. Most kids are in a hurry to grow up, in my experience.
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[The typical teenager experience. The usual things they indulge in or at least tend to try once when young and in university or the like. Colette is just also aware she has to be more cautious given her health issues, being impaired with being drunk or the like certainly wouldn't help her coordination in not tripping and hurting herself for example, without even realizing until or unless someone else pointed it out or she was bleeding or something obvious like that.
But she also is just this generally sweet and good. Not wanting to cause trouble or worry her family.]
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[It's so implausible it rolls right back around to eminently reasonable. Especially for a Dreamer, who can do all sorts of things in the Dream Sphere without suffering repercussion in the waking world.]
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[She doesn't mean to get him in trouble. She doesn't have any intention to figure doing anything she shouldn't given her age. Colette is far too pure and innocent for that sort of thing.]
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[As if he'd get in trouble! No one in the Dream Sphere can possibly pretend kids of all ages wouldn't try to get into this party...]
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[One that is not more intended for adults? While Colette is getting there, she is still technically a minor at sixteen after all. She doesn't mind, doesn't want to get him in trouble if anyone knew he was aware she was here when she shouldn't be. But then this may be her naïve and trusting, oblivious nature that she still does sort of think in that black and white sort of way.]
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[Another glance back at the mystery room of internal doom. He's dying to know what she saw in there, but asking is rude even setting aside all other considerations.]
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[Well. She would hope it would only be her that might get in trouble. But even then she doesn't want to cause any issues regardless. Colette does glance back to the room in following his gaze, her lips pursing slightly as she tries not to focus on the memory.]
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[Colette figures that might be best. Unsure if she should talk about it. What she saw. If she wants to say anything. There's probably a lot she could mention. A lot she might debate whether to say. How he might react. It's all just rather a lot to consider. To factor in. That she shouldn't be here in the first place just probably confirms that she should just stay quiet and go.]
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[It isn't like she really had plans specifically in coming here. Or that she would stay too late. Given she was younger and would likely need a ride back home from her father or something. So it isn't that big a deal for Colette. Especially when she figures she can go to more parties if she wanted to when she is a little older, is all.]
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[Colette reassures him. If he did want to do something, there was no rush. And it didn't need to be something that big. That huge of a deal. Colette was easy enough to please.]
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