[You'll Be Caught In The Night - After Life Halloween Party]

[orlokbutterfly]

Who: Everyone
What: Halloween Party
Where: Nova City - After Life
When: 4 PM October 31st to who knows how early of November 1st
Warnings: B for boos and booze. Also Gale is there so that deserves a warning in itself. Is spooky.

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Welcome to After Life. The entrance of the Nova City nightclub has the additional illumination courtesy of a purple neon bat to welcome the party goers, which that little bat seems more inviting than the almost ominous fog coming out of the front doors. Just beyond the door are a variety of glowsticks, should one feel so inclined to equip themselves with them for the night. The varying colored glass tables are trimmed with fake cobwebs with little spider lights illuminating from beneath it while at each table's end has a jack-o'-lantern of different carvings with color changing LED lights inside. The club's colored strobe lighting reflects off of the club's crystalline walls to help lend to the atmosphere in an almost eerie manner, even adding additional color to the fog hovering over the floor.


As the party begins, Gale makes a special introduction to the ladies who helped make the party possible- Yang Xiao Long, Ayame Sasaki, Gwen Stacy and Mikaela Banes. He wouldn't let the party go on without the much deserved recognition for them.

Food and Refreshments

The bar area has a variety of different foods and snacks for people to enjoy. Brownies, cupcakes and truffles from local confectionaries and other, less sugary options like jalapeno poppers, mummy hot dogs, garlic bread snakes, deviled egg spiders, salsa and dipping sauces with bat chips, dragonfly sushi and spooky fruit monsters are laid throughout the table. At the far end of the table is a little animatronic black cat with glowing green eyes.

Looking for something a little heavier than just snacks to eat, in case you missed lunch? Available to you on another nearby table are shaped pasta with varying sauce options, monster burgers, four different bento boxes, and snake shaped calzones each labeled with different pizza toppings for the stuffing. Yes. A few have pineapple in them. Please do not start a war in Gale's club.

There are various labeled cauldrons of non-alcoholic drinks such as water, punch and soda are on the table while other available are drinks such as mixed soda and punch floats and milkshake shots are there. All of the glasses on the table all have googly eyes attached to them. Also on this table is Gale's Cubone, wearing a tiny vampire cape and patrolling around the cauldrons. Don't even think about trying something funny or trying to spike the drinks, because Cubone will smack the culprit's hand with his bone and start wailing to lure the host over. Just don't even do it unless you want thrown out.

Bar Area

Need a beverage of the alcoholic variety? You'll want to visit the local alchemist over here. Overhead of the bar where the drink glasses hang are little bat lights that occasionally flicker and the cobwebs are lined around the edges of the circular bar counter. A pumpkin with the carving of a butterfly sits on the counter top with a flickering purple light within it. Drinks from the bar will be served in beaker and vial glasses.

Dance Floor and Stage

That stage up there sure looks inviting, as if it's just waiting to have one of its musical guests come on stage and steal the show for a short time. In fact, it's very much encouraged to do just that. While the stage is without a DJ or other performer, a preset playlist of the club's usual music as well as a list of Halloween music will cycle through- just be ready for the Monster Mash to play several times during the night. A skeleton is set up near the speakers, and it seems to 'dance' in time with the music. Up above the stage is a web with an animatronic spider that comes down from its web occasionally with flickering red eyes.

If you look closely through the thin veil of fog on the floor, you may notice reflective decals of monstrous footprints leading to the dance floor, as if trying to hint and lead the guests out to get their dance on. But party goers beware, there may be an impromptu dance to Thriller at some point in the night, and your host may judge every single one of you if you don't get in on it.

VIP Room

The VIP Room is a little less rowdy than the main area of the club, and is meant for a more chill atmosphere compared to the rest of the party. The room has its own stage for anyone to take over separate of the main room, but beware, this stage may have its own different kind of horror: Karaoke.

The tables here also have cobweb and spider lights around them and the lights in the room are a little dimmer, to accommodate the rotating bulb that casts shadow creatures on the walls of the room. You may want to come here if you want to eat an actual meal in peace without all the buzz from the bar area.

Employee Lounge

VIP Room not calm enough? Asking Gale or another After Life employee will grant you access to the employee lounge so you can have a little rest on the couches. The only drinks readily available in here is water over on the counter. The noise from the main area is completely nullified in this room. The party goes on all night, don't be afraid to take a breather.



Guests under 16 will receive a small bag of candy for attending, while guests 16 and older will receive some drink coupons to use at any of the three Gale Force club locations.

Comments

Dance Floor

[gamerrep]

Do you not want to dance?

[Chiaki had made her way over, wearing her Yuna costume she as trying to be more open and doing more things like she had used to back home before everything went wrong.]

It's fun.

Dance Floor

[mortal_son]

[ ... It's really his own fault for hanging around here, isn't it? Normal sorts of people would see him and ask him to dance. Still. Shinjiro sighed. ]

Do I really look like the dancin type?

Re: Dance Floor

[gamerrep]

No, but do I either? I'm still giving it a go, though.

[She really wasn't the type that would dance like she had been, except if it was a dancing game, but that is a whole different kettle of fish.]

Do things one might not normally do.

Dance Floor

[mortal_son]

Um.

[ ... That was really the most convincing argument someone gave him yet. Way to call him out like that, Chiaki.

Looks uncomfortable. ]

... You weren't offerin, were you?

Dance Floor

[gamerrep]

[She nodded slightly. She was offering because she wanted to try and help people in her own way, even if it made people uncomfortable. Maybe it was a way to find out things they might like to do next time. Who knows.]

I was, though if you want we can also do whatever you want to do.

[mortal_son]

...

[ Being very uncomfortable about this, himself, was one thing.

If someone else was going out of their comfort zone, asking people to dance? To build confidence, maybe? And maybe she felt awkward going alone?

That would make him a bit of a selfish jerk to refuse that, wouldn't it? ]

... Fine.

I'll dance with you.

[gamerrep]

It will just be one dance, so you won't have to suffer too much.

[She laughed slightly, even if for the moment as she gestured toward the dance floor, making her way over.]

[mortal_son]

Right.

[ Shinjiro picked himself up from his lean against the wall, and followed her, hands in pockets, then deciding his hands should be out-of-pockets.

Going onto the dance floor, surrounded by all of these people, made him distinctly nervous.

But he hid that with a frown. If he could slap on a fake, cheerful expression, he would, but Shinjiro knew from experience he was really bad at those.

Still, he tried to ... frown like he was being his usual self, rather than. Frowning like he was being dragged to get shot. That distinction, he thought, he should be able to manage. ]

[gamerrep]

[Chiaki knew better than to do too much and making one uncomfortable, so looking at his expression she knew not to ask for more and let him stay that way, so long as they were dancing and potentially talking that was the best that could happen.]

So what brought you to the party? [She figured that would be the best first thing to talk about.]

[mortal_son]

... I've got some friends who came here, who wanted me to come along.

'S not so bad, really.

[ Talking about other things, thinking about the conversation and Chiaki, was certainly a lot better than considering they were in a crowd.

His dance moves, such as they were, were pretty awkward, but at least they were on-beat. Most of the time. ]

You?

[gamerrep]

I came by myself. I knew friends might be here so I figured why not.

[She was staying on beat herself while she talked. Looking around at the others that were having fun.]

I'm making the most of the things here while it's good and bad things aren't happening if that makes sense.

[mortal_son]

Hm.

[ He wouldn't have come here on his own, but. Then again. He also convinced a friend to come along, so, he knew some people just needed some extra encouragement.

Shinjiro only tried to pay attention to the crowd, insofar as to not run into them. He didn't want to think about how they were surrounded. ]

These past few weeks 've been really rough on everyone.

So, it's nice to see 'em all havin a good time.

[gamerrep]

Yeah and I wish people could always be happy, or at least I could try and do that if possible.

[It just always takes time in order to plan things.]

[mortal_son]

Sh - Stuff happens, and we can't stop that kinda thing. But we can help people get out once everythin dies down.

[ He wasn't a very good friend for that kind of thing, but he was trying. ]

[gamerrep]

Or be by their side during it if possible.

[Chiaki paused to think about it, all the while she had been dancing. The song started to die down before she even went to move back to the side, signaling for the other to follow.]

But, hm... we will try our best to help out if a friend needs it.

[mortal_son]

Of course.

[ Shinjiro was really, really glad once the song had ended - even if the dancing had been surprisingly not terrible. She certainly did a good job at keeping him distracted during it. ]

And if they let us.

[ Shinjiro was a hypocrite but. He knew all too well that some people might not even let him know - or allow him to come - if they were facing down danger. It wasn't specifically directed at Chiaki. ]

[gamerrep]

Are there people who wouldn't let friends help?

[She knew people might keep things to themselves and not be open about them. Or at least not open right off the bat.]

I know people like to keep things to themselves, but... I know sometimes doing and letting the friend do that isn't helpful either. So I would just keep trying.

[mortal_son]

Well.

[ He was that kind of person. But he could handle himself, really. ]

Guess the trick is to be more stubborn than they are, right?

[gamerrep]

Right.

[Chiaki might slowly become more stubborn if she thinks it's a good idea anyway.]

You would have to out-stubborn everyone else.

[mortal_son]

[ Shinjiro smirks a little. ]

Least that's one thing I'm good at.

[gamerrep]

Being stubborn? Is it like your superpower?

[mortal_son]

[ Smirk is almost, not quite, a grin. ]

Heh. Kinda.

[gamerrep]

It's a good superpower to have sometimes.

[mortal_son]

I guess.

[ But he's still almost-smiling.

After a moment. ]

... Thanks. For, y'know.

[ The company. That wasn't so bad, after all. ]