[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

[noblyblooming]

[There's an eager nod from Yuyuko before she devours a brownie. Probably her tenth or twelfth for the evening. It's actually a miracle she hasn't managed to dirty the sheet yet.]

Mm. Yes, it really is.

[growsveggies]

Do you have a suggest for what I should try next?

[She didn't know, there were so many options, after all, it was hard to just pick one.]

[noblyblooming]

Is everything a good suggestion?

[Because Yuyuko enjoys nearly all food.]

[growsveggies]

Technically it is, it means I just have to be random instead of just asking. So that is what I will do.

[Haru was already looking over everything, trying to figure out what to try before she picked up a burger.]

I'll try this. Though, I must admit I've seen bigger burgers. [She is not kidding, the burgers she knew of were massive and were actually challenges.]

[noblyblooming]

Doesn't it get boring if you plan your meal out in advance? I find it more exciting just to choose something random.

[Or have someone prepare something for her.]

Is that so? How big?

[growsveggies]

I guess it could be, but personally, I never mind knowing in advance, more so when I am currently learning to cook more for myself when I need to.

[Because it was something she had never done before.]

Well... [She raises her hands, slowly her hands were already the height of her head and a little bit more.]

Like this height and maybe nearly the same width as well. It's like a challenge back home.

[noblyblooming]

Oh. I've tried cooking before.

[She grins sheepishly behind her sheet.]

Alas, I have been banned from the kitchen for the foreseeable future.

[She shrugs though, and at the description of the size of that burger, she nearly starts to drool!]

Oh my, that sounds like fun!

[growsveggies]

What exactly did you do to get banned from the kitchen?

[She figured probably not the best question to ask because she thinks she knows where it might lead to such as blowing a kitchen up.]

It... was fun for some people but for me personally, it wouldn't be something I would try myself.

[noblyblooming]

It was simply disastrous and may have resulted in my dear little gardener getting quite sick.

[Sure Youmu didn't have to eat it, but she did anyway.]

[growsveggies]

So food poisoning it sounds like.

[That was what she got from it anyway.]

That's a pretty bad thing to get. Not that I've ever personally had it.

[noblyblooming]

Yes, something like that.

[She's already dead, so she can't exactly get sick or anything.]

It certainly looked like it was unpleasant.

[growsveggies]

But there are always ways to learn and improve. You can always try with lessons should you want to.

[She didn't know if such a thing was around in genessia however.]

[noblyblooming]

I think it's probably best I leave well enough alone, honestly.

[Otherwise she might actually end up making a kitchen explode or something.]

[growsveggies]

Okay. But if you ever decide to want to someday, I am sure someone would be happy to teach you.

[She paused for a moment.]

Maybe we should talk bout something else.

[noblyblooming]

I'll keep it in mind.

[She pauses with a hum.]

Such as?

[growsveggies]

Well...I guess we could get to know each other a little bit.

You don't have to though.

[noblyblooming]

Fair enough. What would you like to know about me? Besides what my favorite foods are?

[growsveggies]

Well... How long have you been here? In Genessia I mean.

[noblyblooming]

A couple of months, maybe. I don't really keep track of time.

[growsveggies]

I don't either, but every so often I find myself noticing that it's been so many months. But that's if I am not focused on anything.

[noblyblooming]

I suppose it could be difficult to focus on one thing here. There are so many new, interesting things here, it would be very hard not to get distracted.