[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

forever late

[inredress]

[There are several reasons Luther wanders in two hours after sundown, but chief among them isn't to have fun, but to observe himself. He has no allies here, no one he readily identifies as from his world, and getting to know the locals best involves mingling with them in their native environment. There was a reason he owned a nightclub back home. It made it easier to spy on people. He's sporting a costume of pinstriped pants, a black silken shirt, matching vest with a silver-chained pocket watch, velvet top hat, and blue-lens glasses. He even went the extra mile and picked up a set of classy vampire fangs that hid his own smaller fangs but got the point across. He was a very specific Dracula, after all with his walking stick and charming smile.

When he saw Yang seemingly avoiding the dance floor, he might have employed some of the preternatural movement native to his species in order to get nearer to her without her noticing. He recognized her from the network, after all, and he at least should say thanks.

When he was in earshot, he decided to break the ice instead of being direct.]

A murdered bride, huh? Very classy.

FASHIONABLY!

[solar_flare]

--Oh, hey, Luther!

[Usually Yang's been the one to zero in on new party guests. She must be slacking if she missed someone she actually knows and recognizes. But hey, they're meeting now, and she's got a relaxed smile on her face.]

Thanks! I don't think you were here when I told the spooky story over the network. Lots of vengeance and blood.

[And since he commented on her costume, it means she gets to shamelessly look him over, head to toe, and take her sweet time in doing so.]

I don't know if I can match your class, though. You look good in a suit!

[She clicks out of the side of her mouth and points a finger-gun at him.]

How are you holding up, now that the monsters are gone? Settling in okay?

FASHIONABLY!

[inredress]

[He smiles broadly. He's still not used to the fangs. His own are much smaller, barely smaller than human incisors. These...these are ridiculous and would never actually work. Still, Hollywood did a good job of making it look like it worked.]

I better look good in a suit. My father was English. He'd come back to haunt me if I couldn't pull off Victorian gothic properly.

[At her question, though, he looks away for a moment, looking thoughtful.] As well as can be expected, I suppose. All in all, this place isn't too different from Seattle...uh, in Washington State. On Earth.

[See? That clarification? Not something he's used to yet.]

[solar_flare]

Ohhhhhhhhh.

[She's glad he explained, because a lot of those words aren't places she's familiar with. But now that she knows he's just talking about his home planet? Yang totally understands.]

Gotcha! My home's called Remnant. We've got an archway open to it in Fayren if you ever feel like checking it out sometime. Not like Earth, though, unless you've got soulless monsters running around.

[And she just suggested that he visit a place like that...]

You had a rough start here, so I'm glad you're adjusting. Let me know if there's anything I can help with, all right?

[inredress]

Sure. We've got plenty of soulless monsters wandering around. Mostly they're in suits and call themselves bureaucrats.

[He smiles at his own joke and doesn't even care if she doesn't get it.]

Or lawyers. [But he pauses.] What makes your monsters soulless, anyway?

[He shrugs.] I'm used to adapting.

[solar_flare]

I don't think anything makes a Grimm soulless. That's just the way they are. Monsters of spite and fear, eating people even though they don't need food to survive.

[She settles her hands on her hips.]

So no one's going to pitch a fit if you take them out, depending on how good your combat abilities are.

[inredress]

So, they're not really creatures so much as manifestations of hunger? See? That I understand.

[He nods.]

I've been training to fight all my life. It happens when there's been a war brewing for hundreds of years.

[solar_flare]

Pretty much! There are a lot of differences in the species, but none of them are going to be benevolent to people, that's for sure.

[She folds her arms, shifting her weight to the other hip as she regards him curiously.]

So any plans to continue your training here? I'm always looking for a decent sparring partner.

[inredress]

Are they feeding on souls, then? [There's more than a bit of an academic inside Luther, and she's piqued his interest.]

It's always a good idea, and it'd be nice to have a sparring partner who can keep up with me. Normal humans can't.

[solar_flare]

I hope not, but if they are, I don't know if there's really a way anyone can tell.

[It's not like anyone really has a way of seeing another person's soul. And once they're dead, they can't register any sort of aura. She taps at her elbow thoughtfully, but beams when he takes her up on her offer.]

Maybe not the ones from your world, anyway. Sounds good to me!

[She holds out her fist to bump his, as though to seal their agreement.]

I'm looking forward to seeing what all you can do.

[inredress]

[His shifted his eyes to her fist, reached out and returned the fist bump.]

Sounds like a plan, and so do I.