[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

[truesmiles]

If you want to dance of course.

[He figured he might as well try and be a gentleman and extends his hand for her to take for the time being.]

Besides I am sure I am not that bad.

[pianola]

I don't mind.

[ Dorothy hesitates, and then takes Fai's hand.

Her hand isn't cold or metallic-seeming, but it is not quite as warm as human skin, and it doesn't feel quite like real skin either, somehow. It's soft and smooth, certainly, but the texture is just slightly off.

Internally, she braced herself for a reaction. Outwardly, her expression was calm, impassive. ]

I was only trying to reassure you. We'll see about your skill.

[truesmiles]

[Fai could feel the difference, but he at least was aware of when not to question and when it was okay.This was not one of those times. Instead of was focused on going at least to the edge of the dance floor where not as many people were dancing.]

We'll see how it goes, I mean it's not that hard, right?

[He gives a laugh moving into position, the hand still holding the others as he moved to step in front of her, watching where he was putting his footing.]

[pianola]

[ This was a less formal sort of dance environment than Dorothy was used to - but she'd been watching the people around her. Her programming, as little as she liked to use it, was built around mimicking human behavior. She could handle this easily. ]

If everyone here can manage it, then you should be fine.

[ ... Not necessarily reassuring.

She'd let Fai lead, of course, since that tradition seemed to apply here too, even if the dances and music were very different.

Plus, it might let him be more comfortable. ]

[truesmiles]

[Fai had paused while watching others dance, some were dancing with other people while others were simply dancing with themselves and having a whale of a time. He was at least sure it wasn't a slow dance so he didn't need to hold her in that way, instead, it was a simple case of standing in front and swaying, to begin with.]

This is at least a start from watching people, make your own moves I guess. Not too bad.

[pianola]

That is how I begin to learn.

[ She thinks about how she'd like to explain. ]

Mimicry is easy. Being yourself, while expressing a new skill, is harder.

[truesmiles]

I like to think it's not going to be that hard.

[It depends on if he needs to be a gentleman or just being 100% himself, which is very much a different kettle of fish.]

But if I am proven wrong, then I am proven wrong. [He will sway slightly at least. Good start.]

[pianola]

[ Dorothy broke eye contact, looking beside him, at the people around. ]

For most people, it's not.

[ So far, she's just imitating others in this dance - and she despises doing that, yes, but it makes Fai more comfortable now.

If they were her own motions, now, they would be jerky and exaggerated, clearly robotic things.

If she were dancing for herself, she wouldn't care. At the moment, however, she isn't. ]

[truesmiles]

So what brought you to the party anyway? Might as well talk while we dance.

[His movements are a little more relaxed at least.]

[pianola]

My friend wanted company. She is having fun.

[ Her tone was softer, subtly. ]

And I like watching others.

[truesmiles]

So do I, guess we have that in common at least. Probably not for the same reason, though.

[He smiled slightly.]

[pianola]

Why not for the same reason?

[ Looks at him, calm. ]

People are interesting, and watching them enjoy themselves is pleasant.

Sometimes they're unpredictable.

Often they are, but they're still being ... themselves. Which is nice.

Why do you enjoy watching people?

[truesmiles]

Mostly because it's a habit.

[And because before now at parties he didn't really do much else, slowly getting better at that at least.]

I do enjoy watching people be happy. That they can be happy here even with the possibility that they could leave at any moment.

[pianola]

It is better to live in the moment, rather than dwell on the past.

[ That's the one lesson she and her friends had learned, again and again, in Paradigm. ]

[truesmiles]

[A lesson Fai knows all too well. One that had taken forever to learn. He at least was aware of it now anyway, which was always a positive.]

I agree. Dwelling only leads to negatives.

[pianola]

Or paralyzes you, leaving you unable to act.

[truesmiles]

Have some experience with something like that?

[pianola]

[ She hesitates, but answers: ]

Yes.

[truesmiles]

[Fai was the type to leave it at that, no point in going into something he himself wouldn't do. So instead he moves slightly.]

Well it seems as though people have stopped dancing, so I think I will make my rounds.

[pianola]

[ She looks around a moment - and he's right.

Looks back; ]

Thank you for the dance.

[truesmiles]

You are welcome. I just hope you enjoyed yourself.

[He smiled giving her a small wave.]

Hope to see you again. [And with that he is off.]

[pianola]

I hope you did as well.

[ She raises her hand - it's like a wave, see?

And watches him go, before watching the crowd once more. ]