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[badlucklady]

You don't?? celebrate? HALLOWEEN?????

[suntones]

no, i don't. why would i?

[badlucklady]

Its indisputable status as the best holiday ever created by man? The chance to shamelessly dress up as a slutty ketchup bottle? Endless mountains of candy, candy, and more candy? The opportunity to yell EEK and clutch at my hand in fear during a serial killer filmfest? NEED I GO ON??

[suntones]

i'm glad you find it entertaining, but none of that sounds remotely appealing to me. i've never felt the desire to dress up as a ketchup bottle, i don't have that strong of a sweet tooth, and while i might like horror novels, i've learned i'm not built for horror movies.

[badlucklady]

YOUKOOOOOOOOO

My hopes and dreams have crumbled to dust under the vacant stare of my tear-soaked eyes. Never before has a single text torn me apart!

[suntones]

not sure why would you think i'd celebrate it to begin with? it's a western tradition...

[badlucklady]

In my very very long undead life there is one thing I have learned most surely:

Enjoy the party. Wherever its traditions began, whoever sends the invitation.

[suntones]

while that's possibly sound advice, i'm not sure the group i usually run with is geared for this kind of party.

[badlucklady]

How terrible for you. The joy of drinking "Blood" from a glass adorned with plastic spiders cannot be overstated.

[suntones]

not sure i'd enjoy seeing a spider, real or otherwise, on the rim of my cup.

what do you mean by 'blood'?

[badlucklady]

A weakness to note for the traditional pranks of Devil's Night...

Wine, or a red fruit drink. Perhaps with ice in the shape of a skull.

[suntones]

wine 'blood'. okay. i could get behind that, i guess, but i'm afraid to ask... what's 'devil's night'?

[badlucklady]

Chaos! A celebration of naughty behaviour! The perfect excuse to throw rotten eggs at the residence of deplorable old farts!

[suntones]

[How is he managing to make this sound like even less fun?]

so... petty vandalism?

[badlucklady]

Youko, you must see beyond your unwillingness to take pleasure from indulging in primal urges. Smashing pumpkins is very satisfying!

[suntones]

it's also a waste of food and a farmer's efforts...

[badlucklady]

Not always. If you must nitpick, giant pumpkins grown solely to be compared for size and man's ego cannot be eaten.

But that is besides the point. Halloween is a time set aside to enjoy fear. Prank and be pranked! Chase and be chased!

[suntones]

do you know it's alright to not sell me on this?

[Because he really isn't. 'Chase and be chased' is something she has more than had her fill of.]

[badlucklady]

Well then, I will see you after the festivities have concluded.

[suntones]

will you please come get your skeleton?

you don't want his jaunty top hat and bow tie to be wasted on a bad audience, right?

[badlucklady]

I am resisting the strong urge to tell you to display it on your doorstep to scare away revellers, just so you know.

[suntones]

[Warren is voluntarily exercising restraint? Warren? That... bodes ill.]

i'm not sure there's enough room for him on the walkway.

[badlucklady]

[He tried. ✩ ]

Hang the top half out a window?

[suntones]

[Even that much restraint is concerning.

... and sort of compounding the mildly guilty feeling she has about her Halloween ambivalence.]

you don't think masaferry and ailess would enjoy him more than my neighbors?

[badlucklady]

Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine.

I will pick up the gentleman's remains before morning.