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And without further ado:
"Welcome our dear guests! We've been waiting for you!"
The Prompts:
Prompt 1 - Arrival: Having just arrived to Halloween Town, you may feel a little queasy. That is entirely natural. You're in a giant circular room with whatever it is you may have brought with you. A very tall figure walks out of the shadows and he's incredibly pale... that is until you realize the hand reaching out to you is not bone-thin, oh no, it is actual bone. Meet the ruler of Halloween Town and the king of Halloween, Jack Skellington. He greets you with a big smile and exclaims with joy how happy he is that you made it and how much happier he is to see you, one hand held out in greeting and the other holding the Jack o' Laptop he has ready for you.
Perhaps you stay to listen to him explain what awaits you and he will then happily escort you outside into the town to provide you a quick explanation before he excuses himself to greet the other new arrivals, leaving you to explore the town. Or, perhaps, the mere sight of a skeleton was... not what you were expecting and you ran out screaming before he can get more than a "Hello-" out.
Either way:
Prompt 2 - The Town: Whether you ran out screaming or were guided out into the town, there are most certainly monsters and ghouls all about. If you were patient enough to wait for an explanation, you know that they are the residents of this holiday. If you ran out screaming? Well, you might be getting more than a few scares- we mean... stares. But the town is just waiting for you to explore! But something is strange. When you look into a mirror or see a glass you look just a tiny bit off. And perhaps you feel just a tiny bit different.
Maybe you don't even have a reflection and all you can feel at the moment is a deep need to feed. Surely someone can help you... provided you can stop screaming at the sight of the citizens long enough.
We wouldn't recommend attacking any of the citizens, however, newborn monster that you are. We wouldn't want you to be a spirit so early in your visit.
Prompt 3 - The First Door: You've now been in Halloween Town for several days and while the zombies eat brains and the vampires drink blood, no one has tried to attack you (unless you've attacked them first, of course). The mayor, driving in his car announces a town meeting! Everyone must come to the Town Hall, even our new arrivals. Jack and Sally explain that Easter is nearly here! And the Easter Bunny has been kind enough to invite you all to experience what it's like to get ready for the holiday! It is time to take your trip through the Hitherlands to the door of Holidays. The path is laid out with Jack o' lanterns and linked bat-light strings between the trees to guide you to the doors. Don't mind that rather ominous entrance, within is perfectly safe... well... at least we think it is. As you travel along the path, you'll come across all the doors, but the one you are seeking is the one currently open. Trying to open the other doors, be it with spells or with force will result in nothing. Do you go in? Do you head back to the town?
Prompt 4 - Easter Island:Welcome to Easter Island! You may need to squint at first, since it's so bright and colorful, the complete opposite of Halloween Town. But once your vision adjusts, you'll notice something... different. You will find you are no longer any monsters but instead you're- well... to put it quite plainly, you're adorable! You have been turned into the citizens of Easter Island! The Easter Bunny welcomes you warmly, quite surprised to see so many adorable newcomers! And you'll find, perhaps without surprise at this point, that you can understand him. So what does he have planned for you?
Prompt 5 - Easter Egg Hunt: No matter what cute, adorable, and fluffy animal or egg ghost you've been turned into, there is an Easter basket waiting for you to go on a hunt! Throughout the entire island, that's yours to explore, are all sorts of different colored eggs. Each differently colored egg offers you a special reward or a certain kind of magic.
If you find:
A red egg: Will make you more inclined to hug and cuddle with the next person you see. A pink egg: Is a dark chocolate egg! Mmm chocolate. An orange egg: Is a milk chocolate egg. Mmm more chocolate. A yellow egg: Will suddenly turn into a small plush animal that replicates the animal you got turned into. It's so soft and fluffy. A green egg: Will turn into a little plastic egg-bracelet or egg earrings. Don't lose them though, the Easter Bunny asked Lady Luck to imbue them with a tiny bit of luck. A blue egg: Will make you burst out into song and you can't stop until you finish that song. A purple egg: A couple extra Holidollars and you get to take that with you back to Halloween Town.
But perhaps an egg hunt isn't something you're interested in! That's completely fine, the citizens need a lot of help getting ready for Easter for people! There's all sorts of jobs you can do! There's egg painting, egg counting, egg gathering, and basket weaving! All of these jobs pay Holidollars and you're making holidays wonderful for children everywhere!
Just don't drop the eggs! We don't want to make more egg spirits! Dropping an egg will bring you a whole day of bad luck as well.
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2: Definitely hallucinating (as a lycan: a human with features oddly reminiscent of a squirrel) [He'd drunken the potion and got his ass brought to the town. And considering all that he was seeing, he was pretty sure the drink had to be acid or something and one of his friends was playing a very crappy joke at his expense. At least he was still inside Alexandria. Probably. Probably passed out on the floor of the living room...
Whatever. That person? thing? over there looked interesting. Whatever it was.
Daryl decided to poke it just to see if it moved.
Congratulations, you just got poked.]
4: Like a Lamb to the... Wait, you want me to what? [This wasn't funny anymore. Not only was he a fucking lamb, not only did he have a fucking pink ribbon bow tie, but the big bunny rabbit running the show wanted him to go polish the eggs. And no matter his protest, a gaggle of other rabbits had somehow managed to shove him off with their noses to join up with the other lambs.
Well, screw that.
Left to his own devices, Daryl stood up and started exploring. Grumbling a few choice obscenities under his breath. He was, perhaps, currently the most angry looking adorable little wooly baby on Easter Island.]
Making the decision to drink the potion had taken barely a second of thought. As far as Sora's aware, he's helped Jack and Sally and the others more than once already, and he's always happy to visit his friends again. The fact that he's not immediately in his usual Halloween Town outfit upon arrival is a little strange to him though. There are no familiar fangs in his mouth, his fingers aren't claw-like, and a look over his shoulder proves there's no bat wings on his back. All-in-all, he seems to look pretty normal... except maybe his skin is a little paler?
He doesn't get a lot of time to ponder this though, because there's a very familiar face. Any possible worries are forgotten, and he's grinning. "Jack!"
PROMPT 2: THE TOWN
There are familiar landmarks here, but overall there's so much more, that Sora is a little like a kid in a candy store. Which is maybe a more accurate description than he even realizes yet. As he explores the places that are brand new to him, like the University, the Hospital, and the Lake. As excited as he is, he might literally bump into a few people.
It's at this last place, the Black Crystal Lake, that he finally sees his reflection. His skin is definitely paler in color. Like, bone-white.
"I guess it makes sense, if it's a different Halloween Town. I just turn into something else..." Admittedly, it's kind of a boring "something else," comparatively speaking.
PROMPT 4: EASTER ISLAND
He's a fawn. It's a good thing he has at least some experience moving about on four legs, but these are definitely different than lion legs. After not too long, he gets more used to it, and finds he enjoys being this close to the grass, the flowers. Meeting the Easter Bunny is no small thing either, he's more than happy to listen to him and do whatever is asked of him.
PROMPT 5: EGG HUNT
With his Easter basket being carried in his mouth, Sora explores the Island and hunts for eggs. At some point, he must have found a yellow one, as eventually there's a soft plush little fawn riding atop his head as he continues to search.
[ I'm open to prose or actionspam-type tags. In Halloween Town, I'm playing with the idea of making Sora a Trick-or-Treater, but I'll also be willing to try him out as a Ragdoll or a Lycanthrope, just let me know which version you want to play with, otherwise I'll default to the Trick-or-Treater version. ]
Well, that was strange. He thought that bottle on his workbench was something that Dan had left as a reminder to him to eat or drink something once in a while (when he'd much rather give himself a dose of diluted ReAgent to keep himself going without the dull affairs of eating or drinking... or sleeping, for that matter). But the next thing he knew, he'd gone woozy and everything had slid sideways, dumping him into... wherever he'd ended up. That talking skeleton in the pin-striped tailcoat has to come as a result of a dream, but it all feels far too real. And what on earth kind of device has his host given him?
Better yet: why does he now have large sutures on his wrists and other places on his arms, and while he knows he doesn't get much sun (not in the misty Miskatonic Valley, and especially not with his nocturnal habits), yet that doesn't explain the bluish tinge to it....
"This begs an explanation..." he murmurs.
2 - The Town (As Zombie)
Now that he has started to settle in, Herbert has also started to make his way - his slow way - about the town, exploring it as much as he can when he doesn't cover much ground at a time. It looks like some crazy version of Salem at Halloween, only with the decor, costuming and venues multiplied exponentially in their Halloween-iness. It has a weird charm to it, but he can't really take it seriously. Sooner or later, whatever Dan put into that drink has to wear off and he'll wake up... except that it all looks and feels too real for him to chalk it up to mere chemical sources...
3 - Easter Island
Right when he thought nothing could get more strange, he got invited into a wooded area and thence through an egg-shaped door in the trunk of one of the trees... and into a sunlit meadow overflowing with flowers. And then it got even strange: as he turns to look about him, he realizes he's lost some of his height and his eyes are placed differently in his head. Looking down, he realizes lavender paws have replaced his hands.
"What on earth...? All right, fantasy world logic: monsters in that Halloween place, rabbits in... Springland," he says, not ready to use the E-word, since he gave up Christianity for Lent when he was nine...
[ Most people wouldn't exactly drink some random thing brought to them, nevermind one that a bat gave them, Kominato Ryousuke isn't... really like most people. It was just a shot in the dark, but it's one that he doesn't regret taking considering something does, in fact, happen. Probably a good thing he made sure to pack his bag properly, going so far as to grab his bat and its bag as well to make his trip a little easier.
He should, maybe, be concerned about the skeleton greeting him? But he's read about weirder things in his favorite books, so. ]
Spooky. [ Said more to himself than anyone else, as he takes the bright orange laptop, although nearby arrivals are more than welcome to pick up his twisted amusement at all of this. (He's maybe a little delighted, in his own way.) ]
B - THE TOWN
[ Here Ryousuke is, now, walking around town with a curious sort of air to him. He brings a splash of color to the town with his bright hair under his (equally bright) baseball cap, but unlike any other new arrivals that might be running around screaming or quaking, he's perfectly placid. His serene, vaguely enigmatic smile is in place as always, as he checks things out, approaching monsters without hesitation. At least he's not the smallest person - or, individual, anyways, do these townsfolk qualify as persons?
Anyways, he's distracted enough by his investigation that he's a perfect target for other unsuspecting arrivals to bump into, and he's not exactly adverse to walking up to other new arrivals to give them a poke if they have visible changes, themselves.
If he can find somewhere to get a drink, though, that'd be great - he feels strangely parched at the moment.
Which means he's gravitating a little towards the water sources, such as the fountain in the plaza. At least that means that he gets to people watch, especially when at the end of the day he winds up sitting perched on the edge of it, his bags at his feet and just... assessing. ]
C - EASTER ISLAND
[ Though, he does have some complaints when he comes through the door to Easter Island, after he's poked around town enough.
Because it wasn't bad enough that he's so short and thin, especially compared to many of his friends, of course he winds up getting turned into a rabbit. Ryousuke's nose twitches in annoyance, but he decides that there have been enough stories about killer rabbits in fiction that he may as well just go with it. Anyone calls him cute, he's within his rights to act on it, he thinks.
A part of him is very, very tempted to turn right back around on his cottontail to head back to Halloween Town, though. ]
[You expect Heaven, you expect Hell. You don't really expect - a thousand and one Tim Burton looking jackasses running around. or impossibly tall skeletons. To say Grant Ward wasn't prepared was - an understatement. The place twists. It bends and twists and maybe the comparison's wrong. Or not. The few minutes he's been here and already it seems more real, more lifelike then any movie. Had he only dreamed the end? The bitter draft Malick (or was it Coulson?) had forced down his throat? Idiots.
To say the least.
Hell or not, Heaven or not, he'd be less concerned with staying put and more concerned with getting out if he weren't entirely sure that the weight on his chest wasn't death with a big capital D. No pearly gates, none of what he was expecting...just the grim memory of Coulson staring him down and then nothing. Hard not to be angry. He could have at least gotten Kara back. Rotting together...
He allowed himself a brief unpleasant smile.
Staggering away from the skeleton (screw you very much Mr. smiling white boned son of a -) he might shove through a few patrons on his way out. The only natural solution is to see if this hell hole (or was it?) had a bar with something heavy on tap. What matters is getting there no matter who's in his way - until the laptop spills out of his hands to land on the concrete.
Ward sucks on his teeth briefly - but it doesn't break somehow. That brief bit of karma judgement is enough to make him roll his eyes at the nearest person he's knocked into.]
...Sorry.
[It's been a long day.]
THE TOWN (As a Trick or Treater)
[This is what he's learned in pacing through the town in a nutshell. HYDRA action report. SHIELD Field notes.
1. There's no way out, and the forest is endless. Or near to endless. It's also useless for camping because there's something in it that's off.
Yeah that's it. Off. (It's totally not because he nearly pissed his pants two nights out there. Nope. It's not.)
2. It's dangerous. While he may have found a room above that same bar he first nearly passed out in he can hear howling in the street, shrieks, and screams. He's used to shrieks and screams but the degree that they're happening causes some concern.
3. Something is changing the new arrivals. It's not terragenesis despite the oppressive fog that he wakes up to in the early morning. He's seen people walking around half naked, some with scales, some with an obsessive need to play doctor. Apart from a grayish tinge to his skin and an almost skeletal look to his features (but that's really the fog. It's gotta be.) it's doing something to the residents.
Waking up today however - the shrieks and screams weren't nearly as unsettling, the twisting roads and long alleyways weren't nearly as annoying. Sweep the bar, wash the windows, start setting out breakfast. Meat, sausage, blood, the occasional rotted egg which isn't nearly as upsetting because it's a promotion and -
And the proprietor, that witch (or was she one of the werewolves? It was hard to remember) had left out a great big lollipop. So what if it was 9am? Sugar's a great way to start the day - better then three shots of whiskey that she'd found for him the first night.
Ward can be found at the bar, supervising breakfast to an extent, pausing only to take a pull on the lollipop every once in awhile. Once it's done he breaks open a pack of chocolates along the bar.
Keep up the energy and all that.]
The Town 2: (As a Zombie)
[Adapt and Survive. Despite the shrieks and the screams it wasn't really that bad a day. A nice curving road, the tall spires of the town, the fact that he'd developed a tendency to crave what he was carrying in the container he currently shuffled along with. Well Grant Ward, you're a zombie.
He'd almost made a joke. Almost. Until Sue had put a brain down in front of him and he'd dug in.
She wouldn't mind him grabbing one out of the container right? Right. Us Zombies gotta stick together. It's just maddeningly slow to set the container that reads hospital down, open the lid, and pull out a fresh one that smells...deliciously disgusting.
Heedless of the people watching him. Mmmm. Mmm.
Don't mind the guy sitting on the side of the alley with a box of brains and a very inhuman moan as he eats one. Just one.]
[Unusual dimensions are his bag, finding out that he's been transformed into something inhuman is not. Put two and two together - he realizes just what he's become and he could laugh. Spend nine days out of ten drunk and stare at his lucky left hand -
And laugh.
That's why he's looking for as many books as he can about "rag dolls". Flip a page and ignore the fact that his hand's bleeding all over the desk. Paper cuts and such.]
Town 2.: (Lake Creatures Go.)
[What helps when you have spines coming through your cheeks? Your neck? Your skin darkening into scales? Music. Lindsey plays surprisingly well and he's taken up a stance at the fountain.]
Pretty girl on every corner...
[Seems appropriate. The webbing between his fingers makes interesting sounds out of his notes.]
I can't take the cold...
[Come and listen if you'd like.]
Easter Island
[One unhappy little duck is crossing over his tiny tufts of wings across his chest.]
]🎃[ -=Prompt 1 & 2=- ]🎃[ Sam is small, child like in size. He has on orange footie pajamas and a burlap sack tied nearly around his mysterious head. Button eyes sewn on it, to help the appearance. He's grimy and dirty and honestly he looks as if he would fit into this setting very well.
The thing is, this is not his home. His holiday was over a few months ago and he's already wandered on to where he should be, to rest and eat chocolate and dream of better days and Halloween spirit. And yet here he was, being greeted fondly by a Pumpkin King. A new Little Trick-or-Treater? He was fine with that. It was what he enjoyed anyhow.
Sam was good. He took the information from the other, nodded in understanding, even if he didn't really understand, and then wandered off and out into the town to look around. It was strange. He knew what werewolves were and vampires. He sat with ghosts and dead things before, but none of these looked... the same. Interesting.
While humans trapped in the wrong place, it seems, ran about screaming or looking scared, Sam sat on a crooked brick wall, head tilted, a burlap sack in his hands, and chewing on a razor filled chocolate from it. Curious about everyone running around. Normally... had he seem such disrespect of his namesake, he'd kill them to teach them a less. In this place, he feels at peace and more interested in watching others run wild.
]🎃[ -=Prompt 3=- ]🎃[ Oh, this place has town meetings! How queer. He was out rolling a jack-o-lantern's head around, curious to how it moved. He loved these things. When he heard the mayor call for the town meeting. Honestly, he couldn't help but see what this was about.
Seated on a pew in the back, he looked tiny compared to others. his feet swing back and forth, and he crunches on a sucker, just under the edge of his burlap mask. He's not paying much attention to anything, but looking for new people like him. Or, new to this place. If he spots one, he might shimmy over and sit with them.
Halloween is over for him, so now it is time to enjoy things and not need to kill. So fear not. He'll be good.
]🎃[ -=Prompt 4=- ]🎃[ The LIGHT is OFFENSIVE!
The FLUFFY TAIL is TERRIBLE.
A scraggly yet oddly cute looking bunny sat in a field of tulips and was pulling at his ears. A squeaked sound of annoyance as he did. A long foot thumped on the ground and he grunted, yanking. His tail wiggled and moved. His nose twitched. He had on a little orange vest and a few eggs around him. Most of which he wanted nothing more then to BREAK.
This is OFFENSIVE and TERRIBLE and BRIGHT and CLEAN and TOO NICE. He does not LIKE it. And right now he's so confused. A small growl as he tries to use his hind legs to rip off the ears. What ARE these things on his head ANYHOW? Sam NEVER talks, but right now he is whining. A very tiny whine of "I don't... l-like it..."
[Weird was an everyday thing for Rocket. He was use to it and expected it most of the time. Sure it would be nice to actually get a chance to just have a normal day here and there but, well, being a Guardian of the Galaxy didn't really allow for that. So when the strange little bat had appeared with a letter and a vial, Rocket had initially been wary of it, reading the note several times over before he'd finally given into the odd temptation he was feeling.
And that's how he'd ended up talking to a weird skeleton alien. From there it had only gotten weirder as he was led out into a town, the raccoon's ears perked and twitching as he looked around, half expecting something to jump out at him. He had questions, lots of them, but before he could get a word out the skeleton was gone.
Rocket stared after him before his ears fell back and his tail gave a sharp twitch.]
Now that's just great.
[Gritting his teeth, Rocket turned and started down the pathway, ignoring a few of the stranger beings that were lingering about in favor of just trying to get an idea of what planet he'd ended up on. He passed by several buildings before he finally caught sight of himself in a large panel of broken glass, steps halting as he rounded on his reflection.
His fur, which had once been nice and well taken care of, was now raggedy and almost..patchwork like in colors, going from his normal grey-brown to an almost grey-blue in places and even black in others. Stitching ran all over his body from the looks of it, criss-crossing around his head, sectioning off his ears, eyes and snout in different patches of colored fur. The raccoon's tail looked faker than anything he'd ever seen and he reached back to tug it around so he could get a better look at it.
All in all, he wasn't himself and he was not pleased.
A chittering snarl escaped the Guardian before he whirled around to glare around the town square, trying to catch sight of the skeleton he figured he didn't need to bother with anymore. One way or another he was going to find that bony bastard though and get answers.]
Five - Bunny
[Rocket had thought being a ragdoll was the worst thing that could happen to him. Limbs that could move on their own, stuffing falling out whenever he was injured--all things that he could deal with.
But then he'd gone through that stupid door and ended up on Easter Island.
Foot tapping in irritation as he watched beings milling about and decorating eggs, the ragdool raccoon turned bunny was not pleased. His ears had grown longer and flopped down against his back like a lop-eared rabbit and his feet had altered themselves and become flatter and larger--and stronger, which wasn't all that bad. His nose wouldn't stop twitching and his tail had been reduced to a small fluff of a thing.
All in all, it was embarrassing and he was having none of this.]
2 - Lose something? (Ragdoll) [Sun is nothing if not adaptable. That's what he's always told himself and believed. Not many people move around from kingdom to kingdom on Remnant after all.
But this might be a little out of his league. At least going to other kingdoms didn't get him turned into some stuffed animal version of himself. With no separate fingers. Awesome, right?
But hey. As he's moseying around town and taking in the sights, he's trying. This place wasn't that scary. It was actually kinda cool in a way.
...Until he feels like something's missing. A weight off his lower back. Sun stops right in his tracks and checks himself over, mostly in the behind region.]
Uh, g-guys...
[It's not directed at anyone in particular, but he is starting to look a little horrified now, if not at least disturbed. The searching is a little more frantic now and he fully turns around to look at their surroundings.]
Where's my tail???
[Plush version of himself or not, limbs just don't magically pop off.
...Except there is a golden coloured plush tail thing that looks like it's trying to escape his owner. Oops.]
4 - Sun the Bun's Eggcellent Adventure [Suuuure. Why not? Lets waltz into a random open door to another magical holiday land that he's never heard of just because the big skeletal boss man said so.
...This is starting to be too much for him.
At least he was getting used to the whole plush doll version of himself. But a bunny rabbit? That's just great. Well, at least he still has his tail, though a bunny with a monkey tail is a really weird sight.
(It really doesn't help that for once he feels short against anyone who's become a fawn or lamb. Argh. He wants his height back please!)
Not to mention this is a really weird body to get around in. How do rabbits deal with these crazy long feet anyways? Attempt after attempt to just walk has landed Sun on his face and he swears this is the dozenth time that he's faceplanted into the ground.]
Anyone figure out how to walk with these legs?
Wildcard [Hit me up with another prompt if you're not fond of these ones.]
1. Arrival Drinking the potion was probably not in the list of her best ideas in the world. That being said, meeting a big skeleton that can walk, talk and apparently give full monologues without realising the person in front of him isn't listening? Well, that's just a special Mal bonus! She just nods, and plays along until she can walk off.
"Wonder what the was about monsters," she mutters to herself, looking to see what mischief she can get up to while she's here. It looks dark, spooky and all kinds of mysterious. Exactly her type of place.
2. Town [Possibly Trick-or-Treater?] [Mal loves walking through this place. It's the sort of place she's been desperate to find since she went to Auradon. Taking that potion was one of her better choices of the past few months. She doesn't notice the slight green tinge to her skin. Well, sort of. The one time she does, she passes it off as just a trick of the light]
[There are monsters everywhere, and she can't stop turning to look at them all. Seriously, was that mummy decaying in the street? So cool. The town itself made her fingers tingle, wishing she had some of her spray paints with her. There were so many walls that she could.... decorate]
[ kuramochi needs to start making changes to some decisions in his life. change number 1.) don't follow ryo-san when he takes weird drinks from weird people for reasons that kuramochi doesn't want to know about. that is exactly how our intrepid young shortstop has ended up here, in halloween town, surrounded by ghosts and goblins and who knows what the fuck else. it's not that he's scared or anything because he's not a baby, dammit (he's not sawamoron) but every now and then a ghost passes by and makes him jump.
plus side: he's not feeling particularly weird or anything. maybe a little hungry? craving a salad, of all things? but otherwise, totally fine. it's whatever. worse things have happened when you take drinks from strangers. with his fielding partner having disappeared, kuramochi's finding himself wandering the town with his hands stuffed in his pockets, looking for all the world like a punkass gangster. really, he's all bark and no bite.
(...literally, not that he knows it yet.) ]
town, pt ii.
[ well, when in rome, right? this place is weird as hell, but youichi's going to take to it just fine, bringing the room 3 tradition to halloween town: that is, he'll be waiting behind a trashcan with a fairly terrifying looking mask on his face. when somebody walks by, he pops out and looms over the person: he doesn't even need to say anything.
that doesn't stop him from laughing after he gets a reaction though. ] Hyaha!! Should've seen your face!
[ where did he find that mask??? kuramochi no ]
3. wildcard
[ hit me with your best shot! ♥ youichi is a lycanthrope. feel free to pm w/ any questions! ]
Wesley should have felt nervous shaking the hand of a creature that an hour ago he would have killed without a blink. But death did that to a man. Showed you how different life could be. He half listened to Jack as he talked looking around and trying to see if he recognized anyone. When Jack left him to explore, Wes did so curiously feeling like a young Watcher all over again.
Prompt 4: As Bunny
Wes was not amused. He was so tiny he was afraid someone would step on him. He hopped around trying to find someone he knew. "This is insane even for this place."
2. Town [Goblin] [Peter loves being able to fly through Halloween Town, doffing his cap at whoever he meets. He's not really sure why his finger nails have grown a bit so quickly though, or why he seems to have little bumps on his forehead. Still, he's still him so that's the most important thing.]
[Halloween Town is really fun! Everyone seems to be dressing up in the best costumes and there's so many sweets and no medicine. No wonder he lets out a joyful crow of laughter]
3. Door [He knows that he's meant to go through the egg shaped door, really he does! But there's so many other doors - there's even one that's a green leaf! Maybe that would take him back to Neverland quickly, so he can bring the Lost Boys along for this adventure. He spins around quickly, getting himself dizzy before wandering at random in the direction of a door - no real clue which one it is he's headed too]
2 - Arrival at the town (She's a lycanthrope and her prey animal is a rat, but she hasn't done any partial transformation or anything yet.)
Rika had stayed to listen to the skeleton's explanation because she was curious and even more curious was the fact that he wasn't at all hostile to her like she would have expected. It was a good thing that she listened to him, or else she may have thought that some of these citizens were monsters, and she definitely didn't want to make a bad first impression. This was the very first time she ever left the bio-plant and while this place was nothing like the planets of her solar system she had learned about, it was a brand new experience and sight for her!
Excitedly and with a sense of wonder, she looked around and explored the area. It wasn't very bright, but it was unique. The town's decoration and style were pretty in their own way, and she couldn't help but touch the different styles, learning their textures and creative shapes.
She certainly wasn't scared, but if she had seen anyone that looked to be frightened, she moved towards them to attempt to calm them. She looked like she always had, with long pink hair and long, pointed black-tipped ears, but despite this, she had a kind look in her eyes and expression.
4 - Arrival at Easter Island and egg gathering
Rika was once again very excited to explore yet another new area. She was far from disappointed when she arrived, though it was very strange to suddenly be a small pink bunny with black tipped ears. But this near area was amazing! It was so bright and colorful! She never knew the sky would be so blue or the flowers so vibrant! The grass looked like glossy green candy and before she knew what she was doing, she tried some.
Unfortunately it didn't taste like candy. She had come to love the treats back in Halloween Town, and it looked as though she'd have to wait to go back before getting more of them. But she wasn't in any hurry. She wanted to enjoy and explore this new place as much as she could!
Eventually she met much larger bunny who welcomed her and instructed her to help gather eggs for painting. It was a strange request, but she was always open to try new things. She hopped over to where she was directed, though it took a little bit to really get the hang of the hopping without planting face first into the ground. Her back legs were really powerful!
5 - Easter Egg Hunt
She came to understand why the eggs needed painting and though at first she thought finding the eggs that were already painted was a strange custom, she soon came to love it as she found the reason to finding the eggs. They had treats inside! Some of them were chocolate and some of them had earrings and bracelets in them. She hadn't found any different colored ones than them so far, but she knew there were other colors. Maybe she'd find one of the other ones soon.
Okay this was new. He'd never died and stayed this dead before. He listened to the other Jack and then floated away to explore with a sad expression on his face. Jack lived for touch and being unable to do so hurt deeper then he would ever admit.
Prompt 3
Jack looks at the tree shaped door with a frown. Halloween Town was weird no doubt about that...but now Christmas. That holiday was a bit more his speed, but who knew what he'd find...or become when he turned the knob. With a sigh he reached out ready for almost anything.
Phil stared at his hands in quiet distress. Losing his hand had been bad enough and now all of him was in pieces. He didn't really listen to what Jack had to say as he wandered among the other residents. If he hadn't felt human before then things were about to get a lot worse.
Prompt 5 as a duck
Phil couldn't remember ever being this small and yet he kind of liked it. Easter Egg Hunts when he was a kid had been fun challenges as he tried to find more eggs then anyone else. Maybe that's why he'd joined SHIELD, because he enjoyed the chase more than the capture. Currently he was sniffing along the ground hunting for a egg with his beak. And really hoping the bigger animals didn't step on him.
Well of course Alice drank the potion, thanking the bat as he left her parlor room. She hadn't seen anything marked "poison" and she had read the instructions quite thoroughly. It sounded so terribly exciting! Experiencing all of the holidays, the chance to meet Father Christmas! So when she arrived, she wasn't scared by the skeleton, she'd seen much scarier things. Besides, this was no madder than Wonderland, though she'd never heard of "Halloween." As she was led outside, she had caught a reflection of herself in the reflection of the plaza and let out a gasp before big, fat tears came from her eyes as she saw the long nose. She hadn't even thought it strange her fingers were longer, but she had a big long nose with not one, but two warts at the end.
She was hideous!
The seven year old hiccuped as she sat at the fountain, hiding her face in her hands and not wanting anyone to see such an awful sight on her face.
Prompt 3 - The Door
Alice peeked inside the tree and then bit her lip. She had followed the White Rabbit, of course, but this seemed very different than the other whole in the tree that lead to strange and unfamiliar places. She took a step back.
"It... we just jump in?" she asked, though her curiosity at what could be down there was starting to outweigh whatever dangers there might be.
Prompt 4 - Easter Island
That absolute squeal of delight? Is coming from the little blonde rabbit with a bright blue bow around her neck. She was jumping about, that awful nose and the warts gone as she was a rabbit! An adorable little bunny. Oh she wanted to hug herself she must be so soft and fluffy! And this land was absolutely beautiful. She was quite glad she had gone through the door.
"Oh isn't this absolutely splendid! We're such cute little creatures!"
Prompt 5 - Easter Egg Hunt
Alice had the little Easter basket in her paws. She had a plush little stuffed rabbit of herself, a few differently colored egg earrings and bracelets, and even some chocolate. She hopped along and took pause at the sight of a red egg.
"Oh! I've not yet found a red egg until now, I wonder if this shall give me anything."
1 - Arrival - Lake Creature [It doesn't seem like there's a lot of people screaming upon arrival, but there's someone who honestly looks like she wants to. Rise doesn't mind the idea of Halloween from what she's heard of it, but the western festivities have nothing on this very tall, very personable skeleton that's eagerly shaking her hand before leaving.
Honestly, she looks pale. Really quite pale. Not as pale as Jack of course, but after all this and drinking that really gross potion... she's more green around the gills and terrified looking than she was an hour ago.]
...This is unreal.
[Holy crap is that a ghost following Jack now? Okay. She just might really lose it.]
Th-this can't be r-real...
[Shadows she can handle any day. Ghosts? NO. THANK. YOU.]
2 - Around Town [Okay. Okay. She's okay.
You know what? This place isn't too bad. A little freaky at first and she still hasn't gotten used to seeing ghosts around, but at least people are nice. That's a plus right? They helped her in not trying to scream her head off.
But as Rise stops in a store window to check herself over, she might need a hand again. Or someone to talk to. While adjusting a pigtail she sees something on her skin. Something that looks light pink. A zit maybe? There's more of them around actually. Pink and... blue? Zits aren't blue, and they're certainly not rough to the touch.
No. These are more like scales.
She has scales. She has scales.
Cue this little idol screaming her head off now because this can not be happening.]
4 - Egg Hunt This place isn't so bad actually. Definitely better than that other town.
[No ghosts in Easter land, that's for sure. Instead of her weird scaly fish-skin that she had back in Halloweentown, this place turned her into a little auburn bunny. Which is definitely an improvement in her books.
And egg hunting didn't sound like such a big issue to her either. So she's been going around, placing eggs in the basket that's as big as her when she picks up a yellow one--
Pop! Suddenly, she's not holding onto an egg, but a plush replica of her bunny self, ears mimicking her usual pigtails.]
Awwww! It's so cute! [And into the basket it goes with a giggle.] This place isn't so bad, right?
Wildcard [Hit me up with a new prompt if you want! ♥]
[it isn't often she's caught off-guard, but she figures at least this time, it's warranted. Instead of nothingness or Hell or whatever the crap demons get when they die, she gets this. Jack Skellington grinning and explaining something she could give less than a shit about. A potion and a bat and sure, why the fuck not, and this is what happened. Her expression goes from wide-eyed to bemused, and whatever the skeleton is going off about is filed away for later, once she has time to herself. She briefly considers killing off a beloved children's character, but decides to leave instead, laptop snatched and tucked under an arm, before she can give into the urge. Clarence would be so proud.
And then she's in the town and no, this is definitely some sort of Hell. Maybe that special kind of Hell, the one where people got what was coming to them. She can hear screams of surprise and at least that's comforting and familiar, but the longer she looks around, the longer she feels more like herself - and not so much like herself - she puts that thought aside. If it really was Hell there'd be someone coming after her, and she can't help but be just a little disappointed that isn't the case.
With a roll of her eyes Meg lets her head hang back, eyes on the sky as she says to whoever happens to be nearby:]
Just kill me now.
the town (ragdoll);
[okay, so no one put her out of her misery. She cursed that and cursed her luck but instead of just offing herself - it was seriously tempting, she was in a damned kid's movie - she instead decided to explore.
Explore and ignore whatever the hell was happening to her. She wasn't going to acknowledge it, because if she did that made it all too real and she wasn't about to let that happen. Even if her hand just wouldn't listen to her, though she couldn't be too upset, what with the obscene gestures it would make whenever it did get out of hand.
But otherwise? Everything was perfectly fine. Hand shoved in her pocket and the other hand holding it there, there was absolutely nothing going on—]
Ow.
[with a hiss, Meg stops and glares down at her pocket, as if that will have any effect whatsoever] Would you stop that?
[and if she catches you looking, well - you get an even angrier glare] What are you looking at?
wildcard;
[player's choice! Meg's a ragdoll, so follow your heart ♥]
1. Arrival Honestly, Roxas isn't sure how a bat got into Sora's heart, but he's smart enough not to question it. Instead, knowing Jack Skellington as a friend to Sora, he takes the potion without much hesitation. Being greeted by the bony man causes the nobody to take a step back, watching the man warily. He wasn't about to take the offered hand, but he also wasn't about to run out screaming. Nothing scared the Nobody.
"Okay... Thanks," he muttered, taking the jack'o'laptop and tucking it into a pocket of his coat. "I'm gonna go now." Without further ado, he turned to take his leave of the skeleton. Finding his way around Halloweentown shouldn't be a problem.
2. Ragdoll No, he'd been wrong. Halloweentown was a bit more... complicated than he remembered. Or maybe it was that he didn't have a purpose to be here, so with no purpose he had no direction. And thus, Roxas was left standing in the town square dumbly. Looking around, he spotted a mirror, and his own abnormalities. He walked closer, staring at his reflection and poking at the seams of his skin. Those had definitely not been there before, and he'd never changed his appearance when entering Halloweentown before.
The boy looked around, puzzling over the residents. There had never been so many before either. And there were no Heartless here. Everything felt very different right now, like this wasn't the place he'd been at all.
5. Egg Hunt So... that door had been some sort of strange mistake. Upon entering the pastel-colored door and tumbling through into the flowery meadow, as the nobody attempted to stand, he found his arms the same length as his legs. And... His ears were able to swivel? A bleat escaped his mouth as he tried to express his displeasure at his new predicament.
After wobbling around for a bit and getting the hang of his new form, somehow he found himself roped into an egg hunt. With a brightly-colored woven basket looped over his head, he began romping around in search of the eggs.
[Ema had managed to sit through the entire skeleton's welcome and explanation, though admittedly most of it was spent just. . . staring. . . and wondering why the heck she thought it was a good idea to drink that vial of skull-topped liquid in the first place. but upon being ushered out of the laboratory and into the town, the detective decides not to stray far from her point of arrival. in fact, she stands outside of the spooky building, staring at it with a furrowed brow and a rather judgmental expression on her features]
For what's supposed to be a scientific lab, it looks pretty outdated. I bet it's not even properly stocked with supplies.
The first door aka ZOMBIE.
[it was fairly easy for Ema ignore the weird, sudden craving of brains within the first few minutes of her arrival. but as the days passed, the hunger only worsened, until it gnawed at her insides like a mouse gnawing on cheese. it was only through sheer stubbornness stoked by disgust at the idea of consuming brains that kept Ema from giving in to temptation]
[whiiiiich was apparently a very bad idea]
[the trip through the Hitherlands to the door of Holidays is quiet until a piercing shriek suddenly cuts through the air]
Augh! What the heck?! This is gross!
[if you're part of the group making the trip through the Hitherlands, and if you take it upon yourself to investigate said shriek, you'll find the detective staring at her arm in a mixture of disgust and worry. she pokes at a patch of decaying skin, which slips and slides underneath her fingertips, revealing bloody red muscle underneath]
[fellow zombies plz inform one of your kind that she needs to eat or else this will only get worse]
Wildcard.
[hit me up with any other prompt! Ema is a zombie, and I'm open for anything ♥]
Oh dear, Snow White was quite worried that she had ended up in the wrong place. She tried not to get too frightened when Jack came forward, and she was quite glad she hadn't because what a nice skeleton! Though she didn't know enough skeletons to ever be a judge of a bad one. She was sure all skeletons were nice. She lifted up her skirt as he guided her outside and her eyes widened at the sight of the town.
"My! What an interesting little town!" she exclaimed as he bid her ado and she went about on her own. "Now I wonder where I should start!" moving over to someone, she lightly tapped them on the shoulder. "Why hello there! Are you new here too?"
2 - The Town || Lycanthrope (Prey animal - Deer)
She did feel a bit more skittish, she would admit, but otherwise she wasn't quite sure what was so scary of the town, everyone seemed so nice. And Snow wasted no time in making friends with the animals, but then, she had always been able to understand them and they her before coming to Halloween Town.
So you might see Snow White with a very... different breed of animals following her around. Rather than woodland creatures (though there were some of those too), bats, cats, crows, ravens, rats, and even a few snakes were following her instead.
"Now wherever I find to stay, we'll have to make sure it's neat and tidy!" she smiled to a series of noise. "Perhaps we should help others find a place to live as well! You've all been terribly helpful!" Snow White said, looking at them. A cat meowed, warning her that she was about to run into someone and she turned back around, nearly nose to nose with the person.
"OH! Oh dear, I'm so sorry, you aren't hurt are you?" she asked even though she hadn't even touched them.
"Ugh.." The little magician used her hands in order to lift herself from the ground. The first thing she noted right off the bat was that her stomach felt as though it had been caught in a whirlpool; it spun around and around in her gut in sheer protest of what had happened. "Urp.." Mint clasped a hand over her mouth. "I feel like I'm gonna barf."
[If asked, Ed wouldn't have been able to explain what compelled him to do something as idiotic as drink a vial of unknown liquid. Call it curiosity, call it ignorance. Whatever it was, he'd followed the urge and downed it without a second thought, only reading the letter in full after the fact.
The next thing he knew, he was being greeted by a walking talking skeleton and urged out into the strangest town Ed had ever laid eyes on.
He stood shock still where he'd been left, staring around like a deer caught in the headlights as he tried to process what was going on. No gate had been opened, using alchemy was impossible for him where he and Al were now, and yet he was in a completely different place. A few individuals milling about caught his attention and Ed sucked in a quick breath, stumbling backwards--
Wait. No. He..floated. Backwards.
The newly made ghost let out a yelp as he flailed and tried to figure out how and why he was floating, looking like quite the idiot as he tried to keep himself upright and not end up upside down or something equally as embarrassing.]
Going through the door
[While he still wasn't pleased with the state of things, Ed figured that if he was going to get answers he might as well go along with things which is why he'd attended the town meeting and learned about this other new holiday. Easter. And something about a rabbit.
What kind of place was this?
Curiosity being the major weakness it was for Ed, the spirit had headed out to see what this door--it was a gate in his mind and nothing anyone said would change that--looked like. He wanted to see if he could figure out what powered it and maybe even use it to get himself home. If it could take them all to another world, why not their home worlds, right?
Finding the door wasn't hard and Ed floated in a wide circle around the tree before he slowly eased himself closer, reaching out to brush his fingers against the door--
But yeah, that didn't...right. Ghost.
Ed frowned and drew his hand back. It was cracked open and the temptation to go through it was strong but he had no idea what would happen if he did.
Maybe he could get someone else to go through first..]
[well, Mikleo waited for the introduction and explanation, and he’s less than satisfied with both, kind of tense and on edge. he can’t feel anything untoward from the residents, but this is certainly a lot to swallow, metaphorically and literally -- he still half-can’t believe he put that potion down his throat. at least he’s not exhibiting much of an effect from it yet, though his pointed teeth feel odd in his mouth and he’s trying not to pay attention to the new, soft scales spotting his hands and spreading up his skin. also, he’s dreadfully thirsty, which is weird for a seraph to feel.
his first doubly-imperative urge was to go toward the lake, of course, but he’d stubbornly turned his steps towards the looming, almost ruinlike hulk of the University instead, to try and distract himself. it’s not hard to spot him trailing into the building until he reaches the library and stops dead at the entrance, eyes wide. so many books…!]
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5 - easter egg hunt
[he can’t believe he’s starting this day off quacking and waddling around. he’s feeling even more skeptical of this setup than he is of Halloween Town’s, but, okay, he’ll go with it for now. not a lot of harm gathering eggs, right? even if he doesn’t see why he has to be a baby bird to do it.
of course, before he can even start, first he has to try to balance this egg-hunting basket on his back. with tiny stubby wings instead of arms.]
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halloweentownooc2016-03-10 09:50 pm
Test Drive Meme
Welcome to the Halloween Town Test Drive.
This test drive is meant to provide those who are interested in applying to the game an opportunity to not only experience the setting and mechanics, but to interact with players and characters already in the game!
"Welcome our dear guests! We've been waiting for you!"Prompt 4 - Easter Island: Welcome to Easter Island! You may need to squint at first, since it's so bright and colorful, the complete opposite of Halloween Town. But once your vision adjusts, you'll notice something... different. You will find you are no longer any monsters but instead you're- well... to put it quite plainly, you're adorable! You have been turned into the citizens of Easter Island! The Easter Bunny welcomes you warmly, quite surprised to see so many adorable newcomers! And you'll find, perhaps without surprise at this point, that you can understand him. So what does he have planned for you?
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