+ Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright! | OPEN +

[vitaelamorte]

Who: EVERYONE (if they want to live)
Where: EVERYWHERE (inside the mansion, knocking on doors)
When: 6/24 - 6/27
Rating: PG-13?
Summary: The Summerween Trickster has made his decree - Trick or treat...or die! This is a mingle log for Trick-or-Treating!
The Story:



On the morning of the 24th, everyone will find that the mansion was inexplicably decorated for Halloween...sort of. The idea behind the decorations is mostly the same, except that every jack-o-lantern is made out of a watermelon instead of a pumpkin. No, this is SUMMERWEEN.

For the first day it will be harmless enough, just a change in décor and a little spooky summer fun. However, by the second day there will be sightings of the Summerween Trickster, a creepy fellow made entirely out of unpopular loser candy, and he is not happy. In the entrance hall, there will be a giant jack-o-melon container with a counter and a count-down clock ticking away to the end of the event.

Your job, Wonderland, is to trick-or-treat for your lives. You have until the end of the event to deliver one million pieces of candy to the jack-o-melon before the end of the event, to appease the Summerween Trickster.

What was that? You'll just sit this out and wait for the event to end? I wouldn't do that if I were you. You see, the Summerween Trickster could be lurking around any corner. If he catches someone not fully embracing the spirit of Summerween (refusing to trick or treat, not wearing a costume, etc), they will not survive the experience. The Trickster will kill them and swallow them whole, making them part of his horrible loser candy body.

More details about trick or treating can be found here. This is a mingle post for trick-or-treating, if you'd rather use this than make a post! [Brackets] or prose are both welcome.

Comments

[uncoils]

[She'll glance over at Frisk, which distracts her from the thought of kicking the damn door down even if it probably wouldn't get her anywhere. And...pretty much immediately starts to feel like an ass for her outburst. Way to go Jolyne, a kid caught you threatening to get your revenge on a door.]

Hey, no, it's fine. It just caught me by surprise that's all. You don't have to give me your candy, it's fine. I've got a bunch.

[She'll hold up her pillowcase which isn't exactly full, but she's not taking candy from a kid. That's not right. Plus, she doesn't know if that thing's lurking and definitely doesn't want to put anyone at risk.]

But yeah, this is no big deal.

[She'll pick some off of her jacket and toss it on to the floor.]

It's just...messed up.

[Yeah, there we go. Watching her language for once.]

[determinedest]

[Looks like she's gotten a lot of candy so far, which is good. Still, Frisk has more than enough to spare. They look between their sack and hers dubiously, but slowly drop their back to their side again when she refuses.]

I got hit with a few water balloons a few doors back. Looks like it's kinda...random.

[They shoot her a sympathetic look.]

Um, anyway. I'm Frisk.

[uncoils]

Jolyne. And water balloons? I guess it's better than rotten eggs and toilet paper. Never thought about how much cleaning that stuff must suck until today.

[Look if any of the Jojo characters in Wonderland have participated in Mischief Night, it's probably her.]

It's just that...

[On second thought, she won't go into that. It's trick or treat or die, she doesn't feel the need to bring up the fact that getting random crap thrown at them when they open doors doesn't exactly help things either.]

Never mind. Nice costume by the way.

[And yes, she means that.]

[determinedest]

Just what?

[Frisk's head goes to one side curiously. Not getting out that easily, Jolyne. This kid feels like they've got a natural obligation to solve people's problems.

They smile a little shyly. They'd felt kind of ridiculous when they'd first donned the wings and pinned the halo to their hair, especially in comparison to Chara's devil costume, but as the night wore on and they witnessed plenty of adults trussed up in equally ridiculous getups, they'd felt much better about it.]

Thanks. My friend and I were a devil and an angel, but we split up for a little bit.

[uncoils]

Man, I'd try playing the adult card, and saying you should mind your own business, but there's no way I could pull that off. Even without being covered in this crap.

[She'll just shake her head and step over to knock on the next door, with a pretty unenthusiastic trick or treat. Probably not getting much here. Not unless the silly string counts as an accessory, but probably not. If that were the case, she could've just used Stone Free to make a mummy costume and called it a day.]

It's just that well, it's cruddy enough we have to do this or else. Makes it worse than every so often stuff like that happens.

[That's the vague way of saying she's worried about people getting eaten because they got more tricks than treats, even if that doesn't seem to be the case.]

And an angel and a devil, huh? That's a pretty good one. I hope your friend's doing all right out there.

[She's guessing they're probably fine.]

[determinedest]

Yeah, Chara can take care of themselves.

[They're not exactly subtle. Plus, they seemed really happy about their demonic getup, all decked out and looking like someone out of the Dreemurr family. They are someone in the Dreemurr family. Even if they don't seem to think so sometimes.]

But...yeah. It, uh, wouldn't be Wonderland if there wasn't something awful happening, right?

[It's a weak joke. They need to take a leaf out of Sans's book, maybe take some lessons in breaking the ice, because they clearly aren't any good at it.]

[uncoils]

That's what I've heard. Still, I was warned about zombies and we had the whole thing with the mirrors. This...

[She'll step over to check out one of those weird jack-o-melon things.]

This really wasn't what I thought I'd have to deal with. Those kids come from a pretty weird place, don't they?

[She'd seen Dipper and Mabel's announcement, but not knowing what else to go with other than “what the hell is wrong with your world?” she decided to just be quiet instead.]

[determinedest]

Dipper and Mabel? Their world isn't so bad! It's a little weird, maybe, but...whose isn't?

[It's kind of weird how they feel almost obligated to defend Gravity Falls if they've never actually been there, just in Wonderland's version of the place, but even with all the gnomes and the terror that followed, it hadn't been a terrible event. They'd rather enjoyed some of it.]

Wonderland took us there, once. [They add, as a reassurance.] It was all right.

[uncoils]

Don't know. I don't think I've met anyone from a normal world yet.

[And from the door it's...sure looks like loser candy. So into the bag it goes.]

But it's got an evil dream triangle, and this monster thing running around, but it's really not that bad?

[Convince her, Frisk. Then again she really has no room to talk given her world has people running around in stupid outfits with punchghost powers.]

Wait, Wonderland can take people to other worlds?

[On second thought, that's more important because there's just this look of oh shit on Jolyne's face because...well, refer to previous thought of punchghost powers.]

[determinedest]

Depends on how you define "normal."

[As far as Frisk can tell, their world is the furthest thing from it, but...it was normal to them, well enough.]

Other than Bill, no. Most things in Gravity Falls won't hurt you unless you hurt them first. Wonderland didn't really take us there, it just...made a really convincing replica, I think?

[They'd have to talk to Dipper on the specifics. He seemed to know more.]

[uncoils]

A lack of weird shit happening.

[..she was bound to slip up with the language thing at some point.]

No demons, no zombies, no whatever the hell you'd call anything where I come from. You know, normal.

[And she's just going to drop her bag on the ground and run her hands over her face in exasperation. A little dramatic, but unlike her dad, she's dramatic sometimes, she doesn't just lineface at everything.]

Oh man, so I don't have to just worry about things, I have to worry about places too. Ugh, I've gotta tell my uncle now. I don't know if he's going to worry about it or not, but the last thing I want is that place popping up here.

[Oh wait, she was trying to not freak out in front of the kid. Sorry, Frisk.]

[determinedest]

[Honestly, they've heard worse. Their roommate has said worse.]

Is your world not very fun?

[Probably better ways to phrase that, but...well, they're trying to keep things PG here. Relatively, anyway.]

There's gotta be some good things about it. Wonderland doesn't always pick the bad stuff!

[uncoils]

[Well, Jolyne doesn't know that. And she's definitely sworn in front of kids before. It's just...Wonderland's a fresh start sort of, and she doesn't want to screw it up.

...she will screw it up.]

Parts of it are. Just most of where I've been lately has been well...look, whatever you think fun is, picture the exact opposite of that.

[She doesn't want to say she's been in prison because that's just not something she's gonna share with everybody. Let them think she's a delinquent, that's fine, but knowing she's been in prison for murder, that's uh, no. Let's not share that. Even if she didn't do that, she's not going to share it.]

[determinedest]

Dying a whole lot, over and over?

[Frisk if you want to avoid getting weird questions you shouldn't say weird things like that.]

Well, it might not do anything bad with your world. Sometimes it doesn't. You never know!

[They've been here since...January, they think, and nothing from their world's shown up yet except people they already know.]

[uncoils]

Uh, no. Where I come from, it's the one time and that's it.

[Well, this took a serious turn she didn't want it to take. Oh, and she'll pick up her candy now because she needs something to do to distract her from thinking about people dying.]

Yeah, well, here's hoping it doesn't do anything with it.

[Unfortunately she knows she doesn't have that kind of luck, but it doesn't stop her from trying.]

[determinedest]

Usually the mansion warns us before anything bad happens anyway. You'll probably know if it has anything to do with your world.

[Trick or treat, the Dormouse said. But what did any of that have to do with gravity reversing?]

Um, did you...feel that shift in the gravity the other day? Like, everything was floating?

[uncoils]

Is that what it was? I thought I was just having that falling dream. You know the one everyone has at least once?

[She just sort of woke up when she hit the bed then went back to sleep. Thereby missing a bunch of broadcasts about it.

Had she been from a little further along in her timeline she probably would've gone on defcon five. Jolyne and gravity they...they won't be getting along back home.]

But I can't see how that has anything to do with this. That thing doesn't control gravity. At least it doesn't seem like it does.

[determinedest]

[Frisk blinks, a frown flitting briefly over their expression. The falling dream.

Yeah, they dream of falling pretty much every night.

They elect to dismiss the comment.]

Yeah, it was a whole...thing. But it didn't have anything to do with this. I just wanted to ask if you, you had any idea what it was? 'Cause I don't.

[uncoils]

Uh..

[She'll think about that one for a moment, taking a second to check the halls for a certain candy monster. Okay, good, clear.]

I got into a fight with a guy who could do something with gravity back home. I don't think he's here though.

[That's why she's not on defcon five. Dealing with Jumpin' Jack Flash was annoying, but she ended up getting through it mostly okay. The Stand that's coming up though is another story.]

Nobody I know here has the power to do anything like that. At least I don't think so. I don't make a habit of asking people what powers they have because if they're not using them to be an asshole, I don't think it's my business.

[She'll think some more.]

Yeah, I've got nothing.

[determinedest]

[Well, that makes two of them. But Sans and Papyrus had confirmed that neither of them were behind or even could be behind something like that.]

I mean...I guess. I just, um...almost fell out of a window when it happened. I mean, I did fall out of a window? But my friend caught me. It just...could've been worse than it was.

I just thought I'd ask around, just in case.

[uncoils]

Hey, I'll ask around too. Maybe after this is all over, but if we ask everybody, someone's bound to know something. We'll figure it out.

[determinedest]

Okay. Well, um...it was nice to meet you!

[They wave weakly. Chara's bound to catch up to them soon, and they're gonna want to get back to the trick-or-treating.]