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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.

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[He is probably madder about most things than most people.]

What the--

[He flails gracelessly trying to keep the silly string from nailing him right in the face, but fails miserably, sputtering as he reaches to pull it away from his eyes.]

Oh, that's it, I'm gonna kick this stupid door right off its hinges!

[That'll show it, right?]

Let's fuck it up!

[She shouldn't, she knows she shouldn't. But you know what, it does have it coming.

Look, sometimes she can deal with being pissed off and sometimes someone's door is getting kicked the fuck down. That's just how it is.]

Let's go!

[Apparently we're not even bothering with eggs or toilet paper because Jolyne's delivering a sharp kick that stops right before the hinge on one of them. And the hinge dents in anyway, thanks to her invisible friend Stone Free (...who is not wearing a costume because Stand dressup would be a whole other level of ridiculous).

She probably could've unscrewed the door with it or done something more than what she did, but brute force works better sometimes. Besides, she doesn't want to do everything herself. Kanji definitely deserves the chance to land a few hits of his own.]

[Kanji is on the exact same page. As satisfying as eggs or toilet paper might be, they're still nothing compared to the satisfaction of getting physical with the damn thing. There aren't many good substitutions for brute force in that regard, even if other ways might be a little more efficient.

He almost asks her how she dented the hinge without making contact, but he saves that for later-- either way, it's getting the job done and he is so onboard with kicking this thing's ass.]

You think it's funny to shoot that crap all over people?!

[As if the door can answer him. Technically, if he wanted to do some real damage, he could summon his Persona and tear this thing the fuck down, but instead he slams himself bodily against the door before kicking the lower half hard, causing a sharp splintering sound to split the air.]

Take that!

[Guys, please.]

Yeah, that'll teach you to start shit!

[Don't worry, she'll explain it at some point, but right now there's a door to fuck up. And wow Kanji, way to just throw yourself at the problem. Not that Jolyne disapproves, she's handled her share of problems too.

And she'll aim another kick at the door now that it's busted enough that she can actually kick at the thing without needing Stone Free to back her up. So that hinge Stone Free started in on is going bye bye as she just continues to strike at it.

What? It's a good way to work her anger out. Anger at this stupid event, anger at Wonderland, anger at a ton of shit back home. She's got a lot of baggage and right now the door's on the receiving end of it.]

Nice one, Kanji!

[Another solid slam and the door is decidedly off its hinges, no match at all for their rage, and Kanji feels a surge of adrenaline course through him as he stomps on it in the name of victory-- before he gets a good look at the very empty doorframe they've left behind, and he feels his stomach drop.

Fucking up the door had seemed like a great idea at the time, but if this is someone's room-- and by the looks of what he can see through the doorway, it is-- maybe he should have practiced some self-restraint.

But come in, this thing threw freakin' silly string in his face. Was violence really unwarranted?]

Think it's learned its lesson?

[He's so dumb.]

[Freya is drunk. She's swaying a bit on her too high heels as she rounds the corner to her room, and while she isn't expecting to come back to two strangers having kicked in her door and are in the middle of her room.

She should probably be angry, but right now she's mostly confused, staring at the empty space where her door used to be and letting them wander up and over the door jam, before speaking to the two people in front of her.]

What happened to my door?

[When Jolyne hears the voice, she freezes for a second, not sure if it's an enemy or not. She doesn't have enemies in Wonderland, sure, but it's become force of habit back home, so there's this split second worry of whether or not she should just turn and start throwing punches.

But rational thought prevails (for once), and she's just sort of instantly mortified. It's someone's room, and that someone is here, and she can't even ditch it and pretend she doesn't know anything about it. She hasn't turned around yet because she kinda doesn't want to face this, but there's not a lot she can say besides...]

Oh shit.

[Kanji freezes in place, a deer caught in the headlights, but he still manages to offer Freya the most mature of explanations.]

Uh-- the door started it.

[Look. That's his story and he's sticking to it.]

[Her eyes run the door jamb again and then she squints at Kanji because last she checked, her door didn't have a mind of it's own, but then again, this is Wonderland.]

How?

[Just ... out of curiosity.]

By throwing shit at us.

[Wow, that was a lame excuse and Jolyne knows it. Silly string is not a reason to break somebody's door down, but it seemed like a good idea at the time.]

It just...got out of hand.

[Yeah. That's definitely what happened.]

[As if on cue, Kanji picks some stray silly string out of his hair, scowling as he tries to shake it off of his hand.]

This stuff-- right in the goddamn face!

[He's just fine placing the blame solely on the door. Freya hadn't been here, so it couldn't have been her fault, even if the room belonged to her.]

We kinda... lost it after that.

[He was definitely a bad influence.]

[She nods once, slowly, still taking everything in, before she leans in the door frame and points to the remains of her door.]

And you will fix it?

Not if it's just gonna throw more shit at people.

[Okay, that is about 25% trying to seem tough, and 75% of an attempt at covering that she's not sure if she knows how to put a door back on. She knows a hell of a repairman in Wonderland, but calling him up to fix her mistakes doesn't seem right.

But she knows she screwed up, so she's got to fix it because that's what you do. You actually fix problems, not just ignore them and pretend they don't exist like some people in her family like to think.]

Later though. Like when that thing's not wandering around trying to eat people, sure. I'm not trying to get out of it, I'm just not sure how long it'll take me to fix it. And if I get killed, you're not getting your door put back on.

[Likewise, Kanji has no idea how to begin putting a door back on its hinges. The mansion usually fixes itself, doesn't it? But he guesses it probably doesn't matter-- they shouldn't have let things get out of hand.]

Uh, I dunno if it matters, the mansion usually patches itself up, I think, but...

[He blushes hotly beneath his Frankenstein makeup, rubbing at the back of his neck.]

I'm-- real sorry.

[She does not seem impressed by the fact that they were trying to pass their work off on the mansion, but she also recognizes the apology when she sees one.]

If you get killed, you'd be back in a few days.

[Freya, that's rude, but she's too drunk to hide her cavalier relationship with death at the moment.]

The mansion doesn't want to waste it's resources. But apology accepted. I think.

[All right the situation's handled and everything's mostly good and...

Wait, no, sorry, no Jolyne's annoyed by that remark. Actually, completely pissed off, but she's doing her best to hide it...which probably isn't very good. Look, she can see that Freya's probably a little tipsy, but that's a sore subject with her.]

Just because you'd come back from it doesn't mean it's something I want to go through. Or that anyone should have to go through. Especially not over a fucking door that's just going to...fix itself?

[She kind of lost steam there and is just looking back at Kanji because she didn't know that one.]

Wait, wait a damn second--

[Because yes, he's also taking that comment the same way Jolyne had, and he has enough steam for the both of them.]

You're tellin' me you'd be willing to kill us over this damn thing?

What?

[No. That wasn't what she meant? (Was that what she meant?)]

No. If I was going to kill you, I would have already killed you.

[That being said.]

I was just saying that logistically speaking, dying would not prevent you from fixing my door, even if the door didn't fix itself. And you broke down my door. If you break something, you should fix it.

I don't think she's going to kill us, I think she meant that-

[She was about to mention the thing, but now Jolyne's just sort of like what for a moment because don't just throw things out like that Freya, wow.]

Well yeah, she's got a point. Usually, this is the part where we'd be being attacked already. I don't know if you'd be able to finish the job, but if you were going to do it, you would've started already.

[She's been down this road way too many times to not know how it goes.]

All right, all right. Let's settle down though. Nobody's killing anyone anyway. Let's try and figure something out that doesn't get anyone killed, okay?

[She's going to try and act like the mature adult here. Which she's not so uh...god help everyone here, basically.]

So if Wonderland doesn't fix it, we'll fix it.

[..and she'll maybe see if she can rope her uncle into it because he's probably more help than either of them are.]

And if it does fix it, we fucked up, so we owe you one. Or at the least if he doesn't want to, I'll owe you two. It's my fault, I lost my temper first. Sound fair?

[Kanji looks uneasily between the both of them, because misunderstanding or not, there's been a whole lot of talk of death here and he is way not comfortable with that. When Jolyne offers to make amends, though, he sputters before jumping in, not wanting to be left behind.]

I mean-- I ain't gonna pretend I didn't screw up. We'll fix it if Wonderland doesn't, but if it does-- yeah. Yeah!

[Look, he's trying to psych himself up. It's mostly working.]

I'll owe you one, too. Ain't just her fault. I got all worked up and kinda-- forgot myself.

Good.

[That's all she wanted. And hope you guys are prepared to come through on those favors because she's totally going to remember this.]

Now, if you don't mind, I returned to my room intending to sleep off my buzz. Is there anything else?

I think we're good. Go sleep it off. Stuff like that can be a pain in the ass if you don't.

[Hey, she's not the type to say something and not do it. Unless it's murdering somebody or something, then yeah, sorry, she'll go back on her word.]

Hey, Kanji, let's go try some other doors, okay?

[He rubs at the back of his neck again, awkward. He can't weigh in on the whole buzzed thing-- for as much of a delinquent as he's seen to be back home, he's always been on the straight and narrow in that department, but he nods at Jolyne's suggestion. Probably best that they move on.]

Yeah, sounds good. Uh-- sorry again.

[She gives them both a wave, and sends them off to keep doing their Halloween thing, before ... basically faceplanting into bed. Goodnight.

Freya out.]

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