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[ofhope]

ℌalloween ℭhecklist

☐ Pick out a costume.
☐ Make sure it's better than all the others!
☐ Get the biggest candy bucket to cut down on refill trips.
☐ Pick out a second costume to change into halfway through.
☐ Make a second round. Who needs to know? More candy!
☐ Don't forget to visit both the castle and the city.
☐ Trick or scare at least one person before the night's through.

[ There may or may not be horrible doodles of candies, vampires, mummies, and werewolves all over the page. HORRIBLE. But he dictates once the list is through, ]

With this you can't go wrong. And if you plan on handing out candy, you better be generous.

I can't figure out what I want to be, though.

Comments

dictated; filtered to Joshua

[heloise]

Not the plague, Joshua?

dictated; filtered to Lucrezia

[ofhope]

It's bad sport if you have to wear a costume twice.

foreveeeeeeeeer

[heloise]

What comes after the plague, I wonder?

[ofhope]

[ Pfft, he tries not to laugh. ]

...War.

[iamdamnloyal]

Are you going to do all that?

[ofhope]

Of course. Why else would I write the list?

[iamdamnloyal]

To help out people who haven't heard of Halloween. That's a very thorough list.

[ofhope]

Maybe I'm a multi-tasker.

[eternityalone]

[This is tedious. Katherine knows about Halloween, but in 1842 it wasn't exactly a big deal. Silly Puritans. There were similar festivals in England, even Bulgaria... but when things don't cross over the ocean.

Sigh.

Regardless, she'll at least play the part that she's carved out for herself.]

Have you been the victim of a trick?

[ofhope]

Not yet. I've only been here for a few years, and we didn't do this back home.

But it would be hard to trick me, anyway!

[eternityalone]

Oh? Why would it be hard to trick you?

[ofhope]

[ Because he loves pranks and anyone who loves pranks is always expecting one! Also he's a big cheater. But he doesn't want to say that because that's just asking for it. ]

People can be predictable.

Dictated

[yay_heiress]

Good luck accomplishing step number number two!

Dictated

[ofhope]

Why, what are you going to be?

Re: Dictated

[yay_heiress]

Amazing!

What about you?

[ofhope]

I don't know yet. Someone suggested a detective.

[gottaknockhard]

... [He's so glad that Halloween wasn't spoiled for him by a demon cat running around, really.]

That's always the hardest part.

[ofhope]

Are you dressing up?

[gottaknockhard]

I'm not sure they make costumes in my size.

[Because he has never looked.]

[pianoman]

Oh dear, this "Halloween" is sounding frightening enough already without someone planning to scare others!

[ofhope]

Don't worry, I don't plan on stealing body parts.

[pianoman]

Ah, good. I was so afraid I'd lose my head again.

[nihilo]

[ She starts rambling, out of context. ]

Caisos. Aren't they exotic? You've seen the local monies surely, the fluorescent coins, which weren't dyed so, by the way.

After the red light district, a chemistry lab. 9 p.m.?

[ofhope]

[ Seen them, yes. Used them only half the time, the other half using a perversely childish mixture of intimidation and spare candy or shiny bobs. ]

I wonder if there's a way you can say that where we don't sound suspect...

[nihilo]

Is it illegal here?