HALLOWEEN DANCE

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HALLOWEEN DANCE

Students start to file into the gym as a siren plays over the loudspeaker. [Student Council Member A]'s voice gives a monotone command on repeat, asking everyone to stay calm and file into the gymnasium in an orderly fashion. Red lights flash on and off as everyone gets settled in front of the stage that's been erected on the south end. Venus Rosales gets in front of the crowd, with a banner hanging behind her that says "CONGRATULATIONS 2018 SURVIVORS!" She gives a speech to the students, playing the part of a government official. She welcomes the attendees to this new safe house. Good job surviving the zombie apocalypse!

As soon as the dance starts, [Character B] is startled when a freshman in a hockey mask wielding a chainsaw rushes them! It's quite a scene as they're chased across the dance floor. The music starts up (provided by student-band The Dolly Llamas for the first forty-five minutes and by a Student Council-approved playlist after that), the fog machines get to work, and it's time to party! Happy Halloween!

Besides dancing, the main attraction is a zombie and mutant filled haunted house! Its walls are made of plywood and prayers, so... don't bump into anything please. Freshmen haunt its corners, ready to jump out and scare you. A sign on the entrance reminds students to not touch (or punch) the actors, thanks! Student Council managed to get a fake chainsaw, which is probably the scariest thing in there. Sullivan Sinclair and Russell Reeve didn't enter the maze together, but ended up stuck in the same corner. With one another's help, they make it out alive!

The freshmen are really enjoying their roles as monsters, and they will not share the fake chainsaw. [Character E] tries and fails to steal it, but Slade Winchester actually gets along with the freshmen. This allows them to access the fake chainsaw. Time to terrorize some upperclassmen!

Near the end of the night, Selby Denman is scared so badly in the maze that they trip and crash into one of the delicate walls. The whole thing goes down like a bunch of dominos! Luckily, no one was hurt and the dance is almost over anyway.

HOW THIS WORKS

• The dance begins at 6pm and ends at 11pm, at which time all students must return to their dorms. Student Council arrives early and stays late to do set up and clean up.


• The gym in the athletics building is hosting the dance. It's been decorated to look like a post-apocalyptic safe house, with the refreshments labelled as rations, and fake emergency alarms on the walls. Signs around the gym display maps of where the zombie outbreak has spread, diagrams tracing the decline of humanity, and helpful survival tips!


• The windows have been covered with sheets depicting a city on fire, and the doors have been decorated with planks of wood to give the impression of being boarded shut. Unused doors are barricaded with spare chairs and tables.


• Fog machines have given the dance floor a moody, misty atmosphere.


• EMERGENCY FOOD RATIONS: There are vegan treats available alongside the regular candy and cupcakes (... and a somewhat neglected veggie tray). There's also sherbet punch, which is labelled "ZOMBIE VIRUS CURE". Dry ice leaves wisps of mist among the snacks.


• Some teachers are attending as chaperones, and they've even got costumes on! Ms. Voss and Ms. Hayward are dressed up as Velma and Daphne, respectively, from Scooby Doo, with Dakota in tow wearing a Scooby collar. Mr. Bhattacharya's got a large white beard and a hat, and is dressed as Walt Whitman (not just an old man, kids!!). Mr. Moreno has come dressed as Severus Snape. Maybe he's an even bigger dork than they realized... hopefully he won't take anything out on Liam Mr. Potter.


• COSTUME CONTEST:
  • A freshman with a Polaroid camera is running around the dance, snapping photos of anyone in a costume. Those photos end up on a board with a voting box below. Whose costume was the best?!
  
  
  • At the end of the night, the votes are tallied up, and the top three are...
  
  
  • Click to see the winners!

    3rd place: Hadlee Loxton & Selby Denman
    ($25 gift card to the ice cream parlor)
    
    2nd place: Zinnia Howe & Ulrich Roth
    ($50 gift card to the arcade)
    
    1st place: Pearl Kline
    ($100 gift card to a clothing boutique)

» Before the dance: Set up the dance floor and/or get your costumes ready! It's time for the first dance of the school year.

» The Dance Floor: A moody, knee-high cloud of mist flows across the dance floor, mostly hiding the basketball court below.

» Refreshments: A table covered in camo webbing is labelled EMERGENCY FOOD RATIONS, and offers a selection of candy, cupcakes and punch. Notable items are pre-wrapped Twinkies (because they last forever), and cookies that look like roaches (pretzel sticks for legs).

» The Maze: Student Council and Shop have been working hard to transform one of the adjoining training rooms into a maze full of mutants, zombies, and maniacs with chainsaws! There's nothing scarier than freshmen.

» Costume Contest: Congratulations to the winners! Hopefully you'll enjoy your gift cards.

» After the dance: After a long night of dancing and running from fake chainsaws, it's time to call it a night. Students are send back to their dorms to wash up and go to sleep... hopefully.

» OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!

Comments

Kyra & Marina

[weewilywilkie]

Kyra's walls come up all spikes, all at once. She's not stupid, and she knows when she's being mocked. Not that Marina would have any way of knowing this, but she was happy, up until now, with how the split went. They had handled themselves, they were adult, they should be free from the snide contempt written all over Marina's face.

Of course, that's not how it worked, and Marina's entitled to all her bile. But she didn't want her to be touching. That's too close, right now. She side-steps the contact, casual but very deliberate. "I guess not." She counters, possibly not bothered enough by that fact. "It's fine."

Kyra & Marina

[sarno]

So she hadn't misunderstood. Her hand closes on air and just like when a cat severely miscalculates a landing, the expression she projects on her face is that it was wholly intentional even as her hand darts back to safety immediately. Because there's something inherently unsafe about this now. She can't explain it, but she can feel it. Neal had been the shield, the idea of him, making it safe to tease and push. But now Kyra was unhindered. Something could happen, or it couldn't, but there'd be no Neal to blame this time.

She retreats to observation, taking in her eyes, her lips, beautiful familiar features that seem to now betray Kyra as being more than just a robot, even as she speaks placid words. Maybe it's just Marina projecting though, hunting for some deeper meaning in an indifferent expression. She can't imagine that Kyra doesn't rage and seethe beneath the surface, just as Marina does. "You're better off." This, Marina does mean. "Boys are always such a disappointment."

Kyra & Marina

[weewilywilkie]

She isn't anything more than a robot, though. Not really. See? Her face isn't moving at all. She's relaxing into a soft smile, graciously accepting the condolences that she doesn't need at all. Every muscle wants to flee, but Kyra doesn't obey that, quite yet. This exchange isn't a game, exactly, but fleeing still feels like losing. So she stands, solid, and just shakes her head.

"No. Really." She protests, "Neal's a good person. We just...weren't suited." Sometimes that happened. She sounds, blessedly, like she's discussing the weather, again.

Kyra & Marina

[sarno]

"Mm," Marina intones thoughtfully, skepticism plainly written across her face. Try as she might, she's always an easy read, and beneath the petty delight there's the obvious intrigue that keeps refusing to let her break away from Kyra's orbit. She would hate it if she knew how transparent she was.

But she's still convinced this is no chance encounter. Ego blinds her to any other possibility. And with the certainty of having achieved a victory, she slides her arms across her chest, smugly countering, "So you found me instead."

Kyra & Marina

[weewilywilkie]

Oh, danger. Kyra retracts a little further. That's not what she'd done. She doesn't think so. Surely not. Marina's attention is too welcome. She'd always known that. It keeps her drawing back when she shouldn't. Finding her drunk when she shouldn't. And now sober, too. She's forgetting herself. She has to be careful, think of the squad. She can't make this stranger and ask Liam to intervene again. Marina's here with a date, as it should be.That's where they should leave it. Some rocks are better unturned. She picks up her punch and steps once in the other direction. And she doesn't answer the question.

"I shouldn't keep you."

Kyra & Marina

[sarno]

A beat passes, and with it a storm of conflicted thoughts. "You're right." Marina knows exactly what's happening here. So it was to be a new game, with Neal gone. But she won't give Kyra the satisfaction of the chase, not tonight. She was just as capable at playing hard to get.

Her gaze slides into the crowd and then back to Kyra, as arrogant as ever.

Always determined to have the last word, she dismisses her with a small quirked upturn of a smile, "Enjoy your evening, Kiki. I know I'll be enjoying mine."