A very merry Halloween! [Mingle]

[ourearth]

Date: 31st of October
Characters: Open!
Warning: Non-sexual desecration of formerly buried corpses

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On the morning of Halloween, when people first step out of their houses, they will almost step into something.

A bucket of water. Every flat and every house in the Mossgate Boundary has a bucket placed in front of its entrance door (and sometimes, especially in Folkton and Moss Manor, the back door too), in which scary apples are floating. A little sign taped to the bucket reads: Have fun bobbing!.

But that's not the only thing that happened. The second thing that people will notice is that there are billions of spiders of all sizes crawling all over the town and villages, the military base, the Manor House... everywhere. And they certainly did their job - trees, lanterns, the higher attractions on the pier, and everything else that is high all over Mossgate Council is covered in thick layers of cobweb.

And lastly... those who pass by a church will notice something about the graveyards around them. Namely, that someone placed skeletons on top of most of the graves... Awfully real looking ones. Really, really awfully real looking ones. To some of them, the soil of the graveyard still clings, and the graves underneath them are in a state that betrays that they were dug up during the night. DNA tests would show that, indeed, the skeletons belong to the individuals buried in the graves.

Comments

[vernal_miss]

Initially when the dog runs closer, she tenses in guard only for the dog to change course. Nel stares as he runs closer and further from her repeatedly, barking along the way. As it becomes clear to her that no harm was meant, she pushes through her arms to sit herself back up with legs criss crossing instead.

Reaching one hand forward, she tries to talk to him and coax him over for petting with as soothing of a tone as a child can manage, “It’s okay! You’re a good doggie, aren’t you? It’s alright. Come on, you’re okay.”

[channingchanningchanning]

He calms down when the shock wears off and she doesn't seem to be hurt, and eventually stops with the running around and barking.

Now he just stands there, breathing hard and staring at her.

She. Seems okay? But what. WHAT. HAPPENED.

He comes closed very slowly, trying to figure this out, but... nothing seems out of the ordinary? Neither about the place nor this girl nor anything?

[vernal_miss]

Patiently she waits for the dog to come into her reach with her hand held still in the air until he makes that first contact. Once he does, she starts to brush her hand over his back and scratch lightly into his scruff, voice kept the same, “You didn’t even mean to knock me over, did you? You’re much stronger than you look. I wonder how you got so strong.”

Nel has been bowled over plenty of times in her life with so many siblings.

“I hope I didn’t do anything to you...” she murmurs with a twinge of concern. She has had two Echoes aside from the one that gave her so much hair, yet she has yet to find anything that has changed about her.

[channingchanningchanning]

He is stronger than he looks? ...He wants to say of course he is, but he knows that he isn't. He has exactly appropriate dog strength.

...But now he knocked this girl over.

Does that mean that he'll keep accidentally hurting people?

And now she's blaming herself. No. No. He can't let this happen. He...

barks at her and then runs away.

He can't stay close to her. He needs to figure this out somehow.

[vernal_miss]

Nel flinches at the barks out of surprise, and her hand is left hanging in the air when the dog pulls away and simply runs off.

As much as she wants to chase after him, she does have friends that will be missing her soon, and so she gathers up her candy bag. Recalling the dog had been half carrying something before, she goes to look at the bone left behind. One curiosity leads to another...

And well, Chad isn't the only one to run out of the graveyard.