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

Or it gets put off for *reasons* (finding time?) because hugs are warm anyway

[vernal_miss]

The tension that had begun to creep into her muscles fades in an instant when her Mum assures her she won’t have to evade hugs with her Mummy or siblings. Nodding with a smile, she’s thankful for the inclusion, “Maybe Grandpa can help, cause being warm like a cat in one spot isn’t going to be much to show her.”

Making it real for her Mummy will be harder without being able to use the Network.

Once her Mummy returns to the room with the water, she’ll gratefully accept the glass to sip at it. Nel will be left with a goose egg on the back of her head for a day or so, but that’s the worst of it with her headache continuing to diminish gradually.

[catted]

They start talking about all kinds of practical things almost immediately when Janice gets back into the room - if Nel should stay in bed that day, how to go about breakfast, the news, and various other things, so they end up not telling Janice.

Not immediately, anyway.

But in the evening, Mary manages to arrange it so that when all children are out of the house or in bed, her and Nel and Janice end up in the same room, so they can tell her together. Janice doesn't fully buy it at first, but she has to admit that it explains a few things, and eventually reluctantly accepts their story. And promises to not tell anyone, and also says that if anything should happen, they can come to her as an uninvolved person any time.

[vernal_miss]

Content to let her mothers talk together, she tucks in against her Mum after drinking the water to close her eyes and rest with one hand settling over the warm spot of her chest. Her imagination takes off with the subtle change, wondering what it might become if there happens to be more to it, but such thoughts are put aside as the day resumes in normalcy.

When the opportunity to reveal the Numbers and all that goes with it to her Mummy is created, Nel follows her Mum's lead to manage such a difficult explanation in a way that makes sense by pitching in details as she can. A promise made to keep the secret and assist, Nel expresses her gratitude with hugs and a kiss. She lingers until given a nudge to go to bed, then heads off to her room for a night of sound sleep with one critical matter set straight.