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A Graveyard Smash

Happy Halloween Vivarium!

The day will start not with Calhoun, thankfully, but with Monster Mash playing. Well, that's cute. That's what you might think if it didn't play again immediately afterwards. Then again. And again. It won't stop all day, enjoy.

Anyone who goes to the first floor warehouse will be greeted by the entire room decked out in the cheapest, cheesiest Halloween decorations available- plastic bats that vibrate angrily, ghosts that make obnoxious sounds and lights when passed, orange and black streamers every five feet.

Calhoun is sitting at his equally decked out shop, dressed in a little witch outfit. When anyone approaches he'll seem pretty upbeat.

"Happy Halloween, Test Subjects! I figured you sorry lot would enjoy a little festivity, so here you go! Don't say I don't do anything for you ungrateful subjects."

"I have a little gift for you too! Seeing as it's Halloween and all, I thought hey, why not play a little trick or treat? In this case with memories! So here's the deal, everyone gets a free memory, but I'm gonna guarantee you here it's going to be a spoooooooky one!"

He cackles. "Of course that can mean a loooooot of things, huh? Your choice! Just go through door number one over here-" He gestures to the door always used when people are taken away for memories. "-or just sit back and enjoy! Boy, it sure will be interesting to see what people pick! I'm on the edge of my seat here."

Shockingly he isn't.

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[ Beyond the door Calhoun pointed out is the chance to learn something new about yourself! Are you going to take it even though it may be a very unpleasant experience for you?

Feel free to either agonize over this decision or talk about new memories here! ]

[ So you made your decision about memories, well done! There's plenty of other stuff to do, including:

- Marvel at the lovely decorations! Though don't mess with them, Calhoun doesn't look like he'll be having any of that. In fact anyone messing with decorations too much may be in for a surprise soporil nap.

- Enjoy the music! Do you know the words to Monster Mash? You sure will now, since it will be playing at a reasonable volume for the entire day. It will stop sometime in the middle of the day to play Spooky Scary Skeletons but start again immediately after.

- Get a treat from Calhoun! Lying by his shop is a plate of Halloween themed cookies, pumpkins, ghosts, etc. Unfortunately this is a bit of a russian roulette because fifty percent are delicious and the other fifty percent will have some ill effect of your choice (vomiting, general pain, knocking out, etc.)

- Other?!

Have fun, Happy Halloween. ]

Heiji emerged from the door looking a little shaken and yet somehow oddly determined. His right hand hovered over the site of his old gunshot wound, for anyone who knew where that was.

Well, that was... something. Not exactly a happy memory by normal standards, but he'd certainly learned more about himself.

Hey buddy, guess who's still sort of hanging around, unsure of what to do? This guy. When he saw Heiji he made a b-line over though, looking concerned.

"Did you get your memory back?" That would explain his sort of weird look. "Are you alright?"

Heiji was standing by a cheesy-looking fortune-telling machine, which was essentially a wizened-looking old crone puppet in a big glass case.

"Eee hee hee hee!" it cackled. "Welcome, boys and ghouls! Push the button for a fortune... if you dare!"

Heiji looked up at Hershel and smiled a little, though it wasn't quite as enthusiastically as usual. "Yeah. I mean, couldn't pass up an opportunity like that, right?"

"...I remembered how I got shot."

[Sasuke doesn't need long to decide. There's a fair chance that whatever it is, it will be related to the whole knives business, so he hopes to get that one out of the way.

But instead, what he gets is a... fairly ordinary one. Bafflingly so, really. Which only made it stranger to consider just why it left him feeling scared.

When he walks out again, he's subdued as ever, if somewhat confused. That was far from what he'd been expecting, that's for sure.]

"I guess..." Clearly he wasn't sure himself, but he's not adventurous like his pal Heiji over here.

And wow, okay, have a shocked look before his expression goes worried. "Do you want to talk about it?"

Heiji nodded. "Sure, but let's go somewhere else to talk about it, yeah? Give me a chance to get my head together."

Because it had been rather intense. "I don't feel up to trying my luck with one of the cookies. You think it'll be quieter in the lounge?"

[So Hershel is not a fan of the ghosts because he keeps hitting them accidentally with his hair and they keep aggressively telling him he's in for a scare and all sorts of cheesy nonsense, seriously ghosts are assholes.

Speaking of his hair there's absolutely a plastic bat stuck in it and he doesn't notice yet, help?? him??

Other than that he'll be eyeing the cookies with a look of such blatant distrust and uncertainty it's probably hurt their feelings if they had any.]

Heiji was waiting outside; he was honestly curious about what fresh new horrors Sasuke's memory would provide.

"Hey, what's up? You look kinda out of it. Wasn't that bad, was it?"

Hershel nodded. "Yeah, I think that's a good idea." Sitting down was nice, let's do that.

"I'm not sure if it'll be quieter but it'll probably have less... this." These fucking decorations. He started heading over though, glancing back at Heiji as he did. "Do you need some water or anything?"

Heiji shook his head. "Nah, I'm fine. Let's go."

Once they got to the lounge, Heiji had a seat on the sofa arm, because sitting on the actual sofa like a normal person was for plebes. "So, remember when I told you about that memory from before? The memory with the body falling on top of the hood of the car I was in? It was actually related to that.

"I was... I was in some kinda storeroom, with a police officer. It was actually the same cop that I'd been sitting next to in the car. I guess I must have been there confronting him or something, because he was telling me all about it. He was the killer."

"...No, it wasn't." And that's the confusing part. "It actually seemed mostly... normal."

Hershel took a seat on the actual couch like a plebe, regarding him as he spoke and nodding when the falling body memory was mentioned.

Holy shit, wasn't expecting the cop to be involved. His eyes widen a bit. "What- why would he do something like this?"

The Monster Mash was driving Kuzuryuu absolutely insane. The song was annoying in the first place but it playing over and over and over again was over the line. He paced around, clearly irritated as hell, trying to ignore the goofy Halloween music. Angrily, he smacked a hanging skeleton out of his way, though it quickly swung back to place like a pendulum, knocking him to the side a little.

This did nothing to improve his mood.

[This entire event is basically the worst possible nightmare for Simon.

He'll be wandering around, terrified of literally everything in the entire warehouse. Maybe you'll hear him screaming as high pitched as possible when he gets himself tangled and trapped in a bunch of cheap fake spiderweb. Maybe you'll find him on the ground unconscious and foaming at the mouth because a cardboard cut out of a witch yelled "boo" at him and he literally could not handle it and passed the fuck out?? maybe you'll see him slumped over in the corner fear-vomitting up his lunch because he was dumb enough to eat one of calhoun's treats

maybe he'll even just be hiding by one of the elevators with his hands covering his ears as he sobs because spooky scary skeletons is a spooky scary song that he's basically treating like his funeral dirge

this is stupid]

[Sasuke tentatively takes one of the cookies, nibbling on it a little. It's been a while since he's had anything other than the gruel, and he figures if anything's inside, it's not going to kill him.

...Then again, his caution is also why he's only nibbling on it instead of taking a proper bite. Seeing if there are any mild effects instead of potentially getting hit by them like a stack of bricks.

Feeling fine so far, he's about to leave the table with the cookie still in hand when he spots Hershel nearby, plastic bat sticking out of his hair. Um.]

Hershel...? You've got something--

[He motions with his free hand, gesturing to his own head.]

"Because of his dad," said Heiji. "His dad was a driving instructor -- a really good one, but strict. One day he died in an accident, and the cause was ruled to be drunk driving. But this guy, he always figured there had to be more to it. That's why he joined the police: he wanted to find out the truth behind his father's death.

"And he did... he found out that six of his dad's students staged a nasty practical joke. It went bad, and that's what killed his father. Sakata killed four of the former students while taking advantage of his position as an officer on the force. He told me all of that, and then he took out his service revolver and put it to his temple. Cause he was cornered, see? Now that he'd told me about it..."

[It's generally not a good sign when Simon's passed out on the floor. Better go see if he's okay.]

Simon...?

[He'll shake the man's shoulder very gently. Wake up, they still have hours to go before the Monster Mash finally comes to a blessed end.]

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Well, Heiji certainly hadn't been expecting that. "But it was supposed to be a scary memory, right? So what was it about?"

??? Had something gone wrong in Calhoun's dumb memory machine?

Wow, Kuzuryuu didn't look that happy. At least you don't have fucking streamers in your hair, don't complain.

"Hey Kuzuryuu." He greeted kind of carefully. "Is everything alright?" Oh no maybe Kuzuryuu got a bad memory and he's sad and confused and angry and he's not just mad because they're having a graveyard smash.

[Simon hadn't meant to give away his location. Seriously. He hadn't. Once he saw that Kuzu was nearby, he was gonna do the smart, sensible thing and get the fuck out of there before they ran into each other and got into another, like... altercation. Because that seemed to be what their relationship was about: bullying and altercations.

But when Kuzuryuu hits the fucking skeleton, Simon laughs. Loudly. He hadn't meant to, but when it swings back into place and hits Kuzuryuu in the side, Simon laughs at the sight of it and quickly covers his mouth with his hands as fast as he can. He ducks down and hides behind a nearby statue of a shitty zombie and desperately tries to stifle his giggling, but he can't, shit shit shit

if kuzuryuu knew simon was laughing at him someone was going to get killed]

Oh, hello Sasuke. [He greeted with a smile, regarding the cookie Sasuke was eating with worry before hesitantly picking up a very spooky spider shaped one.] I'm really not so sure this is worth it...

[Before he could contemplate the cookie further he glanced over, confused at what Sasuke was gesturing at before reaching into his hair and pulling out...

A streamer. He didn't even find the bat yet.] Oh, thank you, these are... irritating. [Haha.]

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A Graveyard Smash

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guess who remembered how he got the gunshot scar aww yeah it was this guy

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