Character Meet and Greet: Boo to You~!

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i. Main Street USA: Daylight Hours
The citizens of Main Street greet the coming of fall in a big way! The entire main part of town is decorated in the colors of fall, carved pumpkins on every window ledge, balcony and stoop! Some are rather creative, ranging from The King himself to various spook-tacular versions. There are also plain pumpkins, squash and apples arranged in a rather decorative (and tasty) presentation outside the Opera House!

Enjoy yourselves as The Candy Palace begins to hand out small, caramel and spice covered apple slices. The smell of apple fritters, grilled apples and apple bacon float through the air. Enjoy the rather relaxed daylight hours...

ii.Main Street USA: After Dark

Because the moment the sun sets, and the lamps have been lit- the entire street takes on a strange and unsettling demeanor. The pumpkins glow a soft, red color and bats and black cats crawl around the shadowed corners. You might see several citizens wandering the streets-but look to hard and they will suddenly vanish before you can even greet them.

The stores are still open and the sweets and treats are still pouring; but! Beware of happy haunts~!

iii. Yo ho, yo ho a Pirates life for me!

Ah! Smell that salty, briny air! It gives life to all those who are from or love the sea!

Which would be wonderful and invigorating, if this was the bottom of the beautiful briny sea. It isn't. It's the open garden in front of the train station which is no being over run by some rather fishy, lv. 2 Corroded! Can you help sweep the proverbial beach clean without being washed away by water based attacks? The conductors would be most grateful if you could!

iv.Come out and Socialize!

No need to be number one thousand! Imagination is the real host here, so go on and use your to come up with your own adventure. Just remember to take loved ones by the hand, please, our ghosts are frightfully sensitive to too much mischief~

Comments

[strangeandunusual]

"I think if you tried to do it you might hurt him," Lydia pointed out gently. "But ... because of the kind of magic I have ... maybe ..."

She put one hand back out to her brooch, and held the other over the dragonfly, hiding it from their sight. She closed her eyes, and the jewel glowed a bright, ghostly blue, sparks of light trailing down her arm and circling underneath her palm to the creature. When they faded and she lowered her arm, its wings were in the perfect shape of Jack's tie, long and spiky bat wings with iridescent pinstripes. The dragonfly fluttered them experimentally, then did a cartwheel of delight before landing back on Jack's hand.

"I did it!" She let out a cry of delight, even as she wobbled a little on her feet.

[scarygoodtime]

Don't think that visible wobble went unnoticed. The bony hand against her arm is gentle, but his grip supportive as Jack reaches out to steady her. Careful of the dragonfly still perched in his other hand, although his attention is shifting now.

"You sound surprised." A gentle prompt, watching Lydia to be sure she is steady.

[strangeandunusual]

"It's the first time I've changed something, other than purifying a Corroded thing," she said, smiling despite the dizziness, and grateful for Jack's steadying hand. "My magic must be getting stronger... but it still makes me dizzy if I use a lot at once. ... Thanks."

[scarygoodtime]

"You're quite welcome, and I'm not surprised." There might be a hint of a gentle scold in his voice. "My tiny friend, would you be able to find a place where we could sit and chat?" There were likely several places that no doubt Jack and Lydia could find on their own, but why not include the dragonfly?

Even holding his hand up so it could launch more easily into the air, before moving to take Lydia's hand, and his other at her shoulder ready to guide her. "You're exerting energy. At least, from what I understand Magic is Energy, right? Therefore, you're exerting energy, which you may not be used to doing in the way you have demonstrated."

[strangeandunusual]

Lydia nodded, letting him guide her. She had figured out a while ago the effect her Princess powers had on her, so his words were no surprise. The dragonfly lit on a bench in a quiet corner of the garden, not far from the training grounds, and she sank onto it with a rueful, tiny smile.

"Yeah, that's exactly what it is. I just thought - well, taking the Corrosion off a creature as small as the dragonfly doesn't take much of my power at all. I'd expected changing it to have just about the same effect. I know when I'm using too much because all the color starts to go out of things for me, too, not just ... getting dizzy."

[scarygoodtime]

Jack hummed to himself for a moment in thought while she sat, before venturing a question. "Remind me, Miss Lydia--you do not have such powers where you're from originally, do you?" Unfortunately he was even taller with her sitting on the bench, but Jack still felt too excited to sit right then.

[strangeandunusual]

"That's right," she nodded. "Is it that obvious? I mean, magic exists, but where I'm from, the living can only do it with specific incantations ... it's mostly reserved for ghosts."