The looming shadow that bumps in the night
PART IV
Summary:
You arrive at Almoral's mansion after receiving an invitation for a Halloween party he is hosting. While you go to visit, another Halloween party is simultaneously being hosted by the famed Count Anastasius. In the meantime, the DPF moves along with their own missions as a peculiar forecast casts a shadow on the dream world…
NOTE: This event takes place on October 31, 2024.
[Meanwhile, back at Almoral’s mansion, the party has been set up and things are just getting started…]
ALMORAL: WOW! This place looks AWESOME! We did a good job!
DYLAN: We really did! The place really came together! It’s…spookiful!
EPSILON: It kind of beats your dusty, cold usual atmosphere…
ALMORAL: HEY! I keep things spooky around here year-round! Not everyone has GOOD taste, you know…
YOU: I think the party is looking great!
ALMORAL: See! Even the Traveler likes it! Well then! I can’t wait for people to start showing up!
DYLAN: You think people will be dressed up or not?
EPSILON: I’d say it’s fifty-fifty.
ALMORAL: It should be one hundred-one hundred! No, wait- uhhh does that make sense? Zero-one hundred? One zero-hundred? Zero hundred-one? Uh…
DYLAN: One hundred-percent!
ALMORAL: Exactly!! Everyone’s gonna be dressed up! Hehe, at least I hope so…
YOU: Do you think this party will have more people than Count Anastasius’?
ALMORAL: It WILL! Someway and somehow, this party will be BIGGER, BETTER, FUNNER!
EPSILON: ‘Funner’ is not a word.
DYLAN: Neither is ‘spookiful’ but you didn’t say anything about THAT!
ALMORAL: No no, just trust me! It’s going to be a lot of fun!
DYLAN: I wonder who will be arriving soon!
ALMORAL: Let’s wait and see! I can’t wait to get this party started!!
[After a while, guests begin to arrive. You see familiar friends and faces…]
ALMORAL: Wow, welcome you guys! I can’t believe you actually came! Actually, yes I can- who wouldn’t come!
RIGOR: Hello Almoral and hello Almoral’s friends and Traveler too.
YOU: Rigor and Morticia! Long time no see!
DYLAN: Hi there! I’m Dylan and that bunny over there is Epsilon!
EPSILON: I’m merely dressed as a bunny, but I am actually half cat. That cat over there is a costume and he is actually half rabbit.
DYLAN: We’re matching!
RIGOR: It is a pleasure to meet you two and of course we would not have missed this party. My sister and I have been waiting for the day of the party to partake in it.
ALMORAL: This is so exciting! Oh I just can’t wait to see everyone else come!
DYLAN: The party’s just getting started! We got snacks and drinks and oh- Wait… you guys are ghosts… Dead? So…do you guys like…eat and stuff…?
RIGOR: It is fine. We do not need to eat or drink, but we can still have fun.
ALMORAL: That’s the spirit- uh, no pun intended, hehe. Alright, let’s see, I guess we should start cranking up those tunes! I mean, it CAN’T be a party without music, right!?
YOU: Agreed!
DYLAN: Epsilon, get on that!
EPSILON: What? You want me as the DJ?
ALMORAL: Come on, you got this! I just know you’ll put on the spookiest jams!
EPSILON: Um, okay. No pressure or anything on me, but if I play something you don’t like, blame Dylan.
DYLAN: Not my fault!!!
ALMORAL: Let’s start the party while we wait to see more people show up. I can’t wait!