Existential crises are fun!

[caycep]

( We run heedlessly into the abyss after putting something in front of us to stop us seeing it. )

Application for Carrot Ironfoundersson

[kzadbhat.livejournal.com]

Carrot is waiting in front of the gate. His first reaction is to look from left to right, his brow wrinkling in confusion. As far as Carrot is concerned, he has never left Ankh-Morpork, but seeing as his rounds have taken him just about everywhere in the city (even the parts of the Shades where most of the Watch never went—-between his impressive stature and Angua’s teeth, even the deadliest denizens of that area would have found it unappealing to attempt an attack), he doesn’t understand why he can’t recognize this particular place.

It doesn’t seem like Ankh-Morpork at all, actually. He can make out the original color of the cobblestones, for one thing.

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Strange hidden forces are moving in the night. Bringing pumpkins.

[mickey-cops.livejournal.com]

If you happened to be awake in the middle of the night, there was a minute or two wherein you might have seen the decorations going up. Endless strings of lights unwound from nowhere, and went up on all the buildings. Purple and candy-corn colored banners were hung; the pansies that made up the Mickey's face design on the hill in front of the gates were swapped with hundreds of miniature pumpkins. The new Mickey appeared to be wearing a domino mask. And on top of the gates, and peeping with jagged, lit up grins from windows, and heaped in an enormous pile in front of the Main Street railroad station, a thousand artificial pumpkins of various sizes and identical orangeness plopped into being.

Welcome to the Scariest Place on Earth. Or...somewhere, anyway.

((Decorations will stay up till a couple days after Halloween - or a week, if we're counting. Feel free to have your characters run around like chickens with their heads cut off, organizing parties or dressing up in costumes or just generally going "WTF?" Comment notification is off on this post, so feel free to do whatever.))

Hallowe'en! Letters to Sirius and Remus

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Hallowe'en! James can't help smiling when he notices the decorations. Hallowe'en has always been one of his favourite holidays. He'd be much happier if he could spend it with Lily and Harry (much, much happier), but he supposes since that's quite impossible, he should make the best of it.

Quickly, he finds a some paper and a pen, and writes two letters.

( Letter to Sirius )

( Letter to Remus )