HAPPY ALLHALLOWEEN!

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Mission Three: Happy Halloweek!

what's up?

Wizard Las Vegas goes all in for Allhalloween. There’s an entire week of celebration leading up to the big day, and this year, at least one day of afterparty. Office hours have been short since Monday. Even Eleanor Oddtree is aware that her employees might want to get out and experience the once-in-a-lifetime party. All of the staff might be found at one bar or another, except maybe Eleanor herself. One has to maintain some dignity.

Which doesn’t mean it’s all play and no work, by any means. Everett Oddtree’s team has been charged with keeping the peace and working security. Arden, in the meantime, has a lead. He’s heard tell of a possible stolen artifact being part of a costume, so he’s going to need his team to snoop around and see if they can find it.

So the Auror office is loosed into the night. All of the magical bars up and down the strip are open 24-7. The buildings are all draped in decorations, some old-fashioned cutesy, some downright frightening. Dancing and drinking spill out in the city streets, be-costumed people drifting in and out of bars and dances alike. Have fun, but keep one eye open. All sorts of ghouls and goblins come out to play in this big playground.

how this works!

⬥ This mission is technically backdated! It started on the 29th!! Sorry!! Time will continue to work in our weird way, and this will last one week of both wizard and our time!

⬥ Most of this is free-form! Please just party! However, we'll also post petitions for Arden and Everett's respective teams asking characters to outline their actions. Please feel free to RP out your actions, whether that be spying or security over the week. You have until November 6 to fill out the petition, at which point we'll be deciding who is best to usher in what happens next. Petition winners will be the ones responsible for some key plot points! If your character isn't signed up on either Everett or Arden's team, they're welcome to do so in the downtime, and can participate in the event. ONE character per team each, of course!

⬥ Kind of like last time, there'll be more action toward the end of the night/week. That will definitely depend on what we receive in the way of petitions, and also what you do in the party, so keep logging with each other and have fun!

locations!

⬦ TRICK OR TREAT!: The Vegas wizarding attractions get together each year and form a trick-or-treat party, urging partiers to go door to door and stay a while. Participants can collect a talking pumpkin bucket from the Clown Car before they head on their way, if they want something to collect treats in and give terrible advice about their costumes. The Clown Car also offers a stamp card, and if people can give evidence that they went to each participating vendor, they get free drinks until Christmas. The catch here is, although it’s misleading, none of the rest of the bars really are in on the stamp system, so participants will have to document their arrival at each place. Be creative! (Wins will not be documented, this will be up to you, it's just for flavor!)

There’s a certain competitive quality to this event, and each bar tries to one-up the next. Persephone’s Parlor is giving out specialty cocktails in half-pomegranates. Felicis is offering free drink coupons. Zak Bagans’ museum got in on this and there’s a free tour offer this weekend, and so forth. It’s a lot of walking, but free drinks until Christmas!

⬦ PERSEPHONE'S HAUNTED PARLOR: Persephone’s Parlor really takes its name seriously this week. The usually lavish speakeasy has made the route through its doors a little trickier. Visitors will have to walk through the building upstairs, rented out for this purpose, which is decked out to resemble a modified Greek interpretation of the underworld. Just inside the front door, Catriona the three headed dog is in her element, and stands guard in front of the stairway, which is sort of like the River Styx. There’s not rooms for all the halls of the underworld, here, but at the bottom of a stairway they now have to float down, an employee judges the newcomers and send them either to Elysium, a VIP party in a private lounge, or Tartarus, a grubbier part of the bar where the live lute players are just a little too loud.

Charon and Catriona, it should be noted, are only living staff members tonight. Persephone’s always hires a ghost staff on Halloween, consisting of party goers from every generation possible to party in Vegas. They’re full of stories for those lucky enough to get in the door.


⬦ FELICIS COSTUME CONTEST:
The biggest party on the wizarding strip is, naturally, at Felix Felicis. The casino, dark and lit in blacklight and candles, flings its doors open to welcome patrons. False skeletons walk around serving drinks. Each slot machine has changed to Trick or Treat! as its only game, and either explodes with a whole lot of money, candy, or on the rare triple-trick, an unidentified green slime right into the hands of the customer.

On Halloween night itself, Felicis holds a costume contest that is open to the public and therefore the Aurors. For a low, low price of 10 dragots to enter, participants sign up to walk on a raised catwalk over the heads of hundreds of applauding guests, and are judged on their costume’s creativity, style, and design. The prize is 1000 dragots and a night of free drinks! Second and third place also get cash prizes.


⬦ PETITIONS: Post your forms here!

⬦ MUCH, MUCH LATER ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT...: [REDACTED]

⬦ OOC - QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS!