Who: OPEN to all
What: The Halloween Ball
When: Halloween evening!
Where: The library, in the Ballroom on the sixth floor

The Ballroom is heavily decorated in honor of the holiday, with much of the ornamentation being very creepy and macabre, of course. Anyone here last year might notice that this year's festivities are not quite so elaborate--but ( Read more... )

The rest of the campus changes are mostly stylistic, but the theme does indeed continue throughout the dorms, the pubs, the library, the school buildings -- even the Bookstore and the Athletics Facility. (The swimming pool isn't supposed to be red, right?) There's plenty of unpleasant surprises to be found, so stay on your toes and hope you find ( Read more... )

It's hard to find the field at first, covered as it is by a sea of churning mist, but you might be able to locate it by the scattering of gray and solemn tombstones poking their heads above the silent mass. Come a little closer, and the equally gray and silent forms of those long dead can be found drifting between them in the mist, always staring ( Read more... )

Which brings us to the penultimate place of peril on campus this Halloween night -- the tunnels. The entire underground complex has been taken over by one Mr. Oogie Boogie, and he's a little too eager for visitors, if you know what I mean. He's decorated to his taste, with everything from a black-lit rack roulette table to loaded slot machines. And ( Read more... )

The Humanities building itself has become rather macabre (the Gothic architecture and new surplus of human skulls are an interesting touch), but the biggest changes lie in the now-crooked and twisted clock tower. Not only is it Halloween-ified, but it someone has been putting their own personal touches on it. More specifically, Halloween Town's ( Read more... )

The garage (and a good chunk of the Tech and Mech buildings) has been temporarily converted into the working space for one wheelchair-bound, cantankerous Dr. Finkelstein and his inventions. You might find him arguing with Sally the rag doll, his former assistant, or tinkering with a horrid-looking robot (you think the insides are metal...), or ( Read more... )

The park at the north end of the campus seems to have become the center of activity for the night -- a wooden floor has been laid down for dancing with the musicians standing by (you'd be surprised how musical bones can be), and sneering jack-o-lanterns compete with a roaring bonfire for the most dramatic lighting. There's also a buffet, and while ( Read more... )

The courtyard in front of the Administrative Building and the library now features a very sharp (and fully functional) guillotine that seems to have seen quite its share of use. The fountain, once feeding forth a rain of clean water, now seems to be showering a glowing green goop that's hiding who-knows-what in the depths of the fountain basin. (On ( Read more... )