The Sixtieth [Audio]

[bends_lightning]

What are we supposed to do with the masks?  Is there supposed to be some kind of festival going on?

[WAT R HALLOWEEN]

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why is he talking to her? i have no clue. 8|

[flynmabisn]

Some kind of..celebration for the 31st of October, I guess. Someone said it's called Halloween. [ Just thought you ought to know. ]

[bends_lightning]

What is there to celebrate here?

is it sad I know this off the top of my head ._.;;

[verily_ergo]

Halloween, a festival... a sort of holiday from my world. Originally named All Hallow's Eve, it came before All Saints Day, which was dedicated to the saints of a particular, vastly practiced religion. It was a mixture of that religion's practices and the practices of pagan festivals. It has been practiced for centuries and has changed into 'Halloween' in my modern age.

Ancient superstition holds that October 31st is the night when the line between the worlds of the living and the dead is blurred and spirits cross over--which is completely ridiculous, of course.

[bends_lightning]

So what are these masks? Are we pretending to be the spirits?

[verily_ergo]

Something along those lines. In my day and age, children dress up in costume and visit the houses of others where they're given candy--a very watered down echo of a time when people left out offerings to the spirits of the dead.

[bends_lightning]

That's silly.

[bends_lightning]

An entire town? Dedicated to these stupid masks?

[bends_lightning]

Who's Jack?

[asitcouldbe]

Halloween?

[bends_lightning]

We didn't have Halloween where I'm from.

[asitcouldbe]

Would that be another country, or another world entirely? I can't believe I'm actually asking this seriously.

[bends_lightning]

Another world.