Halloween Shindig

[blytheandbonnie]

WHO Come one, come all!
WHAT Halloween Shindig
WHERE Something Wiccan
WHEN Monday Evening (Halloween)
NOTES Tag under pre-spell or post-spell. Lots of rooms are open, so specify where your character is. Also note, the shop used to be a factory, so it is quite spacious, if your character is turning into something large. If they're turning into

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Christine - at the bar

[rightawaydoctor]

Taking her drink with a thanks to the bartender, Christine turned back towards the rest of the shop to survey the people and their costumes. She herself had commissioned Cinna to make her a beautiful genie costume, and she felt rather magical just walking around in the gauzy material and jangling gold bangle bracelets.

It seemed some people had gone the traditional route as vampires (and didn't that particular costume just make her feel nervous?) and knights. Others, however, she couldn't make out. They were probably dressed as something from pop culture that was a couple hundred years before her time. She'd have to ask them about their costumes. But for the moment, she was going to enjoy her drink.

[alphaophiuchi]

Draco most certainly needed a drink. A fancy gala, he could handle; a slightly obnoxious Halloween party complete with obnoxious costumes (one of which he'd been forced into), a little less so.

He gestured the bartender over, placing a quick order before glancing over to Christine, looking her up and down. He made a point of trying to keep his exasperation at the evening out of his voice when he spoke: "And what are you supposed to be?"

[rightawaydoctor]

Christine glanced over at him as she leaned against the bar.

"A genie," she replied simply, taking a sip of her drink. His costume was pretty standard pirate attire, and even being from the 23rd century, she knew what pirates looked like.

[alphaophiuchi]

Right down to the scruff, too. The scruff that, by the by, he hated. It was so degrading.

"A genie." He'd heard of them, he thought. Somewhere in some class, at some point in time. "And what're they like, then?"

[rightawaydoctor]

The scruff really didn't work on him, but Christine overlooked it.

"They're from Middle Eastern folklore and religious texts," she explained. "Powerful beings who grant wishes. Some are tied to a certain object and if a human gets their hands on the object, they become the genie's master."

Christine had actually researched genies a little after she'd chosen her costume, just because they seemed interesting. And as she didn't feel like lugging around an oil lamp or decorative bottle all night, she decided to be the type that wasn't bound to an object.

[alphaophiuchi]

He would shave it soon enough, and then the entire matter would be done with and never spoken of again.

"So do you grant wishes, in that case? Or merely making it seem as though you do?" Draco offers her an amused smirk, taking a long sip of his drink, eyes locked on her all the while.

[rightawaydoctor]

Christine laughed, shaking her head. "If I could really grant wishes, I'm sure I would have wished us all home by now, don't you?"

[alphaophiuchi]

"I should certainly hope so," he murmured, finally letting his amusement shift to the genuine. "Though I imagine there's a few other things people could wish for, even if you couldn't wish us home."

[rightawaydoctor]

"Probably," she agreed. And being a person who enjoyed caring for others, she'd grant all those wishes, as long as they weren't wishing for anything harmful.

"I tell you what, I'd be pretty damn popular around here if I could grant wishes."

[alphaophiuchi]

"I was going to say," Draco smirked. "You'd never want for company, that's for certain. Admittedly, you'd have quite the problem trying to figure out which people were your actual friends, and which were just using you for the wishes you could grant them."

[rightawaydoctor]

"Yeah," she agreed with a soft sigh. "Always a downside, isn't there? Maybe I'd wait until I became friends with people to let them know that I'm a genie. Then I'd know they'd wanted to be friends with me for me."

[alphaophiuchi]

"That would work, I suppose. Then, so long as you didn't flaunt it round, or have poor taste in friends, you should be fine." You could always hope, at least.

[rightawaydoctor]

"Exactly. Can't do with blabbermouths for friends." Then everybody would be lining up around the block to ask her for things.

"Good thing I really can't grant wishes. It'd just end up being a mess. What about you? Ever really want to be a pirate?"

[alphaophiuchi]

"Of course not. I'd much rather just be myself than a pirate. As far as things go, I suppose being a captain wouldn't be terrible, but I'd still have to know how a ship runs." Which he didn't, and had no intention of learning. Draco gave a light, almost wry chuckle. "It was the closest I could get to anything remotely gentlemanly."

[rightawaydoctor]

Christine smiled at his answer. "Oh, I'm sure you could pick up a captain's handbook at the library and know what to do in under a day."

[alphaophiuchi]

"Doubtless." He chuckled quietly to himself. "Then I'd have to find a crew, though. Which might pose a bit more difficult in this place." Especially with the issue of not really having anywhere to sail and plunder and pillage.