This is Halloween (OPEN)

[hullo_sweetie]

Who: Anyone and everyone!
What: River Song's costume party!
When: Halloween
Where:  The Ballroom

Welcome to the Ballroom! Which has been  conveniently decorated in the typical Halloween decor of spiderwebs, glowing pumpkins, and other assorted ghoulish looking decorations. A big thanks to the ghosts for doing most of the hard work! A table is set up

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[i_neverplay]

On her way out of the bar, Mindy hears the party in the ballroom and decides that after she drops off her candy, she is going to that grown-up party. She heads upstairs, via the elevator, and then back downstairs to join the group in the ballroom.

Mindy was never fond of the kiddie table and besides, she needs to network. Part of being a good hero is learning who your allies were and where to find them. Why not in a party where people would be off their guard?

She, however, would not be. She's also still wearing her police costume.

[hullo_sweetie]

River Song noticed the girl right away and decided to keep an eye on her, lest she get into the spiked punch. "Happy Halloween." She greets Mindy, walking towards her from across the room. "And who might you be?" She was almost ready to ask where her parents were, but River could remember wanting to be solely independent at that age.

[i_neverplay]

Mindy had found the table of treats and was taking a piece of cake, carefully, when she heard someone approach her. She might not be on patrol, but there's never a time when she needed to have her guard down.

Her father taught her that.

"Thanks, I'm a cop. What are you?"

[kinky_stopwatch]

Ianto smoothed down his sergeant in arms costume and peered into the ballroom from the doorwar before he stepped in. "Wow." he replied impressed before he spotted River and walked over. "You've really gone all out, haven't you?"

[hullo_sweetie]

"Hello there, G.I. Sexy." River flocks towards Ianto immediately, more then happy to see a familiar face at long last. "Oh, the Doctor loves Christmas, but I adore Halloween. It's a holiday of mischief and costumes."

[kinky_stopwatch]

"Ah, I thought you might." he chuckled softly. "You look lovely by the way."

[hullo_sweetie]

"As do you, obviously. I don't think Jack will be able to keep his hands off you when he shows up. Sometimes I think he has a bit of a military fetish." She laughs and leads him over to the cauldron, pouring them both a cup of the bubbling green punch.

[msattentionspan]

Faith is not dressed up. This holiday is sort of a joke in her opinion, but alcohol and free food is fine with her. She's hanging out over by the food, mostly shoving cupcakes into her mouth and glancing around looking at everyone else.

It's pretty ridiculous looking. Doesn't anyone in this place know how to have fun?

[hullo_sweetie]

The punch is spiked, but beyond that this is a pretty regular Halloween party. River couldn't do much more to pump it up. "Hello and happy Halloween." She says as she approaches the vampire slayer while in full vampire clothing.

[msattentionspan]

Faith's pretty sure that vampires don't go for that obvious and it's not as if she dresses with a shirt that labels her as such. She lifts her eyes to glance at the woman who approached her. The accent throws her, but she figures she should've realized that not everyone was from the same spot - why should the castle fix accents along with the languages?

"This your party?"

[hullo_sweetie]

River's from a lot of different places and times, but she grew up in Leadsworth for her second regeneration so the accent had stuck with her. "Yes, I hope you're enjoying yourself?" She just wanted everyone to have a good time and Halloween was one of her favorite holidays. Who didn't love to dress up and be something or someone else for a night?

"I'm River Song."

[workaphilic]

He has to time this correctly, show up early enough to maximize the odds of gathering useful information, but late enough that it's reasonable that he just wandered by because he was bored. (He is bored, but that's not the point. His ego is a thing worth protecting.) So he doesn't arrive so much as he appears, after things are well underway.

As far as costumes go, he seems to have foregone. He certainly could have thrown something together (in fact, a disguise might have made this easier, let him attend off-book and unnoticed) but it's the principle of the thing. You can't tell Sherlock Holmes to do something mundane and expect him to do it properly (or at all.)

He's not so much hovering by the food table as he is walking past it, inspecting everything without moving to take any of it.

[hullo_sweetie]

River spotted him right away. Maybe Sherlock is used to passing unnoticed through such crowds, but it's not so easy to sneak past the likes of River Song. She'd been expecting him to show up, after all. So, naturally she takes her time and allows him to think she doesn't quite know he's arrived at her Halloween party.

Until she finally approaches him with a cup of green punch, probably spiked with quite a bit of alcohol. She hands it over to him and simply grins.

"I knew you'd show up sooner or later."

[workaphilic]

(Punch? Hm.)

He maintains eye contact just long enough to roll his eyes, and then he very pointedly looks away, out across the crowd. She only gets a portion of his attention. He takes the cup from her like an afterthought, lifts it to his mouth as if to take a sip.

(Pungent odor, faint but there. Customs of Halloween. General pattern of parties like this one. Temperament and likely habits of women like River Song.)

"Don't go giving yourself a gold star just yet. I'm only here because sanitizing my glassware didn't take as long as I expected." Lie. It took exactly as long as he expected. He's only done it hundreds of times. "I've hit rock bottom, it seems."

(Pass on the punch. Hold it, don't drink it.)