in this town we call home

[topslug]

Who: topslug, anyone at the NCC, and YOU!
When: 30th (day)-31st (day)
Where: Newcomer Community Center, Sector 4
Summary: Pumpkin carving and a spooky sleepover. Family-friendly fun!
Warnings/Notes: Besides a few scary stories and Grell mutilating pumpkins, probably nothing to worry about. Maybe.

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[countsrabbits]

[THIS IS THE MOST FUN THING EVER. According to Pino, at least. She's hard at work on her own pumpkin, a group of happy bouncing rabbits circling it as shooting stars fly through the pumpkin-sky. She's concentrating hard on her meticulously crafted masterpiece, but grinning ear to ear all the while, dressed in a bunny costume of her own.]

[deathknellgrell]

[ Grell is, by this time, covered in the sticky, orange remains of his "victims." Unfortunately, pumpkin juice keeps hitting him in the face, so he has been scrabbling about the shelves of the NCC looking for some sort of mask. He's found one, in the sporting equipment section. In fact, it's a hockey mask!

The mask, unfortunately, obscures his vision a little, so it takes him a while to become aware of Pino. But when he does...

Little girl in adorable bunny costume, carving adorable bunnies into her pumpkin. Grell circles around her, his chainsaw poised at his hip. ]

Hn~!

[countsrabbits]

[She jumps at the sound of his voice at first, but upon turning and looking up at him, she just...tilts her head curiously to one side. Staring.]

Hm? Pumpkin man? [That's his costume, right? :D?]

HOPE YOU GUYS DON'T MIND THIS I CAN DELETE IF YOU DO!

[rapturescreed]

[Raul wasn't far away, really. This was something he wanted to do with the girls, even if he didn't really care for the activity at all. So when he sees someone in a hockey mask near his daughter, with a chainsaw?

Someone better back the fuck off. He goes and clamps a firm hand on Grell's shoulders.]

I suggest giving me the chainsaw, and then you're going to leave.

[deathknellgrell]

Pumpkin man? I'm the the pumpkin NIGHTMARE--ooooh~!

[ At Raul's hands on his shoulders, Grell twitches. A moment later, he has twisted out of the man's grasp, leapt in to the air, performed a technically flawless and really rather gratuitous pirouette, and then landed on the opposite side of the table. ]

THUNK!

[ That's Grell's chainsaw, brought crashing down, into the table, an inch from Pino's happy bunny pumpkin. ]

[countsrabbits]

[Wow, that flip is really cool! The chainsaw threatening her pumpkin, however, is not. She yelps and runs back behind Raul, grabbing his pant leg and staring at the evil Pumpkin Nightmare Man.]

[rapturescreed]

[Raul puts a hand on Pino's head, a frown on his face. He's sorely tempted to pull out his gun, but he doesn't want to exacerbate the issue.]

Get. Out.

[deathknellgrell]

[ Grell is over a century old, and has spent most of his life viewing the cinematic records of humans, absorbing all their accumulated wisdom. And so, with the maturity of his years, he replies: ]

MAKE ME!

[countsrabbits]

No, stop it!

[She tugs on Raul's sleeve, trying to pull him away from this mess before he gets hurt.]

[rapturescreed]

Pino, be still.

[Raul frowned.] Again, I suggest you leave. I have many friends in high places, and I don't really care if something happens to you. And really, I know that would be the same sentiment shared by many others.

[deathknellgrell]

Hn~!

I'm a god ☆

I don't care about your friends, or how high their places are~!

[ Another pirouette, another slash of his chainsaw; and then Grell falls still.

Nothing happens for several seconds. And then, softly, the stem of Pino's pumpkin shudders - and falls off! ]

[countsrabbits]

[A...god? He definitely doesn't look like anything that she would consider to be a god, but then no one would have given a person like Vincent Law a second glance either. Though...Grell is. Different than Vincent. A lot different. In a more frightening, creepy way.

But even though she still looks nervous as she does her best to obey her papa, she has to admit. The stem thing is pretty cool!]

[rapturescreed]

[Yeah, gods aren't real, bro. They're not. And Raul stands his ground, watching Pino's pumpkin for a moment.]

Pino, I need you to go and stay with Miss Yako right now. Or find Nana, okay? I'm going to have a chat with this young man here.

[While he talks, he brings out his pistol, checking it over in plain view.]

[deathknellgrell]

[ Grell giggles. He's still holding his chainsaw (upright, at crotch level, as per usual). ]

A gun?

You're going to shoot me? Over a squash?

Hn~! And people say I'm mad~!

[countsrabbits]

[She hesitates a moment before finally letting go of his sleeve and running away as quick as she can. Whoever she finds first will get re-latched to upon discovery, just as her papa has instructed.]

[rapturescreed]

No. I'm going to shoot you for threatening my daughter. [Narrows eyes.]

This isn't the first time you've threatened one of my kids, after all. You ruined my apartment and tried to kill my other daughter, and I never got any repayment.

Now get the hell out of here.