For many souls tonight would be a night of fright, adrenaline would surge before laughter took hold. Within Funderland's Haunted House the frighten screams and joyful shrieks if children has ceased. Long had they been taken home for this long awaited evening of tricks and treats.
Most of the spark had been sectioned off, for it was surely after hours, yet still the gate was opened and there was a clear path, illuminated by fairy lights leading towards Sacramento's very own Witch House's door.
(In the shadows unnoticed by all or nearly so are men and women in black, uniforms not costumes. The Park was closed, save this single attraction and so these souls will sacrifice their All Hallow'sEve so that others might enjoy theirs.)
Which stands, as it ever has. Three stories with fine Victorian lines, the trees that once surrounded the house in its old lot are gone, the Witch Queen unable to move more then just the house, however much it pained her. Now in a shallow replacements. Roots resting in wide planters, that are cared for. Trash thrown into them is taken out several times a day.
The fairy lights lead right up to the door, but they also wind around what could loosely be called a property line. For not only is the House open for this ghoulish evening, but the patio around it. A peak shows tables, the catering and the bartender.
Back to the steps. Those old wooden steps. They are the same ones that have been trodden time and time again. The house itself is worn. Well cared for, but worn. Years worth of history can be felt within these walls, and you know step prying over the threshold that this history is stained scarlet.
Murders, massacres....during the day this place made a play at being a haunted house l, but at night....everyone knows old house make sounds.
....but should a house that isn't a house any longer but an amusement park attraction still make those sounds?
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Mhairi had advertised her after hours Halloween party. Hopefully Edna's will beat out places like Reverence or the Nox...well maybe not 'beat out' but maybe she'd snag some interest in that this wasn't another nightclub.
She only mad a few things left to check, even though she really didn't have too. She hired caterers, and bartenders, they were set up outside and in awaiting the guests.
It was just nerves. Despite last years costume she felt more nervous with this year's choice.
Last year she did sexy, this year....this year she was doing the same, except not. Halloween was about more then sex. Even as delicious as her night talking to
Asa
about...things had been. Halloween was also about Fear, and she, Queen of Autumn knee Fear. Knew it better then most. Feeling it more so then causing it, but tonight. Tonight Mhairi was daring to be different.
Her heels, classic, sleek black. She wore white, seemed stallings attracted to garter belts hidden by her dress. Which had a sexy vintage flavour. The neckline lower then anything she'd wear on a normal day, but the tight, near corset-like hold the waist gave was a comfort even as she looked down and saw more of her breasts then she was used to. Her hair styled away from the face, an echo of her dress. Black opera gloves adorn her arms with sparkly bangles upon them. Dangling from her ears were faux-diamond earrings.
Her makes up had taken the longest to go and weeks to perfect. Truly the piece de resistance, it was what made this s costume instead of her being a women in a black dress.
She had a mask upon a stick to hold to her face all night though it was made of flesh, and when her arm tired, for it will, she would show the gruesome sight beneath.
Mhairi smiled in a mirror checking over her blood spatter, she really, really wanted to scratch her nose but she knew that doing so would mess up her makeup. And she couldn't have that! Not when the guests would (hopefully) be arriving soon!
Instead of scratching her nose Mhairi settled with fiddling with the music. It wasn't something loud and publishing, but something unsettling, haunting. Something that would hopefully get people to look over their should at the shadows, spying for shapes that weren't there.
The music set and the decorations on point, her costume as perfect as she was going to get it. Mhairi waited for the first guests to begin trickling in...
-1 Glamour to Harden Mask!
I was having a stupidly hard time opening this on my tablet! Almost didn't open it even though i've been cohabited the days until I could, but I'm glad I went through the cuddly pain to open this! Hope y'all have an awesome Halloween both ICly and OOC!