ROUND 4 DAY 4 - HAUNTED HOUSE PARTY

[snackcakeordeath]

[For some reason, you feel good today...stronger. Which is great, maybe you're just psyched up for the latest ~fabulous event~ cooking from the ConAgra-McKee Foods kitchens...

[The Newlydead Game^TM ✨Super-Special✨ 👻Spooktacular🎃! 🗡Murdermance💘 at the 💀Murder Manse🏚!

[The house is a huge, Victorian monstrosity straight out of the mental idea of an Edgar Allen Poe story--delicate wrought-iron chandeliers and candelabra hanging from vaulted ceilings; ornately carved molding and flocked wallpapers, mosaics and inlaid wood floors. Most of the rooms seem legitimately old, cobwebbed and musty, with dusty dropcloths laid over the faded furniture, and distressing shadows cast in the flickering candlelight that never fails to not light up every corner, no matter how many candles are set up. You're not sure how the cameras are picking all this up with how dark it is. You honestly wouldn't be surprised if some of the taps in the bathroom actually run blood. A few of the rooms are locked, in particular a few bedrooms on the upper floors, and a heavy door off the mud room that's chained and padlocked; presumably it leads to a cellar.

[The exception to this is the conservatory, the one large room in a building filled with tiny, closed off rooms. One wall is lined with massive paned windows, another a huge fireplace, the others covered in stern portraits and other random Victorian-area knick knacks. And sprinkled around all of that are Halloween decorations, the kind more Pottery Barn than Party City. It's set for a party, complete with games like bobbing for apples and a spread of fancy Halloween "finger" foods and drinks that glow under black light. A playlist of seasonal hits like Spooky or The Addams Family Groove toots along near a dance floor. Need an outfit for the costume contest? There's plenty. There's also a smoke machine and a photo booth. In the backyard is a corn maze.]

Hellooo contestants, guess what time it isss? Why, it's only the best time of the year for sweeties like us! Time for Pumpkin Delights and Black Cat Brownies, the perfect treats to give to your trick-or-treaters this year! Now, even though someone's given US a trick today, we've provided a treat for you--a Halloween ball! Play with your fellow Casanovas, make your best impressions, and grab your favorite Sexy Pizza Rat cosplay! At the end, you'll get to choose from all the remaining contestants for your Marry-Kiss-Kill. And remember what we talked about last night--this time, if you deal to make it even, you're all going to be punished!

[With murder, Swiss Miss adds. In case you weren't quite sure.]


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Comments

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...Usually those sorts of invitations work better when you're unarmed.

[the threat of being hit with glowing plastic is a frightening one]

[afailedmurder]

I'm happy to sheath it, if that'll make you feel safer.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

If you don't find it unwieldy, do what you like. I'm used to living with a little danger.

[afailedmurder]

When you put it that way, I think I'll hold onto it.

[CHALLENGE ACCEPTED]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Might make it a little tougher to tango, but I guess that's not on the playlist anyway so you've got an out.

[it's the mooooonster mash]

[afailedmurder]

Are you saying you'd know how to tango if it were on the playlist?

[it's a graveyard smash!]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...I'm not competition-worthy anymore, but I haven't forgotten how to lead. It's generally more of a question of finding someone who knows how to follow.

[though really there is only one dance you can do to the monster mash, which is the monster mash]

[afailedmurder]

I've never tried. Perhaps when a more appropriate song comes on, you'd be willing to show me?

[wa-oooooh]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...Fine. If you think you can keep up. To be accurate to the dance, you really ought to change shoes. Stiletto heels are part of the uniform in tango.

[afailedmurder]

...

I'm not sure I could even stand up in stiletto heels.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

...There's one way to find out.

[afailedmurder]

...I'll be right back.

[CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!!!]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[and yet no matter how you do I win]

Alright...

[smirks, waiting]

[afailedmurder]

[When he comes back, he is wearing stupidly tall heels, and walking in them as natural as anything.]

Well! This isn't so hard. Not to boast, but I have been told I am naturally graceful.

[This lying motherfucker has absolutely, definitely worn stilettos on MULTIPLE occasions.]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[how dare]

...I see you are a man of many talents. Hopefully rhythm is one of them.

[stalks over to the dance floor, cape flaring, before offering his arm in a very overly dramatic gesture, since those are the only ones he does]