What is this Halloween nonsense?

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

Characters: Tetra and all of you!
Setting: Oct. 12 all over the tower (you pick)
Format: Starting with prose but will switch :)
Summary: Collecting candy and complaining about being dressed as the Hero of Time.
Warnings: None yet but that might change because Ganon is a jerk face

"Collect candy or else, blah blah blah. This is so dumb. And this costume is dumb. And too hot." Are the most common complaints that can be heard from the small blonde pirate who is dressed, not as a pirate or a princess, but in a warm green costume with tights and a belt. She's even got the hat but her hair is hanging down her back. It would probably look really dumb if she had her hair in a bun with the cap.

So she's wandering around and looking for candy, climbing things and crawling under anything including trees and tables, respectively. And maybe stopping for a break to eat some pumpkin pie.

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[heavenspear]

Ken's face tightened a little when he heard that; sure, people died all the time. He knew a couple who had lost their lives just this year. But dying because they hadn't collected enough candy?

"I... guess I'll help you look, then." He bent down, checking under a nearby seat to inspect it for for hidden candy. "But who's making this all happen? There's so many people here -- how can they make everyone do what they want?"

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"Huh? Oh, you don't gotta. I'll feel bad if ya help me when ya just got here." Any other time, if she had gotten to know him earlier, it would be no issue. Tetra was used to being bossy and having people help her.

"The administrators are smart, they'll probably send monsters after us if we don't. Or somethin' like that."

[heavenspear]

Ken shook his head. "Since it looks like we're stuck here, we should help each other out." Especially if dying was involved. No luck with the first chair; he began scanning the corners for any telltale signs of shiny plastic wrapping or packaging.

"The administrators?" Hmm. That was the second time he'd heard that mentioned. Maybe it'd be a good idea to get a little more information about them. "Who're they?"

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"Well, okay. If ya really wanna, specially since you ain't gettin' threatened, yer safe." So unused to being helped. Link, Zelda and Riku saving her from the monster under her bed didn't count. Okay, so maybe it did but that was something she was working on forgetting.

"I don't know much about 'em. I ain't even seen 'em yet but they brought us all here. And they've done some pretty mean stuff before. At the end of last month, Jason threw away all the food."

[heavenspear]

"I don't think anyone's really safe around here," said Ken, a little doubtfully. "Or at least that's what people keep saying. Someone told me not to pick up any jewels on the ground, in case they were monsters. But I haven't seen any of those yet."

He peered into a crevice, trying to see all the way down, then turned back toward Tetra. "Oh, so they're the ones responsible? And they starve the people here? What for? Why bother kidnapping people if you're not going to feed them?"

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"Oh yeah, they can be nasty. One'a the Links', Sky I think, got his arm bit off by one'a them. He got it back though. Eventually." After he died but that wasn't really necessary to say. Not right now anyway, and someone obviously already filled him in.

"Well, I think it was because everyone switched bodies and those people figured out how to change themselves back. Jason's kinda like a kid, he has a fit when he loses. Lotsa people can hunt an' stuff though so we didn't starve."

[heavenspear]

"Oh. Wow." Ken had seen people die before, sure, but no one's arm had ever been bitten off.

"So we're all under the authority of a bunch of kids? Or adults that might as well be kids?" Yeah, that sounded spectacular.

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"They act like kids but I'm pretty sure they're adults. They're too clever to be anythin' else and they're smart enough t'bring us here."

She should question Link and Zelda next time she saw them about what they knew. For the time she'd been here, Tetra really hadn't learned much and pirates were supposed to know a lot.

[heavenspear]

"I see. So you've had a lot of experience with them, right? What other kind of stuff do they do?"

Ken spotted the glittering plastic wrapper of a peppermint candy, and snatched it up. "Here."

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"I wouldn't say a lot but I got enough. They kidnapped us and then once they locked a bunch of people away for a whole month. Then the rest of us left here lost power in the tower and there was no food at all. And there was a giant flying whale about month or so ago that smashed into the tower but that wasn't their fault. They warned us about that."

Oh! Tetra gladly took it and dropped it into her bucket, adding to her collection of candy for the day.

"Thanks~"

[heavenspear]

"A... whale?" This was just getting weirder and weirder.

"But people have been working to stop them, right? I mean, there seem to be a bunch of them wandering around the tower. Has anyone come up with a plan to get rid of them?"

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"Uh-huh. Flew right into the tower and smashed through it. Then exploded into a bunch of smaller monsters. We had to take cover in the cafeteria."

Weird? This was beyond weird for Tetra, by now. It was horrible, freaky, weird, scary, etc.

"Sure, there's a group'a people that Zelda is in charge of. At least, I think they're about fightin' back. I haven't really paid much attention."

[heavenspear]

Ken turned over this new information for a little while in his head. He'd needed to be a part of SEES, for reasons both personal and impersonal. But maybe a little reconnaissance was required before he tied himself in with this new organization. Finally, he nodded.

"Okay, thanks for the information. I think I should be getting back to the dormitory level, but I'll let you know if I find any extra candy if I run into you again."

[stop_calling_me_zelda]

"Glad I could help. Be careful around here and thanks! Feel free t'find me if ya need anythin' at all." He'd been helpful in getting candy so far, even if it wasn't much but hey, it was better than the alternative.