Parties! Everyone likes parties, right?

[awitchdidit]

If everyone is done with the latest misunderstanding and no one's wound up in the floor, I have some slightly less exciting but far more pleasant content for you.

[Her announcement was pre-empted by a shooting. It figures. Serves her right for trying to wait until midnight to put it up, but she'd thought, why waste actually having a clock around? Either way, this is a basic communication rather than a fancy video one out of respect for Thorne likely being indisposed for a while.]

That is to say, by the closest reckoning I can manage, it's been one year and eleven months since I arrived, and since my arrival clearly coincided with Halloween, that means that it's the beginning of October now, and also that we're going to be on a Jaunt for the holiday itself.

Both Halloween and the beginning of October are very important to me, as well as Battler and Maria Ushiromiya, two very important people to me you may be acquainted with. It's something of a tradition for us to combine a personal holiday at the start of the month with a Halloween party if there's a chance we might be apart on the day itself, and this year I thought I'd extend an invitation to all of Liminal Space to have such an early Halloween party. It would be a time to celebrate the more positive aspects of spirits and the afterlife after the ghastly business that was Harrogate, and more importantly, to enjoy each others' company and gorge ourselves on Liminal candy.

I will more than happily provide the venue - I'm rearranging my Mansion into something more suitable as we speak - but I wouldn't mind help from any volunteers, especially people who have thrown Liminal Parties before. I'll make an announcement at the time of the event, but I figure it will be ready in three days - about the right amount of time to party until the Jaunt starts, if my napkin-calculations are right again!

Anyway, I'm rambling and don't have an editor here, so everyone, consider yourselves invited to an early Halloween Party, as both guests and, if you like, co-hosts.

Comments

[awitchdidit]

That makes more sense than anything else would, I suppose. After all, I don't think the ninja business is very big in Texas.

[ninjayeehaw]

Not particularly. That'd be why I grew up learnin' how t'hunt all the Youkai what kept invadin' the place!

[awitchdidit]

And now I'm back to confused as to why Youkai would invade Texas. I suppose if they developed an immunity to bullets, why not, but...

[ninjayeehaw]

I ain't too sure on how other places see 'em, but back home they're a kind of monster what roams around tryin' t'harvest fear. They'd pop up a lot more often than y'think, which is how I could make a decent livin' off 'f it in the first place.

Far as I'm aware, this kind didn't start poppin' up proper in Japan 'til around 2015 when I went over there.

[awitchdidit]

Hm...'youkai' is a Japanese word, but these could be a specific type who are new to the archipelago itself. Honestly, I'm only familiar with Western magic, intentionally.

Why were they trying to harvest fear?

[ninjayeehaw]

Cos their leader was a Japanese warlord from the Sengoku Era - Gengetsu Kibaoni, swore he'd come back as a demon after he got slain by the Igasaki clan a' the time, an' managed t'make good on his promise a couple years back. He sent Youkai out into the world t'harvest fear fer him so he could revive an' take over.

[awitchdidit]

Hmph. Maybe next time I want to come back from the dead I'll stick to scaring people rather than trying to make them believe. It seems to work well as an energy source for everyone else...