Halloween Plot!

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Hello hello my lovely denizens, Sage here. I'm reporting in to let you know that in two weeks Ten Forward is going to have a Halloween plot!

This will kick off on Thursday, October 30th here in the US, and it will end on Monday, November 3rd, so it will be open over Halloween but allow for a little extended time to play. We are going to have several things happening on the Enterprise, all Halloween-centric in nature, and it's important to note that all of these things are strictly optional for each of you to play with.

The Plot: Our resident Q loves mayhem, and as you well know he needs no excuse to cause it. But an Earth holiday dedicated to tricks, treats, ghastly sights and mischief? How could he resist! After all, following that whole mishap on Alemar III, he thinks the good captain and his ship could use a little lightening up. Whether they like it or not...

The Events:
1) Starting Thursday, the replicators ship-wide are going to malfunction and will only produce candy for the duration of the weekend. They will make most kinds of sweets from several different worlds, so if you feel like looking up some wild or weird-flavored Vulcan treat, have fun! For the purposes of this plot, there will be a few--key words, there--replicator terminals that will produce normal food, but they will not be in easy-to-access parts of the ship. You can still ask for inedible items from the terminals, and that function will remain unaffected.

2) Some of the candy the affected replicators produce will have side-effects! Because all of your mods are, sadly, from Earth, the sweets that have effects beyond your usual sugar-rush will be Earth treats. They are: candy apples, popcorn balls, and taffy.

• Candy apples will change one physical appearance of your character; so this could change their hair color, their nails, give them a crooked witch's nose with warts, whatever floats your boat. You can even give them a Fu Manchu moustache if you think it's funny!
  
• Popcorn balls will give your character a phobia of your choice--this is your spooky option if you want a little drama in your Halloween plot. It can be anything from claustrophobia to xenophobia to even astrophobia if you feel like being really mean, or you can even custom-fit a phobia specifically for your character.
  
• Finally, taffy will give your character one power, like flight or maybe invisibility, or will take one away if your character already has powers.

3) Characters will be stuck in costumes! Q will change any character's clothes, uniform or civilian, into festive costumes of your choosing. He's shown us this capability and predilection in canon with zero prompting, so we figure he'll be more than happy to do it with any sort of impetus. What these costumes are and whether or not they can be removed or exchanged for normal clothes will be up to the mun individually.

It's important to note that none of these effects will last beyond the end of the plot on Monday, November 3rd. You can feel free to play with any or all of these effects for the given weekend, and the candy side-effects will compound; for example, if your character eats a candy apple and their hair turns bright purple, they can eat another one and it will be your choice whether their hair turns another shade or if another physical attribute like their nose shape changes.

You can use this post to ask any questions you may have about the plot, or get together with other people to see what shenanigans you can come up with! Once again, here are the important details:

WHAT: Halloween mischief! Costumes! Candy! Mayhem!
WHEN: October 30th - November 3rd, Halloween weekend
WHO: Opt-in/Opt-out, open to everyone!
WHERE: Anywhere on the ship! The effects are Q-based, not localized to one area ;)

Comments

Questions!

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Plotting!

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Want to plot with your fellow muns to enhance the mayhem? Put your thread here, or answer someone else's!

[gloriouscurse]

I sort of, kind of, want to give Regina a popcorn ball and make her terrified of the dark.

For a lot of reasons it causes some anxiety.

Cora's brand of punishment reasons.

Also, because I always did like foreshadowing, Regina will find herself in this iconic outfit and wonder why the hell she's in so much leather and a weird hairdo.

Robin Hood

[alionsheart]

Robin's costume will be this LOL because I'm a great mun. ;)

He'll be getting some taffy, and a fun power (mostly because he doesn't like magic, so of course, he needs to experience it firsthand XD): he'll be an empath, so he can feel people's emotions/feelings. Of course, if I make a post or when I tag into things with him, I'll put up OOC comments so people know, and he won't be talking to people about their emotions if muns would rather him not. :D

Lucie Miller:

[lucie_bleeding_miller]

Lucie, I think, will be stuck in a Princess Leia costume. Hair in cinnamon-roll buns, white gown, etc. Basically, a blonde Leia.

And she'll be remarkably upset that she can get all the chocolate she wants, when she KNOWS it will all go to her thighs.

[immutablysam]

Hmmm, Sam has already had to do the dressing in fancy women's clothes once (and hated every second).

I may aim for Napoleonic War soldier's outfit, or stereotypical Indian brave outfit instead... either of which is going to annoy her plenty.

Neal Cassidy

[kepthimhuman]

Neal will spend the weekend dressed like this because I like being mean to him, and have fun with that, mister.

He will eat a candy apple before he figures out what they do, but I haven't decided on a change in his appearance yet. Once he figures out what the taffy does, he will avoid it like the plague.

Shotaro and Ahim

[tanteiotaku]

Shotaro - He will be Watson to Philip's Holmes and SUPER SALTY ABOUT IT. As for powers, the Gaia Library will be ending up in his brain instead of Philip's. Not really looking at a phobia for him for canon-related reasons. This'll be hilarious enough as it is 8D

Ahim - She's no stranger to costume changes, both in and out of henshin. My thought right now is a ninja outfit of some kind like from MMPR Season 3 beginning maybe? but she's definitely going to have pink hair. Or maybe a magnificent ballgown and be sad. D:

I'll come up with something for K'ehleyr later

Philip and Alex

[decideformyself]

Philip is going to be dressed as Sherlock Holmes, and be super amused that it wasn't Shotaro. He'll be trying candy apple after candy apple just to see what cool physical traits he can get. Somebody needs to stop him. He's also going to be losing his Gaia Library access due to taffy. Not sure if I want to give him a phobia or not.

Alex is going to be stuck in the Raggedy Ann costume she wore during a canon Halloween episode, and be really embarrassed about it because ugh, that was so two years ago. She'll also be losing her telekinesis and kind of freak out about that.

Peggy Carter

[therightpartner]

I'm planning on having Peggy develop superpowers. Super strength at least. I'm not sure if she should get anything else. She also will end up in a super hero costume. A version of WWII Captain America is tempting.