I dressed in my loon-monster costume and sat on the porch to scare children. alexseanchai was adult Sabrina Raincomprix and handed out candy until about 8. Belovedest wore their plush dragon tail to work and band practice.

We had approximately 82 kids, give or take on the biggest crowd.

It started around 6 and wrapped up by 9, because school night.

We had some teenagers, most costumed (there were about 3-ish kids maybe around 13 who weren't obviously something). There were some parents/adult-looking escorts who I encouraged to take some for themselves.

My loon-monster was a success. I took a page from Darkside's book and pretended to be a dummy until they approached, at which point I started moving my head like a servo was involved. If a smol got too spooked, I pulled aside the veil and showed that I was real and said Happy Halloween.


Since St. Mark's Day was Belovedest's day off (Friday before first Sunday of the month) we did an epic markdowns crawl and got:
1 realistic plastic carveable pumpkin, which we're just going to leave intact
1 teal carveable pumpkin, same, and I explained that a house displaying a teal pumpkin was for when you have non-food trinkets so kids who are allergic to everything can participate
1 large PUNKin, black with spikes
8 tiny PUNKin, assorted
1 "raven skeleton" which has BONES AS A TAIL; I need to share this with The Hidden Almanac because George is an Excellent Crow
1 light-up butterfly mask

I have an excellent 3-person costume idea, assembled from memes.
1) Hawkmoth, from Miraculous Ladybug. Mask, cane, flamboyant suit, butterfly brooch.
2) Moth. Feathered antennae, winged cape. Ideally a cabbage butterfly kind of look.
3) Sexy lamp. Fishnet stockings, black leotard or little red dress, lampshade, battery pack lights therein. Possibly a Post-It note with exposition, depending what party you're going to.
4) Enacting Distracted Boyfriend meme. Hawkmoth rages. Moth is all over lamp. Lamp is stoic, unmoved (lamp).

All in all, I think the party was a success.


Clover got to have a bit of fun before going to work.

digitalambience went home drunk.

jedi_rezboy went home escorting him, although the crowd may have been a bit much.

Chris the random guy got to do jello shots and hang with interesting people.

evealone got to kick butt on the skateboarding game.

Bald Guy got to hang out with people, which he hadn't gotten to do for a while.

ralmathon had fun and got to spend time with his good friends. And he got fed!

Dawn had fun and got to talk to friends.

votania got to dress up in an exceptionally cool costume and hang out with people.

Nephew got to go trick-or-treating and hang out with lots of friends.

marxdarx I think got to catch the tail end of the anime? and unfortunately got more of the loud part of the party than the cozy-just-friends-hanging bit, which was about par for the course for most friends-hanging stuff, only with better food. Wish he'd been less stressed over non-party-related factors and more able to enjoy it.

Shamash was washed and kept in the bathroom as punishment for the beginning of the party before anyone got there for jumping on the altar and knocking over a glass bottle which spilled oil and left shards of glass in Votania's closet, then slept through much of the party, and enjoyed that of it which he did get to interact with, except for the part about eating the balloon ribbon and barfing.

Darkside got to hang with his best friends, share good food, play video games, geek-talk, get a backrub, teach his best friend about the playing of fighting games, watch anime, and watch other people getting drunk. He went home far too late, grinning.

I got to spend time with my best friend, have all of the above fun, learn some of the basic Street Fighter moves, and have the satisfaction that the party went off well. Oh, and I got Darkside's cellphone number, thanks indirectly to ralmathon's conception of the Alaska version of the Civil War, and the good offices of Caller ID.