MA’s big annual autumn event is fast approaching, so it’s time to start nailing down some details. Creativity is encouraged, but remember: Muse Academy and all its functions are subject to physical laws and contemporary technology. No antigravity or unlimited sources of free energy, please!
Here’s how the ball unfolded last year.
And is how the planning thread unfolded last year.
So. We’ll need:
-Decorations/Theme
-Food
-Music
-Activities
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Thanks, Monsieur Gnome!
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As always, I’d be willing to help organize a symphony for this year’s ball.
Will we be doing a masquerade again? (I’m almost sure we always do, but it’s good to double-check.)
What exactly is the Muse Academy Holloween Ball?
sorry.
I will certainly design a costume, and I may even be able to get it scanned by AM. I’ll probably go as [Information removed due to masquerade purposes]
Mikazuki- The Halloween Ball is a Muse Academy event where we all adopt alter-egoes and wear costumes, usually there is (virtual Role-played) dancing and festivities.
Idea- how about we have the theme for this year’s halloween ball somewhat Twilight Zone? Everything’s off by just a tad (The food’s a bit too sweet, the windows too big, the ceiling too short. And of course, folds in the space time continuum around the maze, making it even more confusing that usual.)
Ooh, sounds spiffy. I’ll have to draw meself a costume (I’ve been working on poses and hairstyles.). Sadly, I royally suck at hands, so I’ll have to have long sleeves…
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Enc, I absolutely love how you write. That line, “Everything’s off by just a tad (The food’s a bit too sweet, the windows too big, the ceiling too short.”… It’s just so… well written? Descriptive? I don’t know how to describe why I like it so much.
Thank you!
Lots of people have said that (in my opinion) my least poetic phrases are well written. One poem type thing that I wrote, I was sqeeing over how I wrote it like it was petering out towards the end, but all anyone commented on were the lines that I liked least.
Eh, I guess I just have to keep writing how I hate.
I do love the idea of a Twilight Zone theme.
A bit Escher-esque, perhaps?
That would be great too!
Architecture that looks unsound but stands nonetheless, windows next to each other opening up onto completely different vistas and lots of checkerboard tiles on the floor (and ceiling).
Ooh, yes! (especially the windows)
I may have to plan out my vision of the interior of the Ballroom.
And some of the vistas can even be upside-down and sideways, like in Escher’s “Another World”.
Yes!!
And of course, there would be those bird statues that are also in that picture. Perhaps alive.
Some of the staircases could be like that too, completely classic. And the garden should look like it’s being reflected in a sphere.
I vote that we do indeed have a masked ball again.
For those of you who did not participate last year:
A masked ball is sort of like an Alter Ego thread. You change your name and your gravatar and act as someone else–that is, you wear a costume. At the end of the ball we can guess who the other people are.
I think it is very important to stress what is probably the biggest difference between Alter Ego and the Halloween Ball. IT’S NOT A GUESSING GAME. The point is everyone gets to pretend to be who they’re not, and you get to dance with mysterious strangers, while knowing it’s in fact a good friend. Don’t be guessing “I think Shadow Ghost Phantom Super Spy Undead Skeleton is SudoRandom” (Ohnoes, I gave away my costume!) during the ball, because that’s not the point. We all get to guess at the end, and save the rest for dancing.
May I suggest a few funhouse mirrors as part of the decor?
That would be great, but I think that they should look like normal mirrors, but provide creepy, disturbing images of us instead.
I second that idea!
Aah, the highly-anticipated (by me, at least) Halloween Ball! Huzzah!
I like the two inspirations for the theme! I think they can be combined without much difficulty. On the thought of Escher, I have two suggestions. I hope they both make sense! They’re based on a classic optical illusion and a classic Escher design, respectively.
1) Perhaps the windows could be greater in number if one counts the tops of the windows than if one counts the bottoms of the windows.
2) Also, I suggest that the floor be black-and-white tiles that are done in such a way that each row is different, resulting in a pattern that begins as one shape at one wall and then progressively changes into another shape at the wall opposite.
As far as food goes, I would like us to include seasonal fare, such as things made with pumpkins and cranberries. Apples, too, though I’m less fond of them. I also would like spanakopita, scones, some sort of uber-yummy pasta salad, and…I suppose, Puffin Puffs.
Side note: I rather envision the Muse Academy ballroom’s buffet table as holding whatever a person wants. If you approach it wishing for a certain food, you will find it if you look.
I think the soundtrack of the evening should include a variety of genres, with a connecting thread of spookiness. Personally, I think some Queen pieces would be splendid, as well.
I would like to bring up something that has not yet been mentioned:
When should the ball begin and when should it end? I say it should begin on the 13 and end on the 31. I think the thread should then stay open for a few days for people to unmask, as is traditional.
GAPAs, should I decide to send in a picture, which address do you prefer?
The best address for sending pictures is thegapas at gmail dot com.
Pumpkin ravioli, spiced pumpkin juice, apple cider, apple pie, pumpkin pie….
The buffet would be like a sort of table of requirement.
And, if the banquet table takes your suggestion, whatever you want can be found, to keep with the slightly off, Twilight zone theme, you can never find what you’re searching for, you always stumble upon something you weren’t expecting.
I have a few ideas, here:
Music: I rather think that some approprietly spooky sound tracks and themes from animes and video games should be included.
Ceiling: What about a Hogwarts-eque ceiling? Only…spooky full moon with a few clouds, occaisonal shadow of witch crossing the moon, etc.
Also, perhaps there should be a skeleton in one corner.
The symphony always has creepy music.
We need some musical saw players! And perhaps we can rent a banshee? I’m sure the Weasley’s wouldn’t object to lending the one that they have in their attic.
No, no, no, that’s a ghoul.
But you’re probably right that they’d lend it to us.
What is the music was occasionally punctuated by a wolf howling?
Yes, and at unpredictable times. Not just wolf howls, there could also be shrieks or evil laughter.
Suggestions for the Song List:
“Curse of the Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space” by Richard Meyer
“Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” by J.S. Bach
“Theme from Psycho” by Bernard Herrmann
“Twilight Zone Opening Theme” by Marius Constant
Please feel free to add!!
Basically anything on Demon Days by the Gorillaz. But I think I might be the only MuseBlogger who listens to them, sadly…
[Links snipped. Sorry, GAPAs are too pressed for time this week to vet YouTube videos. You can tell people the names of the songs. –Admin.]
If I find any other songs I think would be perfect, I’ll post them.
Sorry about that, GAPAs. The songs were the Intro to Demon Days (just search “Intro Demon Days” and Fire Coming Out Of A Monkey’s Head.
My brother likes them a lot, especially “Monkey in the Jungle”.
How about..nah, i listen to non scary songs.
I love the Gorillaz! DARE is my favorite song of theirs.
DARE is nice, but it’s not nearly my favorite. I really love El Mañana. Oh, and White Light. And Don’t Get Lost In Heaven. And ALL OF IT.
El Mañana is a good one, and White light. I haven’t heard Don’t Get lost in Heaven…I also liked Stylo and On Melancholy Hill.
Oh my gosh, Don’t Get Lost in Heaven is amazing. Do you have any full albums, or just miscellaneous songs? Because Demon Days is just beautiful as an album, even more than any of the songs on it on their own.
We should probably take this to the Music thread…
Anything from the Addams Family musical. It’s suitably dark, snarky, and hilarious.
“Still Doll” by Kanon Wakeshima(I think)
“Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi” by Kanon Wakeshima(I think)
AMAZING SONGS, YOU MUST LISTEN TO THEM
“Suna no oshiro” by Kanon Wakeshima too!
“No One Mourns The Wicked” From Wicked (by Stephen Schwartz)
“The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd” From Sweeney Todd
“God, That’s Good!” From Sweeney Todd
“My Friends” From Sweeney Todd
“Epiphany” From Sweeney Todd.
For your information, “God, That’s Good!” is sung by people (unwittingly) eating meat pies made from human flesh, “My Friends” is about Sweeney’s razors, and “Epiphany” has the amazazazing lyrics:
“We all deserve to die!
Tell you why, Mrs. Lovett, tell you why!
Because in all of the whole human race, Mrs. Lovett!
There are two kinds of men and only two!
There’s the one staying put in his proper place!
And the one with his foot in the other one’s face!
Look at me, Mrs. Lovett! Look at you!
Yes, we all deserve to die!
Even you, Mrs. Lovett, even I!
Because the lives of the wicked should be made brief!
And for the rest of us, death will be a relief!
Oh, we all deserve to die!”
All those songs are written by Stephen Sondheim.
COTREZFOS… I really like the original better! Cellos have a better part… but Curse has better musicality. Go random middle school music!
So do I, haha! Cello was my favorite part of that piece. I’m pretty sure everyone played that for middle school. xD
And it’s not a Halloween party unless you play “The Monster Mash” and “Ghostbusters” at least once.
*gasp* Rosin Eating Zombies! I played that in orchestra last year!
7.3 – Ooh, I like that idea!
8.2 & 8.3 – How about a music track and a seperate spooky effects track? So the music would be continuous, but at unpredictable times you here spooky effects (wolves howling, evil laughter, screams, groans, growling, etc. etc.) that overlap the music without affecting it? Maybe we could have multiple speakers all over the ballroom so that the spooky effects came from different places each time.
9 – “When You’re Evil” by Voltaire? P*ease? (Wow, never thought I’d say that.) It even mentions candy in the second verse!
Yeah, that’s what I was thinking. And ho9w about the Ghostbuster’s theme?
I think funny Halloween songs like that and things like the Monster Mash should be grouped together, and not mixed in with the normal creepy music.
Any of the stuff from Nightmare Before Christmas…
Oh yes! We MUST have music from The Nightmare Before Christmas!
Seconded! “Kidnap the Sandy Claws, lock him up real tight, throw away the key, and then turn off all the lights…”
Also, I would like to recommend “Spaceman” by The Killers. Alien abduction and insanity to a catchy dance beat.
Wouldn’t that be “thirded”?
“First, we’re going to set some bait
Inside a nasty trap and wait.
When he comes a-sniffing we will
Snap the trap and close the gate!”
Oooh, oooh, funny songs!
T. Rex in the Neighborhood
Purple People Eater
The Witch Doctor (The Chipmunks)
Men in Black (Will Smith)
How about some music from The Matrix?
im having a hard time understanding what the muse academy halloween ball is
skunk:
Hm. Do you understand what Muse Academy is?
Oh, how about some wizard wrock for music? But then we have to be fair and have some trock…
Speaking of Who, let’s get some weeping angels for decor. Fake ones, of course, but we can have some weeping and some looking at us with those creepy faces.
Aw, man, and here I thought we should have real weeping angels….
Well, the image of an Angel becomes an Angel…
But then they’d take your lovely phone booth gravatar! But, hey, if you want to be sent back in time so you can live to death, that’s fine with me.
Song suggestions (pardon me if I repeat some): In Memoriam (it’s a requiem), music from Sweeney Todd, and Hellfire from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. All are creepy songs.
Suggestions for food so far, my personal suggestions marked in “[ ]”:
Apples [Some sliced and with peanut butter]
Spanakopita
Scones
Pasta Salad
Puffin Puffs (naturally)
Pumpkin ravioli
Pumpkin pie
Apple pie
General seasonal fare, including pumpkins and cranberries
[Dry meringues]
[Roasted almonds]
[Cranberry muffins]
[Strawberry rubarb pie]
Drinks:
Spiced pumpkin juice
Apple cider
[Cranberry juice]
All served buffet-style and slightly too sweet or otherwise off to the taste.
To add to Kai’s list:
Caramels
Chocolates in various amusing Halloween shapes
Candy corn
Caramel dipped apples
Lollipops
Peppermints
Marshmallows for toasting
To add to food suggestions:
Pumpkin Spice Cake
Candy in the shape of various body parts (brains, arms, hearts, ect.)
Candy in other Halloween-themed forms (rats, bugs, witches’ hats ect.)
I like Kai’s idea of keeping them just slightly off to the taste. I guess that means we’re going with the Twilight Zone theme?
SFTDP Oh, and Pumpkin Pudding.
How about Pumpkin Muffins? Don’t forget the baking powder. Otherwise they’ll turn out really, really dense.
How could I have forgotten that?! *gives thank you pie* I assume you know about the baking powder from experience?
Oh, how about having some of the body-part-shaped candy I mentioned in gelatin capsules so that it looks as though it was preserved in formaldehyde?
Oh, yes. *blush* They still tasted alright though. Thank you for the pie. *smashes own face in pie* Yum.
And a giant bowl of bloodHow about some “Bones” (marzipan) ?/Rocket Power/
“It’s a BUCKET OF BLOOD!”
/Rocket Power/
Why candy in the shape of human body parts?
Why not real human body parts?
Or we can just get some Meat Pies, and claim they’re donated by Mrs. Lovett’s pie shop.
Yes, somebody who agrees with me about the eating of human flesh!That sounds good, should we still have them in gelatin like Randomosity mentioned? Maybe they could be floating in a giant bowl of blood? (I’m sorry, I’ve been hanging out with vampire/vampies/Angebella/Isalina.)Ooh… That’s hard to resist. I second that idea, but I don’t know how many other MBers will. I think we should still have the candy versions for the less… morbid bloggers.
Ok, that sounds great.
Floating in a giant bowl of blood? Yum.
Of course, we could make the candy versions very realistic, and mix them with the real organs to make it a surprise for people.
I love how nobody ran away screaming.
I think I just did.
Sorry… *hugs*
It’s ok, I’ll try and make sure the humans we take the organs from are already dead. They won’t feel a thing.
…… That didn’t help, did it?
*Vulcan neck pinches Enc**locks up somewhere far, far, away*
…B-but….then…if we were expecting to sink our fangs into a delicious kidney…we might get candy!
That’s a risk we’ll have to take.
Of course, we could have two bowls, “Meat” and “Mixed”
‘Kay.
Or, we could have two bowls, labeled, and then switch the labels…
*recoils in horror* I like meat, but not…that kind! *runs away screaming*
*gasps* My blog sister is squeamish?!? How could I have not known that?!
Sadly, yes…that’s why I’m not becoming a veterinarian. I couldn’t handle the surgery.
Um, no one’s responding to my previous post, so I’m assuming we can have music from The Matrix?
SFTDP
Um…Hello?
Well, I’m okay with that.
Enc….I think I love you. How deliciously and morbidly fascinating/grotesque! What a wonderful idea!
And yes, we should use….ah, cadavers.
On a slightly less grisly note;
Candy Mountain, Charlie!
We could build our own. *nom nom nom* For the non-cannibals, that is.
Puffin Puffs are, of course, a must-have. We also require a boatload of hors d’oeuvres for IBCF to hork down (back in 2008 he had a nomming spree ((May Day ball, I think it was)) ).
Yes, cadavers. And… I doubt there will be any willing volunteers.
Adding to the food discussion…I think we should add some recipes form Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal. I’ve had some of them before and they tasted really good.
16.3.2.1 Ooh… *drools* Stop it! You’re making me hungry!
16.3.2.1.1.1 Um, the dead include victims of murder right? Because I can supply a bunch of cadaverous goodies…
16.3.2.1.2.1.1 I think that’s an excellent idea. Of course, if they’ve been switched once, they will have been switched again. And again. And again. Until they would become completely unreliable indicators of what’s in the bowl.
Enc, you rule. You kind of remind me of the fun part of my mind, but a bit different.
Also, in keeping with the Twilight Zone theme, how about the candy body parts being just a tad too salty, and the real body parts and blood being slightly sweet?
Exactly!
Why thank you. I like having duplicates of myself in other’s minds.
Of course, we could simply label the bowls “Moral” and “Slightly Less Moral”. And have a bunch of philosophical debates about which should go on which.
Sudo- Barbaric? You mean resourceful. Dead bodies don’t care what happens to them.
Yeah, we should have candy body parts a bit salty, and real ones a bit sweet.
Perhaps I’m alone on this, but doesn’t it seem a bit barbaric for Muse Academy to use real body parts?
Same here! I really don’t want to face the possibility of eating human body parts.
Not for vampires, were-tigers, dragons, were-wolves, cannibals, etc. Meat is not any different, except that these are raw. They eat raw fish in Japan. It’s not barbaric. The Japanese are very delicate and refined. Plus, ‘barbaric’ implies…well, barbarians. These will be expertly prepared and displayed. And what about Puffin Puffs? Those are traditional. This is quite a bit more elegant.
But they aren’t parts of other people. It doesn’t seem like the Muses are the cannibalistic type. And it is barbaric. Don’t compare it to eating raw fish, or puffin puffs, because it’s not the same in the slightest.
So? Is it really any different than eating animals? And anyway, at least we aren’t killing them. (Well, I’m not.) Animals can communicate too, you know… Who knows, they may be way way way smarter than us, too smart to do what we’re doing to the earth. Yes, I admit that we don’t eat meat raw, but that’s only because it tastes better cooked. (or so I’m told.) Feel free to roast your livers before you eat them. And anyway, who says the Muses are the cannibalistic type? Some Musers might be, but are we all exactly alike? No. And nobody has to eat any of the organs, candy or no. All Musers aren’t exactly the same, so why can’t some…enjoy eating human flesh?
/rant
Oh come on, it is too different from eating animals. Yes, some animals are self aware (chimpanzees, for example), it’s true, but (I assume you’re a vegetarian) would you judge me the same for eating a piece of chicken as for eating another human being?
(We should move this to the hot topics thread before it goes further.)
(Agreed.)
It is completely wholly and entirely different. And if you honestly cannot understand that, and aren’t just joking around, then I’m sorry, but you have some serious mental problems going on and should seek professional help immediately.
We need garlic, of course. Lots and lots of garlic to keep away the vampires
and have another Garlic War.Yup. Although, I guess this means Shinigami can’t come. Not that she would come anyway…
She used to be very muserly but now she’s not. Ooo, we should have garlic bread! *has an obbsession with garlic bread.*
GARLIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I have almost as huge an obsession with garlic as I do with cheese.
Garlic! OMNOMNOMNOMNOM!
We should flavor the human organs with Garlic!
We should flavor each other with Garlic!
We should worship Garlic! Worship En!
I read that as “Worship Enc” and was sort of preparing to worship you….
Same.. *worships garlic and Enc*
Woo! I have a cult now!
Kill the heretics who oppose me! We need ORGANS!
Uh-oh. * is wearing the Sacrificial Ring *
*Has red paint ready*
*falls to knees* *builds a shrine to garlic* *worships garlic flavored Enc*
We loves nice little vampireses and nasty fat hobbitses with lots of garlic, don’t we, precious?
And fish…so juicy sweet.
With garlic, of course.
YAY! Garlic!
I also have an obsession with garlic, but it’s actually more of an addiction…
16.3.3.1.1 – *runs around in circle nervously chewing human arm* Oh my cruelness! A sadist with a squeamish blog sister! How did I not know this?! *runs and chews some more*
20.1 – So does that mean I can bring in my victims for consumption? Excellent! I was running out of room, and I can only eat so much at once…
21 & 21.1 – May I ask how post-mortem human flesh is different than post-mortem non-human flesh? Do you really think that just because non-humans cannot speak a language humans can understand, they give consent to being dismembered alive for the consumption of beings that in many cases are not their natural predators?
I believe Mikazuki and Enceladus are amazingly awesome.
Can we just have it so that those who don’t wish to partake in human flesh can opt out?
Yes, please. I don’t want it, either, though I don’t mind if anyone else does.
21 and 21.1-Randomosity has a very good point. For that matter, we aren’t killing humans, whereas we are killing animals… So really, this is better. (Well, mostly we aren’t killing them…)
It’s different because cannibalism is not Socially Acceptable.
We grew up being told that cannibalism is wrong, and surrounded by people who eat animals without a qualm. So we have it ingrained within us that eating people is gross, disturbing, and otherwise not acceptable.
I suggest we end our discussion about cannibalism and get to Actually Planning.
it’s unusual for the Muse Academy faculty to overrule students’ ideas, but we really cannot countenance cannibalism.
Awww…. then I’ll just pretend they’re human organs.
@Flesh: Humans are animals, plain and simple. I suggest vat-grown body parts-free of all moral constraints! Pesky morals, they keep saying slaughtering someone to use their blood for salad dressing is horrible.
Eh, I’ve done it before.
Stick to chicken, or I kill you all and use skulls for soup bowls. It’s a historic trait~
OTHERWISE. Sweeny Todd karaoke, for one. And pumpkin pies! Are we doing a masked ball again?
Ahem. Please note Robert’s comment. No cannibalism. Move on.
Yep~! Just using my rare ‘complete monster’ qualities~ And I’m bored, so automatic excusal.
Chicken, then; I like chicken. ‘Specially brined chicken.
So, it appears to me that we are all in agreement that we are having an Escher and Twilight Zone-esque theme.
We have a number of food suggestions, but more are welcome at any time.
A number of requests have been placed on the soundtrack.
Activities are sketchy. If any are wanted, suggestions would be good.
We haven’t discussed the date much. I think that it ought to begin on the thirteenth. Thoughts?
I think that’s everything!
7.1–Robert Coontz: Thank you!
Yes, I think we’re agreed on the 13th.
Activities…a corn maze shaped like an HPB’s head grown with magically-pink corn?
Yes, under moonlight with a periodic eerie wind rustling the corn…
And possible shadowy shapes in the corner of your eye with suspiciously long ears.
Keeping with the Twilight Zone theme, here are ideas for the maze:
It looks, and is, a bit different for everyone. One person’s path to the center could be another’s path straight into a dead end
filled with dead bodies.It’s not a hedge maze, by any means. At least to some people, it would be austere, clinical, cold. Like the walls of a mental insane asylum, whitewashed, lit by flourescent lights. An occasional scribbling, like “O LOOK ANOTHER BRIGHT RED DAY”. To some people, it would look like it an old, decayed building. It looks like it could fall in on you at any moment. And, to some, it would be hot pink. And finally, it could simply be a corn maze. With occasional, unpredictable rustlings
The inside is completely disparate from the outside. Much larger, more complicated, and multilayered, on the inside, with passages going up and down, over and under themselves. But on the outside, it would simply look like a covered corn maze, tinted a bit pink.
In some areas, if you walk straight in one direction… you end up coming out an entrance to where you had been before. The only way through the maze is to turn random directions, not try to win, but simply walk through. Alone. Two people can never find the center together… nor can they leave together.
Another idea:
Exploring the actual ballroom. It would have to have dungeons under the area of festivities. And of course, connecting in exceedinly improbable ways.
Food suggestions, reposted:
Apples [Some sliced and with peanut butter]
Spanakopita
Scones
Pasta Salad
Puffin Puffs (naturally)
Pumpkin ravioli
Pumpkin pie
Apple pie
General seasonal fare, including pumpkins and cranberries
Dry meringues
Roasted almonds
Muffins, pumpkin and cranberry
Strawberry rubarb pie
Marzipan
Candies in the shapes of human organs and other Halloweeny symbols
Pumpkin spice cake
Pumpkin pudding
Cornbread
Caramels
Chocolates in various amusing Halloween shapes
Candy corn
Caramel dipped apples
Lollipops
Peppermints
Marshmallows for toasting
Drinks:
Spiced pumpkin juice
Apple cider
Cranberry juice
All served buffet-style and slightly too sweet or otherwise off to the taste.
Also:
You should never be able to find what you’re looking for on the buffet table- You’ll just stumble upon something else you want.
Good idea.
Actually, that made me think of something. What if the HPB-themed corn maze had real HPBs to escape from? (In keeping with the Twilight Zone theme, perhaps they could be tinted slightly green.)
22.2.1.1.1- Then I suppose you must kill me, as I am an athiest. Don’t worry, I’m sure my organs will taste excellent when seasoned with my three food obssesions. (Namely cheese, onions, and GARLIC.)
Nah, this cult allows atheists. You can just say that I don’t exist.
How can you post if you don’t exist? I believe plenty of things exsist, I just don’t worship them.
27.2.1.1- What do you think of my idea? Could it work?
Who says I’m posting? How do you know GLaDOS hasn’t installed a virus on your computer which makes you see a different MuseBlog from everybody else?
A) Others have responded to you.
B) I’ve used many computers (including ones in another state than I’m currently in) and they show your posts.
C) GLaDOS is crazy, but she never mentions eating humans.
D) GLaDOS wouldn’t misquote herself!
A) The responses are completley fabricated as well.
B) It’s a virus in your mind, not your computer.
C) She does it to convince you I’m not GLaDOS
D) See C.
You have forgotten to put GARLIC on the list!
No garlic bread?
Whoops, my bad! I love garlic bread!
23.1- I wasn’t planning on forcing people to eat flesh! It was supposed to just be there if you wanted it!
25- Ah, cakeness! *storms off to nearest corner and sits muttering to self about Puffin Puffs*
Hmm…Activities. Perhaps there could be an area full of creepy trees, crows, jack-o-lanterns, graves, and black cats (This is lit up only by the moon) in which we have a sort of treasure hunt? Perhaps a map, with odd clues? That could lead you to buried treasure? Maybe it would be in a grave? And you could have to do some weird sort of ritual that you would have to figure out in order not to awaken zombies? Maybe?
With our theme, the map would have to be slightly inacurate, the instructions to the ritual missing a step, and we never find exactly what we’re looking for.
Also, the zombies should be well groomed. Groaning, thirsting for brains, but wearing monocles and suits and dresses, and not be slouching.
Monocles? What’s wrong with glasses?
Maybe something like Clue, where you follow the clues to screens/magic mirrors around the party area where you make a suspicion in light of what you’ve just uncovered by touching the screen/mirror?
30.1.1- I like that idea!
30.1.1.1- They only wear very formal-looking glasses, and only if they have trouble seeing. They can wear monacles if they can see well, of if only one eye is weak.
30.2- Maybe we could do both? Perhaps a game of Clue is going on in the same place as the treasure hunt, and it is nearly impossible to tell which one you are part of?
What about minor sound and light effects? Perhaps when you walk in you’re greeted by an eerie howl and a few flashing lights…and when going out to the roof you hear the Tripod Creepy Loud Honkin’ Noise from War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise one).
GAPAs, I’d appreciate it if you let this link slide – it is easy to find, but this one in particular is better quality and with less views (therefore harder to find) than others. If not, the name of the video is “War of the Worlds (2005) – EPIC Tripod’s sound !!! “
That movie was so good. It had the right mix of suspense and scariness.
I can’t believe it came out in 2005. That means I was only ten when I watched it…
Okay, it begins tomorrow, right? I believe we have everything in place.
-Decorations-
-Architecture that looks unsound but stands nonetheless, windows next to each other opening up onto completely different vistas and lots of checkerboard tiles on the floor (and ceiling tiles)
-And some of the vistas can even be upside-down and sideways, like in Escher’s “Another World”
-Bird statues. Perhaps alive.
-Some of the staircases are like that too. And the garden looks like its being reflected in a sphere.
-Funhouse mirrors that look like normal mirrors but provide creepy, disturbing images of us instead.
-The windows could be greater in number if one counts the tops of the windows than if one counts the bottoms of the windows
-The floor is black-and-white tiles that are done in such a way that each row is different, resulting in a pattern that begins as one shape at one wall and then progressively changes into another shape at the wall opposite.
-Hogwarts ceiling, only spooky full moon with a few clouds, occasional shadow of witch crossing the moon, etc.
-There’s a skeleton in one corner
-Weeping angels
-When you walk in, you are greeted by an eerie howl and a few flashing lights
-When going out to the roof you hear the Tripod Creepy Loud Honkin’ Noise from War of the Worlds (Tom Cruise one). (See video above)
-Theme- Twilight zone-everything is the littlest bit off, and a bit Escher-esque.
Food- KaiYves has the food list, I believe, with the addition of garlic bread. Everything is slightly off taste.
Music–Music- There is a music track and a separate spooky effects track. So the music is continuous, but at unpredictable times you hear spooky effects (wolves howling, evil laughter, screams, groans, growling, etc. etc.) that overlap the music without affecting it. There are multiple speakers all over the ballroom so that the spooky effects come from different places each time.
Music by Queen
“Curse of the Rosin Eating Zombies from Outer Space†by Richard Meyer
“Toccata and Fugue in D Minor†by J.S. Bach
“Theme from Psycho†by Bernard Herrmann
“Twilight Zone Opening Theme†by Marius Constant
“Intro to Demon Daysâ€
“Fire Coming out Of a Monkey’s Head.â€
“Monkey in the Jungle†or “19-2000â€
“DAREâ€
“El Mañanaâ€.
“White Lightâ€
“Don’t Get Lost In Heavenâ€
“Still Doll†by Kanon Wakeshima
“Futatsu no Kodou to Akai Tsumi†by Kanon Wakeshima
“Suna no oshiro†by Kanon Wakeshima
“No One Mourns The Wicked†From Wicked (by Stephen Schwartz)
“The Ballad Of Sweeney Todd†From Sweeney Todd
“God, That’s Good!†From Sweeney Todd
“My Friends†From Sweeney Todd
“Epiphany†From Sweeney Todd
“The Monster Mashâ€
“Ghostbustersâ€
“When You’re Evil†by Voltaire
Music from The Nightmare Before Christmas
“Spaceman†by The Killers
“T. Rex in the Neighborhoodâ€
“Purple People Eaterâ€
“The Witch Doctor†(The Chipmunks)
“Men in Black†(Will Smith)
music from The Matrix
Wizard wrock
Trock
“In Memoriamâ€
Hellfire from The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Also, musical saw players, and a banshee.
Activities- So we have a corn maze (See Enc’s post), a Clue game,. a treasure hunt, and exploring the ballroom dungeons?