34 days till Halloween [video/action for breeding center]

[quickattackjack]

_{[HELLO, JOHTO. HAVE A SCREEN FULL OF JACK FACE. It's the turn of the month and somebody is excited about it.]}

Hello, everyone! It's Ok-toh-bah! I know some of you have to have Halloween where you're from!


Tell me what you do there! I'd love to get some new ideas to take home with me if-- You know. Anyhow!

_{[ALMOST let the sad come through. ALMOST. NO. Jack will fight his homesickness with spreading Halloween to every living breathing thing he comes in contact with this month.]}


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_{[Anyone in the Breeding household will notice Jack rushing around with a notebook tucked under one arm, writing down locations and ideas for decorations to put up. >8U MUST. DECORATE. ALL THE THINGS. He may accidentally trip over a soul or two.]}

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[Video]

[quickattackjack]

<sub>[Jack's attention drifts as he wonders what sort of things the people of Johto would make horror movies about. He really hoped there was a version of The Birds here. Maybe it would simply be called Flying Type.]

[Perhaps there would be a film about zombie pokemon called Revive 3]</sub>

That's an idea!

[ action ]

[ladderpuns]

...Already? Halloween's at the end of the month; you've got plenty of time, you know.

[action]

[restardom.livejournal.com]

[ what the-- ]

... Um...

[voice/text]

[usedpoisongas.livejournal.com]

The first Halloween at the Enrichment Center was celebrated by dyeing the walls of the test chambers orange. We also stopped cleaning up the bloodstains between rounds of testing. You know... for atmosphere.

[video]

[darkenedgales]

Heh, I guess. It's not as much of a huge thing as it is in America, though. [From what he's heard, at least.]

Sure, 's always good to hear from the great Crow-sama! So, how've you been?

[Video]

[pianokeys]

This'll be my first Halloween. It's a sad story to know that my wife won't be here to share it with our family. [He's starting to realize that she probably isn't coming for him. He doesn't want to think that the possibility is that she starved to death... So his mind tracks onto happier thoughts.]

I'd like to have a party for my children, Jack, bu~t I don't know how to hold a Halloween party... Think you could help? [Yes he knows what Halloween is- kids love it, he needs to know- but it's never come up, so once again he's stuck for details. And from what the Other Father can pick up from Jack's excitement, he thinks he's speaking to the right guy.]

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

Heeeeh, really? [[so interested!]] Have you ever managed it? To talk to the dead, I mean?

action;

[skillspanner]

[Standing. Staring. Tilting his head to the side.]

Jack-san?

[Action]

[dragonspeak]

[He's just carrying a couple bags of pokemon food when he walks by and sees his partner in crime Jack eying the area speculatively.]

Hey! What're you writing?

[video]

[warsfeil]

I've never heard of it!

[Video]

[junebugfuji.livejournal.com]

It sounds like it must be your favorite holiday. Your excitement is kind of contagious. [ Grins. She's not sorry for it. ]

[Video]

[quickattackjack]

Oh, it is! Absolute favorite!

_{[He grins back at her--he's missing a tooth or two. Jack's so glad to see other people getting excited about Halloween!]}

[video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack does a good job of hiding his HORROR AND PITY. No Halloween. ;-; What...miserable worlds these people must come from.]}

Well-- it's a celebration of fall and the world of the living and the land of the dead rub elbows with one another. There are feasts and horror stories and entire festivals!

[Video]

[quickattackjack]

Oh-- well I am dead. Or I was! So...yes!

[ action ]

[quickattackjack]

_{[ARMS IN AIR.]}

A month is hardly time at all! I should have been planning...since last Halloween!

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

Eh? You were? For more than a few minutes? What was it like?

[action]

[quickattackjack]

<sub>[La la la laaaa--oh. OH. A person!]

[Jack glances at her distractedly while trying to figure out the best place to hang some paper zubats.]</sub>

Ye-ees?

[Video]

[quickattackjack]

Oh, I've been dead for a long, long time! It was fine. It wasn't as bothersome as being alive.

_{[Jack takes a moment to eye a bandaid on one of his fingers. Origami accident.]}

But having a heartbeat is nice. You don't fall apart easily as you do when you're dead.

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

[[a big smile there]] I can imagine!

So you weren't a ghost or anything, then? If you could fall apart?

[voice]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack finds the combination of voice and text unusual but grins at the news. That DID sound like a good way to celebrate Halloween!]}

What sorts of tests?

[Video]

[quickattackjack]

Oh, no, I was a skeleton. I did know several ghosts though.

[Action]

[quickattackjack]

Halloween preperations...Oh!

_{[Jack suddenly realizes who he's talking to and whirls around, placing both hands on Merlin's shoulders. He glances around and lowers his voice.]}

Merlin. I have the most brilliant idea.

[Video]

[shiromadoushi]

Heeeeeeeeeh, really? [[rapt with attention now.]] That's amazing!

[action]

[quickattackjack]

_{[He's not trying to be rude, but his reply is a bit delayed. Yosuke is totally standing there...he'd make a good table. Jack places his notebook atop his head just long enough to push the curtains he'd been looking at aside and get a better look at the curtain rod. This clearly takes two hands.]}

Yes?

[video]

[quickattackjack]

America does love its Halloween. I've been great! I've gotten a new job here at the Breeding Center! It's nowhere near as lonely as working in a diner or a poke'mart.