43 days till Halloween [video]

[quickattackjack]

Good evening, Johto!

_{[Here's a face that's made a regular ghost of himself.]}

I've been thinking...I know it's a bit of a touchy subject, but I spoke to several of you some time ago who were dead before you arrived? What would you all think of a little fall congregation here in Goldenrod next month? We could have dinner and swap stories. N-not on Halloween itself, because...

_{[Because IT GETS WEIRD on Halloween in Johto. He's learned that the hard way.]}

...oh! And you living folks are perfectly welcome as well! Every dead person was a living person at one point or another! Sometimes multiple points... Anyhow!

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[newberktown]

Dead people? [How did that even work? Oh man, what if someone in his travel group was actually dead?] ...Are there a lot of them, here?

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[quickattackjack]

More than you realize! Will you be joining our dead man's party?

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[pianokeys]

Sounds like a blast! So long as Mother doesn't need me, I wouldn't miss it for the Otherworld- or the Pokémon world. [Chuckle.~

He's not so sure that Mother will want him going to a party for the dead. Might give the wrong impression, y'know? Not exactly perfect.]

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[quickattackjack]

Father! Just the vegetable I wanted to see. I was wondering if you could help out with the music? I think you'd be--

_{[Wooaaah woah. Woah. Back up. The ex skeleton squints a little.]}

Mother?

_{[That's right. He's had his nose so deep in his paper work than he's missed the news.]}

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[glaciates]

How can you be so cheerful about being dead?

[And this feed will be locked! Isaac doesn't need everyone in Johto knowing he's dead, after all!]

You can't return to your own world or you'll cease to exist. Why is this a good thing, exactly?

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[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack tilts his head a little.]}

I have been dead for a very long time. It isn't so bad--at least not where I'm from. We never stopped existing, we simply lived somewhere else.

_{[Because that makes sense.]}

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[exeggutorhead]

[Envy remembers this guy! And huh, a party for dead people. That...actually sounds like it could be pretty fun. It's definitely not really something that could have ever happened back home.]

Sounds interesting. If I'm in town, I'll be there.

[He laughs.] And good idea not having it on Halloween.

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[quickattackjack]

Great! We'll be happy to have you! I don't imagine it being some fancy to-do, it should be worth your time.

[usedlaserbeam]

A congregation of dead people in Goldenrod City?

[quickattackjack]

Yes?

_{[He sure hopes he phrased that right.]}

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[tinymoonkid]

[...Okay, he's going to pointedly attempt to avoid the whole 'dead' part of this, because while the months have dulled it a little it's still not a topic he likes, but... he can't help but be curious.]

Halloween? What's that?

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[quickattackjack]

It's a holiday--a celebration where I'm from. At the end of October everyone celebrates the departed with scary stories and festivals and costumes.

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[obfuscate]

[SOUNDS FUN... but the newbie here has a question!]

Why not Halloween? Wouldn't that be more appropriate?

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[quickattackjack]

It would be the most appropriate, but things tend to get a bit unpredictable on Halloween here.

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[bewilding]

My.

I never thought I'd hear about an event like this. Johto really is a land of firsts, I suppose. [ hearing someone talk about being dead so lightly is also something new, but she won't touch on that. ]

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[quickattackjack]

It it comes to be an event, anyhow. Will you be joining us?

[pikajanken]

D-dead people....?

[At the mention of the party though, Yayoi's face brightens.]

Ooh a party sounds like fun but how come it's not being held on Halloween?

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[quickattackjack]

I'd love to, but things tend to get a bit unstable around here come Halloween.

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[grapecape]

[...All the ghosts he's known have been the not-actually-dead kind, but uh actual dead people are good too (there are dead people in Johto?! oh god...)]

Pardon the question, but what is Halloween?

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[quickattackjack]

It's only the best holiday in existence! It's a fall celebration of the departed where spirits walk the earth and everyone dresses up in costume. There are festivals and scary stories and bon fires. It's fantastic.

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[darkenedgales]

[A party for dead people? ... If the idea came from anyone other than Jack, Crow would be surprised, but the way it is...]

... Sounds like a party of a lifetime.

[BADUM TISH.]

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[quickattackjack]

Crow! Yes, I expect you to be there.

_{[ >8I YES HE DOES. IN SPADES.]}

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[used_realtears]

[Head tilted to the side. There are dead people here? But if that's true...]

Please, sir! Has a girl called Fuuko come here? [She'd be human now, right?] She, they, both of them were so important to me...and if dead people come here, they could be here too! Right? [Hopeful expression]

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[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack's broad grin dies away for a moment.]}

Oh, I'm sorry... I can't recall anyone by that name, but I can keep an eye open for you.

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[hintcoinplz]

I can't imagine what it must be like, dying before showing up in a place like this.

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[quickattackjack]

If you hadn't been dead a while beforehand, I imagine it would be quite jarring!

[conduit]

Ah~! [ Rangiku giggles. As an agent of the afterlife, she'd be honored to join her fellow physical carcasses. ] I'd absolutely love to join you and the others! Perhaps we should have a graveyard tea? [ She chuckles one more as she places a finger on her chin in thought. ] Do you know where it'll be? I mean, I live in Goldenrod!

[quickattackjack]

A graveyard tea? I hadn't considered that...and for the moment, it's undecided. I'll let everyone know when a place and date has been picked!

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[foolishwren]

A dead people party, huh?

I guess technically I'd be eligible.

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[quickattackjack]

_[Heather???]

Technically?

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[itsudemoissho]

People who're dead can come here? [Sounds pretty awkward.] Uh, I mean, death isn't an unfamiliar thing in my life, but... you'd think at least this place would let people rest in peace since you can't die here.

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[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack offers a broad shrug. Sometimes it was pretty peaceful...but then sometimes pixelated cosmic horrors showed up and people got possessed.]}

The world's a strange place, isn't it? Will you be joining us?