Video; UN: Willow

[frogfear]

[The feed turns on and Willow gives a little wave.]

Hi everyone. So, uh, I was talking to one of the younger Sleepers here about Halloween. She's never been trick or treating before - and I bet she's not the only one.

[She pauses for a brief second.]

Huh. I guess I should probably explain what that is - since we're all from different places, and I bet everyone has different traditions.

So at home, on the thirty-first of October, kids usually dress up in costume once it starts getting dark, and go around and knock on doors say 'trick or treat!' and people give them candy, or other treats. There doesn't really seem to be a shortage of kids around, and a lot of them are here without their parents - and there's the orphanage to think about too. I bet they've have never been trick or treating before in their lives, since it doesn't seem to be a thing here.

Anyway, I wanted to suggest that maybe we can put something together for them as a community - we'd need people to hand out candy and stuff, and probably people to make sure everyone stays safe too. I mean, from what I've heard, this isn't a regular Deerington October, but that doesn't mean we should totally let our guard down, right?

I figure it's probably a good way for anyone who knows about Halloween to get to do something that feels familiar for a night, and for anyone who doesn't know about it, it's a fun way to get out for a night and get our minds off... Well, everything else.

[Cloverfield's curse. She means Cloverfield's curse.]

So what do you think?

Comments

[hauntedsavior]

It's fine, robots aren't supposed to have blood anyway.
Or whatever I am now. God, who even knows anymore.

Just waiting for November to fuck me over a barrel. Don't wanna say that part too loud, though.
Feels a little like tempting fate.

[frogfear]

You're a robot? Or were? You know, however you want to define it, I guess.

And yeah, please don't jinx us into an awful November.

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah, dog. Mostly robot girl since 2018.
Well, early 2019 I guess was the mostly part. Before that I was just halfway.
Listen, either way, like.
If I had the power to change things by talking about them too loudly then I'd be having a way different time here.

[frogfear]

That's really cool. I did a lot of work on a robot person at home too - repairs and helping with programming and stuff.

Hey, sorry, but I came from a place where if you said "wow things are going really well right now" it was pretty much a guarantee that they'd suddenly get crazy bad.

[hauntedsavior]

Oh, nice. Hopefully I don't do anything that means I need repairs, but who knows what could happen.
Good to know there's people around here who could help.

lmao, yeah. No, like, that's Murphy's Law or tempting fate or whatever and fate is a real bastard sometimes.
I'll work on it. Just start counteracting it by hoping that everything just gets worse instead.
Problem solved.

[frogfear]

Yeah, please try to stay out of trouble, though? It's not really the kind of skill I want to have to see if still applies when someone has blood too, you know?

I wonder if that'd actually work, or if fate, or a Pthumerian, or something would just go, 'no, you know what? I know you're lying, so here, I'm going to make it worse anyway!'

[hauntedsavior]

Yeah, I'm not thrilled at having people poke around inside me either. I get it.
I'd say no worries about me getting my ass handed to me that bad, but. Some worries.
But not as many worries as you might expect.

I think the way the gods here work is that they take the worst possible interpretation of what you're saying and make their misunderstanding your problem.
You know, like Twitter.

[frogfear]

Well, some worries might not be as good as no worries, but it's a lot better than all the worries too.

Yeah, that sounds like a pretty accurate interpretation. That was pretty much how it worked in Deerington too.