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♈ Aradia: ERMAHGERD GHOST PARTY.

Who: Aradia and YOU!
What: Día de los Muertos party!
When: Nov 1 and 2, afternoon/evening
Where: Nov 1: Castle Graveyard. Nov 2: Wanderers' Yard.
Rating: ???

[It took quite a bit of work on short notice, but the castle cemetery has undergone a remarkable transformation this evening. Every grave is decked out in brightly colored flowers, especially marigolds. As night falls, the place will start to glow by candlelight as well. There's a primary table with food laid out, where you can put your potluck dishes, and another small one with some craft supplies. The music playing is upbeat, like it's encouraging you to dance! This is meant to be a happy occasion, after all.]

[SECTIONS: FOODS | CRAFTS / FACE PAINTING | MINGLING | NOV 2 - WANDERERS' YARD. Will be in and out (mostly out) tonight due to work but yeah tag around!]

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[Sugary sweetbreads, colorful skulls, candied pumpkin, and hot, thick atole are set up for your enjoyment. However, you're encouraged to bring a dish as well - something that reminds you of a dead or departed friend or loved one, like their favorite food. Go ahead, try a little!]

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[The craft table has ample paper and markers for drawing or writing, if you'd like to, as well as scissors and colorful tissue paper for making papel picado banners. (Some patterns are provided as well!)

There's plenty of face paint, in case you'd like to have something painted on like Aradia does.

And last but certainly not least, there's some undecorated sugar skulls and icing you can use to decorate them. Feel free to make a skull representing a departed person, or just for fun! These ones are edible, too.]

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[Find the grave of someone dear to you? Or your own grave, perhaps? Or would you just like to talk, or dance, or whatever? Free-for-all in here.]

[The party continues the next day, although you certainly don't have to attend both if you don't want. A transportalizer is set up temporarily to take you from the castle graveyard to the Wanderers' Yard some distance away.

The huge tablets here aren't as lavishly decorated as yesterday's graves, but there are a lot of marigolds around, nonetheless. Particular care has been given to Paradisa's tablet, of course, but the illegible ones have not gone neglected. This celebration is a little more somber than last night's, although not grave, per se (pun very intended).

Aradia is providing some paints and small brushes you can use to color in the names of your departed friends on the tablet, and strips of cloth you can use to write messages to them. The messages can then be tied around a tall, thin stake driven into the ground nearby, and left there.

Refreshments are again provided, although they're mostly leftovers from last night.]

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FOODS

CRAFTS / FACE PAINTING

MINGLING LIKE A BOSS