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The Spooky Night Scare Celebration
In a change from their usual behavior, the citizens of Freesia are out and about during the night in order to celebrate another festival.
Called “Spooky Night,” the atmosphere of this holiday may seem familiar to some of Freesia's outsiders. Lanterns patterned after all manner of monsters and other creepy things are visible everywhere, resting on doorsteps, hung from trees, placed in windows, and there are smaller ones strung between buildings and across streets.
Equally creepy masks abound as well. They're mostly worn by the children, but some adults can be seen indulging as well, the eyes and mouths of their masks glowing like jack o' lanterns.
Most of the citizens seem to be enjoying themselves, chatting and laughing with one another, jumping around and trying to scare each other, drinking and buying snacks from opportunistic vendors. Many of the festive citizens have gathered at a bonfire in the park, but groups of people can be found just about anywhere tonight.
But despite the party atmosphere, you may want to pay close attention to the city tonight...
A: The masks and lanterns mentioned earlier aren't going to be hard to find. The lanterns are visible everywhere of course, and more can be found for sale in the shops and stalls, alongside a wide variety of masks. Most of the designs are generic monsters, such as ghost or skeletons or werewolves, but if you look around, well... Whatever you're afraid of, if it's something you can put a face or likeness to, you'll run into a mask or lantern of it eventually. Creepy as that might be though, anyone who dares carry or wear their fears will be rewarded with an extra bright glow emanating from it, something that may come in handy if they run into any of the Nox tonight.
Option A
This wasn't Gotham, though. There weren't likely to be poison in the food, and the lanterns probably hadn't been tampered with by Dr. Strange. She hadn't seen any masks that looked like her super villains, though she was half expecting a Black Mask.
What she hadn't expected was a green mask. A green, feminine mask. She reached out to touch it, more than a little surprised.
The green mask wasn't shaped like Ivy. It looked like Barbara.
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It was impossible to miss her expression of shock and the way she freezes at the mask and probably they're trying to do the same thing to her as they're doing to him. He's leaning against the stand, tossing a weirdly-colored lantern up and down to himself with his right hand while shouldering a baseball bat with his left.
He may or may not bat it out of the park.
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"And here I was just warming up to that..."
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Of course, the thought that she might be too fast for him doesn't occur either, but she's not looking like she'll drop the thing anytime soon.
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She lifts it up for a closer look. "Its freaky."
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"What's it even s'posed to be?"
Sorry! Started a new job - the schedule's been taking some adjustment.
"It's a super villain from Gotham." Except that it was Barbara's face, and not Ivy's.
Not Pam's. Not her best friend's. Hers.
"Sort of."
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If he knows he's being insensitive, it doesn't show in his face. As far as he's concerned, it's just a question.
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"...She needs help. If she'd stop breaking out of Arkham..."
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"Sounds to me like she's not gettin' help in Arkham," he says, matter-of-factly, "or she'd stay."
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She did need it, though. Barb knew it. She'd made the right choice, helping to capture her friend... instead of joining her.
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"Look, I dunno the story here but apparently this town does and they're tryin' to get to ya with it."
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The walls she's built around this subject are starting to crumble.
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"...You don't hafta tell me but...if you wanna get somethin' off your chest, I got all night." If she looks at his face, she'll see he's completely serious.
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She couldn't afford to hold back when Ivy was trying to kill her father, or some such.
"I don't have time to worry about her."
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He spins his hockey stick for emphasis, and gives her what he clearly thinks is a suave grin. It...doesn't actually look like she's fine when she's still holding it, and anyway:
"This is a festival, right? Let's go have fun!"
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She's also still looking at the mask.
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"The shadows jumped my friends in the empty lot, right? So guess who comes bombin' in to save the day? I bolt to the portal, slam my hockey stick right in the middle, and suddenly it bursts into flames like a wick in a cherry bomb! It blows the thing apart and I realize 'Whoa, Casey Jones isn't a rad vigilante,' he's an even radder superhero!"
That might not actually be how it went, but it is how he felt, and that's WAY more important.
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Maybe she's just teasing a little, but she actually is a bit confused. Barb doesn't entirely understand how the magic works, or how to trigger it.
She really does want to know, though.
GOD I'M SO SORRY I got really stuck on this one for no good reason
Yeah, look at those spinning tricks. Are you in love with him yet?
"My bro, Wash? His started up when we were fightin' the Nox too. You just gotta get into the action and they'll spark up, yo!"
IT'S FINE. I've been all caught up in mod work for another game.
Even if it's against her direct orders...
"So where are they?"
No worries!
And he's distracted her from the mask! Mission accomplished!
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"Lead the way."
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