This is Nightmare Night

[sailorlaughter]

Who: Everypony!
What: Welcome to Nightmare Night Extravaganza!
Where: Ponyville. All of it.
When: Forward-dated to Nightmare Night
Warnings: None

It doesn't matter who you are. It doesn't matter where you lay your hat. You got an invitation.

You're Invited to PINKIE PIE'S WELCOME TO PONYVILLE NIGHTMARE NIGHT EXPLOSION OF AWESOME PARTYRIFFICNESS!!!

Sometime when no one was paying attention, all of Ponyville became absolutely draped in holiday decorations. The empty town was practically begging to be filled with something, Pinkie thought, so it only made sense that she should be the pony to do it. She's stuck to the traditional Nightmare Night color scheme, though native ponies might notice that the usual Nightmare Moon silhouettes are absent. She had, after all, agreed to keep that a secret.

Town Square is where all the refreshments are, as well as the usual Nightmare Night games: spider toss, pumpkin chunkin', apple bobbing, and even a little stage with a sign reading Costume Contest 7:00. There's also a particular bowl of spiders set aside, labeled Princess Luna's Spiders. Huh.

Pinkie herself can be found wandering about in what appears to be a paper-mache elephant's head, a costume which makes much more sense when she's perched atop her similarly-painted Meowjesty. Toothy, meanwhile, is painted to look like a meerkat. Hopefully everyone else knew to get costumes as well - humans have Nightmare Night, right?

Comments

[brodakota]

As far as he could tell, Nightmare Night was the pony equivalent of Halloween.

Between the decorations, costumes, and candy, it was hard to make any sort of distinction between the two holidays. Aside from the ponies of course. He wasn't really complaining. Although, did that mean it was October now? He'd lost track of the dates.

Still, he was there, sans a costume. He couldn't really think of one that would work for him. However, Theta had been intrigued by the holiday, and was riding on North's back covered with a sheet that had two hasty eye holes cut out of it. It was the best North could improvise.

"Where do you want to go first, Theta?"

[ooc: please note that my hiatus still stands. I'll try and get to tags but they might not come till Friday depending on how things go. Sorry.]

[too_high]

He'd meant to come to Ponyville on Carolina's advice, but honestly he hadn't taken the world seriously and it took an invitation mentioning explosions to get his attention.

Then he got there and realized its little quirk.

He's standing just within the main square, standing stock still because it's the best way to avert attention to the fact that he doesn't quite know how to work all his legs yet.

Costume booth!

[sailorgenerous]

Pinkie had been kind enough to give Rarity a bit of notice - she knew it would be a Nightmare Night party, at least, and that gave her time to work on costumes, both for herself and for anypony who hadn't quite had the chance to dress up. She'd set up a booth with a variety of hats, capes, costumes, and masks - nothing too spooky, mind you. She herself wore a finely-detailed dress; Spike, in an accompanying costume, wore a tiny black cape and a white mask that only covered half his face. She'd long since given up on attempting to teach him to squeak in tune, but he was adorable, and that was what counted.

[shadearchivist]

Ienzo supposed a party would be a good way to get to know some of the newer people; hopefully Rydia and that gentleman who had caused such a stir with North's people would be present. Ienzo wasn't much for Halloween - he assumed that Nightmare Night was some Equestrian version of the holiday - but perhaps the holiday would be better in a world without Braig.

Yuffie and Lea trotted after him; at least they seemed to be excited.

[whoseesbynight]

Humans might have something like Nightmare Night. Trolls, on the other hand, generally do not. After all, why celebrate something that was pretty much life as normal? All the same, the idea of a party wasn't one that Nepeta was about to turn down.

Getting used to suddenly being on four legs on the other hand, was a little different. She might have been raised by a cat, but that doesn't negate the fact that she's been bipedal for a very long time. Besides, grubs aren't really the same as ponies no matter how you sliced it. Still, by the time she manages to arrive at the party, she's gotten the hang of, for the most part. She also doesn't know that costumes are suggested, but perhaps she can be forgiven for this under the circumstances.

[dork_of_keys]

'Nightmare Night' sounded like it was supposed to be scary. It also sounded like it was supposed to be a holiday. The only scary holiday Sora could think of to compare was Halloween. So it stood to reason that this was basically the ponies' version of Halloween.

And the only idea Sora had for a costume was his Halloween Town form. Or rather a pony version of it. Or something. All he had for it was a funky little pumpkin mask, the bitty black cape and a set of little silver bat wings affixed to his crown pendant. He wasn't really concerned. A fuller version of the outfit probably wouldn't have been very comfortable anyway (fake fangs were rarely ever comfortable) and it wasn't like he was looking to win any contests.

It seemed logical to head straight for the refreshments. Logically, if one wanted to talk to people at a party, congregating by the food was a good way to go about it. He noticed the games too as he passed by them. Why there was a bowl of spiders specifically labeled 'Princess Luna's Spiders' was beyond him, but he supposed that would be answered sooner or later.

[raisethemoon]

"HA! WE HATH OBTAINED OUR SPIDERS!" Luna lifted the bowl over her head triumphantly, offering absolutely no explanation to anyone at the party.