[TASK] Trick or Treat: Treat (Falair)

[Yayoi]

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NEW: 10/22/15

TRICK OR TREAT: TREAT

gaia_crown [ LOCATION ]

• The Human World

gaia_crown [ SETTING ]

• Halloween Night, anywhere that might celebrate it.

gaia_crown [ MISSION ]

• Journey to the Human World, and take advantage of the local custom of Trick-or-Treating. This mission in specific is to focus on gathering candies from various Human homes. Once complete, these candies will be returned to the clans for processing and further research. Be sure to adhere to their rules for this particular custom.
  xxxx Side-bonus to this mission: The more candy we as Horsemen get directly impacts how much candy is left for the Humans to enjoy. Our goal is to claim as much of it for ourselves as possible.

gaia_crown [ MECHANICS]

PART ONE
Since it's important to adapt to human traditions for the purposes of infiltration, your first stop is to get a costume! How great your costume is will affect your rolls in part three. You may choose what they end up wearing though! It could be anything, from a sexy crayon to a Gundam. Literally anything PG-13!

• OPTIONAL: You may bypass this part IF AND ONLY IF you have completed Professor Selene's Costuming Class! If you complete and pass her open class, your Horseman automatically has The Best costume, and they get a +2 on their rolls in part three! If you take the class and fail, or if you do not complete the class at all, continue below as normal.
  
• Roll a 1d6 and match your results below:
  
  • 1-2: Your costume is awful. Not inspired at all. You probably won't get very good candy from this. (-2 to all rolls in part three)
    
  • 3-5: Your costume is pretty cool. It's not super special one way or another. It'll do the job. (no modifier for part three)
    
  • 6: Your costume is the best. The best. It's so good, you feel like you can get better candy because of it! (+2 to all rolls in part three)
    
• Once you have your costume, you may go ahead to part two!
  

PART TWO
You have your costume, and now it's time to pick where you'd like to go trick-or-treating! These rolls determine how many times you can roll for candy in part three. Do NOT use the costume modifier from part one here!

• Roll a 1d10 and match your results below. In brackets are how many available houses are in that particular neighbourhood.
  
  • 1-2: Wildcard! You can choose what neighbourhood your Horseman ends up from the list below.
    
  • 3-4: Somehow, you end up trick-or-treating in a small strip mall. (5)
    
  • 5-6: Sadly, this area seems to be predominantly industrial. The houses here are pretty scarce. (3)
    
  • 7-8: This is a decent neighbourhood! It looks like a subdivision. ( 8 )
    
  • 9-10: This is a very busy neighbourhood! Lots of houses with children, apparently: you see so many opportunities (10)
    
• Example: I roll a 1d10, and get a 4. This means my Horseman is trick-or-treating in a strip mall, and that there are five stores in that mall that are offering treats. This means, when I go to part three, I'll be rolling 5 times - one for each store.
  
• Example 2: I roll a 1d10, and get a 10. This means there are 10 houses in this neighbourhood that are offering candy. This means I will have to roll 10 times in part three, one for each house.
  
• Once you have your neighbourhood, you may go ahead to part three!
  

PART THREE
Now, the fun part! You get to go door to door and try to get some candy! How many houses you visit was determined in part two, and this is now where you use your costume modifier from part one! One roll per post.

• Roll a 1d12 and match your results below:
  
  • 1-2: This person clearly hates Halloween-the-holiday, and instead gives you something that is definitely not candy. (it can be anything - a 5% discount card, a toothbrush, anything! Keep it PG-13.) (no candy)
    
  • 3-4: The person handing out candy isn't really into it. They give you a single piece and send you on your way. (+1 candy)
    
  • 5-6: The person hanging out candy thinks you're pretty alright. (+2 candy)
    
  • 7-8: They won't stop talking. It's terrible. You try to be polite about it, and thankfully they notice! (+3 candy)
    
  • 9-10: This person fusses over you. They ask you so many questions about your costume, and how it was made, and where you got it, and gosh, how interesting! (+4 candy)
    
  • 11-12: The person handing out candy is just so happy to have guests that they give you 5 pieces! (+5 candy)
    
• If you roll a 1-2, but you have a -2 modifier, ignore the modifier. You can't get less than 1 as a result.
  
• If you roll a 10-12, but you have a +2 modifier, ignore the modifier. You can't get more than 12 as a result.
  

PART FOUR
It's about time to head home. You take your spoils back with you, and drop all of your candy off with the Famine Alchemists.

• Just make a small post dropping off your candy for study. What your character does with their costume is entirely up to them!

gaia_crown [ BONUS MECHANICS ]

• If doing this in a group:
  
  • Every group member must do parts one and three, but only ONE person needs to roll for part two!

gaia_crown [ REWARDS ]

• +1 for completing this mission!
  
• +1 raffle ticket! Go HERE to claim!
  

 

[Yayoi]

It seemed as if creating a costume and some sort of backstory for said costume wasn't enough. She was now being sent off into the human world to participate in this whole 'trick or treating' fiasco. Though off to the side she had been instructed to gather as much candy as she could. The less candy the humans had to enjoy the better.

She still didn't understand this whole concept of trick or treating and had had little time to study about it. Falair just wasn't all that interested in this part of the human world. What interest she did have well, it didn't really involve humans at all.

Given a pumpkin shaped bucket...which was a little odd considering that the people of Halloween town used pumpkins to make babies from what she knew, Falair set off into the human world. Still unsure of just what she was suppose to do. If only she had some sort of reference or guide book! That would have made it a bajillion times easier. The mare felt like she was being thrown into the deep end of a pool with a bunch of tiny human sharks. And would she not look suspicious? Being taller than most of the human children?

Someone hadn't considered any of the obstacles that she was going to be facing this night. Great.

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+ 2 Best Costume is best

 

[Yayoi]

She had to admit, when she found herself in the neighborhood among all the houses and children there was a small sense of excitement that the mare couldn't describe. They were all going door to door, screaming 'Trick or Treat!' to which adults would give them candy.

Oh right candy! That's what she was here for yes. The more candy she gathered the less there was for the humans and that was apparently a good thing. Plus she would be well celebrated if she could bring back many candies. Falair imagined rolling into the tower with wagons full. But looking at her small pumpkin pail she was pretty sure that just wasn't going to happen.

Falair sighed. Shaking her pale back and forth a few times to watch it sway about on the small plastic handle. Guess she had better get started before someone starts to question her presence. She watched the children for a little while to understand how this entire process would work. Having never trick or treated before it seemed simple enough. Approach the home, scream trick or treat, the adults fuss over your costume then give you candy to which you run away from the house and move on to the next.

Simple enough. Yes. This would be easy.

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9-10: This is a very busy neighbourhood! Lots of houses with children, apparently: you see so many opportunities (10)

 

[Yayoi]

As she approached the first house, Falair was a bit reluctant at first. There were so many human children. Stinky, sticky children running around. Screaming their heads off. What chaos this trick or treating event was. It was almost maddening. And she began to contemplate the applications all this could have.

But those would have to come later. She was on a mission. A mission for candy.

Walking up to the door, there was someone sitting there in a chair with a bowl of what she needed. They looked at her, probably thinking she was pretty damn silly for an adult in a horrible costume as such. She cleared her throat. "T-trick or..." s**t what the other part? "TREAT!!" Falair grasped her bucket, shoving it at the person with the candy bowl. Surely they would think her a fool and tell her to move on. But to her amazement they dropped a couple pieces of candy into her pale with a smile.

She turned around, her body ridgid as she made her way down the path. That....seemed successful. Hopefully the next house wouldn't be so bad. She had some experience now. That was good.

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1/10 Houses
Candy: 2
6: The person hanging out candy thinks you're pretty alright. (+2 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

Alright yea, so far so good. She had...two pieces of candy. Falair was pretty sure that wouldn't be quite enough to take back. She needed more.

On to the next house!

This wasn't so bad, as long as she avoided most of the snot nosed human kids she could totally pull this off. She ducked her way into the front yard of the next house. A group of human adults in costumes were hanging out in chairs in front of the house talking to one another. One seemed to be the keeper of the candy bowl.

As she approached they all stopped to look at her. One making a comment about how this one looked like she was too old to be out trick or treating. They laughed but the candy keeper just shook their head and plopped a couple of candies into her bucket before sending her on her way.

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2/10 Houses
Candy: 4
5: The person hanging out candy thinks you're pretty alright. (+2 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

If things kept up like this Falair would have all the candy she could carry in a very short amount of time. Most of the humans didn't seem to really acknowledge the fact that she was one of the tallest trick or treaters out there. She had a costume, so they just assumed she was a big kid.

Little did they know.

The next house she had to go up to the door. A group of kids rushing up behind her rang the doorbell. What seemed to be a very mopey looking human teenager answered the door. Looked the group over and sighed heavily before handing them each one piece of candy. Falair looked in her pumpkin bucket with a frown. This human was rather stingy it seemed. Had she not done this trick or treating right at this house? Perhaps each house had a different custom that you had to perform for more candies.

She would experiment at the next house.

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3/10 Houses
Candy: 5
4: The person handing out candy isn't really into it. They give you a single piece and send you on your way. (+1 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

It was actually getting a lot easier the more houses she visited. Half the time she didn't even need to say trick or treat. She could just hang around in the group of human scarelings and they would do all the work for her. All she had to do was hold out her bucket for candy.

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4/10 Houses
Candy: 7
6: The person hanging out candy thinks you're pretty alright. (+2 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

Everyone had been pretty chipper so far. But apparently the next house wasn't all that into Halloween. Kind of a shame. But at least she got a piece of candy out of the deal.

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5/10 Houses
Candy: 8
3: The person handing out candy isn't really into it. They give you a single piece and send you on your way. (+1 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

Sheesh, this must have been the crappy houses in the neighborhood. Only a singular candy at this house too. This wasn't going so well. Maybe she needed to find a new group of kids to hide out in.

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6/10 Houses
Candy: 9
4: The person handing out candy isn't really into it. They give you a single piece and send you on your way. (+1 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

Apparently changing groups was a good idea. She got a ton of candy at the next house. Falair would stick with these kids. They knew where all the good stuff was.

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7/10 Houses
Candy: 14
12: The person handing out candy is just so happy to have guests that they give you 5 pieces! (+5 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

The next house well, they all seemed pretty into wanting to talk to her. Which was not what Falair was here for. After about fifteen minutes of awkwardness she glanced at the candy bowl before they finally got the hint and dumped some candies into her pumpkin pale.

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8/10 Houses
Candy: 17
7: They won't stop talking. It's terrible. You try to be polite about it, and thankfully they notice! (+3 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

Holy crap another chatty person. They were asking her questions left and right. Just give Falair the damn candy so she can leeeeeaavvveee!

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9/10 Houses
Candy: 21
9-10: This person fusses over you. They ask you so many questions about your costume, and how it was made, and where you got it, and gosh, how interesting! (+4 candy)

 

[Yayoi]

This was it. This was the last house she was going to visit tonight. Falair had had way too much excitement for one trip to the human world. All this walking and trick or treating was exhausting. How did these human scarelings have so much energy?

Thankfully the last house belonged to a little old lady who just seemed happy to have someone come to her door. She gave Falair quite a handful of candy to which she said her thanks and then left. Hopefully what she had collected would be more than enough.

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10/10 Houses
Candy: 26
12: The person handing out candy is just so happy to have guests that they give you 5 pieces! (+5 candy)