Welcome to Gaia! ::

Before you enter, you see the giant Transylvanian mansion before it. It's obvious that it's old. The entire building is made of stone blocks, bound with gray mortar. It seems strangely steel gray in the fog and moonlight. It's perpetually night here, and the sun never rises. Somehow, the Mirandal U staff seemed to have teleported a very special part of Europe here for Halloween... wonder how they did that... hmm...

There is a black fence surrounding the entire grounds of the mansion. They're like rows and rows of black spears, sticking straight up into the air with stone pillar intervals that held niche for lanterns. The giant gates are much more ornate, but their two panels are made from the same material. Walking forth, it can be noticed that the pavement is entirely stone, and lined with little jack-o-lanterns the entire way up to the front door. To the right seems to be a massive forest that extended beyond the fence. Orange lights dance among the shadows... perhaps it should be checked out later! To the right is a dark garden labyrinth. Two white stone gargoyles mark the entrance. Faintly in the background, you see what might be a cemetary far beyond the mansion.

Let's take you inside where the REAL party is. Here you go, front hall! Black and white marble tiles for the ground with a beautiful double staircase of white marble... haven't we seen something like that? Oh yes, the Von Helson Mansion... Somebody's been cheating on the design! The walls are white marble as well, with torches blazing and beautiful floating crystal bowls of flames around the ceilings. The entire flame-lit room has a lambent beauty to it. If you look around, you might notice there are staircases everywhere and trapdoors... if you look hard enough. Lifting up the tapestries around this place might help you find a hidden door or two. The door under the balcony of the staircase formed bridge is open, and light comes from it. That will be the ballroom. Take a chance and walk around, you might find some fun game, new friends... your grave.

((Welcome to the Haunted Mansion! The Main Hall is where you write everything that has to do with the Mansion, but does not exist in an... existing room that's been posted. If you're going to go on a random adventure around here, here's where you put it. Have fun!))

"They didn't say anything about masks." Vesper pointed at the flyer. "It just said costumes. This isn't a masquerade... you've been watching too much 'Phantom of the Opera'." She giggled and took her mask anyway, putting it on the side of her head like a kid's day kitsune mask. Rivera didn't really like going about in a mask. They always made her feel like she was suffocating. Instead, she jolted it with a light shock of violet electricity. The light wired around the mask and transformed it, turning it into a violet butterfly the size of a tea saucer. It flapped its wings and lit onto her pure black hair, resting on the side of her head with its ornately lined wings unfolded.

"Where to?" She asked.

Rivera nodded, a slight smile coming into her eyes. She nodded. "That sounds good..." She blushed even more when Kira's lips brushed her hand. For some reason, she wasn't completely startled by that. She understood why... but she couldn't comprehend the cause of the reason. Rivera thought as she walked towards the ballroom with Kira, hearing nothing of what Vesper was arguing about.

"I don't have anything against it, I just don't like operas! They're all for adults and people like that... I like puppet shows." Vesper batted at her bell with her tigerstripe-gloved hand.

Rivera shook her head. "I don't dance. But if you want the music and the food, that's where everything's set up... unless if you just want to grab some snacks here and head out to somewhere else..." By somewhere else, she meant the creepy exterior of the mansion or the hidden chambers within with all their traps and dangers. Even with her less restricted emotions, Rivera still liked dangerous things. She hated life without risks... and any risk was a risk worth taking... besides dressing up in entirely pink things.

Rivera blinked, still day dreaming as he was talking. Her mind was completely scattered among newly unlocked memories... she didn't understand them What the hell were they doing in her head? Vesper regarded the puppets with interest, but Rivera's expression was much more interesting to watch.

It was a few seconds before she snapped back into focus. "Oh, uh, dance... um..." She looked away for a moment, then kissed Kira on the lips out of nowhere.

Vesper did a mental sumersault! Yes! She remembers, she remem--

Rivera blinked, "Oh sorry. Memory flash... did I miss something?"

Nevermind... it wasn't supposed ot be that easy anyway... Vesper sighed and snapped her fingers.

"Hmm... Didn't think I was that agressive." Rivera muttered, embarrassed and angry at herself.

Vesper tugged at Kira's sleeve. "Psst!" She looked very anxious. Her draconian wings were twitching a little. Whenever she was uncomfortable, Vesper always has twitchy wings to show for it. "You've only got twenty days left... Please try to hurry up! Help her along the way, do something! I don't care, but if you die because you can't get her to love you, she WILL regain her feelings for you, and then she'll be hurt. She's nearly immortal, remember? The handful of spells that can be used to kill her aren't self-inflictable. Don't let her live her life out in misery!"

Meanwhile, Rivera was looking curiously at one of the floating bowls of fire.

Rivera's eyes suddenly lit up when she saw a light out in the window... "Well... I've been dying to see some ghosts." Vesper suddenly broke out laughing hysterically.

"Dying to see ghosts, that's a good one!" She tried to stifle her giggling.

"Eh... that wasn't supposed to be a joke, but... whatever..." She patted her Draclite on the head. "Um... Wanna to to the cemetary? I dunno... there's nothing much to do at this party. But I did hear that if you lift up a certain gravestone, you can find this underground tomb cache with dead bodies and stuff everywhere. It sounded interesting to see some zombies..." She suggested shyly.

"Um... Vesper will trust Kira to do his job right!" Vesper spoke up, blushing a little. "Vesper will wait here... she has a date..."

"Aren't you a bit... young to be dating?" Rivera blinked.

"Vesper is twice as old as Rivera-chan!" Vesper replied, "Vesper has more experience!"

"Whatever you say, Ves." She smiled, ruffling her hair, "Have fun, midge." She placed her hand on Kira's elbow and proceeded to leave.