HALLOWEENIES '13

[mansionstaff]

Smashies, do you know what time it is?

Do you?

YES THAT'S RIGHT IT'S

HALLOWEEMS!!!

On the morning of Friday, October 25th, the residents of Final Destination will awake to find that a Carnival has sprung up overnight on the fair grounds. It's large and extensive, and the general theme seems to be Fall. There's a corn maze, a haunted house, hayrides and pumpkin picking, along with all manner of classic carnival entertainment like rides and games and gross fried food on sticks, all with a decidedly Halloweeny theme. Anything you want at the carnival is feasibly there, and we encourage everyone to use their imaginations when it comes to fleshing out the fair!


BUT WAIT

There's something a little weird about it, and not just the fact that it sprung up overnight, out of nowhere. It's fun, sure, but in walking the fairgrounds you can't help but notice a strange energy from the whole place, a chill in the air that isn't from the cold weather. Everything seems normal, but every so often you might feel a presence. A quick glimpse of a shadowy figure out of the corner of your eye, a gentle touch on your shoulder while you're decidedly alone…it's clear there's something about supernatural about the whole event.

Just as the clock strikes midnight on Halloween, your suspicions will be confirmed. All at once the carnival's true purpose is made clear--it exists to summon the spirits of the dead, allowing them to oh-so-briefly enter the world of the living.

The good news is it's really not so bad! Most of these dead spirits are benign (this does not, however, exclude the possibility of more malicious entities--if anyone wants to get on that, we highly encourage it) and just want to chill out and enjoy the fair. You might even know some of them!

Yes, that's right. It's HALLOWEEN FOURTH WALLS. See, Halloween magic isn't just limited to the spirits of the dead--spirits from other worlds might find their way into Final Destination for a few brief nights. This basically means you can play whoever you'd like to play, appable in Smash or not! Invite your friends in other games to come play! It's a free-for-all!


HOWEVER

Since this is a Halloween event, we'd like to encourage some playing around with the whole spirits of the dead aspect. You'll see in the comment section there's a thread called REQUEST-A-GHOST. Let me explain you a thing:

• Does your character have a friend or loved one who is not here? Unappable? Who they thought they'd never see again? Who might, in fact, be a SPIRIT OF THE DEAD???
• Post to the REQUEST-A-GHOST thread requesting a character! A brief description and/or icon material might also be helpful. They can be a castmate, a relative, a dropped character, or even an OC you headcanoned into existence.
• Helpful ghosties (your fellow players) may come along and express interest in playing that character for the duration of the fourth wall event.
• Go look at other people's requests and maybe play a ghostie for them! We REALLY ENCOURAGE THIS so that everyone can have a special person visit them from BEYOND THE GRAVE.
• Enjoy your trauma and/or chance to say what you never said.

The carnival will stay in town until Friday, November 1st, whereupon it, and all the spoopy ghosts, will vanish as quickly as they arrived, leaving an empty fairground the morning of November second. While the Carnival portion of the event will last all week, and though we'll post an open log for each segment at the official start of the event on October 25th, the actual Fourth Wall Event will happen ICly from October 31st - November 1st. Our rules for fourth walling will be the same as last time with maybe one little difference:

• Only members of Smash Academy will be able to make posts in smash_logs and smashacademy. Ghosty posting is limited to tagging entries and logs.
• Any posts made in the game communities must be appropriately tagged: * event - 4th wall weekend for smash_logs and *4th wall weekend for smashacademy.
• ANY CHARACTERS BROUGHT IN ARE NOW SPOOPY GHOSTS. This doesn't mean they have to be dead in their canon, only that the carnival allows them to come to FDC as a spiritual projection from another world. One second they were going about their alive business back home, the next, they've been transported and spoopified. All the fourth wall characters are intangible and can float, though, so maybe that is a pretty sweet deal. Characters already in Smash Academy will remain as they are.
• Invite your friends! Seriously, this event is for everyone, even if they don't play in Smash. Spread the word in the following weeks! When the event starts, we'll provide a big old modly info post for people who are just dropping in.

Feel free to use this post for plotting! As always, if you have any questions or have any further ideas, please don't hesitate to ask them here or contact a mod. Happy Halloweenies!

Comments

QUESTIONS

[mansionstaff]

Re: QUESTIONS

[holydeath]

For the characters we bring in Forth Walls, will they have their powers?

This is obviously not because I want Marie to come in and do this.

Re: QUESTIONS

[makesithot]

I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING

CAN ALTERNATE TIMELINE DEAD VERSIONS OF SELF APPEAR BECAUSE I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY TWO CHILIS AT ONCE

No I haven't, but you know.

Re: QUESTIONS

[forgetbeam]

Now that I think about it, would all this dead-summoning nonsense have any effect on the characters that Smash Academy's timespace shenanigans have brought back from the dead? Maybe they feel dizzy or just get a huge urge to go to the carnival as the ritual completes, idk.

REQUEST-A-GHOST

[mansionstaff]

A HANDY REQUEST-A-GHOST FORM

<b>Character Requested:</b> WHAT'S THEIR NAME <b>Canon:</b> WHERE THEY FROM <b>Relationship:</b> WHAT'S THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO YOURS <b>Brief Description:</b> WHAT ARE THEY LIKE <b>References:</b> LINK TO A WIKI, LINKS TO ICONS, LINKS LINKS LINKS ANYTHING YOU THINK MIGHT HELP SOMEONE PLAY THIS DUDE <b>Are they dead?:</b> THEY DO NOT HAVE TO BE BUT IT MIGHT BE HELPFUL TO KNOW

ha ha self indulgent requests go

[forgetbeam]

Character Requested: Toranosuke Ishimaru
Canon: Dangan Ronpa
Relationship: Kiyotan's Grandpa

Brief Description: There's really only a little canon info to go off of but what we do know is that he was a total genius who pretty much had things like LEADING THE COUNTRY come to him instantly and because of that he didn't really empathize with people who had to actually work for things. He said and did some unspecified things that led to ENORMOUS SCANDALS that got him kicked out of politics and left behind a huge debt and Kiyotaka hates him for it a lot. But I think it would be a totally great thing for character development purposes for Kiyotaka to meet him, either as the young political genius or the disgraced old man, and see him as a person instead of his legacy for once.
References: Here's the translation of Kiyotaka talking about his Grandpa to Naegi, Project Zetsubou's alternate translation at 18:34, and two manga pages with him mentioning it. Basically all of them say the same thing in different ways but if one phrasing gives someone a better idea than another, there you go.
Are they dead?: Yep

I NEED DIS

[gunplay]

Character Requested: THE SORROW
Canon: METAL GEAR SOLID 3
Relationship: GHOST DAD

Brief Description: BLEEDS FROM THE EYE, SUMMONS BLOOD RAIN, SMILES, TALKS ABOUT THE DEATH AND SADNESS, COMMUNICATES USING CARDBOARD SIGNS
References: http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/The_Sorrow
http://youtu.be/23enEc5Qpd8?t=3m12s

Are they dead?: DEADER THAN DEAD

[paletteknife]

Character Requested: Weiss Guertena
Canon: Ib
Relationship: "Dad"

Brief Description: Ha ha another with only the briefest of glimpses into who they were. A painter who did some pretty weird stuff, who did live long enough to have a grandson. He also died right after his last most lifelike work, leaving behind a journal in which he talks about wishing he could imbue his work with his own soul, so HMM...
References: Here's a master post of all his work to show what kind of psyche he had or uh... JUST PLAY IB IT'S AN HOUR OR TWO. Read all the books, look at all the signs.
Are they dead?: Yes

Re: REQUEST-A-GHOST

[will_be_god]

Character Requested: sadly he has no canon name
Canon: Pokémon Pt (though it's reasonable to assume he exists in DP)
Relationship: Cyrus's grandfather

Brief Description: What we know about him is scarce, but what we DO know is that he knew that Cyrus was going insane due to the pressure his parents put on him and wondered if he should take the boy in and raise him himself...and also that he didn't, and has come to regret this to the point where he confesses his guilt to random strangers who wander into his house. This weighs heavily on him--even telling someone is "burdening them". I have a fair amount of headcanon for him (that he was a scientist, that he acted as a postwar defender of the northern island, that he's friends with the other old folks on the island, that he has a Sandslash, and so on), but none of it is actually in the game.
References: He has no individual sprite but appears as a Gentleman-class trainer. He's likely to be in his 80s.
Are they dead?: Not as far as we know, though if someone wanted to establish that he is, it HAS been a few years since DPPt took place...

[kuragekasa]

Character Requested: Seragaki Aoba
Canon: DRAMAtical Murder
Relationship: CLEAR'S KAWAII-ASS LOVER.

Brief Description: Aoba is a generally kind and amiable guy with... KIND OF A SNARKY STREAK. He's honest, honest to the point of being terribly blunt, so if he's annoyed, you're going to know it. He also gets flustered quite easily at times it's rly kawaii.
References: WIKI PAGE and SOME RLY NICE ICONS TO PERUSE. GO NUTS.
Are they dead?: Nope!

hahahahahahahaha

[planking]

Character Requested: HI...NAWA...
Canon: MOTHER 3
Relationship: DEAD WIFE

Brief Description: Best mom ever. Best wife ever. Best spirit guide ever. also she's DEAAAAD
References: ding
Are they dead?: DID I STUTTER

Dead boobs

[thewrightidea]

Character Requested: Mia Fey
Canon: Ace Attorney
Relationship: Phoenix's mentor

Brief Description: Very kind and righteous, Phoenix looks up to Mia for all sorts of guidance. I headcanon that he had a crush on her, but whether he did or not, it's very clear he idolized her. Even after her untimely death, she continued to help Phoenix when her younger sister Maya would channel her spirit. But then one day Mia told Phoenix that she had taught him all she could, and that was the last he saw of her.
References: Wiki link
Are they dead?: Yais

REVERSE GHOST-OFFERS Kat dudes

[anyobjections]

Can't think of any ghosts? Do you miss old dudes? Do you have CR who's interests would be relevant to these dudes? Are these maybe things you never knew you wanted? ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE SOME SPOOPIES.

• Cave Johnson cave_johnson
• Adam Malkovich anyobjections | clearobjectives (THIS WOULD MOSTLY BE FOR SAMUS'S CR I would probably handwave her reaction to him unless you want to read me fanfic with myself.)
• Raiden whitedeviljack
• Prince Poo mutrained
• Blood Falcon blood_falcon
• Biorex biorex
• ...THE LAKE KRAKEN...??? krakalaken
• Ash shopsmart (tentative)

• Seth stay_classy_cat I offer only if you want a particularly MALICIOUS SPIRIT.

[testgasm]

i want to read your fanfic with yourself

[fullunlifeconsequences]

Pondering a Blacky cameo, if anyone wants.

[will_be_god]

Yes.

REVERSE GHOST OFFERS, WHIT FLAVOR

[testgasm]

I GOT SOME DUDES IF YOU WANT 'EM OR MISS 'EM

Hawke | Advance Wars | black_hawke
Brock | Pokemon | bestsweater
Ashley | Wario Ware | learnmyname
D0G | Half-Life | hellothisisd0g
Fact Core | Portal 2 | mosthandsome

and special guest

Slenderman | Slender | slendermans (from last year REMEMBER)

Re: REVERSE GHOST OFFERS, WHIT FLAVOR

[natureprincess]

we have a crisis

[nobodys_king]

This is going to be fun. Especially with all these legendary Pokémon about~

GHOST OFFERS: REVERSE ADDITION

[holydeath]

I've got a few guys to consider throwing at Forth Walls, so if you're interested in any of the following let me know!

Jeane | No More Heroes | crotchpunch
GLaDOS | Portal | brbtesting
Viola Cadaverini | Ace Attorney | hee_hee_hee
Clair | Pokémon | tsungeonsanddragons
Yūki "Hazama" Terumi (Ghost Form, probably) | BlazBlue | controlls
Bloody Marie | Skullgirls | bloodied_maid
RED Heavy | Team Fortress 2 | ironcurtain

Those are the mains, but I might be tempted to toss someone different from right over here.

ALSO I'M TOTALLY THROWING IN THE HORSELESS HEADLESS HORSEMANN FROM TEAM FORTRESS 2. Except that he can't kill anyone.

Re: GHOST OFFERS: REVERSE ADDITION

[will_be_god]

That is like the best name for Clair's account.

[theultimatedisbear]

UPUPUPUPUPU...

[forgetbeam]

shit

Ghost Offers: Reverse

[heartofarapier]

Particular people of interest for the Fourth Wall event regarding Smash:

Agitha | Twilight Princess | cutelilbugs
Godot | Ace Attorney | justiceinacup
Marth | Fire Emblem 3/12 | aestheticemblem
Nabooru | Ocarina of Time | thedesertrose

You can also take a look at my Muse List for anyone who's not particularly of the Smash variety.

[testsubject1]

Godot........

and Nabooru...........................

(maybe Ghirahim)

REVERSE BACKFLIP GHOST COMBO X4!!!

[inspirethefire]

Hey so I also play some other guys such as

ATLAS | Portal | sixextraseconds
Missile | Ghost Trick | pomergeist
Fawful | Super Mario Saga | thecrazyhasme
Daniel of Mayfair | Amnesia: The Dark Descent | ilovelamp

[cutthelines]

Daniel.

REVERSE GHOSTS FROM LIZ

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Berri | Conker's Bad Fur Day | wears_number_69

She does what she does.

Mayu Amakura | Fatal Frame | follow_the_butterflies

Guys...ghosts? Ghosts??? HUH HUHHHH???

Oswald Mandus | Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs | like_fine_swine

Admittedly, a work in progress.

meru's possibles

[wordsidk]

PF | Fragile Dreams | stillhaveme
Emil | NieR | stonesight / I could make one for his spooky later form
Tousaka | Hatoful Boyfriend | anybirdie

I also have the secret spoiler character from Sweet Fuse At Your Side

REVERSE GOOMGHOSTS and more??

[blue_karat]

GUESS WHO'S ONLY BEEN PLAYING ONE CHARACTER EVER FOR A WHOLE YEAR

what no, of course these aren't placeholder journals that I'll have to fill with icons over the next two weeks, ha ha ha

Goombario | Paper Mario | smallshroomfry (not dead, just spoopy)
Olive Specter | The Sims 2 | i_love_specters (considering ignoring anything from TS3 because contradictions ahoy) actually I have no idea what I'm doing or how to play her, sorry
Michaela (Miku) | Story of Evil | spirit_of_eld (tentative)

[londonlolling]

I am so ready, and no one will know who I am!

GHOST PEOPLES I CAN BRING:
-Atomic Robo
-Bio Rex
-Chie Satonaka
-RHYPERIOR?? (Oops giving myself away)
-A space pirate ork
-A slew of MMO characters from games that nobody plays

Carbon-based Ghost Forms

[testsubject1]

Reverse Ghost Offers
- Kanji Tatsumi | Persona 4
- Manfred von Karma | Ace Attorney
- Wario | Mario Bros
- Magus | Chrono Trigger
- Byrne | Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- idk if any of these other guys ping you, let me know

These three will show up whether you want them to or not
- AM | I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
- Zoidberg | Futurama
- Dr. Phil | I R L