Shout At The Devil! [Halloween Party] Band members and friends invited

[bangingthe_hellouttayou]

Zack had decided that he wanted to do something for Halloween now that he'd gotten his new costume and being a Spider-Man fan he'd gone for a Spider-Punk costume straight from his comics. He'd gotten it at a local comic store down on the Strip and couldn't wait to show Damien because he knew the Dog didn't have comics or anything fun back in Hunger City. Zack now pleased that he'd arranged a Halloween Party for the band members, their friends and family to attend inside the communal area of the apartments. It was the biggest space and there was a bar all stocked up with spooky drinks, alcoholic and non-alcoholic alike.

It would be a blast!

There were even spooky snacks with crisps and chips shaped like bats, ghosts and pumpkins. There were even actual pumpkins on a table for those who wished to carve a pumpkin alone or with friends. Zack had tried to make it accessible for all, those who wished to party and get drunk and those who wanted to do non-boozy activities too.

As for costumes---they were optional but preferred.

"Ok, I think that's it. Everyone should be arriving soon."

Zack looking around the room and hoping everyone would like what he had set-up with help from some of the others of course.

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[willoftheblackbird]

Before the City Charms show, Jake had invited both Dee and Jay to the apartments. Truth be told, they felt a little awkward intruding on the biggest collection of musicians (local and visiting) in their literal homes. But a halloween party seemed the perfect time to mix and mingle.

Anyone who got a hold of a demo for The Prophet would recognize them from the artwork. Both Dee and Jay looked like they crawled out of a post-apocalyptic rock and roll fantasy - studded leather, hair teased, face marked with war paint. (something sort of like this)

Whether they’d gone to the right address was quickly answered by the sheer amount of noise already coming from the complex.

“I’ve got a good feeling about this.” Dee smiled, looking up at his fiancé, who was pushing his wheelchair across the parking lot.

“Let’s have some fun tonight.” He smiled.

[bangingthe_hellouttayou]

Zack was soon to spot some people coming across from the parking lot as he glanced out of his balcony window to see who'd be showing up. Always a good bet to look into the parking lot first to see if people were coming back from the Strip or from being out for the day. At least it had given Zack time to set everything up. The people in the lot though---two guys and one pushing another in a wheelchair---he didn't recognise them but they were dressed up and coming this way. Surely, they were for the party!

The young drummer now heading down to greet the two, wanting to know who they were and if they were relations or friends of other band members. Zack now testing out his Spider-Punk costume, giving a few big strides, feeling the elastic stretch and work around his legs.

"Hello, are you coming to the Halloween party tonight?"

Zack looked to the guy pushing the wheelchair first and then the guy sat down.

[apocalypsejack]

Jack hadn't seen his sister yet tonight, nor is he in costume, though he does look scuffed up and a little dirtier than usual. Things had been a little rough in Hunger City earlier in the day and there wasn't an opportunity to bathe. However, as he walked in he got compliments on his 'costume' and decided that a shower could wait.

While waiting for the elevator in the lobby he saw the two coming toward the door with a wheelchair. It was instinct to abandon the elevator to get the door for them. His own child needed this sort of assistance and he didn't recognize these people. Were they new? Jack was already trying to imagine who they might be related to given their looks. Maybe the Harpers or maybe they weren't related to anyone at all.

Uchiwa twins are here too. :)

[itmeanstruth]

A party with their many rockstar friends? No way was Minoru going to miss that. He was even able to drag Isamu out of the lab. (But apparently not out of a lab coat.)

As the door opened, Minoru waved and grinned. “Check it out! I’m Frankenstein!”

It was a classic monster costume, green face paint, the stereotypical bolts on the side of the neck, the suit Ziggy made for him hanging open.

“For the last time, you are not Frankenstein. I am Frankenstein. Frankenstein was name of the doctor, not the monster.” Isamu insisted, proving that he was, in fact, in a costume.

Given that the only difference between his Dr. Frankenstein costume and his normal attire was how messed up his hair was, it would be easy to think he just came straight from a long day at IRIS.

You asked for this pulling out a classic movie monster.

[unholyterror]

Jake was a vampire, Dracula of course, and covered in an excessive amount of blood. Niko had all but poured it down the front of his body when he asked for help getting dressed. He has two pairs of fangs tonight and prosthetics for his ears as well as eerily red eyed contacts in.

"Dr Frankenstein and Adam!" Jake's always excited to see people try classics. Jake had no idea that Isamu was in his normal clothing, more or less.

Erik coming dressed as a crocodile monster from the swamp!

[rockandroll_swede]

Erik was happy he'd picked out something different this year for the party, aside from being a pirate all the time, so he'd gone with a swamp monster. Well, it was a crocodile costume that could be mistaken for a dinosaur and other-worldly monster. It worked either way.

"Hej, twins! Do you like my costume? I'm a swamp monster! Sort of crocodile, dinosaur."

Of course the young Swede loved that Minoru had come as Frankenstein, or rather, Frankenstein's monster as Isamu clarified. Isamu being Dr. Frankenstein himself.

"Doctor Frankenstein and his monster? That's a cool idea."

Damien (and you can assume Jack and any other of the Dogs)

[hungercity_hellhound]

Damien had helped with the decorations and brought Jack's children since Rekker had agreed to take them out trick or treating with his students earlier in the evening. Damien didn't have a costume but at some point Aarne Aarne had put some cat ears on his head. He didn't argue. There was no point.

He came up to find Zack first with a well deserved drink. "I took care of all the high up decorations you asked me to." Damien accepted that his ability to climb and his height meant he was often recruited to decorate.

Zack meeting up with Damien

[bangingthe_hellouttayou]

"Thanks for putting up the high decorations. I couldn't reach even if I jumped."

Zack pushed some of his curls away from his face and leant up to kiss his tall boyfriend, before taking the drink offered to him. The Brit noticing the cat ears now sat atop the Dog's head. Was this Aarne? It had to be. Who else would put cat ears on someone's head? Zack pointed to the ears smirking.

"Aarne? They are cute but really they should be dogs ears since you're a Dog."

hi Coach!

[itmeanstruth]

Of course, Minoru had seen Damien not that long ago. Just because he won American Ninja Warrior didn’t mean he was going to rest on his laurels. He had to qualify next year just like everybody else, so it was right back to the usual training schedule.

Heck, it was one of the few places that he could go to escape people acting weird around him. In his home world, he was a reclusive celebrity (they didn’t know he didn’t live in that universe). In the Nexus, his coworkers were still wondering why he hadn’t quit and his brother was still giving him the silent treatment any time he wanted to talk about doing something with said money. Even in Ziggy’s world, he felt a little out of place, suddenly being just like all the other rock stars. Even if he never admitted it to anyone but Martyn.

But in Hunger City, they still treated him like an honorary Pup. When he was there to train, nothing else mattered.

“Hey!” Minoru waved, laughing. “A dog dressed up as a cat? That’s s good one.”

Viktor coming as his stage name.....THE DEVIL. Meeting up with Damien, Jack and possibly some Dogs.

[hellfire_andfury]

Viktor thought he looked a bit of a fucking twat dressed up like this but Billy said it suited his stage name Viktor "The Devil." So, the punk was now adjusting some of his cloak as he walked in wearing heavy black boots along with his devil costume. He had some of his firebombs attached to his thick leather belt hanging around his waist since he never went anywhere without them, as he lit up a smoke, careful that he was now a fucking walking napalm.

"Where's the fucking party?"

The Brit now looking around for bottles of vodka that he could chug down. He spotted the tall, thin outline of Damien and then saw the shock of red hair which was Ziggy's brother, Jack.

"You alright, Jack? Getting some booze in, mate?"

Sven mingling around the party at the bar dressed as He-Man

[nordlig_pojke]

Sven had heard about the Halloween party being put on inside the communal area and had gone to put together a costume because he couldn't miss out. No way. He had to dress up and impress Davy with his muscles of course.

"I have the POWER!"

The Swede now lifting up a prop sword dressed as non other than the movie version He-Man. He knew Davy would go weak at the knees in this costume, considering it was mostly a loincloth and boots. Laughing, he wondered who else would show up because Sven wanted to get trashed.

[princesscharm]

Davy had been fussing with his costume. He had hated the idea of Jake putting him into a vampire costume. That was until he saw what Jake had brought. He had refused to let him splatter blood on his face even if he gave in to wearing fangs.

Davy wasn't paying attention as he headed for the bar, fussing with the gloves. When he looked up and saw Sven he froze in place. Who the hell was responsible for that? Davy wanted to kick them with the high heels he was wearing.

Mick coming dressed as a cowboy (don't laugh)

[guitar_voodoo]

Mick was busy adjusting his big belt buckle on his tight faded blue jeans as he walked into the communal area, looking around for others. His leather boots making a jingling noise with the spurs attached at the heel. He felt a little silly dressed up but then he did have the hat and boots already so made a good cowboy. For once he'd left his guitar safely back in it's case under his bed because cowboys didn't have electric guitars, did they? Instead, he had two prop guns holstered at either side of his hips slung on a bullet belt.

"I hope I don't look like a bloody fool wearing this get-up."

Mick mumbling to himself because Weird had told him to go as a cowboy along with Hans. It couldn't be that bad could it? The jeans were a bit on the snug side and he hoped he didn't split the seams when he sat down.

[tordenvejr]

Torden wasn't exactly in a costume. He was wearing one of the leather and chain outfits he had from modeling. For a moment, when he saw the outfit he thought it was Ollie until he saw the blonde hair under the hat.

"You look like my baby brother." Torden mentioned as he came up beside the Brit at the bar.

Niko Karvonen coming dressed as a pirate

[hullu_kitaristi]

Niko loved a party and right now he was coming as a pirate. More, a rock star pirate, because he still had his guitar slung over his back but also wore a red pirate bandanna, black boots and had a prop cutless at his left side. It was perfect! Some of the other band members had suggested his costume idea, that being Erik, Tordis, Joe and his brother, Heikki.

"Is there any rum around here? Because pirates drink rum!"

The Finn giggling as he walked up to the bar, wondering if there was any blood-related vampire drinks because Jake might like those.

[lynoprorer]

Ansgar didn't know there was a party. He had crawled out of bed and wandered out here looking for food. He's rubbing his eyes and trying to get his wild hair under control.

"Where's that Lex guy?" Ansgar thought he remembered Lex talking about rum at some point. Things were hazy because he was barely awake yet.

Jake (and Lex and Davy are probably around somewhere)

[unholyterror]

Jake wouldn't miss any Halloween party. Any chance to wear a costume. He'd pulled out one of his favorites. He didn't care that Alucard had blonde hair. He still had the outfit on with blood streaming from his mouth and down on his chest. He has everything including the prosthetic ears and red contacts. He had yet to see Niko but was heading to the bar for a drink. He was sure the Finn would eventually show up.

Gunnar dressed as a Spartan warrior

[sangens_makt]

Gunnar had finished his weight training for the day and had ended up writing some new lyrics for a song as he was now fresh from the shower and getting changed into his costume. He'd been in a bit of a rush because he wanted to go to the party down at the communal lounge, so had gone out and bought something in his size. It had been hard since the big Swede had wide shoulders and was a body builder so had to get the bigger size.

Grabbing his prop spear, Gunnar was now entering the lounge dressed as a Spartan warrior. He liked how the cloak fitted and the boots weren't too tight on his feet. The lower half though---that was little more than a small cloth covering his groin area. Being shirtless it showed off his finely honed muscles and physique.

"Nice costume, friend."

Gunnar couldn't help notice the vampire man and then realised he looked a lot like Lex.

Balthazar coming as....well, himself. Did he also invite himself? Yes, he did.

[angelic_asshole]

Oh, come now! How could an angel miss something as extravagant as a Halloween party in Ziggy's universe no less. Balthazar now sporting a rather lavish crimson silk suit with matching pants and shiny black shoes. It was just a little number he carried off while visiting worlds and being in the company of rock stars called for a little glam.

"Oh, how wonderful! I do love a little trick or treat now and then."

Balthazar beaming as he walked into the communal area spotting a few of the rock stars dressed up and drinking. Coming from the Nexus, Balthazar had heard Jack and some of the Dogs were around.

"I do love all the outfits, darlings. Most appropriate. Perhaps, I should have come as a stripper instead. Am I too overdressed?"

The angel musing to himself as he waltzed over towards the bar, hoping to catch the attention of whoever was around.

[unholyterror]

By the time Balthazar gets there.. Jake is partially trashed and had even more fake blood poured on him by.. well he couldn't remember at this point. Probably Niko or that tall crazy Finn. Either way, he's at the bar pouring himself an obnoxiously large mixed drink when the angel comes up.

"It's not too late." Jake mentioned with a laugh. "That blonde was dressing people up in slut close earlier."

Hunter, Gilly, Lars and Tordis (Here come the tarts)

[rockin_thehousedown]

Hunter decided to dress up in one of his usual leopard print jackets with silk pants and white knee length heeled boots. Gilly, dressed up in a pink pastel silken suit with white shoes to match. Lars, dressing up in a reindeer jumper with antlers because his brother Harald said the costume looked cute on him.

Tordis had come as a genie from Aladdin because Ragnar said the fabric was good. Hjlamar also making comments about Martyn rubbing his lamp, which of course earned the drunk guitarist a slap.

All four now walking in heading to get a drink of wine or whatever else was being served.

[boozeandbasses]

It's hard to say who started this menace between Jake and Joey but soon they had Mikkel and Ansgar with them and 10 cans of silly string. The four who looked like perfect targets as the two Danes and the two Americans came up behind them and started spraying yards and yards of silly string all over their heads.

Ted Ronno dressed as uh----a French maid (you can blame Syn and the Danes)

[sweeter_thantherest]

Poor Ted.

He'd gotten trashed drunk with Syn and the other young Danes whilst having a blast drinking and joking around. The last thing the Brit had remembered was passing out cold on the couch with a bottle of whiskey clutched in his hand.

...

Now, he was awake and stumbling into what looked like a party. Pumpkins and spooky stuff everywhere? Was it Halloween already? Ted was still trashed and half-asleep as he walked, nearly barging into the pumpkin carving table, rubbing at his eyes and yawning. Oh god. What was the bloody time?

Little did he know---he had been dressed up to look like a French maid.

[citycharm]

"Good Evening glitter daddy!" Syn called out and then immediately started to giggle. Syn is there with Joey, Sam, Ansgar, and Lex.

"Do you need a drink?" Syn asked which had Lex turning around. Lex's eyes instantly got wide as he looked at the other four who were now giggling.

Rekker and the Kids

[rage_rekker]

Rekker had what might have been the best job of the day. He didn't have a costume but all the kids did. He had taken Zayda, Charlie, Choko, Donya, Ana, Tia, Sophia, and Heather. He was just piling the kids out of the car, carrying Choko since they left her chair when they went out. She had been riding on Rekker's back and shoulders all evening. Ana was carrying little Zayda and Donya had Charlie in their arms. It as a rag tag bunch that came in, Rekker signing one handed to his students and talking to the others.

He loved kids and it showed by how they were all mobbing around the ginger. All the kids had huge bags stuffed to the brim with candy.

Cute idea. Running with it.

[willoftheblackbird]

By the time Dee saw the kids, they were elbows deep in pumpkin guts and candy wrappers, spread out across the large table Zack had set up in one of the corners of the room.

Dee spotted Rekker, and offered a wave as he approached. His legs were getting weak, and he needed to sit. But at the same time, the thought of carving a pumpkin was pretty appealing. He hadn’t done that since he was a kid!

“…is there room for a big kid?” He asked with a smile.

Fredrik coming dressed as a wolf man. Sigurd...coming as his boring grouchy daddy self.

[rebellisk_tarta]

Fredrik had managed to drag Sigurd along to the party because the man was such a grouch! Oh, maybe he should have come as the Grinch because he was a grumpy old man. The blond laughed as he tugged Sigurd's hand along then shoved the man into the communal area, avoiding a slap around the back of the head by the older Swede. It was all playful of course. Fredrik's costume being that of a wolf man. He had seen it in a shop and wanted it.

"You're such a pain in the ass."

Sigurd now lighting up a smoke and exhaling but smiling. He hadn't bothered to dress up because he didn't want to. Fuck, he hadn't even intended to come along to this party because he wanted to practice on his bass.

Boring!

"I'm going to carve a pumpkin with Mikkel. Have fun grouchy daddy!"

Fredrik laughing as he ducked another slap from Sigurd and went towards the pumpkin carving table.

[oprorsk_sode]

Mikkel had put on his sleaziest little outfit from work as a costume. This was what he was waiting for. As soon as he saw Sigurd he came up behind him, can of silly string in each hand and sprayed the hell out of the grouchy Swede.

Joe dressed as a red devil. SHOUT AT THE DEVIL!

[helland_damnation]

Of course Joe had come as a red devil dressed in a crimson silk suit which was much too tight around his thighs, ass and crotch area. This was on purpose so that he could tease Aarne with it. On top of that he was wearing black knee high heeled boots with a thin heel.

"PEACHY!"

The Brit now drunk as usual, shouting and screaming for his Finnish boyfriend. Maybe they could have some drinks and then carve a pumpkin together? That sounded like fun. If only Joe could sit still long enough---that was the question. The man was hyped up as usual running around laughing and enjoying the atmosphere. Zack really had put on a fucking awesome party.

Let me know if this is cool.

[itmeanstruth]

“Uh… I’m not peachy. But your peachy is showing.” Minoru blinked, staring down at the previously skin-tight silk costume that was once covering Joe’s ass.

Unbeknownst to him, clearly, a seam had split, likely from how much he was running around.

(Minoru could empathize. It was why he never really wore nice things. At least, until Ziggy made him that suit. Which he somehow hadn’t accidentally ripped or destroyed yet.)

Weird and Rex dressed as Ghostbusters! Who you gonna call?

[glamguitar_guru]

Of course this was mainly Rex's ideas as Weird just rolled his eyes coming into the communal area, both brothers dressed up as Ghostbusters. Mick and Gilly said they looked good but Weird just thought he looked ridiculous. What would Gloria think? Rex wanted to get drunk and find Ansgar eventually, but for now he wanted to wind his brother up.

"Don't be so boring, Weird. We're here to have fun. Gloria might get turned on seeing you like this with a big zapper gun in your hand."

Weird just smacking Rex over the head with his hand before going over to the bar to get a drink.

[drkenison]

Gloria hadn't known what to wear and Mikkel had helped. She was trying to be comfortable in the short, tight clothing. She wasn't the only one that Mikkel had dressed up in skimpy outfits. They had left her to, apparently, go show Mick's mom an outfit they had got her too. She was trying to find Weird in the crowd since Mikkel had insisted she go show Weird her costume.

The Morning After....

[hellomajortom]

After any party Tom made rounds through the building, often with the other Sterlings now that they were all together. There were many reasons he had started these rounds. Watching for dangers and sometimes clean up. Mostly it was to take account of everyone. He needed to know that everyone was safe and if not, he would track down where they were. When you had this many rockstars to keep tabs on you had to do this.

Most had stayed, even Jack and Rekker and all the children. Moving through the main room he's not surprised to see the blondes all in the side room. The younger band members often hung out together. As expected Mikkel, Fredrik, Ansgar, Sam, Sigurd, Syn, and not too surprising Ana, were in the room. The big fold out couch in the room beside the communal room with the TV often saw this crowd. However, there was a dark haired person there too. At first, Tom thought maybe it was Aarne or Davy but, no, this was someone else. It left Tom standing there near the huge folded out couch trying to place who this person was.

[willoftheblackbird]

Unfortunately, despite wanting to meet Tom ever since he was name-dropped at the City Charms show, Dee hadn’t run into him. So, for Tom, this really was quite the mystery.

He was still decked out in his Prophet garb, though some of the warpaint had rubbed off. Someone had draped a blanket over him, but it had fallen on the floor at some point, revealing long, thin limbs. All of him was painfully thin, really. Almost fragile.

And he was definitely out cold, entirely sound asleep.

Sam- Early in the Night

[sunnycymbals]

Sam had been there early because Syn had come to get dressed with Mikkel and some of the others. He didn't really have a costume unless you counted the flowers that Elsie had braided into his long hair. Sam doesn't know a lot of people so he's standing off to the side with a drink and looking for someone he knows.

[bangingthe_hellouttayou]

Zack had left Damien off to talk with Tom about security matters as the drummer was now at the bar getting himself a soda. Looking around he spotted the tall, thin drummer from City Charms standing on his own with a drink. Sam, wasn't his name? Zack now walking over dressed in his Spider-Man suit, offering a wave.

"It's Sam, isn't it? I'm Zack, drummer for Hell's Angels."

The Brit offering a friendly smile, pulling some of his curls away from his suit slightly because they kept getting stuck in the neck.

Harald coming as a Viking warrior. Up for drinking and pumpkin carving.

[dodsmetall_kriger]

Harald wasn't one for large gatherings and parties because he'd rather just enjoy some focused sport like axe throwing, then getting trashed and hear screaming rock stars in his ears. Yet, Lars persuaded the big Viking to dress up in something he wanted, which happened to be a Viking Warrior outfit. Leathers, boots and fur trimmings. He agreed to this and had his double-handed battleaxe strapped across his back walking into the party, eyeing everything up.

"Brother made come here. Where is booze?"

Even though the guitarist didn't wish to get smashed out of his head, he still wanted to enjoy himself. Maybe carve something on one of the pumpkins---some runes perhaps? A few mugs of mead with friends would be good.

[oprorsk_sode]

By this time Mikkel had carved pumpkins with Sigurd and Fredrik, and drank a lot of booze. He's just heading to get another drink when he sees Harald.

"HARALD!" Mikkel is already jumping on the big Norwegian's back to kiss his cheek.

An hour or two after speaking to Jerry. CW: mentions of sexual abuse and injury

[nordlig_pojke]

It had been fucking tough talking to Jerry, listening to the harrowing account of Davy getting raped and abused by that fuckhead of an ex. A monster. Sven had gone back to his room and changed out of his costume into some of his usual attire, leather pants and a t-shirt.

He had to see Davy.

The Swede now stepping outside Davy's room, hoping he was there since he'd seen Sam run off with the singer earlier on. Sven guessing that Sam was with Davy, trying to comfort the poor boy.

"Davy? It's me, Sven."

[sunnycymbals]

Sam had tried to talk to Davy but eventually simply left him out on the balcony to think. He wasn't very talkative anyway but Sam didn't leave.

It was Sam that came to the door looking worried and out of sorts himself. "Sven?" He's not sure how to prepare the Swede for how Davy is behaving.