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The temperature continues to cool as fall rolls in, signaling the start of sweater weather as everyone starts to bundle up. Throughout the planet, Halloween celebrations are in full swing with children dressing up daily as otherworldly ghouls or their favorite Moonblessed. You may find them wearing printed cardboard masks of either a familiar face or yours and running around pretending to slay threats.

Older Prismals have taken to the “sexy” fad and can be found wearing costume variations like “sexy mosquito,” “sexy apple strudel,” or “sexy underpaid lab intern.” To some Moonblessed, it almost feels like being back home again...

▶ The Secret of My Suck-cess
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As the days wear on, you may notice rotting pumpkins on the steps of several houses and buildings in Lunatia. The foul stench of their unnaturally swift decay has begun attracting all sorts of pests, especially giant locusts, around the city.

News feeds will start issuing warnings to incinerate all rotted food quickly before the locusts swarm further and eat more plants. Several Prismals report that their crops have begun to wilt in huge swaths, leading to a sudden shortage of fruits and vegetation. Widespread panic rattles Lunatia as everyone starts rushing to stock up on canned goods and remaining food items before grocery stores run out of stock.

Just as food supply starts to dwindle, your hunger grows increasingly ravenous. You try to resist, but the incessant rumbling of your stomach keeps you up at night, and a few bites of bread feels like plugging up a dam with a roll of scotch tape. Moonlacing can provide some mild relief, but the hunger comes back twofold the moment you break contact.

That's when the madness begins.

A While your hunger approaches its peak, candy grows where you least expect it. Lemon drops and gumdrops can be found in plant pots, and that flower by your windowsill has turned into a chocolate rose. The temptation to sink your teeth into a sweet won’t leave you until you give in. Should you bite into one of these treats, you will fall into a deep trance and see a dancing and laughing boar, eagerly shouting that he has you! He has you at last…!

When you awaken from your trance, your hunger only grows. You earn a new pair of fangs and a willingness to seduce if you didn’t have any of these before. You will have the urge to drain the nearest Moonblessed or Lunatian that crosses your path of both blood and Chroma — to lure them in and suck them dry.

You also begin to somewhat physically resemble those you feed on with every single bite. Those who are bitten enter a state of extreme pleasure and elation as they lose both the strength and will to fight.

▶ He’s a Sweet Talkin’ Sugar-coated Candy Man
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The sudden invasion leaves Lunatia divided between those trying to survive and those starving for just a little taste from their peers. Those affected by this strange affliction have been coined as “Chromsferatu.”

Lunatian officials advise everyone to stay indoors and secure their houses as the Chromsferatu take over the city. If you suspect a loved one may be a Chromsferatu, the local government will also provide you magnetic, Chroma-powered restraints to keep them under control while they work towards a solution. Chromsferatu Lunatians may be safely brought to the nearest Moon Knight station to secure them while Chromsferatu Moonblessed may either be personally looked over by a loved one or also sent to a Moon Knight station.

During the commotion, the boar from your visions makes his grand appearance in Lunatia Square, sitting on a mountain of candy and chortling at everyone’s distress. He calls himself Ainfeil.

Ainfeil: Beast of Gluttony

You thought you could abandon my feast this year!!

You thought you could leave me behind and embrace some other ritual! I’ll punish you all, you foul desecrates, you heathens!

The city’s waters will then start to run with delicious milk chocolate, the fruits on trees and bushes will turn to peppermint candy canes, cornfields now hold rows of bundled candy corn, while the skies will rain chocolate kisses, tempting everyone further to fall under his thrall. The sweetness will be near impossible to escape at this rate, but fortunately, Moonblessed can volunteer in Lunar Scientia Headquarters to work together towards an antidote if they don’t succumb first.

B Those who are willing to donate Chroma to keep the Chromsferatu under control can do so by infusing magical bat-shaped lollipops with their own Chroma. One only has to give it a few licks to let it absorb a sizable portion of one’s Chroma. Hand it to a Chromsferatu to keep them at bay! They will need a lollipop every six hours to remain in control of themselves, so be sure to stay on top of feedings. Do not give any Chroma directly, otherwise there is a risk they may snap and drain too much from you.

▶ Must be the Season of the Witch
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It takes a few days to devise, but with the help of a large pool of great minds from other worlds, the Lunatians manage to develop a successful antidote. The caveat is that they have to be injected into the Chromsferatu, which will take the fastest and limberest to accomplish. Volunteers will be armed with syringe guns to fire the antidote at any local or Moonblessed Chromsferatu.

As the affected Chromsferatu gradually start to return to normal, Ainfeil will also start to shrink until he’s nothing but a rat-sized crown-wearing boar after losing enough Chroma, screeching at your insolence. He will disappear before he’s caught or squashed underfoot, but the damage will have been done.

The candy that turned to rot and muck will be cleared by Swiffy bots. Plants and flowers will have to be replanted just when everyone is feeling hungry, drained, and at their wit’s end.

With the continuing food shortage in Lunatia, the generous Amegaharan foxes, benevolent Lyestellum dragons, and loving Calanthen krakens will all be bringing proper fresh food to try to salvage Lunatia’s Halloween by taking over the celebrations at Lunatia Square.

C There, you can pick up a generous food package in exchange for fulfilling at least one of their “fun conditions.”

🦊 The foxes request you wear a revealing enchanter/enchantress costume and perform a public dance filled with colorful spells (or fireworks will do) befitting said costume.

🐉 The dragons request you wear a regal sorcerer/sorceress costume and that you drink an entire cup of their famous wine (or cider for the young ones) and advertise it to the locals.

🐙 The krakens request a sexy warlock/witch costume and that you publicly recite a dramatic monologue complete with theatrics to honor the Iris moon with deep conviction.

Once settled with your food package, you are welcome to enjoy Halloween to its fullest. Though many have grown pretty sick and paranoid of the sight of candy by now, the sights and smells of a hot, personal homemade meal made with love never fails to uplift an exhausted spirit.

If you either do not have a loved one in mind to give food to, or neither of you need to physically eat, then the food packages you win may be donated to local hospitals, schools, nursing homes, and orphanages.

▶ NOTES

CHROMSFERATU ▶ If your character is already a vampire or any similar bloodsucking creature, you may creatively tailor the event to your liking if you wish for them to be affected. The limit is your imagination.

PHYSICAL RESEMBLANCE ▶ If your prey has blonde hair, there’s a chance your hair may temporarily either have blonde streaks or turn fully blonde. Any other variations are up to you! As usual, this effect is optional, and all changes will wear off after the event.

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▶ PROMPTS
Gotta Hold My Head, I Have No Fear

While the cool fall weather was pretty welcome, Konoka was less happy hearing about the locusts and the seemingly rotting vegetables. Suspicious that something dangerous was stirring, Konoka hit the books to figure out if similar things had struck before. Alas, being tired meant that her judgment wasn't the best, so she never found much of anything, only her gut instinct that Ainfeil was involved somehow.

The next day, chaos struck. Candy began appearing in strange places, and people began attacking others desperately for Chroma, even draining their blood. It didn't take long before the source showed himself.

"There you are, Ainfiend!" Konoka cried, right after he made his speech. "We won't let you get away with this!"

This seemed to irritate the gluttonous god, and his only answer was to make it rain... chocolate kisses. Maybe Konoka should calm down.

You a Chicken? Don't Be Scared

While Konoka didn't agree with calling these vampirized folk 'Chromsferatu', she wasn't going to waste time disagreeing with the term when she knew people needed her help! She was happy to help make and distribute the bat lollipops and the magnetized chains as needed. She was also pretty sure that her store sold things like this...

Alas, at some point the hunger got to her. Her stomach's emptiness seemed to tear at her at an inopportune time, when she had forgotten to make her lunch from frozen leftovers, and all the food shops were closed or very lacking in wares to sell. All it took was one bite of chocolate.

Konoka didn't have many obvious signs of being afflicted, outside of looking slightly pale. Surely, there was no need to be suspicious about her inviting you some place alone, right? This was Konoka, she was perfectly harmless!

Walking Through the Valley

...or so one thought, but apparently she showed her hand. Despite her best efforts, Konoka had become one of the dreaded Chromsferatu. However, she'd been busted. The Moon Knight escorting her talked calmly to the other person nearby, that being you. "Please look after her using those cuffs and that candy. She needs to be 'fed' every six hours. She's fortunately docile enough that we can leave her with you, but please be careful." And with that, the Moon Knight left, leaving just you and her.

Looking slightly bashful in the magnetic cuffs, she simply giggled it off. "Aww, this is just like wearing stuff at my store, it's not all bad!"

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[A] THE SECRET OF MY SUCK-CESS

[Hijikata is grateful that most Prismals don't overdo it with the spookiness of their costumes. The last thing he needs is a near-heart-attack courtesy of some bogus ghosts or ghouls! Once the decorative pumpkins everywhere start rotting he quickly has his hands full with the giant locusts, though. If it were only the pumpkins it wouldn't be so bad, but before long large amounts of crops are reported to have rotted or wilted, and when the panic-induced rush on the supermarkets sets in he gets swept up in it. He manages to buy several shopping carts' worth of mayonnaise, because for some reason the people don't seem to be going for it?! What gives!

Before long Lunatia has turned into a veritable food desert, and like almost everyone else Hijikata is suffering from an all the more ravenous hunger. One morning he wakes up to find that every single one of his bonsai trees has turned into licorice with jelly beans for leaves. He carries them outside, puts them on a bench in the courtyard and tapes a small "Free - Please Take One" sign down, bitching under his breath.]

What this hell?! This is bullshit! As if candy would fill anybody up!

[His stomach growls.]

▶ [B] HE'S A SWEET-TALKIN' SUGAR-COATED CANDY MAN

[Before long it becomes clear that the sudden candy manifestations are another ploy by the Calamity Beasts, namely Ainfeil's revenge for the replacement of Geistnacht with Halloween. Great!! As a Moon Knight it's Hijikata's job to protect the already suffering population from those who have turned into 'Chromsferatus'. At first he takes "just" his trusty swords, his two new egg-sized drones courtesy of Dr. Robotnik, and some of the novel chroma-powered restraints with him, but soon his weapons arsenal grows by a half-dozen bat-shaped lollipops and an extremely dangerous-looking syringe gun. With all the stuff on his belt he almost looks like a professions Chromsferatu hunter now, and his grim expression shows that he won't be playing around (actually he's mostly just desperately hungry... really, he's been living on nothing but mayonnaise and cigarettes for days now (~~what do you mean, "just as usual then"?~~).

If he notices anything unusual in the mostly deserted, pandemonically candy-covered streets - someone keeling over from hunger, someone acting shady (like stalking for prey or dragging a victim into a dark alleyway), or someone being openly attacked by a Chromsferatu in broad daylight or under the cover of night - he'll move in and call out.]

Hey!! What's all this then?!

▶ [C] MUST BE THE SEASON OF THE WITCH

[Eventually enough Chromsferatus have been turned back to normal that Ainfeil as to admit defeat. Hijikata is extremely disgruntled that he has the good sense to flee unlike prideful Majestas, but hopefully he'll at least remain weakened and harmless for a good long time. More importantly relief is finally being provided for the starving population. What took the other cities so long?! Did they really need to wrap every food package as a beautiful gift basket?! Priorities, please!

But honestly, Hijikata is too exhausted to start an argument. He went home to change into his chromawear outfit from the costume contest earlier in the month and dreams up a sorcerer outfit when it's his turn to step up to the Lyestellians. He usually sees himself as more of a knight type, but he does manage to create a decent enough outfit consisting of a long black robe with green accents and a matching large black hat. Once handed the cup of wine he downs it in one go, then raises the empty cup for a declaration (never mind his dead-eyed expression; it's been a damn long week for him).]

Nothing could have revived me better than this excellent Dragonfang Wine! You, too, will feel rejuvenated, dear fellow Moonblessed and Moonheld.

[Can he go home now?]

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The Secret to my suck-cess

A: Closed to housemates and people who visit the house

[Asami had been hungry. Her new permanent fast metabolism didn't help with it. So when a chocolate rose appeared on her windowsill, it had been easy to make her eat it. Normally she would be more wary of what she eats, but one can hold back hunger only for so long.

She wakes up from her trance on the floor near where the window was. Somehow, she felt even hungrier than before. Once she's up from the floor she starts walking around the house, looking for people. Especially Korra, but any other moonblessed would do quite honestly. She had a hunger she needed to satisfy.

On the outside she appears perfectly normal. Her fangs are hidden from view. Mostly she seems to be in a mood she usually gets during Cordis, but it's not abnormal for her to feel seductive during other times too.]

B

[It doesn't take too much to keep Asami under control. Living with the Avatar makes it easier to keep her out of trouble. But she does eventually wander outside. She mostly "hunts" for her prey at Crystal Bay, rather close to home. Well, at least if she finds someone.

Once she does, her steps turn more calm and she smiles with a seductive smile on her face as she approaches anyone she sees.]

I hoped to meet someone... and I found quite a catch.

Must be the season of the witch

C

[Since Asami is a Cordis herself, she decided to put on a performance in an enchantress costume. Thankfully, she was able to get some sparklers she could light during the performance to make it look flashy like the foxes wanted it to look. She didn't have magic outside Cordis moon after all, so this would have to do.

She smiles with a charming smile as she dances, making sure to put on the best show she can using her charms. At least she won't be cold with the amount of dancing she was doing.]

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i. glamorous life

[ it's the costume contest!! titus is eager to participate, and he's not picky about partners; even if they don't know each other yet, this could easily be the first step to becoming great friends, right?

since changing costumes in this chromawear suit is as easy as concentrating on something new, he's open to all kinds of suggestions. but he also has a couple ideas of his own! ]

i-a
[ for one, there's his princess apricot look, which makes good use of his absurdly long golden hair. add on the poofy gown, tiara, evening gloves, etc., and he's the very image of the classic Lunatian video game heroine!

there are a couple of different things he might say when he runs up to a potential partner, skirts swishing: ]

"Happy Halloween"! Do you have a costume partner yet?? You would look amazing as...

i-a.1
...Giulio, the nobly heroic electrician!
i-a.2
...Princess Gerbera, the spirited racquetball enthusiast!
[ ...the suggestion he makes does not have any correlation to the gender presentation of the moonblessed he approaches. it's more to do with the look in their eyes!... probably. ]

i.b
[ this next look makes even better use of his absurdly long golden hair... since that's the entirety of the costume. after all, everyone knows that the legendary lunatian noblewoman lady ghirardelli wore absolutely nothing else on her famous ride!

of course, in this case, the nudity is a chromawear illusion... though since his hair is doing an extremely, conveniently (one might even say magically) good job of preserving his modesty at least as well as the standard type of skimpy bathing suit, that hardly even matters.

in this getup, he's more likely to approach moonblessed who look to be rather tall, strong, and/or broad-shouldered. but there are exceptions to every rule! ]

Happy Halloween!! If you are willing, please be my noble steed!

ii. suck-cess / candy man

[ titus's hunger has made him restless, and he's frequently seen gliding through the air while perched on his golden staff; in honor of the season and the cooling weather, he's taken to wearing a dark cloak and his old pointed magician's hat, so he cuts quite the witchy silhouette. of course, none of the moons are out, but he can still get a pretty good version of the full effect when he flies in front of the glowing orb atop caelus tower! ]

ii-a
[ in lyestellus, amegahara, and calanthe, he might be spotted buying food from restaurants, markets, or stalls and loading it into baskets to take back to lunatia. he travels via long-distance transfer magic: teleportation through a disc-shaped portal with the appearance of an eight-pointed star. but the magic takes a lot out of him at the best of times, and the drain of extreme hunger makes matters even worse.

whether one of his portals pops up startlingly close to a passerby or he simply happens to encounter them the old-fashioned way, his response is the same: ]

Ah, pardon me. ...Actually, could I trouble you for a bit of assistance?
ii-b
[ back in lunatia, he's set up someplace visible, sprawled on a bench with the food he got from the outlying cities spread out on a cloth in front of him and free for the taking. ]

Please, help yourself... I've already had my share.

[ ...not that it's stopping him from eyeing what's left with uncomfortably obvious hunger. or eyeing the nearby magically appearing candy in the same way. ]
ii-c
[ at last, titus has surrendered to the sweetness... but at first glance, not much has changed. he's still flying through the city with baskets full of snacks for sharing! now, though, the weary unsteadiness has completely vanished from his bearing. and the baskets are overflowing with nothing but more of ainfeil's treats...

perhaps he catches sight of someone from the air and drifts down to meet them; perhaps he appears out of thin air right behind some unsuspecting moonblessed, stepping out from one of his magic portals. or perhaps he's haunting the corners of whatever beachside patio cafe, seedy dive bar, or corner market that's still open in these uncertain times.

whatever the case, his eyelids are lowered and his gaze is intent (even a bit smoldering?). ]

Hey...Could we spend some time together?

iii. season of the witch

iii-a
[ well, the antidote might be ready, but good luck making him take it! flush with chroma and blood, hovering effortlessly on his staff, and surrounded by a rock-solid magical barrier, he's at the height of his powers as a magi—and his smugness. ]

You know, I am curious. Exactly how do you envision this going?

[ the barrier can be broken or pierced by a sufficiently powerful blow, and if it takes enough damage, eventually it'll shatter... his chroma supply can't last forever, after all. though once he runs low, he won't hesitate to grab a recharge however he can. of course, he'll have to get awfully close, so that might be an opportunity to surprise him?...or maybe there's no need for any of that flashy stuff, and someone can just get him to see reason! ]
iii-b (pole dance of the seven veils)
[ the threat has passed, ainfeil is gone, and titus is chromsferatu no more! he's not exactly well rested after the events of the past week, but nothing will stop him from putting his whole heart (and bod) into this performance, which he sees as an expression of both penitence and triumph.

the foxes require a revealing enchanter costume, and titus obliges, taking on the guise of a certain other magi of his indirect acquaintance—bare feet, bare belly, tons of jewelry, bold eye makeup,, and one enormous braid. his abs aren't nearly as impressive as judar's, but hopefully the much greater degree of translucence he's imbued each garment with is an acceptable tradeoff...

the dance itself makes extensive use of his magic staff and involves plenty of ostentatious defying of gravity. he's not much of an athlete, but his natural grace and mastery of levitation magic make up the difference; meanwhile, sparkling ice crystals lit up by tiny bolts of colorful, crackling lightning comprise the requisite spell-slinging portion of the performance.

for the grand finale, he tosses his silky shawl into the crowd and conjures up spears of ice that rain down on the entire audience! ...but before they can strike, he strikes the ground with his staff, and all the icy shards dissolve into a harmless puff of snow that barely dusts the ground before evaporating.

...then he goes looking for the person his shawl landed on! ]

Is that mine? Thank you!
iii-c
[ his fulfillment of the dragons' request is much more relaxing. naturally, the most regal sorceress he knows is lady scheherazade, the woman who created him as a clone of herself! the outfit he's chosen is the one she wore in her youth, more than two centuries before his own time.

as he reclines in a comfortable seat and drinks deeply from the goblet of wine, his staff glimmers with a purple light, and grapevines begin to sprout around him. they wreathe not just the staff itself but also the back and arms of the chair, and before long, they're festooned with several fully mature bunches of grapes. (in one sense, he's just showing off... but this is also doubling as part of his contribution to the replanting effort!) (he procured the seeds ahead of time.) ]

Come, try some!
iii-d
[ if he notices anyone who doesn't have a food box yet and looks a bit hesitant about the performance options, he'll sidle up furtively. ]

...Shall I do it for you?

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