when your thoughts turn sour make them sweet instead

[sentree]

[ That was...positively horrible? Ugh. After a few hours, notes are slipped under each person's door. They read, in a neat handwriting: ]

Banquet in Vanellope's honor in the dining room.

- Reyna, Sally and Thalia

[ You may not know what to expect when they say banquet, but it...really is one, isn't it? Thalia's main dish is cheeseburgers, so there are so many of those, but the table's positively covered in an arrangement of fruit and vegetables and all kinds of bread. Looks like they've gone all out.

What's really the cream of it all, though, are the desserts. Not a lot that's special, but there's a wide collection of cookies and cupcakes, and enough hot chocolate to feed an army. Maybe literally. There is a section that's particularly fancy, and that's the many candy apples, definitely courtesy of Sally. Along with a cute amount of peppermint bark. It seems like the food is unending, too, since there's the delicatible smell of baking cookies and simmering candy from the kitchen. Thalia and Sally are keeping you stocked, don't worry. ]

Comments

[coulombslaw]

[Something about that ticks him off]

We all have to go home! Look, nobody is here because we want to! Did you never think it was weird you didn't get an invitation or something?

[darnsitall]

Of course it's weird! Everything about this is weird! That's what made it fun!

[At least it was fun when she thought it was going to be over tonight.]

...But I really can't stay here. Halloween is coming up!

[coulombslaw]

Then go ahead, ask the Narrator and see if he lets you go! Sally, this isn't fun and games, this is serious!

[darnsitall]

No, no, you don't understand! I really can't miss Halloween! It's the single most important day in all of Halloween Town!

[She's actually starting to sound kind of distraught.]

If... if I'm still here by then, I don't know what I'll do!

[coulombslaw]

[She sounding distraught makes Virgil feel bad. Augh...]

Okay, Sally...everything's going to be okay. Maybe I'm wrong and we'll be out before Halloween.

[darnsitall]

We don't have much time! There's only 17 days left. And there's... how many of us are still here? Twenty... twenty-two? Maybe if we got started on another mystery right away-

[SALLY NO]

[coulombslaw]

No!

[Oh my god, this is going badly]

Don't do a mystery, just don't. You know what? Keep looking for a way out. Bail out of this mystery party.

[darnsitall]

Oh dear. I'd hate to ruin all of Mr. Narrator's hard work, but...

[Getting home in time for The Big Day is more important than anything right now.]

Do you really think there might be a way to escape?

[coulombslaw]

You're different from the rest of us, maybe you'll find some way to get out of here.

[Maybe being a ragdoll can help you escape somehow, who knows]

[darnsitall]

Well, we're all different. And I don't have any of those 'powers' you all were talking about during the trial.

[coulombslaw]

No, but you're not a human nor an animal. That host guy may not have prepared this place to stop you as well as he did with the rest of us.