Vampire Halloween

Last night we went to a Halloween party hosted by some of our gamer friends. They did a great job organizing a fun game event. The theme was gothic, which is why we are all dressed so scary! And yes, Jon does have a safety pin in his ear, but he had a hole already, so it's not really that gross. Really! We took a trip to the thrift store a few weeks ago to pick up some of the pieces, but Jon's goth punk pants and the distressed wound shirt I got from the Goodman costume sale. Actually, I did the distressing on the shirt Jon's wearing for a show a few seasons ago. I reused a feather collar I wore to a Halloween party in college, and just restructured it a little.

The party was a mafia-type event, but we played a long game in which each day was a 30-minute interval, and there were several vampires who had to communicate who they were going to bite, and then a silent night voting ceremony where a townsperson (hopefully - but then again, I was one of the vampires!) was bitten. In the manner of mafia, there was also a town meeting where each person argued for who they thought the vampires were, and then someone had a cross put on their neck that meant they were a suspected vampire and could no longer vote. It was well-structured, although we all had ideas to change it later, and there were other games to play where you could observe everyone's interactions, act paranoid, and compete for holy water and garlic. It was very enjoyable, and the vampires won. I was a vampire to begin with, along with 2 others, and part way through we "embraced" Jon, which means he ended on the winning side as well.

It was a very compelling evening, and we had fun dressing up all scary!

Happy Halloweeeeen!