Contest 28: Halloween Costume Contest

[Ember]

Selenitas Halloween Costume Contest

Muahahahaha! Okay, now that we’ve gotten the obligatory evil laugh out of the way…on to the contest. Your mod team has a costume contest for you! Or rather, for your characters. Looks like even Selenitas has the Halloween spirit. Why do I have the feeling people would get more Tricks than Treats? Hmm…

We want to see (or read) your characters all dressed up! We want to know who has the best costume so we can lau- I mean reward them. Yeah. Right. We have two categories they may enter: Trick or Treat. Otherwise known as Awesome and Funny. You may enter each category with one character. That’s two characters max, people! Let’s see the best your characters have to offer!

Trick
Wow us with your amazing or spooky costumes! Let there be no laughs in this category (okay, maybe a couple giggles will be permitted). Maybe you’re the ruler of some far off land, or maybe you’re the Mad Hatter forever enjoying tea, or maybe you’re a vampire putting Twilight sissies to shame. Anything goes!

Treat
As great as some costumes are, there are also some that are just too funny for words. Your unreasonable mod team wants you to try anyways. We’re looking for things that’ll top the usual chicken and baby outfits! I wonder if Pern knows about Sponge Bob…?

Judging
This contest will run for two weeks, so you’ve got plenty of time to write and post your entries. November 13th is do-able, yes? Yes. At the end of this time the mod team will pick the winners and the prizes will be awarded.

Prizes
Oh right, prizes. We’re offering a rather unique prize this time around to the winners of each category. They get the chance to suggest and help plan a mini-plot! By mini-plot we mean any kind of group thread that would require a push to get it going. For example, the human auction. While we don’t want the same thing, that is an example of something that was suggested by users and picked up by the mod team to get it going. Maybe you want weyr-wide capture the flag (Maybe the flag could be a candidate! How amusing would that be?) or another party of some kind. Win and let us know! We also haven’t forgotten our runner-ups for each category. The runner-up for each category will get a pick between avian, canine, feline, or runner pet. Who gets first pick will be randomized but once they pick that option isn’t available to the other runner-up.

Form
Character:
Category:
Costume description:

[Ruby]

Character: M'kai

Category: Treat (Funny)

Costume description: There is a very disgruntled Bluerider sitting before you. M'kai's hair has been brushed out and mysteriously volumized, leaving it shiny and silky-smooth. A chunk has been pulled forward over each shoulder, but the rest of his surprisingly long, red hair cascades down his back in luxurious waves. For the rider, whose hair is normally pulled back in a runner tail, this in not only surprising but distinctly annoying, and he keeps fiddling with the tips of the hair, which ends just past his pectoral muscles.

He appears shirtless, although that is really an illusion created by his hair. Two small cockle shells have been strung together with twine to form a miniature bikini with the shells for cups, each one resting over a nipple, although they are mostly obscured by hair. Strings of seaweed have also been draped diagonally across his chest, glistening in the sunlight.

Really, though, it's what's on the bottom half of him that makes the costume. A glittering, sequined, blue-green tail sheathes his legs together, making it nearly impossible for him to walk. The tail's fins are made of netting and crinkled silk, fanning out across his feet and seeming to twitch every time he moves. Tiny mirrors embedded in the fabric give the illusion of flashing scales, and also causes him to chime slightly if he shifts too much.

Very disgruntled Bluerider, indeed. Someone has dressed M'kai as The Little Mermaid.

[Rowana]

Character: Merridan

Category: Trick

Costume Description: This normally tomboy girl has been transformed to be almost unrecognizable. Her hair has been neatly combed and set with a small golden tiara ringed with red, orange, and yellow flowers. Gold drops hang from each ear and twinkle with tiny garnets. Around her neck is a gold chain with leaf charms and a large, blood red flower pendant. Though she wears little make up, she has just enough blush and lipstick to bring out more color.

Her dress is low, straight cut and sleeveless. It seems to be made of a mixture of silks and chiffons designed to look like flower petals. Pleats of dark reds, golden yellows, olive greens, and russet oranges blend together in a rainbow of fall colors. The upper part of the dress fits tightly, but the skirt flares out in several layers of fabric, hanging just below her knees.

Her legs are bare, but for a woven flower anklet on her left foot, and simple brown strap sandals. She wears similar flower bracelets on her right upper arm and both wrists. In her hand she carries a long, thing branch, also decorated with flowers and and fall leaves and topped with a large red rose. To finish the picture, thin chiffon butterfly wings in light gold can be seen attached to her back. All together, she is a beautiful picture of an autumn fairy.

Character: T'ke

Category: Treat

Costume Description: The infirmary staff have clearly had their way with this poor, confused young man. T'ke's normally messy hair has been combed and oiled to stay flat and is pulled back at his ears with two, pearl pins. On his head is a round pale, pink cap with a large red cross in the middle.

His dress, yes dress, is a matching pink with a high collar and buttons down one side. It fits fairly tightly and goes down in a pencil shirt to his knees. The sleeves are short, leaving room for a pearl bracelet around his right wrist. His legs have been shaved and covered with bright white socks and finished with a pair of dark pink shoes with pearl clasps.

All and all, for a nurse, the scowling T'ke needs to work on his bedside manner.

[archenstone]

Character:V'rael
Category: trick
Costume description: V'rael's stern demeanor has been nullified by womanly wiles. The right half of his face looks like him everyday. Goatee...neck length hair broad eyebrow etc etc, The left side of his face is definitely not normal though. His eyebrow has been slimmed to a more feminine line. Plum and pink eyeshadow blend together for a dark look. The left half of his lips have a red dye applied to them. Where his goatee should be....there is nothing. Shaved clean as a baby's bottom.

The duality continued down. He wears a specially made outfit. He wears the top half of a sleeveless tight fitted dress. Its dark purple color broken only by a pink flower dyed into the fabric. Over the right side half of a long sleeved, plain white dress shirt has been sewn so that the left and right side are clearly male/female dress attire.

He's wearing a pair of black dress pants and to continue with the theme a dark purple fabric has been sewn over the left side of the pants to give the illusion of a long skirt. He wears a pair of nice boots that could go either way. To complete the look he wears a bracelet on his left wrist and a dangle earring. V'rael is His and Hers. V'rael learned to never loose a bet with a guy that crushes on you.

[dragon]

Character: Orena
Category: Trick

Costume description: Orena may or may not have had help with this, but she's clearly having fun with the whole thing. Her chocolate curls are all done up on her head with narry a curl falling free from the mess of loops and whirly gigs that are fastened to her head in a fairy good approximation of a lion's mane. Over her ears the nearly invisible pins used to sculpt her hair go into overdrive, taking her locks and shaping them into what could really possibly be called cat's ears, pointed on the top and everything. Over her face she wears a leather mask that is just as black as her outfit, the dark material covering just her cheekbones and brows, coming to pointed tips to either side.

She is completely clad in a tight, black, thin leather outfit that seems to have been grown on her. For there's no visible fastenings on it anywhere, and it leaves nothing to the imagination in following every curve she possesses. How she got into the thing is anyone's guess. Even her hands are covered with black gloves, the tips of each finger graced with a tiny, but no less sharp, shiny metal claw. Her feet are sheathed similarly in flat soled black boots that have metal tick marks across the toes as if to mimic claws as well, though they are not in the least in any way pointed to actually stick off of the toe of the boots. They're just tick marks.

To finish off the costume, she's got a long black whip in her hand. It is undecided whether or not it's more scary that she takes great pleasure in cracking it, or that she actually knows how to use the thing. Add on top of that a few sultry poses, and Orena seems prepared to take the Weyr by storm.

Rawr.

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Character: L'nu
Category: Treat

Costume description: He was sitting still too long, he's convinced. Really, he'd only been napping. But despite the conditions to which he is not attired, L'nu doesn't seem terribly bothered. Parked in the middle of a table (he assumes it's the main hall?), he's completely surrounded by ... well ... he's not sure if it's cake or what. But he is 'dressed' in it to look like a massive cupcake. Only his head is visible, poking out of the top of the thing. A silk red hat has been wrapped onto his head, completely concealing and smashing all of his sandy mop of hair. Except for his face, his head looks like a cherry. A gargantuan cherry.

It is not quite sure if the various array of spoons sticking out of the icing on the cupcake were intended to be there or if L'nu simply had them in his pockets and added them to the shebang. Because there's a hole in one side of the cake, and near where his face is too. Anyone watching closely can see that he's slowly, secretively, eating the cake. One spoonful at a time. Starting with the icing. Of course.

Who wouldn't start with the icing?

[Ember]

This is now closed. We'll now go about judging these entries. <3

[Ember]

Results are in!

Trick Category
Winner: Merridan
Runner up: Orena

Treat Category
Winner: M'kai
Runner up: L'nu

Row and Ruby: If you could pm me with your idea(s) for a mini-plot I'd be happy to work with you and the other modteam folks to work it out. ^^ If you want to discuss it over msn that can work too, just ask for my msn.

Teddy: Haha somehow you managed to get both pet prizes. Let me know which two types of pets you want and who gets them by pm as well.