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[flameoroku]

[Roku had returned from the draft when the evacuation was called. As much as he wanted to help those who were left behind...he knew he wasn't physically or mentally able to do much else at this point. He would have just been a burden to the others. The decision still left a heavy feeling of guilt on him, like he was abandoning people. He was the Avatar, being unable to save others is sort of not an option.

He wasn't really paying attention to where he was actually going this entire time and somehow found himself...literally lost. Where did all this fog come from? He tries to retrace his steps, but all he kept seeing was trees. Well it's safe to assume he's in some part of the forest.

Wait, he's a firebender, he can just light his way through this forest. Right. Course when he gets a little bit of light around the area, he jumps at what the light revealed in the shadows. That...that really wasn't something he needed to be seeing after a draft. Was that thing laughing at him....? He shuffles around the forest for a bit, before pulling out his journal.]

[Voice]

Hey uh...quick question to anyone who knows this. When people...die here, they come back alive after a week right? And not as ghosts...right?

[all the while he asks about this, some of the ghosts decide it would be funny to throw things at him. Toilet paper, seriously? What is going on around here? At some point he's going to remember he had brought his glider and find his way back to the village and to House 56. He might look slightly mummified with all those toilet paper thrown at him.]

Comments

[markofthewise]

... right. Well, people don't come back here as ghosts.

[flameoroku]

Oh, ok then. What about these guys then? [He moves his journal so that the ghosts come into view for Sokka]

[markofthewise]

Those guys. [Sokka opens his mouth, squints, closes his mouth. Hm.] They're just... experiment things. That doesn't count.

[flameoroku]

An experiment...[with ghosts, right after a draft. This is really going to mess with his head even if both things may be un-related to each other.]

I take it something has been going on here while I was away?

[markofthewise]

Aaactually, no. But it's Halloween. That looks spooky. It's safe to assume the Malnosso are doing an experiment. At least the moon seems normal.

[flameoroku]

What's...Halloween? And what do you mean by the moon seems normal?

[markofthewise]

Oh, I guess no one filled you in. Okay, well on some worlds? They have this holiday. Essentially this holiday is one where people dress up in ridiculous costumes so they can go around to their friends and neighbors and threaten to pull rude pranks on them unless they oblige them with snacks. They wear the costumes so no one knows who they are. So it's essentially a day where burglary is condoned by the community at large. Apparently it's for the kids.

But of course, they do it at night and I guess that makes it spooky. The Malnosso really are big fans of it, so they like to find ways to make it as absolutely terrifying as they can for us each year. Last year they dropped the Moon on us. It was mean and very angry looking. It took forever to fall and the whole thing was pretty much terrifying.

[flameoroku]

[........]

The Malnosso dropped the Moon onto the village? [He heard the other stuff, but the MOON]

That's...I'm not even sure what to say to that. [He's eyeing the ghosts, although Sokka may not see that.] Spooky ghosts suddenly don't seem to so bad now at least.

[markofthewise]

Yeah. The Moon. The whole thing. We may have died? Probably not. It was really unclear.

[He's pretty sure he didn't die! No death penalties.]

[flameoroku]

...So how long is this Halloween holiday thing suppose to last?

[markofthewise]

A full week. Or maybe that's just how long the experiments last.