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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RangerWickett" data-source="post: 2688427" data-attributes="member: 63">What kind of Halloween parties are folks having or have you already had? What were your costumes? I was inspired to start this thread because I caught on fire last night, and I thought, y'know, that's something of a unique party moment. There's more information in <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=2688414#post2688414" target="_blank">this post</a> of my storyhour thread, but the short of it is that I'm going to be on the look-out against voodoo practitioners in my peer group. *grin*Also, Friday night, my friend Trae ran a Halloween horror game. It's a tradition four years in the running that we have a 12 hour session of horror the weekend around Halloween.  Well, . . . the game ended poorly, since we all died to the teeth of man-beasts in rural Georgia, but it was still the scariest horror game ever. Not for any game reason, though. Nope.What was scary as hell was that, at 3 in the morning, one of the players who had fallen asleep with a blanket over her head, sits bolt upright and lets loose a scream that . . . y'know how people use the term 'blood-curdling'? It's kind of trite. This scream was sincerely blood-freezing. She was spasming, her arms clenched to her chest, her shriek of agonized terror piercing all of us and freezing us in place from shock, and it took most of us nearly half a minute to react.We turned on the lights (since before there was only candle light), and we pulled the blanket off her to reveal that she was turning blue, choking on her own tongue. She was epileptic, I had known, but I had never seen a seizure, and if I'd been the only person there she probably would have died. Thankfully others responded more quickly, turning her on her side and forcing her to breathe.And then we waited, for five minutes, for the spasm to end.My friend, of course, was fine. The paramedics arrived to take her to the hospital and make sure her seizure hadn't been triggered by a bad drug interaction, since she had been taking some pills for nausea, and her roommate went with her. So that left the rest of us, not quite in the mood to game. Within 10 minutes two of the players had broken down into crying from the shock, and nearly all the guys there had to leave because we were too uncomfortable with not being able to do anything to help.So we went outside, standing barefoot in the cold, too stubborn to go inside and see our friends crying. One of our friends, an astronomer, gave us a lesson on late fall constellations, and slowly, seeing the night sky, things got better. So yeah. What kind of fun stuff have you done at Halloween parties?</blockquote>

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