A Very Supernatural Halloween...

[fajrdrako]

This evening I had a Supernatural Halloween party. Donna had never seen the show before, and we managed to watch and episode that lunacy_gal hadn't seen before. lunacy_gal was the Woman in White; maaseru was delightful as the Tooth Fairy's Fairy Godmother (did I get that right?), and Donna came as (I loved this) Gwen Cooper from Torchwood.

We watched:

1. The Pilot
2. A Very Supernatural Christmas
3. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
4. Tall Tales
5. Lazarus Rising
6. I Believe the Children Are Our Future

Donna, as I had hoped, took to the show and understood its style and nuances perfectly. She even won my variation of the Supernatural Drinking Game, called Supernatural Yahtzee

Supernatural Yahtzee

When you see one of these actions on the screen, shout “Yahtzee”. Then take a chocolate pumpkin and put it in your bowl.. Note: some actions allow bonus chocolates. Only one person can take chocolates per action, so the trick is to spot it and shout it first. Simultaneous shouts are disqualified. Disputes settled by consensus vote. Shouting “Yahtzee” when it isn't warranted results in a penalty loss of 2 pennies.

When this action occurs...	Do this...
Dean calls Sam "Sammy"...	Take 1 chocolate
Castiel mentions God...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam gulps...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean or Sam takes off his shirt...	Take 1 chocolate and enjoy
Dean in bondage...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam laughs at one of Dean's jokes...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam and/or Dean wears a suit..	Take 1 chocolate
Sean sets fire to something...	Take 1 chocolate
Same sets fire to something...	Take 2 chocolates
There's a reference to X-Files...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam or Dean identify themselves as FBI...	Take 1 chocolate
John speaks...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam or Dean's eyes turn black...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean says "Yahtzee"...	Take 3 chocolates
Someone mentions the Yellow-Eyed Demon...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean or Sam has a sex scene...	Take 3 chocolates just for the heck of it
There's a reference to slashfic...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean gets drunk...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam gets drunk...	Take 2 chocolates
Sam calls Dean's name...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam in bondange...	Take 1 chocolate
John argues with Sam...	Take 1 chocolate
Someone mentions Destiny...	Take 1 chocolate
There's a reference to Looney Tunes...	Take 1 chocolate
There's a woman in a nightgown...	Take 1 chocolate
We see an angel's wings...	Take 2 chocolates
Sam talks about Jessica...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean talks about porn...	Take 1 chocolate
Mary appears...	Take 1 chocolate
Sam, Dean, John, Castiel or Bobby cries...	Take 1 chocolate and a handkerchief
Dean calls the Impala his Baby...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean or Sam picks a lock...	Take 1 chocolate
Dean or Sam gets arrested...	Take 1 chocolate
Bobby calls someone an idiot...	Take 1 chocolate

I've changed a few of these from the game we actually played, but not much. My prize for Donna was a copy of John Winchester's Journal.

I also decorated brown paper bags with Supernatural pictures and filled them with treats and toys. And I decorated my apartment with tombstones, posters of Sam and Dean, orange streamers, balloons, and candles. Many of them were battery-operated candles which maaseru bought at Costco, and they looked wonderful. They have the advantage that you can use them in places where a real candle would set fire to something. I put one of these flameless candles in place of my dragon's crystal ball on top of the harp; one with the figure of the Templar knight on my DVD shelf; one in my Ikea lantern; they were great. They look particularly good in cut or coloured glass candle holders.

And my new television? Gorgeous.