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outsidetheparty ([personal profile] outsidetheparty) wrote2007-10-12 11:53 am

Halloween

Once again with the your-party-will-be-more-successful-if-you-remember-to-invite-people-to-it:

Halloween. I'm thinking the weekend after, both because of [personal profile] squirrelhaven's out-of-townness and because it maximizes the chance of our house not still having a big hole in it.

More formal invitations will be forthcoming; this is mostly an availability check:  are you all free on November three?   Or would november two be better for you?

(As for the event itself: we were batting around several ideas, and[info]sylvantechie made a suggestion which has been growing on me:  let's play Assumption.   Which if you don't know what that is, it's sort of like poker, but with creepy undertones.  It's also possible I'll build a labyrinth of some sort because I've been thinking that might be fun; if anyone's interested in helping with the design or the construction or both, let me know.)

[ETA:  if the idea of a card game fills you with meh, please don't let that dissuade you from coming; the intent is for it to be a thing that happens during the party, not the thing that is the party.]

[identity profile] outsidetheparty.livejournal.com 2007-10-17 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
As far as I can tell, tarot cards originated in Italy in the 1400s, playing cards in China in the 800s, the modern suits in France in the 1500s, though there were still decks with different suts (or five suits) for a while after that -- and nobody seems to agree on which details of each were inspired by the others.

Hooray for google and wikipedia, sources of so much information that you generally wind up knowing less than when you started.

Anyway, come to the party. :)