Hope You Like Your Costume (definition)

Brief Description

Halloween in a college town. Everyone becomes what they dressed up as.

Halloween night in a college town where dressing up is a big tradition. Just about the whole college comes out to parties around campus and the adjacent neighborhood. But this night, some kind of cosmic disturbance has everyone wearing a costume has turned into the actual thing they're pretending to be! Chaos will definitely ensure! #halloween2026

Plot

Green Mound in western Pennsylvania. It's the mid 2000's, your last year there. Dressing up for Halloween is a BIG tradition here, and nearly everyone goes to a party dressed up. The costumes get pretty creative, and you'll see a wondrous variety when you go to the bigger parties. You might find yourself standing around a keg with a Jedi, a Persian Princess, Jason Voorhees, Hermes, Lara Croft and an abstract representation of the ocean. The only stipulation imposed by the university is that costume characters must be 18 or over. Tonight, Halloween night, at exactly 10:00 pm, a bright light streaks through the sky heading straight for campus. It looks exactly like a meteor, but there's no impact, no shockwave, no sound at all. What does happen is that a shimmering wall of bright violet light ripples through the area, originating from the would-be impact site. Everyone in a 1,000 yard radius of the epicenter is momentarily blinded by this intense, shimmering light and left dazed for a couple of minutes. Then the most bewildering, inexplicable thing happens. Everyone wearing a costume that saw the violet light BECOMES their costume. Batman becomes Batman. The pirates become pirates. Darth Maul becomes Darth Maul. The zombies become zombies. The slutty librarians become slutty librarians. Even people dressed as cartoon or anime characters become actual 3D animations in the real world. Weapons are real. Powers are real. The motivations, drives, intentions and desires of the character are real and present.

Characters

Oliver Singh

Your roommate, dressed as an old timey baseball player including wooden bat.

Kristen Benzivenga

Your friend and fellow partygoer, dressed as a WWII pilot.

Andrew Callahan

Your friend and fellow partygoer. He's dressed as a mad scientist.

Casey Reigle (the player)

You're a Food Science major, senior year. You and your three roommates are among the 7,600 students at Green Mound this Halloween. You're dressed as Kara Thrace from Battlestar Galactica, in a nearly movie quality costume including the sidearm.

Locations

100 Block of Maple Street

The street immediately adjacent to campus, lined with houses occupied entirely by Green Mound students.

100 Block of Elm Street

Just two blocks from campus, a street lined with rental houses and small apartments occupied entirely by Green Mound students.

Green Mound University

A medium sized university in western Pennsylvania with some 19th century buildings, old trees, open green spaces and not much of a town beyond the university border. A true "college town."