Isteri accepts... and after a moment thinking. She draws nine without looking then she scrambles those around and lines them up again.

Endurance, Endurance, Endurance, Flexibility... "This is ridiculous." She says, but she is smiling.

The other three are all pretty amused by this, too. "It is," Lia agrees, laughing a little. "Try drawing for me instead?" She suggests. 

Isteri gives an uncharacteristic giggle and takes all the blessings back into the bowl, shakes it and...

"Surprise, Endurance and Courage?"

"...Well that could be read as ominous," Brandon comments. "Try drawing for yourself," he suggests, "-or does Lia have to do it, either way, let's see if they match." 

"I am not sure it makes that much of a difference." She does try to draw for herself. Endurance, Surprise and Change. "Huh, maybe we should ask Farienne what she thinks about it?"

"That's probably a good idea," Lia agrees with a  concerned frown. "You two can get blessings drawn, as well," she adds to Lyra and Brandon. 

"Oh, that should be interesting! I wonder if we have the same ones." 

Back downstairs they all go. 

Downstairs they go. The light is dimmer. The decor has changed to black and purple with various plastic decorations of things like spiders and glow in the dark skeletons.

Farienne excitedly waves at them. "Hey, we went outside for a moment and this happened!"

"Looks like Halloween," Lyra comments, going over to poke at one of the spiders. 

"A holiday in our world," Brandon explains, "Spiders and skeletons are part of the aesthetic. Kids dress up in costumes and go door-to-door asking for candy. We're a bit too old to get away with it," he says with a dramatically wistful sigh. 

Huh. "It's a little creepy," is Lia's comment on the matter. "These are my alt, Lyra, and her brother Brandon," she tells Farienne, coming closer to the table. "We were wondering if alts get the same blessings - though, first, we wanted to ask you what you think of the set of blessings Isteri drew for us." 

Farienne ponders over the blessings. "Huh... Endurance is... rarely good, and combining it with Surprise makes it more so. Let me draw Lira and Brandon's blessings, and then we can get a clearer picture. Alts don't always have the same blessings..."

Love, Loyalty, Charm.

"Well, I'm not surprised," Brandon says.

And Lyra gets the same thing as Lia - Resolve, Honour, Love. 

"I guess I have something to look forward to," she muses.

Lia hopes that works out better for Lyra than it did for her. 

While that happens Istevi shows up. And also other patrons in Halloween costumes show up.

Surprise and double Endurance. Brandon gets Surprise, courage and contentment in different orders.

"What does this means?"

"I don't know," she drew to herself surprise, kindness and serenity, "it's not good, something that affects Amentans in particular."

Either an actual werewolf just walked through the door or that's a really good costume. The werewolf is somewhat alarm-looking but is not attacking anyone.

In retrospect some of the other patrons have very good custome as well.

"-Is that an actual vampire?" Lyra asks Brandon, motioning to a particularly pale person across the room. 

He squints at them, "I have no idea. It could just be really good fake blood?" 

Gaemir had mentioned vampires. Lia shuffles further away from the suspected vampire, giving them a wide-eyed look.

"...What other kinds of things are associated with 'Halloween'?" She asks the twins. 

"Oh, witches, black cats, monsters, skimpy costumes, zombies," He hums, "It's the night of magic and mystery and monsters," he adds with a shrug.

Isteri is just looking around terrible alarmed. She holds her belly like she is expecting to be stabbed there. "Is... what-"

Whatever she was going to say it's interrupted by the sudden loud music.

The twins recognize the 1982 classic starting chords of Thriller.

And a few seconds later, zombies, including one dressed exactly like Michael Jackson start showing up.

"That... that looks like a rotting corpse." Istevi isn't sure how many people know this, he knows mostly because he had an uncle that liked to test if people had the stomach to be police detectives. "A dancing moving corpse."

"They look like something out of a music video back home," Brandon says, a bit tense. On the one hand, Thriller, on the other hand, the Amentans sure do look very alarmed. On yet a third hand, he's not sure if the zombies are sentient enough to follow the non-violence rules of Milliways.