Witches Reign

[Despite everything that's been going on, Luna has been doing her best to try and keep things as calm as possible and find a way to get everyone to relax. Sure, she'd been speaking about this earlier, but she hadn't the chance to fully make sure everything had been in order. Somehow between reconstruction and classes she's put things up around the school, little things here and there to make the Garden more... festive.

Things like cobwebs, spiders, pumpkins, the typical Halloween fare one would see around this time. Luna, on the other hand, is taking this time to find the highest perch she can. Those familiar with the last time she did this might get a sense of deja vu, particularly since she's using her Nightmare Moon form with the lovely fake fangs she's fond of.

Having adjusted herself she messes with the camera to make sure that it gets this shot in case people don't see her from where she is.

Large wings spread out behind her, pushing her into a lovely rearing position. Don't ask how she's keeping her balance, it takes a lot of luck and skill. Be prepared for the return of the Royal Canterlot Voice.]

Our dear subjects! We know that things have been tough upon us all, but one must not always be work and no play, it is not good for the mind nor the body. Thus, on this day, We declare that a break is to be had in order to enjoy and take part in the festivities befitting your Halloween, alternatively, We are accustomed to Nightmare Night of which has about the same meaning.

[She pauses for a moment, letting herself fall heavily back to her perch, head sweeping back to move her mane from her face.]

A night of enjoyment, of costumes, of treats, of tricks, of celebrating the night as it should be. But, our dear subjects, there is more to it than you may think. We are not particularly proud of the history behind Nightmare Night, but We feel it is something to be shared and to be learned from.

You see We are from an interesting place, a place ruled by ourselves and our elder sister who controls the Sun while We control the Moon. Day and Night. Celestia and ourselves were in this position to keep balance, however being as young as We are, We steadily had become jealous towards our sister for the ponies enjoying the day but sleeping during the night. Thus our jealousy had turned into hate and anger, changing and twisting our form into this one you see now. No longer going by Luna but by Nightmare Moon, an enemy towards Celestia, trying to be rid of the sun forever and leave nothing but night.

Safe to say that We had failed in that attempt to take over, thwarted by what was called the Elements of Harmony, imprisoned in the moon for a thousand years. In that time frame Nightmare Night was formed, initially used to scare foals by saying that We would come and eat them if they did not give us an offering of candy.

A thousand years came and went, being freed but still bitter We had tried again to take over. We had managed to be rid of Celestia for a brief time as she no longer had a connection to the Elements, though We were eventually stopped once more by the Elements when they were brought together once more by a group of ponies. Luckily this brought us back to our senses, back to what you are accustomed to seeing and back to being the keeper of the night and moon as well as co-ruler to Celestia.

Thus Nightmare Night has recently become a celebration the likes of the Sun Celebration, one that We hope will continue to flourish and be a fun time with spooks and tricks just as much as it is treats and fun.

[After that whole speech she can't help a light laugh.]

And do not worry, this form is taken by will and is nothing more than an appearance change, We are still Luna.

((OOC: So, yes. Nightmare Night/Halloween. Luna's gone out of her way to decorate Garden and possibly set up a few little traps and tricks of her own. Feel free to have your character set up something or be in costume or what have you. She'll clean up the day after the night, no worries. Thought this would be a nice little thing to come off hiatus for and to get Luna to explain herself and her world a bit more.

If you have any questions/comments feel free to ask me~))

[Taking advantage of the fact they were on break and the fact that they were in an open space, Luna had decided that it was time to see just what she could do. Important things were coming up, at least in her opinion, and she certainly had to get ready.

But she couldn't do it alone.]

Dear friends, We have a favor to ask of you. If you have the time and would care to help us out with a little experiment, then please do meet us down by the lake in about an hour. We appreciate any and all help, nothing special is required other than for you to be honest.

[She doesn't sign it this time, but by the speech pattern it should be fairly obvious who it is.]

[About an hour later Luna is outside where she said she would be, pacing back and forth for the time being. She's done this sort of thing before, the transformation, but with this being a special holiday she needed to make sure that everything was properly set up. Thus her planning this far in advance, to make her transformation more seamless and believable, to make sure that she could go through with her ideas. Nightmare Night, or Halloween as they called it here, had become a close holiday to her once she had figured out that people had wanted to be scared by her. They didn't hate her, certainly not, but that fear was for that singular night only.

Even in this new setting she still believed it was her duty to be involved with all of it, as well as bringing in that touch of Equestrian tradition to show the differences and similarities between her world and this one.

The first order of business was the actual transformation, not something that was difficult for her. Not at all. Though she knew those that had been around a few months back would probably still remember the little incident of her locking people in Garden, not... exactly the best situation to put herself into. Though with some warning she hoped they would understand her intentions this time, intentions that weren't to cause harm or become evil in any sense of the word.

A small smirk came to her face as she abruptly stopped her pacing, taking a calming breath before allowing her magic to transform her into her bit of an alter ego as it were. The main differences being her gaining a few inches or so in height, adding armor onto her form, and losing the tiara that she always seemed to have on her.

Once that was done she took to stretching her wings, her wingspan quite a bit longer than in her true form, thus making them a bit more awkward to control. But nothing she couldn't handle. Looking around she dug through the bag she brought with her, fishing out the fake fangs to situate into her mouth. There. It was perfect. Now to wait.]

[As is usual with Luna and this technology, she's opting for video feed. This time she's parked herself on the top of her chair, one wing outstretched and preening it. Though she pauses, one of the feathers in her mouth, oops.]

Aaah. [Which she promptly spits out.]

We were wondering if any of the students who have yet to take our classes would be interested in learning anything in particular. Do remember that We teach one of the drama courses along with speech and etiquette. For drama We are taking suggestions as to what those of you not even in the class would be interested in participating in, since one cannot have a cast with just current students.

As for etiquette... We figure that after the ball that some more knowledge in courtly manners may be necessary for all students. Honestly, it is rather ridiculous how uncouth some of you have become.