Halloween is fast approaching,  Do you as Slayers enjoy this holiday seeing as you are already in costume?  Or do you guys dress up?

Michael Myers
Smith’s Grove, Illinois

Halloween is a fabulous time for the Slayers. Not only do we get to walk the streets of Earth with impunity, but we usually get to pig out on candy when a raid goes down. Sometimes we will dress up.

Last Halloween, I lead a raid in Oklahoma and I dressed up as Master Chief, we are all big fans of Master Chief Theatre 3000. Getting back to the story, we decided to just knock in the door, it being Halloween, and waltz into the targets house when they answered. Jim was at full steam of course, and he was angry that I made him wear the clown costume. I had hoped it would calm him down. I was wrong.

• “This is bullsh*t. This is no costume, it’s an embarrassment. You’re making me pay for my exuberance.” - Jim on the dropship just before the raid.

So, I knock on the door, the target answers, and his mouth drops open at Master Chief, a pissed off clown, and ten Slayers on his porch. I say “Trick or Treat” enjoying the moment and Jim leaps forward and shouts “Trick Motherf***er!”. He then stomps the target into a bloody pulp with his clown shoes. We finished off the rest of the occupants, stole the candy bowls, and burnt the house down.

So, to answer your question, yes, we enjoy Halloween very much.

Hey Slayer!
 
Going by your posts, Jim seems pretty vicious. How do you keep him and the others in check and prevent mutinous uprisings? I have 3 boys and I’m a single mom. Sometimes I feel like they’ll be the death of me. I have no authority over them. They constantly argue with me over every little thing. What’s a girl to do???
 
Mavis,
 
Berlin, NJ

Keeping Jim and the other Slayers in-line is simple. If they go too far, they are buried alive. This is a practice frowned upon on Earth I realize, so maybe just whack their bottoms with a wooden spoon. If you don’t cook, buy a wooden paddle. They don’t bruise and are good for getting out stress.

I remember I had to move a group of orphaned boys once. We had just decimated their town and I was stuck with escorting thirty brats to the slave ship. They started acting up along they way, so I took the one who was acting up the most and quickly buried him alive in front of the other children. I uncovered him in about 30 seconds, but he got the point and I didn’t have anymore problems out of the children.