November First: Masque

๐ŸŽญ November First: The Masque Halloween ended at dawn. ๐ŸŽƒ The costumes didnโ€™t. โœจ At Westbridge University in Los Angeles ๐ŸŒด, October 31 began as parties, cosplay, bad decisions, and one very normal Halloween. By midnight, reality had rewritten itself. Costumes became bodies. Props became weapons. Fictional powers worked. Gods, vampires, superheroes, demons, witches, monsters, aliens, magical girls, androids, and stranger things walked the streets. ๐Ÿ‘ฟ๐Ÿง›โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿฆธโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿง™โ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿค– Most people changed back by morning. You didnโ€™t have to. ๐ŸŒ… November First: The Masque begins in the aftermath, when the real challenge is not surviving Halloween โ€” it is living with what came after. Maybe your body changed forever. Maybe only your powers remained. Maybe you woke up human with impossible magic, a tail you cannot hide, a vampireโ€™s hunger, futuristic technology, or the strength to punch through concrete. โšก๐Ÿชฝ๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿ”ฎ And Monday classes still start. ๐Ÿ“šโ˜• Go to lectures. Call your parents. Find clothes that fit your new body. Work a shift. Date someone. Hide from cameras. Join a survivor meetup. Test your powers on the Pacific cliffs. Visit hospitals that quietly treat the impossible. ๐ŸŒŠ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ“ฑโค๏ธ Beneath ordinary LA lies an older hidden world of witches, hunters, demons, secret markets, and infernal houses. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ They are horrified by what Halloween proved: human imagination can create new supernatural beings. Some people want a cure. ๐Ÿ’‰ Some want to stay changed forever. โœจ Some want to recreate the miracle. ๐Ÿœ Someone caused the Masque. Other people want the method. ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ Build a life, uncover the truth, choose what you become โ€” or ignore the conspiracy and just try to pass your midterms. ๐ŸŽ“ Your story can be intimate, heroic, romantic, terrifying, ridiculous, or cosmic. ๐Ÿ’–๐ŸŒŒ Los Angeles is still here. It just has more monsters now. ๐Ÿ˜ˆ

Cover art for November First: Masque, a transformation world on Voyage