HALLOWEEN GROUP THREAD! Who: EVERYONE! What: The (1st Annual?) Trickster's Halloween Party! Where: Hogwarts Castle. When: Monday starting at 8pm. Warnings: If it gets to NC17, start your own thread please and thanks! Status: OPEN and IN PROGRESS.
The entire inside of the castle seems chillier than normal and sounds seem to echo more. The walls are covered in cobwebs which also drape in the corners of doorways and arches. In the great hall, the tables have been moved to the sides, leaving room in the center for dancing. 'Live' bats fly around the ceiling and enchanted jack o' lanterns hang, lit up, in the air at varying heights above them all, swaying slightly up and down. Music plays for people to dance to; there's a lot of Weird Sisters (because hello, Tonks) but also some Muggle music and Wizarding music from varying years mixed in. Occasionally there are 'creepy' sounds that filter through the music, like cackles and ghost noises and creaking doors, etc. Some of the halls are rigged with scary surprises, things that jump out at you, dark spots, creepy noises, etc. If your characters venture out of the Great Hall, they'll find this. They can also get into any room in the castle, obviously. (Except the RoR, since the Potters live there.)
Against one wall of the Great Hall is a long table filled with food, a lot of it junk food and candy. There are candy eye balls and gummy worms, 'blood' lollipops (cherry flavored), as well as an assortment of just orange and black candy. There's also apple cider, candy apples, pumpkin pie, etc. Of course there's alcohol as well, firewhiskey, ale, vodka, you name it, it's there. Including pumpkin juice and butterbeer for anyone who doesn't want to drink.
Hestia is greeting people at the door as they come in, and Tonks is inside, moving around and making sure everyone is having a good time. It'll be all food and drinks and tricks and dancing, until nine o'clock, when the spell takes hold. Once that happens, everyone will turn into their costumes, and the effects will last until sunrise. What happens to your characters, is up to you...
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