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Second Sister ([personal profile] thingtwo) wrote in [community profile] capeandcowllogs2011-10-22 02:41 pm

Life's no fun without a good scare

WHO: The Twins Weasley and YOU
WHERE: Rented out building in the City
WHEN: Midnight Sunday 10/23-Friday 10/28 at 11:59pm
WARNINGS: Magical mayhem and mischief?
SUMMARY: The twins have a haunted house! Come one, come all…if you dare.
FORMAT: Para with ooc notes to start, then whatever. Feel free to add additional threads!

The building wasn’t much to look at from the outside, a simple store front rented out for the month which, save for the sign above it, could have passed for any other season Halloween costume store. This one, however, had WEASLEY WIZARD WHEEZES PROUDLY PRESENTS: A HAUNTED HALLOWEEN sparkling in bold font over the doorway.

The inside was another matter entirely. There was nothing like a little magic when it came to appearances, and the twins and friends had gone the extra mile to make it appear one had stepped into a traditional haunted Victorian mansion. At the entrance there are two arrows, one pointing down the hall labeled ‘GROWN UPS’ and one pointed up the stairs labeled ‘KIDS.’ Outside of that, there is zero effort being put into making sure kids go into the safe zone.

Down each hallway, upstairs or down, past the charmed ghosts, reaching hands, and all the other ‘got you’ scary moments of things jumping out of the walls, there are a series of doors one must choose to walk through, each with it’s own results. To exit the house again, at least one must be chosen. Happy Haunting.

OOC: Effects of the Doors
Treat doors lead to samples of either muggle, magical, or a mix of candy, served up in a little bowl with a nice hand written smiley face placed next to it. People are free to take as much candy as they like, but the bowl will sound like it’s clearing its throat at them and the exit won’t open if until at least one piece is taken.
The magical candies can be found here. Please note only the candies are available, there will be no extendable ears or darkness powered offered for consumption.

On the kids floor, all doors lead to either treats or cheesy ‘tricks’ that involve battery powered shaking skeletons and the like.

On the adults floor trick doors will lead to one of four things:

1) For the next 24 hours the subject believes they *are* whatever they are in costume as. People who are lame and just in their normal clothes will keep on thinking they’re themselves (alternatively, if that person has been going through a crisis of self they will be more...like themselves. Or more like the person they were when they first entered the city). People will not actually become their costume, they will just have the delusion of it.

2) Getting stuck in a certain room until a puzzle is answered. Any additional people who walk into that room will also be stuck, and people are not capable of leaving through the door even if it is opened without solving the puzzle. Or until the twins get bored and let them out. People with magic or teleporting abilities will be able to get out themselves, but it is frowned upon.

3) Halloween helpers. For the next 12 hours whoever is unlucky enough to enter this room will have small, singing gnomes following them around like horrible moons around a planet. These guys don’t do anything except dance around and sing terrible Halloween themed songs. It starts out as just two of them, but every time the person attempts to destroy or physically harm the gnomes, a single gnome will split into two new gnomes.

4) One room will have three potions that must be chosen from before the person can exit. One potion does nothing, while one is a dealing potion and the other an aging potion. This does not mentally change the person, but their physical appearance for the next few hours will either be that of someone much older or younger.

There is a random number generator here if you’d like to use it, or just pick a number and go with the effects. Please address all questions to this post!
wind_dancer: ([action] hands on hips)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-10-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Would sweeping them up into the air without touching them count as attacking? [Sofia muses staring down at the gnomes and generally avoiding them]
batbogeyed: (LookUp)

[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-10-25 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ginny considers it. ] Well, I suppose if it doesn't count as a hex...I don't know, can you do that?
wind_dancer: ([powers] to the side)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-10-29 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I can [Sofia stirs the wind up to lift the trouble makers off the ground and away from the girls]
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[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-10-29 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Ginny grins up at them, flailing helplessly in the wind. ]

That's brilliant! They'll not like that much, well done. I wouldn't mind a superpower like that.
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[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-10-29 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
What have you got as your power ?

[Sofia sets the them down far away, she's grinning] I love having wind control, being able to go flying myself is one of my favourite things.
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[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-10-31 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
I'm a witch. [ Ginny smiles. She's getting a bit better about telling people, and besides, it's not as if Fred and George are being quiet about it. ] This is my brothers' house, they're the ones enchanting everything.

I love flying too, though.
wind_dancer: ([action] smirk)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-11-01 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's at least as a good as a super power [smile]

What method do you use to fly?
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[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-11-03 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
I still don't really think of it as a superpower.

I use a broomstick. [ She smiles. ] Yes, really.
wind_dancer: ([close up]  general)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-11-03 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sofia looks skeptical for a moment since she has only ever heard of broomsticks flying in fairy tales. Her expression clears as she realises she has a chance to see part of a story come to life if it is true]

Do you have a broomstick here in the city?
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[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-11-03 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I do actually. Not all of us do, but I had mine with me when I was Ported. [ Ginny smiles. ] We should go flying together some time. As long as you promise not to do that to my broom. [ She points up at he gnomes. ]
wind_dancer: ([flying] up)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-11-06 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sofia laughs] I promise I won't it would be fun to have someone else besides Julian to go flying with.
batbogeyed: (SmileShy)

[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-11-06 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Does he do a windy thing too? [ Ginny is the best at understanding superpowers. ]
wind_dancer: ([powers] around body)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-11-06 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
He does it with a little more green.
wind_dancer: ([close up]  ^^)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-11-08 08:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sofia can't help laughing] I like that one, basically, he can move things with his mind, including himself.
batbogeyed: (Laughing)

[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-11-09 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. [ Ginny laughed too, and shrugged her shoulders. ] Well it makes more sense than green wind. I can't believe some of the powers people have here. A friend of mine does a thing with magnets, I don't even really understand it.
wind_dancer: ([close up] looks around curiously)

[personal profile] wind_dancer 2011-11-09 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I know someone who creates fireworks and that is probably not the oddest one I know. I went to school with a lot of people with powers.
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[personal profile] batbogeyed 2011-11-10 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Ginny smiles at that. ] My brothers create fireworks. Magical ones, though. I don't reckon that's what you mean.

Was it like the school that's here? I've heard people our age, with powers, can learn how to use them at that Institute.