It's that time of year again, ghouls and goblins, for your favorite institute to put on your favorite event - THE HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE! So come join us on October 31st for a night of food, fun, and mystery! (Everything below the cut is IC knowledge unless otherwise directed).
Attendance is mandatory for all students. Townspeople are optional.
All attendees must wear a costume complete with mask.
YOU CANNOT TELL ANYONE WHAT YOUR COSTUME IS.
Marks are on hold for the party, however, the headmaster and guards will be around so donât be ridiculous about it.
Escape Room - First floor classrooms (4 rooms designated for different themed escape rooms)
Snacks and Punch - Great Hall
Halloween themed Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (8-10am, 12-2pm, 5-7pm respectively) - Cafeteria
Movie Viewings - Auditorium (10am - Halloweentown 1pm - Haunted Mansion, 4pm - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, 7pm - Poltergeist, 10pm - Scream)
Pumpkin Carving, Pumpkin seed spitting, Pumpkin Painting, Halloween Crafts - Art Room
Thriller Dance Instruction and performance - Dance Studio
Punkinâ Chunkinâ - Court yard
Haunted Maze - Hedge Maze (like a haunted corn maze with characters, spooky music and guards dressed in costume chasing people. They cannot touch or harm students)
Mad Science Lab - Cafeteria (snacks themes as science and laboratory - eyeballs that are grapes in jello, intestines that are spaghetti noddles, etc)
Potion making - Cafeteria (alcoholic and non alcoholic choices)
Bobbing for Apples - Court Yard
âGhost in the Graveyardâ Game - Court Yard
Horror Movie Trivia - Ipads in Great Hall
There will be a costume contest BUT it is slightly different from what youâd expect. The object of this contest is to try to be as convincing as your costume character as you can. Everyone will vote for the top 3 costumes - again, the voting criteria being that you had NO IDEA WHO THEY WERE. Weâre looking for the best actors here and the top 3 winners will win 200 points each!
Alright, so hereâs how itâs going to work - create a side blog for each of your charactersâ costumes. THE URL SHOULD HAVE NOTHING IN IT about your actual character. Remember, you donât want people to know who your character is. This goes for IC and OOC. PLEASE, donât break the game. Itâs not fun if you break the game.
On your sideblog for your characterâs costume, post a photo of your costume including the mask. Once the blog is built and photo is posted, add the URL and costume to THIS GOOGLE DOC. Also, posting throughout the party will be done all F2F. There will be no online or tumblr based starters.
Ok, this part gets a little confusing. IC - this event only happens on Saturday, November 2nd. BUT, OOC weâll be âfreezing timeâ to allow this event to be played out for a weekish (November 1st - November 9). Again, itâs all happening IC on Saturday. Please keep the dash strictly Masquerade during the whole event.
The other part of the âdonât think about itâ part of this is we need to kinda fake things about our characters to avoid being discovered. For example, since this takes place AFTER locktober, no one's locked for this. Or, Austin won't show his accent to avoid knowing who he is, etc. So just kinda suspend your disbelief, please. This goes for physical attributes, accents, etc.
OTHER THINGS TO CONSIDER when making your blog:
Take off auto-tags if you have a way you tag things regularly, or just tag differently
Don't post photos or manips displaying your face claim in your costume, EVEN IF YOU'RE TRYING TO HIDE THEIR FACE. We know, I assure you.
Don't talk OOC about what costume your characters are wearing
If while playing, you miss something please utilize tumblr's asks/messages and message from your sideblog, not your main.
Don't reuse former Masquerade side blogs (not everyone deletes people)
Look out for OOC traits/behaviors which might identify you
Any triggering plots or plots involving a lot of people need to be approved.
If your student character participates they will receive 50 points. Participation will include at least some decent activity (just a post or one/two replies will not count.) Gimme at least one thread and Iâll count it.
VOTING - once we get closer to the event weâll let you know how this will go but it will be dependent on NOT LETTING ANYONE KNOW (Ic or OOC) WHAT COSTUME YOUR CHARACTER HAS. Please, again, Donât Break the Game. These things are only fun when the rules are followed. Vote per character, however, even if your character doesnât interact with them. So, you can use some OOC knowledge for voting ONLY.
We allow costumes to double. Make sure you're paying attention to the URL name when you're voting.
If you have questions please feel free to ask but make sure itâs not already answered in this post please and thank you.
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