Haunted Halls
OOC: I am stepping in for your usual moderators due to their unfortunate unavailability. This will be the last of moderations for this event; I apologise for the blunt ending. You can still post after this, students are expected to get out of the event, any attempts at staying or investigating would be purely for flavour since there won't be any moderation after for what happens.
Soon enough the siren's lure would not only be a figurative simile but a literal incarnation. As turned on by a gramophone in a corner no one had paid much attention to, the melodic tune of yearning signalled for the dismissal of the players. Yet they seemed to work in the opposite direction, for they made no attempt at excusing the students but rather seemed to beckon them even closer with tempting knowledge of what is to come, enticing promises tuned through a machine, and what everyone was waiting for after the attack on Hogsmeade: answers.
And for how far would these bare teenagers go for answers? Those who, briefly victorious after @Aly Salinger solved the riddle in the Left Room would find themselves faced with a decision: forward, or right. @Lindsey Springhall's four point spell would be maintained yet it offered little help. As Aly once more offered a solution they collectively decided to go straight with the reassuring mantra of having strength in numbers, they would soon be proven wrong that the path was in fact, not the correct choice. They would hear the signal of peril before they saw it. Before any of them had a chance to step into the dark, imposing room, a horrendous crash would sound in it. Debris would not come far enough to hurt the students but they will find a spray of dust up their faces and perhaps the ones standing in front with their pluck or arrogance would get nicked, finding small scratches on their skin.ReducioFour Point: [d20:5] + 14 = 19 -> success
@Pericles Dralt as Madhup Hexum, @Dealla Prince, @EmmaLee LeDames as Yasha Volkov, @Linda Ramirez as Kaya Bennett
The Right Room with the most people would see two spells first, one benign firecracker from @Raizel Voltrouz to @Zach Zaphiere, and one @Maisie Gemmell's Lumos, illuminating her group mate's way as they were introduced to a new door. @Sere Nade would have mentally prepared a flipendo as well, perhaps for good reason, but she would not cast it when nothing came at the students out of the door. That was a good call; otherwise the whole situation might have just turned a lot messier. For instead of a lumbering beast to greet them, these younger students would also hear the sound of a crash, at first the distant one from the Left Room, but if they did not move fast enough, they too will experience dust in their faces as it was quick to spread. @Alyssea Brown and @Ulysses Drake, following @Silva Melinora, would find themselves heading left and momentarily spared from whatever was going on. Though of course it was merely a matter of time before they too were warned of the collapse.ReducioLumos: [d20:9] + 7 = 16 -> success
Violaceous: [d20:11] + 10 = 21 -> success
@Colby Vidler
As for the students still in the Middle Room, Linda, @Constanza Jewelweed, Quentin, and Poppy would continue to try numbers. Their success would remain unclear; no doors swung open but they would start to hear the eerie sound of a siren's voice. It would not matter anyway as cracks would start to appear, small ones at first but like anything from a shatter point they were bound to start spreading like a virus. And the backdrop, louder than the commotion, overshadowing the cave ins, was singer, a ghostly, melancholic opera that wanted to seize you by the neck and bring you to their side. It would be unclear to the unexpecting attendees whether this was orchestrated by the committee, that everything was under control, or whether they were in the face of actual danger.
Yet what was clear was something was wrong. Something was wrong and the students' jobs now were not to solve the mysteries before them but get out. Haunted Halls was modelled after a Muggle innovation known as the Escape Room. So now, escape.OOC INFORMATION:
Reducio- To participate in this thread, your character must be indexed. If you are confused about the index process, here is some information that might help you
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- All normal hio rules apply in this thread"the night beckons...will you succumb? fear not her cold, icy touch, but her unforgiving gaze."
I am not even singed. My wings are untouched. You use them for everything, except flight.
Liliya Starkova| Anthonie Engelbrecht
Liliya Starkova| Anthonie Engelbrecht
Haunted Halls
Well, it seemed that finally Aly's streak of good luck had come to an end. Despite having correctly deciphered the riddle, which then unlocked and nudged open the door straight ahead, nothing could be trusted in here, and just as the Ravenclaw yanked open the door to lead her comrades into the darkness of the next room, a horrible crashing sound came from within. Aly flinched backwards, but not quickly enough; she got a faceful of dust and debris, though luckily taking the brunt of it since she was in the lead, so that at least most of her friends and followers were spared from the painful abrasions brought on by the semi-explosion just in front of them.
Spitting dust and what tasted like powdery glass from her mouth, along with a fair gob of blood that landed with a disgusting splat on the rickety floor below, Aly backed up as quickly as she could, getting far away from the door as she instinctively wiped at her eyes with the puffy fabric of her round sleeve (and immediately regretted it, since there was dust on the sleeve too). "Ugh! Bloody hell," she complained not exactly quietly, managing to clean enough dust from her eyes to open the left without incident, though the right was not as lucky and stung terribly. At least she hadn't been stabbed in the eye - which had been known to occur at previous balls - but judging by the iron tang of blood in her mouth and the matching scarlet smear on the sepia tulle adorning her arm, she hadn't escaped completely uninjured. A few additional curses, and not the magic kind, escaped from her at the sight of her gorgeous dress ruined, and she kept the affronted eye tightly closed, trying to blink out the offending foreign substances with tiny flickers of the eyelid.
Her next thought was that she needed to get out of here, to go to the Hospital Wing now, before she got any further injury, lest she end up the next in a line of Ravenclaws with vision loss due to Hogwarts balls. Cleaning up the dress could be done with some well-placed Scourgifys later. The pain in her eye took precedent.
Still muttering frustrated phrasings beneath her breath, Aly turned to her three friends - Lindsey, Dee, and Dee's new beau Madhup - and completely ignored the rest of the persons gathered in the room. "Sorry, I've - I've got to go," she said breathlessly, with nary even a reason before she whirled on her heel and went out the way they had come in.
Others could rescue the child in peril, or they could follow her - it was up to them - but Aly was not going to spend any more time in public in a ruined dress. Well, and she didn't want to lose the eye, too. She supposed that was equally important as her well-dressed reputation.
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✰ Interacting with @Lindsey Springhall, @Dealla Prince & @Pericles Dralt (as Madhup Hexum) ✰Action: Leaving
Closed to interactions
Charmer | Paragon of Health | Lovely Creature | Foulplay | Keen Eye
STA 10 | EVA 11 | STR 5 | WIS 17 | ARCP 7 | ACC 14
Paragon of Health allies: Dealla Prince, Pericles Dralt
Charmer & Lovely Creature are meant to affect everyone.
Items: Love Potion Antidote, wand, locksmith's knife
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STA 10 | EVA 14 | STR 5 | WIS 19 | ARC 7 | ACC 18 Charmer • Keeper’s Catch • Paragon of Health • Lovely Creature • Foulplay • Keen Eye who's afraid of little old me? |
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Haunted Halls
Banner was made by Zach Zaphiere
Date : October 19th, 2024 Color code : Written|Thought|Said Walking straight into the door in front of them, Sere -with her wand- had once again ready in case something might jump out towards Zach, Raizel, and herself. Whether she should show relief or disappointment, there was nothing but dim, empty room. Just a second after, two different spell-lights were clearly visible among the darkness. One spell was Lumos which made the room brighter, and the other one... another random purple firecracker. Gosh.
The mischievous Raizel stood right in front of her, behind Zach's ear, with the successfully-casted Violaceous. Purple light illuminated the room, Sere's disbelieving shake could definitely be seen by everyone. They both were having zero percent of seriousness. As far as Sere could remember, they seemed normal, even mature, when she interacted personally with each of them; but the combination of the two was a five-year-olds playgroup. "Well, if I could say, she did it bett---" Sere had just opened her mouth as a crashing sound from the left side of the room silenced her. Anything went wrong? When the girl turned towards the sound, she could see the chaos was happening. Debris and dust flew all over the room. This place was going to be a level with the ground in minute. Oh, no. Something was definitely went wrong.
Sere pointed her wand to the left side, "Pluvia Velo!" Hoping the Umbrella Spell would keep the dust and debris from hitting their faces. She patted the backs, half pushing the two people in front of her, telling them to take their actions immediately.
"Run!" @Zach Zaphiere @Raizel Voltrouz
Action : Casting Pluvia Velo and escaping the Haunted Halls
Interacting with : Tagged.Thing(s) : Her Wand
Stats : STA 9 (+4)| EVA 8| STR 4 | WIS 8 | ACC 8 | ARC 7
Abilities : Statistically Relevant (STA) | Statistically Relevant (STA)
