silence had always been a dangerous thing, particularly silence when it came to being alone. It left too much space for Sophie’s thoughts to wander onto routes she did not want to explore. So of course she would end up crashing a party if it meant some free booze, a loudness that would pierce through the white noise of her mind and a chance to compress all her feelings of loneliness and sadness and whatever else threatened to surface around this time of year.
she’s more than a little buzzed, plopping down on a couch as she’s on her fourth drink now? the party or the liquor, ( she wasn’t really all that sure which one it was ) had successfully given her the illusion of being surrounded by bodies. she’s much more lax than her usual self. feeling eyes on her she turns to the person who was unfortunate enough to be sitting next to her. there’s an attempt on her part to ignore them but there’s a build up of irritation. “what? am i sitting on someone with an invisibility cloak or something?”
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𝙻𝙾𝙲𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽 : blackwood house , west brompton , london .
𝙵𝙾𝚁 : anyone .
𝚂𝚃𝙰𝚃𝚄𝚂 : open ( @startertms ) .
“ blood shot ? ” initially , parvati had eyed crimson liquor with plausible suspicion ; cleverly named ( she DOES love a play on words ) as it may be , she’d held out 𝚑𝚘𝚙𝚎 that it could be anything other than hangover material . “ i THINK there’s . . . grenadine , cranberry juice , and vodka ? ” ( at least , that’s what she’s assuming . the myriad of glasses that bear striking crimson lip prints stand 𝑬𝑽𝑰𝑫𝑬𝑵𝑪𝑬 of her attempts to figure out exactly what’s gone into them , as does the loose grin she adorns . )
ᴡʜᴏ : josephine diggory & open ( @startertms )
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ : blackwood house, london
ᴡʜᴇɴ : october 31, 2021
“I’m meant to be Francine,” Josie explains, red converse dragging nervously across the floor as she nurses the same drink she’s been working on for the past hour ( it’s VODKA and ORANGE JUICE – horribly watered down by this point, with the ice long melted and creating a horribly diluted MESS that has done absolutely NOTHING to quell her anxiety over being here ), though she remains STEADFAST in her resolve to finish it, still occasionally sipping at it through a curly straw. She’s never considered herself to be the LIFE OF A PARTY – not like she’d seen from Nellie and heard about Cedric, but HALLOWEEN had always been a favourite of hers – a chance for people to show off their IMAGINATIONS and pretend, just for a minute, to be something other than the roles life had relegated them to.
“From Arthur,” She continues, unsure if the person she’s explaining her costume choice even particularly CARES what she’s wearing, but in too deep now to turn back. “It’s a kids’ cartoon. Been going since 1996, if you can believe. I’d have thought they’d run out of material by now, but apparently not.” A pause, “There’s people dressed as Arthur and Buster, too, so I’m not like... a complete weirdo, I swear.”
❝ NO LARGE GATHERINGS, NO EVENT THAT RUNS PAST 11 AND STRONG ENCOURAGEMENT TO TRAVEL WITH A BUDDY ON THE NIGHT OF THE 31ST ! these are the safety guidelines set out by the ministry of magic this halloween season, and any business found to be ignoring the crucial two is expected to face a rather hefty fine for putting the public at risk. a small team of aurors is even going to patrol diagon alley on the night of the 31st ! honestly, it all seems rather over the top : i hardly need remind any of our werewolf listeners that the full moon falls on OCTOBER 21ST, this year. i don’t think we should expect a repeat of last years dramatics, and without a place to gather, what trouble can young wix really get themselves into ? all this does is cause business on the alley to suffer further in a year where curfews and guidelines have already wrecked havoc : the poison apple and amortentia, especially, are missing out on an opportunity to establish themselves as the formidable rivals to the leaky cauldron that they could be ! join me after the break when i speak with lisa turpin, a concerned wix who feels her right to a good time has been needlessly stolen - ❞
WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE :
following last years drama - a word unchosen by the ministry official that issues the october 31st guidelines on live radio broadcast, but uttered by several out of touch youth who find their noses out of joint at the lack of good halloween parties - diagon alley has taken an unfamiliar approach to what is usually the event of the year. the spooky decorations have gone up as normal, and you’ll still find the best pumpkins in town & the creepiest wares on temporary stalls, but the poison apple, the leaky cauldron and even amortentia have been appropriately cowed into compliance. the safety guidelines are quite simple : no large gatherings, no event that runs past eleven and for the love of merlin - travel in groups. it doesn’t matter how many times it’s pointed out to various officials and nightclub managers ( over the week that follows ) that the full moon is on october 21st, this year. they remain firm, and diagon alley is unusually subdued.
naturally, this just means that the young wixen community have had to get creative. pansy parkinson and blaise zabini aren’t the ONLY ones to decide to throw a banger of their own, but with their unique expertise ( learned through years of slytherin house ragers ) and a hell of a lot of money thrown into the mix, theirs is certainly the one to covet an invitation to. the theme is simple enough, but done to an extreme - blackwood house has been transformed into a haunted house, complete with a thick coating of fog across all the floors, candlelight illumination and large cobwebs in every corner. every surface is coated in black velvet and every room has a new horror for partygoers to discover - a veritable bloodbath in the downstairs bathroom, family portraits with eyes that follow you on every corridor, scarily realistic skeletal guests sat around the dining room table among others ( the kitchen turned to a meatlocker; bedrooms paying homage to scenes from iconic slasher movies, real live bats in the attic, though whether they were put there for the occasion or not remains to be seen ) and, to mixed reviews of horror and awe, a graveyard sprung up overnight in the back garden, complete with wonky headstones and hands sticking out from the ground that’ll grab your ankle, if you dare step too close. a catering company has provided creepy appetisers and the party is served by professional bar staff, all of who have been insructed that they break character on pain of death. pansy has put together the perfect guestlist to enjoy this event : though she might’ve overlooked the necessary safety measures to avoid crashers.
meanwhile, anyone hoping to score a table on short notice for madam rosmerta’s murder mystery dinner party will be sorely disappointed - tickets sold out months ago, and the three broomsticks is closed to the public for the evening. compared to the party happening in london, it’s almost calm - though the level of planning that has gone into making the evening flow smoothly and the sheer amount of detail given to the bars expansive decorations is nothing to shake heads at. a professional was hired to write the script all will be following over dinner ( a proper three course meal, though quality hasn’t been sacrificed, here, in order to provide something in the theme of halloween ), and once the murder is solved, the event will shift towards boozy cocktails and live music from a ghostly band. luckily for the more mature among us, the closed door aspect has allowed it to fly by the ministry’s radar and run as planned.
OUT OF CHARACTER:
it’s been a little while since we’ve had an event that’s so completely nox, but what better time to remind you all of our double event brand than halloween night ! usually, autumnfest would be nothing more than a precursor for the celebrations ( and expensive costume parties ) on diagon alley, but the strong discouragement of doing anything that will result in large crowds gathered again on the alley has led to an interesting change of pace. parkinson & zabini’s haunted house party isn’t the only one that has surely sprung up across wixen britain in response to the ministry’s guidelines, but it’s almost certainly the most lavish - and anyone not inclined to stop by can still have an evening of fun at the three broomsticks’ murder mystery dinner. costumes to both are mandatory, of course, and a channel has been set up in the discord for you all to post them !
the event will begin on tuesday the 26th of october at 6pm gmt - you can click this link to find out what that translates to for your timezone - with a tentative end set two weeks after.
no character is required to attend either ( nor are you required to take part ), though you’re highly encouraged to ! invites for the haunted house party were sent to people that both know and rsvp’s were accepted by owl, but let’s be honest - the wix world is a small one, and with clubs choosing to forego the ocassion because of last years attack, crashing the parkinson & zabini haunted house party is the only chance a lot of people will have at a good time. the murder mystery dinner ensures an event that older characters will feel comfortable at, so feel free to throw everyone into the mix !
this is our primary halloween event, and what autumnfest was always going to transition to, but you can continue all autumnfest threads - including the relay race ones - through to the end of the party. feel free to continue enjoying the galleon system and everything given already, though note that the new setting will bring with it some new ways to earn galleons and stuff, too !
all event specific posts, including starters, should be tagged with nox.event019 ! the location for the haunted house party is blackwood house, west brompton, london, while the murder mystery dinner is the three broomsticks, hogsmeade.
if you have any questions or concerns, please just send them to the main ! and please comment your favorite final girl once you’ve read the post !
“oh, shit-” she doesn’t hear them approaching, but she certainly hears the clearing of their throat from the doorway behind her and jumps right out of her skin, in response. ginny might be far from an unsteady hand when she’s out on a quidditch pitch ( it’s KIND of why she’s been so successful - ) but she doesn’t stand a hope when she didn’t have that strong a grip on the clutched trinket, in the first place. it tumbles from her grasp amid a string of silent curses, hitting the floor with the very WORST sort of crunch. out loud ? a sheepish & entirely unconvincing, “you wouldn’t happen to know where the bathroom is, would you ?”
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( 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ) — blackwood manor / haunted house party
( 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐬 ) — open
( 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 ) — mentions of maternal death
“do you think we can summon my mom’s ghost?” oriana knew very little about ghosts. they’d never really cared about ghosts, about the dead, during their years at hogwarts, and certainly not enough to actually dig into the subject. now, after the death and decay that had marked the world that they called home, they wanted nothing more than to push it all away, to ignore that reality and the sticky grief that clung to them. but on halloween night, more than a little drunk, and with sybill at the front of their mind, well, “god, she’d probably still find a reason to tell me i’m destined to die.”
𝐋𝐎𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍: blackwood house, london !
𝐅𝐄𝐀𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐆: @chhochang !
"sorry, someone is-” in here, they almost manage, though the door is open before they can FINISH the statement. hunched over on the edge of a clawfoot bathtub and hugging their sides tightly with both arms, nazli isn’t exactly in a position capable of forcing the door closed, again, or stopping it from opening in the first place, and they breath an audible sigh of relief that against all the odds, it is cho’s familiar head that pops around the door. “hey,” they feign composure, somehow managing ( they’re quite self impressed, honestly ) to beckon her in, further, “shut the door, would you?”
“sure, let’s say they’re fake.” with a simple shrug, knox glided around blackwood house as the party commenced. she practically blended into the shadows with her old themed black dress though stuck out because of her pale painted skin. it was strange, being around people like this again. at a party no less. there wasn’t a time she remembered where she had fun at parties, including her hogwarts days after slytherin would win a quidditch match. or her drunken nights after the death of her mother. though she really didn’t count those considering she hardly remembered them. it was all an inconsistent blur, really.
knox found herself in the corner, next to another who apparently had the same idea as her and sighed. “now what are you doing way over here when the booze and sweaty bodies are all the way over there?” it was a simple question, though she hardly cared if it they had ignored her or not. it was sort of testing the waters, seeing if her corner buddy would talk her ear off for the night or stand with her quietly and watch everyone else make a fool of themselves as the night wears on. “bored already?”
