🎃 Scenario The Costume That Wore Me
🎭 The Costume That Wore Me — Middle School Mystery Arc
Step 1: The Lost-and-Found Discovery
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Trigger: A student finds a costume in the school’s lost-and-found bin. It fits perfectly and feels strangely familiar.
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Weirdness Begins:
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Their behavior subtly shifts—favorite foods change, handwriting alters, they forget key memories.
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Teachers and friends notice, but dismiss it as “Halloween excitement.”
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Clue: A tag inside the costume reads a name that isn’t theirs.
Step 2: The Spirit Trail
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Investigation: The kids discover other students acting oddly—each wearing a different costume that seems to “fit too well.”
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Clues:
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Old yearbooks show students wearing the same costumes decades ago.
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A janitor warns, “Some costumes never leave.”
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A hidden art room contains sketches of the spirits—each tied to a forgotten emotion or event.
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Challenge: The group must identify which costumes are cursed and who’s already been affected.
Step 3: The Assembly Ritual
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Event: The school holds a Halloween assembly. The cursed costumes begin to glow or pulse during the event.
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Reveal:
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One of the kids is fully possessed and doesn’t know it.
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The spirits plan to use the assembly as a ritual to permanently overwrite identities.
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Decision Point:
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The group must choose whether to confront the possessed friend, destroy the costumes, or perform a counter-ritual.
Step 4: The Midnight Unmasking
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Climax:
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The kids sneak into the school after hours to perform the ritual in the auditorium.
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The spirits resist—manifesting illusions, false memories, and emotional manipulation.
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Resolution:
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If successful, the spirits are banished and the costumes lose their power.
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If they fail, the school becomes a vessel for the forgotten souls—and the kids may not re