🎃 Scenario The Costume That Wore Me

🎭 The Costume That Wore Me — Middle School Mystery Arc

Step 1: The Lost-and-Found Discovery

• Trigger: A student finds a costume in the school’s lost-and-found bin. It fits perfectly and feels strangely familiar.

• Weirdness Begins:

• Their behavior subtly shifts—favorite foods change, handwriting alters, they forget key memories.

• Teachers and friends notice, but dismiss it as “Halloween excitement.”

• Clue: A tag inside the costume reads a name that isn’t theirs.

Step 2: The Spirit Trail

• Investigation: The kids discover other students acting oddly—each wearing a different costume that seems to “fit too well.”

• Clues:

• Old yearbooks show students wearing the same costumes decades ago.

• A janitor warns, “Some costumes never leave.”

• A hidden art room contains sketches of the spirits—each tied to a forgotten emotion or event.

• Challenge: The group must identify which costumes are cursed and who’s already been affected.

Step 3: The Assembly Ritual

• Event: The school holds a Halloween assembly. The cursed costumes begin to glow or pulse during the event.

• Reveal:

• One of the kids is fully possessed and doesn’t know it.

• The spirits plan to use the assembly as a ritual to permanently overwrite identities.

• Decision Point:

• The group must choose whether to confront the possessed friend, destroy the costumes, or perform a counter-ritual.

Step 4: The Midnight Unmasking

• Climax:

• The kids sneak into the school after hours to perform the ritual in the auditorium.

• The spirits resist—manifesting illusions, false memories, and emotional manipulation.

• Resolution:

• If successful, the spirits are banished and the costumes lose their power.

• If they fail, the school becomes a vessel for the forgotten souls—and the kids may not re