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HORROR MOVIE NIGHT

Micah St. Clair organizes another movie night, this time watching a SCARY movie. Excitingly, he's just received a portable projector from home, so tonight's movie will be projected IN LARGE on a bedsheet that's been hung up in the Atrium. The couches have been rearranged in front of the makeshift screen. The lights have been switched off. Popcorn is served.

As the sophomores tensely watch the plot of Sinister unfold, Casper Kim walks up behind them to ask what they’re doing. The sophomores, caught off guard, scream loudly and several fall off the couches. Ariadne Flint throws a bowl of popcorn at Casper in self-defense.

WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN

Seniors and juniors are not technically banned from movie night, but they don't get a seat on the comfiest couches. Front row admission for Micah's best friends only!!!!

The lodge is sparsely populated by staff this Thursday evening, as the teachers are having a staff meeting.

For those who have not seen the movie, HERE is a trailer, and HERE is the Wikipedia plot summary.

For the record, Sinister is less gory than the plot summary sounds, and tends cut away from the violent parts and leave it up to the viewer's imagination. On the other hand, a horror movie involving a malevolent ghost-demon that steals children away is maybe... not great?

The movie is timed to end just before 9 PM, when the lodge closes down and everyone must walk back to camp. In the dark. Remember, buddy system!

» Before the movie: Meet up with your friends, share snacks, claim the best seats.

» watching the movie: Midway through, Casper terrifies forty innocent children.

» elsewhere in the lodge: Since there are so few teachers around, is there anything else you rascals are up to? Classrooms and club rooms are all still locked, though.

» After the movie: Time to clear out and go home! Are you going to sleep well tonight?

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

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Jade grew up without watching many no-maj movies at all. Pureblood families weren't film buffs, usually. Jade's an actress, though, and her introduction to movies has been interesting. She's trying very hard to watch this as a character study. Not that there's deep characters that need studying, but watching humans mis-manage their decisions is far more comforting somehow than acknowledging this is rather creepy.

She isn't the best person to watch movies with, though. She scoffs at everything in order to convince herself, and her neighbors, that she's in no way afraid. "Possession better not be that obvious, how would demons ever get away with it?" Is her most recent complaint, hissed out in a whisper.

The fact that she crouches down in her chair and it's almost spoken into Ari's shoulder is irrelevant.

Ari is also kind of a movie-talker. She didn't have movies growing up either, and nobody's ever really explained the proper etiquette to her. Besides, the sophomores can't keep their mouths shut on good day. Talking during movies in this group was really inevitable.

She's not sure why they had to pick a scary one, though. She understands it as a genre; she'd tell scary stories to her friends at Hogwarts late at night in the Slytherin common room to spook them. She understands the entertainment value of fear. Right now, though, she doesn't really appreciate it.

"I'm sure it's not. If it were subtle, nobody would be afraid of them in the first place," Ari reasons in return. Being clever and cutting is her last defense against being scared, and she's been doing it a lot this movie. If anyone's noticed that her fingers are white-knuckled around her bowl of popcorn, though, it's probably Jade.

"That's true." Jade concedes, "But it's still just asking to be exorcised." This makes her look at the screen with distaste, but doesn't do anything to offset her mild discomfort at the blank faces of demon-infested children. She will never admit it, but it feels closer to home than it maybe did before. That's stupid, she knows. But Ari's grip on the bowl doesn't go unnoticed-maybe she's feeling similar. Jade acknowledges this in no way, instead just slides closer so she can take a few dainty kernels of popcorn. "And that's got to be the most useless father in the world." She says regarding the man in the sweater. He's an easy target

If there was a way to get Ari to relax, Jade moving closer to her wasn't it. She does relinquish her grip on the popcorn bowl to offer it to her, but her body language is still tense. She's always aware of Jade, but in the darkened atrium with the horror movie playing in the background, everything seems to be happening especially slowly and deliberately. She watches Jade eat a couple of kernels before turning her attention back to the movie.

"Maybe he's possessed as well," she offers, a beat too late, after clearing her throat.

If it's late, Jade doesn't notice. The lull in the action for two seconds means she can sit properly back and nibble at the popcorn kernels. This is a perfect food for movies, she decides. Eating one tiny piece at a time gives her something to do, as her face remains properly impassive. It only twitches once at a swell in the music.

"If that means demons picked out his clothing. I believe that." Jade muses, looking over to Ari, conspiratorially, for a second. "I wonder if that's the surprise end-twist." Breaking movies down into their parts probably ruins them, but Jade thinks that's fun.

"If it does end that way, perhaps I should go into writing," Ari says, glancing over at Jade and then quickly back at the screen as she realizes Jade's looking at her. She takes a handful of popcorn for herself, although she doesn't really like it. It doesn't taste like much and it's always getting stuck between her teeth. Still, she eats it, since everybody else does. "I could write better dialogue than this with my hands tied."

"You should go into writing." It's a passing comment, but it would make sense. Jade raises her chin at the screen, now. Her smile is quickly growing challenging. "What do you think they should be saying, right now?"

Ari considers Jade for a moment. She loves writing, especially fiction, but hardly ever tells anybody so for fear of being told off or dissuaded. Jade didn't seem to think poorly of idea, though. That's something.

"He shouldn't even be in the scene," Ariadne opines of the sweater-wearing father, who she also isn't fond of. She wouldn't have much to say for his wardrobe, either, but her main complaint about him is that a story written by a man about a male writer seems awfully self-indulgent. "I'd make the wife the main character."

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